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Is it wrong that I love it even more because he lost to Red Hulk? It's Mike Ross.

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10. Justin Wong/Mago



There's nothing special here -- this is just a really, really good fight, the first really huge showdown in SF4 for the tournament. Mago was hands down the best Sagat in the world, having like 200,000 BP more than anybody else by the time Super came out. He was the best zoner in the game by a good amount. You just couldn't get near him thanks to Sagat's kara BS. He switched to Fei Long as his main when Super came out but he's still very good with Sagat. Sagat has a pretty big edge over Rufus so he went for him here.

Meanwhile, Wong has always seemed to have trouble with Japanese players. Daigo is a pretty obvious problem, but he also got blown up when he went over to Japan a couple years ago. He never seems to break through. This match is Wong overcoming that - he drops an ultra combo that would have won the match for him and I thought he was going to blow it again but he pulled it out. Nothing too spectacular or mindblowing here, just a really good match between two of the best in the world. And neither of them made top 8! Crazy.

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By the way, a highlight you missed about the Deadpool match is Mike Ross' amazing facial expression you can catch for half a second afterwards.

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Black Turtle did a pretty good job.

great stuff so far

can't wait to see what tops the list

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSOC87NkmXc

needs some Daigo vs Valle action

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needs some Noah

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Daigo/Valle good stuff

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9. Comebackfiend



Allow me to be a jerk for a second -- BIONIC ARM is so overrated. It's only notable for the scream, and even then it's only notable because it was one of the first big tournaments after it came out. it's also notable because it's good guy Combofiend blowing up bad guy Marn, who's dropping combos and doing stupid stuff left and right. He pretty much handed Combofiend that match.

This comeback by Combofiend is probably even better. At this point we're conditioned to just expect it from him, but it's still a really good comeback. Marvel 3 is made for this stuff. It's amazing there weren't 10 of these situations. Maybe there were, who knows. We only see the big ones.

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Allow me to be a jerk for a second -- BIONIC ARM is so overrated.

Maybe

just maybe

we are not so different after all.

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Now this is entertainment!

best part of that video:

James Chen: WHAT WAS HE DOING? WHAT WAS FANATIQ DOING?!?


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The reason the other comeback was better was because Combofiend's Spencer was put to like no health after a dropped combo from Marn and came back anyway.

Like this one was better execution from Combofiend I guess but he wasn't really close to losing-- Spencer never even lost any health. So yeah that makes it feel a little less HOLY CRAP.

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I like how its both of the players who kicked Mike Ross' ass on his own show "Running Sets" on YouTube.

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That's not to take away from it, though. They were both pretty awesome comebacks.

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BIONIC AAAAAAAAAAAAAARM

tis just fun sayin' it.

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8. Poongko's luck runs out



Poongko's run was special. He made it all the way to winners finals based on great reads and great execution. The problem is that they were just that -- great predictions, something that was bound to run out. Against Fuudo, a very technical and sound Fei Long that played slow and didn't take a bunch of risks, Poongko struggled. Daigo was throwing out random DPs and dropping combos. But Fuudo? Ha.

Poongko took a nice lead in this match until the usually conservative Fuudo pulled out the best single prediction of the entire top 8 -- an ultra to punish a Seth backdash. Poongko, the guy who had been randoming out everyone, gets the same treatment back in his face. To the losers bracket you go.

I think the Godsgarden viewing booth response was pretty cool -- -- it's hilarious how tame this response is compared to the Evo crowd. This showed me once and for all the difference between American tournaments and Japanese tournaments -- hype.

I feel kind of bad for Fuudo. Even while he was winning Evo, everyone was sleeping on him. This is his one big moment. Everything else was just dispatching everyone with surgical precision.

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That made me sad. Poongko's Seth was the most fun thing I've ever watched in high level SF4 play. Just so balls to the wall aggressive it was just great.

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The Fuudo Ultra backdash read ath tene was...so godlike

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Fuudo was awesome stuff.

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Fuudo was boring, even if he was effective. I was rooting for one of the Vipers or Poongko all the way in that final 8.

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I just liked seeing the really shy guy play so efficently.

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I was so bummed out about missing Evo this year. It happened to fall across a period where I was moving house and I only got internet back the day after it finished. I've seen bits and pieces of SF and MvC but zero BB which is the game I play :(

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yeah, he's not exciting. he's like a serial killer.

he was absolutely the best player though. he beat Latif bad in the GF and really took it to Poongko. in earlier rounds, he beat Wolfkrone good too. I think he had kind of a lucky draw since Fei Long beats Viper clean, but still.

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do a BB final search on youtube. BB fans loved that fight.

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SPARK!

SPARK!

SPARK!

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I wanna see some Tekken stuff

bob bob bob bob bob bob

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Tagging.

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7. The 13 year rivalry



When most people think of the America/Japanese rivalry in Street Fighter, they think of Daigo and Wong. But the original rivalry is Daigo vs. Alex Valle. Way back in 1998, a baby Daigo flew out to San Francisco to face American champion Alex Valle. It's one of the most classic SF matches of all time and probably the only really big SFA3 match.



