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1. pochp 2. Samthegreat 3. Kirbster 3. Level5-chan 5. Brice 5. Kazuhiro 5. Mashuu 5. DerQ 9. Neanis 9. Varatnar 9. Song 9. Lonewolf 9. Darkwolf 9. Jimmy 9. Steb 9. AirCalibur II HD Online 17. Reyntime

There's also a lot of footage on the A-Cho channels : http://www.youtube.com/user/GAMEacho/videos and http://www.youtube.com/user/zero3japan/videos

Disagree on a couple points there, but I'm guessing Rachel is one of those characters that can be played pretty differently from one player to another. Matchup feels pretty stressful for me as while you seem to have the advantage at neutral, it's hard to get decent reward off random stein hits, and any random air hit from them feels like it can turn into a loss, with multiple 50/50 high low. Also, it's very hard to approach her without steins, from the air Rachel's 6a will beat any jump in no matter which side, and you need to be rather precise to bait it. It looks more reliable for them to combo off 6a on normal hit now, so that makes bating it out that much riskier. On the ground, you can mostly bully her from far with 5c, but from close it becomes a lot riskier as her 2a has a very good hitbox. Air to air, her j.c is very scary because it's so fast and hits everywhere. As much as our j.c has better range, spacing when they have access to wind is tricky and sometimes just waiting for them to use it and DPing can work if you know they're going to wind in. I've had good success using j.236a keeping them out, very useful when they have summons but are far. Lotus bats are pretty scary, learn the duration and avoid them at all costs. Blowing up wind tech though... you can't really. I mean, they're just doing neutral tech while pushing themselves in a certain direction with wind, so they're completely invincible from start to finish. It's rather annoying to keep them blocking midscreen after, because you need to commit to either direction, and then you're vulnerable to wakeup 2a. I just prefer setting up more steins instead, and then going in. The thing you can beat is wind backdash which has vulnverable frames, or when they think they've caught you whiffing something and attempt to press buttons after wind tech, like when you whiff a 2b which recovers very fast. After a j.2c knockdown in the corner, if you just setup either 2 steins or one charged stein, and don't dash forward to meaty them, you'll be at that range where if they wind tech they won't get behind you. So you can hit an early 2b to catch a roll, they might see the whiff while wind teching and attempt to punish, but you should still have the advantage. If they just normal block, keep them blocking until the steins shoot, and use that to get closer, unless of course you have something dirty planned :3 Oh yeah, charged stein combo is kinda unstable on her. You can either cross your fingers it'll work, or replace a normal before the first stein hit with a faster one. ex : (...)6c tachi j.2d late abdc j.c 2b 5c 5[d] j.a delay j.c j.2c etc. which will only work near the corner, or (...)6c tachi j.2d late abdc j.c 2b 6a 5[d] j.b etc. Anyways, there's a lot to say on the matchup, I'll add more when I think of it.

Thread for the upcoming monthly tournament : http://www.dustloop.com/forums/showthread.php?18474-Nov-24-2013-November-Monthly-Mashfest-Montreal-Canada post there if you have any questions concerning the event. We'll see if we can get more setups. Don't forget, last seed is up for grabs this Thursday at the weekly tournament!

Where : Foonzo (1245 rue Drummond, Montreal) When : Venue opens at 4PM, tournaments start around 5:30-6PM. (let us know if you're going to be late) Stream : TBD (most likely www.twitch.tv/bibiquadium) Venue Fee : Just make sure you buy some food or drinks! Main Events : Blazblue : Chronophantasma Double Elimination, 2 out of 3 matches Free entry, prize for the winner Top seeds : Kirbster, Tofu Warrior, Level5-Chan. Congrats on your wins! Guilty Gear XX Accent Core Plus R Double Elimination, 2 out of 3 matches Free entry, prize for the winner Side Events : I have no idea how many entrants we'll get nor how long BBCP will take, since it's the first time we run it. We won't guarantee any side events, but we'll run them if we have time. So depending on time and interest, we could do Aquapazza, Melty Blood, BBCP teams, or anything else people want to play. edit : results BBCP 1. pochp 2. Kirbster 3. Level5-Chan 4. Psykotik 5. Fakku | Brice 5. Tofu Warrior 7. DerQ 7. SamTheGreat 9. Steb 9. D4rkwolf 9. NType 9. Varatnar 13. Greenix 13. Bibiquadium 13. Neanis 13. Airmaster 17. RuroniLonewolf 17. Jimmy Bones 17. CCG Chi-Rithy 17. Song 17. Kr3wman 17. LeDom 17. Kaeru 17. oDHAOSo 25. Reyntime 25. Marti 25. Kazuhiro Guilty Gear 1. Fakku | Brice 2. Steb 3. Theolo 4. SamTheGreat 5. Kirbster 5. pochp :KY: 7. DerQ 7. Psykotik 9. Sophisticat 9. Airmaster 9. Level5-Chan 9. Greenix 13. oDHAOSo 13. Kr3wman 13. Ruroni 13. Kaeru

11/16/2013 Online Godsgarden http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WLHLz0YV-w&t=30m30s H.H vs Suyate (probably suya valkenhayn) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmAokHgp6bg&t=7m20s Serizawa vs yanataka (Hazama) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmAokHgp6bg&t=32m3s Serizawa vs superstarzele (Nu) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmAokHgp6bg&t=43m30s Serizawa vs Busters_kawasemi (Platinum) 2 out of 3 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmAokHgp6bg&t=1h3m30s Serizawa vs Puromete (Litchi) 2 out of 3

Seems risky and gimmicky, but I'd have to try, kind of forgot about them, double crossunder seems good enough. However, I do use setups where steins suck my opponent out of the corner (usually something like j.2c j.2d j.6d meaty 2b 5b iad etc.), as they are a nice finisher when I don't have meter for super, and they also act as counterassault bait in some cases.

