Half the screen is blocked by their goddamned logos. Terrible viewing experience.

Damn stream monsters going in on Burn your bra :( shes cool person come on guys

ah, they've fixed the screen clutter. much better

Is the Fanatiq vs Joker thing still going down at this tourney?

That PSN.Kill Dem All guy might just have been randomly throwing out Demon Armageddon, but he actually demonstrated some interesting setups for it, whether inadvertently or not.

8.95

$20 spectator fee is ridiculous! I would've gone if it was like $10

Zan..I was going to make a comment on how it is in Canadian dollars, but seriously canadian dollars are the same rate as American dollars.. It explains the lack of people in the background.

Dieminion Guile is so good. He's really on point just can't get in on him, really good defense and Guile's normals do so much damage. I've only ever seen Ricky & Justin Rufus rush him down jumping all over him, stopping Guile's charge and really destroy him.

I think Dieminion and Justin in last 4 at least.

@9 Apparently during the week of Season's Beatings, Infiltration's Gouken destroyed Dieminion 10-0 in casuals and tournament play combined. It was pretty funny to see Dieminion having a taste of his own medicine trying to get in on Infiltration lol.

The Skullgirls Top 4 was really interesting. I've never seen that game in motion before, and it's got my interest.

I've been ranting on the forum's, Peacock is slept on. Lady goes hard.

Jeez, Dieminion... Oh well. Good stuff.

What up, Cammy?

Looks like Cammy finally won a major. Shout out to the tier list that no one believed?

lol @ US. three of their top players got bodied by the same cammy.

Congrats to Chi-Rithy! An impressive performance.

@17

A guy was on a roll. It happens. It's not an indictment of an entire country.

Did anybody say, lol @ Japan when Wolfkrone bodied the Japan 1 team and almost OCV'd the Japan 2 team in last years Canada cup?

@19 Yes actually, everybody did.

Great Cammy execution. Truly a pleasure to watch.

@20

Really? If you say so.

Chi-Rithy was on a roll. That's all there is to it.

"Did anybody say, lol @ Japan when Wolfkrone bodied the Japan 1 team and almost OCV'd the Japan 2 team in last years Canada cup?"

get your fact right before you post please. almost ovc Japan team 2? do you ever watch match? go back and watch it again.

US didn't single or team tournament in Canada CUP. that's the fact.

i mean US didn't win single or team.

i think Wolfkrone was 1-2 against team japan 2. 0 win in winner, 1 win the final.

@23

Just looked back. You're right. Wolfkrone OCV'd the Japan 1 team. He had a chance to reset the bracket but lost to Kindevu. My mistake.

The point original point still stands. It's a player on a roll, and not an indictment of an entire country.

@24

I am aware that US didn't win, however. Wolfkrone did eliminate a bunch of quality Japanese players, in the team tournament AND singles (especially singles).

He was on a roll. Give credit to the player instead of bashing the entire scene of the country his opposition is from.

Chi-Rithy deserved the win. Dieminion had his number in the winners' final and he learned from that. He dialled back the aggression and pressured Min JUST enough to trick him into being his own worst enemy. Guile players expect rushdown characters like Cammy to come at them hard - that's what Chi did in the winners' final and Min was ready for it. But in the grand final Chi cleverly adjusted his play to only inch forward and poke with j.RH, mixing it up with various different jumping attacks with different hitboxes to keep from being predictable, and was perfectly content to not be scoring hits every five seconds. Once he adjusted his playstyle from rushdown to slow but patient pressure, Min had to keep backing away to maintain zoning, but that eventually always put him in the corner. And when Guile kept his ground, Chi was often neutral jumping over Sonic Booms from fullscreen, as if to say "Is that all? I could do this all day". Min got impatient, took the bait and tried to score hits in a more aggressive but unsafe manner, which opened up his defense just enough for Chi to have an occasional pop at him.

