If I see Vanao I will unleash my inner girl.

Full team list and block:
http://shoryuken.com/forum/index.php?...

The commentator makes my dog freak out.

If Nuki could only commentate at EVO.

God damn, Third Strike is awesome.

im going to guess X's Urien is actually RX? if so Catalyst i think you should fix that. a lot of people here are probably looking for RX and Kuroda.

man i can remember watching the ranbats with all these players before SF4 came out. miss those days. :(

@6: It's RX!
45 teams, 225 players. Awesome!

Check out some footage from the PSN TNE Tournament today: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IN8cCP...

Every match so far has been godlike! Can't wait for more!

@9

Why did you link a medicore UMVC3 match in a high level japanese 3s tournament stream?

Maybe now all the scrubs on the pickachu akuma post can learn s thing or you about this game. I'm excited for TM.

well I am rooting for YSB, but I hope to see Tanaka too

Wow some beasts who I havent seen play in ages, glad to see they are still active with this game...but wheres Kuroda?

Wow, there are 3 or 4 teams in the tournament that are just straight-up killers.

man I am glad to see Y.S.B still in the tourney

EY!!! *players pick super arts* EY!!! gotta love the ey's. ey's all around.

Double post :(

you know I have to admit that I am really sad they don't host anything like this in the U.S I know that the scene is pretty small but still that would be cool to have a huge 3s tourney though :(

IM KINDA GLAD KURODA DIDNT ENTER

This is such a Godlike game. Almost 15 years in and it still hasn't been perfected. Kuroda has come the closest though. Sad it's not being played as much anymore. This is a game of pure skill. Basically in sf4 you can luck out wins consistently. Almost impossible in 3s if the opponent is too superior.

@ 18

The arcade scene is still big in Japan. This is one of the reasons a lot of games we stopped playing (or aren't as relevant as before) are still going strong in other countries. Our last biggest tourney that resembled this was the last tournament for MvC2. Also, SBO keeps 3S going strong. For some of the US, 3S is "been there, played that". Plus, a lot of America's killers aren't playing the game anymore. And with KOF, SFIV2012, UMvC3, and possibly Skullgirls, there's just not enough eyes or interest in a highly technical decade old game. Emphasis on "not enough".

Final match was Chun li vs. Ken

A shocker I know.

@23, actually the final match was Urien and Chun-Li.

And Urien won.

@aresenballz

Stay salty bro. I would be mad too if I played
Super Mash Fighter IV, switched to 3s and got bodied when I tried to churn butter and it failed me. Shoutouts to 10-frame reversal windows and easy inputs making scrubs feel entitled.

Can't wait to see all the Seth dickriders and Ryu's coming back into AE 2012, that's going to be so much fun, right?

@arsenballz
Stay scrubby kid :) .

Deshiken is so godlike, no doubt he's the best Ken player. RX team couldn't make top 16 is dissapointed.

@29

Absolutely agree! Deshiken is the best ken player...just amazing!

@arsenballz

I play Dudley in 3s kthxbai. Also, the current players are playing SF4 because it's where the money is at. Their preference for video games doesn't matter when one game isn't going to give you money.

I am upset that I couldn't stay up late enough to see the top 16 live. Those teams were absolutely nuts.

K.O and R Roshihikari's Yang?! whaaaaaat??!

Man i havnt watched a good 3rd strike match in years! I remember the days when ppl were like man yang is a sh!t character, but man u see these dudes just tearin it up.

@#25 ignorance is bliss, thats all i gotta say.

Funny how since AE came out mostly the new school SF ppl say Yang is so gdlk and since then they say Yang is too good, even in 3S...

Im not saying ur new to 3S or started SF WITH SFIV in general or anything,im just sayin...

Yang is the one combo wonder, but that damn combo is amazing. EX Torouzan is godlike in 3s.

@32

that means, by your will alone, you commented on a "homosexual" game. way to make yourself look like an idiot buddy. now its only a matter of time until Catalyst deletes another one of your messages for being a stupid troll.

Orona representing :D. Can't wait to use my Capoeira team in SFxTekken.