Fighting Games Weekly | July 13-19 | Stream Monster Yearly: Evolution 2015

That SF4 top 8.... ehhh its pretty dissapointing tbh.
I like it, everyone who got in top 8 was a top 8 contender with the exception of one surprise. 8 players with more than 8 characters, kinda hard to ask for a better top 8.

Nemo's journey through the losers bracket along with his runback with the guy who sent him there is one for the ages.
 
ai ai is the only interesting thing about this years top 8

Hmm, this is a great top 8 imo since there's a mix of EVO veterants and a newcomer as well. I really like watching Tokido play Akuma with his mastered U2 tech (only person in the world which make the U2 look absolutely deadly). Momochi has the best Ken tech and he actually make the character look more interesting than he actually is (one of the most boring incarnation of Ken throughout the series imo).

Infiltration is one lame and boring player, but it's fascinating when you take into consideration just how many characters he can pull out of his ass at any given time. Ai Ai is the newcomer in a super high profile tournament along with a character which we don't see often, so he's going to get a load of bonus points from stream monsters. :p

Gamerbee, Pr Balrog and Nemo are absolute beasts and can all come back from loser to win it all. I don't know if Knuckle is up to that level just yet, but he's definitively the most underrated player in the US simply because he's not the best Guile (but he has a second character with whom he can make serious damage unlike Dieminion who's bread and butter is Guile).
 
A guy in the st chat said that side by side is superior to h2h, cause button watching is skillfull, has you play vs the player, ("if you want to play the screen play the cpu"), more mind games factored in. I'm like ???. He's an og, so I was curious to see what experienced players think.

just chalk it up to "lol old people" and move on
 
I have 8am pools for mkx, but I don't know if I'm going to play. 10 for GG, and that sucks because the doa side tourney starts at the same time.
 
SF top 8 is great. AiAi's play was a fantastic surprise. Plus Momochi v Tokido should be epic.

Kind of rooting for Infiltration to win it.
 
ai ai is the only interesting thing about this years top 8

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Did I miss the SFV beta cutoff date?.... I preordered today at GameStop but, there was no code or anything on my receipt...

Edit:
So now the guy at GameStop is telling me they won't hand them out till the 20th. So that I have to go in there cancel my pre order and pre order again to get the code. Seems like a dumb process. Is this right?
 
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