I finally finished my projects last week and entered 3 different competitions with these projects. Won IEEE 1st place in "Made in UAE" category, Won IEEE 2nd place in "Common Design" category, and Won 2nd place and Best Idea in "ESREC'2010". It was a week full of awards ^_^!
So now that I'm done from these stuff, I finally entered the online world of SSFIV! I liked the lobby system and how you can spectate matches. But one thing I did not like... THIS MAKES HATERS EVEN HATE MORE! lol.
I'm so gonna sound arrogant in this post. So guys bare with me on this one.
Back in the days, when you beat someone up badly, they would have the idea that their big bro or their pro friend would come and kick my ass later on. But now that SSFIV supports multiple player. This guy watches his beloved ones die and suffer in pain by the same hands that took away his life. Suddenly you see your mail box being spammed by hate mail. lately I've became to a realization. IGNORE THESE MESSAGES. they're too annoying to reply. Don't even bother opening them. That's what I started to do.
around 4 days ago, I joined this room that was almost full, I finally get my turn and I kept my position at top for around 25 matches. one of the players namely "seezar" is a scruby Guile, "Sonic boom, Sweep, Jump Backwards, Sweep, Repeat". I'm not sure if he knows that Guile has another special move. Anyways, I win this guy like with 4 perfects, until now everything is going smooth, then my friend joins this lobby, we had a very close game, he won eventually. So I see a message from seezar, it was like this "You NOOB! you spammer!, this guy won you with effort!!" and something like that. Well, if playing viper and using her FFF/SJFADC/SJC-Seismo is being noobish, then I guess I am a Noob.
Next round when I reached on top again it was against my friend also, so when the round started, this seezar guy started spamming empty messages to me hoping that I would lose. Well, I did not lose, so, let him burn more! I blocked this guy afterwards.
Next day, I join a game, I find the same guy in the lobby, my guess is this time he's with his friends in the lobby, suddenly a random guy that i never met sends me a message saying "Fight like a man", I thought probably this seezar told his friends that I dont play like a man? >.>, well whatever, I beat everyone in the room and leave. I started then to get swamped by message, so I blocked them all.
Later I join another room, I got kicked instantly. I send the host "Trable-Boss" a message asking him if he was afraid? he said he aint afraid of kids that post videos of their matches on youtube. So I thought maybe he does not want to have losing vids of him on youtube? but the "kid" part was funny, I ask him how old are you?, he replies with something that has totally nothing about answering. He starts saying dont you have school to go to and homeworks to do? I cracked a bit, asked him again, ok how old are you?, again he does not answer, instead he kept swamping me with curses and hatred. Then one friend of mine tells me that he's a high school kid. So I leave him be and left.
I again join another room to get kicked instantly. What's happening. A friend told me this is the tax of being famous~ lol. And just moments ago, I join a room with low level players and started winning them. I leave to go eat lunch, I come back to find at least 20 messages of the same people inviting me back to the room, namely "hadif001" and "night-madness", so night tells me my bro will kick your ass, come to the room. Well, if his bro is any good, I would accept a good match, the problem is I could not join the room again, not sure why, kept trying, restarting but with no hope. So I decided to just ditch the game. So both of them kept saying I chickened out, I already joined another room while they were swamping me with mail. So I could not reply them. And while I was playing in the other room, I realized that I dont really have to answer these mails and that its just a waste of time and energy.
I dont understand some people. Just because they lose they start hating. Some people would use that to improve and become better, which what all people should do. But just hating on is stupid. you lose because you don't practice enough. You should at least respect the effort put on training by the other player when you lose constantly. Then you should ask yourself why do you keep losing and work on improving yourself.
I've played around 500 matches up to now in SSFIV, and I got a win rate of 83% So to all of you haters who think that I am some 'noob' , stop hating and get better instead.
Friday, May 14, 2010
Friday, April 30, 2010
SSFIV Trial completed, and thoughts!
DAMN COLLEGE PROJECTS!!!!!!!
ok.. now that out of the way, I have not been able to write up here regarding new updates for SSFIV :(, but I managed to fight couple of minutes to write this post.
I got SSFIV finally only 1 minute after it reached the shop in AbuDhabi at around 8:30pm for around 190dh, not that bad really.
Went back home and tested it out. So far loving it. The online mode was even more fun, though there was some problems with people unable to join our rooms.
I've later tried the Trial mode and finally finished them all around 2 days ago and I'll mention some of the stuff about trial that are worth mentioning.
I'll be discussing them in order.
Ryu: Lv.24, 3 links and strick timing, took me a while
Ken: Much easier than SF4, nothing was too hard.
Chun-Li: nothing too anoying
E.Honda: There was 1 annoying one but I cant recall which one.
Blanka: was actually easy!, 15 minutes maximum
Zangief: The last level with the 4 links was stupid.
Guile: Nothing to mention
Dhalsim: Had some tricky trials, but nothing too hard
Balrog: OMG, Trial 22, spent over an hour, the rest are easy.
Vega: had 1 stupid link trial, more of luck really for that one.
Sagat: nothing too hard
M.Bison: nothing too hard
C. Viper: almost the same as SF4, nothing too hard for a viper player
Rufus: couple of stupid link combos, but rest are easy
El Fuerte: Trial 23 BLOWS, took me a little over 30 minutes
Abel: nothing too hard.
Seth: Quite easy
Akuma: nothing too hard
Gouken: nothing to mention
Cammy: nothing to mention
Fei Long: Lv.19 took me about 10 minutes, annoying. rest are not hard
Sakura: long combos but not hard to link really.
Rose: nothing too hard, nice combos with her ultra 2
Gen: lv.24 was much easier than SF4 Hard trial 5, but still took me around ~15 min because of his "Aweeewa"
Dan: lv.23 or 24 took some time due to stupid timing for the air ex-senpu kyaku.
T.Hawk: Probably the easiest.
Dee Jay: nothing to mention
Guy: nothing to mention
Cody: nothing to mention
Ibuki: Lv.24 took me some time, but because its almost as viper's SJC to ultra, I didnt struggle much, probable around 20 minutes to get used to the link.
Makoto: Lv.24 had a new idea, loved it, took me some time.
Dudley: nothing too hard
Adon: Annoying.. (As a character, lol), nothing too hard
Hakan: Lv.19 was tricky, but figured it out, nothing else was too hard
Juri: Loved the Lv.24 idea, sweat combo ideas. nothing too hard
I've been loving Makoto lately and practicing her, hopefully I'll be able to play online once i finish my stupid projects. Till next post' ;)
ok.. now that out of the way, I have not been able to write up here regarding new updates for SSFIV :(, but I managed to fight couple of minutes to write this post.
I got SSFIV finally only 1 minute after it reached the shop in AbuDhabi at around 8:30pm for around 190dh, not that bad really.
Went back home and tested it out. So far loving it. The online mode was even more fun, though there was some problems with people unable to join our rooms.
I've later tried the Trial mode and finally finished them all around 2 days ago and I'll mention some of the stuff about trial that are worth mentioning.
I'll be discussing them in order.
Ryu: Lv.24, 3 links and strick timing, took me a while
Ken: Much easier than SF4, nothing was too hard.
Chun-Li: nothing too anoying
E.Honda: There was 1 annoying one but I cant recall which one.
Blanka: was actually easy!, 15 minutes maximum
Zangief: The last level with the 4 links was stupid.
Guile: Nothing to mention
Dhalsim: Had some tricky trials, but nothing too hard
Balrog: OMG, Trial 22, spent over an hour, the rest are easy.
Vega: had 1 stupid link trial, more of luck really for that one.
Sagat: nothing too hard
M.Bison: nothing too hard
C. Viper: almost the same as SF4, nothing too hard for a viper player
Rufus: couple of stupid link combos, but rest are easy
El Fuerte: Trial 23 BLOWS, took me a little over 30 minutes
Abel: nothing too hard.
Seth: Quite easy
Akuma: nothing too hard
Gouken: nothing to mention
Cammy: nothing to mention
Fei Long: Lv.19 took me about 10 minutes, annoying. rest are not hard
Sakura: long combos but not hard to link really.
Rose: nothing too hard, nice combos with her ultra 2
Gen: lv.24 was much easier than SF4 Hard trial 5, but still took me around ~15 min because of his "Aweeewa"
Dan: lv.23 or 24 took some time due to stupid timing for the air ex-senpu kyaku.
T.Hawk: Probably the easiest.
Dee Jay: nothing to mention
Guy: nothing to mention
Cody: nothing to mention
Ibuki: Lv.24 took me some time, but because its almost as viper's SJC to ultra, I didnt struggle much, probable around 20 minutes to get used to the link.
Makoto: Lv.24 had a new idea, loved it, took me some time.
Dudley: nothing too hard
Adon: Annoying.. (As a character, lol), nothing too hard
Hakan: Lv.19 was tricky, but figured it out, nothing else was too hard
Juri: Loved the Lv.24 idea, sweat combo ideas. nothing too hard
I've been loving Makoto lately and practicing her, hopefully I'll be able to play online once i finish my stupid projects. Till next post' ;)
Saturday, April 10, 2010
Over 1900 hours of gameplay!
So, I have been playing STREET FIGHTER IV for quite a while, for over a year that is. And here is a Screenie of my record.
I just reached 1900 hours of game play "On my console" not to mention playing in friends' house, playing in cafe, or playing STREET FIGHTER IV on my laptop, So I am guessing over 2000 hours of game play.
I got all Titles and Icons which was fun. I didn't really do much in ranked matches because I enjoyed friendly matches way more, and also the "Lag Factor" if you go to my older entries.
The 7666 is the rounds I played totally online (Excluding offline), with 70% winning rate, I somehow blame the lag :P, but it does not matter now that Super is coming out and me upgrading to a better internet speed. I will be aiming for at least 80%+ in Super!
As for the winning streak I am not sure how that works, I don't remember how I got the 41, but hopefully again in Super I will make it higher.
These are the medals that I got, I had 536 "CHEAP" wins, hahaha. 489 Perfects~
Now I will start showing my Character Record from lowest played to most.
25) Rose: Only 10 rounds online, Rose is a good character, I did not give her her chance probably, but I enjoy playing other characters.
24) Dan: I think everyone has the same thing, Dan is a Joke character, we play him when we feel like kidding around.. OYAJIIIII~
23) Vega: This is a good character, but I didn't try him that much I guess.
22) Gen: Probably I didn't play Gen because he might die any moment in the match? though he is fun to play with if you know how to do his mk hands combo.
21) Fei long: "NOT MY TYPE"...
20) Blanka: I might as well hate characters that lack combos. For some reason, I don't like Blanka :(
19) Sakura: She's fun to play with, and has nice long combos, but has little options once cornered or pressured, not that good with serious matches.
18) Cammy: to say the truth, I HATE PLAYING AGAINST CAMMY, maybe thats why I dont pick her a lot, but lately I started playing her and she's quite fun to honestly.
17) Sagat: "CHEAP" enough said, lol, I dislike playing him. I might give him a shot in Super because he's gonna be better
16) Rufus: I probably picked him to try couple of combos online, I dont enjoy playing him though.
15) Gouken: Fun character.
14) E. Honda: I love this character, he got some nice moves and tricks.
13) Ken: Probably I chose Ken so I show those many scrubs online how to actually use him, none the less, I don't like Ken myself.
12) El Fuerte: A good character to ANNOY THE HELL out of your opponent, I played him mostly to do the RSF online.
11) Abel: Very good mix-up game, fun to play.
10) Seth: Really fun to play, best zoner in the game.
9) Zangief: Lately I started enjoying playing Gief, I DO NOT SPAM LARIETS! :P, I love his normals, and his grabs, I like these type of characters, T.Hawk gonna be one of my mains in Super!
8) Chun Li: was my second main after I bought the game, though I left her later.
7) M. Bison: I love this guy, his pokes are TOO GOOD, although he didnt have many ultra set-ups.
6) Dhalsim: Probably I fell in love with this guy after Iyo has won Japan's national SFIV tournament 2008, he got many tricks and long long pokes o.o
5) Akuma: Very interesting character, WAY TOO MANY WAKE UP SETUPS, amazing combos. all in one character, though not many ultra setups to speak of.
4) Guile: My 3rd main after Chun Li, I played him quite a while before finally switching off. he has really great normals.
3) Ryu: My first main when I bought the game. Come on, who didn't choose him when he bought the game? :P, Though I started hating him when I realized he had way too many options with easy setups and combos.
2) Balrog: I won Dubai World Championship with him last year. He is a fearsome straight forward IN YOUR FACE character. I stopped playing him now though, I got rusty with him!
1) C.Viper: 3000 online rounds with her! Almost as double as the rounds I played with Balrog, my ex-main. Yet I am having trouble playing against Balrogs online with viper. I love this character, Very hard to master, but the reward is really great. she's a very tricky character with all her feints and cross ups. With her new Ultra in Super and increased hit points by 50, and with Sagat/Zangief being nerfed, Viper will definitely be more noticeable now.
