Most of the time top players don’t play against each other in pre-tournament casuals…they stay away from each other…so they wait just until it’s tournament time to show their stuff. While that’s great and all you don’t wanna start off cold, so I make sure I’m on fire before it’s tournament time…
Oh trust me it works at high levels, you gotta be committed to it though, committed to gathering the footage and studying it at the tournament whenever you can…trust me most people don’t do that, but remember it’s the little things that make the biggest difference!
Imagine a high level tournament where people are meeting up for the first time, you gotta “feel them out” so you test the waters in casuals…then if you’re like me…you look that footage over for weaknesses, analyze it, break it down, then if that guy comes out with those same characters, same strats, you’ll be in a better position against him. I been doing this for the past 4.5 years…trust me it works. The more you know about your enemies, the better prepared you are.
I even go to the point of mimicing what that player was doing against me and using the record function on the game to simulate it and exploit it. Then I in turn turn their own character against them and use their own tactics against them with extra stuff they may or may not know about!
You know the saying-“Keep your friends close, but keep your enemies closer.”
Top players play each other pretty often. I mean in Japan they have weekly tournaments and also if you go to big arcades you wyll see top players play each other a lot like at HEY,Seven Islands,TRF,Sega Club Shinjuku,A-cho and most of the top players play at Game Spot Versus cause the games are only 50 yen per a play.
Well here (The USA) at least it’s not that way (what I’m referring to), and it could have a lot to do with the miles between everyone, so you really don’t get to see people alot.
If the circumstances were how they were in Japan, or in some places in Mexico, I’d be a Go Hard or Go Home player because it’d be nothing but high level competition around you all the time.
All I was saying was that Pro players have (I would think anyways) the mentality of “losing isnt an option”. So whether it be playing first time or all the time it should be all out IMO. There is a reason why they are pros and if you want to be like that or even near it, have to have that same mentality. To be a winner, think and play like one.
I understand that completely and agree to a degree. To me losing isn’t an option in the tournament, thus I take great lengths in casuals to decrease that chance from happening and that’s all sandbagging is, it’s weighing when to show your trump card, and when to just lay low and scout out the competition.
How is that? I like teaching people too…so if people wanna learn I’ll teach them. I also while in a lot of my casual matches I talk to the people I’m saying and tell them about other things they could try or “Do you know about this?” Or stuff like that…
While I could just keep everything to myself, I don’t because I do like teaching willing people…that is how you make the scene grow…by spreading the knowledge.
Hence why I’m even here…because let’s face it…like Marn said in the US vs. Japan thread, Top players aren’t on the forums/watching match vids all day, and like I added, they aren’t top players because they sit at home on forums, they are top players because they play more than the other people do that’s really it.
But me, not only do I play more, but I’m on here mainly for the community, I don’t have to be on here, I don’t have to share anything like other top players don’t and I know that, but that to me would be counter productive, thus I share.
Also to me sandbagging as teaching is a must, you can’t hit someone with Calculus if they can barely handle algebra.
But generally speaking, most players don’t sandbag, and if they do, it isn’t the way he is saying it. Many top players do not reveal their tricks/secrets until it’s necessary and matters, but that doesn’t mean that they won’t play solid.
jra64 in Tekken, Kane9999 in KOFXI, Rodo in KOFXI, Mr. KOF in KOF lol, JUSTIN WONG (Yes he even uses random characters in casuals). That’s five for you right there.
Not even counting me lol.
I know I don’t forget I know about them already, it’s just the other people have this “tunnel vision.”
I was gonna say Marn too, but you beat me to it. I don’t sandbag to be an ass…theres a purpose and method to the madness…Plus if it’s a way to teach people then I gladly do it…I understand sometimes people will come very far just to even play me and its flattering :china: and thus for sure I go out of my way to play them as much as they want, teach them things etc.
About the other stuff, you should do what I do and put Emil on ignore…works great. :tup:
