I’m over at Devastation right now in Arizona. Today is the first day of Street Fighter 4 and it’s going to be streamed live by djWHEAT and Slasher.
Aside from Street Fighter 4, the plan is to stream Tekken 6, Guilty Gear Accent Core, Super Smash Brothers Brawl, Guitar Hero: World Tour, SF3: 3rd Strike, Marvel vs Capcom 2, SSF2 Turbo HD Remix, and King of Fighters XII. The video feeds for all the games will be hooked up directly to the cabinets for great quality. This will also be the first Tekken 6 tournament in the US, and the first major KOFXII event, in case you care about those games. 
Big names that are here include SBO qualifiers Combofiend and fuburduck, Ed Ma, Ken I, Mike Ross, Justin Wong, fLoE and Marn.
There will also be commentary by myself and whoever else we can collectively get to make the stream a little better. There is also a chat room, go to djWHEAT’s ustream channel.
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What was up between Watson and Gootecks ???? Seemed to me that there was some serious trash talk going on there.Seeme like Watson got in his face and taunted him, after he destroyed Gootecks.Even though Gootecks lost the whole set,it was a valiant effort.Watson had him locked down like 90 % of the time.Cant wait for Sf4 finasl results tomorrow !!!! Its going to be hype !!!!
Is it just me or is Watson a douchebag?
He won using Sagat, and then he has the audacity to talk smack. I
m not saying his Sagat didn’t do a good job, but still you have no right to talk smack if you main Sagat.
Gootecks, you are the best, you should not have lost. That was bogus. Hopefully Justin Wong puts Watson straight
they talked about it a little in the feed, but it got interrupted. From what I saw there was a chat log where Watson was telling a story about a time a bunch of people were playing together and he thought Gootecks came off as cocky, and took it as Gootecks disrespecting him in front of his friends. It’s just one side of the story, I don’t know if there was anything else behind it, but they were making it sound like there was some bad blood between him and watson.
I came up with a point system and I will get it to you ASAP Gootecks. I’m pretty sure you might like it as well as the other top players. I will get it to you shortly. It may need some tweaks, but overall it should work.
I know Watson is an OG legend and shit, but am I really the only one that thinks his new YJDK shirts are the ugliest design ever, lol. He said they took “many hours” to design…seriously?? It’s just the words “you just dont know”, with 3 straight lines on it (and that little controller picture if you order early or something). But the font on “you” is super ugly, the direct translation into Japanese doesn’t really work, and “don’t” is missing an apostrophe, lol. The thing that cracks me up is that people are so on this man’s nuts that everyone is just falling in line and drolling to pay 20 bucks for this thing. Why not just get a white t and write “you just don’t know” on it in black marker… just as nice, and a lot cheaper.
http://forums.shoryuken.com/showthread.php?p=6946195&posted=1#post6946195
lmao no MC, after taking a look at that i find myself agreeing wholeheartedly with you. holy damn that’s a bad shirt design
I don’t understand why there was such a big deal over the 64 bracket? I mean in the end you have beat the top players anyways why not do it earlier if possible. Lets say Mike Ross beat down on Justin, then Justin losses to somebody else in losers. All of a sudden the whole tournament changes. I believe Justin was the guy to beat going into Devastation if he would been put out early the tournament would’ve taken on a whole new life. Yeah I agree that some match-ups were harder then others but in the end I agree with how the brackets ended up. And on a side note I don’t agree with the notion of having some sort of universal scoring system to make up brackets in major events, I believe that type of scoring system leads to more problem then they help.
Lets say Gootecks (for the sake of an example) wins EC throw down, final round and a few other tourneys but in those wins Justin Wong, Marn and a few others top players aren’t there? Then what? how exactly does that prove anything, the high end competition wasn’t there so how would those wins really count towards any overall standing?
Now lets say JWong and Marn were playing tournaments in Japan always placing top ten but never winning, would those top tens count worth more since there were facing manly Japanese opponents (who are considered high tier players)?
I’m not anywhere near a top player in SF4 but say I go to 2 major tournaments. In the first, the luck of the draw is with me and I face people I can beat and someway make it to top 32, but in the second tourney my first 2 opponents are Jwong and Gootecks, I take a moment shit my bricks twice and go for it. Lets say I happen to beat one of the 2 then finish top 32 again the second top 32 would mean more to me because I beat at least 1 top tier player to make it to top 32.
Again that’s just my opinion as soon as the brackets are made I can either not know whats coming to me or shit bricks, either way the end result is the same, I gotta grab the stick and tap the buttons and play to the best of my abilities. I don’t believe brackets should be made to cater to top players to make their road to the top easier than others nor should they be made to give scrub players the hardest possible road.
My remedy for all this would be take all the names put them in a hat and pull them out one by one and let them land where they may, take most of the human involvement out of the bracket making process and let chance take over.
@kornbeaner I agree man,in a real tournament you can’t really choose your opponent,it suppose to be random ,if you could choose who you want it to fight then whats the whole point of having a tournament ???,that like saying ” I want to go go against a lower tier player to have a higher chance to climb up in the brackets”If you are a good tournament player match ups should not really matter, it could go either way,anyone could have a good day or bad day in SF4.Its all about adapting and reacting to different levels of tournament play
I think in that case it probably wasn’t as big a deal as the end story made it out to be. There were a few bad matchups early, but due to the fact that it’s double elim, and the point at which ‘top players’ started being matched up together overall it wasn’t a huge deal. If it’s random this isn’t likely to happen, but they are just trying to guard against a situation where the pools are super lopsided, and you have the well known top players all playing eachother in the first round or something, and ‘no name scrub’ players playing eachother and then you find some scrubs in top 8 that shouldn’t be there compared to the top players that got eliminated early. Still, that’s almost an impossible situation- with random seeds I don’t think there’s really any way you’re gonna get anyone in top 8 that didn’t have to go through some serious competition.
Still- the other side of it is not just the players but the spectators. I think some people feel it’s more fun for the community to see the top players they’ve been following matched up at the very end when the tension is high etc, then killing eachother off at the very beginning. Those are just some arguments from the other side- in the end, I mostly agree with you guys, if it’s random or seeded decently like I think devastation was, things are fair. Some people might complain about having to face a tougher opponent earlier than they wanted, but that’s the luck of the draw. Solution: get good enough to beat everyone else