Re: USF4 changes!
- From: Ilitirit Sama <ilitirit@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: cpt-fgc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2014 17:20:29 +0200
For those who haven't read it yet, Japanese USFIV players on their
experience at EVO2014:
http://pastebin.com/4QdH21Lq
Read the bit about Sanford playing dirty:
Mago: Yeah, I have heard that also. Sanford kind-of went under my radar, so
> I had to study him last minute. But as for Oni matchup itself, I got
> coached by Wao when I was in Osaka for Topanga League and stuff, so I was
> comfortable and not worried too much. I won the match pretty easily. Well,
> Sanford did win one.
>
> Bonchan: Really? Wow
>
> Mago: Because he’s such a dirty player!
>
> Bonchan: Whoa, what happened?
>
> Mago: Yeah, well, do you guys have experience in playing side-by-side with
> the other player? Sanford is probably an expert in pulling dirty tricks in
> that area, it’s crazy. So you see, when you share a screen, you usually
> first make sure you and the other player are on the same footing by
> providing some personal space between two seats, euphemistically saying
> “This is my area”. But Sanford ignored all that, and the first thing he did
> when he came up to the stage, he pulled his chair and leaned all the way
> toward the monitor. He even started playing like that.
>
...
> Mago: So yeah, [hiding buttons] happens when you play with international
> players. But Sanford had the opposite idea. He intentionally SHOWS his
> hands in the open. That’s the reason he sits so up close to the monitor. So
> what he did was… well, before that, he always sits on 1P side. He sat there
> and angled his chair toward me, making a position where I can see [his
> hands]. When I sat on my side, inevitably his hands are in my line of
> sight. Then during the match, I knocked him down, right? So I went to go
> for some oki mixup, but I see him insanely wiggling and mashing his stick.
> (making the CLICK CLICK CLICK noise)
>
> Bonchan: He was like, I’M MASHING NOW. (laugh)
>
> Mago: Yeah, and I was startled. It scared the hell out of me, so I aborted
> my oki [and tried to block], but then he just grabbed me. I was like, what
> is wrong with this guy. You guys would hardly have noticed it from just
> looking at a tape. He got me with that like 5 times in a row, and I thought
> “This guy doesn’t play fair”.
>
> Tokido: Ah, so that’s where you’re coming from. [I’m surprised to see]
> there are people employing such dirty conducts. But I guess players
> overseas are used to that kind of stuff. Just the other occasion I played
> Wolfkrone, he was doing this (swinging arms) and almost hit my face with
> his elbow.
>
The amusing thing for me is Tokido's response because he is a known fake
button masher:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZERUZIv8Uw
He mashes fake buttons throughout the set but you can see it clearly at
around 2m09s
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