Street Fighter IV

Originally posted by JustFrame
Anyhow, to get back to Street Fighter IV with people who actually [B]care and want to improve their gameplay

Here's something that you peeps should watch:

Ryu (Momochi) vs Gouki (Inbe)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jP7smxGx_zw

This is some good stuff, and you should refer to my Valle (Ryu) vs Ed Ma (Gouki) video as well that I posted earlier as it shows great Ryu vs Gouki strategies.

One of the most important aspects is knowing how to get in on Gouki when he does his aerial fireball to sweep him. Because let's say "even" if you trade shots with him and get hit by the fireball. It's to Ryu's advantage, because Gouki will be knocked down from the sweep, and Ryu will have the positioning advantage in this scenario, giving him multiple options on what he can do.

Most Gouki players will never ever throw out their projectile high in this case, because it makes them extremely vulnerable, they'll usually throw in on their descent, which makes it more difficult to punish, however with Ryu, you will either go under it cleanly and get in the sweep, or most of the time at worse, as stated, a tradeoff.

This match up derives into a few key things, who can outzone and out footsie the other character the most will be the victor. Gouki's BnB's hurt so much, that it makes him a real threat even without having meter, however with the meter there, you have to start worrying about the threat of SGS.

Trust me when I say this..good Gouki players know how to land SGS, and will catch you off of the worse times. From my own experiences, obviously off of whiffed Shoryuken if do, do that, which although rare, does indeed happen. Worse cases are when I whiff with c.mk or my sweeps when I'm trying to footsie, these are huge mistakes that can lead to you losing a boatload of damage if your not careful with a fully metered Gouki.

Personally I still Ryu just slightly, simply because he's got the better payoff with the Ultra which can shift the tide more often then not into his favor over Gouki.

Later I'll compile a Ryu vs match up post 💃 [/B]

I agree. To me the Ryu/Gouki match up is interesting and a flipcoin. Its true that Gouki has less HP than Ryu, but his teleport and fireball game is dangerous. It can tame Ryu and most of the time its up to the Ryu player to find ways to get around Gouki's fireballs. Plus his BnBs hurt a lot. But like you mentioned Ryu's dmg output with the SADC>Ultra is dangerous as hell for Akuma.

The Shungokusatsu can be dangerous indeed. I remember watching one of DSP's videos where he caught a guy using Balrog with the Shungokusatsu in the middle of a blocked combo that was going to end with a dash punch(forgot which variation)

Originally posted by ArtificialGlory
I like it the best when Momochi plays as Akuma, but he's also awesome as Ryu apparently.

From what I've seen from watching these pro videos is that Akuma's ultra/super is diabolically hard to land as opposed to Ryu's, for example. That really sucks because Akuma's ultra does insane damage.

EDIT: Now this is a really awesome match:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGS5b6SK4FM

Momochi scares me. I don't care about mago(great player) & Sagat. Momochi's Akuma is deadly. He has great setups and mindgames and his execution is flawless. Once you get hit with Gouki's clk you can count on Momochi eating your lifebar with the full sadc combo.

If Akuma had the ability to link his ultra as easily as Ryu you can bet your ass Capcom would have toned its dmg down.

I'm willing to except the warning if it removes Sado from here momentarily.

Anyhow, yes indeed Zack, Ryu vs Gouki is around a 5-5 ish, simply because Gouki can zone just as well as Ryu and keep this pace going. His normal BnB's without using meter is what really makes him so dangerous. Hurricane KickxxShoryuken is deadly, with Gouki. Whatever form that Gouki uses coming off from that hurts.

Asura Warp is great for getting out of corners, however "if" you can anticipate or force him to use it, you can punish him off of it out of corners. However, again, this is really a match up that comes down to "who zones" better then the other here.

To be serious, if Gouki had more stamina, and stun, he'd be right next to Sagat without a doubt, even without having a super versatile Ultra. I'm a little hesitant to say #1 if he had the better stamina simply because Sagat's links into Ultras just that good, and his pure raw damage is unbelievable.

Personally, my Ryu, I zone more then guys like Valle, Momichi or Daigo when I use Ryu in contrast to them. To me, they are still at times...too aggressive, and I don't mean it to say that I'm "better" mind you, however I feel that at times they become too impatient and try to go for the "big combo".

I feel that if they played Ryu with far more zoning and footsies, that he would be a much more dominant character. Yes, what I'm trying to say is, use the OG SF mentality. Because even when watching these match ups, I notice that Gouki when played right can even slightly edge Ryu on the zoning department. However even they sometimes want to go for that big hit.

To me, Ryu vs Gouki is around 5-5 in most cases, however I feel that if your more patient with Ryu it can be 5.5 or "possibly" 6-4. Because with Ryu having more stamina, great damage output, and the Ultra factor, he can gain the advantage. Reasons is that, if Ryu just gets a sweep in, and relies on zoning, even if Ryu took chip damage from here on out and vise versa, Gouki will have to come in, because he's on the losing battle due to his poor stamina.

Like I said, if you take off more damage on Gouki, and turtle more with Ryu, this will be to his advantage...however again, sometimes i notice that even the best players have a tendency to rush in, even when they are in the lead.

Anyhow....here's another one...

Ryu (Daigo) vs Zangief (Itabashi)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjindSU_6h4

Although Daigo loses to Itabashi eventually, this match up is great showing of somethings that should be used when fighting Zangief. C.mk's are your friend when confronting Zangief, because it's a long relatively safe poke, and if connected you can cancel into a Hadouken.

