I'M LAGGING! SOUNDS ARE COMING THROUGH BUT NOT THE PICTURES!!
AAARRRGGGHHH

OFF the damn Chat Box. And reload the stream by pressing the reload button. Good luck!

DAIGO is whicked!!

JUSTIN DOWN TO LOSERS BRACKET!
I HEARD IT BUT I DIDNT SEE IT!

AAAAAKKKKKK

and Desmond... i'm so desperate that i am watching it with pop out =(
still, sound comes through after a while, but picture will freeze.

Ricky Ortiz (RU) lost to ShadyK (AK). he really needed to land Ultra opps to catch up and punish AK's low damage. ShadyK played MvC2 with a god-like MSP team (Magneto/Sent/Psylocke), and he looks like a risk-taker in this game, which really pays off (SRK-ing in between Ricky's block-strings.

lol since when picking abel against ryu is considered counter picking?

anyway dan from japan got beasted of by a cammy w00t

Sanford (CA) ELIMINATES Dan from Japan (RY)... with absolute BEASTING! It's so beautiful...

Geez, Alvin and Leong Teng I hope you get it streamed alright, again, try the reload button on the player (not the browser button).

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Added on July 20, 2009, 12:31 pmJustin mains Rufus and was using him throughout the tournament. He lost to Daigo in the Gamestop torunament and Abel has better chance against Ryu once he gets an Ultra meter. Notice Daigo spaces cautiously and did not churn out fireballs. As an Abel user I am sure you know this better.

This post has been edited by rawfish: Jul 20 2009, 12:31 PM

rawfish: offed chat but no difference. no worries man i'm sure i can rewatch this at some later point. for now i'll make do with what i have. sigh.. 1 meg line but still cant stream for shit.

brastel: I think it's because Abel has a much better chance getting in through the fireball zoning tactic than Rufus? He has the EX wheel kick and that rolling move to easily close the distance. But yeah that alone can't be enough to warrant counter picking.

dunno how many thousand times i hit that reload button liao...
first it lags...
then the audio stable but picture freezes... then everything just freeze...
same process everytime....
sigh... i really want to watch this...

I know Abel can fireball through fireballs, true but that alone isnt enough to put him as a counterpick character against Ryu. Ryu still has a lot of advantages/tools to use to shut abel down. Seriously its not even funny.

Boxers/Chun/etc ultra goes through fireballs, so thats a counterpick too?

anyway, Edma vs Daigo!

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Added on July 20, 2009, 12:42 pmlol so ive looked up counter picking and i get a few diff definitions. i guess it can be said he counterpicked with abel, all im sayin is its still more favored in Ryu's way..

This post has been edited by brastel: Jul 20 2009, 12:42 PM

Ed Ma played a VERY impressive Akuma. He fared well against Daigo but in the end he lost.

Next: Justin Wnog vs ShadyK

yeah alot of risky plays by Edma, whiffed fierce shoryus etc.

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Added on July 20, 2009, 12:47 pmim hoping daigo to play Sanford's cammy though.

This post has been edited by brastel: Jul 20 2009, 12:47 PM

Haha the very idea of Cammy winning EVO.

someone's honda just ate a raging demon.
something i can make out of 2 seconds of motion out of the endless freezes

meh sanford's out.

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Added on July 20, 2009, 1:02 pmedma vs justin

This post has been edited by brastel: Jul 20 2009, 01:02 PM

Justin (RU) beaten Sanford (AK). Wished he used Cammy.

how to see the matches?
Any streaming links?

Justin climbed up the loser's bracket to fight Daigo again, and again with Abel. Lost, and he then used.... what the... BOXER!!!

Is he really taking advantage of the char matchup tiers???

Ryu Match-up tier (put together by Daigo)
4:6 Disadvantage: Sagat
5:5 Neutral: M.Bison, Balrog, Dhalsim, El Fuerte, Blanka
6:4 Advantage: Akuma, Zangief, C.Viper, E.Honda, Abel, Chun-li, Ken, Guile, Vega, Rufus

Looks like he's taking advantage of Daigo's infamiliarity over Boxer matchups? And so he lost with Boxer. I think Justin really had more tournament experience and should have stuck to his character - Rufus.

since it lags, i stopped watching. huhu.

final, so tense!