Welcome to Singapore! Poongko, Laugh and Itabashi

Met up with Itabashi, Laugh, Poongko, Yagami and TKA for lunch. Thanks to TKA for the lunch treat.

Its nice to see Laugh again after 3 months! Welcome back to Singapore!

We had lunch at Suntec, porridge buffet. Didnt really like it… Oops

Anyway, we had lots of chatting. Afterwhich we visited Star Factory @ Suntec. Surprisingly we saw a familiar face there playing Boxer. Its m-flo aka Chris. Didnt expect to see him there. We left shortly because they were using the stretched resolution screens @ Suntec.

We reached Bugis arcade around 3+pm and started playing lots and lots. Argh so tiring! I just waited for my turn when Itabashi loses. The thing is, he is japanese arcade cultured. Players are expected to stand up after they lose. Yes, expect most Singaporeans to just sit down there and spam tokens when they lose. So I took turns with him when he lost.

Itabashi got a total of 23 wins streak at one point. Its pretty crazy considering every single top player was trying to take him down!

Some stuff that he mentioned,

• Ganguro is his toughest opponent so far. Ganguro won Itabashi 3 times the entire night. He calls Ganguro, “Pac Man”.
• Yagami have good fighting game sense and started to put up a better fight. Better anti air in the later fights.
• Xian’s Ryu kinda surprised Itabashi. Good zoning there.
• Ganguro’s skill level is around 30k+ BP. AAA-
• Peihoon’s skill level is around 40k+ BP.
• Leslie is pretty tough for him too.
• SBK is pretty good in his opinion.
• In general, we exceeded his expectations.
• Poongko should play Viper instead. We both agreed on that.
• If I play Akuma, he probably cant beat me. He based that on how well I played in SF4 and VF5.

Itabashi is here and lots of story to tell

Itabashi is finally here. He reached Singapore yesterday.

We brought him to Long beach for Chilli Crab. Welcome to Singapore

We got some games in. First VF5… I beat him most of the games. He lost his touch in the old school VF5 ver C

I got raped by him in SF4 though. Zangief is really one of Dictator’s worst match up. I played like 5 games with him. Lost all games.

Would have loved to play with him more. But he needed to rest and stuff since its his first day.

Some interesting stuff that he shared with us from the Japan SF4 scene:

• Daigo didnt play in May. Disappeared pretty much. Suddenly came back in June and became really really good.
• Itabashi is 5:5 against Daigo in May. Currently 8:2 in Daigo’s favor.
• Mago have problems with Daigo also around 8:2 in Daigo’s favor.
• Mago is well rounded and understood most of the match ups. He is able to play well against everyone except Daigo.
• Daigo lose to some random characters like Blanka, Abel, etc cos he havent fully grasped the match ups.
• Fu~ also known as Fuudo of VF fame beat Daigo 11games out of 15games.
• He didnt meet any dictators in Tokyo that can give him a good fight except one “no-named” Master rank dictator
• He says it isnt fun to play against dictator because it is a very bad match up for dictator.
• Dragonboy used Akuma for SBO. For those who dont know. He used to main Ken.
• He feels that Chun Li is a weak character. So C rank is a good rating for her right now. But Nuki and Nemo are really strong players though.

That’s all I remember! More to come.

SF4: KO Qualifiers

I qualified 2 weeks ago at Ang Mo Kio. Now I have to play SF4 and VF5 on 3rd~5th July @ TGX. Stress!

I performed really well for that tournament. Basically being persistent enough paid off. I tried some new stuff during the tournament. Didnt expect I could pull it off. Quite lucky I guess

I beat some of the few top players in Singapore. Basically the players who beat me before in other tournaments… Such as Gackt, Realdeal, Brans and Ganguro. It was tough!

Peihoon(our current champion) told me this, “Good, dont change. Keep using Bison(dictator).”

Some videos taken by round1.sg

One of my most epic matches against Alan(Akuma)

Ganguro(Sagat) vs Me(Dictator)

More videos from youtube channel

SF4: Nemo Chun Li match ups

Nemo’s match ups was posted on his blog last week. He is Japan’s top Chun Li player next to Nuki. Nemo says dictator is 5:5 against Chun Li. Singaporeans usually feel the other way, dictator is disadvantage against Chun Li. I always thought its still a ok match up but still need to research more on it.

