Star Cup 08 Chubu Prelim Vids 092808

http://starcup.news-site.net/mov/movmenu009.htm

sc08yosen-1-1.zip - Prince (Chun x3) vs. Aniki (Guile x2, Boxer)
sc08yosen-2-1.zip - Gotoh (Ryu x3) vs. Prince (Chun x3)
sc08yosen-2-2.zip - Tani (Guile x3) vs. Noguchan (Ken x2, Chun)
sc08yosen-3-2.zip - MAO (Claw x3) vs. Oh!!J (DJ x3)
sc08yosen-3-4.zip - Noguchan (Ken x2, Chun) vs. Abeabe (Ryu, Ken, O.Sagat)

sc08yosen-sf-1.zip - ARG (Claw x3) vs. Noguchan (Ken x2, Chun)
sc08yosen-sf-2.zip - Gotoh (Ryu x3) vs. MAO (Claw x3)

sc08yosen-f.zip - Gotoh (Ryu x3) vs. ARG (Claw x3)

Star Cup '08 Prelim News

The preliminary contests for Star Cup '08 went down on Sunday. Top players get to skip early rounds at the main event on October 12th. This year they chucked the 'no more than two top tier characters on a team' rule.

The following players will skip early round play. Alternates in parenthesis.

Star Cup '07 Top Four
Tsuji (Boxer x3)
Futachan (Ryu x3)
Otochun (Chun x2, Guile[?])
YuuVega (Dictator x2, DJ)

Kansai Prelims @ A-cho
Aniken (Ken x3)
Suzuyan (Guile x3)
Macky7 (Boxer x3)
(SIN (Honda x2, Boxer))

Chubu Prelims @ Kasugai 50
Gotoh (Ryu x3)
ARG (Claw x3)
(MAO (Claw x3))

Kanto Prelims @ Mikado
Gian (Dhalsim x3)
Taira (Dictator x3)
Noguchi (Claw, Fei x2)
(Mattsun (Ken x2, Cammy))

By the way...
I added recent major results to the old player report posts. Also added Graham @ Boxer plus UltraDavid's tier comparison chart to the Super Diagram Turbo post. Links for both on the left.

Kanto DCC Prelim Videos 081708 update2

A block. Please download only one file at a time.

EDIT: complete tourney is up. Some brilliant action in the finals block. Don't miss the slugfest in #21!

http://blog.mi-ka-do.net/?eid=810891

ARK's Morrigan fan art joint: Cancel Darkness (english profile)

080817_01.zip - Iribune (Zabel) & J.B (Jedah) vs. Sasuni (Sasquatch) & Sakamoto (QB)

080817_02.zip - Aswan (Demitri) & Sasazuka (Lei-Lei) vs. ARK (Morrigan) & KEN (Gallon)

080817_03.zip - Sasuni (Sasquatch) & Sakamoto (QB) vs. Aswan (Demitri) & Sasazuka (Lei-Lei)

080817_04.zip - Iribune (Zabel) & J.B (Jedah) vs. ARK (Morrigan) & KEN (Gallon)

080817_05.zip - Sasuni (Sasquatch) & Sakamoto (QB) vs. ARK (Morrigan) & KEN (Gallon)

080817_06.zip - Iribune (Zabel) & J.B (Jedah) vs. Aswan (Demitri) & Sasazuka (Lei-Lei)

EDIT: B block

http://blog.mi-ka-do.net/?eid=817208

080817_07.zip - Ogawa (Zabel) & Take (Lilith) vs. Ego (Lei-Lei) & Shu (Bishamon)

080817_08.zip - Sai (Demitri) & Kame (Victor) vs. DD (Sasquatch) & Nakanishi (Bishamon)

080817_09.zip - Ogawa (Zabel) & Take (Lilith) vs. DD (Sasquatch) & Nakanishi (Bishamon)

080817_10.zip - Ego (Lei-Lei) & Shu (Bishamon) vs. Sai (Demitri) & Kame (Victor)

080817_11.zip - Ogawa (Zabel) & Take (Lilith) vs. Sai (Demitri) & Kame (Victor)

080817_12.zip - Ego (Lei-Lei) & Shu (Bishamon) vs. DD (Sasquatch) & Nakanishi (Bishamon)

EDIT2: C block plus finals

http://blog.mi-ka-do.net/?eid=818097

080817_13.zip - Buzz (Gallon) & Megane (Demitri) vs. Oraora (QB) & MAB (Gallon)

080817_14.zip - Saga (Sasquatch) & Yamakawa (Zabel) vs. Kinboe (QB) & Kagesama (Gallon)

080817_15.zip - Saga (Sasquatch) & Yamakawa (Zabel) vs. Oraora (QB) & MAB (Gallon)

080817_16.zip - Kinboe (QB) & Kagesama (Gallon) vs. Buzz (Gallon) & Megane (Demitri)

080817_17.zip - Kinboe (QB) & Kagesama (Gallon) vs. Oraora (QB) & MAB (Gallon)

080817_18.zip - Saga (Sasquatch) & Yamakawa (Zabel) vs. Buzz (Gallon) & Megane (Demitri)

080817_19.zip - Saga (Sasquatch) & Yamakawa (Zabel) vs. DD (Sasquatch) & Nakanishi (Bishamon)

080817_20.zip - Saga (Sasquatch) & Yamakawa (Zabel) vs. Aswan (Demitri) & Sasazuka (Lei-Lei)

080817_21.zip - Aswan (Demitri) & Sasazuka (Lei-Lei) vs. DD (Sasquatch) & Nakanishi (Bishamon)

080817_22.zip - Sasazuka vs. DD vs. Yamagawa, DD vs. Nakanishi
Finals block tiebreaker + DCC seed battle

Tougeki '08 Qualifier Vids 062108

Shag kindly posted these qualifier videos from Chicago.

s-kill (Boxer) & Buktooth (Chun-Li) vs. Rambo (Dhalsim) & DSP (Claw)

Damdai (Zangief) & nohoho (Blanka) vs. Shag (Boxer) & Tech Monkey (Chun-Li)

Damdai (Zangief) & nohoho (Blanka) vs. floE (Boxer) & Sabin (Dhalsim)

s-kill (Boxer) & Buktooth (Chun-Li) vs. Shag (Boxer) & Tech Monkey (Chun-Li)

Shag (Boxer) & Tech Monkey (Chun-Li) vs. Rambo (Dhalsim) & DSP (Claw)

Little Mac (Chun-Li) & Immortal (Claw) vs. Shag (Boxer) & Tech Monkey (Chun-Li)

s-kill (Boxer) & Buktooth (Chun-Li) vs. Shag (Boxer) & Tech Monkey (Chun-Li)

Shag (Boxer) & Tech Monkey (Chun-Li) vs. JustinW (O.Sagat) & NKI (Chun-Li)

Elsewhere:
I made a new version of that Street Fighter 4 move list. Lots of miscellaneous information this time. Download here. Looks like we'll need a page 6; I'll try to find some hot Gouken bikini pictures.

A-cho 2on2 Videos 072108

Pic from a-cho's website.

http://a-cho.com/index.html
ARCADE -> "大会動画" (6th link down on the left)

acho_sp2x_20080721a.asx - ShootingD (Ryu) & Nekohashi (O.Ryu) vs. Otochun (Chun) & ARG (Claw)

acho_sp2x_20080721b.asx - Danjiri Dhalsim & Saitou (Zangief) vs. Isaji (Cammy) & Doku Manju (Blanka)

acho_sp2x_20080721c.asx - Shiro (Ryu) & Taira (Dictator) vs. Seki (DJ) & Kenshiro (Fei)

acho_sp2x_20080721d.asx - Gian (Dhalsim) & Futachan (Ryu) vs. Kusumond (Honda) & The SuperStar (Boxer)

acho_sp2x_20080721e.asx - Otochun (Chun) & ARG (Claw) vs. Danjiri Dhalsim & Saitou (Zangief)

acho_sp2x_20080721f.asx - Shiro (Ryu) & Taira (Dictator) vs. Gian (Dhalsim) & Futachan (Ryu)

acho_sp2x_20080721g.asx - 3rd: Danjiri Dhalsim & Saitou vs. Gian & Futachan

acho_sp2x_20080721h.asx - Finals: Otochun & ARG vs. Shiro & Taira

Kansai DCC Prelim Vids 072008 Plus Alpha

Some videos from the Darkstalkers Combination Cup preliminary contest at a-cho are up. Oboro & Dara didn't make it out of their block.

