| 28 February 2010
Raise your hand if you said we would see a Cammy ditto in a championship match of a major Street Fighter IV tournament within the next two months. If you raised your hand, your nose just got longer. That was the definite capper from Saturday's Street Fighter IV competition at the Level|Up tournament. Combofiend stays with Justin Wong using Cammy, and then Justin proves he can do the same by going Cammy as well during the first championship match. It definitely made for a memorable finals contest.
As I told Combofiend in the post-tournament interview (which is below), his usage of Cammy might start a revolution; more people for the final two months of Street Fighter IV's life will go with Cammy. And then if she doesn't work out in Super Street Fighter IV, we'll all go back and act like nothing happened (well, some of us).
Onto the recap, where I might be inclined to use Cammy somewhere, maybe a few times.
Title match result
Combofiend 3, Justin Wong 1
Justin Wong 3, Combofiend 1
Match breakdown
Rounds won: Justin Wong 9, Combofiend 9
First-hit win percentage: Overall 83.3 percent, Combofiend 87.5 percent, Justin Wong 80.0 percent
Lead changes: 0
Average round time: 36.61 seconds
The title match was over when …
… Justin Wong clamped down on Combofiend's offense and took a massive lead in the final round of the final game. Combofiend had stayed with Justin the whole time except for perhaps two rounds early in the contest.
Player of the tournament:
I want to say AlexMan for getting to the final eight, but I'll give it to Combofiend for using three characters in the final eight and getting to the title match against Justin Wong, and then winning the first championship match.
Other notes:
Juicebox getting two perfects in five rounds played against AlexMan got the Arizona faithful hyped up like crazy. But I still have to wonder why he went Ryu after losing a game to Combofiend's Abel. There was nobody in the crowd that understood that switch. Juicebox had told me he went hardcore Ryu for a while when trying to improve his overall game. Still, I can't understand it.
Here's an interview with Combofiend after he finished second. He talked about why he went Cammy.
Here's an interview with Justin Wong after he won the tournament. He talked about playing against Combofiend's Cammy.
