3rd Strike player Pyrolee needs your help to get to Japan to represent America in the world’s most prestigious fighting game tournament, Super Battle Opera! Unfortunately Pyro got laid off from his job and needs some help getting to Japan. When I qualified for 3rd Strike in 2008, the community was kind enough to help us out and contributed a lot to our plane tickets. So I am trying to pay it back/forward by spreading the word that one of the best 3rd Strike players of all time needs some help paying for his plane ticket.
If you’re unfamiliar with Pyrolee, he was widely considered the best American 3rd Strike player ever and has represented America in SBO more times than anyone else I can think of. He was actually the very first guest I ever had on the Street Fighter Podcast, so go back and listen to that for some nuggets of 3rd Strike wisdom. Enjoy and please kick down a few bucks if you can!
Update: So apparently Pyro is unable to go to Japan, regardless of his financial situation so donations are no longer needed and 5 Star has informed me that everyone is being refunded. Everybody can cool their jets now and think about more pleasant topics.
Finally, the matches from the Salty Suite are up! There are two main sets of matches, Daigo money matches and the $100 16-man High Roller tournament. Both of these took place on Saturday July 10th afterhours at Caesar’s Palace, Post-Evo 2010. The High Roller tournament was really exciting because it featured a lot of players that came from all ends of the globe. Most tournaments have an entry fee of $10, but we thought it’d be fun to do a $100 tourney and pay out top 3.
Here are the entrants in no particular order:
Leviathan (Hawaii)
Arturo “sabin” Sanchez (Team Spooky, NY)
Tokido (Yokohama, Japan)
Genghis (The Box Arena, San Diego)
Kyriptic (CT)
GamerBee (Taiwan)
RB (Taiwan)
Chi-Rithy (Canada)
DaggerG (Hawaii)
PerfectSin (VA)
EG.Marn (Pasadena, CA)
Blockus (Papua New Guinea)
Combojack (Monterey Park, CA)
Finals Matches from the High Roller Tournament
Here are the finals from the $100 16-man High Roller tournament.
Winners’ Finals: EG.Marn (Dudley) vs. GamerBee (Adon)
Losers’ Finals: EG.Marn (Dudley) vs. RB (Guy)
Grand Finals: EG.Marn (Rufus) vs. GamerBee (Adon)
Here are the rest of the matches from the High Roller tournament minus the Finals:
Daigo Money Matches
Daigo showed up to play his $500 match against Arturo Sanchez and ended up playing a bunch of other matches against several other players to warm up, as well as after his match with Arturo ended. Here are the matches:
FINALLY!!!! Sorry for the delay guys, it was completely out of my hands. This match is a runback of THE match of 2009, where Arturo took Daigo all the way down to the last game last round and pulled it off! This time, it again comes down to last game last round, but I won’t spoil it if you haven’t seen it!
This match took place afterhours at Evo 2010 in the NorCal Salty Suite at Caesar’s Palace. Thank you to Machinima Respawn for getting it up on the channel as well as for getting a translator to translate Tokido and Eita’s commentary in part 1. Thank you to Team Spooky for streaming and recording this epic match. Also thank you to the English commentators for this match, Combojack and Chris Hu, whose genius idea it was to have the Japanese commentate for the first half.
If you haven’t seen the first match these guys played last year, check it out below:
Glenn from Get Your Tournament has an awesome statistical breakdown of the match as well. So please check that out if you want an in-depth look at some of the nuances of this match.
Will we see another runback at Evo Japan?!?!? Post in the comments if you would like to see it!
This Sunday is the AfroShoto Sneak Peek party featuring music by Miles Mosley and Kamasi Washington and an 8-man invitational tournament with myself, Mike Ross, Combofiend, EG.Justin Wong and more! AfroShoto is the soundtrack to I Got Next, the documentary on the SF4 scene featuring myself, Mike Ross, iloveu Joe and Justin Wong.
Miles and Kamasi will be performing some of the cuts from AfroShoto, a sample of which you can check out here. I’m really excited to be a part of this event because our goal is to make this spot a place where people can come enjoy watching great music and top players compete, while kicking back a few drinks.
If this works out, then we’ll be doing a lot more events like these in the future. It is 21+ unfortunately, so sorry kids, we’ll have something for you another time.
It’s free, but please RSVP to ensure that you get in! See you guys Sunday!
If you hadn’t heard, the location tests for arcade Super SF4 have started in Japan! Apparently the arcades just opened and we have confirmation that there are two new characters so far. Woot! Credit goes to @marika_j on twitter for the pic.
My money is on at least one Alpha series character. And also that Urien will continue to be neglected, FML.