Check out Valle's hilarious wifebeater getup. Talk about a bad way to represent America.

So here's Daigo, the best SF player using the best character against Valle, sticking with the nerfed Ryu. Valle should have gotten destroyed here, but he read Daigo super well and put him on the verge of actually losing. At one point he's sitting on no life and reacted to an ex rush punch - a move that's pretty much instant - with a dp to stay alive. It was beautiful. Valle pushes Daigo down to no life and finally runs out of luck as he gets hit by a stupid dive kick.

Valle puts his head down, dejected. He shakes it and goes right back to it. Just like he always has.

This match was a fantastic throwback to two old rivals and Valle alllllllmost pulled it off.

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Daigo's showing kinks? dude's best in the world. getting mind****ed for one tournament -- no matter how jarring it was -- doesn't mean he's over the hill.

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I was so upset when that divekick beat Ryu. I know he was going for an uppercut, but too late :/

Valle is still good, but he's definitely past his prime. He's got waaaaay too many responsibilities in life now to be hitting up the lab to improve his game, so he's kinda been coasting on his (admitingly godlike) knowledge of Street Fighter fundamentals.

But now, to Nio's dismay, Daigo is starting to show some kinks as the armor as well! I mean, Daigo is only 3-4 years younger then Valle! So it is fitting see two legends of the game who have seem better days, but can still put on a show. It's like some HBK/Taker s***.

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I think Daigo is still in his prime. He was just randomed by Poongko and that got the best of him. I mean you can't deny that Daigo went to EVO thinking he will take our fight money and he knew he was going to leave a trail of bodies in his wake. I don't think he conceivably thought he could lose to anyone after his recent dominance. And that's where The Machine came in. I think he didn't even see Latif as much more than an ant in his eyes, and he paid for it.

Daigo's not over the hill, his record this year is still fantastic and when we checked out that video of his yun vs Shrio and a bunch of others, we kept commenting on how good his meter building was as well as the rest of his skill.

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From: transience | #039
11. You pressed the wrong button!!!!

That was amazing... I've never seen a deadpool comeback like that, really cool stuff

I imagine that the player obviously knew about the third teleport thing, but he just went for the teleport combo by habit and messed up. I can't blame him for letting that slip his mind though... doing so much damage to mike ross without taking any chip damage even, you would get pretty hyped.

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Also interesting is that when Deadpool kills himself it's a Hyper Combo KO

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6. Latif






Justin Wong. Tokido. Daigo. Poongko.

Nobody was a bigger winner at Evo than Latif. Well, maybe Noah, but he's a special case. Latif left a trail of bodies like nobody else in recent memory.

It's pretty damn impressive considering how people doubted him as recently as even a few months ago. Latif was an online warrior, blowing up people but not being a guy seen on the level of a Wolfkrone or even a Flash Metroid. People doubted him like crazy.

And then he blew up four of the biggest names around. What can you say? It's too bad he couldn't finish the fight, but hey, you can do only do so much after going through murderer's row.

Latif didn't have one specific moment. Dizzying Tokido to beat him was good. Dizzying Daigo to send him home was huge too, but unfortunately Poongko got to him first so some of the luster was lost.

Still, nobody announced their arrival as a top tier player like Latif.

Here's my favourite Latif match -- an online one vs. Alex Valle. Check it out.

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Latif made me sad when he ended Tokido's run :(

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He blew up everybody for free at SBO Qualifier just a few weeks ago. Didn't lose a SINGLE match. Too bad about not really being an American citizen and passport problems, so Mike Ross and F.Champ get to go to SBO in his place :/

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From: TheKoolAidShoto | #091
He blew up everybody for free at SBO Qualifier just a few weeks ago. Didn't lose a SINGLE match. Too bad about not really being an American citizen and passport problems, so Mike Ross and F.Champ get to go to SBO in his place :/

They are basically only sending one person over then :(

F.Champ's Dhalsim is gonna be so freeeeeeeeeeeee to Japan's Yuns.

Good luck, Mike Ross.

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Watched the Winners Final first thinking it was grand final by mistake and that was a damn good match as it is. Maybe slightly biased because I'm a Noel player.

And wow at the Grand Final. Spark has ridiculous defence. I really felt for Lord Knight, psychologically it must be so hard when you hit a brick wall like that and in the finals to boot. Would have been a really nice touch if Spark had made an attempt to console him at the end!

Who sent Spark to the loser's bracket in the first place?

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5. Kayo Police -- somehow not the creepiest thing that happened this weekend



The above link is 15 minutes of Kayo Police -- a model in Japan who actually has a penis and has somehow had zero plastic surgery -- talking to Aris, a MK/Tekken commentator. It's completely surreal. Kayo's got a really good Viper and plays high-level Tekken as well. Crazy.

But Cookie -- oh my god.




Ryan Hart, you just got violated.

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Aw yeah console controller represent.

Cookie the greatest thing ever

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