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3/30/12 Tachikawa 10v10 Jaku Jaku vs: (Aoba) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFGj1mhxO1U Pretty standard approach from both sides here. Jaku Jaku almost makes a critical mistake that could have cost him the round in round 1, but Aoba doesn't capitalize on it. 3/20 Gulliver vs: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ip_r6drdHSw#t=12m15s Poor Relius, I know your pain. The back dash while in corner to avoid Wolf and then throwing into corner was a nice defensive maneuver though. 3/22/12 Alpha Station TORI vs: (Mucchi) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdl-aKJZF8E&list=PL7FD929DD44F20F01&index=4&feature=plpp_video Nyomu-san? Nyomu-san? In the end, the superior doll won, I'm sure you can guess who that was...but it looks like Carl can completely negate 214C oki in the corner as long as Nirvana is next to him, nice to know. 3/27/12 Mizonokuchi Onii vs: (Nisshi) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mlH4gojQJU vs: (Tochigin) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mlH4gojQJU#t=4m40s Not even the almighty Onii could stop Frederic...I mean, Valk, from going on a rampage. Onii puts up a valiant effort at neutral though to keep the match close (with some solid reads). He uses 214C after a 214A a lot against both characters though in these matches.

I don't think I'll be able to make it out this time Justin. I've been really tired after work lately, and all I want to do is go home and sleep. The next time I go on BB, I'll add you Sine, if they're just going to keep pairing us up in ranked, we ratherswell just play in a room.

That's happened to me a few times. It's really annoying. One time it froze up my game and I had to quit the game from the dashboard.

It's cool, I actually lost track of time playing Graces, so it worked out in the end.

The best person to write that out would probably be St1ckbug himself. I didn't stay until the end, but I believe the general stuff was: -Relius pros and cons. -Relius normals worth using. -Relius at neutral. -Fuzzy guard discussion, and how Relius doesn't have one. -Relius pressure/mixup options. -Oki (including how Kaigu's oki setup can be blown up by rolling out unless you're Tager). -Combo theory (including troll combos suggested by Kaigu, and Mikami's virtually full-screen carry swag). -?

Damn you Huey, stealing my thunder of me stealing stuff from Kaigu. Sorry for not responding earlier guys, I've been busy the last few days. http://www.twitch.tv/huey253/b/313073941 I haven't watched all of it (almost 5 hours...), but he begins doing it against the Makoto player (he plays against Lambda first). He also does it to Huey too, and puts up a pretty strong fight against Huey in general, but he didn't seem to be using it as much as against the Makoto player. Both the Makoto player and Huey respect it though without trying to get out of it, so I assume it's fairly safe, but I'll still be testing it myself anyway. EDIT: I just skimmed through the whole thing and Kaigu only plays in the beginning. I'll post specific times up through an edit of when he actually does this though. EDIT 2: Kaigu begins playing against Makoto 22:30. The first time he does this is at 29:14. The full combo he did prior to the set-up was: 632146C-236C-214A-66-6B-TK j.236C-2C-6C-4D-cross under I tested this out just now. First off, you can't wake-up throw because the 214C is hitting meaty. Now, unless I am timing this wrong, if you do wake up DP off an immediate tech, this set up is safe to DP, although like I said, you'll hit Ignis. Interestingly enough (unless I'm doing this wrong), you can slightly delay the tech and DP Relius during his CH frames at the end of Led Ley, without being tagged by Ignis 214C OTG. I could be doing this wrong, but a slight delay tech, and then DP the CH frames of Led Ley seems to counter this.

Oh, Sini_ster, are you that Valk that always gets paired up with me in ranked in BB? Valk's buttons are bullshit, fuck that asshole.

If you run towards her and press buttons, Tsubaki will stop charging.

The gathering on 4/6 is actually pretty far from NY (about 2 hours, maybe more), one way (so 4 hours total), and they can't crash at Justin's place, so I wouldn't blame them for not coming. Ril's place is a lot more accessible for the NY people, plus they can take the train down. That being said, if do they decide to come, that would be cool.

Oh wow, you're actually getting Aquapazza 830? I'm really, really hesitant on that...the game just looks so...dull...let me know how that is I guess. We will play some Persona when that comes out.

I don't really care for this discussion going on, but personally, I didn't really like BlazBlue until Extend. Some of this has to do with Relius (I had the same problem as Justin, I couldn't find a character that "clicked" with me), but I would have played either Tager, Platinum, or Bang if I didn't use Relius, so that's not really all of it. Something about the game just felt off to me, but I don't mind Extend and it's growing on me. Maybe it was just CS1, I really, really, hated CS1, and it's left a bitter taste in my mouth ever since.

Hm, Kaigu did an interesting oki variant that may be effective against wake-up DP. I haven't tested this yet, and probably won't get to until tomorrow though, so if someone else would like to test the viability of this, please do so. He would do a standard corner combo, but instead of ending with 3C, he would end with 4D, he would cross under them, do 214C, and then do 236A to "push" himself through them to create a weird blocking situation. In theory, the 236A should protect him from wake-up DP (although they can still hit Ignis, and if they can do it, they can RC the hit on Ignis), and if they decide to block it, you get a weird blocking situation that puts you right back into pressure. I'll test the viability of this on Thursday or Friday, but what do you guys think?

