I see what your saying, but kind of disagree. Justin Wong certainly puts LOTS of time and dedication into SF4.
Still, if he ever wants to win in Japan, he does need to adopt a mastery of one character and eliminate the “counter pick” mentality. Single character, single elimination is how they roll in Japan. Character mastery is essential in their system.
So, I again say, at that level play, anyone can beat anyone on a given day. Even the Japanese people said it.
That’s why it’s funny when everyone’s “predictions” just contained a bunch of popular Japanese players, and the less familiar teams got shafted.
People think, "ZOMG ITS MAAAAAH-GOOOOOH. HE’S GONNA WIN FO’ SHO’, and he loses to a team no one’s heard of. Daigo’s team doesn’t make Top 4, and the only people still cheering by the end are Iyo fans, who also lost.
This. Is. Japan.
point taken. i did go overboard on my statement. modesty/character mastery goes a long way is what im saying.
Fun fact: It took Iyo/Shiro 12 attempts before they finally qualified. I remember in the build up to SBO, everyone was getting nervous that they might not even qualify.
Capcom admits viper and rufus are overpowered …wait XD
propably the dumbest post i’ve read in a while\
that aside…
I gotta see that Shiro gameplay. Props to al the foreign teams. I can just imagine all the casuals and mini tournaments they’ll be playing…without me sigh
Seeing Makoto’s Vega beat both Tokido’s Akuma and Ojisanboy’s Sagat was incredible. The whole place was cheering for the guy because we all knew what an uphill battle that had to be. Unfortunately he and Dan lost the next fight, and we didn’t get to see it.
Also didn’t get to see the west coast team, dunno what happened there.
For Marn Vs Naiki, Marn came out strong and damn near perfected Naiki in the first round. But after a dizzy, Marn taunted before doing damage, and this lit a fire under Naiki’s ass or something because he came back hard and beat Marn in the next two rounds. Justin beat his opponent fairly well, then did pretty good against Naiki. In the third round, they were both about even at around half-life, but Rufus has 3 EX stocks and ultra. Never a good situation. Justin backed himself into a corner…in playing footsies, he moved forward and Naiki responded with a tornado punch…which hit, and then juggle into ultra into the corner.
Daigo lost very narrowly to Dashio. I think he was leading in life in the last round, but ended up eating a EX Seismo into ultra to lose. Nuki fought well against the Honda, but in that final round the Honda hit a random jab, comboed into HHS, and then canceled into super - poor Chun’s life bar just vanished.
Shiro had an amazing comeback against Dashio in the first round of his fight. He had like 1 pixel of life left and Dashio was nearly full health, and Shiro just pounded out the win with Abel mixup tactics. Dashio couldn’t come back from that.
Mago got confounded by regular cross-up from Gosho’s Rufus. It hit him three times cleanly for a big damage loss and a lopsided first round. After that, Mago just couldn’t come back, especially dealing with Rufus with meter. Nemo had a close call but pounded out the win against Kyabetsu’s Viper in a close match. Nemo and Gosho traded rounds but in the final round Gosho just outplayed him. Didn’t fall for any of his mixups and just kept things solid. Poor Nemo was really dejected after this match.
Shiro beat Gosho, and Gosho was a ball of nerves so I didn’t think he was going to win. Kyabetsu was close to losing against Iyo but made a good comeback and pounded out the win. Shiro beat Kyabetsu in a somewhat close but still solidly Shiro first round. He was doing well in the second round, but then Kyabetsu hit his stride and took the second round, and Shiro couldn’t recover. In the third round Kyabetsu got Shiro in the corner and just raped him with Viper randomness.
Was an incredible event.
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The two players who won were well-known names, just not to US players and the SF community. They consistently are top placers at KOF. To say they’re no-names isn’t exactly fair. There was no KOF this year at SBO so I guess they took up SF4. Oogosho in particular was known for KOF- Ralf specialist. Also the reason I use Ralf as one of my mains.
Hopefully we can get those two over at EVO next year.
The hype in the room during Makoto’s matches against Ojisanboy and Tokido must have been ridiculous. Makoto is just too sick, cannot wait to see the video.
Marn taunted before ending the first round? Very, very poor form. Still, at least America didn’t get it’s ass kicked, seems like it was very close and could have gone either way.
how? cos wong thinks sagat/ryu wrecks rufuses yet a rufus came out top after going against top sagats?
quit acting like some thread police. your neg rep dont do shit.
that aside, i wonder when vids would hit youtube. was marn’s taunt intentional? because yeah, you’re in jap territory and its just really poor form as butters puts it.
The opponent was dizzy, and it was Marn playing. Of course it was intentional. By losing the match, it must have really shifted the momentum against them.
I have a feeling that the video of Marn’s match may end up becoming a Japanese meme.
Random when every US player lost their first match?
oh right i needed to re-read azrael’s stuff. if anything, it deserves to be a meme. i mean, if any jappers show such disrespect on american soil and fails, you would never hear the end of it. who knows? as cultured as japanese people are, they DID make the freakout kid (kirby gourmet remix) on youtube, which should be of legendary status
He probably just made Naiki famous. I can already imagine the video comments:
“Haha, Rufus playing Rufus!”
“LOL stupid fat arrogant American got OWNED!”
“LOL I bet Naiki threw the first round to give stupid American false hope! <3 Naiki!”
dont act like japanese players dont do shit like that too. i rmember kuroda taunted and toyed with justin/ricky a few years ago.
I’m not, by any means.
That said, Kuroda actually won that match, and it was on his home soil.
It was random because the US players lost. It would have been skills if the US players had actually won.
Going off of Azrael’s post, there was certainly randomness to it. I’m not sure how the other matches went, but Justin and Marn’s match, at least, could have gone either way.
Wow… taunting during high level matches is never a good thing.