Ino’s and Daigo’s teams are real scary. Kinda cool how they got defeated though. Some of the top 8 from last year (especially the final 2) won’t make it to the end this year. New blood!
Ino’s team is Ino, Nuki, Tokido and Ino is playing K CBS, Nuki is playing N Groove Akuma, Chun Li, Sagat and Tokido is playing Tokido Family (thats what they call his team) - N Groove Vega, Blanka, Sagat.
Bas overslept (maybe his whole house?) so I don’t think any of those fools, Bas, Ino, Mago have qualified yet.
Otaku isn’t actually on Bas’ team. Dude goes by OTK actually, and he actually uses the exact same team as Otaku. According to Bas, he’s “better than Otaku”. Last I heard, Morikawa switched to C-Guile/Sagat/Blanka to help balance out the overall team a bit more.
Mago’s team = Mago (C-Honda/Blanka/Sagat), KinDebu (Team Bas), Captain Sawada (???)… team jokesters! They got beat by Togawa’s team at Tokyo’s first qualifying tournament. To be more accurate, they got thrashed by Knit’s K-Geese. Togawa never even had to play. Mago’s team was the one that beat Daigo’s team en route to the finals.
And imo, although Daigo’s team is loaded with talent, they have a bad balancing problem: they all have C-Sagat based teams. They’re like the only team that didn’t make an attempt to spread out grooves and characters… counter-character issues will be rough for them. Indeed, they all got ran through by KinDebu’s team Bas.
Sawada placed 3rd at the first Japan national CvS2 tourney with K-CBS, and lost in the first round last SBO with team Bas. Top tier whore to the fullest, heh. Bas says he’s improved a LOT and now he’s “as good as” him.
For those that don’t know, Morikawa got 5th at SBO, Otaku got 7th. I was told that Morikawa switched his team to C-Guile/Blanka/Sagat to balance out the team, but I guess he went back on that.
Morikawa did most of the teams work throughout the tourney, and even beat Mago and KinDebu in the finals. Sawada then proceeded to beat the whole team on his own, working throw/counter hit mix ups to the fullest. He seemed to always guess right, landing a TON of throws and then hitting with the counter hit low short into a big fat combo the one time they tried to tech the throw. Nobody got past his Bison… because one counter hit short from Bison = dead character.
Ino beat Daigo’s team all by himself, and fairly easily I might add. I’m not sure who Ino’s team lost to.
The next qualifying tournament in Tokyo will be the very LAST one before SBO… so competition for that one will be fierce. Bas’/Ino’s/Daigo’s (and all the other big name players) teams will most likely be travelling to other, scrubbier areas of Japan and qualify from there instead.
thanks a lot for the update. any information on ver or aojiru? they were in the top 8 last year, but i haven’t heard anything about their teams or their qualification status.
man this shit had me laughing, seems like there was some MAAAAAD beasting going on…but wtf is counter hit low short? comboing the trade off a low short?
