St1ckBuG

GJ feux. Not many people can say their first tournament win was a major. Thanks for being godlike guys. Hope to see you again soon.

What are everyones plans for today? Where are the casuals?

Split with people or just bum a room.

Yeah, I put the brackets on top of the poster box, and then put stuff on top of that to carry to my car. The box must have flexed and let the papers fall out. I'm sorry :<

John and Joe, once again: THANK YOU!!!!!!! Your event gets better ever year, and this year is no different. I know that you promised me some bandwidth to stream, but the hotel failed to deliver. I just want to let you know that this didn't change my opinion of the event at all. You still gave us a couple tables and some power outlets to do our thing. All we wanted was some space to enjoy our games. You made that happen. Thanks again for being so accommodating. DaiAndOh and LordKnight - Thanks again for helping me out. Running brackets isn't a one man thing, it's as simple as that. Cirno - Thanks for making it out man. I always get hype when I see new people at majors. Your Plat was a lot better than I expected it to be. MashThat5A - GJ placing 3rd at your first major. Sorry your stick got stolen. Shitty luck. Raiza - I was kind of bummed to see that you stopped playing Lambda. Regardless, you're still a strong player. I hope you can make it out to more events in the future. It was nice seeing you again. TD - Come to more TSB tournaments you netplay warrior. Akira-Shiro - Congrats on 4th. You should try to go to Summer Jam and NEC. That's clash battle was fucking stupid! I'll let you on the mic more next time. Jake Green - Another new face. Thanks for coming all the way out to ECT. BatousaiJ - You came and actually stayed this time! Sorry you didn't get to enter teams. I had to get it started and I wasn't sure if you were coming back or not (I don't check Dustloop while at tournaments, sorry). Lich - NJ's strongest player. Stay godlike dude. You keep getting better and better. You made me realize that I should pack my own food for tournaments. Eduardo - GJ carrying Lich the whole tournament. SuperScience - Nice seeing you again! We need to get you out to more NJ gatherings. SKD - GJ on second. Stay based. Omni - Thanks for not entering you jerk. Andru - Thanks for coming out. Maybe you'll be able to make it out to a TSB event sometime? MD Orona - Nice meeting you. Come to Summer Jam and NEC! NothingCells - Another new face! Hope you enjoyed yourself. I always get hype when there's a name in the brackets I don't recognize. I hope you can come out to more events in the future. Josip - Sorry we didn't get to play or hang out at all. I'll see you at the next gathering or when we go to visit Chris, whichever comes first. Kaeru - You're one of the reasons Canada is so godlike. We'll play GG next time we meet. I promise. I hope you enjoyed the grease trucks. Next time you can go for 4 in an hour! Bibi - Thanks for coming down! I should've played you but I can only stay awake for so long. Sunday I was out of it. NEXT TIME! pochp - Our matches were fun. Fuck May. AirMaster - You Faust is random, but that's about it! You gotta play GG more before the new version drops! iora - Stay free Justin. BBQ - XOXOXOXOXOX Dacid - Thanks for coming out to EC! DIO - Fun games. We went even but then you got that streak on me. I need to practice more. NY Guys - You know there's only love. See you guys around. Thanks for making it out. There were a couple other names that I know I forgot. I grabbed the brackets so that I could remember everyone but I dropped them at some point. I'm sorry if I forgot to mention you. Thanks again for everyone that made it out. You can't have an event without players!!! Go to NEC!!!

I love you guys. Just sayin.

It's not vital, but a lot of the stuff in the bottom of the bag is backup equipment for my HD Fury (read: streaming equipment). It's just a nice piece of mind to know that I have it just in case. It can wait. Thanks again.

I appreciate the kind words. I try to make sure everyone enjoys themselves at the tournaments I help run. You take your time (and spend your money) to come out and support the events that make this community so great. It's only natural that I treat the people that show up like they're my good friends, whether I know them that well or not. Canada has that fucking TAMASHII. It's only natural I treat you guys with respect. We got to play BB casuals at MAD, and I don't expect the outcome to be any different since I haven't play a whole lot since then. I do regret not being able to play you in GG though. I should've taken my TV out of the main ballroom and moved it up to my room so that we could come back and play. I also didn't have my fat PS2 on hand (and I didn't want to call Iora that early in the morning). Bad luck, bad planning, and me being a tired old man at tournaments never helps my cause. I fucked up. I should've just taken his stuff to my room like I had panned on doing the whole time. I wish you guys could've gotten in Friday night. We would've had a better chance to play casuals. It also sucked that I had to leave early to have dinner with my family. This was a last minute thing :/ I promise I'll play you in GG next time we meet.

