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GGs just now, joe - sorry to rush off so soon but I just had 20 minutes there in between finishing doing other, more boring stuff and sleeping! I kept saving meter for super and didn't land it once (grrrr). Was pleased to block at least some of your ultra 2 setups despite them feeling trickier than last time we played :-) good stuff.

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Yep, GGs man! Your hit-confirm combos, the variety of jumpins, and that tricky instant overhead mixup were all noted with appreciation. It was tough to get in on you, with the sensible fireballs and the buttons. I was pleased that I managed to be cool-headed when defending a life lead sometimes. Much more fun than ranked. Must. stop. playing. ranked. Also I really should learn some proper Ultra setups rather than just using it to get the pressure off then improvising. If her focus attack range was better Rose would have a kind of Snackish Special with the threat of Level 3.

Afterwards I played a bit of very fun local fighter with my flatmate, me on 50% handicap random, going over the basics. He can throw, fireball, and do basic charge moves, so that's cool. I'm sure we'll play again in four months or so.

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Ooh FYI Imp and other board game fans - I spent a little while at the lovely Thirsty Meeples on Sunday. The sight of the game shelves made me positively drool.

Sadly we only had time for Bananagrams and a couple of games of 7 Wonders rather than a full day. 7 Wonders is amazing because picking a Wonder is like choosing a character, right down to the Ultra (side A or B). The guy next to me actually had a main.

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Excellent session of Dragonman ranked at SFO House #2 this evening. I kept winning with Rose and then handing over to Brylarke's Cammy, who could not seem to win at all tonight. GG against him AndyGT; I warned him in time that you would taunt at the beginning too! Still ended on 3,000PP, but if Ant was in better form we could easily have hit 3,500 tonight.

I checked the stats at the end and Dragonman Rose has 56 wins out of 66 games. :D

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Ooh FYI Imp and other board game fans - I spent a little while at the lovely Thirsty Meeples on Sunday. The sight of the game shelves made me positively drool.

Sadly we only had time for Bananagrams and a couple of games of 7 Wonders rather than a full day. 7 Wonders is amazing because picking a Wonder is like choosing a character, right down to the Ultra (side A or B). The guy next to me actually had a main.

Oh man, that sounds like a great time!

I just got a semi co-operative game called Archipelago last week, and it's properly fantastic. It's incredibly complex, I mean, there are separate import and export based economies for trading goods and money, and so many systems bouncing off each other shit gets crazy. But the unique thing is that each player is working towards their own secret goal, as well as one public one, which means towards the end of each game the gauntlet is truly thrown as players try their best to grab as many points as possible when they suspect one of the (hidden) game ending conditions is about to be met. Slightly dubious colonialist theme aside, it's an incredibly well balanced set of complimentary systems and I wholeheartedly recommend it.

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I came dead last in the first game, despite being the one who was teaching the rules. Second time around I took a good while to consider my Wonder, chose the one that gives you bonus money at each stage, and absolutely rinsed the cards of my neighbours on the way to a balanced victory. Rose players love using resources properly.

Imp, Archipelago sounds awesome - if you're ever short of a player for that or anything else let me know. My new year's resolutions of more healthy cooking and more boardgames are going well so far, I've nailed vegetable risotto and my flatmates love Settlers and CAH.

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There's a great Club Sega in west Shinjuku with a big basement full of fightmans. Pretty good Taito Station in east Shinjuku from which I stole an excellent ashtray. Still feel guilty about that but it really is a great ashtray.

I ended up going to quite a few arcades all over Tokyo but the Shinjuku Club Sega was indeed the best. I won my first match so was pretty hyped, but then was completely hammered in every single round after for the next hour before I slipped out in embarrassment.

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Yes, the Guile Chun matches were awesome - really funny what a stark contrast it is to do a dozen matches of Guile Rufus and then switch it up like that!

In other news I decided last night that I'm switching to Juri. I can do all the trials and I like to press buttons. Please someone tell me everything I need to know.

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Yes, the Guile Chun matches were awesome - really funny what a stark contrast it is to do a dozen matches of Guile Rufus and then switch it up like that!

