| 05 December 2010
Ricky Ortiz prevailed over Ryan "Filipino Champ" Ramirez, 3-1 to win Hadocon on Saturday. Some of these stats might be a little bit deceiving, as Filipino Champ had way more EX meters and got more combined first-hits and first-combos than Ricky, 13-10.
As for those EX meters, Filipino Champ held a 47-38 advantage and nearly used twice as many, 33-18. I start to weigh how much of this (to be honest) lopsidedness is based on Filipino Champ using Seth and Ricky being the great player that he is. Filipino Champ held a lead at the halfway mark of a round seven times and lose three of them. He also never won two rounds in a row.
Stats of the match can be found in the stats section.
This might be the most telling stat: In the 11 rounds played, Filipino Champ had a combo rate of 3.000 per round. Compare that to Ricky, who was at 2.364. Anyone at or near 3.000 means he or she is probably destroying their opponent like no other. In this case, it showed how much Filipino Champ needed to do just to keep pace with Ricky.
Take out the four rounds Filipino Champ won, and the combo rate for both guys was even at 2.429 per round. When Filipino Champ dominated a round, he dominated. But Ricky played enough defense to stop him.
One final note, Ricky was 3 for 4 on game point, Filipino Champ was 1 for 4.
Video of the match, with commentary by iPLAYWINNER, follows the jump ...
The title match starts at 42:30.
