I’m disappointed at the first round KO…but mathmatically, the odds were against us. 2 teams can only advance so far. And yes, i agree that Single Elimination is not the way to go. It leaves very little room for error and not enough chances for any team.
Oh wells. It’s the experience that matters. All the teams that even made it to SBO are already the cream of the crop. Don’t wanna sound cliche, but in a sense, everyone’s a winner. -_-
god damn, forgenjuro use to go to svgl alot. I didnt even know you went to SBO also. pino ab7 is one of the craziest game players ive ever seen. and he has a tight samurai haircut thing going. I hella dont want to read this whole thread but MOV is the fucking king. Nitto finally wins the big one. and EVO NEEDS to incorporate more interaction between the crowd and players. Not only is the gameplay and presentation more amazing, but everyone gets into it cause of the interviews. I talked to sawatari during sbo also, we talked about chances of cvs2 coming back to sbo. if there is no new capcom game next year, he will talk to the committee about bringing it back.
And just to throw in my own comment. AMERICANS SHOULD PLAY NEW GAMES. FUCKING WE PLAY THE SAME SHIT FOR YEARS. Its boring as shit, I am positive im not the only person that feels this waym evo isnt even motivating. It has nothing to do with the tournament but the game lineup. But you know its all good. Cause we can play mvc2 3s and cvs2 forever and talk shit, it:ll be great! Ok venting is done. If any of you are bored google images of hoshino aki. she hot. peace
-Kim
+1 I feel the same way man. I mean we’re running T5.0 for crying out loud. T5.0!!
I guess the Japans are playing serious again all the foreigner’s team! Which shows full respects to the Foreigners in a difference prespectively!
Thanks for the excellent and detailed log!
Cont. Please!
They would have to do some serious practicing to catch up…because aren’t they all for the most part still using Iron Man??? I maybe wrong, and maybe they’ve switched to the Big4 now, but I doubt that within next year they’ll be comming to Evok2k7 and beasting all of our best in MvC2, I mean for so many years, we took that fighting game as our bible.
Again, I’m happy that we where able to go and represent, Japan is just too good in 3S, it should give us motivation to play even harder for next time. As for the Nin comment, let’s be very honest, Nin is gifted in Tekken, and when you have gifted+5.0 Steve…well I’m not very surprised, it’s just that this year with DR, it’s more forgiving and Japan would definetly be working hard, I mean, they did lose big last time Nin took them out in 5.0 with Steve and then they lost big here last year in the Team Battle in 5.0 against the US, yet in SBO for DR, return with a vengeance, it’s the Samurai Blood in them I tell you.
3s: One of the few games North Americans play seriously and they still suck. hahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahaha
well I guess Japan is such a beast.
mortal kombat deception 
???
Who’s this “Kage” fellow who seems to make up these elite KOF XI teams???
I think everybody also needs to realize is how much of a minority really good fighting game players are here as there are compared to Japan.
edit-- that is why nobody there buys xbox’s
Wow i dont know hoiw to react to the 3S scene that went down. Damn and i thought that the west coast team would do some magic. East coast didnt phase them either. Hmm i think we should study 3S on a different perspective. Like more various character usages or we shouldnt rely on studing the opponent 2/3 maybe 1/1should be the study rate . I dont know just my opinion
Great logs, some of the better reads this year here in FGD. Looking forward to the next one.
It’s not really 2 vs 28. If you go to a tourney do you think it’s you vs 31 other guys? Everyone or in this case every team has equal chance to win. There are 4 foreign teams and the odds of none of them moving to the 2nd round is pretty low. And the odds of not getting a single win is even lower. That pretty much tells you the Japanese are that much better.
I think the ‘foreigners’ shouldn’t take their trashy local ‘tactics’ to japan. But I guess I’d be the only one thinking that:P
way to support ure own players America.
Eiji.
i hope that makes sense to someone… ?
sbo was awesome. japan is awesome. the arcades are fucking incredible. the difference between what you CAN do with the japan scene vs the us scene is visible at face value - this is stunning shit.
their 3s players are beasts. a big part of getting beasted was not really being terribly used to playing against japanese style, i would think… to my blind eyes it just looked a lot faster and more aggressive than american 3s. run-away yun wins, really, though, so what do i know? otoh, justin got thrown like four times pretty much at the start of the round… shrug these guys are crazy.
thanks to tokyo gaming action for all that they do and did here. :tup: i will comment more when i am back in the states.
for what it is worth, the people at evo are better than at sbo - at sbo those guys are quiet fuckers for the most part. sbo is incredibly well-produced and phi and i were in awe and trying to figure out what ideas to steal… but the crowd to my ears was simply not very loud/enthusiastic, comparatively.
having won one round/game in a japanese cvs2 team tourney (the one nestor and bas(?) won), i may retire from cvs2 (probably could have won a 2nd, but i couldnt super on the sticks so lost a very close match). it cannot get any better than that 
So, Daigo’s retiring, huh. 
Fuck, Mah Jong can’t be as exciting as fighting games, can it?
Maybe he’s winning more money in it? Maybe his psychic powers are rewarded more?
Oh well, Daigo makes EVOs exciting for me… I guess this year is my last EVO.
I find it funny that people are bashing the US teams for going out in the first round but those same people were HERE not at SBO. How did you do in the qualifiers? I got mad respect for both the WC and EC teams. Do you think it was easy to play over there? Do you think you could have done better with that setup and enviroment? Man it just makes me mad that people here shit on everything and can’t back it up. Hell most of the people dissing won’t even show up at Evo and if you do you’ll be luck to place top 30. When something first (and I’m talking about your little rink-a-dink mall tournies) than talk all the shit you want. Better yet man up, go to Evo and request one of the members of team USA first round and see how you do.
As for Marvel, get real!!! NOBODY PLAYS MARVEL BUT THE U.S.!!! The rest of the world stop playing Marvel years ago. Yes the US needs to start playing other games more seriously like GG Slash, VF, KOF XI, and stop being so narrow minded towards games. I think we could compete in these games if we just got more into them.
On a side note, its a shame we didn’t have a team for Tekken 5 DR. I don’t know the details but TZ or whoever should talk to the SBO reps and see about next year. I would love to see how we against Japan and Korea.
^ Thats the truth. They are the guys who won the US/EU qualifiers. Plus you never saw them mouthing off about what they expected to achieve. If anything these results show what a difficult tournament SBO really is. These guys are still going to come back home and win X ammount of tournaments. What will people say then?
Hey Preppy, you played in the CVS2 tournament? Thats pretty cool man. Did you happen to notice if anybody filmed any footage of that?
Nobody is bashing the US/France/Germany Teams for losing. Everyone is just really surprised that they ALL got OCV’d. Between 4 teams, and 26 rounds, Foreign teams won 2. TWO ROUNDS. If someone posted on here last week that all the foreign teams would get OCV’d like that, you guys would of called him a stupid hater, and that Wong/Pyro/BillyKane are so sick and they would of pulled off something. You know it. I personally didn’t expect our teams to win, but I did expect them to at least make some noise. But oh well, there’s always next year, it should just give them, and the rest of us, that much more drive to want to beat japan.