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I'll help out with the stream if you need it Coopa

Shit just got real.

I've played Tao for days, not stopping me

HYPE First BBCS2 tourney of the season! For sure I'll be there. Sounds like it's time for a Where's Dacid crew road trip See everyone Friday

Sorry that this is not contributing at all to the topic, but CS2 Tao is AMAZING. so much better than before. also, lol at tager challenge combo 9 (watch the sample play if you haven't already)

6C CH is still a wallbounce. and i can't wait for 214D autocorrect

Can we please try to schedule the dinner breaks more efficiently this time? For example, for the first two games on stream that need to play, have them play straight through while giving the other two games their hour or hour half dinner break. The first two games will finish then they can eat or whatever since they will be finished. The last two games can then come back and play their top 4/8 and now we won't end at 3 AM. If someone does manage to make it to top 4/8 for all the games on stream, I'd be happy to get their food for them since they probably won't have enough time to leave to get food. By the way, this was Willy's idea, not mine.

So I went to that new arcade in SF today. If you don't live near the area, it's totally not worth it to go. Parking is either hard to find or you park in a parking garage. The place is super tiny (it was smaller than my dorm room) and when I went today only about half of the games were turned on. The BB cab sticks were very loose on both sides and seemed to drop inputs. And there's like no one there. I can understand why they're only charging $.25 per play now... /story

Yeah I can do it if you don't want to go Aginor. I have TIO on my laptop already.

But... but... How will willy get more i points now???

I personally vote for CS1 tournament on the first weekend of the month. By that point we wouldn't have had a tournament for over a month for BB and I'd rather not enter a tournament with one week of experience. If anything, I'd say we go back to having a tournament on the first and third saturdays of the month (if possible of course) and those who want to enter a CS2 tourney early would get to after about a week or two of practice. Thoughts?

It's not a j.C after the 6A. It's a JC or Jump Cancel after the first hit of 6A. So it's 6A -> Jump Cancel (after first hit) -> j.2D~B -> Taunt Loop... Also, it's probably not worth it to learn the taunt loop now because CS2 is already out for portable and hopefully will be out sometime in the near future for console.

which character do you play? you should head to your character's specific forums and talk to people who also play your character. sinder basically covered everything that needed to be said. one thing i'd like to add is that after you learn about your character, you need to learn each individual matchup. Luckily, BB doesn't have very many to learn, but it still may be difficult to find enough people who play all the characters. I'm in NorCal and we still don't have a representative of every character being played (although we have great players for almost every character)

EDIT This is dacid Haha, it wasn't anything personal Chun. You seemed busy. Tell you what, next time you can have my spot on the 5v5 if you don't "make it on", alright? Time for you to get some time in the spotlight, good shit exposing sg

A little late, but just wanted to give my shoutouts real quick: PNW, you guys are all amazing. Thanks for showing me how much more I can still improve in this game and for that added hype that we haven't seen for awhile now. Polka, didn't get to talk to you much, but your guys' shirts were awesome. Can't wait to get mine. Cor, such a cool guy. Thanks for the matchup experience. Looking forward to playing you again. Plastic Chicken, thanks for helping me out and showing me some interesting setups. I wasn't planning on posting your ab2 enders, so don't worry. Huey, gg. Thanks for the words of advice and encouragement. I'll definitely be improving so hopefully see you at Evo. Spark, you have amazing defense. Stay gdlk and flip off more cameras. sG, ARG BOOBIE LADY! definitely need more practice with that matchup. I'll figure it out and hopefully I won't be so free to you next time we play. Dusty, thanks for the games and especially for bringing so much hype. Dat Dusty original! Severin, thanks for bringing up SG and answering my questions about the game. Thanks also for the casuals. Xie, thanks for coming up. Sorry for knocking you out. If you had switched to litchi that definitely would've been a better match for you since I don't have the Litchi experience and have a lot of Bang experience. Regardless, they were still good games. Dacidbro, for gold burst -> dash. 25thplacewilly, for increasing numbers again. I took your spot man. Rin, for recording everything. Thanks for your efforts as always Spirit Juice, for getting yelled at by everyone on dustloop for your commentary. Also for telling me how well I did at final round. Chun, for putting this all together. Coopa, for quitting bb for mvc3. Thanks for the games and advice. I'll definitely start focusing on that now that there won't be a tournament for awhile and CS2 still hasn't been announced. Always nice to see you man. See you at some marvel tournament. GGs to everyone I played. It was a great tournament and it was nice to meet a lot of new people. Sorry if I missed anyone and see everyone in May I guess.

