So after talking with FinalRoundBats organizers, I’ve been given space to run a Skullgirls setup tomorrow. Any players in the Tokyo area should definitely pop in and rep the game! 
There’ll be pizza and stuff too!
That’s freaking awesome. I hope you see a lot of Japanese visitors. I’d be there for sure if I still lived in Japan. Let us know how it turns out!
Will there be a stream?
Is anyone else gonna be a little disappointed if they don’t have a Skullgirl session in that Maid Cafe place?<br>
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<div class=“QuoteText”>So after talking with FinalRoundBats organizers, I’ve been given space to run a Skullgirls setup tomorrow. Any players in the Tokyo area should definitely pop in and rep the game! <img src="/plugins/Emotify/design/images/4.gif" width="" height="" alt=":D" title=":D" class=“bbcode_smiley” /><br />
There’ll be pizza and stuff too!<br />
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Oh God, now I feel even worse for missing it. I had work yesterday (just my luck FRB is on the only Saturday when I need to work) and I couldn’t make it. I would have come even for just the tail-end, but I had to do overtime until 11:30 pm. ;_;
Good news: TONS of Japanese opponents to play with!
Double-Post. How do I delete this?<br>
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<div class=“QuoteAuthor”><a href="/profile/83635/Doshington">Doshington</a> said:</div>Let us know how it turns out!<br>
</blockquote>It went pretty good. Scott gave us a dedicated casuals setup for the whole day.
Unfortunately this is all he could do with such short notice.<br>
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Honestly there wasn’t a massive amount of actual players but there
definitely was some interest. There were loads of people watching
though, so hopefully if there is ever a tournament with any bit of
advertising people would be more interested in actually playing.<br>
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A few of the Japanese players that did sit down were very good. They mauled <i>me</i> anyway, but that’s not saying much. Cat_Drugs had a better showing.
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Oh God, now I feel even worse for missing it. I had work yesterday (just my luck FRB is on the only Saturday when I need to work) and I couldn’t make it. I would have come even for just the tail-end, but I had to do overtime until 11:30 pm. ;_;
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</blockquote>I know the feeling. Don’t worry about it!<br><br>
That’s pretty awesome. I’m glad it’s generating interest over there. I wonder how the sales figures look? It might be a stretch, but maybe we can get them to help out with our crowdfunding?.. then again, I’m not really sure how the track record is for the Japanese gaming community when it comes to things like that.
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<div class=“QuoteText”>A few of the Japanese players that did sit down were very good.<br>
</div></blockquote>Even online they’re very skilled. Skullgirls has only been out for what, like five days? Already I’m meeting opponents online that are performing optimized combos and doing sick resets. Mostly they’re still at that stage of the game where most are playing solo because they haven’t gotten around to learning multiple characters for a full team, but the potential is obvious.<br><br>This past couple of days I haven’t been playing seriously online. Mostly I was trying to go for resets and setups all the time to spread the knowledge around, but last night I came up against a solo Painwheel player who punished me for it heavily. I was trying to get this cute setup with Valentine to work but I got careless and he hit me with a TOD combo. After that he had these incoming mix-ups I’d never seen before and he crushed the rest of my team pretty quickly. I was impressed. If the game doesn’t lose steam, I estimate six weeks max before I’d be forced to learn Double for real instead of relying on Cathead fraudulence.<br>
<div><div>There is one thing that worries me about new Japanese players.</div><div><br></div><div>Last night I tuned in to a niconico stream and a guy was grinding out Ms. Fortune. But every time he did Feral Edge I was wishing he would cancel into sneeze. I told him the motions but he removed the head beforehand. I told him “head on” and he gave a confused “are?” So he went into the move list and found no mention to a head on dp. I decided to link him one of my videos with a timestamp and he was all “OOOOAAAAAAHH SUGEEEEEEE”.</div><div><br></div><div>There are a lot of things from each character that are COMPLETELY unknown to Japanese people, and that has to change somehow. I’m not saying that players in general won’t know, but players who are VERY GOOD don’t do these things and it’s reeeeally glaring.</div><div><br></div><div>Fortune: Feral Edge/Feline Allergies head-on cancel on last hit; Cat Strike/Head Recall cancel from second Cat Scratch, cancelling Headbutt/Zoom into Omnom/Feline Allergies</div><div>Filia: air dash cancelling Airball/Hairball on hit or whiff (although they figured this one out from playing other Filia’s I’m assuming), Level 3 doing more damage on first frame</div><div>Double: Wagon coming from behind</div><div>Peacock: George cancelling</div><div>Painwheel: Buer Thresher on hit can cancel into fly</div><div>Valentine: Air scalpels allow aerial movement followup</div><div>Parasoul: Level 3 RC cancel</div><div>Cerebella: Ultimate Showstopper cancel into Devil Horns<br><br></div><div>Will we just have to invade people’s live streams in niconico and tell them? :(</div></div><div><br></div>
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<div class=“QuoteText”>Will we just have to invade people’s live streams in niconico and tell them? <img src="/plugins/Emotify/design/images/2.gif" width="" height="" alt=":(" title=":(" class=“bbcode_smiley” /></div>
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You could do that, or you could just wait until they figure it out for themselves. The game has been out less than a week. Give them time.
Also, just thought I should mention that I was talking to the organizer about a tournament for Skullgirls at next month’s FinalRoundBats. He agreed to have one, but only if the 360 patch is released by then. <br><br>Yes, I know, SG is not even getting a 360 release in Japan, but FBR is run almost entirely on 360s so logistically it’s a little trickier to run PS3 only tournaments.<br>
<font face=“Arial, Verdana” size=“2”><span style=“line-height: normal;”>Skullgirls is the #1 PSN game in Japan!</span></font><div style=“font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;”><br></div><div><font face=“Arial, Verdana” size=“2”><span style=“line-height: normal;”>http://www.jp.playstation.com/psn/store/magazine/</span></font><br></div><div><br></div><blockquote class=“Quote”>
<div class=“QuoteAuthor”><a href="/profile/81236/Cellsai">Cellsai</a> said:</div>
<div class=“QuoteText”>Also, just thought I should mention that I was talking to the organizer about a tournament for Skullgirls at next month’s FinalRoundBats. He agreed to have one, but only if the 360 patch is released by then. <br><br>Yes, I know, SG is not even getting a 360 release in Japan, but FBR is run almost entirely on 360s so logistically it’s a little trickier to run PS3 only tournaments.<br></div>
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Buh? He told me that it could happen despite PS3 a few days ago - better check in.
@Guitalex<div><br></div><div>Give them a month or so. it’s been about a week, no need to flood them with info when they’re learning how the game works.Let them get their feet wet before you push them under.</div>
There’s not enough likes under Ravi’s post. You guys are losing your touch!<br>
Edit : Ignore me.<br> :-j
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<div class=“QuoteText”>Edit : Ignore me.<br> :-j </div>
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NEVER.
Back on topic, the whole ad about skullgirls being “moe” was kinda groan worthy.