[29 Mar 2013] FINAL ROUND 16 (Atlanta, GA)

Thanks, Trykt. And thank you for pointing out one of my greatest weaknesses while in casuals. I have plenty to study up on for Sega Cup now

 

Oh, and people who keep asking me about vids, please work with me, because I'm trying to figure out how to convert .flv vids to .mp4, so that I can actually edit them before uploading them onto youtube

 

Steel and Ghabstopr -- I can't thank you guys enough for coming through. Seeing guys like you two who turned up are a big part of the reason why the tournament turned out so well

 

This file-conversion crap is mad annoying, so I'll just put this grand finals vid up for now. Next, I'm gonna find a good conversion program and then be able to adjust these vids to my liking before putting it up





P.S. Jussayin', my hatred of the PS3 console has increased after this weekend. I can definitely feel the offline lag that's due to the PS3 internal structure. Totally messed up my just frame moves in casuals

 

The monitors were the same exact monitors that I use to play VF at home (on xbox), the ASUS VH236H, the "EVO monitor" -- which, if I'm not mistaken, the rest of the tournaments at Final Round were also using the same monitors.

So no, the lag had nothing to do with the monitor, but with the notable timing difference betweenthe xbox and PS3 console versions of VF.

 

Just for the record, I don't blame SEGA for the lag in timing. I blame Sony, because from my research, I believe the lag has something to do with their USB ports.

So the fact that I have to retrain myself just to play Sarah on a different console shows how noticably different the game is on each system.

Yes, Sony. I hate you.

 

Again, I'm probably gonna redo these vids, once I get this conversion issue straight.

Loser's FInals: Blackula vs. Drift





Loser's Semi Finals: Blackula vs. EG | Justin Wong





EG | Justin Wong vs. Steel

 

Just being totally honest, I don't know how you guys can come up to me and tell me that the lag wasn't coming from the system. First of all, I'm putting faith that you guys (Feck, Jide) ACTUALLY played both versions within close time proximities of each other (which, of course may not be true, and personally I doubt it is. but hey, maybe I'm wrong). My experience is from running the tournament and playing casuals all weekend (PS3), to playing the game on my home console (xbox) within less than a 24 hour subsequent period. ON THE SAME MONITOR. NOT the same brand monitor. Not the same kind of monitor. THE SAME EXACT MONITOR. Same stick as well (though I also used other sticks at the tourney).


I practice my just frames every day for the past 9 friggin' months. I hit them (no joke) about 90% of the time on xbox. I know because I literally tested doing Sarah's FL P2KKK and STEP KKK for about 30 minutes at around 1am last night (using Taka as my opponent, since FL P2KKK/STEP KKK doesn't knock him down). I can literally count the number of drops I had on 2 hands -- and honestly, most of that was from switched of timings between FL P2KKK and STEP KKK. Playing on the PS3 during FR casuals, my success rate dropped to around 20%.
Like, literally, every 5 times I tried just FL P2KKK, I would land the entire thing once. This change is significant.

I don't understand why you guys are trying to 'defend' the PS3, when even I'm not the only one saying there is a 'noticable difference' playing on the PS3. I've actually tried giving Sony the benefit of the doubt -- this is the THIRD PS3 console that I've bought. This is important, I'm not bashing the system just because -- this can literally affect my performance in tournament. Unless you guys have got some hard proof otherwise, don't try to come up and tell me its some kind of figment of my imagination or some other issue I didn't take into account.

As a matter of fact, even IF you have some kind of 'test' or 'proof', it doesn't really even matter. Firsthand experience shows that the difference IS THERE, IS NOTICABLE, AND HAS TO DO WITH THE SYSTEM ITSELF.