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Day 1 and 2 Street Fighter 4, HD Remix results Evo 2009
Summary: The SF4 Semi-Finals today were filled with some exciting matches and exceptional play. By far the two players who had the best performances though were Justin Wong and Diago Umehara.
Both players consistently controlled their matches, and while they had a few close calls here and there, it was rare when you got the sense that either player was going to lose a round. For the most part, these two seemed to be playing in another league.
Eduardo "Vvv scrub" Perez-frangie from Puerto Rico definitely deserves special mention. He played an outstanding Boxer through the day. Lots of great pressure and anti airs, coupled with great use of his Crouching/Standing Light Punch kept opponents off guard. He's someone to look out for in the next round of the competition if he can keep up the level of play we saw today.
Here's how the Top 8 shook out along with their main character(s).
Winners Bracket:
Justin Wong (Rufus, Abel)
Daigo Umehara (Ryu)
Ed Ma (Akuma)
Eduardo "Vvv scrub" Perez-frangie (Boxer)
Losers Bracket:
Ricky Ortiz (Boxer, Sagat)
Takashi "Dan from Japan" Hukushi (Ryu)
Sanford "Santhrax" Kelly (Akuma)
Long "ShadyK" Tran (Akuma)
Winners Bracket: How the Top 4 got there
- 1st round: Defeated Chris Hu (Ryu) 2-0. Dominate performance by Justin. This was the kind of match that showed you how nutty good Justin is because he controlled the majority of the set even though he made some mistakes.
- 2nd round: Defeated Matthew "Dentron" Darrow (Cammy) 2-0. He destroyed Dentron.
- 3rd round: Defeated Raymond "Kai" Tang (El Fuerte) 2-0. Justin very convincingly beat a great player, scary.
- Final round: Defeated Peter "Combo fiend" Rosas (C. Viper) 2-0. Justin controlled the match most of the way through. This win clinched a Top 8 Winners Bracket spot for Wong.
- 1st round: Defeated Ricky "Kit" Tam (Chun Li) 2-1. This was a GREAT game, very close and competitive. Ricky surprised a lot of people with how potent his Chun Li was against Daigo.
- 2nd round: Defeated Neng Her (Sagat) 2-0. Easy set for Daigo.
- 3rd round: Defeated Trace Prewitt (Sagat) 2-0. Umehara had a nice performance here, took out Trace fairly quickly.
- Final round: Defeated Johann "IIDX_UTJ" Agnir (Dhalsim) 2-0, after starting slow Daigo turned it on and dominated.
- 1st round: Defeated Alexander Sanchez. This match was not on the big screen.
- 2nd round: Defeated John Choi (Ryu) 2-0. John Choi's joystick cord was yanked out of the system, so he received a one round penalty in one of the sets, but Ed Ma played very well.
- 3rd round: Defeated Rahsaan Dusuau (Seth, C. Viper) 2-1. This was one of the most hyped sets you'll see. Crowd went nuts at several points. Rahsaan started off strong with Seth, kept Ed at a distance and really controlled things. Ed Ma made a nice come back in set 2 and Rahsaan counter picked with Viper which didn't pan out too well.
- Final round: Defeated Long "ShadyK" Tran (Akuma) 2-1. Akuma mirror match.
- 1st round: Defeated Ari "Floe" Weintraub. This match was not on the big screen.
- 2nd round: Defeated Alex Valle (Ryu) 2-0. This was a darn good match, shocker for a lot of people. Eduardo is from Puerto Rico, and had a great mix of offense and defense. He definitely outplayed Valle here.
- 3rd round: Not known at this point who Perez beat in round 3.
- Final round: Defeated Martin "Marn" Phan (Rufus, C. Viper) 2-0. After a competitive match against Rufus, Marn switched to C. Viper and got beat even worse.
Losers Bracket: How the Top 4 got there
- 1st round: Defeated Jason "Afrocole" Isiah (Dhalsim, Boxer). Jason switched to Balrog after he lost the first set, but Dan was very aggressive and beat him.
- 2nd round: Lost to Alex "Sin" Salguero (Rufus) 2-1. Competitive set, was back and forth, but Sin pulled it out.
- (Losers) Takashi "Dan from Japan" Hukushi had to win some other games in here to advance in Losers, but the full match results aren't in yet.
- (Losers) (?) round: Defeated Peter "Combo fiend" Rosas (C. Viper) 2-1. Close game, but Peter whiffed an Ultra while trying to combo and Dan later took the set.
