My Retirement Thread

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Hey guys, i just wanted to make one last thread in here concerning my retirement. i guess in the past, people who have said they’re retiring or quitting from fighting games never actually do it, but this is for real. my last tournament will be the season’s beatings one in columbus on november 3 (http://forums.shoryuken.com/showthread.php?t=136865), which will be tight because the turnout will be SICK- jwong, combofiend, pigadoken, flashmetroid, ratio1beatdown, sanford, and many, many others. it’s almost like a mini-major 3 hours away from me. at the end, i’m selling all my stuff (which has already been claimed, so don’t ask, lol) and moving on.

so i’m sure the question you’re all wondering is, why retire? why not just play a random tournament every now and again? why the drastic decision to give it all up? well, i have the type of personality where if i’m going to do something, i’m going to invest a lot of time into it and become the best i can at it. and i simply don’t have the time to do this anymore. i’m a senior in college, things are picking up, and the real world is coming soon…it’s time to grow up. i can’t just pick up the game every month or so and stay fresh, it’s just not how i work. also, i’ve wanted to move on for awhile now, i just wanted one last big tournament. i couldn’t get off work for evo north, and evo world happened when my school semester had already started. so this is the one because it’ll be a way to see all the friends i’ve made through fighting games one last time.

so i guess the purpose of this thread is for people to say goodbye, post up thoughts, good memories throughout the years from past tournies, or whatever. but please, please don’t say shit like, “retirement, that’s what they all say” or “you’ll be back,” because i really won’t. and i’m making this thread not to draw attention to myself, but to simply say goodbye to something that has been a part of my life for all these years.

peace

PS- to rant a bit about the game, i still think A-eagle has potential, i just don’t have the competition to develop the really good habits with him. i think A-hibiki is a BEAST and highly underplayed, and A-vega is gay, lol. N-groove is really fun to play, you just need to play a ton of people to really develop a style with a small handful of characters (like buk, nuki, or togawa). and if you gave P-groove red parry, VDO would be a MONSTER, along with other really good P-groove players.

also, one way to keep the game alive for a long time to come (and even draw new players into cvs2), would be to develop some sort of fair list of characters for a mid-tier/low-tier tourney scheme. maybe buk’s tier list from mid-tier down, just something to take out the characters that people bitch about the most.

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Not having a car and being in graduate school really limits my options when it comes to traveling around and playing other people so, do you have any suggestions for people who want to learn the game but don’t have any competition?

I spend a lot of time trying stuff out in training mode, I watch a lot of videos, I read stuff on the internet, etc, but there are still things I don’t totally understand when it comes to match-ups, is there anything else you would suggest?

A tourney without Sagat, Blanka, Cammy, A-Bison, A-Sakura, & Vega would be interesting. I don’t really see any need to ban midtop characters; they’re all really good but they aren’t as dominating as the 6 characters above IMO.

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popoblo, the advice you have given me in the team suggestion thread has been very valuable. Thank you, and I wish you the best of luck.

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Sucks man, Ive always wanted to play against your A-eagle (and show you that c yama can destroy him ;] ) ever since I started visiting this sight god knows when. Shame I wont be at that tourney your at. Hopefully you’ll come to one of the evos in the future

keep in touch here

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just wish i had gotten a chance to play at fr9… I was there we met but I think a match came up for me or something, would’ve been nice. Good luck in your endeavors popo.

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A-Sak, Hibiki, Eagle ftw! Never knew you, but you seem like a cool peron. Gl in real life man

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Even though I don’t know you…Good luck with everything guy. You’re going to need it. I might try and make it down to that tournament, though I doubt I can (lack of transportation…yet again…).

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Noooooo my A-Eagle idol!

I still play A-Eagle, he’s now my anchor.
I just wish I could have played you an Eagle mirror or something =(

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thanks for all the kind words so far guys, i didn’t know i was linked to A-eagle to this extent:sweat:

well, to be honest, i see you posting in entirely too many threads for different characters. i did the same thing, i learned nearly every single character in this game. but your best bet is to pick a handful of characters, i’d say no more than 5 or 6, and REALLY learn them. their best matchups, how they fare against the top tier, good setups, etc. and pick one, MAYBE two grooves, and stick to them. by specializing, you’ll take your best characters with the most experience into pressure situations and perform well. also, sometimes getting into your opponents head and thinking about why they’re doing what they’re doing can also be effective.

hell, i always fell into the trap of seeing some good new japanese video of an obscure character and learning them for a day or week. but when i did actually play them against real people, i got owned because i had no experience with them. real people aren’t as gullible as the computer, lol.

peace

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The thing is you don’t need to invest a lot of time anymore, you’re good enough already. I’ve learned that as you improve the more time you invest actually starts becoming counter-productive. The only thing you need to maintain is execution and you can work on that a few days before a tournament.

p.s. If you retire now you’ll never be able to avenge yourself for losing to me in that money match.:wgrin:

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keep in touch with this site atleast and give new heards the knowledge you have that they don’t, whenever you actually have time, come to tournaments. old generation can still teach fresh cats a thing or two. I myself love this game too much since you have more then 4 playable characters in this game that can actually compete in the big leagues.

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a-vega ftw

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Thanks for the reply!

I see what you’re saying about sticking with fewer characters.

I’ve been playing N-Iori, Chun Li, R2 Sagat for the past year and a half but every once in a while I try different characters just for the sake of variety. I’ve thought about dropping Chun Li for somebody else several times but I like her playstyle, even though she’s hard to use effectively. I think that’s a really good team even though it takes a lot of work to use it effectively.

Also, in the past few months I’ve been trying to learn different characters with the purpose of learning how to fight against them (eg: learning Bison’s combos, set-ups, etc, and then finding counters to all of them, comparing Iori/Chun/Sagat’s moves w/ Bison’s moves, finding out which move beats what, and so forth). I’m not sure if that’s really the best way to practice though since I have nobody good to play against around here.

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PS: have you thought about making a retirement video? Something like a video of you owning somebody with Eagle or something? Or maybe some nice comeback or a cool tournament moment?
I thought it might be a cool idea.

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Yeah popoblo, I wanna see some A-Eagle action =)

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^^^ Agreed, the info you gave in the Eagle thread most def inspired me to pick him up and is now pretty much a staple for my team.

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What? Did you get a girl friend? lol

It’s not that serious… Just play for money. Use team Bas like Diago

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You have to win at season’s beatings… I know you can do it. you have the knowledge to do it…

Yo just play a rack of money bets/ win the tournament…:lovin:

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Worst advice ever.

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lol, there’s some killers coming to that tournament. i think top 5 would be an accomplishment. there’s a HUGE difference between knowing the game and executing at a high level under pressure against somebody with a shit ton more tournament experience than you.

and i don’t really have the time/resources to make an A-eagle video. after the season’s beatings tournament i’ll post up some knowledge, it’ll be worth the wait:wgrin:

peace

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Real life isn’t that hard. Keep playing.

After college, you get weekends off anyway.