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[Sorcerer Supreme]

SHINE

 

[naw]

lmao what???

 

[Lulubop]

YOOOOOOOO

 

[El Sloth]

LETS GO SHINE

 

[LRS]

Not surprising really. Smug usually loses to Shine at NLBC.

 

[Sorcerer Supreme]

This commentary is terrible.

 

[Lulubop]

Shine's punishes, wtf. Just jab, jab, short

 

[crash-14]

Wait, how in the world are they gonna give out CPT points for the Costa Rica event with a 10-person final bracket?

Don't want to be rude, but does it really matter at this point? The important ones (PR, Strider, Itazan) most likely will be top 3, so...

 

[vulva]

Just tuned in, my boy Brian eliminated Dieminion? Gs to him

 

[DryEyeRelief]

Just tuned in, my boy Brian eliminated Dieminion? Gs to him

Had a really close match with Snake Eyez too

 

[vulva]

Had a really close match with Snake Eyez too

That's awesome, he moved away so I haven't seen him in forever but I'm really stoked for him. He's so good

 

[crash-14]

Itazan in winners final for costa rica.

Rog will have to win Kakoroto in order to advance. If does and wins Itazan, he's pretty much in Capcom Cup.

I don't think smug has a chance... Even if he goes to Canada Cup he needs a top 2. With all the competition it doesn't look like he can achieve that.

 

[vulva]

Itazan in winners final for costa rica.

Rog will have to win Kakoroto in order to advance. If does and wins Itazan, he's pretty much in Capcom Cup.

I don't think smug has a chance... Even if he goes to Canada Cup he needs a top 2. With all the competition it doesn't look like he can achieve that.

Canada Cup is going to be insane

 

[crash-14]

Milan results are good for Smug. If he manages to take DtN he'll totally be at Capcom Cup, but he has to do it.

We already have some confirmations for Canada Cup. Asian players in attendance:

Momochi
Bonchan
Kitasenju
Hagejin
Misse
Fuudo
Xian
Gamerbee
Mago
Kazunoko
MOV
Gonzalez
Akira
AO3
Domo

Markman has written in rKappa that Tokido it's a Maybe.

Small room for americans to take points at this event imo...

I'm posting this back. I'm sorry for Smug, but with just a week there's not many room for improvement...
If he goes, he better do it with a "have fun" mentality.

 

[Lulubop]

Smug would go 0/2 with all the Elenas at Capcup anyway

 

[vulva]

I'm posting this back. I'm sorry for Smug, but with just a week there's not many room for improvement...
If he goes, he better do it with a "have fun" mentality.

edit: full list from reddit of pro-players
USF4
--EG Justin Wong [USA] (Rufus)
--EG Ricki Ortiz [USA] (Rufus)
--EG PR Balrog [USA] (Balrog)
--EG K-Brad [USA] (Cammy)
--EG Momochi [Japan] (Ken)
--RB Bonchan [Japan] (Sagat)
--RB Snake Eyez [USA] (Zangief)
--r/Kappa Kitasenju DJ [Japan] (Dee Jay)
--r/Kappa Hagejin [Japan] (Zangief)
--r/Kappa Misse [Japan] (Makoto)
--RZR Fuudo [Japan] (Fei-Long)
--RZR Xian [Singapore] (Gen)
--CCG Air [Canada] (Poison
--CCG Chi-Rithy [Canada] (Cammy)
--TL Cast Blanka [USA] (Blanka)
--TS Sabin [USA] (Dhalsim)
--WFX 801 Strider [USA] (Abel)
--BCW Brenttiscool [USA] (Rufus)
--VGP Chaotix [USA] (Dudley)
--AVM GamerBee [Taiwan] (Adon)
--Kazunoko [Japan] (Yun)
--MOV [Japan] (Ibuki)
--Gonzalez [Japan] (Seth)
--SketchNYC [Japan] (Rolento)
--Brentiscool [USA] Rufus
-- LU Alex Valle [USA] Ryu Hugo
-- OCV Riceata [Canada] Blank
-- Akira [Japan
-- AO3 [Japan]
-- Sketch [Japan]
-- Domo [Japan]

 

[CountBlack]

Canada Cup is going to be insane

We gonna put in that work on Friday?

 

[Tripon]

Canada Cup is going to be insane

I'm posting this back. I'm sorry for Smug, but with just a week there's not many room for improvement...
If he goes, he better do it with a "have fun" mentality.