- 1st round: Defeated Paul "Somuchdamage" Tsai (Sagat). 2-1.
- 2nd round: Unknown.
- 3rd round: Unknown.
- Final round: Lost to Ed Ma (Akuma) in a mirror match.
- (Losers) Final round: Defeated Alex "Sin" Salguero (Rufus) 2-0.
- (Losers) 1st round: Bye.
- (Losers) Unknown who Sanford beat to advance through Losers until the final match.
- (Losers) Final round: Defeated Johann "IIDX_UTJ" Agnir (Dhalsim) 2-1.
- (Losers) 1st round: Bye.
- (Losers) Unknown who Ricky defeated to advance through Losers.
Other matches on the big screen
Here's brief recaps of the other matches that were played on the big screen during the Street Fighter 4 Semi-Finals.• Sanford "Santhrax" Kelly (Akuma) eliminated Arturo "Sabin" Sanchez (Seth, Dhalsim). Martin "Marn" Phan (C. Viper) eliminated Gootecks Ryan "Gootecks" Gutierrez (Boxer).
• Peter "Combo fiend" Rosas (C. Viper) beat Alex "Sin" Salguero (Rufus) 2-0.
• Martin "Marn" Phan (Rufus) beat Arturo "Sabin" Sanchez (Seth). Arturo controlled large portions of this set, but Marn capitalized on some mistakes by Arturo to take it.
• Issei "Chomezaburo" Suzuki (Akuma) beats Jason "The Future" Nelson (E. Honda, Boxer) 2-0.
• Peter "Combo fiend" Rosas (Akuma) beat Campbell "Buktooth" Tran (El Fuerte) 2-0. Combo Fiend didn't choose C. Viper, which is unusual, but rumor had it Buktooth had beaten his Viper before. Peter's Akuma had a very good showing here.
• Ryan "Gootecks" Gutierrez (Boxer) eliminated Danny "Gran calc" Duong (Boxer) 2-0. Ryan simply outplayed Danny.
• UTJ (Dhalsim) beat Eric "Juicebox" Albino (Abel) 2-0. Had some close rounds, but UTJ definitely had the better showing.
• Arturo "Sabin" Sanchez (Dhalsim) defeated Mike Ross (E. Honda) 2-0. It was a dominate set by his Dhalsim, very good defensive keep away game and nice use of teleports.
• Andre "Jaye-go" Lambert (Dictator) beat Mike Wattson (Ryu) 2-0. Andre won pretty convincingly. Crowd taunted Watson by chanting "You just don't know."
• Martin "Marn" Phan (C. Viper, Rufus) beats Jeremy "Vicious" Lopez (Rufus) 2-1. Marn switched to Rufus after losing the second match and pulled it out.
• Eric "Juicebox" Albino (Abel) beats Joe "Iloveu" Ciaramelli (Sagat) 2-0. Very exciting match, Juicebox wins convincingly.
• Raymond "Kai" Tang (El Fuerte) defeats Jerry "Thejerrbear" Phanthamany (Zangief) 2-1.
• Billy Nguyen (Ryu) beat Eric Lee (Sagat) 2-0.
• John Choi (Ryu) beats Joshua "Josh p" Pryor (Blanka) 2-0.
• Frank "Djfrankfresh" Puzon Jr. (Blanka) beat Trent "Tr3nt" Van deven (Sagat). 2-0.
Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo HD Remix Top 8
Winners Bracket:John Choi
Hung "Afro Legends" Nguyen
David Sirlin
Thelo
Losers Bracket:
Alex Valle
Damien "Damdai" Dailidenas
Alex "Sin" Salguero
Graham Wolfe
Matt "BBH" Hall (Ryu) beat Alex Valle (Dictator) 2-0, but the second set was fairly close. Valle was eliminated from the HDR tournament with the loss.
John Choi (Ryu) defeated Julian Beasley (Vega, Chun Li) — Choi who is clearly one of the favorites to win the HDR tournament — had a very strong showing and beat a good player convincingly.
Thelo (E. Honda) defeated Jason Cole (Dhalsim). Cole started off with a good defensive set, but ended up giving up ground to Thelo's Honda, who took full advantage.
Graham Wolfe (Boxer) eliminated Daigo Umehara (Ryu) from the HDR tournament. There were some great reversal moves early on from both ends, but Graham pulled off some impressive rush down tactics against Daigo — who missed a few reversals later on and lost.
