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Thanks to everyone who showed up and played GG at Aki-Con. I was the person who was running the GG tournament, grabbing people for GG matches, and getting people PS2 sticks/pads. I hope everyone had fun playing GG. Although I ended up DQing myself early in every game in order to run GG, I really had fun watching people play. Good job to everyone. By the way, I was the same guy who tried to cheese people with Valkenhayn in the BB tournament, and I played Valkenhayn for like 2 days just before the tournament. He was great. Now time for some salty shoutouts: Shoutout to Jais for being unable to SUPPORT THE SCENE (man...), but then, even if you showed up, I would've asked you to DQ yourself anyway, just like me and Wuku, because I wanted to reduce the number of matches and we were really running short on time with only one GG setup at the tournament. (Still, GG ran really fast. I love this game.) Shoutout to LOLsap for being the #1 faggot at the tournament. LOLsap: "Hey, can we just finish the finals so I can leave?" Me: "But we are waiting for MB finals to finish so that we can record GG final." LOLsap: *WHINING x N* Me: "How about this? I'll MM you for $5 right now and if you win then you can have my $5 (plus the prize for 3rd place after DQing yourself to leave), but if you lose, you don't have to give me anything. Result: HellSap didn't accept it and waited around for the finals. In the end, he lost to Tae in the losers final and got 3rd place anyway... LMAO. Man... *shakes head*

I was going to actually write an article but I didn't have enough pictures to cover everything that happened for GG, so this will have to do. So this is Momo, the venue where SB:R took place. I think it's mainly a cafe but it pretty much has everything. I can't really explain. One thing I can say for sure is that they have really good bubble tea. I got there on Friday night and people were already playing GG casuals. Oh, I see one of twins in the picture. All of those tvs in the picture (and we had like 2 more, I think) were used for the GG tournament later, and one thing I really liked about SB:R was that we got our own area just for GG. Thanks a bunch to whoever's responsible for this. This is the main hall where SSF4 was set up. There were just so many people. Luckily, people never blocked the way to the bathroom. The best thing about SB:R was that they closed at 3am (supposedly), meaning you could really play all you wanted. I was going to play Tekken a little, but I had to play GG... you know. Another thing about SB:R was, because they stayed up so late (till like 4am? Man... those Marvel/SSF4 players...), things got delayed so much the following day... The store just wouldn't open on time, lol. The GG tournament was very competitive. There were so many strong players and the bracket wasn't that big, so you ended up playing against really good players early on. This one's Hellmonkey vs Cue, which happened very early in the tournament. This is JackG vs MikeZ, as if it was a color match. Btw, so far I've seen 4 players who'd only pick that green color. That's pretty much it. After I got eliminated in the singles, I just kept playing casuals, so there's no more picture and I didn't get to stay for finals. Btw, GG was pretty hype at SB:R with StickBug around, OMG. :thumbu:

I was going to actually write an article but I didn't have enough pictures to cover everything that happened for GG, so this will have to do. So this is Momo, the venue where SB:R took place. I think it's mainly a cafe but it pretty much has everything. I can't really explain. One thing I can say for sure is that they have really good bubble tea. I got there on Friday night and people were already playing GG casuals. Oh, I see one of twins in the picture. All of those tvs in the picture (and we had like 2 more, I think) were used for the GG tournament later, and one thing I really liked about SB:R was that we got our own area just for GG. Thanks a bunch to whoever's responsible for this. This is the main hall where SSF4 was set up. There were just so many people. Luckily, people never blocked the way to the bathroom. The best thing about SB:R was that they closed at 3am (supposedly), meaning you could really play all you wanted. I was going to play Tekken a little, but I had to play GG... you know. Another thing about SB:R was, because they stayed up so late (till like 4am? Man... those Marvel/SSF4 players...), things got delayed so much the following day... The store just wouldn't open on time, lol. The GG tournament was very competitive. There were so many strong players and the bracket wasn't that big, so you ended up playing against really good players early on. This one's Hellmonkey vs Cue, which happened very early in the tournament. This is JackG vs MikeZ, as if it was a color match. Btw, so far I've seen 4 players who'd only pick that green color. That's pretty much it. After I got eliminated in the singles, I just kept playing casuals, so there's no more picture and I didn't get to stay for finals. Btw, GG was pretty hype at SB:R with StickBug around, OMG. :thumbu:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iikhOECY5A Btw, A3 was actually pretty nice in person, so I don't know why he talked trash on DL pissing off other people... Yes, he was being a ni....ce guy, lol. (This is South Seattle joke, btw) PS. I was somewhat rooting for his Johnny cause I just couldn't root for Pot or Eddie. You know...

Alright, I'm free for a few days now. I guess it's time to practice. Brendan, I'll give you a call later but would it be possible if you were to host on Wednesday or something? I realized that I leave on Thursday night... I need some GG practice.

