So Does this equate to no SBO this year?
SBO will still happen. Please read what Fatboy actually typed before posting.
I read it and that means that the location that holds the tourneys lost there lease. This equates to no more tourney. Generally here in the US when a place loses its lease that means thats it your done no more tourney! Perhaps Japan is different. This is an Arcade not like a hall that they lost there lease to? I guess i was misunderstanding what Nohoho said. I was under the assumption that that meant that the people who sponsored the US crowd was out of business.
No more Mikado=No more Mikado ST ranking battles. SBO is sponsored by Tougeki Magazine (or Arcadia), which means SBO will still happen. There will just be no qualifiers for Mikado.
Where can i find the Sagat thread? i had some simple questions about him.
If you don’t see a Sagat thread (I don’t see one), go ahead and make a new one. I’m sure people will jump in and offer up some help.
-wes
Rumored SBO ‘08 teams. Well the guy who posted this on 2ch may have just been bullshitting tho’ these do make sense.
Daigo & Aniken
Otochun & ShootingD
Muteki & Tsuji
Nuki & Inoue
Kurahashi & Nakamura
Taira & Shiro
Gian & ARG
Kusumondo & Danjiri
Ikebukuro Debu & More Bal (since More closed dude supposedly set up shop at ikebukuro las vegas)
Thanks, nohoho, for the scoop. Looking forward to it already.
Assuming the teams end up being as posted, I see Daigo & Aniken as being the wildcards… Hard to judge exactly how good they are compared to the toughest opposition. You’d have to give them at least a puncher’s chance against even the toughest teams. Plus, I like how Aniken has been tearing it up lately.
Muteki & Tsuji are gonna be my favorite team to watch.
Gian & ARG are who I think have the best chance to win it. (Not that I would know or anything, but it’s fun to make predictions.)
if i dont find out the date of SBO within two weeks i more than likely will not be able to attend.
Yeah Aniken wailed on everybody at that A-cho tourney last month. Terrific fireball throwing display. He was one safe jump-in away from beating Muteki @ SBO, too, eh? That was probably the match of the year.
If Mayakon resurfaced and teamed up with Komoda that’d be ace.
BTW, Mikado is in fact moving. It seems like the web site will stay up in the interim which is good for us movie hounds.
Ehonda - As soon as I have a list of qualifier dates and locations I’ll post 'em up. The new issue of Tougeki Spirits comes out later this week – I think that that’ll have some specifics.
Let me know of this too. :tup:
I am more concerned about he USA qualifier then the date of the Japan event
Does anyone have the mikado 112407 matches? Would appreciate it greatly if someone could upload them.
EDIT: NM i got them, thanks juicy juice!
I’ve seen some vids where an opponent lands a hit on Daigo and Daigo responds with a Shoryuken (namely the Afrolegends vid, but also in SBO vid against More Vega). Is he taking the hit on purpose in order to take advantage of the situation or is it a reaction, where he acts as it’s happening? By the way, that More Vega vid has a reaction-dp (not psychic) versus Dic’s slide!
I most likely don’t know what the hell I’m talking about, but … I recall NKI saying the “take the hit” strategy is not a safe one. It’s where you deliberately take the hit by a jump-in from your opponent, who’s expecting it to be blocked. Strangely, a lot of the time when this happens the opponent doesn’t react quickly enough to combo – so that possibly gives you a very short window where he’s in neutral? I’ve seen this happen a lot: say it’s a Shoto mirror match, one guy lands a j.Rh on his standing opponent, and then the opponent who was mashing throw actually to throws him. Anyway, I’m not really sure, but I’ve seen and actually performed myself the DP after taking a jump-in hit; the reversal timing is very strict. Maybe it’s because the opponent usually can’t react quickly enough on the hit-confirm to proceed with a combo.
You mentioned Daigo’s ability to DP straight after getting hit; another good example is the game-winning DP he does when Alex Valle’s Sagat lands j.Short on crouching Ryu. ([media=youtube]68tQ3qNQuRU"[/media])
Hey thanks a lot for explaining. That was helpful. BTW nice video! In that clip it’s clear that it was more reaction than planning since he whiffed the cr.Forward. Overall match was good.
Here’s another example of the “DP interrupt”:
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Just like in the Afrolegends vs. Daigo match, Daigo uses the high-level technique of interrupting his opponent’s combo at the exact right time with a DP. Hell, it’s almost exactly the same situation too (he was dizzy, and one hit away from death, then suddenly comes alive with a DP). This is by no means a Daigo-only technique; I’ve seen other top Japanese players do the same, especially Mattsun.
Another nice find! Now that I think of it, there seems to be two forms of this. There are the cases where Daigo (who I’ll use as an example) is already being combo’ed and interrupts it when he has the chance. In these cases, Daigo would have liked to avoided the combo altogether, but ended up being hit. Then there are the cases where Daigo has the opportunity to block but takes the hit anyways. This case would be when he can predict a specific move that he knows can be countered with the interrupt-dp. The cases of the video you posted (Daigo VS Someone), along with the Afrolegends and Alex Valle vids seem to be the former; he would have preferred not to be combo’ed or hit but still used the opportunity to interrupt. In the More Vega vid, and maybe the John Choi evo vid, he seems to purposely not block in order to use it to his advantage. I guess I’ll post the More Vega vid and if you guys think it’s not allowed to be posted just let me know: REMOVED (Thanks Sanjuro_The_Ronin). He seems to weigh the risk and bait the jump in with a fireball and finally interrupt-dp it. For the John Choi vid (http://youtube.com/watch?v=VnG-OBPYa2I at 5:18), John Choi jumps in with Sagat’s j.short and Daigo’s Balrog takes the hit but interrupts with the throw. Although John could have interrupted (in the sense that his knee beat Daigo’s wake-up move) and Daigo was forced to take the hit.
On a side note, that More Vega (NKI’s buddy? heh) vid has YET ANOTHER “patented” Daigo comeback. You’ve probably seen it but I thought I’d mention it in case you haven’t. I won’t say where in the vid in case you haven’t seen it.
I would take that SBO vid link out, that could get you banned.