Daigo Umehara (Ryu) beat NKI (Dictator) 2-0. NKI is a legendary player as well, but Daigo was VERY dominate in this match and NKI was eliminated from the tournament.
Afro Legends (Boxer) defeated Alex Valle (Dictator) 2-0. It was a competitive match, but Afro did a lot of Uppercut Rushes into throws which consistently gave him an advantage.
David Sirlin (Vega) defeated Bruce L.B. (Dee Jay) 2-0. Bruce had some good anti air moves, but Sirlin made more adjustments, got around his anti airs and countered his tick throw attempts consistently to win.
Hugo (Boxer) beat Orochi Zoolander (Dee Jay). Zoolander didn't throw a lot of Max Outs and Balrog got inside consistently and won the match very convincingly. Zoolander was eliminated from the HD Remix tournament.
Daigo Umehara (Ryu) played Ryan Hart (Ryu). Ryan is a UK Champion and a great player in his own right, but Daigo beat him 2-0 in a VERY competitive and close set, easily one of the best HD Remix matches so far.
Afro Legends (Boxer) defeated Alex Kelly (Guile) 2-0.
David Sirlin (Fei Long) who is HD Remix's lead producer beat Orochi Zoolander (Sagat, Dictator) 2-1 in the winners bracket. Sirlin has argued Fei Long is an underrated character in HDR, and is playing him a lot in this tournament.
Sweet Johhny V (Dhalsim) defeated JJJ (Guile) to advance.
Jay "Viscant" Snyder (Vega) was eliminated from HD Remix competition by Matt Hall (Dictator). Matt advances by going 2-0.
Ryu1999 who uses a modified keyboard in a joystick box (there's no stick, strictly buttons), and plays Ryu won his first round Semi-Finals match in HD Remix, beating NothingXS, who's a Vega player.
Daigo Umehara lost his first round Super Street Fighter 2 HD Remix match up against Robert "Cactuar" Benge. Diago played Guile and Robert played Vega (Claw).
Daigo seemed to have trouble adjusting to the new changes that were made in the game (like Vega's Fake Wall Dive), but he was able to climb out of the losers bracket after the loss to get into the losers qualifying bracket.
We've posted the early results for this year's Street Fighter 4 competition at EVO. Note that a Winners: prefix means that the players won the winners bracket and a Losers: prefix means they won the losers bracket.
The players listed in these areas all advance into the Street Fighter 4 Semi-Finals, into their respective brackets.
Some of the pools include information about other interesting things that happened in parts of the event.
• Capcom's Seth Killian was knocked out of winners in the 3rd round, and he lost his next match in the losers bracket eliminating him for the tournament.
• 1Up.com's Richard Li lost in the 2nd round of the winners bracket, but won a few matches in losers, but later on was eliminated in 6th round of the bracket.
• Ryan Hart was knocked out of winners by Arturo "Sabin" Sanchez in the final round of the winners bracket.
• Alex Valle beat Gootecks in the 4th round of the winners bracket, and later on beat Alex Julio in the final round of the winners bracket.
• Hung "Hungbee" Han lost to Eduardo "Vvv scrub" Perez-frangie in the 3rd round of winners, but was able to climb out of the losers bracket to grab a qualifying spot.
• Neidel "Haunts" Crisan beat Mike Watson in the 3rd round of the winners bracket, but later lost to Andrew "Lamerboi" Nguyen.
• Andrew "Lamerboi" Nguyen was knocked out of losers bracket by Mike Watson.
• Crackfiend beat Amir Amirsaleh in the final round of the winners bracket.
• Graham Wolfe was knocked down to losers in the 3rd round by Chris "Neremixed" Lagade. Later on Graham lost his losers bracket game and was eliminated.
• Long "Lpn" Nguyen beat Chris "Neremixed" Lagade in losers.
• Ian Cofino (the guy who did the 'I Got Next' documentary) was knocked out of the winners bracket in the first round by John Choi, rough luck on the draw there. He was later knocked out in the 3rd round losers bracket.
• Billy Nguyen beat Mike "Moval" Ortiz in the last round of the winners bracket. Vincent N knocked Moval out of the tournament in the last round of the losers bracket.
• Ricky Ortiz was beaten by Alexander "Googlemyname" Jebailey in the 4th round of the winners bracket, but Long "Shadyk" Tran ended up beating Googlemyname to advance.
• Jensel Diaz knocked Googlemyname out of the tournament to advance.
• Joey "Mrwizard" Cuellar (the guy behind Shoryuken.com) was beaten in the 2nd round in the winners bracket and knocked out the tournament in his next match.
Players that won Evo qualifier tournaments earlier in the year have already been seeded in the Semi-Finals, they are:
• Daigo "The Beast" Umehara (Ryu), Justin "Marvelous" Wong (Rufus, Abel), Mike "Thegreaterforce" Ross (E. Honda), Martin "Marn" Phan (C. Viper), Ari "Floe" Weintraub (Sagat), Rahsaan "Evil rahsaan" Dusuau, Andrew "Rex0r" Rexroat, Jason "Afrocole" Isiah, Trent "Tr3nt" Van deven (Zangief?), Joshua "Josh p" Pryor, Eric Kim, Jacob "Jakob002" Davis and Eric "Juicebox" Albino.
You can scope out detailed bracket results for all games here.
Posted by Digital- on July 17, 2009 at 3:35 p.m. #1
lol @ Justin "Marvelous" Wong, Marvelous lmao
he should change his name to Justin "Buttsecksed" Wong since hes always getting ass raped in the finals against the Japan players.
Posted by Drewby on July 17, 2009 at 3:46 p.m. #2
I'm sorry digital have you beaten JWong recently?
No? Exactly.
Everybody gets owned by Japanese players not just Justin. So please stfu scrub. He'll still destroy you any day of the week.
Posted by Not Really on July 17, 2009 at 3:59 p.m. #3
Get your facts straight. The only guy that owned Wong is Diago from Japan at the Gamestop National tourament. And hey... Losing to Diago, no big deal. He beat Iyo who is one of best from Japan at the Gamestop national tournament. So I don't know where you get this belief that he's getting owned by the players in Japan.
Posted by crapola on July 17, 2009 at 4:07 p.m. #4
Any other Japanese players participating here? Like Iyo or Mago?
Posted by Romainnut on July 17, 2009 at 4:10 p.m. #5
Wong and Marn get kicked on the first match at the last nakano TRF tournament, and not by Daigo or Mago...
Posted by lol on July 17, 2009 at 4:11 p.m. #6
daigo isn't the only jap he's played. wong gets his ass handed to him by other jap players as well. get YOUR facts straight #3
Posted by red)king on July 17, 2009 at 4:27 p.m. #7
lol The fanboyism knows no bounds.
And sweet to see Googlemyname advancing. He's a friend of mine down here in Orlando.
Posted by yes4me on July 17, 2009 at 5 p.m. #8
wow beating Ricky Ortiz is not that ez. grats to Googlemyname.
Posted by Kryptic enigma on July 17, 2009 at 5:18 p.m. #9
i beat googlemyname all the time :( i should of gone to Evo. Grawr my seth would arocked kids <3 and Jwong iks overrated hes garbage, sadly his friends list is full on Xbox live so i can't add him to own him :(
BTW Grats googlemyname and others~
GO GO DAIGO and ALEX VALLE!!!!!
Posted by mrkman55 on July 17, 2009 at 6:46 p.m. #10
So do all these people qualify for the next round?
Posted by Digital- on July 17, 2009 at 6:55 p.m. #11
Posted by Not Really on July 17, 2009 at 3:59 p.m. #3
Get your facts straight. The only guy that owned Wong is Diago from Japan at the Gamestop National tourament. And hey... Losing to Diago, no big deal. He beat Iyo who is one of best from Japan at the Gamestop national tournament. So I don't know where you get this belief that he's getting owned
by the players in Japan.
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you mustve never seen any of his other final matches other then from SF4 then. look up his 3rd strike, Super Turbo and the latest SF 4 tournament he played where he got wtf pwned by a bison player named Neurosis. Look up his Capcom vs SNK 2 matches.
GO ALEX VALLE RICE AND BEANS NIGGA
Posted by sean on July 17, 2009 at 6:57 p.m. #12
poor gooteks
Posted by scrub on July 17, 2009 at 9:30 p.m. #13
No combofiend?
Posted by .... on July 17, 2009 at 10:08 p.m. #14
Combofiend had an easy win earlier...Daigo's friend "Dan" or "Dan from Japan" as they are calling him isnt bad at al. I guess they are sparring partners. Its cool to see juicebox already seeded for semi finals, an Abel besides Wong's
Posted by Diyomaro on July 17, 2009 at 10:24 p.m. #15
So Gooteks is out? Damn, He's one of my fave 'Rog players...
Posted by Nyoronoru on July 17, 2009 at 10:28 p.m. #16
Gootecks isn't out. He's in the loser's bracket. A disadvantageous position, but he isn't out.
Posted by I really.. on July 17, 2009 at 10:28 p.m. #17
I really want to see some more of the Japanese qualifiers..
Posted by IrPanda on July 17, 2009 at 10:35 p.m. #18
Wong ftw
Posted by Stirfri564 on July 17, 2009 at 10:45 p.m. #19
Last time I checked Diago loses to people to (try looking up some matches on youtube, also he did lose in the japanese national tournament). So what im trying to say is give Jwong a break for losing against Diago and other japanese players, he is usually at the top of most tournaments.(gamestop,devestation and past evo tourneys).
Posted by Terrance on July 17, 2009 at 10:51 p.m. #20
Correction Marn did lose 2 Mago in NRF it was a close match
Posted by ds on July 17, 2009 at 11:07 p.m. #21
most of you are stupid, the marvelous obviously comes from marvel, which any of you idiots wanna argue his status in marvel?
Posted by godosme20bux on July 18, 2009 at 12:03 a.m. #22
i wanna see more dans at evo.. wtf!? everyone knows.. DAN IS THE MAN! seriously though, i hope some unknown wins, there is alot of good players comin out of the woodwerk w. sf4, and im tired of hearing about justin wong.. nobody that gets laid is that good at street fighter..*not to mention all the other games he kills at..im drunk ahh...!
Posted by Phinny on July 18, 2009 at 12:37 a.m. #23
I really hope Justin Wong wins!
Posted by No blanka no cry on July 18, 2009 at 1:10 a.m. #24
Moval deserved to be there
Blanka represent!
Posted by Beikoku Taichou on July 18, 2009 at 1:43 a.m. #25
Go Issei!
Shibuya Sports Land Represent!
Posted by non-doofus on July 18, 2009 at 1:54 a.m. #26
Wong didn't get "wtf pwned" by Neurosis' Dictator...sure he lost both rounds but they were both pretty close rounds.
All you Wong haters oughta STFU or AT LEAST wait to see how Evo unfolds. I'm not going to make bets that Wong or even Daigo will win, but I know there's gonna be some freakin awesome matches to come.
Posted by G on July 18, 2009 at 1:58 a.m. #27
Cool. Dagger_G is in winners bracket.
Posted by ip on July 18, 2009 at 2:44 a.m. #28
GOGOGO Ricky "Kit" Tam
Posted by Bye Bye Seth Killian on July 18, 2009 at 3:22 a.m. #29
Hahahahahahaha. GTFO.
Posted by Bank Roll on July 18, 2009 at 3:47 a.m. #30
LOSER SETH KILLIAN, THE BEST DAY OF MY LIFE!
Posted by loldotcom on July 18, 2009 at 4:08 a.m. #31
The whole 2&2 advancing thing is a part blessing for some, and a part curse for others.
On one hand, 2 more players advance that wouldn't normally.
On the other, players with tough brackets get a loss going into Semis, when other players skirted by on free brackets.
Gootecks w/ a loss to Valle is hurt more than some misc player that got through in Winners by never facing anyone that great.
Posted by Dazz on July 18, 2009 at 4:11 a.m. #32
What day/ time does the 5v5 regional matches happen? Thanks
Posted by asdf on July 18, 2009 at 4:39 a.m. #33
why don't you look at the website ?
just a thought.
Posted by h_srk on July 18, 2009 at 5:25 a.m. #34
I wonder why that Japanese player "kalelulen4" from youtube.com/kalelulen4 isn't participating at EVO. He is one of the most incredible Ryu players I've seen. I've been watching his videos for a while an noticed the Sakura tutorial video linked at EventHubs is made by him. Or is he actually a famous Japanese player under a different name, like Poongko's other nickname is "efzzang"?
Posted by cmon mang on July 18, 2009 at 5:55 a.m. #35
i hope gootecks can climb his way back up
Posted by Nyoronoru on July 18, 2009 at 6:20 a.m. #36
FARK YEAH SAQS IS IN THE WINNER'S BRACKET!
I definitely want to watch his Rose kick ass!
Posted by o0 on July 18, 2009 at 6:35 a.m. #37
I'm surprised there's some variety in these brackets. We've got a Cammy, Gen, and Rose player still in the tourney! Nice!
Posted by Obanye on July 18, 2009 at 9:21 a.m. #38
Glad to see Saqs still in it! He's an awesome Rose, you can see his videos on youtube.
Posted by London Dry on July 18, 2009 at 10:54 a.m. #39
Mr. Wizard was taken out by my and Aegis Neglector's friend Humbag who is also representing the Midwest in the SF IV 5 on 5 tourney. He got eliminated by Ricky Ortiz in the Pool 11 Losers. Good show Humbag. Represent IL in the 5 on 5.
Posted by MetalxHealthx on July 18, 2009 at 1 p.m. #40
lets go BBH!
Posted by DarkGeneral on July 18, 2009 at 2:02 p.m. #41
Go Saqs, Show them what Rose can do!
Posted by Slasher on July 18, 2009 at 2:14 p.m. #42
Hey guys, myself and djWHEAT would have loved to do the stream this year. Wheat actually just emailed Ponder and inkblot a bunch of FME tips for the stream that should make the quality better, we'll see if they listen and if it works.
Here are a list of matchups we SHOULD be seeing today:
Sabin vs Mike Ross Winners Round 1
Sanches vs Edma Winners Round 1
John Choi vs Edma Winners Round 2
SoMuchDamage vs Dr. Chaos Winners Round 2
Combofiend vs Buktooth Winners Round 2 (Devastation Re-match)
Combofiend vs Dan Winners Round 3
Sabin/MR vs Marn Winners Round 3
Alex Valle vs Floe Winners Round 3
iloveuJoe vs Daigo Winners Quarterfinals
Alex Valle vs Sabin/MR/Marn Winners Quarterfinals
Justin Wong vs Combofiend Winners Quarterfinals
SoMuchDamage vs EdMa/Choi Winners Quarterfinals
Justin Wong vs Daigo Winners Semifinals
Alex Valle vs John Choi Semifinals
Sanchez vs Flash metroid Losers Round 2
Sanford vs MikeRoss/Sabin Losers Round 3
Sabin/MR vs Jibbo Losers Round 3
Floe/Valle vs Ricky Ortiz Losers Round 3
Dr. Chaos/SoMuchDamage vs Lpn Losers Round 4
Ryan Hart vs Haunts Losers Round 5
Gootecks vs Dr.C/SMD/Lpn Losers Round 5
Gootecks vs Dr.C/SMD/Lpn Losers Round 5
Keno vs Sanford/MR/Sabin Losers Round 5
Mike Watson vs ScrubbyDan Losers Round 5
Ricky Ortiz vs Jibbo Losers Round 6
Kai vs Gootecks/Dr.C/SMD/Lpn Losers Round 6
Ryan Hart vs Combofiend/Dan Losers Round 6
Flash Metroid/Sanchez vs Bukrooth Losers Round 6
Gootecks vs Dr.C/SMD/Lpn Losers Round 5
If I Was A Betting Man:
Jibbo vs Ricky Ortiz Losers Round 7
Ryan Hart vs Gootecks Losers Round 7
Mike Watson vs Sanford Losers Round 7
Ricky Ortiz vs Alex Valle Losers Round 8
Ryan Hart vs SoMuchDamage Losers Round 8
Flash Metroid vs Combofiend Losers Round 8
iloveuJoe vs Mike Watson Losers Round 8
Posted by Awesome on July 18, 2009 at 5:39 p.m. #43
ryu1999 modified keyboard. I want one and gotta see his controller.
Posted by Barak O'Mama Jeans on July 18, 2009 at 6:37 p.m. #44
no bison players win for SF IV?
Posted by Nyoronoru on July 18, 2009 at 7:02 p.m. #45
Every time I see a Sagat player lose I drink a swig of Bison Soda.
Posted by LOL on July 18, 2009 at 7:25 p.m. #46
yea man, thats funny how all those sagats got eliminated! :D
Posted by D.A.N. on July 18, 2009 at 7:38 p.m. #47
I know people like to bitch about Justin Wong, but just remember how few people other than Daigo you can see him lose to. Nobody that I remember the name of off-hand. In fact, if there is a loss he's taken other than to Daigo at the Gamestop tourney, I definitely didn't see it.
Posted by loldotcom on July 18, 2009 at 9:27 p.m. #48
Right now, Daigo has had a few slow starts, but wins when it counts.
Justin is winning flat out.
Sanford is making a strong showing, and so is this mysterious Eduardo who plays Boxer, and Daigo's fellow japan countryman, DAN.
Justin v Daigo v DAN. Gotta be two of those three in the Grand Finals.
Daigo v Dan ? What a fail Evo that would be ;)
Posted by slick on July 18, 2009 at 9:33 p.m. #49
does anybody know how "Evil Rahsaan" Dusuau is doing in SFIV? He was seeded, but I havent heard anything about him in the semis.
Posted by Nica K.O on July 18, 2009 at 10:32 p.m. #50
IIRC
Ryan said that he was eliminated by Kai
Marn beat Arturo in winners then Arturo lost to Sanford in losers
Posted by slick on July 18, 2009 at 10:40 p.m. #51
this is some f'n bs...SRK forums are down...evo page needs to update their brackets...
Posted by Drewby on July 18, 2009 at 10:48 p.m. #52
According to Gootecks' twitter, he was peaced out by Kai
Posted by Death2Retards on July 18, 2009 at 10:50 p.m. #53
What is more sad about this is that they bashed the Devastation crew for not having good stream, when they can't even keep theirs up for half the day with good FPS with the same amount of viewers.
It was later in the day when their amount of viewers went up, with people hoping they had fixed it by then and a ton of people not being able to watch the garbage stream properly. What a pathetic joke. Maybe don't talk sh1t if you can't do better yourself?
Posted by Drewby on July 18, 2009 at 10:54 p.m. #54
Death2Retards plz follow your own name
Ponder gave very good constructive criticism to about the tournament and commentary. Scootz took it way personally and freaked out.
The deal with Mr. Wizard is something beyond me though.
Posted by paul on July 18, 2009 at 11:11 p.m. #55
Where can I find the 3rd strike top 8 teams?
Posted by LOL on July 18, 2009 at 11:16 p.m. #56
damn I wanted to c valle vs wong match
Posted by Neokarsh on July 18, 2009 at 11:34 p.m. #57
Since its not mentioned in the updates for some reason, Eduardo Perez beat Marn in winner's, advancing to top 8 in the winner's bracket.
Posted by mcfine on July 19, 2009 at 12:16 a.m. #58
Do they have previously recorded streams like they did in Devastation?
Posted by trypt on July 19, 2009 at 12:42 a.m. #59
#58
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/evocham... click videos at the bottom and you can see most of the matches that took place today.
Posted by arcadehustla on July 19, 2009 at 12:45 a.m. #60
SF4 Top 8
Winners Bracket:
Justin Wong
Daigo Umehara
Ed Ma
Eduardo Perez
Losers Bracket:
Ricky Ortiz
Takashi Hukushi
Sanford Kelly
Shady K
Posted by dommafia on July 19, 2009 at 12:50 a.m. #61
Does anyone know much about this Eduardo "Vvv scrub" Pérez balrog player? He made it to top 8 and i've never heard of him. Would like to see more vids from him.
Posted by Albert Wesker on July 19, 2009 at 5:22 a.m. #62
After all this, I think there is enough evidence to show that Sagat is not OP since there is only 1 Sagat who made it to the final 8, while 3 Akumas made it.
Posted by Justin Wong on July 19, 2009 at 5:22 a.m. #63
I think Daigo will win today, but who knows.
Posted by mcfine on July 19, 2009 at 5:33 a.m. #64
thx trypt.
Perez's Balrog is crazy. Dash ultra through the fireball against Valle was ridiculous.
Posted by Hell Awaits! on July 19, 2009 at 6 a.m. #65
#62 "Albert Wesker"
I think thats more to do with the lack of skill the Americans possess... If this was in Japan you would see many more Sagats in the finals..... because they know how to use him to his full potential (just look at Mago).
I was surprised by some of the poor tactical play used by the sagat players... its a good thing though as sagat is S**t boring to watch. :)
Posted by Nyoronoru on July 19, 2009 at 6:10 a.m. #66
Saqs lost... ;_;
Posted by itazang on July 19, 2009 at 6:36 a.m. #67
The most fun to watch was that Ken scrub on the first day. The commentators said "I don't know if he did that on purpose" when he did a shinryuken lol He was just mashing flaming dragon punches using the shortcut.
Posted by sndwve on July 19, 2009 at 8:03 a.m. #68
hi would someone be able to tell me what time the matches start and what timezone? Would be greatly appreciated. I live in Australia (GMT+10) so just keen to be able to catch the first semis jwong vs. daigo :D
Posted by to itazang #67 on July 19, 2009 at 8:15 a.m. #69
Who says he's a scrub? Sure he might be a newbie.. But newbie =! scrub.
Posted by Eric on July 19, 2009 at 8:58 a.m. #70
Anyone know which region won the 5on5 Exhibition?
Posted by Noob on July 19, 2009 at 10 a.m. #71
@Eric
East won 4-1.
Only LI Joe lost his match against Shen's Akuma.
Posted by loldotcom on July 19, 2009 at 10:01 a.m. #72
US Sagats are pretty scrub, Floe aside. So many dropped Ultras, and leaving so many pokes without finishers.
Japan Sagats don't usually play that scrub, hence why the top 20 players contains like 9-10 Sagat players.
Posted by Nyoronoru on July 19, 2009 at 10:56 a.m. #73
So in the Final 8 we have...
3 Akumas
2 Ryus
2 Boxers
1 Rufus
If I only take their primary choices.
Posted by a juel on July 19, 2009 at 12:07 p.m. #74
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/evocham...
I cant seem 2 find part of the semi's
is there anywhere else i can view apart from ustream?
Posted by miaou on July 19, 2009 at 12:09 p.m. #75
i hope justDig "receiving-well" cock lose his next match
Posted by Tiger Fail on July 19, 2009 at 12:38 p.m. #76
Guilty Gear has to be the most boring game to watch. I know its technical, but SOOOOOOOOOOOO BORING to watch....Im falling asleep.
Posted by EDFAIL on July 19, 2009 at 12:44 p.m. #77
ED MA is called "the master" yet he never wins tournaments. Thats stupid, its like calling the LA Clippers NBA's Best
Posted by Look at Justin on July 19, 2009 at 1:05 p.m. #78
In a sea of top tier characters, Justin shows what its really about.
Diago will still probably win though.
Posted by sidekick on July 19, 2009 at 1:30 p.m. #79
I heard Eduardo is from Puerto Rico and that his Boxer is super crazy. Last year guys from PR took 2nd and 3rd place in Tekken and now this guys is playing awesome. PR guys are stepping up in their game lately.
Posted by Sagat on July 19, 2009 at 2:04 p.m. #80
You know i hear these scrubs say every thing about Sagat. But as you all can see he was not a big deal in the Tournament. Being here are seeing the Pool's in person Sagat was the Least used character
Posted by Dan on July 19, 2009 at 3:16 p.m. #81
Bad players pick Sagat to make up for their short-comings. If Justin or Daigo picked Sagat they would still be in top 8.
Posted by Justin Wong on July 19, 2009 at 3:51 p.m. #82
Yea ...I was so lucky to even get to the finals. Had to pay out of my wallet to convince my opponents to get me there. Phew hopefully i wont get raped by Daigo too much this time.
Posted by kitsos on July 19, 2009 at 4:26 p.m. #83
man so many good players from around the world can easily beat the crap out of this losers here. just because they attend this tournament doesnt make them the best. just known players. i bet many can beat them online on ps3 or 360. not everyone can attend evo
Posted by enygma on July 19, 2009 at 6:03 p.m. #84
Who eliminated Jihn Choi in SF4? I know he lost to Ed Ma. But his loss wasn't that early in the tourney was it?
Posted by u fail too #77 on July 20, 2009 at 2:31 a.m. #85
"ED MA is called "the master" yet he never wins tournaments. Thats stupid, its like calling the LA Clippers NBA's Best"
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Word, because the LA Clippers lose in the Conference Semis/Finals/NBA Finals all the time and get top 3-10 all the time in the entire league.
Failure to be witty on internet.
"You have no dignity - Gutter trash."
Posted by GoogleMyName on July 21, 2009 at 11:44 a.m. #86
Really wished my match was recorded or Streamed against Ricky Ortiz.
Lost first game with Balrog against his Rufus, Then came back last 2 games in 2 extremely close matches with Ryu to advance then lose in the Winners Finals against top 8 Finalist Shady K and his awesome Akuma.
Posted by Knoxximus on July 26, 2009 at 11:15 a.m. #87
Those Marn matches were INSANE! If you weren't there, Marn was drunk off his ass...1st time he ever drank...and was STILL whuppin' fools. He made a fan out of me, that's for sure!
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