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I can't imagine anyone watched that trailer and was actually excited. It's like a tightly-edited montage of a reskinned character doing Cammy stuff!

This one is from IGN so is kind of annoying in tone but it shows more of her stuff:

"Dicapri"? That's not the pronunciation I was expecting. Woman in the iron mask, romeo and juni-et, my super art will go on, etc etc.

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I'm excited. First one of the new characters that I am properly excited to play. I'll be on her day one.

Yeah, looks like a reskin of Cammy. But, she is a charge character... and the only new charge character!

Charge characters have been woefully underrepresented since ST. It was pretty much an even spread between charge and command characters until Alpha...

Still...excited now!

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Was woken up with my phone going mental with announcements about 3am. Complete and utter disappointment.

I went to work this morning without thinking to check the internets but I later saw the social update from you on my mobile and my heart sank. :( One Cammy is more than enough already :P but I'll reserve judgement until we can actually play the thing...

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I think she looks a lot more promising that Evil Ryu and Oni did before AE came out, and more promising than either Elena or Hugo do, but not as exciting as Hakan and Juri looked - probably on par with Yang and Poison in terms of my personal pre-release excitement levels. But to be honest I think the whole anticipation/announcement/trailer thing is somewhat ridiculous for new characters unless they're going to be crazy like Hakan - the fun comes from playing with the new character, not seeing what colour outfit they wear or which directions they fly about during their ultra animation.

Really? I've not heard anyone mention her as a possibility.

I don't know that anyone picked her specifically as their guess, but I think pretty much everyone thought it was going to be a doll.

The Great Sagatsby.

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FR17 was grand.

The early parts of the top 16 threw up some very fun viewing. I loved Nuckledu opening his match by just punching the other guy in the face a million times, and was very entertained by Tampa Bison. I was lightly disappointed once it seemed like the top 8 would be much like football has been for the past several years - mainly the big guns and few upsets. Of course to extend the footie analogy, that did mean watching quality players in high-stakes situations, which is always good.

Then top 4 happened and I got really excited. Ryan Hart's Yun counterpick was amazing, if only because I'd completely forgotten about that Ultra. It was really hard to choose who to root for in Grand Finals. Ryan repping the UK and PR Balrog because he seems like an excellent person. After the first set though I was desperately hoping for a comeback, and holy moly. Brills.

Other things:

-The well-intentioned but subtly rubbish "top tips" during breaks

-I still really enjoy Ultrachen. You can argue about the knowledge but they've developed the commentator's skill of talking at the right time in a relevant fashion, even if it's sometimes just "oh wow" or Chen getting the name of the move wrong. Gooey and Mike Ross, plus some others, are all getting better at this - I hope I never have to watch another stream with "GET BODIED! STOOPID!" etc as commentary. I dunno, maybe this is because I don't like Marvel.

-Excellent haircuts on stream

-What the hell happened to Arturo, that was the biggest crack I've seen since I visited your mum

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I don't think there has been much criticism of UltraChen as a pairing (personally I'm a fan of Ultradavid) but I do think the criticism of James Chen is valid. It's a combination of him saying lots of things that are just plain incorrect and his tendency to make blanket statements and spout the same little Chen-isms over and over and over and over and over again. I don't expect him to get super scientific and drop frame data and such at every turn, but I think he could be doing a lot more to explain what's happening and why. Instead he often contributes nothing particularly useful or at worst gives incorrect information.

I do admit that I'm holding him to an unfairly high standard compared to some others because he is one of the most respected commentators in the community and seems to be the first choice for majors whenever he attends. It just seems like the sheer length of time he's been around and the fact that he used to be extremely knowledgeable are the main reasons for it. I admire his enthusiasm, it's amazing how much work both he and Ultradavid put in for no pay, I think they both do indeed do a good job of speaking at the right time and generally looking and acting the part as commentators, but if I listen too much to what he's actually saying I can't honestly say I think he's a good commentator.

I also think there is a place for Yipes, Chris Matrix, Rush Hour and even Lee Chung on streams as much as there's one for Ultradavid. I don't always want straight laced Esports commentary and I think it depends a lot on the environment. I wouldn't want Lee Chung shouting "HaHAA!" "Time to guess asshole!" for the duration of the Evo top 16, but if he wants to dick around for a bit during pools or get hype during Smuggles' matches then I think it can be quite refreshing. I totally get how one might find him grating, but a whole weekend of UltraChen commentary would make my eyes glaze over too.

On the subject of commentators, I would also like to hear Ryan Hunter, Magus1234 and SkiSonic on commentary more frequently than I am currently. Oh, and Zhi of course. Yeah I said it.

Those "did you know" things were indeed quite charming in their rubbishness.

I think Arturo was beaten as soon as he knew he had to play Ricky. Both of Art's characters lose to Rufus and are particularly susceptible to Ricky's ultra-aggressive playstyle. When his Rose got murdered it looked like he couldn't even be bothered spending the mental energy on trying again. Picking Dhalsim was admitting defeat for sure. I always hate seeing Artuto get killed by dive kicks and other un-Streetfightery things; he's just too honest a player sometimes.

