I’m a Uker, and I want us to rep the UK/EU as much as possible, and we certainly didn’t get stomped on. But Justin Wong is a great player and he beat the best that Europe has to offer, so we have 2 choices:
Complain and hope we can ban non-EU players next year :rolleyes:
OR
Get better so if it happens again EU players could bust him up.
As people have said, they’re wasn’t any rule against it and if we can’t stand up to competition then what’s the point?
Anyways, what the UK needs to do now is to go over to Denjin and wreck up their shit now Justin’s already qualified :wgrin:
The rules allowed Justin W and Marn to enter the tournament, so I don’t see any problem with that.
JWong and Marn played all the tournament 2 vs 3 !
They won, too bad for EU’s team, but that’s SBO.
About Hayao and PinoAB7, it was at Cannes in 2006, and they did not applied for SBO because they didn’t care about it.
Peace.
P.S. : About the JWong’s haters, don’t take youtube as an exemple, the most of them are lame who never entered a single tournament or they hates him because he’s strong and say it loud.
It was a real pleasure to see so many US players in France and I hope to see more of you in France next year.
One more thing to think about:
For everyone who said that they were scared of losing the denjin spot etc:
SBO tourneys are single elim 1 match. There’s very little room for error. Even the best player can lose a single match in a tourney. So now that there’s only 2 qualifiers left that Justin/Marn could go to (Europe and Denjin), why would they throw away the chance at one of them? Especially if they asked permission, and permission was granted.
I don’t know how many people here have done qualifiers of any sort, but it’s hard to do it in one shot. Having a second chance as a backup is always a good choice, and he had the means to go to the tournament, so why not? There’s no 100% guarantee anyone will win any tournament, even the top players will admit that, so why is it looked down upon to have “another chance”? I planned on going to every single SBO qualifier I could go to until I qualified, or until there were no more. I wanted as many chances as I could get. It’s not being cowardly, it’s being SMART. I think it would be stupid to just go to one and be like “IM GONNA WIN THAT ONE” and then lose and then it’s over. No, go to as many as possible.
But yeah, saying that Europe doesn’t deserve one is BS, too. Give them some respect and props for battling it out. Do I think Europe should get a spot next year exclusive to them? Yes. Do I think it was BS that Justin/Marn won this year? No, because it was all a part of the rules. There was absolutely no cheating or anything. They won the tourney fair and square, and got the OK to go to SBO.
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Good shit Justin and marn, i dont know why anyone is complaining !
if they werent good enough to beat a scrub who lost to Daigo ! then they definitely should not be able to even leave there country to even play SF4 casually, as a matter of fact SF4 should be quarantined in certain areas of Europe, in order to avoid the new pandemic of “SCRUB FLU”. its been popping up everywhere in China town fair, theres a wide spread of it in cali and two players from there brought it here at ECT, now jersey and VA have it.
Nothing wrong with America coming down and winning. It’s a great thing because it gives Europe a better taste of what the level is like, and honestly, if Europe couldn’t win against USA, how will they win against Japan?
It means that Europe now knows where it stands on the radar, and that we’ll be more prepared next time and things will be even more hype.
Much much much props to the American’s for coming down infact, they were awesome people. What this does is it now creates a link between the 3 big scenes and gives us a stronger bond in the realm of fighting game competition. It raises the level much higher and will help us catch up to Japan alot quicker imo.
So stop the hate and stop with the stupid comments. If you weren’t there, chill abit instead slinging of insults to the likes of Wong and Co. We at the tourney did not mind at all, so why should you? I tell you now that those who competed against Wong and Marn in SFIV and 3S, and those who watched, would have much rather preferred them being there than if they had not showed up.
See you American’s next time, until then, we’ll both get to training our asses off. And if you’re looking on SVB09 in September because you can’t wait a full year, well, the hype will come all the sooner. And because after this, alot of us wanna do the same and come over to America and really travel for comp. This is what games are about and events like these bring out the best of us.
I think it just matters on who you sign up with. As long as they specified Hsien when they signed up, regardless if he was there for qualifiers or not, hes on the team.