PHASE IV

virtual ninja tournament

Supported by Capcom Vancouver,
the first ever Virtual Ninja Tournament was held in the Digital Scholarship Commons 
​at the University of Victoria, BC, on 26 January 2018.
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Inaugural Virtual Ninja Tournament, 2018 

Building on the success of the first three phases of the Virtual Ninja Project, phase IV saw the staging of the first ever Virtual Ninja Tournament.  The tournament was partially an opportunity to test some of the claims of the Manifesto through direct experience, but mostly a chance to enable a wide range of students, staff, and faculty (of varying levels of skill) to experience Street Fighter V on the PS4 in a friendly yet competitive environment.
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  • Supported by Capcom Vancouver, the tournament was held in the Digital Scholarship Commons at the Mearns Centre for Learning, McPherson Library on 26 January 2018. 
  • In addition to the competition stations, there was an open station for new players to experiment with and experience the game. 
  • The Digital Scholarship Commons will also hosted an exhibition of the Virtual Ninja Manifesto as well as a talk by Chris Goto-Jones, Professor in Philosophy & Dean of Humanities at UVic.

The tournament was fiercely contested through 4 knock-out rounds, ending with the grand final between iLLFader and Double Eh.  Despite a valiant and remarkable reversal-play, worthy of Daigo Umehara himself, Double Eh (playing as Ken) was finally defeated by iLLFader's invincible F.A.N.G.  

The first ever UVic Virtual Ninja Champion was iLLFader, aka Jun Nguyen (student of Applied Linguistics).
The runner-up was Double Eh, aka Aron Tong. 
The consolation final was won by King Jorg (Joe Hansen), with runner-up morphoid (Andrew Martin). 

The four finalists received prizes donated by Capcom Vancouver; the grand champion also received the first UVic Ninja Cup (kindly created by the library team on its 3D-printer) and prize money for games.
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Chris Goto-Jones opens the event
The UVic Ninja Trophy!
Standing room only to hear the project explained
Let battle commence
Players and avatars in Versus mode
Surviving the heats
Transfixed by the contest
Championship match: FANG vs Ken
Chris presents the trophy to the champion, iLLFader
morphoid, iLLFader, Double Eh, King Jorg
photos by Chorong Kim
The images used on this site were conceptualized by Chris Goto-Jones for various projects.  The character set (monk, zombie, ninja, hippie, scientist) was illustrated by Siku for the MOOC: Demystifying Mindfulness.  The Ninja Mindfulness and Virtual Ninja images were also illustrated by Siku.  The art for the Zombie Mindfulness project is by Ricardo Bessa.  The Jedi Mindfulness images are by Glen Mullaly.  The Mindfulness Philosophy images were drawn by Roxanne van Beek.  All images are copyright  MentalPraxis 2016 - they can be re-used for non-commercial purposes with proper acknowledgement.
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