In other news I decided last night that I'm switching to Juri. I can do all the trials and I like to press buttons. Please someone tell me everything I need to know.

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There's a restaurant near Leicester Square called Shoryu, and in front of one of the doors there's a sign saying "SHORYU: NO ENTRY".

I really wanted to take a picture, caption it "Daigo", and post it here, but I was running late for a Stewart Lee show. Priorities.

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I wish I had a good food update, but our last attempted SFO meal out was a disaster. Tried to go to Red's but they'd had a power cut and weren't seating any more customers. Then tried to go Cattle Grid as a very poor substitute but they don't have wheelchair access (I thought that was a requirement of some sort?). So we ended up going to Handmade Burger Co. Never been a fan of that place. Vastly overpriced for what you get, but one small consolation is that they do malts and shakes and the like. So I got a malted butterscotch thing that was wonderful and almost made up for the subpar and overly expensive food. Hmph.

Off topic stuff:

Been catching up on months and months of Wednesday Night Fights that I'd missed. They helpfully put the top 3 on their Youtube channel here: http://www.youtube.com/user/levelupseries/videos for anyone who's interested.


Snake Eyes is understandably the top dog, but underneath him they have Marq Teddy (Guy), Keno (Balrog), TTC Chris (Ken), Online Tony (Seth), Alex Valle (Ryu), Filipinoman (Rose) and Veloc1raptor (Gouken) all putting in exceptional performances. All of those players are certainly candidates for best user of their respective characters nationally, and in Snake Eyes' case it's hard to argue against him being the best in the world on that front. I like that there's a little character arms race happening too. Everyone is learning a pocket Sagat to try and unseat Snake Eyes, but then Snake Eyes has picked up Oni in case he needs to switch away to fight the Sagats. It's also always a pleasure watching Valle play and also hearing his take on the game when he's commentating.

They've all been great so far, but I'd recommend this one as it opens with Valle vs. Chris playing Ryu vs Ken at a very high level. Such a classic match up but one we rarely get to see in big tournaments:



Chris' counter hit game is ridiculous.


On the Valle commentary front, there was one set recently where the finishing sequence was:

NGL Chris (Ken) with Snake Eyes (Gief) on 1% life knocked down in the corner.

Chris went for meaty fierce DP, Snake Eyes did wake up EX green hand to go through it and then landed ultra for the win.

Valle then talked through both players' wheel of options in this scenario:

1) Chris goes for jab DP instead. This beats EX green hand by staying active in the right spot for longer and outlasting the invincibility. It might trade, but a 1% life Gief will still die. If it's horribly mistimed, Snake Eyes will get through but Chris will land in time to punish with another DP.

2) Snake Eyes knows that jab DP is the option, so does lariat instead. Jab DP doesn't have the required invincibility to beat lariat, so Gief wins clean.

3) Chris knows that lariat is the counter to jab DP, so instead he does instant overhead jump back fierce to stuff it and kill Gief.

4) Snake Eyes knows that jump back fierce beats the lariat, so he blocks it and does standing roundhouse to punish it on the way down.

Valle and Snake Eyes have played each other so often and are both such masters of the match up, that if they played it, it's entirely possible that Valle would just grab him instead and everyone would wonder why Snake Eyes didn't do anything. Streetfighter. :wub:

Oh, and Xian's academy is magnificent. Picking out individual moments from match ups and then dissecting them in the lab and explaining that the majority of so-called 50/50 situations are anything but. He's such a clever young man.
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Tournament tings from last weekend:

Edge hill University Fighting Game Society Gorefest

So this was an AE tournament held, coincidentally, at the university my mum went to. That fact is of no consequence whatsoever.

Anyway, in the interests of networking, we decided that there should be a bit of a Leeds presence at this event. Ended up road tripping with two players, then a second car with three more also made the trip. They seemed very grateful for the support and will hopefully send a team to Rival Scenes 2 in April. I really am starting to believe that a major event in the North drawing on players from Teeside, Yorkshire, Manchester and Merseyside could easily rival SVB if it's handled correctly. I also think some of the North's top players are as good as any of London's with the notable exception of Ryan Hart.