I felt for him in the first game as it's a match up you don't see so often in America but one that I know is no fun for Rose. I've watched Luffy play Andreas a whole lot and also played a good amount of Rose/Rufus against Alistarr and it is incredibly hard work for her. Her back dash is annoying for Rufus, but that is pretty much all she has. No reliable three button tech against dive kicks, most of her grounded normals are too big a commitment to stick out and her anti-airs are only useful at very specific timings and ranges. She has some buttons that are normally good for sniping opponents at long range and stopping their aerial approach, but a lot of them don't have enough of a vertical hitbox and will get eaten up by dive kicks. I initially tried to play it the same way I do with Chun Li, but Rose's buttons just aren't as well suited to the purpose. Full screen and just at the tip of standing roundhouse are decent ranges, anywhere else is not comfortable at all. Every time I win that fight I feel like I survived rather than won.



GGs to Allystah for another IRLfighter weekend. I played terribly in that PC tournament guys. Terribly. Lost my first game agaisnt a Makoto player who was decent but mostly beat me because I completely failed to adapt in time. He was going in at every single opportunity, waking up with things every time, pressing buttons in every neutral situation. Completely rabid, and once he got the read that I wasn't dealing with it he cranked it up even further and I got totally destroyed. He got me with a couple of karakusas and then I kept trying to jump away and was getting hit by everything. He'd follow up Makoto's neutral grab with a towards + fierce and I'd get hit by all of it. I'm used to a mix up after that grab where the Makoto player will wait to see what you do, but this guy went for the obvious follow up and I ate it. Disappointingly free considering I have a fair bit of Makoto experience.

Second match I fought a Gouken player who wasn't very good at all. Beat him 2-0, possibly a perfect in there, I forget.

Third match I lost to a guy using his secondary Evil Ryu. He had nice combos and some cool set ups, but I lost because he was playing against me like I was totally shit and I kept expecting him to give me more credit. He'd do a set up where he'd fake the cross up and make his dive kick land in front, then on each subsequent set up he'd do exactly the same thing and I kept getting hit because I assumed he'd eventually mix me up and he never did. One of those situations where it became a bit of a quadruple bluff scenario and I never called him on it. He was also jumping in with dive kick constantly because Rose can't anti-air it without meter and, again, I kept thinking he'd change up his approach but never did. Felt like a total idiot after that loss as he wasn't taking the match seriously at all and still completely demolished me.

1 and 2. Not a good showing at all. I think warming up with a long run of pass the stick PC Ranked was probably a bad idea. Everyone is so bad that I wasn't ready for competent players when the tournament started and got soundly thrashed. Pretty salty about the Makoto loss as he was running through his mix ups at a million miles an hour and I never gave him a reason to stop and think. Bah.

On the plus side, The Excellent Adventures of SFO Dragonman back on Xbox Live was a much more successful affair. Between us we took Dragonman from 2,000PP up to 3,100PP, and there was lots of excellent coaching and clutch play and hilarity to be had. Absolutely loving all the ranked matches with coaching fun that this Dragonman account is providing. I particularly enjoyed seeing Allystah annihilate a 15,000BP/3,800PP Rose player because we've run that match up many many times of late and it was good to see the experience pay off. It's a winning match up for Rufus, but I know from experience that the Rose player in question is very solid and it was cool to see Alistarr's match up experience completely outstripping his and making it look completely free. Basically I'm taking full credit for the win like the scumbag that I am.

Oh, and the impromptu Marvel 2 FT10 was hype. Settled on Spiral/Strider/Doom as my team but I have a lot of work to do if I am to compete against the might of Storm/Sentinel/Gief.

Power Rangers The Fighting Edition was also excellent fun. Definitely one of my favourite poverty fighters as it has that fine balance of having lots of terribly broken stuff whilst also possessing a surprisingly deep and solid fighting engine that makes it great fun to play. Real block strings, real combos, back dashes, dirty cross ups, meter management are all in there, plus it just feels quite solid and satisfying to land hits and apply pressure.

Unfortunately you have to ban three of the nine characters and also concede that a further three of them are so low tier they're not worth using, but between the remaining three you have some real matches! The Ninja Megazord (JLM) vs Thunder Megazord (Alistarr) match up initially appeared to be in my favour, but then Alistarr started to figure out a terrifying rushdown game and I began getting consistently bopped. I'll work on that for next time as well. Figuring out poverty fighters with another player who understands fighting games is the most fun. Unless you're (I'm) playing Brutal: Paws of Fury and getting 20-0'd. That's not the most fun.

I hope we can get some Power Rangers in at Joffo Estates.

Lastly, I still need to write things about my Leicester tournament. It was really good, so I still intend to get on that soon.

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I like that Ivan Ooze is so broken that he stops Lord Zedd from being top tier. Lord Zedd has a super that does 80% damage and a teleport that works when he's in hit or block stun so he cannot be pressured and you cannot do combos on him. Still not even close to Ivan Ooze's level.

On the flipsde, Ivan Ooze has the massive weakness of not being able to block at all but is still completely unstoppable.

Such an amazing game.

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Re. commentators: I like Chen's enthusiasm and he's great for encouraging hype but he kind of fumbles over what he's saying sometimes which can take you out of it a bit :P Zhi can be amazing or awful depending on if he's dropping science or being casually racist/misogynist. Also his metaphors turn into rambling after a while. :D

Best commentator is Chris Hu, of course ;)

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