I did not show my Arcade Stick that I got in my Arcade Stick Entry, so, here are some pics :P
I just reached 1900 hours of game play "On my console" not to mention playing in friends' house, playing in cafe, or playing STREET FIGHTER IV on my laptop, So I am guessing over 2000 hours of game play.
I got all Titles and Icons which was fun. I didn't really do much in ranked matches because I enjoyed friendly matches way more, and also the "Lag Factor" if you go to my older entries.
The 7666 is the rounds I played totally online (Excluding offline), with 70% winning rate, I somehow blame the lag :P, but it does not matter now that Super is coming out and me upgrading to a better internet speed. I will be aiming for at least 80%+ in Super!
As for the winning streak I am not sure how that works, I don't remember how I got the 41, but hopefully again in Super I will make it higher.
These are the medals that I got, I had 536 "CHEAP" wins, hahaha. 489 Perfects~
Now I will start showing my Character Record from lowest played to most.
25) Rose: Only 10 rounds online, Rose is a good character, I did not give her her chance probably, but I enjoy playing other characters.
24) Dan: I think everyone has the same thing, Dan is a Joke character, we play him when we feel like kidding around.. OYAJIIIII~
23) Vega: This is a good character, but I didn't try him that much I guess.
22) Gen: Probably I didn't play Gen because he might die any moment in the match? though he is fun to play with if you know how to do his mk hands combo.
21) Fei long: "NOT MY TYPE"...
20) Blanka: I might as well hate characters that lack combos. For some reason, I don't like Blanka :(
19) Sakura: She's fun to play with, and has nice long combos, but has little options once cornered or pressured, not that good with serious matches.
18) Cammy: to say the truth, I HATE PLAYING AGAINST CAMMY, maybe thats why I dont pick her a lot, but lately I started playing her and she's quite fun to honestly.
17) Sagat: "CHEAP" enough said, lol, I dislike playing him. I might give him a shot in Super because he's gonna be better
16) Rufus: I probably picked him to try couple of combos online, I dont enjoy playing him though.
15) Gouken: Fun character.
14) E. Honda: I love this character, he got some nice moves and tricks.
13) Ken: Probably I chose Ken so I show those many scrubs online how to actually use him, none the less, I don't like Ken myself.
12) El Fuerte: A good character to ANNOY THE HELL out of your opponent, I played him mostly to do the RSF online.
11) Abel: Very good mix-up game, fun to play.
10) Seth: Really fun to play, best zoner in the game.
9) Zangief: Lately I started enjoying playing Gief, I DO NOT SPAM LARIETS! :P, I love his normals, and his grabs, I like these type of characters, T.Hawk gonna be one of my mains in Super!
8) Chun Li: was my second main after I bought the game, though I left her later.
7) M. Bison: I love this guy, his pokes are TOO GOOD, although he didnt have many ultra set-ups.
6) Dhalsim: Probably I fell in love with this guy after Iyo has won Japan's national SFIV tournament 2008, he got many tricks and long long pokes o.o
5) Akuma: Very interesting character, WAY TOO MANY WAKE UP SETUPS, amazing combos. all in one character, though not many ultra setups to speak of.
4) Guile: My 3rd main after Chun Li, I played him quite a while before finally switching off. he has really great normals.
3) Ryu: My first main when I bought the game. Come on, who didn't choose him when he bought the game? :P, Though I started hating him when I realized he had way too many options with easy setups and combos.
2) Balrog: I won Dubai World Championship with him last year. He is a fearsome straight forward IN YOUR FACE character. I stopped playing him now though, I got rusty with him!
1) C.Viper: 3000 online rounds with her! Almost as double as the rounds I played with Balrog, my ex-main. Yet I am having trouble playing against Balrogs online with viper. I love this character, Very hard to master, but the reward is really great. she's a very tricky character with all her feints and cross ups. With her new Ultra in Super and increased hit points by 50, and with Sagat/Zangief being nerfed, Viper will definitely be more noticeable now.
I did not show my Arcade Stick that I got in my Arcade Stick Entry, so, here are some pics :P
Dubai Gamerz Tournament
This thursday Dubai gamerz tournament launched for both SFIV and some other game, football i think, whatever that game name is, I dont give a damn :P
It was group system for people who came before ~5pm, and elimination for people who came after 5 but before 6.
Each group had 8 people, and only 3 from each group qualifies, everyone fights everyone in the group, 1 set, 3 rounds. There was 6 groups, For me, I came in late, So i joined the elimination rounds, 1 set, 2 rounds. My first round was against a good chun-li, I won 2-0, my second one was with an average Boxer, I guess he had no experience whatsoever against C.Viper, as Balrog can destroy viper easily. So after my win I went to semi finals!
If i recall correctly those are the people who qualified from each group:
Group 1: Ryu, Sagat, Zangief
Group 2: Zangief, Chun Li, Akuma
Group 3: Dhalsim, Zangief, Chun Li
Group 4: Blanka, Zangief, Ryu
Group 5: Gen, El Fuerte, Chun-Li
Group 6: Guile, Ken, Rufus
*From Elimination* : C.Viper(me), Ryu
As you can see there were 4 Zangiefs.. (lol).. though only 1 Sagat, which was kind of nice..
I've seen many great rounds from these group fights. one of them was an El Fuerte player (Akashwan) from group 5 that won 7/7 matches, he destroyed everyone in his group which was great because fuerte is an almost forgotten player. Another player Ken (Tan_UAE) has showed a very fearsome Ken. Also a Chun Li (Dukefleeed) from group 5 was playing in a really interesting way, not to mention Guile player (Booom300) who destroyed a good boxer in his group and showed really good matches. Also a very scary Gen player (UAE4HAMAD) who showed no mercy for his opponents though he is too old and going to die at any second now (Gen..) lol.
Rufus (Mho-J) from group 6 was also performing a great job.
I haven't been able to see group 1-2-3 matches, so I'm not sure how those worked out.
2 guys came from Kuwait specially for this event. One was Ryu and the other was Chun Li. The Semi-Finals has finally started. I cant remember the order of the fights, but I'll write what I remember.
First the order has been decided by drawing the names, the last name was El-Fuerte who has been qualified by chance.
Gen has faced a Gief in his first semi-final round, as though this Gen was very good, he had a bad match-up against Zangief, so naturally he lost, but he had a great performance to speak though~
A friend of mine Chun Li (Dukefleeed) has faced the Kuwaiti Chun Li, First the Kuwaiti Chun was winning, but Duke has done a great comeback and won in the end, it was an interesting mirror match.