NEC will be important if the right people go to it.

GJ this weekend Jersey. Lich, don't dwell on your mistakes. What's good is you know where you messed up and/or where you're lacking, so you know where to improve. Some people just mindlessly stare at the screen, lose, and then blame the loss on something completely irrelevant.

Top 8 was recorded for BB. It'll be up on Jourdal's channel. Shoutouts later. Gonna pass out.

If you never figure out things ahead of time you just look like a dumbfuck. Do this: Go to the NJ Transit train stop at the Newark Airport. Get on either an NEC (North East Corridor line) or an NJC (New Jersey Coast line) train heading North toward New York Penn Station or Hoboken. Get off at Secaucus Junction and transfer to the Morris & Essex line. Get off at Morristown. Adult One-Way should cost you $18.50 for the whole trip. After you get out of the station you should be on Lackawanna PL. Turn right and walk south east until you hit Morris Street, which will be the first street you come to. Make a right and keep walking until you get to Morristown Green Square. Walk around the square counter-clockwise until you see Speedwell Ave. Walk down Speedwell Ave. The hotel will be down a little bit on your right. I'll text you our room number.

There are going to be 4 streams? Not sure. Personally I think Sp00ky request (at some point) that some of the streams be turned off. I will be streaming BB/SG/GG http://www.twitch.tv/St1ckBuG You're supposed to figure this shit out BEFORE you leave. I'm going to take a wild guess an assume you're landing in Newark. When do you land? I could potentially pick you up and save you some trouble. If not, then you want to do this or this to get to the hotel.

If you call Alzarath to find out what meeting spot to use, and he says "I'm by a fence", hang up and just leave without him. Fuck that guy.

Dangle should start heading out to Justin's. Get on that GG.

And you're lucky I only took that much.

6H is special cancellable? Everything makes sense now. Have we heard anything about 2D > 236SK > Asanagi-K?

If this version made Mulligan come to tournaments again, all changes are acceptable. FBPB looks like it won't be a combo tool but will give you hard knockdown. The 22-series changes seem like your combos will be a lot like the ones from Reload.

Jam Honestly not sure. The rate you've been going at now is pretty good. Just post up when you feel like hosting and we'll give you feedback. I'm not 100% sure at this point, but I WOULD like to start it by 1PM. The latest I will start is 2.

:|

If you can't stand for long periods of time, I would suggest not doing it.

We shall call him, Edwardo.

