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Cross Counter Asia interviews Fuudo

Posted by Who Is Alpha — August 1, 2011 at 12:54 p.m. PDT

Prior to winning EVO2k11, Fuudo was interviewed by Cross Counter Asia's Zhi. The interview is extremely well done, and you can tell that Zhi will be showing up more due to his mastery of many languages. The interview mainly goes over how Fuudo prepared for EVO, his thoughts on other competitors, and a few other miscellaneous things including the origin of his name.

Tip sent in by neoWhite, Rafael2487, SAMURAI, and Von_Kunlun_BOOF.

Comments

fawaz said on August 1, 2011 at 1:05 p.m.

Amazing how not many people knew him and he wasn't favorite at all. Yet he is the new champ.

deBLOO said on August 1, 2011 at 1:08 p.m.

Love it!

I remember Fuudo back in the vanilla days, he had a great Ryu.

lilshell said on August 1, 2011 at 1:11 p.m.

I was one of the guys who didn't know about him. After seeing his performance though, I'm a fan.

SrAbuguet said on August 1, 2011 at 1:22 p.m.

I like the Zhi guy, never knew nothing about him before... but seems like a strong bond between american and asian cultures. Not only because of his mastering of japanese, english and maybe chinese, mostly because of his cool personality and concern for the community. Also he gave very good analysis of the events surrounding Fuudo and the japanese team.

Hope we keep on keep informed about this people, and we need Gootecks to learn some japanese too lol.

Weaponx said on August 1, 2011 at 1:37 p.m.

I did not see Fuudo winning EVO2k11, I don't think anyone did to be honest. I was so hoping Latif to win it after he beat Daigo, my money was on Poongko winning it all this year. So much for that.

Great Event tho!

Parahnoia said on August 1, 2011 at 1:37 p.m.

im glad i got to meet zhi, real nice and funny guy. on saturday he told me he wasnt gonna be there tomorrow cus he was planning on jumping off the rio lolll

Akro said on August 1, 2011 at 1:39 p.m.

@ 2, you and me both. People don't know this but he was on par with Daigo's Ryu in Vanilla. They always went back and forth.

bokosaki said on August 1, 2011 at 1:49 p.m.

Daigo played Fuudo in the Taito Station arcade in japan and they had very close winrate against each other. This guy is the best fei in japan, yes and he's a better fei than mago.

Antstarr said on August 1, 2011 at 2:25 p.m.

He seems like a really humble guy. Cool video....I like how Zhi finished off the video by saying people shouldnt be suprised if he does become Evo champ.

sharva91 said on August 1, 2011 at 2:25 p.m.

I really enjoyed this interview, he deserves this exposure he's so humble. Too many people were under the impression that Mago's Fei was untouchable and here's Fuudo all along hiding his stuff.

Latif carves his way through Daigo, Poongko and Tokido at which point Fuudo shrugs his shoulders and goes "Aight dude, you asked for it".

Love this guy, bring him back next year!

#10

Von_Kunlun_BOOF said on August 1, 2011 at 2:31 p.m.

The form on their fusion dance is off.

#11

caruga said on August 1, 2011 at 2:37 p.m.

@11: They'll have to wait 30 minutes then try again.

#12

logic_boi said on August 1, 2011 at 2:44 p.m.

Nice seeing Fuudo getting some love. Most of the buzz has been about Latif and his killing spree of Daigo, Poongko, and Tokido, or Poongko and his Seth, or Daigo finally losing, but not enough has been about the man who won the whole god damn thing. Congrats to Fuudo.

#13

roarmonster said on August 1, 2011 at 2:48 p.m.

I don't really like Fei, I think he is the second best and would probably be the first on a skillful level, Yun just gets more people crying because he is pretty easy to learn and ridiculous. Fuudo is an amazing player though, and I really can't take anything away from the guy. Great performance, and well done

#14

Rafael2487 said on August 1, 2011 at 2:51 p.m.

Crazy personalities at evo,
Daigo=Silent
Fuudo=Shy
Latif=Happy
Poongko=Crazy
Tokido=Cool
Kindevu=Fat
WolfKrone=Serious
Flash Metroid=Smiling
Kayo police=?????

#15

sola said on August 1, 2011 at 2:57 p.m.