Guile (Booom300) "Who won last UAE tournament" had this minor injury in his thumb, so he did not perform that well, though he did qualify to semi-finals regarding the pain he had :P . He faced a Sagat (Ammar_) who was also one of the Organizers of the tournament. They both did a great job but Sagat won in the end. Hard luck to our friend Guile :)
Then comes my game, I, C.viper(SedoSan) Faced a Zangief(alain599)!!, My luck! :P, last tournament in the semi-finals I met a Zangief as well, (lol)... But this time I had much better concentration than last time. I did not screw up my combos this time at least. I lost my first round though I was leading, I won my second round, Lost my third then won my fourth, the last round we both had less than 5% hit points left. I know Zangief was going to jump on me. AND HE DID JUMP! A flash came across my mind that I won.. I used my Ultra!!!, Usually my ultra will punish jump-in attacks. The thing is, My ultra did not come out! *Bummer* and I got kicked in the face :P and So, I lost and was disqualified.
I cant recall what happened between the Blanka(SoulEliminator) and the Kuwaiti Ryu (Najeebi)sp? As there was a strong battle going on the other screen between Ken(TAN_UAE) and Zangief(RMT)sp?
The Ryu has won in that round against Blanka. But in the other battle, Ken was leading and DOMINATING in the first couple of rounds, he totally annihilated Gief, though I dont know what happened to him in the 3rd round. Looks like Gief has casted a Spell in his heart and GAVE HIM FEAR. Ken was almost paralyzed, he kept defending, RMT has totally changed the outcome of that fight and finally won 3-2. btw this ken has won 2nd place in last UAE tournament, but he was playing Akuma that time.
I dont recall Dhalsim's round, but he lost, The other Chun-Li has lost to the Kuwaiti Ryu If I recall correctly.
Rufus won an average Ryu in his first round. Then Rufus has met Zangief(Alain599) and won him, I dont recall who took out Akuma, but that akuma was an average player.
Then there was Fuerte's Match against Sagat who took out Guile. First round Sagat won, Second round Fuerte has done a great come back. Third round Fuerte has baited sagat to tiger shot and used his ultra! Everyone clapped once the Ultra animation went off, but what shocked everyone is that Fuerte did not land on Sagat, though he was close!! Then we realized something was wrong with the controller, but Fuerte couldnt do anything about it, and under frustration he lost his 3rd round as well.. But lesson learned from this is "Bring your own controller next time" :P
Sagat then Faced Rufus, and it ended with Rufus winning. This Sagat was an average+ Sagat though.
Kuwaiti Ryu has lost to RMT's Zangief. Al though this Ryu was a great one, it looked like he had no experience against Gief fights, he kept falling for his grab traps and his wake up cross ups.
Sagat has faced the Kuwaiti Ryu to decide who would be ranked 3rd, it ended with Sagat winning.
In the final battle, Rufus(Mho-J) has faced Zangief(RMT), this is the youtube link. As you can see, Zangief has won the tournament, From the video you will notice TOO MUCH NOISE coming from cheering :P, Those guys were cheering insanely. Some of the "Sentences" that came out were:
Show him that the Kitchen is his place! (Fuerte vs Sagat)
Let the Russian teach this Beautiful girl that fighting is not what she should do (Viper vs Gief)
This Indian Guy came in without a VISA! (Dhalsim vs *I cant remember*)
And lots of their comments were like: "Come on, you dont have to fight, you will lose 3 rounds perfect, Just sign him Victory!!" Usually saying this to people against their friends in fights.
Some were funny, Some were just annoying and uncalled for.
Over all, the tournament was good, great players, had lots of fun, though i wish i won :P
There was a Draw in the end for the guests and viewers. 5 prizes, They drew the first name "Name 1 here", a little kid comes and pick up his PSP. The second name was "Name 1 here" again! they said wow, really lucky, but they didnt give him the 2nd prize, a third name was drawn and it was "Name 2 here", so another kid "Kid 1's friend" comes and take the prize, a PSP. The 4th name was "Name 2 here" AGAIN!!!, people started doubting. They checked the names in the box. almost 50+ of them were both of these kids name. THERE WAS MANIPULATION! These prizes were revoked from these kids and justice has been received! *MUWAHAHAHA*...
So what they did is they took the name tags from the participants and did the draw from it later. and everything worked normally then.
After the match lots of people stayed and played against each other. It was great. In the end, everyone left :P Duh..
So.. Tournament finished.. There is another tournament in 3 weeks in AbuDhabi. But SSFIV would've been out already by then.
It was group system for people who came before ~5pm, and elimination for people who came after 5 but before 6.
Each group had 8 people, and only 3 from each group qualifies, everyone fights everyone in the group, 1 set, 3 rounds. There was 6 groups, For me, I came in late, So i joined the elimination rounds, 1 set, 2 rounds. My first round was against a good chun-li, I won 2-0, my second one was with an average Boxer, I guess he had no experience whatsoever against C.Viper, as Balrog can destroy viper easily. So after my win I went to semi finals!
If i recall correctly those are the people who qualified from each group:
Group 1: Ryu, Sagat, Zangief
Group 2: Zangief, Chun Li, Akuma
Group 3: Dhalsim, Zangief, Chun Li
Group 4: Blanka, Zangief, Ryu
Group 5: Gen, El Fuerte, Chun-Li
Group 6: Guile, Ken, Rufus
*From Elimination* : C.Viper(me), Ryu
As you can see there were 4 Zangiefs.. (lol).. though only 1 Sagat, which was kind of nice..
I've seen many great rounds from these group fights. one of them was an El Fuerte player (Akashwan) from group 5 that won 7/7 matches, he destroyed everyone in his group which was great because fuerte is an almost forgotten player. Another player Ken (Tan_UAE) has showed a very fearsome Ken. Also a Chun Li (Dukefleeed) from group 5 was playing in a really interesting way, not to mention Guile player (Booom300) who destroyed a good boxer in his group and showed really good matches. Also a very scary Gen player (UAE4HAMAD) who showed no mercy for his opponents though he is too old and going to die at any second now (Gen..) lol.
Rufus (Mho-J) from group 6 was also performing a great job.
I haven't been able to see group 1-2-3 matches, so I'm not sure how those worked out.
2 guys came from Kuwait specially for this event. One was Ryu and the other was Chun Li. The Semi-Finals has finally started. I cant remember the order of the fights, but I'll write what I remember.
First the order has been decided by drawing the names, the last name was El-Fuerte who has been qualified by chance.
