I think the “Plum Garden” here refers to the player Umezono.
Hell, the translation is accurate though.
LOL, so that’s how you ragequit when you’re at the arcades hahahha
EDIT: no wonder why the dude ragequit, you just took him to school. It’s so lovely with his random wake up ultras like the players in G3 would do. & for the 2nd part of the vid, it’s so lovely how you can hear sagat getting stunned in the background & getting owned by ryu.
I figured it was just a coincidence.
After I saw “Team Hymen Play” during an A-Cho team 3s tourney I just assumed there was just a trend to make the most ridiculous and random team names possible at A-Cho tournies.
It’s best to remember, Sabin
For Japanese opponents, constantly being strong is very important.
Japanese are basically the type to follow, So when there’s a strong opponent, they tend to follow them immediately.
How many times are u gonna repeat that shit
Man that Blanka makes SF4 extremely boring to watch. No offense to Sabin but man those matches must of been a drag. Blanka is such a chore to fight even when they’re a shitty player it’s still annoying. Can’t wait for the BigBox vids man. Thanks again.
lol this thread is moving fast… anyway good luck art just dont get beasted on in the first round lol
ive been without sf4 for like 5 days now, withdrawal symptoms are a bitchzzz
Dhalsim has the advantage agaisnt Blanka. It’s much more of a chore for the Blanka player as he has to find a way in and all his options are easily covered.
wat hes in canada where i have to track him down for lessons right now omg i have to this is ridiculous im oging crazy idontknowwhat
I can understand that but that particular blanka player made it boring to watch. Any other match of Sabin’s kept me highly entertained. Like I said before, like watching Iyo vs. that Sagat for Japan Nationals.
Yo, Art. So how do you feel about Sim vs. Akuma, because I think you’ve said it’s bad for Sim, yet I see you beating hella Akuma’s on the TRF streams.
Also, do you think Sim has any advantaged matchups left now that you are in Japan? 
It must be a drag watching Street Fighter and not being able to pay attention to what’s going on because OH SHIT LOOK! A butterfly! As I was saying…wait…what was I saying? Oh yeah. It must be a drag having to watch a Blanka player face a mental brick wall armed with just OH DAMN! Did you see that explosion on T.V? It was all like, KABOOSH! WOOSH! WOOSH! GOOSH! AHAHAHAH Awesome! Anyways. It must be a drag trying to watch two players compete in a strategic battle for space in Street Fighter when suffering from A.D…OH MAN! I feel like a candy bar. Fuck. Who wants a candy bar? Oh yeah. Something about A.D.D.
Nice vids Sabin. I was hoping you’d run into a Blanka that knew something about the Sim match that the U.S. Blankas don’t. Blarg. Such a hard fucking match imo.
Congratulations sabin!
your team finally won one match at acho. really great progress.
yay!
let there be peace forever!
Yay for Art.
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Now let’s all celebrate!
wth are you talking about. those matches were dry.
Wow! A blue car!
I’m not a Japanese meat rider or whatever, but please. Don’t act like Americans don’t have plenty of followers, too.
Just got back home
a-cho tourney had 24 teams it seems… don’t know the real number but all I know is that there were six pools (we were in Pool 6) with four teams in each pool. We got out of our pool but had to play a tiebreaker round robin and got OCV’d by RF, so they advanced to the final 8, and eventually won the whole thing. I guess we’re tied for 9th then? It was a bit confusing because it wasn’t really single elim until the top 8 bracket.
Anyway!
Our pool was:
- Sabin (DH), Azrael (CH), me (HO)
- Uyro (VI), Cantona (ZA), Kuronuko (CH) – #1 Viper + #1 Gief in Kansai… dunno who the Kuronuko was but he’s a Chun player and really solid
- Yassun (RY), Hagoromo (AB), Johnny Jongi (ZA) – Dunno who they were… seemed like nice guys though.
- Ponsuke (KE), Tanao (AB), Wareware Wadebu Senda (CH) – Dunno who this was to be honest and didn’t play them either.
Basically the setup was that the team that went 3 - 0 would advance automatically, and anyone that went 2 - 1 would have to play a tiebreaker to determine who goes on. Then the team that won that tiebreaker would have to face the other pool’s tiebreaker winners to see who would advance to the top 8. So basically, you’d have 6 teams going 3 - 0, and 2 teams who went 2 - 1.
First match was against Johnny Jongi’s team. I went up first, and i was actually convinced I’d scrub it out cuz I’m not good against Abel at all. I was so confident in my scrubiness, in fact, that I told my boss I’d be able to come to a work function after I lost lol.
Reno vs. Yassun, Reno 2 - 0
Reno vs. Hagoromo, Reno 2 - 1
Reno vs. Johnny Jongi, Reno 2 - 0
Well, guess I had to cancel that work function! We went on to face Uryo’s team next…
Reno vs. Kuronuko, Kuronuko 2 - 0
Azrael vs. Kuronuko, Azrael 2 - 1 (?)
Azrael vs. Cantona, Cantona 2 - 0 (?)
Sabin vs. Cantona, Cantona 2 - 1
Kuronuko pretty much owned me for free here. His Chun is solid and I have a lot of trouble with that match as a Honda player. The Az vs Kuronuko match was really good on both sides. Good decision-making and good use of pokes IMO. The Sabin vs. Cantona match was kind of annoying because Sabin would literally get a good three j.fierces in, but then Cantona would pull out a lariat and beat the j.fierce clean and even it up. The end basically came with Sabin (according to him) flubbed up the Ultra and ate a lariat (? I forget)
Johnny Jongi’s team had to fight Ponsuke’s team as both of them were 0 - 1, and Johnny Jongi’s team won so we had to roll that match back.
Reno vs. Yassun, Reno 2 - 0
Reno vs. Hagoromo, Hagoromo 2 - 1
Azrael vs. Hagoromo, Azrael 2 - 1
Azrael vs. Johnny Jongi, Azrael 2 - 1
Good shit by Az to HOLD IT TOGETHER against a solid gief that really showed no fear and didn’t care about taking 23984237943 s.roundhouses to the head.
So we ended up going 2 - 1 in our pool so we had to advance to the tiebreaker round robin to see who would advance to the top 8.
Too bad RF’s team went 2 - 1 too. 
He OCV’d us pretty fucking quickly, and those guys were seriously not fucking around lol. Usually RF was either 2nd or 3rd for their matches but this time he went first to mop us up. So we were out after that.
Still, we had a decent run IMO. I’m sure Az and Sabin will fill in more details.
Just for the record, before anyone calls out Sabin for not winning in the tourney, he was doing very well in his matches before and after the tourney, and even Rikuson (top 15 Sagat player) went up to him and said he was awesome, and most of the players who were watching his matches were impressed too. It’s just too bad that he got stuck with matches against the #1 gief in Osaka and the #4 player in the country.
Way to overcome your scrubbiness Reno…good shit. SFIV is easy mode compared to VF5. :lol: