As part of the pre-tournament activities for Super Battle Opera (Tougeki) a 5 vs. 5 vanilla Street Fighter IV tournament, titled the Ayano Cup, was held featuring a ton of top Japanese players and a few other notables.
Apparently, Gamerbee played Akuma according to VersusCity.net.
Gamerbee tokido ksk streaming now
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/gamers-...
You know it's vanille when thier is a Sagat on every team lol.
Iyo plays SSF4, he's not retired and his Ibuki is wicked. Here's a recent match of his. It starts a little slow, but it gets going.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1XLP6...
It's against Momochi's Ken.
Too bad team America still can't break the Japanese spell: they have yet to go to Japan and catch everyone off guard. In last year's Shiozawa cup, the entire 5-man team was wiped out by ONE gief player. Not a pretty sight. I hope that at least this time, they did better and that they didn't lose because someone got cocky and taunted only to lose the match as a result.
Yeah but partially the american players are more used to super I mean seriously who kept their copy of SF4 when Super came out.
I agree with #15, that's not an excuse at all. They knew that SSF4 wasn't included in the competition, they surely have copies of SF4, which BTW now costs about $5 for either console, other players were on the same boat and that didn't seem to bother them. There's something, I don't know what it is yet, but there's something lacking in the US SF scene that Japan has. Is it the rich arcade culture? The air they breathe or the water they drink? Is it the kogals with their loose socks and bleached hair? W T F is it?
it was said that Misse ALmost ocved magos team he took out 4 except 1 but that is pretty damn impressive
@16
the Japanese arent arrogant and conceded like the American SF players. when Daigo finds something in the game he makes it so that all the other Japanese pros know about it. when JWong finds something he shows it but tries to keep it to himself. those 2 are just examples but thats what seperates them from you (im Canadian lol). if America wants a chance they have to start helping each other. another great example is that stupid deal they had with the pros. give JWong $30/hour and he teaches you how to grab tech lol. its pathetic really
Really the answer is arcades which is why I said most are used to super since the arcade scene on our end is almost non-existance as it is over their so they get in mad practice most we really have is online...
@#20 The same can be said about the European scene or better yet the Australian scene or even more seperated the South American scene.
@20 I'm Canadian as well LOL. Lived in the US for a few years so America is still a part of me. And I agree; when I played at arcades in Japan, people were always happy to give you input and share new tricks. I don't know if that's the case with US players but if what you say is true, i.e. these guys do NOT share new tricks and secrets that give them an advantage, then you are right: the entire community suffers, EVEN the ones keeping the secret to themselves. If say JWong learns a new trick and keeps it to himself, he can keep beating the crap out of his peers who are still oblivious to said trick. As a result, his entire environment remains too weak to help him improve. You only get strong by playing stronger opponents. If that's the missing ingredient, then I'm not even sure anything can be done about it unless someone stands up and gives a speech, MLK-style, about having a "dream": that tricks and secrets will be shared indiscriminately among all players in the community. Do you see that ever happening? Cuz I sure don't.
@BisonBetterBeGoodInSSF4 "when Daigo finds something in the game he makes it so that all the other Japanese pros know about it. when JWong finds something he shows it but tries to keep it to himself."
i'm interested to know why u say this. jwong used to answer questions posed to him from players directly on his website. lots of questions that probably took him significant amounts of time. then gootecks did a few q&a episodes of questions. i've actually used some of the thing's he's mentioned in his answers before. he's given his competitors tips on how to deal w/ their weaknesses immediately after defeating them.
i get that there's plenty of ppl that think he's arrogant in matches, but he's also been helpful outside afaik.
So who was on J-wong's tam this time around?
is it Marn, Ortiz, Arturo, and who's the fifth member? anyone knows?
@wongba
JWong along with other American players do give tips, but its something you can learn by yourself if you put enough effort into the game. but for advanced methods your gonna have to either learn it yourself, or give JWong your piggy bank. but lets say for the sake of argument that im full of crap, why does JWong charge people to teach them certain things. name me one Japanese player who does that, and i'll shut my mouth
since it was a vanilla tournament. Who did Gamerbee play with ?