Sabin, I know this is WAY TOO FUCKING EARLY, but what the hell. Do you have any idea if the Japanese will come in a group next year for Evo 2k10. Lets face it, that’s the only time the Japanese show up to a American tournament. And I’d love to see at least 5 of them so we can really gauge how some of the Japanese best fare against America’s best. Plus a possible Japan vs USA 5 on 5 would be mad hype. And if that female Blanka or Sagat player showed up, shit would go through the roof LOL.
Yeah I know it’s ridiculous to ask this now, but if you’re not going to be in Japan early next year then now is the best time.
It’s obvious that we would be better if we shared stuff like that but the biggest issue isn’t even the sharing. Even if the best of the best would share the info, the US is like a huge black hole and people can’t travel and put that info into practice consistently. Mainly since we live so far away and online play always has delay. Its hard for Americans to stay hungry when being an American automatically puts a burden on your chances of going hardbody and practice urself up to a level where you could be a steamroller at SBO or even Evo.
SFIV has brought about a lot of new competitive players but at least in my area the numbers for local tourneys are pretty abysmal unless it’s a team event. People only come out in the hundreds for regional events and that’s not enough practice. Especially when a lot of these people aspiring to be top players never play each other outside of the regional events. It’s like if the Japanese never played except for when it was time for a national tourney. Everyone would be rusty and random as hell and that. That’s the case for the majority of the US scene. Decent players rusty and everyone else scrubby except for the top of the top.
Outside of a few key areas people have no other choice but to try to make a scene for themselves or drive out hours and hours to the nearest one. Considering competitive gaming in itself is a pretty niche thing it makes things more difficult trying to “make something niche out of something niche”.
Sabin would be better to answer this obviously but I know random stuff kept some players out. Like apparently Mago didn’t have a passport. On top of that Evo was on a good weekend for American players but was on a bad week for Japanese players. Evo happened during the golden week where I believe lots of employees are off from work and generally things change up a lot during that week. If Evo had been in early July or August the turnout probably would have been better.
I’ve been reading your posts bro, really nice, keep sharing, and if you can post some pictures of the arcades, or the streets filled with arcades, it would be nice. also, does any Guile gave you troubles, besides the turtle ones you mentioned earlier?
I wish I got the dudes name, he was playing so solid that day then I never saw him again… His BP was not that high. Then again I would get raped by some super low BP cat only to find out they where a grandmaster that lost there card, or I would beat them and see them put in another card with a 60k + character on it…lol
1.did you talked about the console char. with the jap. players what they think about them ??
are they disapointed that they arent in the arcade version ??
2.what the jap. players think about the tierlist ? did they agree with the most part of the general tierlist?
ok i got one more question
did you use seth as your 2nd char. because of his limbs and teleport ( dhalsim like )
i know its sounds silly but hope you can give me and answer
From what I’ve seen Japanese Giefs have figured out Sagats pretty well. It’s still hard for them to win but they are not afraid of the match like the US are and figured out how to use small jumps to make certain things risky for Sagat.
yea thats what it looks like. It seems like the sagats are more scared of the giefs compared to the sagats here. I want to know what made those sagats scared enough they dont do the same spam as here. I play agasint 3 very good EC sagats sabin can vouch. Like with the short jumps, my buddies will fRh x2 which is quite painful even for gief lol.
And this one isn’t really SF4 related, but how are living expenses there compared to the US? The price of food would be a good start. Cheaper? More expensive? Or maybe around the same?
I’m a mid level player learning to be top, but I’m going to respond anyway and say yes, it is stunting the growth of American players. Factual.
Holla at me when you see a large amount of top level players in the US hitting up the character forums and really trying to help the community out.
Anywho, big ups for taking the time to do all of this Sabin. Question. There is over 20 Sagat players in the top 50 in Japan(going by BP count). We all know Sagat is the best character in the game and is generally considered to be overpowered, but do you feel he is so strong that he allows players who aren’t as good(skill wise/mind game wise) to do better than they should vs people they may be inferior to?
In example, do you feel Mago and Ojisan deserve to be considered to be on the same level(or better if you go by rank) than say a Nemo or Iyo or Momochi, or do you feel a lot of the success these players have is due to the “Sagat Effect”?
My friend lived in Japan for a year and a half and the prices are about the same or slightly more expensive. The issue is Japan is on this whole “metabo” thing (Japanese wordage for metabolism) so portion sizes for what you pay for is nothing like the US. For what you could get for 10 bucks at most fast food restaurants or even sit down restaurants in the US you’ll have to pay twice as much to get the same portions in Japan. U ain’t sharing your food with no one else in Japan…that’s for sure.