most of the people that actually post in this thread play gg

Hey, just had a couple of last minute thoughts for the tournament. 1) Would anyone be against raising the entry fee for bb to $10? 2)Assuming bb has a big tournament (36+) I suggest top 4 get paid out with 60/25/10/5 payout structure or even top 8 if the pool is big enough. Thoughts? Also, I'm really looking forward to meeting all the PNW people since I missed you guys last summer

This is dacid

Officially can't go.. sorry sac-area, filming of my movie was rescheduled to be Saturday/Sunday, so I couldn't possibly have the energy to show up after the tournament then drive back

can u suggest a combo off of a j.C starter and a 6A anti-air starter please?

I gotta get this down then. I can get it to work, but once i go for the first taunt loop it always drops. Does it work off of jump ins like j.C CH-> 66-> 5B->6A-> JC-> j.2D~B-> Taunt Loop x3-> Ender?

Great read XDest. Thanks so much for writing this. Some things I would like to add: -When baiting a DP, if they don't fall for double jumps or triple jumps, you can use j.D just to get out of there (just don't drive into the corner or you will get punished). -6B is invincible to lows on frame 1, so using it to call out someone mashing on a low can lead into a CH and good damage. -Dash 6B can also bait a throw, but be careful because it isn't off the ground until frame 12. -Just for reference, the 2A confirm is 2A-> 5C-> 3C-> 5D~6-> j.C-> ..-> j.9D~9-> j.3D~3-> j.236BBBBB. -Another 236C gimmick is after finishing a combo (ie. Taunt loop-> Ender-> j.236BBBBB) land and charge up a 236C. You get past the startup time as they are falling and it's like an instant overhead as soon as they land. Again, this is just a gimmick and can be easily avoided. Best used against people who neutral tech and instantly hold down back. -Another use for the 2D~B crossup can be a j.B+C-> land-> 2A. This can be beaten out by most characters with a j.A, but if they respect your pressure, this won't happen. If they jump, confirm into Taunt loop or other throw combo, if not, you have a low hit/pressure reset. Matchups: Arakune- If you see an Arakune player using a lot of IAD j.B, you can beat this out with 6A as long as you start the 6A early enough (when they jump). Bang- Keep in mind that he does not have a DP or a strong reversal super. You can really put the pressure on Bang. Tager- IB-> 236236D is a great reversal during Tager's blockstrings; just know when to use it. If you know they are going to throw spark bolt, you can also use 214214C to punish. Tager can call out Tao's counter assault and 6B with a collider. This won't happen very often, but it is possible. Jin- The only option Jin has against Tao is his D DP. Tao can duck his A and B DPs with crouching. His C DP is very negative and easily punished with a FC. Because of this, you can pressure Jin very well until he has the meter to throw his D DP. Even when he has the meter, if you are jumping over him as he throws it, you will land behind him, he can't finish the combo, and you can punish with a FC (lol). In other words, the only time Jin has a safe option against Tao's pressure is when he has 75 meter. All of Jin's options are unsafe in this matchup. When in Jin's pressure, simply CA out when you have the meter and continue your pressure. Ragna- Just remember that he also has the option to DP in the air, so 6A resets can be dangerous. Makoto- The 5C-> 2D~5-> j.D~A-> 9D~5-> 9D~9-> 3D~3-> j.236Bx5 doesn't work on her for some reason (at least I can't do it, please correct me if I'm wrong). Other character specific notes: 5B-> 6A doesn’t work on crouching Hazama, Tsubaki, Carl, Makoto, Jin without CH 5B-> 6A-> JC-> j.2D~B doesn’t work on Arakune. Instead do j.5D~B. 6A doesn’t work on crouching Mu ever j.B+C-> Taunt Loop doesn’t work on Noel. Instead, do: j.B+C-> 5C-> 2D~6-> j.2D~C-> j.2D~A-> 9D~5-> 6D~6-> j.C-> 9D~9->3D~3-> j.236Bx5 [3709]

Your setup is nothing compared to the cupcam. Real talk.

Who are you?

FTFY. and sure, that'd be fine. when exactly did you want to come down? also, could you somehow give me copies of the casual sessions from the last nci? i want to review the gameplay (i'm not asking you to upload them) if you haven't deleted them yet. And IIRC, March 5th will have another Clocktower tournament run by Tone