Immortal Technique
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I think Floe's right on the money. ELeague's been winning me over. And yes the hosts have been doing a good job.
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ELEAGUE Street Fighter V Invitational hosted by TBS
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I think Floe's right on the money. ELeague's been winning me over. And yes the hosts have been doing a good job.
Captain Fish
Member
That bit of the interview where everyone is cracking up in the stands is the most hilarious stuff I've seen.
"He's still got the tag on his hat!"
KBrad's funny as fuck.
"He's still got the tag on his hat!"
KBrad's funny as fuck.
depths20XX
Member
Richard Lewis has been great honestly. Don't think I've seen him before but I feel he's winning a lot of the FGC crowd over, and that's not an easy thing to do.
Immortal Technique
Member
Yeah, the reception of any kind of 'outsider' covering an FGC event, it's usually absolute savagery
depths20XX
Member
He seems like he's actually put effort in to understand the players and community. Makes all the difference.
E-League won over r/kappa
Just need to be the caliber of player who can win SBO with a broken hand and then you too can do well with a 43% win rate with her too!
Edit : closer to 33% since I don't think anyone counts the gootecks matches
E-League has been great, it's been getting me through a trip I'm currently on. The KBrad/Wolfkrone rivalry is really rather harmless when you look at other reality shows, hard to deny that the beef is legit. It's definitely entertaining to see what's going to be said or happen. All around it's been a crazy 3 days of super solid matches. I've personally been enjoying it a lot. Adds a different new flavor to the FGC.
I think it's a bit silly to say these world class players aren't putting effort into Chun.
Teknopathetic
Member
Yeah, Richard is the polar opposite of Adam Sessler at Evo.
direct_quote
Member
He seems to have picked up things pretty fast. Adam Sessler was just a disaster at evo... "A FLURRY COMING OUT OF RICKY." Like do your homework on fighting games Sessler, seriously...
There was a clear and apparent difference in the way that MOV played Chun versus how Ricky played Chun. Even when MOV lost with Chun, it wasn't a complete blow out or him losing out matches because of some inherent weakness with the character.. they were close matches and he usually lost because of a bad guess/read or bad EX SBK (which he did a lot of).
Ricky just played mediocre/bad with Chun and clearly was not pushing the strength of the character as much as MOV was. Maybe Chun is indeed this terrible character that is totally not viable... but how can you really say that when you play Chun like that and then drop her? I can actually understand more if MOV drops her because it actually looks like he's pushing the character to the limits.
And this whole result oriented commentary on character strength is really getting irritating with such a small sample size. By this notion we should start asking for KBrad to switch characters because that Cammy isn't cutting it (1-6 in Eleague, almost G007ecks tier). Or start asking for Urien buffs because that character clearly hasn't done much in the tournament circuit. Or ask for Mika nerfs again because that character has been doing so much work. Hell Tokido did about as well as MOV, where are all the people demanding he switch characters too? People are just ASKING for another Sentinel/Nash type situation here.
Players can have bad tournaments even a bad season/stretch of months. Character strength isn't just restricted to performance of a tournament that happened a day ago, a week ago or even a month ago.
Ricky just played mediocre/bad with Chun and clearly was not pushing the strength of the character as much as MOV was. Maybe Chun is indeed this terrible character that is totally not viable... but how can you really say that when you play Chun like that and then drop her? I can actually understand more if MOV drops her because it actually looks like he's pushing the character to the limits.
And this whole result oriented commentary on character strength is really getting irritating with such a small sample size. By this notion we should start asking for KBrad to switch characters because that Cammy isn't cutting it (1-6 in Eleague, almost G007ecks tier). Or start asking for Urien buffs because that character clearly hasn't done much in the tournament circuit. Or ask for Mika nerfs again because that character has been doing so much work. Hell Tokido did about as well as MOV, where are all the people demanding he switch characters too? People are just ASKING for another Sentinel/Nash type situation here.
Players can have bad tournaments even a bad season/stretch of months. Character strength isn't just restricted to performance of a tournament that happened a day ago, a week ago or even a month ago.
The Regular Season bracket is split into two parts: a double elimination and single elimination bracket.
