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I'm down for you staying over, too. I want more Bang practice so I can test a few things I developed for you.

I'm thinking 6pm to whenever. I'd like it if more people posted their interest though, so I know who's coming or whether to host this at all.

I will post up a couple of videos up from the Clocktower tournament with me in them. I was having trouble with the Ragna matchup, as you will see when the video comes up. Although I was tired, I think I was just mostly outplayed this time around. I need to figure out footsie options against Ragna or areas to ib and poke myself out of pressure instead of having to rely on 360a or IB 720. From what I've seen, Spirit Juice was mostly neutral teching in the air, and either I was fucking up my tech trap timing, which I'm sure did happen many times, or the tech trap I was doing loses to neutral tech -> infernal divider. Does anyone know a neutral tech (while in the air) tech trap? Videos should be out in about a week, I think. Depends on how fast Raikanami uploads his vids.

I die on the inside every time I have to do that match.

I'm bored, so session at my place for Blazblue CS on Tuesday. Bring setups and crap. 545 Sycamore Lane Apt 301, Davis, CA 95616 I will try to get a drom's tournament (you know, that card shop in davis?) running sometime in the future. Just a heads up on that, too.

I'm coming with Spirit Juice.

Surprisingly, Tager might be getting buffed.

It's not that you can't stop mashing, but it is difficult for Tsubaki, in particular, to punish an opponent who mashes to punish Tsubaki. Once again, many of Tsubaki's blockstrings, especially those that involve a charge cancel to continue pressure, leave her negative on block, which results with you getting punished. If, during these mashings that the opponent gets an accidental instant block during your blockstrings, you are now GUARANTEED to get punished. Now, with all these stupid factors against Tsubaki, you'd think, why doesn't everyone just mash against Tsubaki then? I honestly don't know. From my perspective, I don't do it because I prefer to instant block and just punish, which I find more plausible and guaranteed. Mashing can yield results, but those aren't determined by the player who's mashing but by the OPPONENT not knowing and MESSING up. I'd rather control the results of a punish, not my opponent's inability to notice factors.

While I commend your response, let me point out the problems in this idea. First, by your method, you give the character momentum, which is precisely what gets Tsubakis destroyed. Your defensive options, barrier block, dead angle and such are viable, but you are still taking a mixup which requires you to guess. This pressure you voluntarily got yourself in by simple stopping your attack cannot be stopped by your srk because of the nature of it: it's projectile-based, and I'm sure all Tsubakis have felt the frustration of TRADING after an srk, something not in your favor. This leads to my next point, countering a counter. What do you have to counter a counter with in Tsubaki's arsenal? SRK? Once again, no. You will trade or at worse, not even get the move out and receive damage. If you give the opponent momentum, you shouldn't expect a whiffed move to counter. You should be expecting a SAFE block string to pressure to mixup to damage if you can't defend well. While playing Tsubaki well is all about reading your opponent well, you actually want to avoid situations where you do have to make an educated guess and punish. All characters in any fighting game want to avoid a situation where they have to guess or get punished, even on pressure. Safety > guess + damage. Safety + potential damage is always better. Now, imagine this situation where you played against Tager. You hear the Tager player mashing. You stopped your block string because you heard him mashing. One of a few things could happen. 1)You stopped a block string that left you NEGATIVE on block, and you get punished by a 360. 2) You jump, he stopped mashing after you jumped, he now gets initiative 5cs you 5d's you and is now +2 on block giving him a potential mixup. Do you want to guess a 360, a 2b, or an atomic collider? 3) You stopped your block string, but didn't jump. The Tager player still get a mixup. 4) You try to counter mashing by throwing out an srk, but it turns out the opponent was mashing out a sledge instead, and hit you out of your srk. All of these are POSSIBILITIES that could happen to you that you DON'T want an opponent to have. If anything at all, Tsubaki has a problem with her block strings because of the nature of her charge delay and IB. If I at anytime IB correctly during your natural blockstring, I can 720 you. At this point in time, Tsubaki needs help. Everyone knows it. The developer knows it, the players SHOULD know it, and the opponent definitely knows it. Just wait for the patch, which is already showing some Tsubaki favoritism, and then you can possibly revisit your ideas. At the moment, they simply do not work.

Can beginner mode Tager actually standing 720?

I map one button to standing 720, yo. Get at me.

If I can get a ride to here, I will go. I have a ps3 and a TV, but I don't like the TV, so don't count me as a setup unless you really need it. And, uh, Tone. Would you be interested in putting the stream on the front page of Iplaywinner? If so, tell me soon, please. We can get a lot of viewers for the stream, and then I can get haunts to put it up on the front page of srk, so people know there is a stream.

As I am writing an essay right now, I am unable to write a full summary of what I wish to say. Let me just condense it this to what is needed, and I'll be on my way. I believe both Chun and TaoFTW have a point in this argument--that there needs to be a level of heightened public relations, merely just for the image, as well as a go-and-do-it attitude. What merely bothers me is the use of diction, as it can be said differently to the same effect. The last Norcal Install was a great success from a collaboration of efforts, recognized or not. I just feel that egos and NCI's image should not take the brunt of this advice when it is both Spirit Juice and I who need to hear it most. So, I'm down for Tao's advice. It's good, he makes a point. Just direct it more towards select individuals that can profit off of it. That said, I recommend this thread gets closed. The advice that was said was enough, and if Scott and I need anymore, we already have Tao's contact info. I've already contacted some people to help out with the media arrangements for NCI. Haunts is going to check with John Choi to see about the date of Norcal Regionals as well as if BBCS can be put into it. Scott is looking into venues and he and I talk at least once every day. I believe a new thread for NCI should be made once a venue has been confirmed, then we can get back together on community ideas and such. Now, back to my essay, which is late.

Although I was rooting for Norcal, I honestly died on the inside watching how many Bang super modes Dacidbro got. Hard matchup is hard, man.

What Spirit Juice said. I fucking hate that place so much. Bad management. Nothing to do. Shitty people and fans.

Hello. WE. ARE. LIVE. Outside of Spirit Juice's house for the NEXT norcal INSTALL.

Shoutouts to yellow skittles.

I'm a personal fan of May, Millia, and Baiken. Hot, hot, and hot. It's like my mouths on fire with all these flavors. Taste the rainbow, Honnou.

I'm not a big fan of him, based on what I've seen. Seems pretty formulaic. Like, he's not playing his opponent/adapting. He's just going with preconceptions of what he should do.

I don't understand Filipino, but I understood what you meant. Yeah, sure. You can come on over for the session whenever it happens. I will announce it here.

Haha. Thanks. Is it close?

I JUST got a call from Jack from the Davis crew. He's Masarap if you know him from his SF4 and SSF4 performance. He wants to pick up BBCS because he watched the Norcal Install stream. Looks like we might have a Makoto or new Litchi player from what he tells me. All I can say is this is incredibly welcome news. We were so good on the stream we got people interested in playing~ ... I'm still waiting for the balance patch though.

When time allows it, I will hold a session in my place in Davis for BBCS. I don't really need anymore ssf4, but if you guys want, sure.

You just need to make sure your words don't come out scrambled. See picture. Uploaded with ImageShack.us