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Fighting Tournament Weekend: ECT, First Attack, Ze Fighting Game, Celtic Throwdown

Tripon

Member
whens first attack top 8

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Here's a stat. After EVO 2014, Daigo had only lost 3 times to an American. PR Rog at Capcom Cup, 801 Strider at CEO, and Justin Wong at EVO 2016.

Lud and Rayray become the 4th and 5th American in more than 2 years to beat Daigo.

why specifically after evo 2014? you can add john choi and fchamp to that
 

NEO0MJ

Member
Kinda surprised Pink Diamond still isn't sponsored. though I guess KI being a dying game might have something to do with it.
I don't if it's because of the players but S1 characters seem so dominant still.

GFuel better renew next year. This amount of shilling needs to be rewarded.

Yeah, boys went beyond the call of duty.
 
Kinda surprised Pink Diamond still isn't sponsored. though I guess KI being a dying game might have something to do with it.
I don't if it's because of the players but S1 characters seem so dominant still.

Does Sleep not win anything outside of Evo? He uses Aria and Arbiter
 

Kadey

Mrs. Harvey
You know Daigo is washed up when he loses to Rayray in SF. Any SF. That's like Chris G losing to Yams in Marvel.
 

Syntsui

Member
Ray fucking Ray beat Daigo in a Street Fighter video game? I can't believe, I definitely have to check that match out.
 

jett

D-Member
Daigo lost to RayRay and Lud? LOL. I figured he went to this tourney because it would be an easy win.
 

thelastword

Banned
Man Daigo played so tentatively, he made Ray Ray beat him. RAy RAy....SMH. I used to play Ray Ray's sagat in USF4 and use to beat him with my subpar Gief, how can this man beat the beast. Sure he's gotten better and Chun is a beast in SFV, but Daigo has Chuns in Japan that make Lud and RayRay's chun look like kindergarten play hour. At least Lud is a very good player, but Ray Ray........ just can't wrap my head...
 
Daigo lost to RayRay and Lud? LOL. I figured he went to this tourney because it would be an easy win.

Daigo is pretty much guaranteed to go to CPT finals already, so "easy win" probably had little to do with it. He's already in the top 10 rankings.

The Q&A, the exhibition, his stream live from NJ, the crowdfunding for the prize pot... Daigo was a major promotional element of this tourney, regardless of how well he did in the actual tourney.

He probably just wanted to promote the scene and provide hype...which he has.

If he just wanted "easy wins", there are plenty of closer ranking events in Asia he could have gone to.
 

Dahbomb

Member
Daigo is pretty much guaranteed to go to CPT finals already, so "easy win" probably had little to do with it. He's already in the top 10 rankings.

The Q&A, the exhibition, his stream live from NJ, the crowdfunding for the prize pot... Daigo was a major promotional element of this tourney, regardless of how well he did in the actual tourney.

He probably just wanted to promote the scene and provide hype...which he has.

If he just wanted "easy wins", there are plenty of closer ranking events in Asia he could have gone to.
"Daigo lost for the people".
 
"Daigo lost for the people".

Nah, he just lost. It happens.

I'm just saying that he didn't just come to ECT for an "easy win."

He probably came to ECT for the same reason that he's going to one tourney a week for the next 10 weeks or so...even though he doesn't need the points.
To participate, encourage others to participate, and to bring visibility to events worldwide.
 
He just played like ass against Lud and Rayray. I don't get why people are shocked.


You even have Justin saying shit. He just won two tournaments and got 2nd at the Japanese tournament. People need to calm down.
 

//ARCANUM

Member
I interviewed both Ludovic and RayRay after their Daigo wins. Videos are going up soon on FloKO.

Here's a little preview ;)

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Everyone here is calm and in good state of mind.

Except the DDRs.

I mean the whole discussion. The guy isn't going to win everything. He's not Infil in SFV. I don't know why people are discussing his ECT performance to the point where people are questioning how good he is, not just here, but on twitter too.

He's had good results comparable to a lot of the best players in the top 10. He's just not had results like Tokido and Infil.
 

thelastword

Banned
I interviewed both Ludovic and RayRay after their Daigo wins. Videos are going up soon on FloKO.

Here's a little preview ;)

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I have never seen this guy get so animated, such a calm character every other time I've seen him. It seems he was told for a long time that he was no good in SF and now he beat the beast....Dang, with that explosion, he's about to burst into super saiyan mode. Could somebody put the yellow hair transformation on him, that'd be a good gif..
 

//ARCANUM

Member
I have never seen this guy get so animated, such a calm character every other time I've seen him. It seems he was told for a long time that he was no good in SF and now he beat the beast....Dang, with that explosion, he's about to burst into super saiyan mode. Could somebody put the yellow hair transformation on him, that'd be a good gif..

haha yes it would! i'll get y'all the link to the interview once it's up shortly. he's a really cool dude. was talking about how the pop off was about how much he had proven to himself.
 

Dahbomb

Member
I mean the whole discussion. The guy isn't going to win everything. He's not Infil in SFV. I don't know why people are discussing his ECT performance to the point where people are questioning how good he is, not just here, but on twitter too.

He's had good results comparable to a lot of the best players in the top 10. He's just not had results like Tokido and Infil.
Here we go with the Twitter non sense again.


Flocker making ChrisG sweat for every game.


I have never seen this guy get so animated, such a calm character every other time I've seen him. It seems he was told for a long time that he was no good in SF and now he beat the beast....Dang, with that explosion, he's about to burst into super saiyan mode. Could somebody put the yellow hair transformation on him, that'd be a good gif..
He has definitely popped off before:

https://youtu.be/NHAGSxzvSxU?t=10m21s

This one in particular was pretty savage.
 
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