Anyway, this is a interesting find for Chun Li players or Chun Li haters. Enjoy

Ryu 4.5 : 5.5
Ken 6 : 4
Guile 6.5 : 3.5
Zangief 3.5 : 6.5
Dhalsim 6 : 4
Honda 7 : 3
Blanka 3.5 : 6.5
Boxer 5.5 : 4.5
Claw 6.5 : 3.5
Sagat 4.5 : 5.5
Dictator 5 : 5
Viper 3: 7
Abel 5.5 : 4.5
Rufus 4.5 : 5.5
Fuerte 4 : 6
Akuma 3 : 7

Singapore’s very own Esports team

TitaNs eSports has finally launched their website!

Right now they are concentrating on Counterstrike and Fifa.

As part of their launch, they are giving everyone a chance to win a Dell XPS 9000 gaming laptop! Yes! A good chance to use that machine for playing SF4 on the move

http://www.titansesports.com/?p=512

SF4 Singapore: KO tournament

Lost in yet another SF4 tournament locally. Although I did make it much further this time. I played like 7~8matches before I got knocked out.

1st game against Raymus(Akuma), my VF5 friend. It was kinda even for the entire match. In the last round, he thought I would teleport and he walk towards me. Hoping that he could get a free throw from my teleport. I didnt feel like teleporting because he punished me once before. So both of us stood there, and I did a 2LK double knee press combo to finish him off… Everyone thought it was a kelong!

2nd game against Yagami(El Fuerte), the eventual 2nd place. I almost won him with my crazy strategy. But yea, I died cos of the knockdown mix up stuff. Good game though.

I also went up against a Zangief. Which everyone was shocked that I pretty much run over him. I didnt expect that to happen too. Its sort of a trial and error and it seemed to work kinda well against him

At some point, I went up against Dixon(Boxer). I didnt have that much problems against him, although he is a good player as a boxer. I basically hated boxer, when I just started playing. It is so annoying that I formulated a good strategy against Boxers.

I eventually lost to Gackt(Ryu). Never played him before. His mix up is abit weird somehow. I guess I wasnt very prepared for this. I need to improve my match up strategy against Ryu now. I lost somehow… Even though I dizzied him in the 2nd round. The only video recorded and I lost

Gackt(Ryu) vs Tetra(dictator)

SF4: Char Ranking and Tougeki stuffs, June’09

Saw this on Japanese forums. Found it interesting and as usual, translating it
I kept the player names in Japanese because its easier to identify them in videos. Also 2 names in tougeki because its a 2v2 tournament.

Been busy preparing and playing in tournaments. That’s why there is a lack of updates.

Top 30 BP ranking players’ character
Total/Character
12 Sagat
3 Akuma
2 Ryu
2 Chun Li
2 Zangief
2 Abel
2 Viper
2 Rufus
1 Dhalsim
1 Boxer
1 Ken

Top 50 BP ranking players’ character
Total/Character
17 Sagat
8 Akuma
6 Ryu
3 Rufus
3 Blanka
2 Chun Li
2 Zangief
2 Abel
2 Viper
2 Ken
1 Dhalsim
1 Boxer
1 Honda