http://a-cho.com/index.html
ARCADE -> "大会動画" (6th link down on the left)

acho_vs_20080720a.asx - Yamakawa (Zabel) & CAA (Zabel) vs. Rui (Anakaris) & Bario (Gallon)

acho_vs_20080720b.asx - DD (Sasquatch) & Nakanishi (Bishamon) vs. Orekon (Felicia) & Nan (Bulleta)

acho_vs_20080720c.asx - Sako (Bulleta) & Kaji (Lilith) vs. Kenta (Demitri) & Mano (Lilith)

acho_vs_20080720d.asx - Aswan (Demitri) & Hosokawa (Sasquatch) vs. Teruchika (Felicia) & cat-k (Felicia)

acho_vs_20080720e.asx - Yamakawa (Zabel) & CAA (Zabel) vs. DD (Sasquatch) & Nakanishi (Bishamon)

acho_vs_20080720f.asx - Sako (Bulleta) & Kaji (Lilith) vs. Aswan (Demitri) & Hosokawa (Sasquatch)

acho_vs_20080720g.asx - 3rd Place: Yamakawa & CAA vs. Aswan & Hosokawa

acho_vs_20080720h.asx - Finals: DD & Nakanishi vs. Sako & Kaji

acho_vs_20080720i.asx - Seed battle: Kaji vs. Sako



The main event went down on September 14th. Results are up at the official site.

Vampire Hunter
58 entrants
1st: TKO (Sasquatch)
2nd: Marusa (Felicia)
3rd: Sasazuka (Gallon)

Vampire Savior
52 teams
1st: Kosho (Bulleta) & Nasu (Sasquatch)
2nd: Orekon (Felicia) & Ouchi Jedah (Jedah)
3rd: Shimatsuya (Jedah) & Kaji (Lilith)

Mikado Area Showdown Videos 081608 p1

First batch of videos from Mikado's SBO weekend locals vs. out-of-towners battle. Kanto vs. Kansai, Chubu, Hokkaido & International. Please download only one file at a time.

http://blog.mi-ka-do.net/?eid=802867

080816_01.zip - Shu (Ken) vs. Fujishima (Boxer), Toukon (Chun) vs. Fujishima (Boxer)

080816_02.zip - Toukon (Chun) vs. Akashachi Kancho (Blanka), Abebin (Honda) vs. Akashachi Kancho (Blanka)

080816_03.zip - Abebin (Honda) vs. oh!!J (DJ), Abebin (Honda) vs. AAA (Ryu)

080816_04.zip - Abebin (Honda) vs. Aniki (Guile), KKY (Dhalsim) vs. Aniki (Guile)

080816_05.zip - KKY (Dhalsim) vs. Kusumondo (Honda), Yuubou (Fei) vs. Kusumondo (Honda)

080816_06.zip - Kashiwagi (Ryu) vs. Kusumondo (Honda), GOH Ken (O.Ken) vs. Kusumondo (Honda)

080816_07.zip - Nyo (DJ) vs. Kusumondo (Honda), Nyo (DJ) vs. Oreryu (Ryu)

080816_08.zip - Nyo (DJ) vs. 7 (Dhalsim), Yoshimura (Dhalsim) vs. 7 (Dhalsim)

080816_09.zip - Yoshimura (Dhalsim) vs. Batayan (Guile), Yoshimura (Dhalsim) vs. The SuperStar (Boxer)

080816_10.zip - Haru KING (Honda) vs. The SuperStar (Boxer), Roku (Honda) vs. The SuperStar (Boxer)


Elsewhere: Kosho & Nasu took Vampire Savior at the Darkstalkers Combination Cup. Kosho supposedly swept everybody. Detailed results aren't up yet.

Pre X-Mania 2008 Videos 080208 p2

Second batch. Please download only one file at a time.

EDIT: Great videos. Two weeks before SBO... everybody was looking really hungry.

http://blog.mi-ka-do.net/?eid=790144

080802_08.zip - Muteki (Guile), Nuki (Chun) & Mattsun (Ken) vs. Yuubou (Fei), Oonishi (Dictator) & Yoshimura (Dhalsim)

080802_09.zip - Kotaka Shouten (Guile), Souzou (Fei) & tomo (Ryu) vs. TZW (Guile), Futachan (Ryu) & Gian (Dhalsim)

080802_10.zip - YuuVega (Dictator), Noguchi (Claw) & Shogatsu (O.Honda) vs. Roku (Honda), Nakamu (Blanka) & Toukon (Chun)

080802_11.zip - USA (Boxer), Yakitori (Hawk) & VIPER (Hawk) vs. Yokkun (Dictator), Tonegawa (Ken), Gakusan (Zangief)

080802_12.zip - Muteki (Guile), Nuki (Chun) & Mattsun (Ken) vs. TZW (Guile), Futachan (Ryu) & Gian (Dhalsim)

080802_13.zip - USA (Boxer), Yakitori (Hawk) & VIPER (Hawk) vs. YuuVega (Dictator), Noguchi (Claw) & Shogatsu (O.Honda)

080802_14.zip - 3rd place: USA, Yakitori & VIPER vs. TZW, Futachan & Gian

080802_15.zip - Finals: YuuVega, Noguchi & Shogatsu vs. Muteki, Nuki & Mattsun

Elsewhere...

