:’(
You know why you get bodied by tokido? because you probably use some of his setups besides random blocked sweep into demon.
Great going Pete, instead of helping out the community you’re killing it by discouraging people. 
And I think the reason why he lost is because Tokido has gdlk footsies, Petey’s are just FL scrub standard.
Also, someone in this town please main/sub Yun already.
I wanted to quit since AE came out, if that’s any consolation. This just sealed it. Not nerfing Akuma + nerfing Boxer + 2 broke rush down characters isn’t fun.
Although, in retrospect, had I known sweeps were punishable by my sweeps (could have told me that sooner…) and had my jab fakes been better timed, I might not have lost (wake up grab ultras go!). In hindsight, I should have been on the other side of the screen posting up on down-back.
I saw you trying to punish my reversal dash punches to blocked sweeps with c.lk. Does that really work? Or was that a demon input?
Alright Rob, here is a real podcast for you. By real I mean everyone is drunk. I think they are pretty sick, give them a listen if you got time.
thx again guys for coming to Tally for the tourney 
Man, it was fun. Can’t wait for the next one.
So… the ps2 works when I tried turning it on today.
We’re doing hyper fighting and 3S next weekend!
Something happened to it?
Tried turning it on put the motor wouldn’t spin. Didn’t even recognize the disc.
Tried again this afternoon. Only thing I changed was moving it from the carpet to the bar stool.
Maybe I just got 'dem magic fingers. Adam is such a scrub.
Say what Rob?!
PS2 repair money match next weekend.
Everyone break your ps2 and bring them. First to 5 repair money match is on.
akuma is not broken. he’s a top character but not overpowered. many characters have the same cheap stuff he does. you can’t find most of them on forums but study the japanese players and you’ll find them. ive discovered fake crossups with yang and and fei long, but nobody in the US uses them (including me until recently). every shoto has the ambiguous jump lk that akuma has. seth has an ambiguous j. mk. rufus, yun, and yangs dive kicks are all corner ambiguous too. balrog doesnt have a crossup so he has no chance at ambiguous jump attacks, fake crossups, and unblockables. even so that doesn’t mean he’s a bad character, it just that his strengths are more straightforward (great normals, combos, move speed, etc.).
hamilton’s found good escapes to unblockables and ambiguous jump attacks. even matt’s juri thought he had no escape from the vortex but went in the lab and found that ultra 1 has some weird properties that can give free escapes (and put me in the corner randomly >.<). if something seems cheap, go in the lab and find all your options against it. if you have none then your playing a broken game. but in a game with normals that change hurt boxes, focus attacks, backdashes, teleports, dragon punches, ex specials, and ultras, you are never completely screwed. if juri can find escapes, anyone can.
id say 60% of the time u woke up blocking it was to my demon flip palm. after that, all you needed to do was survive a blockstring. I know what techniques beat what i do, but i shouldn’t have to be the one to tell my opponent. thats the way fighting games work. you get beat, you figure out how to win, and u bring it to the table next time. and thats what i did. i lost to you the first time we played at van’s, and i learned the timing of df palm on ur wake-up. i lost to you in casuals after the PnT ocala tourney, and i learned balrog specific OS’s. i lost to you in casuals at the first tally tourney at gamescape and now i have balrog specific block-strings.
PR rog got absolutely bodied by tokido in FR winner’s bracket. PR rog told himself don’t get in the corner, and play lame, then took 2 sets of 3/5 off the guy.
yes, you probably should have won that round.
Yes. you should have. im sure you don’t like to play that way but sometimes you have to. if you have the lead, sit on it
that was me messing up a cr. mk plink. cr. mk would have worked vs the reversal dash punch as u know.
thanks for the tourney i had fun.
post ur tl;dr’s below
Hammy sucks.
I’m mad I missed this weekend. I got stranded in Lake City thanks to car trouble Sunday. I just got back into Gainesville. 
I will eventually make it to a meet-up. I swear.
lol that is true…if juri can escape that shit then anyone can. it’s all about timing also. just mashing U1 with juri won’t get me out of the vortex, I have to do it at a specific time in order for it to get me out. I also use that in other MU’s against characters that have ambiguous crossups and other setups like fuerte and abel.
Chris, I don’t think you should quit man. I know you said it’s not just akuma but you also hate the twins (as everyone else does) and balrog’s nerfs. Like petey said last week petey beat me 45 games straight and I didn’t win a game until he switched to yun afterward. even after that I still didn’t think akuma was broken. It wasn’t really what he was doing in the corner to me that made me lose, it was what I wasn’t doing midscreen against him. I’ve always known spacing and footsies are not one of my strengths in fighting games, but that just made it 100% obvious that’s where I was losing most of the matches. And against akuma, I believe if you lose the midscreen match your ass is going to the corner. So yeah, even though U1 gets me out of the corner I don’t wanna be in that position anyway so I’ve been working on my footsies and spacing more than just finding escape routes. Even though akuma outfooties Juri on paper, I can still hold my own pretty well. Sometimes you have to realize something that in order to overcome an obstacle. I know Balrog has better footsies than Juri, so you can do it dude. I hate this game to man…I’m tired of it not because there some bullshit (which there is bullshit in every fighting game, there’s no denying that) but because I just want something new to play lol.
So in short, you just have to try and look at it from all angles. I figured out it wasn’t that my character sucked, it was me that sucked XD. I haven’t played you since the tally crew came to van’s but I remember playing your balrog and getting destroyed. You probably don’t believe this but you were the inspiration for my to figure out how to beat other balrogs. I though Balrog vs. Juri was free for me, but then I played you and I woke the fuck up lol. That may sound cheesy but it’s the truth. I hope you don’t quit man.
On a lighter note, hamilton is going to get bodied in kof2002um and vanguard princess when he gets back. hold dat!
i have no god damn clue what vanguard princess is but you better believe im money matching that scrub in it. its an FG right? XD
or the easy solution to all problem is pick Yun. Random dive kick then mash jab into combo or 50-50 guessing game.
So what nerfing boxer got anyway? I know his headbutt got longer recover, but that is not a big deal, imo.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGQaDLBMZM0
there’s some gameplay. basically arcana heart with assists lmao. I’m gunna download it for rob next time we go over there.
I dunno about Arcana Heart. Aren’t the combos just like two or three moves that happen to juggle or something, or like a combo into ? I feel like SF4 has longer combos.
Edit: Wait, what? Is it really coming to XBLA? Woah, that’s pretty cool. Pretty good for a game made by one person [if I remember correctly].