@15

I like how you used adjectives for everyone but Kindevu -- who was just called Fat LOL. I think if anything, Kindeveu was a total Troll...

#16

EVIL_MECHANICK said on August 1, 2011 at 3:02 p.m.

that intro made me extremely uncomfortable. supreme gayness.

#17

kingofthesharks said on August 1, 2011 at 3:08 p.m.

@16

fat is an adjective...

but yes the top 8 of this year were all awesome in their own way

#18

okay said on August 1, 2011 at 3:13 p.m.

Kindevu can equal gluttonous and then it is an adjective. He was eating on stage and egging on the crowd for boos after all.

#19

caruga said on August 1, 2011 at 3:15 p.m.

@17: Supreme puberty. You'll grow out of that insecurity when you reach adulthood.

#20

lordgootecks said on August 1, 2011 at 4:07 p.m.

@10 humble? I thought he said he didn't respect any other players lol

#21

Skone said on August 1, 2011 at 4:11 p.m.

Who else here thinks Zhi interviewed all of TOP 8 and said "I wouldnt be surprised if this was your new EVO champion."???

#22

Skone said on August 1, 2011 at 4:12 p.m.

.....and picked the one who won and chose to upload that one only.

#23

hentailogic1 said on August 1, 2011 at 4:24 p.m.

lol these crosscounter asia guys are really funny, gonna check out their future stuff from now on

its freaking awesome that zhi is good at so many languages

#24

WinstonChurchill said on August 1, 2011 at 4:37 p.m.

Fair play to you Zhi, you called it nicely.

#25

SAMURAI said on August 1, 2011 at 5:12 p.m.

@ Skone

Lmao, I never thought of that. But you could be right.

#26

McBison said on August 1, 2011 at 5:15 p.m.

haha sweet, gonna call him 'Hood' from now on. Love the infomercial at the end lol

#27

keyzerjose said on August 1, 2011 at 6:01 p.m.

Big fan of both Zhi and Fuudo now. Great showing, and Cross Counter Asia has potential

#28

okay said on August 1, 2011 at 7:28 p.m.

Cross Counter episodes would be the best if they were Zhi and Mike Ross. Xian is good but not great. Gootecks stinks.

#29

fireinthehole said on August 1, 2011 at 8:11 p.m.

@15 and @16

Kindevu's a f-ckin God. He took out Wolfkrone and then said to the audience: "Whut now motherf-ckers!!!"

#30

fireinthehole said on August 1, 2011 at 8:17 p.m.

I thought that he was going to get #3, with Poongko as #1 and Daigo as #2.

I knew right off the bat that he was definitely top 3 after he bodied Wolfkrone. The match where he bodies Wolfkrone also makes me think that he may soon surpass Mago as the top Fei of the planet.

After all, he did beat Mago just around a week or so ago at some small scale Japan tournament.

#31

ElectricBlanka said on August 1, 2011 at 9:02 p.m.

The reason Mago is considered the best is because of his reputation and #1 ranked Feillong in Bps. Yet as we all know, it probably just means he spend more time at the arcade than Fuudo. Spending more time does not necessarily mean better. I actually became a fan of Fuudo as soon as he defeated Daigo in Cannes tourney in Ryu mirror match. Right there he proved he was the best Ryu in the world. However, after that he just disappeared. Did not see him in Super, until finally I noticed a random video of him maining as FeiLong. Didn't think too much of it but I should have known better. Now a fan of his again. Just hoping he doesn't go disappearing again, lol.

#32

SAMURAI said on August 1, 2011 at 9:10 p.m.

Fuudo > Mago

Mago is very good, but a bit overrated. He choked in every international tournament.

#33

dorayaki said on August 1, 2011 at 9:40 p.m.

The translation was not 100% accurate all the time. Fuudo was not saying that he "bodied" Daigo or that he doesn't respect anyone. He said things like he had the advantage in the Daigo game center matches recently and, at worst case, he will be 50/50, so he's confident. Also, he says that he doesn't seem anyone is out of reach - EVEN HIMSELF (that's the intention of what was said but the guy's question isn't well put together). Later he says he really is impressed by Daigo and Iyo - Iyo because of how smart he plays. I just wanted to point out that, although he isn't easily impressed, he is very respectful and humble.