The best player at this particular tournament was BTM Gunslinga. Absolutely beastly Guy player who also has a mean Dudley amongst other characters. Amusingly, he had a friend along with him whose sole purpose seemed to be to hold his hat during his matches. Is having a personal aide at a tournament what it means to be Esports? I need me a hat attendant. I'll have to buy a hat to justify his salary but think it'd be worth it. I played Gunslinga in casuals for about twenty games before the tournament and won about five of them. Very few of the games were completely free, though, so I wasn't especially disheartened. Also, as dominant as he was in the tournament and in casuals, I was conscious of the fact that he was exploiting people's lack of Guy experience pretty badly. Grand finals in particular I wanted to coach his opponent so badly but decided it wasn't my place when I had no affiliation to either player. The other chap was using Fei Long, and Gunslinga was absolutely mauling him with elbow drops, using them for fake cross ups and also to approach for free in the neutral. The Fei tried close roundhouse, close fierce, flame kick, back dash, focus back dash and none of them were working. What he should have been doing is using Fei's cr. mk do duck under the elbow and then trip guard Guy on the way down. That one change might have stopped him getting steamrolled in straight rounds, but again I thought it'd be a dick move to coach one of the players in the middle of grand finals.

So, the tournament (I entered as SFO Dragonman, naturally):

Dragonman (Chun, Rose) 0-2 SF Nightfighter (Fei Long)

Urrrgh. Fei fucking Long. My goodness I hate this match. I am mostly annoyed that I didn't pick Dudley from the outset here. When I played Shinji (who is a vastly superior player to SFNF) at TeesportsI did so much better with Dudley than I did with Chun, simply because his damage output means that even trades and stray hits whilst being bullied by Fei still keep you in the match at all times.

But no, I picked Chun, knowing full well that Fei Long played correctly (do nothing and whiff punish with rekkas) will always murder my Chun without fail. I'd hold my own for half the round, take 50% of his life, then get pushed to the corner once and die a horrible death. Switched to Rose after game 1. It's a slightly better match up but not especially so, and I mostly did it because Rose is the character I'm enjoying and practising the most at present. It went slightly better but I still eventually got cornered and mauled. I cannot wait for that rekka range nerf. I'm honestly more content being Seth/Viper/Cammy/Fuerte bullshitted to death than facing a brick wall Fei Long. Blegh.

Losers Bracket

Dragonman (Chun) 2-0 Person whose name I forget (Sakura)

Very competent Sakura player this, but unfortunately for him I am well versed in the match up thanks to mr SFO TSCooler, who has greatly levelled up his own Sakura of late. Be careful about anti-airing, don't be scared to take some throws and make sure to give cr. mk xx uppercut the appropriate respect. Chun can actually beat Sakura in the neutral game even with her stupid jump fierce, you just have to control the space using other means and I think I've got quite good at it. Also I landed jab jab fierce super and got a bit of an "ooh" from the crowd. Good.

Dragonman (Chun) 2-0 SFO Nympho (Viper)

Nathan's handle is actually Nayfmo, but it got messed up at one of our tournaments a few months ago and now he is forever Nympho. Heh. So his Viper is still very green and he was using this tournament to get some experience more than anything else. I very much respected his commitment to sticking with her for the whole thing and wish I had the nerve to do the same. Even against decent Vipers I don't hate this match up as much as you might think. Chun has good buttons to low profile under burn kicks, she can beat Viper air to air and her low damage output isn't a problem against Viper's low health. I did lose one round because Nath hit a single Fierce-feint-fierce combo and then one more mix up for the dizzy, which is all it takes, but on the plus side I also scored a perfect. So yeah, a bit of a gift here against someone road testing their new character. Had he played his Evil Ryu or Cody this would have been much closer. I'm glad he's picking up Viper as he has the execution to do it and our scene needs one as she is unfortunately a character you have to learn how to fight if you intend to go to lots of tournaments.

