The Official 3rd Strike Match Vids Thread

excellent videos. I loved the clap, clap, walk-up Gigas on #24 :clap:

my heart was beating fast @_@ !! hugo is sick …
i just got asthma attack seeing akuma getting gigas after his evasion X__x

poor dudley , lucky he won … it would be embarrassing if got ko’ed , well great game though .

Yeah, Hugo was looking top tier in the movies. I think the other players weren’t rushing him down hard enough though. Ibuki and Akuma with their lower stamina but great mixups can put a lot of pressure on the Hugo. Instead you’ll see both Ibuki and Akuma in the corner playing defensively which they simply don’t have the stamina to do. Hugo did some walk up 360s on the Ibuki which shows a lack of pressure on the Ibuki players part and ditto to the akuma player getting cornered. Hayao seemed to tech throws like crazy.

I agree that the Ibuki player is not at Hayao’s lvl but it’s amazing how close the match was still. Nonetheless great matches!

New japanese ranking battle is up, http://gvision.exblog.jp/

everyone says this by watching Hayao vids. It’s nearly impossible to really understand what fighting vs Hayao does mean until you try it by yourself.

I played quite a bunch of matches against him when he visited Europe, and I must say he’s just the scariest thing ever to play against. His defense is unpenentrable cause he blocks everything, can red parry like crazy and he is too good at teching throws. His spacing is perfect and he’ll catch every single chance you give him with the best possible damage/positioning.

Without spoiling a whole lot, let me just say this. First half of the video: awesome. Second half of the video: kinda boring.

How do you guys download KSK’s vids? I keep getting Bittorrent tracker errors. :sweat:

OOH! OOoH!

Lemme guess…

ChunLi-Yun-fest near the end? :stuck_out_tongue:

Everyone should use BitComet. Easy, options, and hasn’t failed me yet.

EDIT: I hooked up the torrent with BitComet, and had the file in less than 2 minutes.

Second Half video ISN’T boring IMO!

Yakkun, Nitto, Mester, <3 this ranbat.

I won’t spoil anything.

The matches aren’t boring, they’re exciting like all good SF matches are, it’s just that I enjoyed watching Easuto more. I really like how he plays.

Also, I use MicroTorrent (aka uTorrent), and I love it. It doesn’t take up as much space and doesn’t use as much memory as some other programs, but it runs just as well.

If you want to learn Yun, I think this is as good as it gets, no better, lol.

Go go go download~

I played against Easuto (yellow Twelve) a week ago, and fuck! His twelve is fuckin crazy as shits! I havnt really played against Yamazaki to compare but he just might be better than him. He had me locked down in the corner and I couldnt escape at all.

We will definetly see more of him in the coming ranbats.

co-sign , you guys should remember how he -red parried yun’s air chain jump in and counter back with 360 .

and he did that thrice …

I am not trying to discredit Hayao in any way. His play was flawless. Just saying that the akuma and ibuki players gave up on offense and that is really all they have. An akuma or ibuki player may lose while playing offensively, but they will certainly lose playing defensively. It is probably frustrating to play against someone with defensive skills like Hayao.

Why is it that people complain about Yun being boring but never seem to complain about Ken? Custom combos, command grabs, an okay variety of regular combos, GJ resets, etc. I am not saying I find Ken’s play boring by any means. The only characters I find some what boring are Yang and Chun because of how braindead their play can be. Regardless of that, I have still seen many good entertaining Yang and Chun fights.

There is a lot of variety in the fights in the second half of this ranbat and they are certainly entertaining.

spoiler :

MAMA~

OH BOY YUN VS. YUN!

YUN VS. CHUN!

YUN VS. YUN!

AND… YUN VS. CHUN!

Okay if you’re a Yun player you’ll enjoy watching it. I hate both Yun and Chun, so there.

…HOWEVER.

maybe I’m hearing this wrong, but I fucking swear to god the announcer says “SPREAD EAGLE” 35:37 in to it. Bahahahaha. I don’t follow all the Japanese lingo, but I can’t imagine them using this term too much? Are the Japanese picking up on Rockefeller’s announcing on the FFA RanBats? :rofl:

watching yun matches is like watching a documentary channel about predator eating it’s prey .
just like how giant centipede eating a mouse .

it gives me the creep , just imagine if you are the player fighting against those japanese yun players … they’ll gonna rape you .

33:30 , somebody just stabbed me X_x

don’t worry , chuck norris can cancel off Genei jin with his cross-punch and then linked into a roundhouse kick and wah la … Yun got KOed by just 2 hits .

This is just my dumb opinion, but I’ve hated Yun from the very first time I was introduced to 3s,(those Bust Karate Dojo videos of Arleith, Pyrolee, 5star, and Victoly.) I hadn’t even played the game yet and I already thought Yun was the lamest/annoying-est/most boring character.