Noroma is a practice partner to Taisei.

He was only known in Japan and Korea as a very good player and nothing else. To be honest, his play through the pools and the top 16 bracket was decent at best. It wasn't until he was in the top 8 losers where he engaged god mode and played out of this world.
BTW, the tourney was badly managed. Poorly sponsored, had almost no support from either Namco nor the local esports organization. Tekken is way too small of a game to even be able to cover expenses in S.Korea, go figure. Sad, Korea TWT was also the most difficult tournament besides Globals to do well in. Like, literally the top 1% of the best Tekken players in the world were in the tourney, it's an insane amount of talent right there!

Whole tournament should have been held in a way better light. The blames goes to Namco for not supporting it enough (TWT is their project), they only provided prize money which even then was laughable to say the least.

Indeed.
Up until that point, when Noroma was playing the pools or top 16 bracket - almost no one except Nobi gave a shit. Hell, Aris was making Jack-7 yawn jokes about him.

Who knew he suddenly had this insane executions and well thought out game plan against the top 2 players in the tourney. Now I'm not exactly sure if this is the case, I didn't check for legitimacy but I heard that Noroma is currently the ONLY person to have beat Saint and JDCR in the same tourney, in the same day, in the same bracket and is not Korean.

The other stand out player for me is CherryBerryMango. I've been following this guy for a while but he was really only known as a good arcade/online player... but then these parries into RAs he pulled off in absolute clutch moments, takes some serious balls!

https://clips.twitch.tv/MushyCheerfulPorpoiseSSSsss
https://clips.twitch.tv/EsteemedStrongHornetRickroll

Phew. 

Amy09
I'm sure I found you on quick match yesterday evening, why did you decline?? 

AmyXGamerz is your PSN ID right? Very sure I saw that ID pop up.
SSJBen.

Bought Tekken 7 on Sunday evening, then Platinum it on Monday night.

Asia region is so dead, and as usual Japan players will kick non JP players immediately on room entry.

Not worth the price with such lack of content.

eTokki are not cheap, period. There is no where to get cheap Korean sticks, even if you buy locally in Seoul.

What is your current stick? If it's using the standard Sanwa JLF mount, you can buy a Crown CWL309 lever and basically switch the JP lever out to make it into a Korean stick. Significantly cheaper than buying an eTokki.

As for the move you are talking about, what you did is a mid attack. Your opponent was an obvious scrub because all he/she needed to do was to mash 1 to tech roll after your first ground attack to get out of the infinite. He/she didn't and would keep eating your move because as the character gets up, it's in a while standing state.

I don't play on PS4 anymore, on PC now.
It's not dead on the PC though. Getting matches regularly.

In fact, most of the Asian players has already moved to the PC. PS4 is simply very bad online, it's already barely acceptable in local offline.

Steam had sale for it a month ago, I think it was RM90 or so. Halloween sale and Fall sale coming for steam, expect the game to go on sale again. Now it's just normal price, RM159 iinm.

Hori mini is just trash. It's not just about getting good, a peripheral is there for you to comfortably play the game.
The hori mini offers none of this unless you have 6 year old kid's hands. A good stick lasts for a decade or more, a shit stick doesn't even make it past a year.

Buy once, use forever. Consider it a long term purchase.

Order direct from etokki? Shops here won't bring in such a niche product.

@bolded
You cannot judge from the looks. Korean levers has a lot more tension than Jap levers, although both can be modified to reduce or increase the tension. I will say this much though; a Korean lever is not easier to use than a Jap lever. Because there is no gate to ride on, you must know exactly where your inputs go for it to be precise. There's very little margin of error.

find a used hori hayabusa or qanba q4raf then buy crown joystick and mod it.. more jimat then etokki stick 

youtube is the best school to learn how to mod  i mod mine to crown stick is good enough for me..wave dash back dash easy with this stick 

is really easy no need to solder or what..just plug n play only.. if you dont know join OP Parts (Arcade Stick Modders)"Facebook group.. You dont know just ask them at there sure they will help you 

im using qanba q4raf with crown joystick.. my fren using hori hayabusa with crown joystick..

yes im using this model but red colour..hehe Q4RAF ICE RED 

The issue you are having is with cardinal directions, this is normal for people who has very little experience with arcade sticks. The Hori mini is using a square gate, so the cardinal directions for up, down, left and right has no indent to help you know that you are pushing those that directions. This is why you keep pushing df or uf when you are trying to just push forward (right).

A Korean lever is not going to make things better because it has no gate (or rather, a circle gate inside the housing), you will have no "gate" to help you at all in any directions.

I agree with Ji3MoonRex, get a second hand or third hand stick and buy a crown 309 lever and try it out first. Splurging over RM1k+ for an etokki and then realizing that you don't like it will be a huge waste of money. You don't even need any knowledge of how to change out the lever, you just to know how to use a screwdriver and some common sense.

Well good luck!

I personally use a hybrid octo-circle gate, with a 2lb tension spring (1.2lb more than a stock spring - which puts it in a similar tension department as a stock Crown 303) and a balltop.

Hey there, do note we have a Tekken 7 Discord for Malaysia. We have weekly online tournaments and have our own discord leaderboard!
https://discord.gg/qjJQx6C

So are you still ordering the crown lever?