Sabin SF4 Japan Q/A - match of the day: Barfights II

Screw Honda…LOL.

Art please take a shitload of Cantona vids.

lol you use blitzes

ff6 scrub spotted

Was that Wao using Ken, Is he legit? The vids I’ve seen of him are kind of Random. Also try and hit up those Kanagawa magician tournaments if you can, Dragon Boy always plays there.

Aurablast, pummel, and bumrush > you.

Edit: And fire dance too.

fire dance was epic

i never claomed to play ff6 serious in fact i didnt know about dem hax =/ i was only 12

drchaos yeah that was wao. i wasnt sure if he was legit or not he only played 1 match which i recorded vs cantona.

okay heres my match of the day before i head out

Chari (Blanka) vs Uryo (Viper)
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Good lord Uryo… : [

Holy fuck @ 2:08. That was fucking gorgeous.

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sabin, i think thats you in :19

who is that kid with the braces and why is he not playing SFIV with you in JP? lol

Here’s what I’m curious to know as an outsider:

In the same way that there is a little bit of rivalry between the U.S. West Coast and the East Coast in street fighter…

Is there any rivalry between regions of japan when it comes to fighting games? It seems like there definitely would be some degree of competition within japan, especially between the Kanto SF scene and the Kansai SF scene.

Does that type of rivalry exist at all?

And i guess a follow up to that question would also be, if a rivalry does exist between regions (whether it be between Osaka vs Tokyo, or whatever), how often do the different regional communities play against each other? Is it only at national tournaments?

[anyone with a knowledge of the japanese sf scene can let me know about this, its just a general question for those of you who are over there…]

thanks for the info.

There is a rivalry between East (Kanto) and West (Kansai). Although they probably don’t travel frequently across country (Japan is like the size of California), they do meet up for major tournaments. These include Tougeki, Cooperation Cup (3S), X-Mania (ST) etc.

Wow…

no words can describe how insane that was.

Incredible Viper!
Also, as Arturo mentioned, how crazy is the damage from Blanka’s ultra? Jesus, it looked like it took over 50% health.

Keep it up Art. And please post that vid of Wao.

Thanks!

lol art you’re omega free against trolling, it never fails <3

To get a little bit back on topic, there is definitely an East vs. West rivalry in Japan. In fact, a big tradition of their Guilty Gear community is to have a 23 v. 23 team exhibition right before SBO every year. Why such a huge number? Because each side gets 1 player for each character. So for example, the West could have N.O with Venom, P.C with Sol, Efute with May, etc., while the East might have Nanashi with Venom, 012 with Sol, Kedako with May, and so on.

In Japan, the east coast was historically stronger because of a better arcade scene, and still to this day the west coast is always seen as the underdogs…pretty much the opposite of the US, you could say. West coast Japan also gets a lot less video exposure in general (except for GG thanks to A-cho), which is why people didn’t really know about players like Sako or Cantona. I think that also explains why people don’t talk about RF nearly as much as Daigo or Mago or Iyo, when he’s clearly on their level.

lol at the trickery after the throw at 3:14, I wonder why he didn’t go for the attack when Blanka wakes up backwards though?

He didn’t go for the attack because ever since like ST Blanka has always been the most risky character to cross up or otherwise mess with on wake up. He’s like the only character in the game that has a dragon punch that hits on both sides of him (EX up ball). Electricity is almost the same deal. Unless you can meaty him out of the electricity it hits on both sides of him and he gets a cross up attempt off of him. So switching up between his dual side dragon punch and electricity forces Uryo to keep his cross ups to a minimum. If he has any idea that you are trying to cross him up you will get EX up balled, electricitied or auto correct Ultra’d.

I’m not sure exactly what advantage you get for someone waking up backwards but it’d be hard to really take advantage of it against Blanka any ways. You wanna just make sure you have more health than he does so he won’t sit on down back and up ball FTL.

Just came back from Bigbox.
Shit was hype. Met tokido, Yuu*, ukon mago etc…
Man that vortex was crazy… Everything sabin said… N more haha…
Japanese love to plink… Gonna work on that…
Spent only an hour there cause I needed to take a train back to asakusa. Gonna go back there on monday.
U coming hfz?? Hehe

Just came back from Bigbox.
Shit was hype. Met tokido, Yuu*, ukon mago etc…
Man that vortex was crazy… Everything sabin said… N more haha…
Japanese love to plink… Gonna work on that…
Spent only an hour there cause I needed to take a train back to asakusa. Gonna go back there on monday.
U coming hfz?? Hehe