Gen has faced a Gief in his first semi-final round, as though this Gen was very good, he had a bad match-up against Zangief, so naturally he lost, but he had a great performance to speak though~
A friend of mine Chun Li (Dukefleeed) has faced the Kuwaiti Chun Li, First the Kuwaiti Chun was winning, but Duke has done a great comeback and won in the end, it was an interesting mirror match.
Guile (Booom300) "Who won last UAE tournament" had this minor injury in his thumb, so he did not perform that well, though he did qualify to semi-finals regarding the pain he had :P . He faced a Sagat (Ammar_) who was also one of the Organizers of the tournament. They both did a great job but Sagat won in the end. Hard luck to our friend Guile :)
Then comes my game, I, C.viper(SedoSan) Faced a Zangief(alain599)!!, My luck! :P, last tournament in the semi-finals I met a Zangief as well, (lol)... But this time I had much better concentration than last time. I did not screw up my combos this time at least. I lost my first round though I was leading, I won my second round, Lost my third then won my fourth, the last round we both had less than 5% hit points left. I know Zangief was going to jump on me. AND HE DID JUMP! A flash came across my mind that I won.. I used my Ultra!!!, Usually my ultra will punish jump-in attacks. The thing is, My ultra did not come out! *Bummer* and I got kicked in the face :P and So, I lost and was disqualified.
I cant recall what happened between the Blanka(SoulEliminator) and the Kuwaiti Ryu (Najeebi)sp? As there was a strong battle going on the other screen between Ken(TAN_UAE) and Zangief(RMT)sp?
The Ryu has won in that round against Blanka. But in the other battle, Ken was leading and DOMINATING in the first couple of rounds, he totally annihilated Gief, though I dont know what happened to him in the 3rd round. Looks like Gief has casted a Spell in his heart and GAVE HIM FEAR. Ken was almost paralyzed, he kept defending, RMT has totally changed the outcome of that fight and finally won 3-2. btw this ken has won 2nd place in last UAE tournament, but he was playing Akuma that time.
I dont recall Dhalsim's round, but he lost, The other Chun-Li has lost to the Kuwaiti Ryu If I recall correctly.
Rufus won an average Ryu in his first round. Then Rufus has met Zangief(Alain599) and won him, I dont recall who took out Akuma, but that akuma was an average player.
Then there was Fuerte's Match against Sagat who took out Guile. First round Sagat won, Second round Fuerte has done a great come back. Third round Fuerte has baited sagat to tiger shot and used his ultra! Everyone clapped once the Ultra animation went off, but what shocked everyone is that Fuerte did not land on Sagat, though he was close!! Then we realized something was wrong with the controller, but Fuerte couldnt do anything about it, and under frustration he lost his 3rd round as well.. But lesson learned from this is "Bring your own controller next time" :P
Sagat then Faced Rufus, and it ended with Rufus winning. This Sagat was an average+ Sagat though.
Kuwaiti Ryu has lost to RMT's Zangief. Al though this Ryu was a great one, it looked like he had no experience against Gief fights, he kept falling for his grab traps and his wake up cross ups.
Sagat has faced the Kuwaiti Ryu to decide who would be ranked 3rd, it ended with Sagat winning.
In the final battle, Rufus(Mho-J) has faced Zangief(RMT), this is the youtube link. As you can see, Zangief has won the tournament, From the video you will notice TOO MUCH NOISE coming from cheering :P, Those guys were cheering insanely. Some of the "Sentences" that came out were:
Show him that the Kitchen is his place! (Fuerte vs Sagat)
Let the Russian teach this Beautiful girl that fighting is not what she should do (Viper vs Gief)
This Indian Guy came in without a VISA! (Dhalsim vs *I cant remember*)
And lots of their comments were like: "Come on, you dont have to fight, you will lose 3 rounds perfect, Just sign him Victory!!" Usually saying this to people against their friends in fights.
Some were funny, Some were just annoying and uncalled for.
Over all, the tournament was good, great players, had lots of fun, though i wish i won :P
There was a Draw in the end for the guests and viewers. 5 prizes, They drew the first name "Name 1 here", a little kid comes and pick up his PSP. The second name was "Name 1 here" again! they said wow, really lucky, but they didnt give him the 2nd prize, a third name was drawn and it was "Name 2 here", so another kid "Kid 1's friend" comes and take the prize, a PSP. The 4th name was "Name 2 here" AGAIN!!!, people started doubting. They checked the names in the box. almost 50+ of them were both of these kids name. THERE WAS MANIPULATION! These prizes were revoked from these kids and justice has been received! *MUWAHAHAHA*...
So what they did is they took the name tags from the participants and did the draw from it later. and everything worked normally then.
After the match lots of people stayed and played against each other. It was great. In the end, everyone left :P Duh..
So.. Tournament finished.. There is another tournament in 3 weeks in AbuDhabi. But SSFIV would've been out already by then.
Sunday, April 4, 2010
Thoughts about changing to Arcade stick.
So, I've finally gotten myself a Sweet SFIV MadCatz TE arcade stick. These things feel smooth and pretty!
This is my second day trying out the arcade stick...
IT IS HORRIBLE! LOL.. no not really. I used to play with an arcade stick back in the arcade shops in the city, (Happy Land and Wahda Mall) and in the old days where Action Zone existed and KOF was still there. So, in other words, I do not totally suck in Arcade sticks!
My wrist begun to swallow from the stick wrist handle? I am not sure if it is because of their design, or my hands.. but I might just get used to it eventually.
I am happy about placing the stick on my lap while playing, It does not slide nor affect my input. I like the buttons and how smooth they are, they are (Sanwa) parts, a very good if not the best company that produces arcade equip.
Now for gameplay.........
......
.....
It was sad.. lol
....
Well, I started my very first character with the stick with Cammy, her instant cannon strike was much much easier to perform on the stick. I'm used to this move input because I used it a lot with C.Viper for her instant burning kick. It is the same motion.
I was able to perform FADC to either forward or back dash with no problems. I perform ultra no problem, but not as fast as the joystick.
I found myself to keep getting confused over which is a punch and which is a kick. I kept trying to do a canon spike with a punch button!
I found myself not being able to perform option select inputs with the arcade as easy.
Viper's Free FADC is much harder to do on the stick (for now). Also lots of viper tricks is harder for me to do (now) on the stick, instant SJ BK, Ex-Seismo xx Ex-Seismo. SJC-Ultra, and lots of other stuff, I have to work hard on them all again now :(
Though, Viper's FFF is much easier to do in the stick, and chances I'll screw and get super or ultra is much less now.