- Top 2 from Preliminary move straight to the single elimination bracket.
- Bottom 2 from Preliminary get eliminated.
- Middle 4 from Preliminary move to the double elimination bracket. Winner of the double elim moves on to play #2 seed from Prelim in single elim. Loser of double elim moves on to play #1 seed from Prelim in single elim.
The winner of the playoff stage is seeded into the winner's bracket of Top 8 finals. Runner up is seeded into loser's bracket of Top 8 finals.
It's not just result oriented. It comes from knowing how the nerfs affect her and from playing the character as well. Every Chun player I've talked to is frustrated. Not because she's not top tier, but because they hit her too hard.
You're correct in saying you don't want to make your balance changes based on one or two tournaments. But Chun is straight up bad right now. As are Nash and Ryu. We don't need a huge sample size to see that at this point.
sixteen-bit
Member
ALL TIED UP
Fright Zone
Member
This is one of the most entertaining tournaments I've seen in a long time.
Production values are fantastic. It's kept me up way late the last few nights (I'm in the UK).
Production values are fantastic. It's kept me up way late the last few nights (I'm in the UK).
Sgtpepper89
Member
I always fall asleep the last 1-2hours but last episode were amazing. I watched the Kbrad beef from yesterday aswell as the segment from 2 weeks and its everything why I love the fgc.
I dig this.
MrWizard can't enjoy anything that flourishes without benefit to him and his pockets, nothing new
Baleoce
Member
Floes response to that tweet was pretty good though xD
sixteen-bit
Member
savage af, lol
Too true, and it's only just the beginning! Hope this comes back next year.
Its also nice to get 2000 FM for just watching at least an hour per day. I'm up to 8000 FM for watchin 3 days, and doing the other quests that net you an additional 2000 FM
What?
Mufausa The 3rd
Member
OMG, imagine when they do this for marvel... Jesus, that's gunna be some quality content. I would legit buy a ticket and take some vacation days to go to the live event.
sixteen-bit
Member
What a complete douche.
https://mobile.twitter.com/RLewisReports/status/847336427436220416
https://mobile.twitter.com/RLewisReports/status/847336835244150784
https://mobile.twitter.com/RLewisReports/status/847344828337635330
By the way, RLewis writes for Breitbart, in case you didn't know.
He's also banned from Dreamhack for choking a Dota player, so he's one to talk about security at events.
https://mobile.twitter.com/RLewisReports/status/847336427436220416
https://mobile.twitter.com/RLewisReports/status/847336835244150784
https://mobile.twitter.com/RLewisReports/status/847344828337635330
By the way, RLewis writes for Breitbart, in case you didn't know.
He's also banned from Dreamhack for choking a Dota player, so he's one to talk about security at events.
Baleoce
Member
Ignoring all the bickering that ensued, I think Davids original point doesn't really make sense to me. He was arguing that the players / game should create the hype, and not the production. But in the case of this tournament, all three were creating it. I don't see what's wrong about that. Surely that's ideal?
Good. I think Ultra David needed to be taken down a peg or two. He constantly whines about everything he's not involved in.
SpiceMelange
Member
I think david comes off a bit whiny in that discussion.
wait, what?
I don't agree with UltraDavid at all. He comes off hella whiny.
Seeing him and the EVO people acting all offended get the fuck out of here. Does one need to pull shit up from past FGC events that far surpasses this.
Good shit to ESL this is one of the best FGC "eSport" events.
as the wise wolfkrone said "who gives a phuck?"
no thanks
He was specifically talking about how the EL broadcast put the security guard on camera as a joke, when it wasn't necessary.
Yep. Its 2000FM for each group. The tweets and social media stuff is one time only.
Nah, fuck Zhi. Don't need any X lives matter or jokes about travel bans when somebody is playing Rashid. Also don't like the constant use of thuggery when two black players are the subject, and definitely don't like how it looks that they felt they had to have security closer when two black players with a history were on set.
I realize it might not be racially motivated, but that doesn't make me feel better about it, and it's certainly not a good look for the community.
That is a super minor complaint (and UD even admits to it) but Lewis' response was definitely over the top.