Norcal Regionals 2013 | Road to EVO 2013 Fighting Game Tournament | April 26-28
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What many are thinking today.
SloaneRisette
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I am most disappointed in FChamp, mostly because I really felt that he had the best chance against ChrisG with his Dorm play. He threw away his match against KBR essentially sealing his fate. Him avoiding the Wolverine onslaught in losers would've allowed him easy access to GF. Champ with a bracket advantage over ChrisG should've been enough to put him over the top. That's essentially how Norcal played out in my head going into the tourney.
ChrisG didn't have it easy at this tournament at least. Very close calls against Apologyman and Ramnasama.
ChrisG didn't have it easy at this tournament at least. Very close calls against Apologyman and Ramnasama.
A Pretty Panda
fuckin' called it, man
ahh so it was just final round and this that he came back from losers
He's improving so fast in AE, it's scary.
the gift that keeps giving
Justin needs to drop Storm. What a waste.
I'd personally like to see him pick up Magneto. I think he could do some real damage with a team centered around him. Put Doom in the back and answer missiles for missiles. Seems to be a good way of fighting against them -- have your own. Shit lets you play reckless as hell and get away with it.
Anyway, the meta has evolved waaaaaaaayyy past the point of picking characters you like. It's time to step shit up and play seriously and that starts on the character select screen.
His most impressive achievement was denying Japan out of top 3 in AE by defeating Momochi.
Winning a Marvel tournament isn't impressive at all in comparison.
Immortal Technique
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Why can't I do anything this great in my life?
Parallax Scroll
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Passive Assassin
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Professor Beef
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Yup, Champ has nobody to blame but himself. His arrogance cost him against KBR, and now he has to hold that L forever.
Immortal Technique
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Xian is from Singapore. But yes, considering that loaded field, Chris G's 3rd place in AE is definitely the most impressive feat.
Parallax Scroll
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And his AE run includes beating Justin and Momochi. That's insane.
call_kotaku
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Infiltration. None of the people in Marvel capable of beating ChrisG are actually working towards doing it, but Infiltration consistently dominates the best of the best.
This is actually pretty hard for me to call. I really like both players.
In the end I just like seeing dominance. I like seeing the game being played at it's best. It's like watching an athlete in their prime. You get a glimpse into the true potential the game has. For me, Infil and Chris both do this in their respective games.
QisTopTier
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So who's more impressive. Chris G or Infiltration.
Marvel is a far more random game, as evidence by his matches with Taxi; but Chris G still manages to win consistently. Chris G also got 3rd(?) in AE and won Divekick.
Infiltration consistently wins AE through winners' brackets. Street Fighter is a less random game but the time that people have put into it eclipses that of Marvel. He also won SFxT.
edit: Beaten, apparently.
Marvel is a far more random game, as evidence by his matches with Taxi; but Chris G still manages to win consistently. Chris G also got 3rd(?) in AE and won Divekick.
Infiltration consistently wins AE through winners' brackets. Street Fighter is a less random game but the time that people have put into it eclipses that of Marvel. He also won SFxT.
edit: Beaten, apparently.
It's obviously Infiltration. There are no matches for Infiltration where it's super free for him despite player skill... with ChrisG half of the matches he faces are decided at the character select screen and he goes into full auto pilot mode.
I was talking about his match with Momochi, who is Japanese lol.
To the person who was asking who's dominance was more impressive, it's obviously Infiltration.
Sorcerer Supreme
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Norcal should just bury their heads in the sand right now for all the shit they talk without the results to back it up.
There wasn't really much begging for updates because it was common knowledge that the game that was given was the one that would be played until people just decided to stop for whatever reason.
As far as Justin's dominance goes, there was a fair bit of whining about it, but I think the situation was different. When Justin came up, he was pretty much just using what other people had been using for a while, only much better. Chris G found a way to dominate with something he essentially discovered* and exploited almost to its full potential. I think a lot of the complaints about Chris G dominating stem from just how stupidly powerful Morridoom is.
*I think. Someone will correct me if I'm mistaken, I'm sure.
Did people quit MVC2 because Justin won for years straight? I think it's the way the game degenerated (not all games evolve with time, most degenerate) that may kill it off.
I'm kinda glad I never got on the Marvel train.
That said, if you're tired of Marvel, the best way to kill it is to stop playing/watching it.
Immortal Technique
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OK I re-read and I see now. It sounded like you were saying Japan would've swept top 3.
Infinite Justice
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So after all that salt on twitter etc Chris G still won?
LOL
LOL
Lol @ the suggestion that Norcal will stop being extremely biased towards themselves.
Aftershock just gave them a stimulus boost of confidence to keep them going for another half decade or so.
Fixed.
TheThunder
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Chris G constantly plays (and beats) the best of the best in Marvel since the US best = the world's best, Infiltration however doesn't or not as much since aside from EVO and CC you don't get these stacked SF4 tournaments filled with international players.
The next EVO will be very interesting to say the least (unless CEO is something huge when it comes to SF4 international talent)
The next EVO will be very interesting to say the least (unless CEO is something huge when it comes to SF4 international talent)
So basically, the comparison comes down to who could win in Divekick between SF4's best players and Marvel 3's best players.
"God's Beard!"
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One thing you've gotta give NorCal, though.
That said, I'm gonna watch a sub-HD stream of Game of Thrones then drown myself in the bathtub.
See you on the other side.
That said, I'm gonna watch a sub-HD stream of Game of Thrones then drown myself in the bathtub.
See you on the other side.
Duxxy3
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ChrisG because Marvel is far more random than SF4.
ShinobiFist
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Is this archive? Didn't get to watch it today.
-Nevermind, found it-
-Nevermind, found it-
Passive Assassin
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Isn't their top player Chou a CJ/Andre team user?
Wait what are we talking about here?
We got to see the best of Japan vs Infiltration at Street Fighter 25th.
Japan had a qualifier, and Japan's best also traveled to other qualifiers.
I mean in AE.
Chou also plays Mags/Doom/Vergil and can certainly hold his own against our top players.
Passive Assassin
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Ah SSFIV. Yeah it'd be cool if Infiltration can show up to Japan tournies like Poongko did back in the day, i.e when he lost again to Uryo.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yc1aV6cas64 That Sak.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yc1aV6cas64 That Sak.
DjangoReinhardt
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I think being the top SFIV player is more impressive than being the top MvC3 player in no small part because SFIV has a larger playerbase. Infiltration has proven himself against the top talent on plenty of occasions. It's the same reason why I'd say that winning EVO in 2013 is a helluva lot more impressive than winning it in 2007.
Duxxy3
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East coast twitch/venue sucks balls.
TheThunder
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and I would agree, and Infiltration is still the best, but the last 2 US majors he has won are not as stacked (talent wise) as the Marvel one's with Chris G.
Who knows, maybe he'll body everyone at EVO free, that what makes it interesting, the huge talent level between EVO and every other major in SF4 is so much bigger than Marvel.