I still use 3 buttons to perform EX move instead of 2 buttons, this troubles me when a 3 buttons is used for characters for different moves such as akuma's teleport, and akuma's EX-Shoryuken. Also, sometimes an Ultra will come out instead of the EX because I press all 3 buttons, I have to get used to 2 buttons only.
Seems I still have some execution problems when trying to perform a qcb motion. a SRK comes out!! its ridiculous, I go from down to left on the stick, and a SRK comes out, I try to do viper's thunder knuckle, yet a seismo comes out! how sick is that? I have no idea why that happens, but it happened to me in the arcade shop as well, so I guess I am doing something wrong.. I have to work on this.
Piano input works BEAUTIFULLY, i am very happy with this. I am doing Honda's hands out of his jab everytime. its crazy! I have not tried blanka/gen/etc yet. I tried Chun-li's ex legs, but did not spend long time on it. Seemed kinda tricky.
Trying to press up alone seemed also tricky, Pressing down alone is way easier coz of how your hand is shaped, you can push your 4 fingers down to go down, but to go up, you have to push the stick with your thumb, and it has to be exactly up, I found myself sometimes go up right or up left, so I try to be extra careful when trying to press up, but when I do that, i almost left my hand off the stick and causes some trouble so I have to work on that as well.
I've tried Double tapping and P-linking, Its very hard to get adjusted to them at first, But I hope this gets better with time. I found it much easier to link 2+ frame links with double tapping, but its hard to adjust to that in the middle of a combo, as my mind will focus on double tapping and forget to continue, so that I have to work with.
I found it easier to link 1 frame link with the traditional on the spot press, but that's probably because I got good timing, I'd get 7+/10, but if with priority I can increase that, I would go for it, but from what i've seen now, p-linking is somehow difficult, and as I said above, I have to adjust to it when in a middle of a combo.
Guile and Vega's Ultra are much easier to land with the stick. I'd say 90% to 65% on the joystick.
Basically, Stuff your muscle brain memorized with the joystick wont help you here. The timing only might help you, but the places of the buttons wont.
I'm used to punish some moves that get a little range with viper's cr.mk to m.TK, I found myself never doing this on the arcade stick, I have to rebuild my muscle memory all over again.
Well, I hope this is going to be worth it. But starting today, I will only use the arcade stick!.. well, there is a tournament next week, so I might use the joystick one last time before completely converting to the Arcade Stick. Till then, Have fun ;)
This is my second day trying out the arcade stick...
IT IS HORRIBLE! LOL.. no not really. I used to play with an arcade stick back in the arcade shops in the city, (Happy Land and Wahda Mall) and in the old days where Action Zone existed and KOF was still there. So, in other words, I do not totally suck in Arcade sticks!
My wrist begun to swallow from the stick wrist handle? I am not sure if it is because of their design, or my hands.. but I might just get used to it eventually.
I am happy about placing the stick on my lap while playing, It does not slide nor affect my input. I like the buttons and how smooth they are, they are (Sanwa) parts, a very good if not the best company that produces arcade equip.
Now for gameplay.........
......
.....
It was sad.. lol
....
Well, I started my very first character with the stick with Cammy, her instant cannon strike was much much easier to perform on the stick. I'm used to this move input because I used it a lot with C.Viper for her instant burning kick. It is the same motion.
I was able to perform FADC to either forward or back dash with no problems. I perform ultra no problem, but not as fast as the joystick.
I found myself to keep getting confused over which is a punch and which is a kick. I kept trying to do a canon spike with a punch button!
I found myself not being able to perform option select inputs with the arcade as easy.
Viper's Free FADC is much harder to do on the stick (for now). Also lots of viper tricks is harder for me to do (now) on the stick, instant SJ BK, Ex-Seismo xx Ex-Seismo. SJC-Ultra, and lots of other stuff, I have to work hard on them all again now :(
Though, Viper's FFF is much easier to do in the stick, and chances I'll screw and get super or ultra is much less now.
I still use 3 buttons to perform EX move instead of 2 buttons, this troubles me when a 3 buttons is used for characters for different moves such as akuma's teleport, and akuma's EX-Shoryuken. Also, sometimes an Ultra will come out instead of the EX because I press all 3 buttons, I have to get used to 2 buttons only.
Seems I still have some execution problems when trying to perform a qcb motion. a SRK comes out!! its ridiculous, I go from down to left on the stick, and a SRK comes out, I try to do viper's thunder knuckle, yet a seismo comes out! how sick is that? I have no idea why that happens, but it happened to me in the arcade shop as well, so I guess I am doing something wrong.. I have to work on this.
Piano input works BEAUTIFULLY, i am very happy with this. I am doing Honda's hands out of his jab everytime. its crazy! I have not tried blanka/gen/etc yet. I tried Chun-li's ex legs, but did not spend long time on it. Seemed kinda tricky.
Trying to press up alone seemed also tricky, Pressing down alone is way easier coz of how your hand is shaped, you can push your 4 fingers down to go down, but to go up, you have to push the stick with your thumb, and it has to be exactly up, I found myself sometimes go up right or up left, so I try to be extra careful when trying to press up, but when I do that, i almost left my hand off the stick and causes some trouble so I have to work on that as well.
I've tried Double tapping and P-linking, Its very hard to get adjusted to them at first, But I hope this gets better with time. I found it much easier to link 2+ frame links with double tapping, but its hard to adjust to that in the middle of a combo, as my mind will focus on double tapping and forget to continue, so that I have to work with.
I found it easier to link 1 frame link with the traditional on the spot press, but that's probably because I got good timing, I'd get 7+/10, but if with priority I can increase that, I would go for it, but from what i've seen now, p-linking is somehow difficult, and as I said above, I have to adjust to it when in a middle of a combo.
Guile and Vega's Ultra are much easier to land with the stick. I'd say 90% to 65% on the joystick.
Basically, Stuff your muscle brain memorized with the joystick wont help you here. The timing only might help you, but the places of the buttons wont.
I'm used to punish some moves that get a little range with viper's cr.mk to m.TK, I found myself never doing this on the arcade stick, I have to rebuild my muscle memory all over again.
Well, I hope this is going to be worth it. But starting today, I will only use the arcade stick!.. well, there is a tournament next week, so I might use the joystick one last time before completely converting to the Arcade Stick. Till then, Have fun ;)
Monday, March 22, 2010
I need an Arcade Stick!
Ok, I don't know where to start..
I have not written in a while.. So many news, SSF4 and stuff.. I didn't know what I should include or what I should not, so I just did not write anything!
Anyways, This week was full of surprises.. I found out there is still A LOT to learn in SF!
