I can almost hear Mean Gene's ring announcement: 'Here is your winner... and NEEEEW INTERCONTINENTAL CHAMPION, ...PReP!!'

Let me be the first to congratulate @PReP on winning the 'Intercontinental VF Championship' in our FT10, 10-07! GGs!

I'm happy it wasn't a blowout either way but I'm really disappointed at how much stuff I dropped in our set, and how long it took me to get back in the game. No doubt watching the set later will be painful but it'll expose the parts of my game that need help.

A big thanks to @BLACKSTAR for streaming and @Kamais_Ookin for coming along to commentate, and also to the guys who tuned in.

And to my bros...

@Modelah

Thanks back to you for doing this with me.
It was a real intense thing, and probably good practice for those nerves.

There was some shit missed here and there for both of us, i agree,
but we did what best we could and it could have been a lot worse.

I second the notion of looking at it and learning, i know i have some stupid shit
to improve in my own play.

You do not need to crap on yourself for nothing though, you put up a hell of a fight,
i am lucky i managed to survive long enough to annoy the hell out of you in stylish red, green and yellow!

As you lost, you will have to buy me a sumo-sized sushi-meal-box thingie if i ever make it out to visit you!

Thanks a real bunch to @BLACKSTAR and to @Kamais_Ookin For commentating!

Good Games for real Mr Modelah,
- our resident awesome Content Creator and Translator of Japanese!

*bows*

/PReP

Wont be able to do it before next weekend.

Alright so you 2 play at that time, guess there won't be any Raw this Sunday then.

Congrats PReP for winning a FT10 without landing a single combo.

*match ends*

Blackstar: PReP takes the belt! 10 - 7.
Kamais: 10-7 *sigh*
Blackstar: Right. Congratulations PReP. I'll go ahead and send them a message.
Kamais: *laughs* Godoku needs to take notes.

*both lol*

Looks like we need to sticky RibX's simplified vanessa combo list thread and maybe insist on the Taka specifics more.

Modelah, your combos were on point, you gotta work on your punishing now, as Blackstar and Kamais mentioned in the stream.

In fact, good commentary guys. Vanessa is hard to commentate.

Typical advice to deal with lie down stance, from less to more risky:

i) ECDTEG to stomach. as steelbaz suggsted mid-stream
ii) jump back. Remember, when you land after a jump you're considered crouching so the catch throw can't hurt you either.
iii) fast floor-scraping mid. This depends on the character and the move used to transition to IP. You just have to remember that the fastest attacks from lie down are 20f.

For example, i saw PReP do DS slide into IP > shenanigans. DS NH > (or recovery hit) gives +4. However, in this scenario, a 16f floor scraping mid like taka's will (theoretically) beat everything since it would land simultaneously (in 16+4 = 20f) while doing more damage (24 vs 23 for DS IP ).

I'm mentioning Taka's because i've seen it hit shun's lie down stance. You have to spend half an hour in the dojo vs Vanessa to test what are your character's floor scraping moves that connect if she lies in IP.

For reference, frame data on IP transitions:

DS NH = +4
DS CH = +8
DS blocked = +5 (NH and CH knock you down)
techroll = depends on your combo ender

I have a photo shoot on Sunday that is likely wrapping up around 7:30 PM. What time does this normally start on Sundays?

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Ah I see. No problem. We can reschedule.

Well I'd be available for VF2 as long as it was after 8

so I'm just chilling in players match, worldwide if anything is happening.

Thanks, BlackStar and GE, for sharing this with us. Your Sarah and Shun are very fun to watch, especially because those are two of the more rarely seen characters in older VF2 footage like the Beat-Tribe/Athena Cups, etc. Looking forward to more!

You'll get that runback. I told him lets do it at the end of the of the month. Im giving him time to practice. And next time you'll see me play more solid

I really enjoyed playing but I think Blackstar and I were playing under more lag than we had previously. It made for some "bad" moments, but it was otherwise a lot of fun. I wouldn't have had to jet as early as I did but Sundays are tough.

If VF2 experiences any kind of renaissance I'll need to pick up a stick because while my hitbox project was fun it is not any kind of way to play VF2. I always feel like I fighting the inputs. And I certainly can't play Akira

Next time, maybe we can get a bunch of VF2 heads in there. Thanks for streaming, @BLACKSTAR ! I'll watch it today and see how clumsy it all looked.

@Modelah What happened? Where's my belly? Anyway I'm just happy it wasn't a blowup.

I'd love to be able to get into one of the PSN lobbies sometime when you guys have these going down. I'm pretty rusty but would love to play this on a semi-regular basis again if possible, especially since I've got a small glimmer of hope of getting some local players to jump into the game as well FINALLY.

I was a little nervous for sure, but mostly it was me just being me, lol. My own stupidity amazes me sometimes, and next time I'll try not to Taka-jump into rising mid kicks so often , lmao.