Here are the Top 8 Street Fighter 4 singles matches from East Coast Throwdown this past weekend courtesy of DarkSydePhil. Mike Ross and I had to play each other unfortunately, due to the way the brackets turned out.
Good games to him, sabin, and iloveu and congrats to Marn for winning! Marn, iloveu and sabin are all on the Northeast Evo 5v5 team so make sure you check these guys out because they are some of the East Coast’s finest. Also make sure you check out the matches with Fascinating, who is a relative newcomer to the competitive Street Fighter world and one of Chinatown Fair’s (NY) best players and got 3rd place.
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I’m finally back at home now from my extended stay in New York. Thanks again to Triforce, Justin Wong and Empire Arcadia for having me! It was a crazy trip that was topped off with a weekend in New Jersey for East Coast Throwdown.
DarkSydePhil took a lot of video so for those of you who weren’t watching the live stream last night, you’re in luck! Really glad to have footage from this event because there were some really amazing matches.
The winners of each of these matches go on to Top 8. For those wondering, Mike Ross was put into losers first round by Moose and I was put into losers third round (I think) by Dr. Chaos.
Videos after the jump.
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Monster show today with Texas legend fubarduck!
A little about fubarduck:
- placed 5th in 3s with Chun Li at Evo 2007 and 2008
- trained in Japan for a year and has a great understanding of the Japanese mindset
- just opened up his brand new arcade in Austin, TX, Arcade UFO!
Topics covered:
- the idea of playing against the character, not the player
- his Chun Li vs. Ken strategy
- Akuma in Street Fighter 4
- Ways to land the Raging Demon in Street Fighter 4
- The status of the SF4 scene in Austin
- Staying solid under pressure
Here are the Arcade UFO pictures that we talk about on the show, courtesy of joystiq.com.
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Ed Ma joins me this time on Saturday, right before we went to SBO west quals at Family Fun Arcade. Good times with Ed, here is what we talked about
- openings in offense vs. different characters
- Ken vs. Makoto
- turtling
- sitting on a lead
- tournament experience
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Back again with another episode of the Denjin Video Podcast. This week’s guest is Yi Wang aka 5 Star aka Kobe Bryant. Another monster episode at 1hr25min. We talk about finding a mentor, building a community, Ken setups, mindgames, reading opponents, all kinds of good stuff.
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