I will be talking about 2 new methods I learned this week, and why I need an arcade stick :P
First of all, the Option Select method. I knew this for quite a while, but I never really used it because I used to win without it, not until I met better players, aside than that. Some situations, an Option Select would be really helpful to use. For those who don't know what Option Select is. It is when you input more than 1 command at the same time.
1 very very good example if for example lets choose Akuma, Go to training, and set the recording dummy for akuma. Move to the opponent and Sweep him, walk to him, as soon as he stands, press:
c.Lp + c.Lk -> c.Hk -> c.Lp -> whatever combo you like (Keep guarding while crouching)
if you input the command successfully what akuma will do is first he will sweep, then he will move forward and when opponent stands, he will do a crouching low kick into a crouching low punch into whatever combo you did. The crouching kick at the beginning came out because of priority, The second Sweep will not come out if you did it correctly, so why did we do this?
Now set the Akuma to Playback and let him Sweep you the first time.
Lets see the different scenarios when you stand up:
1- if you keep guarding:
Akuma will block string you
2- if you try grabbing:
Akuma will tick grab you.
3- if you try to back dash to escape:
Akuma will sweep you out of it and knock you down.
4- if you try to counter with lets say a shoryuken:
Akuma will guard
Scenario 1 is obvious.
Scenario 2, why would he tick grab you? lets see the input again, we pressed crouching low punch + low kick, thats a grab, but because you're crouching, a kick comes out instead, but if you're being tried to be grabbed, the grab will come out instead and tick him. Sweet huh?
Scenario 3, why did the sweep come out now but it didnt come out before? its because of the block stun. if the opponent guards the low kick, a period of time will pass by where you wont be able to Sweep because of the start up frames of it. but since he back dashes, the low kick whiffs, thus there will not be any block stun. so its easier to start the sweep.
Scenario 4, Because you're already blocking while crouching, Akuma will continue blocking if he got hit.
See? 4 different outcomes in 1 single command. This is pretty useful. And there are plenty of other examples and useful cases.
For me, I started using this mostly when I cross up. sometimes my cross up whiffs and i find myself being grabbed. so now when i cross up, i always grab few frames later, thus if i whiff my cross up, i will grab my opponent or tick him. but if my cross up does not whiff.. I continue normally. This helped me a lot, and left my opponents puzzled :P quite amusing.
So basically an Option select is where you input multiple commands, and depending on the situation, the best option will come out.
The second thing I learned is the Double-tapping/P-linking, basically this is where you make a hard 1-frame link into a 2 frame link, or a 2 frame link into 4 frame link, you're making the chance of it working a 200%!, how this works is first, double tapping is where you press the same button twice using your index and middle finger instantly after each other starting with the middle finger first. Of course this is done using an arcade, because with a joystick, you probably are using your thumb and it would be really hard to double tap this way.
when using double tapping, you first press the button, you release, then press again. so in here, you enter 3 commands but 2 hits (Press, Release, Press), thus this takes up 3 frames. This works best for 2-frame links or more
..++ (This is the 2 frame link)
+-+ (You're -2 frames earlier, but you still managed to link!)
.+-+ (You're -1 frame earlier, but your second input worked)
..+-+ (Your first input had already worked)
...+-+(You're +1 frames late but it doesn't matter. it worked)
lets see this for a 1 frame link:
..+ (This is your 1 frame link)
+-+ (You're -2 frames earlier, but you managed to link)
.+-+ (You're -1 frames earlier, but the link was in your release!)
..+-+ (You're exactly on time, so it hits)
as you can see with double tapping for 2 frame links, you can hit it with 4 frames
but with 1 frame link, you have 3 frames, but 1 of them will miss. somehow making it still a 1 frame link.
The other one is the P-linking, or the Priority linking. instead of pressing the same button twice after each other, in here, your press 2 different buttons but with one faster than the other. If you go to training and show inputs, then press MP and instantly press LP while still pressing MP, you will see the first frame will show the MP, then the second frame will show you LP+MP, in here we had 2 presses, and 2 hits. the reason its called Priority linking, is because when you press LP+MP, the MP will come out because it has higher priority.
Priority buttons are as followed from lowest to highest:
LP, LK, MP, MK, HP, HK.
now lets see the two situations again in here
..++ (This is the 2 frame link)
.++ (You're -1 frames earlier, but you still managed to link!)
..++ (You're on time)
...++ (You're +1 frames late but it doesn't matter, you linked.)
*in here you have only 3 frames where in double tapping you get 4 frames.
..+ (This is your 1 frame link)
.++ (You're -1 frames earlier, but you managed to link)
..++ (You're on time)
*in here you can see both of them worked so you have 2 frames in this method, the difference between this and double tapping is that here it is consequent, So you will not have to worry about the "Release" being placed in the Frame Link.
Now after learning about this, I understand why people laugh at pad users :P
I personally did not have that much of trouble linking with a pad, because I practice a lot, but with an arcade stick, I will be able to rise my consistency higher!
Another thing I wanted from an Arcade Stick is the mashing specials, Which is called the Piano input, it is the moves where you mash buttons to work, like Blanka's Electricity, Honda's hands, etc, its called Piano because you press buttons as if you're playing on a piano. One way of doing it in example for Honda:
lp > mp > hp > mp > hp, this will start with the jab, then his hands special will come out. Though you have to do it presciently else the EX version will come out.
I wanted to practice Gen's hands combo, but there is no way it would be done with a joystick. (Actually it can work, but its very inconvenient)
I have not written in a while.. So many news, SSF4 and stuff.. I didn't know what I should include or what I should not, so I just did not write anything!
Anyways, This week was full of surprises.. I found out there is still A LOT to learn in SF!
I will be talking about 2 new methods I learned this week, and why I need an arcade stick :P
First of all, the Option Select method. I knew this for quite a while, but I never really used it because I used to win without it, not until I met better players, aside than that. Some situations, an Option Select would be really helpful to use. For those who don't know what Option Select is. It is when you input more than 1 command at the same time.
1 very very good example if for example lets choose Akuma, Go to training, and set the recording dummy for akuma. Move to the opponent and Sweep him, walk to him, as soon as he stands, press:
c.Lp + c.Lk -> c.Hk -> c.Lp -> whatever combo you like (Keep guarding while crouching)
if you input the command successfully what akuma will do is first he will sweep, then he will move forward and when opponent stands, he will do a crouching low kick into a crouching low punch into whatever combo you did. The crouching kick at the beginning came out because of priority, The second Sweep will not come out if you did it correctly, so why did we do this?
Now set the Akuma to Playback and let him Sweep you the first time.
Lets see the different scenarios when you stand up:
1- if you keep guarding:
Akuma will block string you
2- if you try grabbing:
Akuma will tick grab you.