Smug would go 0/2 with all the Elenas at Capcup anyway

edit: full list from reddit of pro-players
USF4
--EG Justin Wong [USA] (Rufus)
--EG Ricki Ortiz [USA] (Rufus)
--EG PR Balrog [USA] (Balrog)
--EG K-Brad [USA] (Cammy)
--EG Momochi [Japan] (Ken)
--RB Bonchan [Japan] (Sagat)
--RB Snake Eyez [USA] (Zangief)
--r/Kappa Kitasenju DJ [Japan] (Dee Jay)
--r/Kappa Hagejin [Japan] (Zangief)
--r/Kappa Misse [Japan] (Makoto)
--RZR Fuudo [Japan] (Fei-Long)
--RZR Xian [Singapore] (Gen)
--CCG Air [Canada] (Poison
--CCG Chi-Rithy [Canada] (Cammy)
--TL Cast Blanka [USA] (Blanka)
--TS Sabin [USA] (Dhalsim)
--WFX 801 Strider [USA] (Abel)
--BCW Brenttiscool [USA] (Rufus)
--VGP Chaotix [USA] (Dudley)
--AVM GamerBee [Taiwan] (Adon)
--Kazunoko [Japan] (Yun)
--MOV [Japan] (Ibuki)
--Gonzalez [Japan] (Seth)
--SketchNYC [Japan] (Rolento)
--Brentiscool [USA] Rufus
-- LU Alex Valle [USA] Ryu Hugo
-- OCV Riceata [Canada] Blank
-- Akira [Japan
-- AO3 [Japan]
-- Sketch [Japan]
-- Domo [Japan]

We gonna put in that work on Friday?

Shit, got my work cut out for me for next week thread. So much good info for Canada Cup.

 

[vulva]

We gonna put in that work on Friday?

Yeah, do we reg for team tournament on the spot? And any idea what time we should be there for?

 

[Dahbomb]

LTTP but did Justin enter the Marvel tournament at DTB? Don't see him on the top 8 list.

Why's that dude dodging so hard?

 

[CountBlack]

Yeah, do we reg for team tournament on the spot? And any idea what time we should be there for?

...I have no idea, I'm gonna ask Vince now

Registration is at the door on Friday, they're pushing it back 2 hours later.

 

[Tripon]

LTTP but did Justin enter the Marvel tournament at DTB? Don't see him on the top 8 list.

Why's that dude dodging so hard?

Team EG is making him focus on Ultra until Capcom Cup. And only Ultra.

 

[crash-14]

Pr Rog 1-1 on winner semis

http://www.twitch.tv/true_challengers

 

[JayEH]

Du is mentally out of this.

edit: grand finals snake vs wong on now

 

[Lulubop]

LTTP but did Justin enter the Marvel tournament at DTB? Don't see him on the top 8 list.

Why's that dude dodging so hard?

It's over man

 

[DryEyeRelief]

Does Rog even need to travel if he wins the ranking event?

 

[cj_iwakura]

What is it with the KFC analogies?

 

[Dahbomb]

This GF is looking like a 6-0 bus ass.

 

[MrDaravon]

This GF is looking like a 6-0 bus ass.

I just tuned back in and Justin is on match point? lol

Edit: It's always interesting watching Justin play other characters in tournaments, he gets crazy mileage off simple buttons and fundamentals.

 

[crash-14]

Does Rog even need to travel if he wins the ranking event?

No. He'll be with 228 points.

 

[Parallax Scroll]

justin woooooong

 

[Dahbomb]

I just tuned back in and Justin is on match point? lol

Edit: It's always interesting watching Justin play other characters in tournaments, he gets crazy mileage off simple buttons and fundamentals.

Spoke too soon!

 

[Parallax Scroll]

shame on you dahbomb

 

[CountBlack]

Justin's neutral game is so so so good

 

[StriKeVillain]

That DTN venue looks like a challenge map from an Arkham game.

 

[Dahbomb]

I should never have doubted prep time Justin Wong.

 

[Tripon]

Justin's Rufus seems to be dead. Good. While that character isn't ass in Ultra, there are better characters that do what he does in the game already. People need to switch.

 

[call_kotaku]

I just don't understand why Justin's finally using new characters when it's the last year for the game competitively. Some players will probably stick to SF4 or play two games, but I doubt Justin will be one of them.

