Lots of Oro players, although i don’t know who aroha is. Its cool a elena player qualifyed too. Btw didnt any other asian country get a spot in 3s?
Big names missing this year:
Daigo, RX, J, Hayao, Kuroda, Sugiyama, KSK
Daigo was rumored to be quitting torunament play so that seems the case 
Hayao announced his retirement from tournaments when he came to Cannes
KSK is probably too busy running his arcade to get enough practice
what about the others?
At least this year Ino and Boss are back
rx is teamed up with sugiyama and roshihikari
ruiN
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why would hayao quit? and no more daigo? don’t say that
ruiN
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why would hayao quit? and no more daigo? don’t say that
ksk cant join sbo, because he is staff. and im not joking when I say this. But the SBO BOSS said that KSK CAN enter the last chance tournemnt if he teams with Buktooth and Vanessa(Texas Girl Player).
The last chance tourney will be intresting for several reasons…
-Kim
No more Daigo was a rumor that is around from about 3 months now, I still hope that it’s not true but there starts to be some evidence.
Hayao told everybody in Cannes that he was quitting tournament play because he wants to concentrate on other things for his life. He’s not quitting 3s (there was recent footage of him on uri_kagecchi), just getting less practice (for the record, the K.O profile in the Tougeki 2005 Arcadia mook points that he plays 3s 11 hours a day. Being among world’s best is time-consuming 
).
daigo hella isnt playing anything. i havent seen him the entire time i been here
Nuki/KO/Kokujin is one meaty team.
But where is their team, did they not qualify?
Also whats up with J he is nowhere to be seen either.
I just hope that not a random yun/ken/chun team wins this tourney…
Seriously. I think this is the strongest SBO team ever.
Oh shit! The same Aruka that raped Senaka’s Urien!! :woot: :woot:
Daigo apparently plays mah jong now.
wouldn’t surprise me. shit is HARD.
i know a gang of old chinese women who do nothing but gamble, smoke, and play mah jong. that shit is scary… no joke.
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pierre or nuki’s team are probably gonna win :X
i’m rooting for nitto mov and spellmaster oh and mester roah ino is dope
AND CAN’T FORGET
goemon,deshiken,and ushi?!
Tokyo C-6 Boss (Makoto) / Ochibi (Yun) / Match (Akuma)
Kyuushu/Okinawa G-1 Deshiken (Ken) / Ushi!? (Urien) / Goemon (Yang)
I think these teams will be fun to watch (no chun). On other subject, not trying to start a flame war here or anything but i think USA EC has more chances than USA WC.
I’m rooting for both of them to get to the finals, cause, obviously, Go USA and all, but it would surprise me if the EC team went farther than the WC. Certainly possible, but it would surprise me.
I have a feeling the US teams will do a bit better this year, more towards the WC team.
And I think the WC team has more potential than the EC team, their team has better players with more experience playing with Japan comp.
