Stunfest 22-23 May '10 - Rennes, France. EU HDR could live if you guys support it

Fulaani · May 25, 2010, 5:33am

Tokido is a well known TOP player in the japanese arcade scene

anyways here is my post on NE

Fulan:

Stunfest was too sick. The venue was the best venue I have ever seen (in person on or video) for a tournament. I loved it. And of course arcade ST, nothing beats that.

The dutch guys repped ST pretty well IMO. We entered arcade ST with 6 players, Bob Sagat, OD08, R-Jive, AQH and me (I entered as Kareeeeem).

I cannot speak for anyone else but I’m happy with my performance, in both ST and HDR tourneys the only players I lost to were Coungster, NKI and Tokido. I’m actually not quite sure where I ended up in ST but I think me and R-Jive got 4th in HDR. He actually beat Tokido in hdr but then we both lost to NKI :(. Anyways I felt that only losing to these players was very respectable but next time they’ll get bit.

edit I may have lost to one more player in HDR, not sure, but R-Jive picked up the ball there.

Walking into the vennue the first day, finding NKI on the ST cab and straight up beating his chun my very first game was pretty awesome. Of course he turned it up after that but I was able to hold my own in both casuals and the tourney. [media=youtube]Xbs7YGByZfw&fmt=23"[/media] he raped me the first match but the second was really really close. I could have taken the set to a 3rd game but I did a wrong move after beating his super with a jump back lk and he threw me ftw. Against Tokido I think I broke down lol,my friends and NKI said I put up a good fight (and it wasn’t complete domination by him really) but he is just really smart chipping away at my lifebar not using 1 walldive and also missing some key setups screwed me up. He gave me a compliment after the match. He really is a cool and humble guy who will have a real conversation with you, lol he even looked me up to tell me about his SSF4 matches. NKI was a gentleman as usual, great guy, great player, ask a question and he will give you a well thought out answer.

Also, coungster, your ken is awesome, and gief too, the cab at the end was sub-par but I really enjoyed our games together. Hopefully we’ll be able to play some more at SVB.

Anyways, like coungster said, the ST tournament was the shit. It was so awesome to see so many players huddled around a versus city playing some serious ST.

Oh and that milanea is *the *dude, young kid using honda beating tokido 2 matches straight getting a perfect last match last round. So much hype when it happened.

about delays, this was the only problem, there was some downtime because some players had to juggle between tournaments.

special shoutout to chromium who hosted me and my friend at his awesome apartment.

edit I forgot to mention Bob Sagat taking a match off of Tokido with O.Hawk in the ST tourney was awesome, even if he lost the overall set.

JigglyNorris · May 25, 2010, 7:29am

Holy crap Fulaani you’ve improved a lot. Hopefully you can make it to the states sometime.

SweetJohnnyV · May 25, 2010, 10:09am

Wow, sounds like you guys had a great tournament! Congrats to all the people that placed and special congrats to NKI for taking #1 in both games! Good shit!

Chromium · May 25, 2010, 1:00pm

Huge event, many thanks for coming :lovin:

I took more than 200 photos, but I was so stuck watching/recording great games that I’ve forgotten taking photos of several competitors playing

A lot of work to do, I quickly added those ones yesterday (can’t add them directly since they are huge, I’ll do thumbnails later) :

SSF2X - AQH vs Jago
SSF2X - Cuongster vs NKI
SSF2X - Cuongster vs NKI 2
SSF2X - Fulaani (Kareeeeem) vs Ken Bogard
SSF2X - Fulaani (Kareeeeem) vs NKI
SSF2X - Milanea vs Yamazaki93
SSF2X - Sharizord vs R-Jive
SSF2X - Sharizord vs R-Jive 2
SSF2X - Tokido vs Golgoth13

More to come, including HD Remix :tup:

Remy77077 · May 25, 2010, 1:58pm

Great stuff guys! Still sorry I couldn’t make it - the dates and team tournament really put me off in the end. Also guys, get your info up SOONER on the web next time, please! I need it early when I have to book time off work etc. I also only got my new joystick sorted out like 3 days before Stunfest - would never had time to practice enough (and been playing FAR too much Starcraft II, Halo Reach, and even SSF4 right now).