Could've just slummed it with Rufus for another year before being a top SF5 player

 

[Marz]

Most Marvel, Smash, and Guilty Gear players stick to their characters.

Abundant counterpicking is a sign of poor game balance. Some counterpicking is nigh impossible to avoid, but it shouldn't be rampant enough that the game is RPS.

Most Marvel, Smash, and Guilty Gear players arent playing for 100k at Capcom Cup.

Edit: and Smash is a terrible example, in Melee they counterpick all the time.

 

[CountBlack]

I just don't understand why Justin's finally using new characters when it's the last year for the game competitively. Some players will probably stick to SF4 or play two games, but I doubt Justin will be one of them.

Could've just slummed it with Rufus for another year before being a top SF5 player

Capcom cup?

 

[WesternHeretic]

Justin won something in SF? What year is this?

 

[Tripon]

Most Marvel, Smash, and Guilty Gear players arent playing for 100k at Capcom Cup.

Edit: and Smash is a terrible example, in Melee they counterpick all the time.

They counter pick all the time in Smash 4 as well.

 

[theprodigy]

They counter pick all the time in Smash 4 as well.

No they don't (in both Melee and Smash 4), typically only one person pulls out a counterpick and the set doesn't devolve into a counterpick war.

 

[DryEyeRelief]

I just don't understand why Justin's finally using new characters when it's the last year for the game competitively. Some players will probably stick to SF4 or play two games, but I doubt Justin will be one of them.

That's just it though. Justin was always willing to pick different characters. In Super days he was ahead of everyone in the US because he was dual wielding Rufus and Adon. Picking something other than Rufus never happened because SF4 kept changing versions.

 

[Tripon]

No they don't (in both Melee and Smash 4), typically only one person pulls out a counterpick and the set doesn't devolve into a counterpick war.

When you only run 2/3 sets, one counter pick is typically all you need.

 

[crash-14]

Justin was playing Rufus yesterday. He almost lost against SpabRog but manage to comeback. He had to change to Elena with Native Impact in order to make the same. He remained with the character since then besides Snake Eyez (Not to metion it's a good matchup against Smug's Dudley).
Will see if he really decides to pick Elena and drop Rufus. Or was just a tournament situation


Any way points are like this (just costa rica remains)

1.MD|Luffy 724
2.RB|Snake Eyez 424
3.Qanba Douyu|Xiao Hai 360
4./r/Kappa|Poongko 308
5.EG|Justin Wong 306
6.MF|Tonpy 280
7.Liquid|NuckleDu 268
8.YOMI|Dieminion 236
9.Dark Jiewa 207
10.CCG|HumanBomb 203
10.YBK|Shiro (Shirou) 180
11.KIG|Problem X 178
13.WFX|801 Strider 174*
14.RZR|Gackt 160
15.RZR|Itabashi Zangief (Itazan) 152*
-------
16.Valmaster 148
17.Misse 140
17.Qanba Douyu|Dakou 140
19.Brawl|Haitani 131
20.FA|Ryan Hart (Prodigal Son) 126
21.Gonzalez 112
22.EG|PR Balrog 100*
23.EG|Ricki Ortiz 98
24.EG|K-Brad 96

Smug, Valmaster and Haitani failed hard. Gackt is happy about that since he wasn't able to attend any CPT tournament with points left.

 

[MiniBossBattle]

I hope you gatekeep some pros at Canada Cup Vulva & Count.

 

[DryEyeRelief]

No they don't (in both Melee and Smash 4), typically only one person pulls out a counterpick and the set doesn't devolve into a counterpick war.

But smash has stage counterpicks

 

[Marz]

Smash in particular has some extremely bad matchups.

People are just lazy.

Marvel is not comparable to 1v1 fighters.

Guilty Gear doesnt have a lot of counterpicking admittedly, but its very difficult to play more than one character at a high level in that game.

 

[Karsticles]

Smash in particular has some extremely bad matchups.

People are just lazy.

Marvel is not comparable to 1v1 fighters.

Guilty Gear doesnt have a lot of counterpicking admittedly, but its very difficult to play more than one character at a high level in that game.

Lots of people have secondaries, but having a secondary for bad matchups isn't the same as counterpicking.

But smash has stage counterpicks

Depends. In Japan, only Final Destination is legal for Melee, I hear. It's part of why Sakurai thought the competitive community would be happy with FD-ized stages.