whose arcade white stick w/ pedestal? Anybody got more details on those?
top arround 2000 viewer on TOL 2
and most of day for both TOL 2 & XMANIA between 600 - 800 - 1200
Did you or anyone catch the viewer count for Top 8 for X-Mania on the Evo stream?
They were custom-made arcade stands courtesy of Sergjiev, same guy who runs the stream over at twitch.tv/Arkadeum. They’re paired up with a PS360+ running Seimitsu LS-32s with Sanwa 30mm buttons with RG switches. They are delicious to play on, and nobody really had anything bad to say about it in terms of its performance.
And just by looking at Hanashi’s hands, he was doing more than just do dp+half circle back. That technique has been known, and discussed, for at least the past two years since ToL1 when MAO showed us. A variant of this cross cut technique has been in use for awhile now, and even Choi uses it to auto correct DPs in SF4.
I wish I had noted this while watching. I tried looking up the data from the same site that was used to compose this nifty mapping of such data for Sunday’s finals, but don’t see it:
(in the visualization, up at the top you can click the gray boxes to get the mapping/annotations). UMVC3 finals peaked that day at 147,372 viewers, the most that day, incl. Ultra finals.
It was good to see everyone again; I had a ton of fun at this year’s Evo. Apologies that I didn’t make it to the salty suite but I was feeling like crap on Saturday and Sunday. Currently at home with a high fever :(. Congrats to all the people involved in organizing another amazing ToL event and I hope to catch you all again at the next big ST gathering.
Ah, some of us were wondering where you were. Get better soon, spider!
Tol ii was awesome, just unfortunate about the stream quality. X-mania was insane, every second was thrilling. Mao was absolutely hilarious. He’s the villain and not only knows it, but relishes it. The championship belt, the taunting, pointing, facial expressions, he’s easily the most entertaining FG player I’ve ever seen.
Thx to all who organized and worked on this, keeping ST alive.
Links UPDATED
not sure if 35000 or 60000
Brendan O’Dowd update (Salty Suite Money Matches)
The Sergjievs playlists for high quality videos (similar to xgamerz links):
ToL II: http://goo.gl/oVZSRe
X-MANIA USA: http://goo.gl/HYwVgC
hey guys, just wanted to step in and say thanks for hosting this tourney first off. i know it required a ton of hard work and im sorry i couldnt be of much help. i also noticed a lot of you guys hanging your head and feeling like the japanese have this huge edge on you. might i remind you that i never practice and i was up a round and barely lost by pixels to mao and also tokido. if you have the knowledge there is always a way. i know you guys are training mode monsters so just keep trying until it works. jump jab is awesome against vega(claw) with many characters. dont let vega dictate the match. it seems as though a lot of players just give up and let wall dives kick your ass and you give up. im telling you, its beatable and im sure jason cole will agree with my logic.
the game is old, and it seems like its run is probably over, but thats on you guys to keep it alive! ST will never die so keep your head up! also i dont want to seem like i stopped by for self promotion, but we are holding an event in november and daigo is confirmed to be there so far. maybe you guys want to help organize more foreigners to come out and celebrate the 10 year anniversary of the daigo parry! up to you, contact me if you have any questions and nice to meet the new guys this evo and see old friends aswell!
Mike, I really thought you had MAO there. The “what if you went for one more tick throw” is still lingering in my mind.
If team OGSF beat MAO’s team the whole crowd would chant “USA! USA!”
Regarding the event in November, what games will be hosted? I’d assume USF4 for sure ,and maybe SF3 (on cabs or console?) since it’s about celebrating the daigo parry.?
I was rewatching that match last night and that was indeed one of those “what if?” moments - Mike, you came so close, and being totally out of practice at the game too! Would’ve been an epic upset.
It gave me a lot of food for thought on how to approach the Boxer vs Claw matchup as well. I’ve noticed that MAO has more trouble reversing jab->throw compared to cr.MK->throw. The j. jab anti-air to stop his wall dives was also nice which for some reason I don’t see done too often.
Great to see another big event. But Japan still looks better, as they’ve been since, ever. They were not hampered by a non-character-lock tournament, or some of the other possible factors cited in previous years, such as the standard double-elimination format in the US. If anything, the big news seems to be Europe proving they have players “on the same level as” Americans.
Did they show you other characters than their mains, at all? Specifically Kurahashi (probably many characters, since he leveled up so many at Versus arcade’s Ranking Battles), Mattsun or Noguchi’s Fei?
The Europeans did fine. I like Orf’s style, BTW.
I checked the streaming most of the weekend, and I noticed Mattsun having fun with his Cammy. He was messing up lots of commands, though (Jabs into super, hooligans, etc). There’s a video of a Kurahashi MM against Mars, Guile vs Guile, too.
You gotta make a FB account. Even if it’s just your gaming persona. Kuroppi won’t allow me to send links to you. 
Here’s evidence of:
Mike Watson:MAO::Orf:AfroLegends
from 35:49:
The same exact thing happened.
going to be hosting cvs2, mvc2, st, and 3s of course. still debating on whether or not to throw usf4 on the side. all depends on initial interest and what not i suppose. cant have a half empty venue if that makes sense
Hit us up if you need guys to bring setups or help run brackets. Got plenty of guys who are willing to help with that stuff.
EVO 2014 Pre-Tournament Interview With Mattsun, MAO, TMF
http://www.strevival.com/2014/08/06/evo-2014-pre-tournament-interview-with-tmf-mattsun-and-mao
Special thank you to NKI and Zhi for translation and Papasi and Hanasu for arranging the interview. Please note that due to significant background noise in the original recording, some answers were inaudible and thus have been omitted from this transcript.