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[Daemon9623]

I played a bit with Doom yesterday and kinda liked him, might capitalize on that in the future. Maybe sub him in for Phoenix, not sure yet.

[Spookmeister C]

i think mag doom is the best, ive been playing them with dante point, joe point, or sentinel anchor, akuma anchor.

IM GOING TO FIGHT SPOOK AT MAG

I've been on Persona 4 so much because it is SO GOOD, you'd probably beat me.

[Metalhead Mike]

Persona 4 is the first fighting game in a long while I can honestly say I really like playing

[Kirk]

ANIME

I'm pretty interested in it. But I probably won't play until you guys show me it at mag.

[JoeMusashi]

Persona guys, what characters are you guys feeling? I just had the chance the other day to finally sit down and play some head to head matches with a buddy. So far I'm enjoying Yosuke, Teddie, and Elizabeth. Akihiko and Aigis seem sweet, but they haven't really "clicked" for me yet.

[Spookmeister C]

Aigis and Naoto on backup.
I'm pretty sure I'm going to summer jam in Philly this Saturday. I will enter for Persona, Marvel, and mayyyyyyyybe KoF.
I was also considering big two but I'm going to a phillies game instead now, whoops.

[Ashane]

Won my first tournament! Best Bout Gaming hosted another tournament for SF2 Turbo on SNES this year at Portland Retro Gaming Expo. It was a 64-person tournament (though only 2/3rds at best actually showed up), single elimination, best 3 out of 5, then best 4 out of 7 in the finals. There were plenty of scrubs, but the whole Best Bout crew and a lot of other really good players made for a pretty exciting tournament, especially the semi-finals and finals.

Eric Dude also did great, placing 4th, so good job to him for that! PDX Jive of Best Bout was one sliver away from eliminating me, but I turned it around with a clutch tick throw... merc was tearing it up until he fought Brian Allen in the 3rd Round or so, who had a really interesting style with Chun where he'd spam her light spinning bird kick. Alex Massa who got 3rd (this year and last year) is a super solid purist Ryu. We had epic mirror matches like last year.

Chris Tang, who I faced in the finals had me sweating.. Apparently he's an LA OG from the arcade days and actually worked for Capcom at one point. His Ken is FIERCE. I was down 3-1 and had been using Ryu exclusively in the tourney up until this point, then I switched to Guile because I felt his Ken was too defensive and I'd be able to turtle up better. Turns out that's what saved me! He also switched to Guile in the last match, but I don't think he knew the trick for maximum Sonic Boom charge time (charge back, press forward, back, and then hit punch), so I was able to out-boom him.

My prize? A special challenger after winning, ala Akuma, who was the champion I lost to last year. Let's just say I got my revenge (4-0). . Still, an amazing player and he was playing cold. His commentary was great, but it would be cool if he entered next year. Oh, they also gave me the SF2 Turbo cart which was cool.

Special thanks to Best Bout Gaming for hosting the tournament, LordBBH for the commentary, and Team Khaos for streaming video! This is the 2nd year we've had a SF2 Hyper Fighting tournament, and I hope it's at every PRGE. Come out next year for the fiercest HF competition in the Northwest!

I edited the live stream video to only include good preliminary matches and trimmed out all the dead space. Wish I would've known about the stream ahead of time so I could've given you guys the link... It was pretty exciting.

THESHIZZ IS #1

[Eric Dude]

Man, it still smarts that I was within match point of third place! But I learned from the experience, and I feel like I'm good enough to hang with those guys. Just need to keep a clear head under the tourney/live stream pressure. I wanna face Dan next year in the finals!!!

The last two matches featuring Dan was some of the most inspired SF2T play I've ever seen in my life. Channeling his inner Spook to bounce back from a 3-1 defecit ranks up there with greatest gaming moments of all time. And then just breezing past the guy that beat him last year... gg no re.

