Nope. It’s disturbing, really. He goes into a berserker rage when he faces Storm, though. Check any footage. When he plays against Magnetos, he is offensive, but he still blocks Psylocke. When Storm DHCs in, he’ll get hit with every Psylocke call from that point on. Then he blames the loss on Storm’s RH priority.
Blind Rage, is what it is…
VDO keeps his head, he could body anyone who doesn’t run from him.
Way back when (pre 2001) VDO and I sparred constantly. He has always been a dangerous man to face. He has never played top tier characters and to an even more extreme, will drop a character when it becomes true that they ARE top tier (he used to play Storm and Doom and Psylocke seriously). His main team is way more than the sum of their characters and it shows in his gameplay.
I also believes he limits himself for whatever reason.Before he entered the Low Tier Tourney at T9, me knowing how he thinks, demanded that he go in and destroy everyone. No Quarter given. After all, his MAIN team falls under the low tier guidelines. His secondary team is the Logans and Mr. Masters. I damn near begged him not to bring them out. While I was outside,he had a match. He fought someone named Lawrence, I believe. He brought out the Logans and lost. He actually told me a week later, preceding it with "I know you gonna be mad at me for this, but..."
I was.
When he brings his"A" game, he is deadly. For whatever reason, Michigan has a lot of mental blocks that prevent us from being as good as we can be…
good news: I just finished encoding allll the Saturday matches (through tape 20c (GF2)). This means that I “only” have about 231 matches left from Sunday (and the 5 on 5) to go through now. The first tourney match starts somewhere around 11e and ends at 20a, although tape 19 is pretty much all money matches.
The first ~53 of those are visible now under Recent. I’ll update the Recent list again when I get back from soccer - the rest of the Japan footage should be up then. :tup: