Nagoya Street Battle 15, a 3 vs. 3 team Super Street Fighter 4 tournament has finished up. This competition featured top players from Japan, including Daigo Umehara, Eita, Tokido and Mago.
Team famous is unfair .better player in the world on the same team beside Team Soushihan nobody will even get a chance
Daigo Ryu Guile
Mago sagat feilong
Tokido Gouki makoto or ibuki
this team is lethal
This is gonna be one long ass tournament. Hopefully I'll catch the finals or something when I wake up in the morning.
Tried reinstalling it already. Tried turning off proxy,firewalls,antivirus,adblockers. Tried going to laptop. Tried using neighbors wireless connection. Tried restarting. It's just not working. Other streams are perfect except this. I give up. 3 hours trying is enough. Probably been banned or something from viewing this.
They have already been uploading the video in the archive section here http://www.ustream.tv/user/nsb_sf4
So if you can't watch it live, you will be only about two hours behind.
Ok, last update from me (sorry for spamming.)
The first sheet's semi-final will be between B (The Plinkers) and C (Pink team).
Pool F's finalists were the team with the star in the name (ZA/DH,AB/FL,BI/AB)
First round of the E/F quarter-finals were hilarious. Mecha-gief mirror match.
great stuff, y24! he's been one of the top chuns in japan for a while now
Daigo doesn't usually turtle like that especially against chuns which he usually does a combo exhibition on. Anyway why isn't Mago going to EVO?
Wow, y24 kept the pressure on nonstop with great poking and reactions. There wasn't much Daigo could do against that, though he was too conservative as well. I can see why he hates single elim tourneys...he tends to play much better after a few rounds. He loses the first match to people a good number of times before he really gets going.
Not mention Daigo got a lucky jump in and went for throw instead of dp FADC ultra? He choked badly.
@ 27 why do you people act like it's his first time losing????
I dont know what's more stupid, daigo fanboys or daigo hater fanboys.
@38
Probably both, although I would lean towards haters. They're more annoying for trolling and trying to piss off Daigo's fanboys. Daigo's fanboys just can't accept the fact that Daigo was defeated.
@39 boulderabuser
Incorrect. He played Ibuki in GodsGarden.
i am a Daigo fanboy and I have seen him lose in Japan numerous times at bigbox arcade but yea I just like Daigo for his dedication the series and tot he community. He plays in so many events and even though he loses sometimes he always puts on a great show, BUT i do admit he seemed more conservative lately.... I am wondering and kind of worried that all the attention and his sponsorship now is beginning to put alot of pressure on him and maybe throwing off his play style. I have vids of some of his fights and me fighting him at Big box on my youtube channel, Evo will be really interesting this year.... see you guys there!
@46
And this is why I respect Daigo and japanese players. No matter what, they're working to overcome the character's weak traits and studying how well they would works against not only the characters, but also the players.
At NSB15, many characters were being used for example like that Juri player defeated Tokido and Mago. Too bad I didn't see any Hakan players. They must really considered him weak.
@48: Although we should be honest when we say that Ryu isn't exactly a spring chicken. Compared to other characters, Ryu has an answer for mostly everything--I have much more respect someone sticking to Fei Long, for example, over Ryu. Ryu can win matches by zoning that other, non-projectile characters have considerable difficulty overcoming.
In all seriousness, Tokido and Mago, while good, simply are not "great" and that is why they would have insurmountable difficulty making Top 8 at EVO. Daigo--an obviously great player--is far better than the two of them (combined), as far as I'm concerned. I like seeing the by-the-books play of Japanese players, but foreigners are putting really great expectations on them that I, personally, am afraid they cannot meet. Nonetheless, Tokido and Mago (Mago especially) are exciting players, and I like to see the adjustments they make on the fly as they did in the tournament earlier today.
Guess we'll see how many advance far into EVO.
@48
Yes I do. I don't enjoy people that shows off thinking they could try new characters and win with them. If you're playing to win, choose someone who you're comfortable with.
@55
Really, Guess I must had miss it after I went out for a walk.
anyone get around to puttin it on youtube yet, my laptop is so not liking the stream sites :(
@52
Read my comment history. I have never once suggested Daigo is a god at this game. But I suppose it's easy to call a top world player as a scrub from the armchair.
I didn't ask if you have played with him. I said I would like to SEE it, even at Evo too. What's your real name? Any articles or videos on you? Or will you pull a 'Jwong' and say you beat him 10-4 in some dark corner of the world? Wait you just did...
Team Battles suck in SF4/SSF4! One person can too easily beat the whole opposite team!
The only reasonable way for team battles is in SF Alpha3, where the winner doesn't regain whole life for the next battle (that way strenght of the whole team matters more then strenght of individual players)
so what's up with the two-character choices? is this mandatory or optional? what's the mechnanics/rationale for this?