Sometimes controlling space isn't just making them scared of your best normal because you can potentially do a lot of damage with it, but reminding them that you have other normals or specials that can still hit them. When I first started playing I practiced stuff off of 5K, 2S, IAD Gekirin, and FBPB. Let's be honest, these are your easiest moves that lead to the most damage. They teach how to deal damage in the easiest way possible, so you usually learn how to use these moves most effectively first. This can sometimes make people believe that in match-ups where all of these options can be easily dealt with are impossible (or near impossible) to win. What can you do when you can't get into 2S range without getting hit first? What can you do when FBPB gets low-profiled or stuffed? What happens when Gekirin can be easily air-thrown or anti-aired? This makes the match-up harder, but it doesn't mean all of your options are gone, you still have other normals and specials at your disposal. Remember f.S, that normal that is hard to hit-confirm on standing opponents but has really good reach? Remember that move it can gatling into that gives you knockdown? Oh yeah, 2D. What's that other normal that has almost as good reach as 2D and is slightly faster? Oh yeah, 2K. What's that special that's not quite as useful as FBPB but still hurts just as much? Oh, that's right, regular puffball. You have all these moves that can control space, and potentially lead to some damage and/or knockdown, but they're always considered "not as good". This may be true, but they're still there. You still have options. f.S can keep them from running at you and can lead into really good damage off of f.S > TK Ryuujin > Asanagi-K, f.S > 2D > 236SK > Asanagi-K or you can just gatling into 2D for a knockdown for that free card or pressure. What about just 2D? Knockdown is important in GG, and with Jam this can net you either a card, mix-up, or oki (all of which can be scary). If you're really good you can hit-confirm 2D CH > FBPB in the corner or 236SK > Asanagi-K midscreen. This is your farthest reaching normal and that can either start your offensive or be a safe poke to throw out there to keep them from running at you. If it's blocked? Whatever, cancel it into regular puffball, j.2K, or airdash. Against Faust you can do 2D JC > j.K > j.D(1) > Ryuujin > Asanagi-K. Remember that math-up that was hard to get in and use 2S effectively? Your farthest reaching normal can lead into just as much damage. What about 2K? It can gatling into 2D and reaches just as far. What it comes down to is the fact that you have these moves that, in your case, reach farther than 2S but can lead to the same stuff (it's just harder to hit-confirm). So how to you implement "controlling space"? You make the opponent respect your options. They're going to run at you knowing they have a move that can beat your 2S pretty easily? Throw out a f.S, 2D, or 2K. They want to just start air-dashing in at you for free? Regular puffball takes care of that, and on CH they're fucking dead. Controlling space is making them aware of your options. To do this effectively you have to use your options and be able to hit-confirm them well. When I got to play RF in Japan it made me realize that I had no concept for controlling space. I got in once. Once. He combo'd me maybe 3 times out of 4 matches. The rest of the games were just him running away and keeping me out with his zoning and normals. For the rest of my time in Japan I worked on spacing and confirming off of the normals I listed above. No one mashed in my 2S range during neutral. They FD'd against my FBPB or just right out stuffed it. They understood my frames better than I did. They blocked and punished Gekirin. I got lucky a few times in double blind situations but that was it. In order to win matches I had to take advantage of everything, especially the normals that rely on my execution to be effective. Moving on... The reason I use IADB Gekirin? In some match-ups it's great. Scared of Grand Viper? IADB Gekirin. Scared of run up Wild Throw? IADB Gekirin. He either has to commit getting close to me inside of his 2S range and use something like 5K (which opens him up to MY 2S) or he has to do something unsafe like Riot Stomp or run up Gunflame (which either causes him to waste meter if he wants to be safe or commit to getting within my 2D/2S range). Most of the times I hit him it was either out of Grand Viper to he was going to run up DO SOMETHING. Fuck that. EAD. May is just annoying. Get used to it. Blocking comes with playing more. You learn as you go. Find out what is giving you trouble and find answers for it. I'm guess by "respect" he either means you're respecting his options too much or too little. There is a point where you might be too respectful, like letting him get away with non-FRC Gunflames or Riot Stomps. He might also be doing block-strings with huge gaps or staggers. There are answers to his stuff, they just might be answers you're not comfortable with doing yet. Hope some of this helps.

If you're close to the corner, you should hitconfirm into 5H(3) then link that into force break puffball. If you add another rep of the ground loop you won't be able to do a rep of the wall loop without letting them tech, so you should just combo into 2D. Spending 50 meter to RC is just silly. If you can get the knockdown you should always go for it, unless a better combo will kill them or make baiting their burst easier. You gotta get light characters at that just-right height. It's annoying. Usually what I do if they're too high is catch them with 2H(2) then delay into the 6HH as much as possible. From there, depending on your starter, their height, and your distance from the wall you either want to go into dash 2H(1), 2H(2), or dash 5K. The way you describe your problem is a bit odd since there could be two answers, so I'll answer both. If they're being pulled out of the corner during your wall loop 2H, then what Amadeous said works, but sometimes if they're just high enough you can also walk a few pixels back and they won't come out of the corner during 2H. If they're falling to the ground before you recover from Asanagi-K, then you're doing that combo too close to the wall and you should be hit-confirming into 5H(3) > FBPB instead.

Just an FYI, the "easiest" characters to practice the loop on are Slayer, Testament, Eddie, Venom, Johnny, Anji and Axl. From there you should move onto different character weights. To practice on light characters you should practice on Baiken, Jam, Bridget, Dizzy, Ino, Chipp, May and Millia. To practice on heavy characters you should practice on Potemkin, Robo-Ky, and ABA. To practice on "weird" hitboxes you should practice on Sol, Order Sol, Faust and Zappa. When I was practicing the loop I would go into practice mode and random select my opponent. When I could do wall loop off of every starter I would go back to character select and random select again. By doing this and figuring out what works and what doesn't I was able to learn her combo theory better. I made rules in my head so that if I landed a hit I knew what I was allowed to do. When you can't figure out how to loop a certain character, check the wiki for an answer. If you can't find the answer there, come back here and tell us where you're dropping the combo, off of what starter (and position on the screen), and character. We'll do our best to help. Don't be afraid to ask questions. I was lucky enough to have an extremely good player living 45 minutes away at one point. I picked his brain for months.