The U.S. team for Super Turbo made an appearance on the recent Gamespot Versus. As always, there's some intense matches.
Video provided by SuperSF2Turbo on YouTube. Hit the jump for the videos ...
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Video provided by SuperSF2Turbo on YouTube. Hit the jump for the videos ...
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Yet another championship match took place at Starbase arcade last night. I talk about it on today's podcast.
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It's been a while since I've run a contest of any form, and I really wanted to do something before the 5-year anniversary of the site. So with that in mind, I'll be running a contest right now.
Daigo Umehara and Poongko will meet up in a 19-game series (First to 10) this weekend on Topanga TV. I think it's going to be the most-anticipated salty runback of all time, perhaps surpassing Daigo Umehara vs. Arturo Sanchez from 2010.
A FT10 is a grind, as many of you fighting game fans well know. It's never over, even after someone grabs a huge lead; several times during the Beat By Contest qualifier and Godsgarden tournament series, players who had comfortable leads all of a sudden found themselves tied.
Here's the challenge: Pick the winner of the match AND how many first-hits he gets in total.
The winner of the contest is the one who picks the winner and comes closest to that player's first hit win total without going over.
The winner will receive a $20 gift card to Chipotle.
Here's some help if you need it: Because it's a FT10, that means there's going to be at least 20 first-hits (unless they pull a Yosen and Toname). By the way, first-hit trades will count. The maximum a player could get is 57 (All 19 games going 3 rounds).
Here's some more help: When they met at Evolution 2011, each player got two first-hits. Oh, I guess that doesn't help.
As an example:
Daigo wins. He gets 30 first-hits.
Poongko wins. He gets 30 first-hits.
You can post your answer in the comments below. One guess per person, and your first response is your first guess. Here's some more rules for the contest.
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The contest ends Saturday at 5 p.m. PT.
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Daigo Umehara and Poongko will meet up in a 19-game series (First to 10) this weekend on Topanga TV. I think it's going to be the most-anticipated salty runback of all time, perhaps surpassing Daigo Umehara vs. Arturo Sanchez from 2010.
A FT10 is a grind, as many of you fighting game fans well know. It's never over, even after someone grabs a huge lead; several times during the Beat By Contest qualifier and Godsgarden tournament series, players who had comfortable leads all of a sudden found themselves tied.
Here's the challenge: Pick the winner of the match AND how many first-hits he gets in total.
The winner of the contest is the one who picks the winner and comes closest to that player's first hit win total without going over.
The winner will receive a $20 gift card to Chipotle.
Here's some help if you need it: Because it's a FT10, that means there's going to be at least 20 first-hits (unless they pull a Yosen and Toname). By the way, first-hit trades will count. The maximum a player could get is 57 (All 19 games going 3 rounds).
Here's some more help: When they met at Evolution 2011, each player got two first-hits. Oh, I guess that doesn't help.
As an example:
Daigo wins. He gets 30 first-hits.
Poongko wins. He gets 30 first-hits.
You can post your answer in the comments below. One guess per person, and your first response is your first guess. Here's some more rules for the contest.
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- I'm shipping this to the US only. Sorry, to all the international people.
- The winner will be announced as early as Sunday night, although to double check everything, it could likely be a couple days after.
- The broadcast will likely be recorded. In the event that any part of the match is unavailable, I'll have to cancel the contest (but I will make it up on a future stream later in the week).
- In the event of a tie, a random draw will determine the winner.
- Your answer must be posted on this page, not on twitter, facebook, etc.
- The result of the first-hit does not matter, as long as they get it. What matters in terms of wins/losses is the outcome of the match.
The contest ends Saturday at 5 p.m. PT.
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Today's Stats Series podcast is about SHGLBMX's win in the Rise of the Web Warrior Round 2 tournament last night.
By the way, if you haven't seen the dedicated page to the tournament series, it is now available on the Fighting Game Stats database (it will be updated in the next couple of days).
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By the way, if you haven't seen the dedicated page to the tournament series, it is now available on the Fighting Game Stats database (it will be updated in the next couple of days).
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Cross Counter's Rise of the Web Warrior tournament continued Tuesday night with Daniel "SHGLBMX" Tam winning it fairly handidly.
Stats of the final four can be found on the Fighting Game Stats database.
I'll be talking more about this on Wednesday's Stats Series podcast. You can watch the match after the jump.
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Daigo Umehara announced earlier this week he'll be facing Poongko in a grudge match aka rematch aka salty runback this weekend. I talk about it on today's podcast.
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After watching Guard Crush 19, I have posted seven of the last eight Guard Crush finals matches (17 is missing). You can check it out on the metatag on the Fighting Game Stats database.
Here's some interesting notes about the last five Guard Crush finals:
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I've posted the stats of the Wednesday Night Fights Arcade Edition championship matches in Super Street Fighter IV.
You can check them out on this metatag.
I'm not sure if we'll ever see nearly 100 combos done by someone in a championship match, but you never know. OnlineTony, in both finals matches combined, out-comboed Hugo101 87-69. no comments
Today's Stats Series podcast is about one of the IGN Pro League Season 3 qualifying matches: Morrow vs. Kuma. Morrow won, 2-0. On the surface, it seemed like Kuma was doing more in the game, and that turned out to be true.
Some stats and the podcast follow the jump ...
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The match stats for the Top 8 at Summer Jam are now available. Coming up later this week will be a full interactive. In the meantime, you can check out how players matched up against each other in their specific contests.
Here's the Top 8 averages for all the matches combined:
- .586 first-hit win percentage
- .623 first-combo win percentage
- 1.758 combo rate per round
- .844 closeout percentage
If you want to see video of the Top 8, hit up Team Spooky's YouTube portal. no comments
