I consider myself an averagely skilled player at SSF2HD. I can pull off a few combos, know all the moves, etc., and am pretty good against some friends. I would not, however, consider ever entering a tournament. But everytime I go online to play the PS3 version of this in ranked scoreboard mode, I get my butt kicked, over and over again. I lost 7 times in a row just now. Are the people playing this online generally extremely high level players? I very rarely win any matches I play online in ranked mode. It's really kind of discouraging. It ceases to be fun when you lose ten matches in a row...and I don't mean ten well-fought close matches, I mean a getting my ass kicked and curb-stomped within 10 seconds kind of loss, where you are clearly facing off against a much more skilled opponent.
I need to make some PSN friends at my same skill level so this will be fun again.