Um, you should check your history before you talk shit about the US scene in general. The reason nobody played 3S when it first came out wasn’t cuz it was too challenging, too varied, or whatever bullshit you’re claiming. It was because the game was nothing BUT Chun Li mashing buttons wash/rinse/repeat. It took the promise of variety for people to get into the game, but then it turned out that variety was temporary.
speaking of studio traffic…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Studiotraffic
Yes I know it’s Wikipedia but this is an interesting read…
Valle is my hero in 3s and AE. Beating Daigo in BOTH games! Ricky tried his best, but messed up on a custom at the wrong moment and gave kendevu the win. But ricky is the TRUTH in cvs2! Mvc2… was just crazy. The best part about MVC2 were the MM’s and I’m glad I was there for all of them. The bathroom mvc2 MM’s were crazy, the soo vs erik one was crazy, mine were crazy, erik’s other MM’s were too FUNNY! But the greatest marvel match and best MM of all time was sanford and duc. IMO, besides justin… the best 2 marvel players in the world. Well, actually sanford is #1 in the world forever. Duc has gained my respect in mvc2 4ever.
Btw, Duc, great times we had chilling in the hotel room after evo was over. You are one of the funniest and most chill peeps I’ve ever met. We had a few deep convo’s about life and I learned a lot from you. Thanks for being a good friend and awsome competitor.
I want to type much MUCH more, but I’m dead tired right now. I’ll post everything tomorrow.
EVO 2006 OWNED!
I love how 3s is the most popular game at the last 2 evo’s and is at the same time the most bashed by people on SRK who don’t play it and don’t know shit about it.
What the fuck is so shocking about a final 8 full of top tiers? Man it’s not like theres top tier whoring in Marvel or CVS or anything.
Who the fuck cares, there is no need to undermine a great game and the scene that supports and enjoys it.
kinda funny you mention that wilson, cause my friend darren actually brought an arcade japanese st machine to the tourney for all 3 days, and my bro and i were taking turns beating nuki on it. We arent very good with those japanese sticks either. We also had a long talk with daigo after the tourney, he said that my bro and i could come to japan and prolly win their st nationals, he was told cole was our top st player (no offense to cole) and didnt even know we existed since we have been retired for so long. But its ok, since evo isnt enough to convince you, we’re planning on going over there for one of their nationals to beat them. Its too bad you couldnt see the practice we had with daigo before the ae tourney. You’d eat your words =)
And yeah im not a console player either, in fact i dont even know ae, just learned it this year as well. Its easy to make excuses for possibly the best player in the world, but you forget those things can be said for any of us.
I think if you had come to evo you would realize they arent on another level above us, alot of our top players beat their top players straight up in many games.
Good job Wolfe bro’s, i knew one of you would take AE this year 
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TEKKEN 5
-all the matches were neck and neck steves fuckin everyone up
-the matches were insane, reigon vs reigon, gs JRA never heard of you before, but you hyped up and made 3rd
-arario vs jinmaster HELLA HYPE omg, tekken players can get hype too why did you use steve arario why? just stick to your token jack or paul
AE
-also pretty sick too, daigo vs alex, ce bison vs the world
-tokido being cheap as FUCK with crusher unblockables, god he has that shit perfect and also
-alex/grahm? for using ce bison and hella not fucking up the trap
SLASH
-teh suck…i almost fell asleep
CVS2
-pretty exciting, all matches were neck and neck almost all of them went to 3rd round last character
-personally it was exciting for me cause I got to cheer on my boy Hail and Kill and he was SOOOOOOOOOOO close to beating Jwong, almost a crazy ass comeback at the end, imo it was the best cvs2 match in top 8
MARVEL
-some boring some hype, i think it was boring because play was hella fucking sloppy this year
-semi’s and duc $ match were sick as shit, but top 8 was sloppy and boring
-good matches in top 8 were:
duc v jmar - duc shutting him down
soo v jwong
soo v yipes
-slop city…god, hella pauses and controller disconnects and shit, esp soo vs chunk? it fucks the whole game up, triforce gettin hella crazy what happened:
soo hits horiz typhoon into hail storm then a controller disconnects right in the middle of hail, they decide to unpause and play
-triforce hella pissed cause if soo mashed hail, it would have killed the person instead of leaving them at one pixel health, soo could have mashed, killed, guard broken the other person and made a come back
-still i have to admit, it’s hella hard to decide what to do in that situation cause chunksta still had 2 solid characters left, but still, it’s marvel, you can come back off of everything if you have momentum
3S
-semis were sick as fuck, hella upsets ahem daigo v valle still though daigo was hella fuckin shit up, shortx2xxxsuper, low forward hit confirms, low strong, strongxfierce combos
-top 8, still pretty hype, amir vs issei = HELLA GOOD, issei dope as shit to watch, not boring at all, nitto hella sick to watch, not boring either
-that restart match was crazy nitto took it though, he WAS the better person
Thank you everyone for the support
Good match to Justin Wong, and to one of my favorite jap, Nitto.
Good job HAK :tup:
Will people finally admit that they had a incredibly good time watching cvs2 this year? (Prob not)
Daigo had many very good things to say about me and my brother’s play. The man is a dam good player and if anyone says he was a push over, there out of their minds. I’m very happy me and my brother had a chance to play him, was a real treat.
Thanks alex for repping the True old school of games we grew up on, competed against, spent countless hours on of fun n practice with $5 a day (me and I’m sure many others) and having good times; that’s what this is all about. right on
wow!!! duc really surprised me doing so well against sanford. good shit!!! being a marvel player i really wished i could’ve been there to experience that energey. during tha money match… that sounds like the crowd was the most hyped during any marvel match ever! well between this and jwong vs soo. team tourny 2k4…most hyped crowds ever. 2 good!!!
hey, a little off topic, but i wanted to make sure about something: is it ok to post evo footage on youtube/google video/etc? this would be footage recorded using regular point and shoot digital cameras. i’ve heard yes and no.
i love you gene.
best evo yet imo. great organization and smoothness in running everything. with all the problems that have happened in past evo experiences, this fixed all of them. Im very impressed and pleased with the evo staff. The only change i would ask for would be 2/3 for cvs2 pools, but due to the lengthy nature of that game i completely understand why it was 1 game.
now please put up a bunch of those crazy video evo moments into a dope ass trailer to get some more people to start playing, because even though we all hate scrubs, its the fresh meat that keeps this community limping on.
EDIT. Nevermind. You guys beat me to it.
Yo people really hate on guilty gear slash. Why is that? Dragon!
Because the gap between U.S. and Japan in Slash is too huge even though most Japanese that come here don’t even play the game as their main. No hope for the U.S. vs Japan guys in that game, so the results are predictable.
EVO AFTERPARTY TOURNAMENT RESULTS
USA VS JAPAN ARM WRESTLING
Vanessie takes down bas
Tokido defeats Vanessie
Valle defeats Raoh
Valle defeats Daigo serving him 3 losses in 3 games this evo
Sabr3 defeats Jason Nelson in the Old School match
Bacardi defeats retired boxer(RANDOM?!?!?!?!)
Hard Gay pose off
Vic Dogface HARD GAY CHAMPION!!!
pyrolee and rotendo have to take shots of patron in shame
DAIGO COMBOFIEND MVP of the afterparty
So what were the results for the Third Strike team tournaments?
Sounds like evo was a great time, hope I make it again one of these years.