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Sounds good. We'll just tell everyone to bring a setup if they have one. Too many is better than not enough.

EVO 2011 Blazblue CSII 3v3 Full Results: Full Bracket BB 3v3 Teams 1st- Not Right Now: Jan (Tager), Pozerwolf (Jin), Heartnana (Makoto) 2nd- Stay Free: w0ki (Jin), Spark (Hakumen), wuku (Rachel) 3rd- Halt! Witness our Triangle Attack!: Kensou (Bang), KidViper (Hazama), Lord Knight (Litchi) 4th- No Money For You: Donovan (Litchi), DSmooves (Noel), Yuushiro (Jin) 5th- Tornado Boys: The Biter (Valkenhayn), James Xie (Platinum), Obaloney (Noel) 5th- Spicy Chicken Nuggets: huey253 (Bang), Tokido (Noel), zONG_1 (Carl) 7th- Low Tier Counterpick: Dacidbro (Bang), Coopa (Tager), 2GB Combo (Noel) 7th- Sad Life: Noel (Noel), Jason D (Rachel), Johnny (Hakumen) 9th- Team Failure: ShinATProof (Hakumen), Spiteful (Noel), Tubazo1989 (Arakune) 9th- Bad Romance: Tushar (Arakune), Severin (Lambda), Chun (Litchi) 9th- You Are Already Dead: Tae Seong Kim (Noel), Heineken J (Makoto), Blargster (Taokaka) 9th- Copperdabbit is Awesome: Copperdabbit (Arakune), Kelvin (Hazama), Black_Mage (Tager) 13th- Not Last Place: shtkn (Jin), Soniti (Rachel), Mike Z (Tager) 13th- Shoutouts to Tushar: Red Robster (Tager), Not Enough Frames (Bang), Prinny (Litchi) 13th- We Love Kayo Police More: Leo7 (Valkenhayn), Zeero (Carl), Kousaka (Arakune) 13th- We Love Kayo Police: Dio Brando (Hazama), X-Sapphire (Tsubaki), K2 (Rachel) 17th- Team TransAM: Bohemian Polka (Rachel), Dustymeat (Hazama), C0R (Mu-12) 17th- HEB+: Skyking (Noel), gli3 (Rachel), Tacky (Jin) 17th- Toronto Jr.: unsanctifier (Rachel), Roldy (Jin), Linear04 (Bang) 17th- Catherine: Sam (Platinum), Derek (Noel), Victa (Ragna) 17th- Team Awesome: John (Tsubaki), Jimmy (Tager), Justin (Ragna) 17th- 1 Hit Combo: Kayeff (Ragna), Logic Hole (Tsubaki), Shinsyn (Jin) 17th- I Don't Think So: Domethieeus (Taokaka), Ike Takeda (Hazama), Bond (Ragna) 17th- Casual Fridays: Whiteboy Willy (Hazama), Crosell (Makoto), OrionxElite (Valkenhayn) 25th- Midwest: David (Arakune), Andrew (Hazama), Aaron (Ragna) 25th- HAT: PJ (Rachel), Shin (Valkenhayn), Bryce (Lambda) 25th- Japanese Speakers: Hellmonkey (Noel), Kennyon (Litchi), Render (Jin) Thanks to everyone who came out! We had 27 teams enter totaling 81 people, which is a great turnout for a team side tourney. C0R, huey, and I hope everyone had loads of fun and GGs to everyone who entered. All matches that were recorded will be uploaded to http://www.youtube.com/pnwgetserious. ... Eventually.

Uh... Since very few of us have 360 sticks, it'd probably be better if BB was on PS3.

Lol. Yeah. So few people in BB use A. :< It makes me sad. Do you still play Valk though? We kinda need Valk exp here now since our local Valk player now plays LOL.

X3 It was fun meeting everyone at EVO. I saw a lot of cool stuff from Rachel mainers. Only Wuku made it into top 8, but I felt like everyone did pretty well. If my internet is ever not butt, we should definitely netplay.

Hi. I have the full BB Teams bracket on my laptop. I already posted top 3, but I'll post the full result when I get home. Shoutouts to Texas crew, Canada crew, and Norcal/Socal crew. It was nice meeting you guys and I wish I played more casuals. Shoutouts to my team in BB for getting OCVed by Tager. I'm super terrible with remembering names, but I did have a lot of fun at EVO. I'd definitely would like to go again next year. :3

Dude... Spark is Chinese.

BB 3v3 Teams Result 1st: Team I don't know yet- Heartnana (Makoto), Pozerwolf (Jin), Jan (Tager) 2nd: Team Stay Free- Spark (Hakumen), w0ki (Jin), wuku (Rachel) 3rd: Team Halt! Witness our Triangle Attack!- Kid Viper (Hazama), Lord Knight (Litchi), Kensou (Bang)

Wuku is in top 8. HeartNana's team (Heartnana, Pozerwolf, Jan) took teams. Team Stay Free (Spark, Wuku, Won) got 2nd.

