If thats the one were the announcer asks in Japan how many Tigers did John choi did, which was like about 100 in one round against Guile in ST then yeah, good vid
The best XvSF and Mvc1 players are on Kaillera…? 
There was a MvC1 invitational at B5.
Japan did not win.
Most of these guys have to have something to worship or their lives will end
Yeah, some dude named Arturo Sanchez won :looney: :lol:
yeah that arturo guy was mad scrubby, and beat the rest of the other scrubs! whatta scrub! =)
i remember those matches =)
Now, regarding HF, wasn’t Kuni around both scenes back in the day? I know he was ranked like #4 in Socal, and at one point he said only 2-3 people in Japan were on Tomo’s level or something like that.
Considering Tomo’s level, having more than one at his skill level is definitely good lol. Especially since we only had one Tomo lol
Yeah, that reminds me, I did remember reading something like that too, where Kuni said or at least the sources stated that Kuni believed Tomo would’ve easily been in the Top 3 if he had played in Japan at the height of WW-HF. Kuni at least from what I’ve seen doesn’t bs things around, so if what he states is true, then the US and Japan probably would’ve been fairly even in terms of abilities etc. I’m fairly confident it would’ve been even grounding for both countries because it was extremely popular and competetion was incredibly high on both sides, and I would not have any doubts if guys like Tomo, Watson, Jeff at the height of their skills would’ve been able to take on the best of Japan during that time.
Still I would always go for US saying that they would’ve been the better group “if” it would’ve happened, its all speculation, but it’s just one of those “what if’s” situations and will be opinion based. Yes, I maybe slightly biased towards the US team, but we already have too many Japan riders here in the states, some of us have to root for our own countrymen.
Tomo FTFW!
Is the video only partially recorded or the whole thing? It ended after daigo’s fight with another Ryu player at around 28:55. I thought it was 5 on 5? I counted only 4 players playing for U.S. side.
It was actually 4 on 5 for ST, 3S and A3. It was 5 on 5 for MvC2.
Japan was first player and USA was 2nd player right?
prolly wasn’t daigo but shootingD
even though tomo did well, nor call had a number of players who were around tomo’s level. They might not have got 1st at the big ones, but they took 2nd and 3rd, both nor cal players, named Robert (ryu player, best ever in those days) and Thomas (best nor cal guile, and imo best guile ever). Everyone talks about tomo but he was just one of many good players who existed back in the day.
I can’t seem to recall off the top of my head… but I do know the characters US used.
A3: John Choi (Vsak), Valle (V Akuma), Eddie Lee (V Sodom), Watson (V Akuma)
ST: Choi (O Sagat) Valle (O sagat), watson (Ryu) Seth Killian (Chun)
3rd strike: watson (yang), Eddie lee (ibuki), Valle (yang), Hsien (Akuma)
MvC2: Eddie lee (strider/cable/doom), Valle (strider/doom/commando), watson (bh/sent/commando), John Choi (spiral/cable/cyke), ricky ortiz (cable/storm/cyke)
Here’s a Gunter’s log of the USA vs Japan tourney:
http://groups.google.ca/group/alt.games.sf2/msg/ce809bdaa8e268ae?&
i thought tomo was above everyone? (according to watson)
kinda like jang iksu in TTT?
That’s what I remember reading from Watson’s post in the Evo thread pertaining to Tomo. Watson was there during that time, and they played more than enough matches against one another as well, so I wouldn’t doubt Watson’s statements about Tomo. IIRC, I remember Watson talking about how him and Tomo played against Thomas in that thread too and about how they won far more than they even lost, anyways, Watson even vouches that Tomo was on a lvl beyond anyone here in the states.
I mean, if my memory serves me correctly, the guy never ever lost a major tournament in oldschool. To me, that’s just insane, considering he did this during the height of SF2’s popularity but most importantly competetion. It would’ve been great to have had a USA vs. JAPAN during that time, however all we can do now is speculate, that’s it, sad really.
I saw in the web (dont remember exactly when and were) that if the RC was banned or if the Evo tournament had CvS2 in the US version of XboX the Japanese wouldnt play the Evo CvS2 tournament (in the US version of XboX the RC glitch does not exist anymore because Capcom corrected/erased it in that version)
But I could be wrong…
???
If they did that, American CvS2 players wouldn’t play either, whats your point?
The EO version also toned down Cammy/Blanka/Sagat and gave P groove super cancels. It’s not the same game.
RC is part of the game, the entire strategy behind high level play develops around RCs, taking it away changes the game too much.
Somebody build a time machine, then we can go back in time (and forward into the future!) and take the best players from each year for a massive SF tourney. Even have multiple versions of each player, depending on the year. And while you’re traveling through time, stop and find out when SF4 comes out, and whether or not Japan hates the vs. games because America whips them at it.