Tougeki Qualifier winners

Block	District	Player
Hokkaido Tohoku A-01	Hokkaido	エミリオ (Ken)/ 電波(Sagat)
Hokkaido Tohoku A-02	Fukushima	ドスイントカ(Rufus)/ とりめし(Dhalsim
Kanto B-01	Ibaraki	生めそ(Honda)/ だしお(Viper)
Kanto B-02	Saitama	Results on June 07
Kanto B-03	Chiba	トガワ(Ryu)/ ボンちゃん(Sagat)
Kanto B-04	Chiba	マゴ(Sagat)/ ネモ(Chun)
Kanto B-05	Tokyo	Results on July 05
Kanto B-06	Tokyo	キャベツ(Viper)/ ごしょ(Rufus)
Kanto B-07	Tokyo	ミゾテル(Blanka)/ イチ(Sagat)
Kanto B-08	Tokyo	Results on June 07
Kanto B-09	Kanagawa	Results on June 21
Kanto B-10	Kanagawa	おじさんボーイ(Sagat)/ ときど(Akuma)
Chuubu C-01	Niigata	ヨシヲ(Guile)/ イーデスケツバット(Honda)
Chuubu C-02	Nagano	I原(Dhalsim)/ 静岡最強(Blanka)
Chuubu C-03	Aichi	Results on June 07
Kansai D-01	Shiga	Results on June 21
Kansai D-02	Osaka	ナイキ(Rufus)/ キグナス(Sagat)
Kansai D-03	Osaka	あーるえふ(Sagat)/ シロいたち(Akuma)
Kansai D-04	Osaka	うりょ(Viper)/ 梅園(Dictator)
Kansai D-05	Hyogo	Results on July 05
Shikoku Chuugoku E-01	Shimane	Results on June 14
Shikoku Chuugoku E-02	Hiroshima	HOT(Blanka)/ けんぴっぴ(Abel)
Shikoku Chuugoku E-03	Okayama	チャリ(Blanka)/ 小路(Zangief)
Kyushu Okinawa F-01	Fukuoka	Results on June 21
Kyushu Okinawa F-02	Fukuoka	ビーン(Sagat)/ 八頭(Guile)
Kyushu Okinawa F-03	Okinawa	らぼ(Abel)/ てっちゃん(Rufus)

Total/Character winners in Tougeki
8 Sagat
4 Blanka
4 Rufus
3 Viper
2 Guile
2 Dhalsim
2 Honda
2 Akuma
2 Abel
1 Chun Li
1 Zangief
1 Ryu
1 Ken
1 Dictator

Major tournaments in Singapore

We have 2 major tournaments at Games Expo 2009 on the 3rd to 5th July. World Cyber Games and KO tournament.

Firstly, the yearly event World Cyber Games Nationals.

Featuring games such as Virtua Fighter, Counterstrike, Fifa 2009, etc. There will also be 2 WCG leagues held at both Funan and Safra. The winners will get seeding to WCG Nationals.

KO tournament is the first of its kind. We are going to have a arcade based tournament PLUS exhibition matches. Where Korean and Japanese players will be invited to Singapore to play against our very best. To get the chance to represent Singapore in this exciting exhibition match, you will need to win the qualifiers at Virtualand @ Bugis on the 30th of May, 6pm.

TitaNs eSports @ L2P

Next weekend, TitaNs will be giving a talk on professional gaming. If you are interested in professional gaming, you should go take a look. Its not just about Counterstrike. Professional gaming is similar throughout all game genres. Closing date is 15th may!!!!!!!!!!

The TitaNs eSports CS team’s next challenge will not be to play against any top teams in the world, it will be to hold a workshop at the upcoming “Gaming & Electronics Fair, Licence2Play”.

The team’s topic for their workshop is “The Truth About Professional Gaming”. This will be an interesting talk to attend to gain an insight into Singapore’s only Professional CS team. What you can find out from this talk, i will not give any hints, so those who wish to find out, do sign up at the link below for the talk.

Registration closes on the 15th of May so sign up now!!!!

http://licence2play.com.sg/form

1.Click on workshops

2.Check box with workshop title, The Truth About Professional Gaming

3.Fill in details

Event Details

Date: 23rd May Saturday

Time: 3pm

SF4 gathering, Casual Team Tournament

Last friday, around 20 over arcade players had a gathering in Rafee’s house. Thanks Rafee for the nice gathering!

We had curry and stuff provided by Rafee’s family. His family is realllllllyyyyy nice! They didnt complain about any noise. In fact, Rafee’s neighbour came up and complained about the loud noise in the middle of the night

I did pretty ok for the tournament. I think its because I am very used to correct aspect ratio used in console versions. Our arcades is using “wide and fat” characters. Everything is awfully stretched, making it difficult to play and get used to.

My team lost overall. But no one was sad really, we all had fun Rafee captured all the matches, please watch them!

Ganguro(Sagat) Vs Tetra(Dictator)

Shen Yuan(Akuma) Vs Tetra(Dictator)

For the rest of the match videos go to http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=IQKOF&view=videos