Something to note is that he emphasizes that there is a lag - on the pools and even more so on the main stage. But in his room, there's no lag - so it maybe all of the cords. <This might explain the combo drops from Tokido and Daigo in their matches...maybe...

#34

crispylinks77 said on August 1, 2011 at 9:40 p.m.

They should have edited the vid so it doesn't show them talking in Japanese. Majority of the people watching this can't speak Japanese anyways so it's a waste of time.

The interview that Gootecks did of Poongko after Shadowloo Showdown was a lot better.

#35

dorayaki said on August 1, 2011 at 9:56 p.m.

and concerning the Viper part- he says that in Japan (where he is i guess) there aren't many Vipers so he didn't have a Viper gameplan. He says Mago is really good at Viper matchup, better than himself, so he just generally asked for some tips. Mago explained to him how to fight Vipers to win.
The translation was accurate but, again, the translator pumped Fuudo up where Fuudo was actually pretty humble.

His translation of Xian fight was NOT right. The fight with Xian, he said that Yun vs Fei is hard for Fei in general. Fuudo says that after the first game he realized that Xian was a wait/react Yun play style (opposite of japanese Yun rushdown) - so he said he played a wait style too and fought that way.

#36

fireinthehole said on August 1, 2011 at 10:42 p.m.

@32

Is there where people can look up the win ratios of Fuudo and Mago in SSF4-AE? But more specifically, is there a place that displays a track record of Fuudo's wins/loses versus the top pros and that of Mago's.

Because you do make a good point that Mago being the #1 ranked Fei in world is merely because he plays more on arcades.

I've always had a fishy feeling about the BPs on arcades for the same matter.

#37

fireinthehole said on August 1, 2011 at 10:46 p.m.

@32

I ask because comparing and contrasting Mago's and Fuudo's sets against Wolfkrone really set off an alarm for me.

I mean, Fuudo BODIED Wolfkrone while Mago got eliminated by him. Not to mention the fact that Fuudo remained in Winners through the whole entire thing while Mago got eliminated FAR too early than suspected for someone with such high reputation.

#38

gensnroses said on August 1, 2011 at 11:18 p.m.

#20 +1 my friend

#39

Kennn said on August 2, 2011 at 12:54 a.m.

@ fireinthehole. maybe it just wasnt mago's day. remember at revelations he beat both wolfkrone and latif (2 top vipers) pretty well. he also beat xian and infiltration i believe. he just had a bad tourny

#40

Donchilio said on August 2, 2011 at 4:13 a.m.

@#40 At ReveLAtions Mago barely beat Wolfkrone but he completely destroyed Latif, so it's not too surprising he barely lost to 'Krone this time.

Pretty sure Mago would have made top 8 if he had used Fei against Justin. Not sure why he stuck with Sagat, especially after losing the 1st match pretty convincingly.

#41

Neo_Jef said on August 2, 2011 at 4:14 a.m.

The reason he get called fuudo, always wearing that hood jacket..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cdc4x3...

#42

SpinningBirdKick said on August 2, 2011 at 8:29 a.m.

Fuudo is awesome. It's nice to see a champ who is so humble and shy, and not "I'M THE BEST IN THE WORLD BITCHES!" like some of the the other competitors.

#43

Quezacoatl said on August 2, 2011 at 2:02 p.m.

@42: That's what he said exactly.

Damn this Zhi guy is good, his pronounciation is so good! I bet he can speak some Chinese too. Kinda like me in a way haha.

#44

ibLeo said on August 2, 2011 at 2:05 p.m.

Mago should stay playing Sagat. Not because I think Fuudo is better (maybe he is, maybe he isn't), but I feel like Mago is just better with Sagat anyway.

#45

fireinthehole said on August 2, 2011 at 2:34 p.m.

@42

LOL. Look at Fuudo's picture 3 years back, he looked more like a girl than Tatsu. He actually looks like a male now. haha.

#46

JIHADJOE said on August 3, 2011 at 1:23 a.m.

Real men have some fat yo!

#47

Iekurio said on August 3, 2011 at 4:52 a.m.

I badly need Zhi's Chun T-shirt, anyone has an idea where it comes from?
Cool interview btw

#48

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