Don't miss fatboy's new ST Dhalsim strategy blog, Yoga Noogie.

Master Tomono @ Shin @ Watson @ Fuerte continues to bust heads! It's time for the devil to smile once more.

I made a quick move list for SF4. Might be handy to print out and bring to the arcade. I hope to do a revision soon (some of the command normals are wrong/missing here) but this is something to get you started: link.

Super Diagram Turbo Version 2

For the chart below I contacted SSF2T players from all over the US (plus, as of this new version, one player from across the Atlantic) and asked them for their take on their favorite characters' match-ups. A '1' means their character has a big disadvantage. A '9' means they've got a big advantage. '5' means even.

The values in the +/- column indicate the difference between the sum of all the values in the row and the baseline value of 80.

Thank you again to everybody who helped out!

Version 1 is here. Additional discussion here.

EDIT: Added Graham's opinion re: Boxer. Also UltraDavid put together a new chart comparing different ST tier rankings; see below.

EDIT2: Added Rambo's opinion re: Dhalsim.

EDIT3: Took one point off Blanka-Dhalsim.

Char.	RY	KE	OK	EH	CH	BL	ZA	GU	DH	TH	CA	FE	DJ	BX	CL	OS	DI	+/-	Player
Ryu	-	6	7	7	6	7	5	6	3	6	7	6	6	4	4	3	6	+9	John Choi
	-	6	5	7	4	5	4	4	3	5	6	4	5	3	3	3	6	-7	David Doyle
	-	8	6	9	7	7	5	7	3	9	7	6	7	3	4	4	7	+19	FlashG
	-	5	5	8	6	6	6	3	3	7	7	7	7	6	4	3	7	+10	Jesse Howard
Ken	4	-	4	7	3	6	6	5	6	6	6	7	4	5	4	3	4	0	CigarBoB
	4.5	-	5.5	6	4.5	6	6	4	3	6	5.5	6	5	5	5.5	4	6	+2.5	Wes Truelson
O.Ken	5	5	-	8	7	7	7	2	2	8	8	8	7	4	6	2	7	+13	Jesse Howard
	4	8	-	9	6	7	4	7	3	9	6	5	1	7	7	1	9	+13	Justin Wong
E.Honda	3	3	2	-	4	6	7	4	6	7	7	7	2	5	5	4	6	-2	Bill Gould
	3	3	2	-	4	5	7	2	5	8	8	8	3	5	5	3	8	-1	Sirlin
	3	3	2	-	4	6	8	3	6	7	8	8	2	4	5	3	7	-1	UltraDavid
Chun-Li	3.5	5	4	6	-	5.5	6.5	5.5	5	5.5	7	5	4.5	6	4	4	6.5	+3.5	Buktooth
	4	6	7	7	-	8	2	4	5	2	3	6	8	5	5	4	4	0	Chris Doyle
	4	5	4	7	-	5	5	6	4	4	6	5	5	5	5	5	9	+4	Jeron Grayson
	4	5	4	6	-	6	7	5	6	6	6	6	5	6	5	4	6	+7	NKI
Blanka	3	3	3	4	2	-	5	4	3	5	5	5.5	2	2	3	1	4.5	-25	Fatboy
	3	5	3	3	4	-	7	6	3	8	4	4	3	2	3	2	5	-15	Nohoho
Zangief	6	4	2	3	6	2	-	3	7	7	4	6	6	7	2	3	4	-8	Damdai
	5	5	5	2	3	3	-	2	2	4	3	3	3	5	2	2	5	-26	UltraDavid
Guile	5	6	-	6.5	4.5	4	7	-	3.5	6	7	7	6	4.5	3.5	3.5	6	+5	Brian
	5	6	5	8	4	4	9	-	2	7	7	7	6	5	2	4	5	+6	Axel Kelly
Dhalsim	6	6.5	8	5	6	4.5	8	7	-	8	6	7	7	5	6	7	6	+23	Jason Cole
	6	6.5	6	4	4	4.5	7	7	-	7	5.5	6	5	4	5	6	5.5	+9	John Rambo
	6.5	6	7	5	5	4.5	7	7	-	7	5.5	7	6	4.5	5	7	6	+16	Arturo Sanchez
Char.	RY	KE	OK	EH	CH	BL	ZA	GU	DH	TH	CA	FE	DJ	BX	CL	OS	DI	+/-	Player
T.Hawk	5	5	3	4	3	3.5	5	7	4	-	5	5	6	1.5	4	4	4	-11	Henry Cen
	5.5	5	-	4	5.5	5	4.5	4	3.5	-	3.5	4.5	4	4	5.5	3	5.5	-8	Jason Wilson
Cammy	3	5	5	0	4	4	7	2	7	9	-	5	2	3	6	2	4	-12	James Chen
	3	4	2	1	4	6	5	6	2	5	-	5	4	3	3	1	7	-19	Jeron Grayson
Fei-Long	4	4.5	-	3.5	4.5	4	6	4	4	6	5.5	-	4	4	4	4	4	-9	Jason Wilson
	5	6	5	1	6	7	8	2	1	7	7	-	3	1	2	1	4	-14	Jumpsuit
DeeJay	4.5	5.5	6	8	5	7.5	7	5.5	4	7	7.5	6	-	5	6	4.5	6	+15	Afro Legends
Boxer	6	6.5	7	5	5	6	4.5	6	5	6.5	7	6	5	-	5	5.5	5.5	+11.5	Afro Legends
	5	4	4	7	5	7	8	4	4	6	9	9	4	-	6	2	7	+11	Julien Beasley
	6	6	5	7	6	7	5	8	6	8.5	7	7	6	-	5	6	6	+21.5	Henry Cen
	6	6	6	6	4.5	6	4	5.5	5	6	6	7	6	-	6	4.5	6	+11.5	Graham Wolfe
Claw	6	6	6	3	6	8	9	7	5	7	9	9	6	4	-	4	3	+18	Julien Beasley
	6	7	5	3	5	4	8	7	8	7	4	6	4	3	-	5	5	+7	FlashG
	5	4	5	7	5	6	7	6	5	8	7	7	6	6	-	6	6	+16	Julian Robinson
	6.5	6.5	6.5	5	5	3	8	8	6	7	7	7	5	5	-	5	3	+13.5	Sirlin
O.Sagat	7	7	7	4	7	4	6	6	3	6	7	7	6	5	4	-	4	+10	John Choi
	6	8	8	7	8	8	8	8	3	8	8	7	8	5	2	-	5	+27	Jason Nelson
	9	9	9	7	5	7	7	9	1	9	9	5	7	4	2	-	7	+26	Justin Wong
Dictator	5	4	4	3	5	6	6	5	4	6	7	7	4	3	7	1	-	-3	Julien Beasley
	4	3	4	3	3	4	5	5	4	7	6	4	5	5	5	5	-	-8	Professor Jones
	4	5	6	2	4	5	6	5	5	8	7	7	5	4.5	7	4	-	+4.5	Sirlin
	5	5	-	4	4	4	5.5	6	5	4	5.5	6	5	4	4.5	4.5	-	-3	Jason Wilson
Char.	RY	KE	OK	EH	CH	BL	ZA	GU	DH	TH	CA	FE	DJ	BX	CL	OS	DI	+/-	Player