Sign of a pro player when you can convince yourself that the opponent is the one who has it all to prove, and that HE'S the one who has to come to YOU.

Sign of a master player when you can convince the OPPONENT of that, too.

Same deal against Justin; Chi carefully vied with him for position which was why there was so much dancing back and forth in that match. Chi was able to put Justin in the danger zone and keep him there for the most part. Didn't take stupid risks (much), and played with respect for Justin but even more respect for himself, taking his chances when they came. Never rushed unless it was time to rush.

Two matches into the grand final I knew that no matter what the outcome was, Chi deserved the win for taking his earlier loss in stride and flipping the matchup on its head.

@27 Well put.

@#26
as long as you don't make up random stuffs, you have your points. he did beat some very good Japanese players, and he lost to some too. that's ok as long as you put it that way.

but don't said something like he almost ovc Team Japan #2. went 1-2 was not close to ovc.

wow this tourney was hype. Cammy took a major ^-^. KoF losers finals was hype moment of tourney that sh1t was close and SG top four was hype with close games especially GF. All in all better then shadowloo where it was so free

@29

I was mistaken, I admitted that.

@ibLeo Excellent analysis.

Last year Chi and Snafoo had a very hard time vs Guile and Viper at the Montreal and Toronto tourneys, but this week-end they completely dominated Wolfkrone and Dieminion. Wonder what kind of training they did cuz it really paid off.

Anyway, the AE tourney was SUPER HYPE and the stream was smooth and perfect + tourney was run well no downtime. Organizers did a great job

>Cammy wins a major
>"why so high on the tier lists?!"

\DansGame/

I've never seen so many double fierce combos from any Cammy player on stream. Good stuff Chi

Cammy vs Guile is definitely in guile's favour as well, until Cammy gets in, but after taking heavy damage as well. well played chi.

is ryo on pad?

I always wondered how is Cammy Top tier?
I see all those Pros saying Cammy is Top tier in their Tier List.

Today i got to witness why Cammy is so Godlike.
That Vortex is so crazy, its stronger then Akuma's vortex.

LOL, threads like this always devolve into anti-US player threads at some point. Pretty sad actually.

Some decent SF4 play, though I feel like the play tonight was not where it needs to be to keep Japan from taking our money at EVO again this year.

In UMVC3, was good to see Jago back in the mix. I love watching great Dante play and I miss that character. I suck with him, though. And I am very curious about Justin's team. I think this is going to be his main EVO team and Storm could wind up being a real wild card. I think she deals with lameness very well and I think that will be a running theme this year.

@37, I don't know if I'd say her's is better than Akumas... DEFINITELY GOOD, but I don't think I can completely agree with it being BETTER.

Cammy's "vortex" has no real mixup options, she can't do anything other than throw or frame trap. Hell unless she does crossup lk you don't even have to block high. It requires a player to make skilled reads on the opponent, no free mindless crap like with Seth or Akuma. Chi-Rithy was able to find Diemenion's throw tech rhythm and blow it up, which very few people are usually able to do.

@33 Ahhh yesssss now I remember, thanks for clarifying.

@40

Very well said, couldn't agree more.

yo Canada not free...just drk and choker

@#40

Care to explain how Akuma is mindless?................

@40 cammy is pretty braindead.

@ #40 Wedge
i wouldnt advice crouch blocking againt cammys wake-up. stand block limits the chances of dive kick crossing up. and yes, some cammy users know how to make it cross more often than not. akuma has the better vortex(knock down,) cammy has the better pressure. much harder to get cammy off you. neither are brain dead, thats just seth

lol seth turned brain dead the minute capcom gave him more life...

i miss the days when he was rare! :(

still the more people know the match up the easier it is for him to get rocked on...

i think akuma vortex and ibuki vortex is waaaay harder to get outta then seth cuz all seth has is crossup hk, empty jump spd or srk and u can see it coming if.... you look at his meter!!!!

