This just highlights the importance of seeding your tournament. You should always seed. Top players reap benefits by gaining BYE priority over others, beginners and intermediates benefit by having a less stacked first round, and everyone benefits by having more exciting matches occur in the 3rd round and above.
And I agree that people should learn by playing against other similarly skilled players first. This is why I always recommend finding a rival within your scene to help level each other up. As you both play each other and improve, you improve as a unit, which in turn helps others. This is why I’m a big proponent of never withholding advice or information, since it only hurts the scene as a whole, along with the individual player.
yes, exactly that experience was intimidating.
were I a complete beginner and had lost to him, I wouldnt mind, since I wouldnt understand what was happening anyway.
But at this stage I can grasp some things and this was really an experience I had never seen before.
ironically the day before, Balcork was playing against a player named Afro Legends Jr. Dont know if it was the same player as AfroLegends, but he was beaten 40 games straight (his Vega vs Honda).
Afro then switched to Cammy and dominated even more for a while.
it felt like playing football with a professional team. even at lower ranked leagues, you’ll loose 25-1
since now I injured my shoulder due to tendonitis, I’ll return at fighters probably after summer holidays anyway…
If I wanted to run a local tournament for this game, what would be the best way to set it up? I can’t afford a Super Gun, would an emulator on a laptop work?
Yup. Shmupmame or Groovymame with an ST emulator can run pretty close to arcade-perfect with the right speed settings. I highly recommend it for local gatherings.
So back story, I challenged him, he was playing O.Ryu. I beat him one match, he played again, and first round, I got him locked in tick throws, and he ragequit.
He sends me a new challenge, and the above ensues. Then he leaves out of the game, and sends “ggs” in the lobby.
I guess that’s the Japanese equivalent of beating me senseless because throwing is cheap.
Hey guys, I was checking out some music sites and found this short documentary on videogame music’s influence on western artists, halfway into the video they go straight to Street Fighter 2’s music and it’s influence, it has some neat stuff and if you’re a fan of Flying Lotus, Thundercat, Oh No, Dizzee Rascal, Ladyhawke, etc… you may find something interesting here (also there’s a cool story in there from the composer about how Blanka’s theme was conceived). It’s episode 3.
I really want to get into ST; are any of the online communities (HDR, GGPO, Supercade) active, like you can get on and find a game, or are they more just for king of GGPO and events?
i play very often on GGPO and never usually find myself waiting longer than 5 min for someone to match with. when i do, they are usually very friendly as well. on supercade, it’s mostly third strike that people seem to play from the little bit i’ve used it.
GGPO works really well, i’ve been having matches with my brother in thailand and they’ve been surprisingly smooth. im the US and most players in japan seem to be pretty lag-free as well. the way GGPO works, i don’t really understand, but it does a good job of hiding the lag that must be there. i’d recommend it