Dragonman (Chun) 0-2 SFO InfernoKong (Seth)

Meh, Seth, whaddya gonna do. Harry is our resident Tekken monster who also plays an extremely dangerous Seth in AE. He is the only Leeds player to have beaten White Daigo in tournament, and in that same tournament he took out OverMostHeads as well, earning himself the nickname "White Poongko". He cleaned up the Tekken tournament here quite comfortably and also managed a respectable 4th place in AE. I think Chun does better against Seth than she does against the rest of the top tier characters in the game. Much like the Viper match up, her strong air to air options allow her to challenge him, plus Ultra 1 is handy against booms and tanden engine. That said, once she's in the blender it's a real problem. Her godlike backdash still can't escape Seth's DP, and EX SBK loses clean to it as well. She simply has to guess right every time and doesn't have even a one use get out of jail free option. Harry made the right reads when he knocked me down and there wasn't much I could do. I am a bit annoyed that I lost a round in game one simply because I went autopilot and didn't give Harry the respect he deserves. In casuals before the tournament I'd won two straight rounds with Chun's instant overhead jump roundhouse. I tried it to close out game one in tournament here, only for Harry to block it and punish with ultra 1. I should have known he wouldn't get hit with that three times in one day, and the correct option would have been to fake it and go for low short EX legs instead. Good adaptation on his part and a bit of a brainfart from me.

Bit disappointed with that showing, mostly at my stubbornness in sticking with Chun the whole time when my Dudley and Rose are easily as tournament viable as her at the moment. I should have followed Nympho's lead and gone with Dudley the whole way but I completely bottled it and I think it cost me in the first match in particular. Still, a fun event and a nice introduction to a new scene that I will be visiting again in future.

Casuals afterwards were lots of fun. Busted out my full array of characters and people were quite impressed that I am at least competent with almost the whole cast. Of course this isn't going to win me any tournaments, but I still had a good time anyway, and that is the main thing. Yes it is. Shut up. I was getting a bit salty losing to a Juri player who was doing all sorts of autopilot nonsense though. I think it's because I played him immediately after fighting Brad from SFO, who is working very hard on leveling up his own Juri and plays a much more considered game. This guy kept knocking me down in the corner and then using Juri's overhead to corpse hop himself into the corner and then hit me low on the other side. He did this no less than five times and I didn't even get hit by it the first time but he just wouldn't stop. He also did wake up EX pinwheel and ate a full ultra punish against Brylarke four times in a row, then in the next round he did it again and ate a fifth. It was only irritating because his combos and set ups aside from that were entirely legit, so if I got frustrated and whiffed my own reversal he would punish me very hard for it. I lost five games in a row to this guy, then ended up perfecting him with Dudley and felt really good about myself because I am a fucking child. Heh.

On sunday we had an SFO casual session that was attended by the Sheffield Super Turbo community. There is still a very active ST scene on GGPO, and a couple of the players who came along on Sunday are some of the top dogs on there but have never been to an offline tournament before because there aren't any anywhere near them. They had all manner of fancy equipment with them and the tournament was pretty hype. ST players might be the most passionate about their game.

I stuck to AE though, and played my FT10 against TSCooler. Ended up taking it 10-7, which was disappointing as I initially raced off to a 6-0 lead. Lots of excellent adaptation and long set only stuff going on. Unfortunately it wasn't recorded because the ST equipment stopped us having a stream station, but I'm sure we'll run it back soon and get it filmed next time.

Most encouraging set was a long run of games against MetallicMike's Cammy. Mike is a max damage and dirty set up monster. Not on Fuzzy's level but certainly the second strongest Cammy I've fought behind him. I think I lost 5-2 with Chun, which I honestly thought was very respectable, but with Dudley we went back and forth much more evenly and I scored a couple of especially dominant wins and perfects along the way. Hanging with a strong player using a top 5 character was gave me a lot of confidence in my Dudley game, and I also played a whole lot of Dudley against all comers on Ant's glorious Asus monitor and was hitting everything. Everything. It was a beautiful thing. Next SFO monthly it's going to be Chun/Rose for Dudley's horror match ups and Dudley the rest of the way. Need to stop pussying out and make sure he is tournament fit in time for hypespotting.

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