VF Circuit Vids

Don't know how I never noticed this thread. Some cool stuff in here.

And dam, that combo MTJ did in Game 1/Round 4 in the Finals

Edit: Cool to see the matches that happen in other countries.

 

Just watched all of bracket 1

Wow, Marly Jay. You stood out heads and shoulders, i was incredibly impressed by your play. Amazing Eileen. Good defense, nice choices, and simply awesome offensive mix ups and pressures. To make it more impressive, to my untrained eileen eye, it looked like your offense was extemporaneous, rather than that you were running through flow charts and trying to catch people in the same traps/set ups over and over.

I was just overall really digging your game.

Honorable mention to feck, looked solid, altho from a personal standpoint i have a hard time appreciating akira's game. Even when he wins in dominate fashion, it just doesn't look impressive to me. Looks like he's roughly doing the same thing over and over. Thats to say nothing about your playstyle, just the way akira is designed in FS.

(and to a lesser extent the way everyone is designed in FS. One of the things i don't like that they changed is giving less diversity in combo enders. In vanilla, you could substitute different combo's together and only give up a point or two of damage for style. In FS, you are more or less locked into doing the same ender on every combo or giving up 8-10 points of damage for style. Makes the game less visually appealing, imo. I get tired of having to use WS p+k, P to finish all of pai's combos or else i'm giving away considerable damage)./rant

 

I'd love to see vids from the NOV. round robin yesterday,

 

Yeah, good matches last night. Your Kage is so good.

 

Thanks for uploading the matches, Akai. Your questions are very insightful, something I have to ask myself and answer, not just for VF5FS but for all the fighting games I play.

 

played like a sack on the 11th sorry bout that. My usual energetic play will return in time for the majors on the 18th for sure.

 

The matches from european PS3 RR5 bracket that where not streamed due to connection issues
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLV-vPmTspX57YLOVQ9NKnUpxkCaBwv78E

There is one vid missing (2nd match between me and Shinobi - I lost that one and get error while saving the vid... Shinobi send me the replay via email but I can not find the way how to move it into my PS3 )

 

my favourite part: http://youtu.be/4gokVui2MPs?t=57s

 

yep, should add it to the socal compilation

 

I see i did a lot of punishable things there but in the heat of battle you're really not thinking about that stuff (at least im not) you just do what comes naturally, guess thats a bad habit especially if what comes naturally means to freeze up & block.

 

As long as we notice our own faults we have a good opportunity to get better, and that's what these events are for I guess. You seem to be aware of some stuff you did wich was punishable, wich is a good sign that you are trying to correct your mistakes. Now, obviously having a punishable move get blocked is not always the result of a mistake. Sometimes you just go for those riskier things for the great reward that comes with them, and it doesn't have to be bad a bad decision imo.

Nevertheless, good thing these vids are up so that we can look back at the events without saving all the matches ourselves. Good job akai, and everyone else uploading!

 

I will start from scratch with Eileen when i get my stick & see where my game goes from there.

 

Yeah if my opponent doesn't punish my stuff thats Q for me to go monkey wild, but i think thats my problem. Fighting a lot of players like that creates bad habits for me, so players that just let me do those things isn't good because when someone comes along that knows their stuff they'd surely pick me apart, because i was so used to fighting the type A's & don't know how to deal with the type B's. Thats why I try to find the hardest players to fight with.

 

I wouldn't mind having the mic conversation in there akai, best to ask around though. Maybe you can ask in the emails/private messages for the next round robin if no one has replied by then.

 

Spoiler: December mayor - EU semifinals - unicorn vs Pana

Spoiler: 3rd place tie breaker - EU overall - unicorn vs Bilal