@K2: Thanks! New corner gold combo I saw Kaigu do (and thus will steal). It looks easier to do than the one I posted before, and it does more damage...so yea... Gold Burst-2C-6C-214A-sj.B-j.C-j.236C-j.214A-j.C-5C-4D-236C-214A-66-3C-(ender, he did 236C oki). Does 3.4kish. I haven't tested this out myself, but he did do the initial 2C fairly close to the ground, I don't know if that's a requirement or not. Regardless, no timing on 236C nonsense like the other combo I posted.

Hm, you're not as far south as I thought you were Justin. PM me your address, I'll see if I can make it. Who else is going? EDIT: If I go, I'll bring my PS3 and BB.

2/8/12 Game Chariot Shadow vs: (Kaqn) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZ4EgahiF3E & http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHsJgOoJRf4&feature=youtu.be I found Shadow's defense to be fairly impressive in these videos. Unfortunately, when you're playing against a wild and aggressive player that knows Ragna's sweet spots against Relius, it's only a matter of time before the wall comes down. Shadow does some Led Ley mixups in his pressure strings against Kaqn though which were funny. 3/20/12 Mizonokuchi Taito Onii vs: (Matsu) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNDlQ54DcwY vs: (Yasuda) Onii always makes everyone look so free. 3/17/12 Central Hachiouji 3on3 TORI vs: (Masashi) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-08kI6U9z4#t=5m24s

Nemhe and 830 are in "north" Jersey besides yourself, but what Lich was referring to was really a blanket term for "North" and "Central" Jersey (technically, there is no such thing as "Central" Jersey according to the federal government). When you include "Central" Jersey, you also have myself, RIL, Lich, and I dunno, maybe other people.

Oh, actually, I just realized this, but does D3 even have offline lan? I know one of the big gripes with Starcraft 2 was its lack of offline lan.

Well, I plan on getting Diablo 3 too at some point, just not when it launches, we should play together RIL and Justin. I also would like PSO2, but is that even coming out over here? I don't know what game St1ckbug is talking about. On an unrelated note, RIL, are you up for some BB either this Friday or Saturday? Nemhy wants to play, and we can probably get one more guy.

3/23/12 Tachikawa 3v3 Mori I am personally happy to see Mori moving away from that god awful color of his before... vs: (Sunacchi) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ba6hN8AsE54&list=PL7D89310144AB1718&index=1&feature=plpp_video vs: (Geroshabu) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ba6hN8AsE54&list=PL7D89310144AB1718&index=1&feature=plpp_video#t=4m23s Man, from one bad match-up to another...but Mori clutches it out so he can face... vs: (Uma no hone) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ba6hN8AsE54&list=PL7D89310144AB1718&index=1&feature=plpp_video#t=8m48s ...another bad match-up! It's ok Mori, you did your part on your team.

I dunno, how many of you guys are actually planning on playing D3? I don't think it'll affect Jersey as much as you think. That being said, I plan on playing D3, but not initially, so it doesn't affect me.

Post BBR casuals + East Japan vs. West Japan http://ogarabu.blog.fc2.com/blog-entry-73.html I haven't watched all of this yet (7+ hours...), but I'll try to skim through casuals to look for the Relius matches. There were two Relius players in the actual exhibition (TORI being one of them), which I'll also leave the time for. Since this isn't a youtube player, I'm not sure if I can directly timestamp these...but I'll at least leave the time so you can fast-forward accordingly if you're only looking for Relius matches. Sadly (although to no surprise to me), both Relius players end up losing in the exhibition. TORI vs: (Copperdabbit!) (21:12) He's the first Japanese player to beat Dabbit in casuals. vs: (Dora) (24:23) Dora with them overheads...lol. vs: (6:35:40) This is the actual exhibition match. ? vs: (Dora) (30:41) Another victim of Dora. Although unrelated, America's hero DACIDBRO takes on Dora next. Dora tries for the astral, but DACIDBRO uses his patriotic powers to prevail. ? vs: (55:39) vs: (57:45) Furinkazan. DACIDBRO wants in on this. vs: (1:10:51) vs: (Copperdabbit) (1:14:01) vs: (1:18:20) vs: (1:21:28) Before the match even started I knew he was going to lose (he did). Well, it was a good run... ? vs: (3:52:20) vs: (3:55:14) vs: (4:00:23) vs: (4:02:54) vs: (4:05:05) vs: (4:07:57) vs: (4:10:18) vs: (Dora) (4:12:32) Once again, Dora spoils the fun... ? vs: (Dora) (7:19:35) This is the 2nd exhibition match. Dora was the anti-Relius in this video, lol, he just keeps putting them down like dogs. Dora takes it for East Japan. lol, N-Otoko with the Ro-Kyu-Bu shirt.

Man, I finally put up a solid win tonight and the guy rage quits before I get the credit. Go figure. Time for more Tales...

Maximum: where do you live? We could try doing smaller gatherings with the people in our area inbetween the larger gatherings.

That would be cool. Maybe we can set up some stuff in between the larger gatherings.

You're only about 45 min from me. RIL and I play in our area, and you might be close to 830.