Some SSF4 Technical Love Today

The amazing combo sensei Desk has released another video showing off some of the more advanced combos for El Fuerte and Abel in Super Street Fighter 4 such as El Fuerte's Dai-Pan loop (Punch-run-stop) and Abel's loop on Chun-li. In the video below, Abel is able to land a double focus attack Zangief which is a veeery tight link. But enough of the intro, check out these videos.




And for fun, the below video might make people rethink their thoughts on Chun-li.


You can see more of Desk at his blog here:  http://biffotasty.blogspot.com/

Tourney Results from this Weekend

1: EG Justin Wong (She-Hulk, Wolverine, Akuma)
2: Rex0r (Magneto, Wolverine, Sentinel)
3: KeraHime~<3 (Tron Bonne, Dante, Sentinel)
4: fLoE (She-Hulk, Dante, Dormammu)
5: DMG PR Balrog (Dante, Wolverine, Tron Bonne)
5: Frankie G (Dante, Trish, Doctor Doom)
7: TS NerdJosh (She-Hulk, Taskmaster, Tron Bonne)
7: Omg ITZ Andre (Magneto, Amaterasu, Wesker)

Super Street Fighter 4
1: EG Justin Wong (Rufus, Adon)
2: Alex Valle (Ryu)
3: DMG PR Rog (Balrog)
4: EQ Ricky Ortiz (Rufus)
5: BLG JuiceBox Abel (Abel)
5: TFA BananaKen (Ken)
7: Wolfkrone (Viper)
7: fLoE (Rufus)

Mortal Kombat 9
1: Perfect Legend (Kung Lao)
2: DMG PR Rog (Raiden)
3: EG Justin Wong (Kung Lao)
4: Michaelangelo (Kabal)
5: KTH (Cyrax)
5: Alex Valle (Shang Tsung)
7: Playing To W1n (Raiden)
7: Limbo (Reptile)

Not too surprisingly, Justin Wong takes 1st place in SSF4 and Marvel vs Capcom 3 while getting a solid 3rd place in MK9. Guy's way too good. More surprising was that fLoE was unable to grab a top spot in MvC3. I'm also rather disappointed that top 8 in MvC3 had the same good characters we've seen in the past. Was hoping for Mike Ross to make a showing at this and wreck face.

And congrats go out to the winner of the Windy City Arcade stick during the raffle.  I gotta admit, I got really jealous. The buttons even light up!

National Fighting Game Stream Today

Today's blog post will feature Chicago's Ultimate Fighting Game Tournament stream. For those who don't know, the stream is a live video feed of multiple games going on in this 3-day tournament stream. There will be Mortal Kombat 9, Marvel vs Capcom 3, Super Street Fighter 4 and many other games that haven't been seen in a long while. Try to check it out. One common to thing to notice is that strong players usually stay strong across games. Justin Wong is one of those players who will just take first at anything he plays. Alex Valle, an amazing Street Fighter player across the series is destroying in Mortal Kombat 9. There are also random fighting game tournies of games I haven't even seen before. I'm personally hoping for some Arcana Heart hype. Check it out!

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Another note that I'll be mentioning: I'm probably going to start putting up some of my brawl matches here when I get back into the tourney scene in the upcoming month.

Family Issues

Unfortunately I had some family issues come up so couldn't update the blog yesterday (what a way to thank all my followers, right?). On the bright side, my mom's doing much better now and I can give you all more news and information from the fighting game scenes. Unfortunately, with the way things have been, today's post is more of an introduction to more future posts because I'm busy around the house playing the nurse. Couldn't leave you all without any update, right? Pretty sure you were all worried sick.

On an extra note, I actually got really into League of Legends now so expect to see some info from that too.

150 Followers

My next goal has been met. I want to thank everyone for helping me get this far. I'm going to keep going and keep getting new and exciting stories for you. This has been a blast so far. Aiming for 200 next, I know we can get there. You all are great and I want to say thanks again.

Country's Censorship Going Too Far?

The title should already tell you where I'm going with today's blog post. A story has been circulating the net for about a week or so now about how the upcoming 3DS fighter, Dead or Alive Dimensions will not be distributed throughout the majority of Sweden, Norway and Denmark. This is because three of the characters in the games are under the age of 18. In a fighting game, this isn't anything especially new (many traditional fighting games feature highschool characters after all) but the issue lies in the fact that the game features a mode where you can take pictures of the characters from every angle. So what does this mean in simple terms?

The game is being banned under child pornography laws. So basically, because characters like Eliot (a 16-year old highschooler taught by the master Gen-fu) are viewable in this mode, this game is being banned. Make no mistake, these characters are FULLY CLOTHED (well by DOA standards). But the photography of any characters, real or fictional under the age of 18 in a pornographic situation (being turned while fully clothed in a model viewer) is marked as illegal in Scandinavia. Fans of the series here in America won't have to worry though. We'll still be getting the game. Going by past DOA games though, maybe the claim wasn't entirely baseless.

What are your thoughts? Have censorship laws gone a bit too far or is this ban in certain countries a step in the right direction?

Thor High Tier?

So this past week was the 2nd session in the 4th season of Wednesday Night Fights, a tournament series for a couple of games. Although I try to balance out the information in this blog equally around fighting games, this is totally going to be another Marvel vs Capcom 3 post. What was so special about this Wednesday Night Fights (going to refer to it as WNF from this point on) is that Mike Ross made it to winner's finals playing Thor the entire way. Considering that Thor is typically thought of as a low tier character, this was a real accomplishment. He pulled wins over impressive names such as Clakey D and LLND and even gave Viscant (the tournament winner) a run for his money. Could this win bring about a new surge of Thor players? He's already a likable character and this isn't the first time a player has done really well with him. Justin Wong won an entire tournament before with a Thor/Hsien-ko/Chris team before. But that's not very important. This post is to give props to someone who definitely deserves it.

Mike Ross, you did good. Keep it up and we hope to see more of you!

For those who want to see exactly how he was beasting, you can look up his videos here: http://frame-advantage.com/event/wednesday-night-fights-4-2-mvc3-singles/281 or if you simply want to keep up with him, you can check out his youtube channel here: http://www.youtube.com/user/crosscountertv . I'm personally a Mike Ross fan now.