Ah ok. Thought it was an invitational.
Any word on how he actually got the concussion? I mean all he does is play sf all day.
Pretty sure Xian was a rabbit in his former life.
Anyone notices how he’s sniffing or whatever the fuck he’s doing between rounds?
He did have a concussion (he fell down some stairs) and was in the hospital in Osaka. After the hospital he went straight to the airport for NCR.
Chances are if this is the reason he’s doing terrible he’s unlikely to admit it.
alright so Momochi isn’t actually losing legitimately
Oh c’mon. I like Momochi too,but this is a excuses.exe file. You can travel after falling down from stairs to play at videogames around the world?
If drugs can make him play Akuma that way at the time,PM me and tell me who’s the pusher.
wow Louffy over Bonchan 5-1…
It was funny how people were saying, Bonchan adapted (in Red Bull Kumite) and has overcome the bad matchup and Louffy is done. No, it doesn’t work that way…Bonchan had to work very hard and make amazing reads at Red Bull Kumite to pull it off, but it does not change the fact that it is a very bad matchup for Sagat. In the long run, particularly in a long set, that bad matchup is just going to be too much to deal with.
No. His has problems with his eyes since he was a child. What actually happened is he gave up his hair for domination, he made a deal with the devil.
Momochi has recovered from his coma, he has won his two matches today.
I’m pretty sure Momochi used an alternate version of Daigo’s strategy to beat Xian. But I wonder if Xian caught on that for a few games in a row Momochi was trying to get him to burn his Super in the second round so he wouldn’t have it for round 3.
If you guys ever catch the replay.
Pay close attention to the second rounds of their first few games. Once momochi knows for a fact its hard for him to come back and win the second round; Momochi starts throwing out cr.MKs where he knows they won’t hit gen but Xian will try to counter poke it.
The only thing Gen can do is cr.MP XX Hands XX Super to punish it. It gives xian the win but then Gen gets to round 3 with no meter and Ken gets meter from eating the super and presumably the Ultra.
Daigo has done it, he’s won topanga. Momochi second, Xian third.
Man, didn’t expect Bonchan to end up so low
His placing is misleading…even though he has same record and better game differential than Louffy and Poongko, he placed under them because he lost to them…I feel bad for Bonchan.
Someone should set up a relief fund for Bonchan.
So I watched only a few sets so far but I have to say, the score of Xiaohai vs Daigo is very misleading…gameplay-wise, I actually think Xiaohai may have played better than Daigo in some of the matches. The problem is that Xiaohai dropped many combos while Daigo did not, and this resulted in Daigo winning 5-1. Many of the rounds were really closed and overall played well by Xiaohai, with exception of two perfects by Daigo.
Xiaohai’s combo execution needs improvement because he’s missing a lot of damage.
Xiao Hai seems off in general recently with his execution, even with Cammy. A shame.
Santarou wins a free trip to France for the next Stunfest in may where he’s gonna face Luffy on that famous MM. Pops ready. His Sagat don’t impressed me much, but he seems still overconfident.
It’s for 10K. His records are apparently quite good against top JP Rose’s, so maybe this won’t be as bad as it seems.
When Latif was in Japan he said Santarou gave him the most trouble of any Sagat and was one of the toughest overall.
Different matchup obviously, but he’s obviously very skilled.
He has a very different style from bonchan.
But honestly the matchup is still shit. I don’t know why he’d be stupid enough to put money on the line without going with e. ryu.
I’m guessing both guys have several backers like how we’ve seen in big Marvel MM’s. I don’t know about Santarou but I definitely don’t see Louffy putting up 10k of his very own cash. He has admitted a few times that he turned down invitations to tournaments because of his job. Throw in the fact that he’s married and that doesn’t sound like a irresponsible guy who would risk that much of his own money unless it was a given. I’m just going to assume the same of Santarou unless told otherwise.
But anyways, Santarou doesn’t have to be a better Sagat than Bonchan or Ryan Hart. He just has to be better in this one match up to win 10k. I guess he regularly bodies the best Rose players in Japan and that has made him overconfident. I still wouldn’t bet on him, but I do think he’s on to something and will do better than Bonchan or Ryan Hart has. So even if he loses I think it’ll be close, maybe 10-7 or 10-8.