Found a random safejump in training mode and made a video about it to try out my LGP, but then my computer had too much trouble handling the lowest quality setting so I just botched it. Haven't even tried it out in a match yet, so I'll probably find better options and combos, and I'll make another video eventually when I fix that computer.

11/14/2013 Playspot Big One http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dq8sBtIe_NQ Keba vs o kis (Platinum) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dq8sBtIe_NQ&t=6m50s Keba vs Saki (Azrael)

I'll add these two setups I've taken from JP match videos that work nicely once or twice, but if the opponent knows how to deal with them you can probably get punished. (don't worry, no one knows) Midscreen 6c 5d 2d SoD little charge. After it gets blocked meaty, the two shots from the steins let you get in. Corner j.2c j.5d j.2d walk delay DP. Catches mash, DP, acts as throw bait. On hit you get a combo, on block it's safe-ish, if they try to punish with a non invincible move they get hit by a stein, so it kind of acts like a frame trap, and you get to go in again after.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HE5-VBa3GB8&t=15s AbeC vs Geropa Zappa http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dN5bTZjEGGg&t=35s BoB vs Nage Faust http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dN5bTZjEGGg&t=4m20s BoB vs Nakamura Millia Surprised at the use of drill from far to punish random summons, seems useful in the matchup. Also started noticing a lot of j.P from BoB, maybe our recent discussions made me more aware lol.

ggs tonight guys j'y repensais, et dans lfond ya 2 scenarios, assumons, après un grand punish hit RC. 1) le gars mash burst. 2) le gars attends de prendre un normal pour bloquer. dans le premier cas, t'es mieux de juste attendre que le combo bluebeat en bloquant, si ça marche comme dans Extend a la place de tech y va burster. Vu que tu peux pas burst apres un grab, y faut que tu prenne le risque qu'il fait ça plutot qu'il essaye de techer normalement. dans le deuxième cas, s'il se base sur un visual ou audio cue, il y aura un petit delai ajouté qui devrait te donner le temps de RC ou p-e meme jump cancel block. lâches-pas bro. @Vice-Taicho : c de ce video que je parlais : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxgcLOwW04Q

Working on the trick to midscreen charged stein combos. There are two variants, you can do either for Azrael, Jin, Arakune, Carl, Nu. For every other character, one of them is a lot easier than the other. 1) 6b 6c tachi j.2d abdc slight delay j.c dash 5b 5c 5[d] j.b j.c j.2c j.5[d] dash 5c 2c sj.c j.b j.2c (3436, 24 meter) Mu Tager Tsubaki 2) 6b 6c tachi j.2d abdc bigger delay j.c dash 2b (tiny delay?) 5c 5[d] j.b j.c j.2c j.5[d] dash 5c 2c sj.c j.b j.2c (3357, +omo super for 4157) Everyone else 3) 6b 6c tachi j.2d abdc j.c j.2c dash 3c ad j.b j.c j.2c (2754) Amane Anyways, you need to be between starting positions and halfway to the corner at the beginning of the combo for the 5[d] to hit OTG. The trick for the second combo is to delay the airdash back as much as possible. Sometimes you even need to delay a tiny bit between 2b and 5c I feel, but I can't be sure. Amane is a special snowflake that doesn't like to get OTG'd by lasers. I'll see if I can figure out some charged stein combos for the other areas of the screen, next time I get some time to hit the lab. Also, there are more restrictions when doing it from 5c CH 6c, but the first combo does 4470 dmg, and the second one does 4346.

Uh. Jvais surement venir a soir.

Might not be there Thursday, either way there should still be a weekly tournament! C pcq tu viens pu autant aux meetups.

Discuss the matchup here. This post will get updated with relevant information eventually.

results for tonight's weekly 1. Tofu Warrior 2. Sophisticat 3. Pedro 3. Heartless 5. BLAZEIT420$$$ 5. DerQ 5. Kaeru 5. Kirbster 9. Misha 9. Brice 9. Jimmy 9. Varatnar 9. Kazuhiro 9. Mashuu 9. Nash 9. AirPelicanX 17. Marti 17. Lonewolf 17. Rameo

Yeah I dunno if anyone is expecting me to organize it like I usually do, but I'm not going this year, I have a final on the 8th...

Somehow only just now saw BoB's combo video. Very impressive. I thought some of those combo routes weren't possible, guess I didn't try hard enough :/ Depends mostly on the spacing, and the other character. General rule is max range you should be ok, close should get punished, IB just makes it more likely they can, but lofo can most likely correct me on that one.

Doubt it. I'd only be able to show up kinda late. I'll check the thread in case people decide to actually meet up.

Weekly BBCP Tournaments #2 Where : Foonzo When : 8pm, Thursday November 7th Format : Single Elimination, best of 1. (due to time and space) Cost : Free! Reward : Seeding for the next monthly. Stream? TBD Spread the word! The next monthly will most likely be November 24th.

Might as well repost this here :

Nu can be frustrating to fight because she forces you to change your playstyle. I haven't fought her yet in this version so I can't really comment on the matchup, but general advice would just be to not airdash towards her nor set more than one stein at a time. Don't use your special moves too much at neutral either. Try to stick to dash barrier wait, neutral jump wait, try to bait her to throwing swords that will whiff which then allow you to get in if you haven't already used your airdash. If you block a sword, whatever, just keep doing it till you see an opening.

This short overview from the wiki might help : Also, watch some BoB matches. If you still have questions don't hesitate to ask.

I'll be there around 7 tonight.