Tier List Analysis (click to enlarge)

Pre X-Mania 2008 Videos 080208

First batch. Please download only one file at a time.

http://blog.mi-ka-do.net/?eid=787958

080802_01.zip - AFO (Blanka), Cross (Fei) & Kita (Chun) vs. Muteki (Guile), Nuki (Chun) & Mattsun (Ken)

080802_02.zip - Yuubou (Fei), Oonishi (Dictator) & Yoshimura (Dhalsim) vs. Oreryu (Ryu), Wassekun (Dhalsim) & Guts (Sagat)

080802_03.zip - Kotaka Shouten (Guile), Souzou (Fei) & tomo (Ryu) vs. Ashitana (O.Ryu), Oji (Ryu) & Cello Tape (Zangief)

080802_04.zip - Imagawa Yoshimoto (Zangief), Katsurayama Ujimoto (Ryu), Matsui Munenobu (Dictator)* vs. TZW (Guile), Futachan (Ryu) & Gian (Dhalsim)

080802_05.zip - ARG (Claw), Gotoh (Ryu) & KKY (Dhalsim) vs. YuuVega (Dictator), Noguchi (Claw) & Shogatsu (O.Honda)

080802_06.zip - Haru KING (Honda), Moto** (O.Ryu) & Tsuka (Cammy) vs. Roku (Honda), Nakamu (Blanka) & Toukon (Chun)

080802_07.zip - USA (Boxer), Yakitori (Hawk) & VIPER vs. Isaji (Cammy), Choshu (Ken) & AKIRA (Ryu)

* Maybe Nogyo, Shiro, Taira?
** Don't know how to read this nickname.