The key for Dan, as far as I'm concerned, was just having a dizzying array of tricks in his bag. He was able to change it up exactly when he needed to, for the most part, and few players could stymie him. Guy is my hero.

[Ashane]

Man, it still smarts that I was within match point of third place! But I learned from the experience, and I feel like I'm good enough to hang with those guys. Just need to keep a clear head under the tourney/live stream pressure. I wanna face Dan next year in the finals!!!

Yeah Eric, you were painfully close to closing that out... What got you was being thrown off by the fireball timing when you dodged with vertical jumps. I've seen you plenty of times play more cautiously than that round, opting for blocks on the fireballs instead of jumps, so I know you understand how to play Blanka patiently.

Jeff Schaeffer's whole style with Blanka was getting a life lead and then keeping it by turtling up, but still walking forward and poking with cr.roundhouse/fierce/etc to keep em blocking. Real patient gameplay like that really is what wins games.. Chris Tang did that to me plenty of times with his Ken. Gained a lead and made sure he held it. That's why I knew Guile would work better against his play style.

It's the same reason as in StarCraft where you don't go all out offense if you're in the lead and then waste units on risky, trivial attacks. You hang back because you can always match them in supply (HP) so you'll be able to starve them out and respond however as long as you can contain (corner) them. They're the ones that have the burden of having to make some offensive move and inflict some big damage to stay in the game.

But of course, to each his own! I know for a fact that Norrin would say to hell with my metagame analysis since he plays Krazy Ken style lol. These are just my own experiences and thoughts on how I would've played out that final round. Oh, and I've gotten good practice at vertical jumping over fireballs against the Ryu and Chun CPU. They like to just sit back and fireball all day, heh. Knowing precisely how to gauge when to jump over a slow or fast fireball is so crucial, especially when you're playing with a melee character.

I also gotta agree with BBH's commentary that you really should abuse Blanka's tick throw more. It's probably the deadliest trap in the game (jump light kick, standing jab, bite) because of the high priority on the normals and the excellent range on the bite. Mastering that and the light ball into bite trick would be two more great weapons in your arsenal. Would be badass to face you in the finals next year!

The last two matches featuring Dan was some of the most inspired SF2T play I've ever seen in my life. Channeling his inner Spook to bounce back from a 3-1 defecit ranks up there with greatest gaming moments of all time. And then just breezing past the guy that beat him last year... gg no re.

The key for Dan, as far as I'm concerned, was just having a dizzying array of tricks in his bag. He was able to change it up exactly when he needed to, for the most part, and few players could stymie him. Guy is my hero.

Thanks dawg. I learned a lot about willpower and confidence in last year and this year's tournaments. My mind was not calm at all when I faced the champ last year, heh.. I was beating myself up over screwing up key moments or getting perfected, and had essentially already convinced myself that I lost. It doesn't matter if you can do every move/combo in the game perfectly when you're lacking confidence, because it's useless if you can't actually execute when the bigtime pressure is on.

Reminds me of a great quote by Bruce Lee, "The great mistake is to anticipate the outcome of the engagement; you ought not to be thinking of whether it ends in victory or in defeat. Let nature take its course, and your tools will strike at the right moment."

Oh boy, look at the time...

[Eric Dude]

Yeah, I usually abuse the hell out of tick-bites after jump-in, but for some reason, I felt like I can't effectively jump in on shotos (they have too many anti-airs). Probably just a timing thing, though.

[Metalhead Mike]

Just finished watching the SF25th Anv. LA qualifiers. Gief wins his first major ever in SF4 history, any/all versions. And it came down to literally the last second of the last round of the last game of a reset-set. GOOD SHIT

[Kirk]

those were some of the best rounds ever.

I was rooting for justin though!

[Metalhead Mike]

those were some of the best rounds ever.

I was rooting for justin though!

Shame on you Kirk.

[Kirk]

i love justin wong

[Spookmeister C]

Nice Ashane! i totally wouldave watched if I knew that was going on.

RE: SF 4
Zangief pad players are serious trouble