Juicebox posted this on his twitter last night

http://www.quickmeme.com/meme/3pder4/

apparently he doesn't like cammy

Glad Chi won with an amazing Cammy. Hopefully Cammy will win many more.

Why is this called a major? If it was such a big tournament, how come more top players didn't attend? Only 5 US players, no japanese, euro, etc...

Maybe it was a Canadian major, but this tournament isn't even remotely strong compared to Canada Cup; or any US major.

It was still nice to watch.

#48 imo seth is more a mix up character than vortex.

@ NerfGuile not every major is filled with international talent. like u said its a Canadian major so not everyone can attend. also international players didnt just turn up to Canada Cup, they were invited.

#52 there are a lot of international players who turned up out of their own initiative to CC2011

@NerfGuile:
Plenty of top players DID attend. But they were Canadian top players. Because t was in Canada. It's only just getting big though so Japanese players won't be spending money to go to it just yet, but the (player) attendance seemed pretty big this year, and since bigger attendance means bigger cash prizes, next year I wouldn't be surprised if next year a Japanese player (or two) decides it might be worth a trip (if I were Daigo - for example - and I noticed that there was a tournament with a big cash prize but only American and Canadian players attending, I'd see it as relatively easy money. That's how it works).

Anyway, it's not like the competition was scrubby; as we saw, Justin and Dieminion met their match (no disrespect to them) and Chi's performance was so methodical that you can't really say that he just got lucky. Snafoo seemed high-level too.

Trust me,

EDIT: my bad
*Trust me, with participant attendance numbers like that, it means that the money must be decent. And that can't go unnoticed for long.

PS:

One more thing

According to the TTT website, the tournament had the following prize distribution:

"Singles
1st Place – 70%
2nd Place – 20%
3rd Place – 10%

Street Fighter x Tekken (360)+$200 Bonus
$10 entry per person, $20 per Team

Ultimate Marvel VS Capcom 3 (360)+$500 Bonus
$10 entry

Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition (360)+$500 Bonus
$10 entry

Mortal Kombat (PS3)+$200 Bonus
$10 entry

SkullGirls (PS3)+$300 Bonus
$10 entry

Soul Calibur V (PS3)+$200 Bonus
$10 entry

BlazBlue Continuum Shift Extend (PS3)+$100 Bonus
$10 entry

King Of Fighters XIII (PS3)+$100 Bonus
$10 entry

Tekken 6 BR (PS3)+$100 Bonus
$10 entry

Sponsors will have prizes for 1st, 2nd and 3rd placers as well."

Considering the Justin placed pretty high in almost every event (I don't see him in the SC5 results), with second place in most of them, he must have made a bundle. It's hard to think that Japanese players wouldn't find that tempting.

@51 the meaning of the word "major" has been lost a long time ago. Traditionally there's only 4 events that can be called majors, and they are supposed to represent the 4 regions of USA: NEC for Northeast, Final Round for South, EVO for West and Season's Beatings for Midwest.

Either way, to define an event as a "major" by the amount of international players is stupid. To me Toryuken has a higher turnout than Shadowloo Showdown and is more worthy of being called a major. I am also quite sure the payout is better too, according to F Champ the SS organizers got scammed and isn't getting the pot bonus that's promised to them.

Toryuken has mostly scrubs. SS has more top umvc3 and AE players. Winning Toryuken is not even that important. You won't get much street credit compare to SS.

#59

lol what steam were you watching? This year SS was way more free then this year Toryuken. Toryuken even had the better pots they could care less about "street credit" whatever irrelevant nonsense that is

@spotlesseden:
Winning Toryuken is very important because it gives you EVO seeding points. The better the seeding you have, the less likely you'll get put up against the likes of Daigo or Fuudo or Tokido or Mago or Poongko in the first round, which gives you a better chance of placing high at EVO. That's hella important. If you care about EVO then you care about every event that can give you EVO seeding points, and there aren't THAT many of those that you can dismiss one as irrelevant.