PNW scene is rolling out today. :3 I'll see you guys in Vegas~

Even with Wuku entering with Rachel, that's not likely. There's a lot of really strong people in this year. And he does lack a lot of match up experience. I'm worried about him getting cheesed out by Noel. X3; I'll cheer for him though.

Well, this will be fun to watch. X3 How many people entered total?

Hotel Room Run Down- Post what room you're staying in or what room you think you're staying in Room 1: Tae and Alex's Room C0R Jason Room 2: Won and Vince's Room Dusty Christian Niggajoe Room 3: Polka and Laura's room (max occupancy 4) *Gold Coast Landis Car 1: Landis C0R Rebecca Laura Car 2: Dusty Niggajoe Joe Kayeff People not sorted Joe (staying with a friend?) Kayeff (staying with Stark?)

That's funny... I could have sworn I set fire to the server better than that... Whoops. I mean- yay~ It's back!

Uh... that is just a basic anti-air bait. Any character can do that. You really shouldn't use 2C as anti-air until after you see them commit to something. Anyway, I don't have a ton of experience on this match up as I've only played two Makoto players, but I'll comment on general things you guys said you're struggling with. The main thing you want to watch for with Makoto is her 5B. It reaches farther than it looks, so be careful if you see her poking/spacing with it. 5B is a solid stuff for Makoto's 3C. Also, hitting 3C when she does the crossup/fake crossup will beat both since 3C hits both sides of Rachel. Another important point is to make sure you don't summon in places where Makoto can j.B you since that thing is untechable for a million years and hurts to get hit by. As for zoning, it's important to space well with cannons. And when approaching with pumpkin, watch for her trying to parry and be prepared to stuff her attempt with 2B or jump to avoid the follow up. On defense do not hit buttons and try to push her out with barrier. Makoto's mixup isn't super scary (they like throw setups and 6B a lot), but her ability to stagger her normals for frametraps is very good. Try pushing her out with barrier and backdashing or jumping to get away. Also, as mentioned earlier, orb oki can be scary as it makes it hard to see stuff like 6B. Dead angle if you don't feel confident or try neutral tech + wind of you see her crouching. Other than that, just be prepared to block.

Like $40 wouldn't be too bad.

If the proration is high enough, they can tech before the ground slide finishes. But it's kind of hard to do that. You're more likely to bluebeat the 5CC.

Yup. Depending on the starter, you might have to cut short the ender. Simple things to do to modify the combo are to take out the 2nd 5CC (since the third one will blue beat, the second one shouldn't) and do 3C sword iris 5CC frog/pumpkin OR take out the 2nd A cannon if you really want 5CC frog ender. Though the full ender does work off of 4B (this only applies to level 3 j.2C combos). 3C frog/pumpkin isn't bad at all. But... when I can, I always go for 5CC frog. I prefer it for damage + heat/wind gain as well as safer oki. One note is it is important to practice the ender on as many characters as possible since it can be hard to do dash 5CC/dash 3C on certain characters. EDIT: Also... in that combo, they can't emergency tech the ender. You can meaty A cannon after setting frog even if they neutral tech immediately, which... last I checked, you can't do off of 3C (3C's not hard knock down... it's a sweep... you can emergency tech :V).

Yeah. I also prefer the headset. Though, I'd like ones that aren't super bulky so I can easily take them with me.

:< I need to buy good headphones. :/ I'm not much of an earbud fan...

Yeah. The point of this is to establish that against 5CC frog, the safest option for the opponent is neutral tech and block and you should make sure your opponent is trained to give you your free mixups. It's reversal safe... even for DP RC. Haku's counters don't reach (and you can delay the A cannon or wind it funny to mess him up). He can yukikaze out, but you can easily jump to avoid it (Jin's you can punish, but Haku's recovers too fast). You're also out of Tager busters and MTW range. But you'll see this all in the vid once I get a chance to record again.

Hm... If I remember correctly, someone said 5CC oki was disadvantageous because of how far it put you back (I wonder who that was... they also said doing a combo with three 5CCs doesn't give hard knockdown). I also had to explain doing this kind of punish in the Skype channel and the combo thread. As soon as I can, I'll post a full tutorial on 5CC oki use. Also, be careful on the late special cancel into frog. It's tricky to time so you still have time to dash 5CC afterwards. If you do it too early, you get 5A. Too late and the 5CC will hit them into frog instead of the wall. It also makes multiple-frog combos possible... but I've yet to see if it's worth it. I'll let you know if I find anything.

Yup. You never know. Someone might decided to kill themselves. :V

Rachel 5CC oki forward roll punish. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NG1h9PcgSAQ