Nice to see all the top finishing players are guys who’ve beaten me in tournament play (at least online anyway in the case of Shari and Fulaani!) or I am sure I would not beat! I feel a bit better about losing (twice) to Cuongster now at SVB last year (I still say HDR Ken is underrated though).

Looking forward to some HDR vids!

Oh and Jiggly, yeah Fulaani has improved a ton! I used to be able to beat that sucka sometimes

Remy77077 · May 25, 2010, 2:27pm

I don’t know who’s R-Jive and who’s Sharizord, but I’m real sad that whichever one is Shari doesn’t look like his XBL Avatar! ^_^;; Damn!

Chromium · May 25, 2010, 2:46pm

héhé, Shari is on left, with the Kick@ss shirt he won the day before ^^
(here’s the rule I used : First named player is on the left of the picture)

Norieaga · May 25, 2010, 6:14pm

Shari is the dude who’s not brown. I think I’m one of the few people where my avatar actually looks like me lol.

Remy77077 · May 25, 2010, 8:24pm

g I got tons of comments “Wow it looks just like you!” when I first created mine
Even though the avatar editor doesn’t quite have my haircut, it’s a very good caricature of me for sure. I reckon there should be a law made that you have to make your avatar look like you really do IRL

Also, since I didn’t spell it out properly earlier - huge congrats to Fulaani and Shari!

Fulaani · May 25, 2010, 8:25pm

Thanks Jiggly, I hope so too. Maybe some of the Amreekans can make it to SVB in august for HDR too, would be awesome. I will be there taking heads off shoulders with Blanka.

Shari · May 25, 2010, 8:30pm

Wow i look horrible.

I place the blame solely on Danish Airport Security for considering my Shampoo, Shaving Gel, and Deoderant to be dangerous terrorist weapons.

Shari · May 25, 2010, 8:32pm

Also Dav is putting up videos from the ST tournament.

Here is Milanea vs Tokido the by far sickest match:
[media=youtube]TryvhyKMRhA[/media]

Shari · May 25, 2010, 9:46pm

Tons of pictures from the event.

Shari · May 26, 2010, 2:30am

As i have nothing else to do i scooped around Chromium’s pictures and found this:

HDR Finals: Sharizord/Dav35 vs NKI/Tokido

Zero1 · May 26, 2010, 3:24am

I presume you mean casuals, and not that SVB has seen sense and reinstated SF2?

Fulaani · May 26, 2010, 3:54am

They announced HDR to be part of the lineup yesterday, along with replacing KOF12 with KOF2002UM and replacing BBCT with BBCS.

Chromium · May 26, 2010, 11:29am

Yep, I’m adding photos when ready, more to come tonight : http://www.guezennec.org/images/StunfestX/

I’ve also uploaded HD Remix finals. Overview only of the main stage, all matches have been encoded and will be available in good quality (soon, hopefully).

HD Remix Winner Bracket Final : [media=youtube]0Ad8sGoIziM"[/media]
HD Remix Looser Bracket Final : [media=youtube]1TnhrkPJZYE"[/media]

Grand final is coming

[edit]
HD Remix Grand Final : [media=youtube]jmJUnlyKMuI"[/media]

papasi · May 27, 2010, 8:19am

Thanks for uploading those, but the contrast from the projector screen is really poor.
will there be official videos released from stunfest later?

BTW, tokido is crazy. He played almost every single fighters that is on the list and placed at tops.

http://stunfest2010.3hitcombo.fr/dossiers/dossier_16_resultats.html

IIRC he is also a full time graduate student. Where does he find the time? Sick.

CWheezy · May 27, 2010, 10:32am

HDR is sf2, what are you saying

Fulaani · May 27, 2010, 11:10am

His English is also very good for a japanese guy, I could hold a fairly normal conversation with him about anything. I talked to him quite a bit about a bunch of things. But his facial expression when I asked him about (S)SF4 said things that could never have been conveyed in the English language lol.