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Evolution 2013 Fighting game championship of the World July 12th - 14th

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I'll second that story. I played a hell of a lot of fighting games in my past (SF2 on) but never really understood anything deeper than "use special moves, jump, punch and kick". Also, I always thought throws were super-cheap (unfortunately, I still do!)

All that changed when I actually started watching streams and spending time here and on SRK. The most dramatic change was when, after losing around 45 straight games online in Vanilla SFIV, someone either here or on SRK suggested that I just "put the CPU on it's hardest setting and try to block every attack. If you time out, you win!" So started my long journey understanding blocking, and how/when to use normals, and why special moves aren't the best to just throw out there.

I'm still not good by any stretch of the imagination (I think I have a 25-40% win ratio with Dudley?), but I'm having a ton of fun playing and watching streams. Much more so then I used to. I still don't understand certain character types (grapplers in particular), but I'm pumped to try and figure out Hugo when the next iteration of SFIV comes out!
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Hahahaha, dude, throws would sometimes devolve into actual fist fights in my neighborhood! I actually went at it with my brother once because he was pissed I kept throwing him in SC2 lol. Man, good times. He totally kicked my ass by the way.

Blocking was such a revelation when I understood how important it really was! It was weird. All of sudden I could finally beat my friends. It sounds so dumb, but welp haha. I always try to stress to my friends now how important proper blocking really is.

I know that feeling. I'm definitely not amazing, but I'm a lot more content with the way I play now than I was before. And I just have a lot more fun with genre in general now.
 
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