I didn't go to Evo but I just wanted to say that BlueNINE is my hero for talking shit to the guy who interrupted the grand final. Tae, the guy who recorded the match, told me all about it. I would've done the same if I were there. Two thumbs up.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sT6e_PHg7l0 I downloaded this video just because the dizzy player was she (and you can see her in the original Nico video) and the Potemkin player was Kusoru.

Let me share one video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HURvGCQSMAw It took me awhile to dig it out since it's a couple weeks old video, but yeah, this is AC Slayer...

BBCS full result 1: spark (hakumen) 2: veteru (ragna) 3: huey253 (bang) 4: jais (noel) 5: tolore (arakune) 5: hellfromabove (arakune) 7: plastic chicken 7: wuku 9: stark 9: niggajoe 9: kaigu 9: tae seong kim 13: bohemian polka 13: osuna 13: robot 13: missedfrc 17: redefinition 17: haketh 17: tari 17: aaron pitman 17: digital watches 17: kwyjibo 17: blargster

Let me quote this. Certain characters are so effective with their FB moves that they can actually get away with not using FRCs in a match. (Ex: Slayer with BBU, Eddie with FB drill, May with FB dolphin, Millia with FB disk, etc...)

A-cho always post their videos on Nico, so if you have a Nico account, you can just type "ggxx a-cho" to search for every A-cho GG video on Nico. Let me just give you the link: http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm9582455

Wait, so American teams are not shown at all? It's a good thing that I haven't purchased it yet. I should reconsider... After all, all I wanted to see are American teams and Kazuki.

I watched that Nico video and according to the comments, it is in favor of Hazama.

I know some competitive Tekken players who can already play almost every character in T6BR (and they subbed Mokujin in 5DR), and that's just in Seattle. I'm sure there are people like that in other Tekken scenes as well. But then again I think Josh Ballard was talking about the online mode... GG=no online mode Tekken=yes online mode You get the idea... PS. Speaking of which... I'm just curious. Is there a GG player who can play like every character at a competitive level? Let me know if there's one.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArussKvrEbY @1:44 Did he do the second FB Pile Bunker just for hell of it, or does it actually work even from that distance? It looked like he was really going for that 5HS-Pile Bunker loop to make it epic, lol.

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That was a Johnny vs Zappa match but I took it out because it makes GG look bad. The matchup is just so terrible for Johnny. If you are still interested, you can watch this one instead. http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm8470740 It starts at 4:55. The commentator asked Mitsurugi about the Jo vs Za matchup. When Mitsurugi said it's 7:3 on Zappa, people commented things like "Mitsurugi is being too nice" and "it has to be 9:1 on Zappa." So there you have it.

Do you mean her j.2hs? Dizzy's 2s can beat it. The timing is tricky when May is falling somewhat behind Dizzy, but it's still doable. If you mess it up and May has 25% tension, you will lose like 60% of life (but I'm sure you already know that), but if 2s hits, then it's about 50% for May so the risk/reward factor is not so bad. May's j.s also loses to Dizzy's 2s but you have to do 2s before j.s comes out. Although May's j.s hits deep, her anchor is a part of her hitbox and that hitbox appears before j.s is active, just so you know.

Dizzy doesn't really need all that much. All she needs is Ice Spike that comes out even when she's hit during startup, like EXE Beast. Also, if she had S version of Ice Spike (with the same property) that hits right next to her, she would be too good.

It looks like a whole bunch of people entered the foreigner-only tournament @ Mikado on 8/15. Elvenshadow-Sensei (lol) at around 2:00

Let's look at the top 8 teams @ SBO.... 3 Potemkin (out of 8) 2 Jam 2 Dizzy (out of 8) 2 Venom 2 Baiken 2 Sol 1 Faust 1 HOS 1 May 1 Chipp 1 Johnny (out of 1) 1 Zappa 1 Bridget 1 Slayer (out of 8) 1 Ino 1 Testament 1 Millia 0 Eddie (out of 9) 0 Anji 0 Ky 0 Robo-Ky 0 ABA 0 Axl Good stuff...

First of all, you don't have to be otaku to go to akiba. A lot of non-otaku people go there to hang out as well. It's not like every store in akiba sells eroge and stuff. Basically, they don't care.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPBx2_UkPoY Speaking of 8:2 matchup, this one should be very close to being 8:2. Let me know if there's a matchup far worse than this one. I'm curious.

Yeah, just slightly more damage.

I like the tags on that video. One of them is （ネモが弱すぎて）つまんねー, which means "this is boring (because Nemo is too weak)." I'm saving this video for others to see. This is just too good, lol. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdIdDa1z7I4 EDIT: They took out that tag... Maybe he was offended, lol.