Hey guys it’s x45x, these are the videos from Bar Fights II. There are Posters, T-shirts, and DVDs still available at the Bar Fights II Store. There was a problem with the 4th video on YouTube, so in the meantime, you can just download the torrent which has the video in its entirety.
Also, we are holding a Q&A in the forums. Any questions about Street Fighter you want answered will be answered on a video or podcast by Gootecks. Go over to the forums and go to the Street Fighter 4 discussion area.
Calculating risk/reward in Street Fighter 4 is critical to winning against good players. This is because during the course of the game, we are put in many situations where we have to calculate whether it’s worth taking a risk in order to land more damage to end the round or gain a substantial life lead. Considering multiple options as well as your opponents options are and what he thinks you will do should lead you to making better decisions during the game.
The most common situation where both players must calculate risk/reward is when a character with a good wakeup Special Move gets knocked down. These special moves include Uppercuts, Flash Kick, EX Messiah Kick, Headbutt, etc. When you knock down one of these characters, you put yourself at risk by getting close enough to them for the opponent to consider doing a Wakeup Uppercut. Calculating the risk/reward payoff is crucial to winning.
Here are some factors to consider when calculating whether to Wakeup Uppercut/Headbutt/etc… [click to continue…]
THESE ARE NOT BIG DISCOVERIES! If you’re a Sagat player, I’m sure you know all of these, so this article is not for you. Recently because I’ve been training students, I’ve been thinking a lot about how to learn new characters from scratch. I thought to myself, “if I were trying to learn a new character, what would be the most systematic way to do it?”
That’s not really what this post is about though, but one of the things that I did think about in terms of character mastery was that you should at least be able to go through all of said character’s combos in Trial Mode. Not to say that all of the combos that Trial Mode makes you do are good or useful, just that if you have mastered your character’s execution, you should be able to do most of them relatively easily.
So I went through Trial Mode with Sagat (or at least tried to until I got to Stage 4 on Trial Mode Hard lol) and realized that even though I’ve played a million of them, there was still a lot to learn about him and I realized some of it while playingTrial Mode.
Here are the Street Fighter 4 Top 8 Finals matches from West Coast Warzone this weekend in Irvine, CA. John Rog and I do commentary, hope you like it. Lots of great matches including:
Hey guys its x45x and registration is OPEN! Gootecks’ Online Tournament 1.1 is on!
To register, just go onto our forums and add your name, location, psn/live username on a post to the thread and you’re good. Registration closes August 5th, and the matches will start the following week (depending on how well i get the brackets done). This time brackets will be posted on the main part of the forums as well as the tournament section, but scores will need to be posted in the tournament section. No excuses. For more details on rules, go over to the forums and check out the registration thread.
Winner of PSN and LIVE get a training/playing session with Gootecks.
Second place of both get a copy of street fighter secret vol 1 on cd or a digital copy.
If you have any questions, you can reach me on any of these services:
AIM: xfourtyfivex45
skype: xfourtyfivex (just tell me you are asking about the tournament
steam: djmanman (will show up as |Ks| x45x)
PSN: smellyboi (i don’t mind throwing down a game with anyone =D)
Here are the Street Fighter 4 Top 8 Finals matches from West Coast Warzone this weekend in Irvine, CA. 
Hey guys its x45x and registration is OPEN! Gootecks’ Online Tournament 1.1 is on!
