DryEyeRelief
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Xian is pretty difficult to predict. A lot of him have as one of the likely winners, but he doesn't do well in tournaments that are this stacked.
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Capcom Cup 2015 (Dec 6th at PSX) | Concluding the SF4 Era With A $250,000 Tournament
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WesternHeretic
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LOL.... man I don't know why they getting DJ's for hardcore gamers. I mean the people are there for games.. I get it if it was the wrap up after party, but the actual tournament.. LOL I don't know.
Just more memes I guess. PLUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUR
Yea its not like hes won an evo or anything
Also got 2nd place at Capcom Cup 2014.
I laughed way too hard XD
It runs from 10 AM to 10 PM, so my brain got wired up.
DryEyeRelief
Member
last year his path was beating out of practice infiltration and a daigo who was winging it.
I think more recent tournaments are more relevant to this discussion. Like Ultra Hyakkishu Cup
Oh like winning Final Round this year with tons of killers in attendance?
Or winning 2 other premier events this year?
DryEyeRelief
Member
Do you think Dreamhack Winter was as stacked as Canada Cup this year?
Kuwait Fighting Game Festival or CPTA?
I'm not saying Xian doesn't have a chance. He can win. What I'm saying he's not the favorite to win this.
entremet
Member
It's mostly a meme at this point, he was legitimately terrible years back but has stepped his game up. (credit to him for recognizing that people weren't just being assholes to be assholes.)
DryEyeRelief
Member
it was spawned from some lie about him tattling on gootecks for being high on drugs while doing commentary. stream monsters, due to excellent adventures love gootecks, so skisonic became the enemy.
Immortal Technique
Member
The stream monsters need something to hate on. If there's no women on stream, they latch on to Skisonic
Didn't know where to link this but this seemed like a nice way to warm up for tomorrow with a bit of SFV action. Street Fighter V - PSX Tournament Ft. Infiltration, Poongko, IFC Yipes, Keoma
your reverse curses don't work kadey.
Immortal Technique
Member
Infiltration looking beast in SFV early on
He has a good voice, I just don't understand why people like to hear him doing high level commentary. Its my same thoughts with Persia but at least she is trying hard to improve her analysis of the game and not come up with stuff like Ski does.
ViewtifulJC
Banned
PogChamp @ SF2 fundematals
lazybones18
Banned
looks like I'll be watching the Top 32 after all. Gonna be so fun. Also which PS version of USFIV are they using?
Immortal Technique
Member
so how about this Graham Wolfe fella..
call_kotaku
Member
it's like in an anime where they start a new arc and some ancient evil bad guy awakens
ViewtifulJC
Banned
One of the best SF players in the world, mainly in ST but he was real good in Alpha 2/3 as well. Real OG, you can watch him beating Daigo in a 1998 SFA3 exhibition on YouTube. He didn't like SF4 so he just never played it, but apparently he's digging this.
Teknopathetic
Member
"Who was Graham Wolfe before though"
NorCal SF2 player. One of the best in the world.
NorCal SF2 player. One of the best in the world.
Wow... I can literally see his face as he's maniacally laughing.
DryEyeRelief
Member
what's with danke's shirt
Just trying to look fresh and get the lawlz I guess.
Didn't he do well at SBO one year?
Why not for Europe? Mago and Daigo are also overvalued imo.
If I had to do an odd I'll put Mago, Daigo and Kazunoko Together. The last one has the bigger risk.
Posible surprises I'll also go with Problem X. Imo out of all europeans he's the one with bigger chance to defeat Luffy (And their sets are always close).
i tried doing a safe and comfy accumulator with momochi, poongko, mago, xian, gamerbee, infil, tokido, luffy and kaz winning their respective matches and i only got an odd of 6.09.
Reposting my fantasy brackets here:
Other people interested in making their own can go here: http://www.maxoplata.net/fantasy/capcomcup2015
I really hope Infiltration goes all the way. I still think he's the strongest SF4 player, and that winning CCup would be a fine way of proving SF4 is his game.
I wouldn't mind if Gamerbee went all the way as well. Bruce deserves a championship already dammit!
I'd really love to see both Dieminion and Snake make it into the Top 8.
Other people interested in making their own can go here: http://www.maxoplata.net/fantasy/capcomcup2015
I really hope Infiltration goes all the way. I still think he's the strongest SF4 player, and that winning CCup would be a fine way of proving SF4 is his game.
I wouldn't mind if Gamerbee went all the way as well. Bruce deserves a championship already dammit!
I'd really love to see both Dieminion and Snake make it into the Top 8.
Agreed. Way better than AE Yun, E. Ryu, or Cammy.
With the odds value I almost think it's good. putting 10$ and winning 50 for something that most likely has to happen. Put 30$ and then it's 150$
Why not Daigo?
Also those Capcom World Warriors videos have Valmaster without the YP. Guess he won't be able to represent them. Pretty sad...
What curse? Daigo curse of not winning anything?
KidA Seven
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Yeah, although I do think you're underrating him a bit here, I still think his reputation has been overvalued recently due to performing well in premier tournaments that did not feature a lot of players that are on his level.
Kuwait - Daigo, Infiltration, Bonchan, Momochi, Gamerbee, Tokido, and Kazunoko did not enter.
Dreamhack - Daigo, Infiltration, Bonchan, Momochi, Tokido, Gamerbee, and Kazunoko did not enter
Milan - Daigo, Infiltration, Bonchan, Momochi, Tokido, Gamerbee, and Kazunoko did not enter.
He got top 2 in all 3 of these Premier tournaments. Because of this, his reputation has sky rocketed past a couple of players for the simple fact that he's the only player that has won 3 premiers. That's not to say he isn't one of the best players out there or that he hasn't performed well at stacked events. He obviously has with Final Round, Topanga World, etc... but he's still been overvalued recently. It's not just Xian though, a couple of players' consistency has been inflated a bit due to getting top placings at ranking events. People aren't taking into account how much tougher certain events are when factoring consistency.
KidA Seven
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When are you changing your avatar to this?
I used to have an avatar of fallen angels. I'll use that image as that one is better than the one I used to have.
Excellent, best movie ever.
DryEyeRelief
Member
You don't even need to weigh it. They're just not factoring in all the events. Xian is the most traveled player of 2015. I don't think there's a player that's been to more premier events than he has. If he were really that consistent, he would be number one seed on the CPT boards simply based on participation.