3- if you try to back dash to escape:
Akuma will sweep you out of it and knock you down.
4- if you try to counter with lets say a shoryuken:
Akuma will guard
Scenario 1 is obvious.
Scenario 2, why would he tick grab you? lets see the input again, we pressed crouching low punch + low kick, thats a grab, but because you're crouching, a kick comes out instead, but if you're being tried to be grabbed, the grab will come out instead and tick him. Sweet huh?
Scenario 3, why did the sweep come out now but it didnt come out before? its because of the block stun. if the opponent guards the low kick, a period of time will pass by where you wont be able to Sweep because of the start up frames of it. but since he back dashes, the low kick whiffs, thus there will not be any block stun. so its easier to start the sweep.
Scenario 4, Because you're already blocking while crouching, Akuma will continue blocking if he got hit.
See? 4 different outcomes in 1 single command. This is pretty useful. And there are plenty of other examples and useful cases.
For me, I started using this mostly when I cross up. sometimes my cross up whiffs and i find myself being grabbed. so now when i cross up, i always grab few frames later, thus if i whiff my cross up, i will grab my opponent or tick him. but if my cross up does not whiff.. I continue normally. This helped me a lot, and left my opponents puzzled :P quite amusing.
So basically an Option select is where you input multiple commands, and depending on the situation, the best option will come out.
The second thing I learned is the Double-tapping/P-linking, basically this is where you make a hard 1-frame link into a 2 frame link, or a 2 frame link into 4 frame link, you're making the chance of it working a 200%!, how this works is first, double tapping is where you press the same button twice using your index and middle finger instantly after each other starting with the middle finger first. Of course this is done using an arcade, because with a joystick, you probably are using your thumb and it would be really hard to double tap this way.
when using double tapping, you first press the button, you release, then press again. so in here, you enter 3 commands but 2 hits (Press, Release, Press), thus this takes up 3 frames. This works best for 2-frame links or more
..++ (This is the 2 frame link)
+-+ (You're -2 frames earlier, but you still managed to link!)
.+-+ (You're -1 frame earlier, but your second input worked)
..+-+ (Your first input had already worked)
...+-+(You're +1 frames late but it doesn't matter. it worked)
lets see this for a 1 frame link:
..+ (This is your 1 frame link)
+-+ (You're -2 frames earlier, but you managed to link)
.+-+ (You're -1 frames earlier, but the link was in your release!)
..+-+ (You're exactly on time, so it hits)
as you can see with double tapping for 2 frame links, you can hit it with 4 frames
but with 1 frame link, you have 3 frames, but 1 of them will miss. somehow making it still a 1 frame link.
The other one is the P-linking, or the Priority linking. instead of pressing the same button twice after each other, in here, your press 2 different buttons but with one faster than the other. If you go to training and show inputs, then press MP and instantly press LP while still pressing MP, you will see the first frame will show the MP, then the second frame will show you LP+MP, in here we had 2 presses, and 2 hits. the reason its called Priority linking, is because when you press LP+MP, the MP will come out because it has higher priority.
Priority buttons are as followed from lowest to highest:
LP, LK, MP, MK, HP, HK.
now lets see the two situations again in here
..++ (This is the 2 frame link)
.++ (You're -1 frames earlier, but you still managed to link!)
..++ (You're on time)
...++ (You're +1 frames late but it doesn't matter, you linked.)
*in here you have only 3 frames where in double tapping you get 4 frames.
..+ (This is your 1 frame link)
.++ (You're -1 frames earlier, but you managed to link)
..++ (You're on time)
*in here you can see both of them worked so you have 2 frames in this method, the difference between this and double tapping is that here it is consequent, So you will not have to worry about the "Release" being placed in the Frame Link.
Now after learning about this, I understand why people laugh at pad users :P
I personally did not have that much of trouble linking with a pad, because I practice a lot, but with an arcade stick, I will be able to rise my consistency higher!
Another thing I wanted from an Arcade Stick is the mashing specials, Which is called the Piano input, it is the moves where you mash buttons to work, like Blanka's Electricity, Honda's hands, etc, its called Piano because you press buttons as if you're playing on a piano. One way of doing it in example for Honda:
lp > mp > hp > mp > hp, this will start with the jab, then his hands special will come out. Though you have to do it presciently else the EX version will come out.
I wanted to practice Gen's hands combo, but there is no way it would be done with a joystick. (Actually it can work, but its very inconvenient)
Saturday, February 27, 2010
Tourney... fail.
So, the tournament finished... 8 groups, 4 players each. 2 from each group go on to 2nd round..
I reached to the 2nd rounds. Top 16.. Now the new list is generated randomly.. And I get the only zangief player in the whole group..
Viper has a major weakness against gief, she can NOT cross up with him coz he'll spam lariet. So my tactic was to spam seismos on him and keep going away. Me, being in the tournament.. I was kind of nervous, my seismos were not being executed perfectly and I find myself jumping towards gief just to get my face lariet'd.. I ended up losing eventually.. And it was game over for me..
It was pretty sad. As the people who've earned the 1st, 2nd and 3rd are on my same level.. I had a high chance. Another thing is that, I've been practicing viper for a pretty long time and I wanted to show the UAE that viper has good stuff.. But against gief viper is pretty limited.. I could read what's going with the viewers minds.. "Why is he playing Viper? He sucks at her.." Which kinda sucks but anyways.
Don't expect much from my video that would be uploaded to youtube.. It was disastrous. But check the other videos, they were diff. Better than mine..
Tournament... Fail.
LoL
See ya at next journey.
I reached to the 2nd rounds. Top 16.. Now the new list is generated randomly.. And I get the only zangief player in the whole group..
Viper has a major weakness against gief, she can NOT cross up with him coz he'll spam lariet. So my tactic was to spam seismos on him and keep going away. Me, being in the tournament.. I was kind of nervous, my seismos were not being executed perfectly and I find myself jumping towards gief just to get my face lariet'd.. I ended up losing eventually.. And it was game over for me..
It was pretty sad. As the people who've earned the 1st, 2nd and 3rd are on my same level.. I had a high chance. Another thing is that, I've been practicing viper for a pretty long time and I wanted to show the UAE that viper has good stuff.. But against gief viper is pretty limited.. I could read what's going with the viewers minds.. "Why is he playing Viper? He sucks at her.." Which kinda sucks but anyways.
Don't expect much from my video that would be uploaded to youtube.. It was disastrous. But check the other videos, they were diff. Better than mine..
Tournament... Fail.
LoL
See ya at next journey.
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