3rd Strike player Pyrolee needs your help to get to Japan to represent America in the world’s most prestigious fighting game tournament, Super Battle Opera! Unfortunately Pyro got laid off from his job and needs some help getting to Japan. When I qualified for 3rd Strike in 2008, the community was kind enough to help us out and contributed a lot to our plane tickets. So I am trying to pay it back/forward by spreading the word that one of the best 3rd Strike players of all time needs some help paying for his plane ticket.
If you’re unfamiliar with Pyrolee, he was widely considered the best American 3rd Strike player ever and has represented America in SBO more times than anyone else I can think of. He was actually the very first guest I ever had on the Street Fighter Podcast, so go back and listen to that for some nuggets of 3rd Strike wisdom. Enjoy and please kick down a few bucks if you can!
Update: So apparently Pyro is unable to go to Japan, regardless of his financial situation so donations are no longer needed and 5 Star has informed me that everyone is being refunded. Everybody can cool their jets now and think about more pleasant topics.
Good news! We’re going to be doing a live episode of The Street Fighter Podcast tonight at 8PM PST. It’ll be streamed live on Ufrag. That means that we’re streaming VIDEO woo woo! The topic of the show is SBO quals and I’ll have two guests, Combofiend and 5 Star. If you have any questions, please post them here in the comments or do an @reply to me on Twitter. Should be a very exciting show tonight because I’m also going to be revealing a brand new series that I hope you’ll find interesting.
This is the last video from our crazy SBO adventure! It starts with us on the plane flying to Honolulu for a 12 hour layover. We rent a car and then meet up with Dagger G who shows us around the area to the beach and the local arcade. Good times!
Back again with another podcast, this time chattin’ it up with my good buddy and SBO 2008 teammate KOfiend. It was recorded over Skype and KOfiend’s headset generates some static when he moves, unfortunately, but it’s definitely listenable. It’s a long listen too, at almost two hours! Topics covered:
Good times in Japan
SBO strategy
What the Japanese do differently than we do
Focusing on one area of your game and spending a session dedicated to improving it
The basics of Street Fighter 4 Focus Attacks
Yeah, that’s right. We talk about 3s AND SF4. Hope you like it! Please post feedback in the comments!
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Good news! We’re going to be doing a live episode of The Street Fighter Podcast tonight at 8PM PST. It’ll be streamed live on 
