| 30 August 2010
All of this time, I had jabbed at Keno for being one of the players in the Super Street Fighter IV community to take his time when playing matches. He's above the median when it comes to time spent in a round. Even during the L.A. Riots tournament series, he spent more than 10 seconds on average in a round than the rest of the competitors.
Did I say Keno? I must have meant to say Khio.
From the "Let's hope this doesn't happen again" category, Khio and his teammate, Steinmania, reached the top eight in The Box Arena Team Ranbats 1.6 tournament on Saturday. Unfortunately for them, they lost two consecutive matches and were bounced.
I'm not sure if the announcers picked up on it (I watched it on mute), but I'm wondering what was going through Kiho's mind in the four rounds he played. In all but one of them, he seemed to hold his own and do well against his opponent. It wasn't like he pressed Back on the controller in all four rounds. But man ...
- vs. Repulse, Round 1: Loss, 0 seconds remaining, never led
- vs. Repulse, Round 2: Loss, 0 seconds remaining, led halfway and with 25 percent health remaining
- vs. Genghis, Round 1: Double KO, 4 seconds remaining, trailed halfway and with 25 percent health remaining
- vs. Genghis, Round 2: Loss, 0 seconds remaining, led halfway, trailed with 25 percent health remaining
The average time was 98 seconds per round played for Khio. The next highest was Repulse at 82.25 over four rounds played. I have the tournament average at a shade over 48 seconds.
Usually there will be a player out there that gets a timed out win or loss, and then proceeds to play faster the next round. It must take some sort of mentality to go four consecutive rounds and time out in almost all of them.