You also have c.mp at closer ranges which comes out fast and is a great stopper. You can also sweep, which I didn't see Daigo do often, however it's a viable tactic to use against Zangief for a knock down to either gain positioning again, or to free space between you two. From long range, throw out well placed Hadouken's, you can mix it up with Ex-Hadouken's too, to throw off Zangief players, obviously this is to force Gief in.

At mid to close range, be extremely careful about throwing out hadouken's because Ex-Green Hand will eat you for it, and once knock down, Gief can go into cross ups, or fake cross ups, and it will go into Gief's favor without a doubt.

One other poke that I didn't see Daigo do a whole lot, which I feel is very important was s.fk against Gief, because this stuff's alot of his advances, and not only that, but also his jump ins. Obviously, anytime you can land a Shoryuken, look to Ultra if you have that to use.

In my opinion, when played right, this match up is slightly in Ryu's favor again, because if you know how to zone, and footsie, Gief will take a hefty good amount of damage before even getting in. This match up has shifted since the year of 08 where in most cases, people would say this match up was Gief>Ryu, however with the new found ways of keeping Gief out, it's imo, an advantage to Ryu, if just slightly.

Be careful though, because any knockdown Zangief can score, he can turn the match up on a whim, because those cross ups, can lead into SPD results, and a just two of those can shift the match up.

So yes, with Ryu, zoning and footsies are so important, it's a must, must, if you don't like to zone and footsie, Ryu is not the character for you, because to pick him up is relatively easy, however to learn his deep end strategies, he's one of the most difficult characters to master in that aspect.

Did you watch Poongko vs Itabashi? Phenomenal match.

I agree about Ryu's sFK stuffing Giefster's attacks. It can even stuff a Lariat from the right distance. Say what can I do to follow a blocked close sFK?

Originally posted by Sado22
what? you actually come back after several weeks to start this?
gtfo, foo 😂

~Sado

And why the phuck are catz comparin' Tekken to SF? It's like comparin' Megaman to Halo. True, the games center arond shootin' people, but any body wit a brian knows that the games are very different and exist to fill different needs.

Originally posted by JustFrame
[B]www.tekkenzaibatsu.com

http://www.tekkenzaibatsu.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?forumid=16

IIRC, you don't play tournies, thus you wouldn't know there was still tournaments held for them

Are you serious here? Have you been keeping up with SBO and even the Japanese players in 3S? Chunli is the single most dominant character within that game of SFIII:3S. The other characters besides Chunli who will show up in the Top-8 is Yun, and to a lesser extent, Ken.

Look at the 3S Tier List here compiled from the Best 3S players from Japan, and see Chunli at #1
http://wikiwiki.jp/3rd/?%A5%C0%A5%A4%A5%E4%A5%B0%A5%E9%A5%E0

There is no lies here, go and dig up the Evolution Tournament Results for the past 4 straight years, and see how much she's dominating. Look at SBO where the best 3S Players in the world play although it's 3 vs 3, every winning team in recent time has had Chunli in there.

SF:II is hard to get access too, because not a whole lot of people play the older versions anymore, however HD:Remix has had competition for it, and the game is far more balanced then original ST was, however I haven't kept up with it's tournament results, however www.shoryuken.com can provide you with that anyhow.

As for SF:IV....go click on this link...scroll down and read the tournament results from All Over The World...Here...

http://curryallergy.blogspot.com/

You'll notice a huge flop of who gets first place finishes (many of them not even Sagat taking 1st, and he's the best overall character in that entire game).

Also, no fighting game can be truly balanced where every single character can win 1st place tournies, Hyper Fighting and VF:4 Evo are the two most balanced fighting games arguably ever, yet the low tier characters will almost never win a tournament. However, the most important aspect is that a good viability of the cast is playable.

Again, that Blog is showing characters winning in the Top-3 finishes, ranging from Ryu, Sagat, Chunli, Rufus, Blanka, Viper, Dictator, Ken, Abel, Gouki, E. Honda, Zangief, Dhalsim, Fuerte, etc, etc....wow...more then half the cast has shown up in the Top-3 finishes at the arcade tournament level.

So please, quit the garbage here, we know you don't play nor keep up with the game SF:IV anyhow.

If I suck? Why can't you opt to play me online then? Rofl.

Nobody uses the Joudan Kick the way you stated it with the above quote? Your a terrible Ryu player then, so please, stop spewing out your garbage of obviously what not to do with Ryu.

Firstly Joudan Kick is great for big misses whiffed attacks, and is usually used during a guaranteed combo setup, you know, a string combo that leads to a Ex-Joudan Kick. That's why it's useful and effective, nobody here, throws this thing out of nowhere, of course it'll be easily parried, obviously your not a Ryu player, so don't act like you know how to play Ryu in 3S.

Hahaha, you serious here, so instead of playing a strategically sound game, and using your characters tools to your benefits. You'd rather just throw tons of Parry Options Selects, rely only upon high/low mixups, whiffed attacks into throws for your overall strategy. Because your fearful of using your best tactics due to the fact that they can be parried, which again sets you into a guessing game.

Nobody who plays 3S legitimately

How is it forcing if it's true? You do know that I MAIN Jin and Devil Jin when I used to play Tournies right? The majority of that move list is useless, which is to refute your baseless claim that "more moves is better".

Yes, I "must" be a scrub for not using 50+ of the movelist, but I guess that means ALL Top Jin/Devil Jin players must be scrubs as well, because they don't use 50+ of Jin/DJ's moves as well. Please, stop this now, I pointed this out to show you that having more moves doesn't give better variety to the game of Tekken, which is shown.

Now "if" you found it Fun, then you should have stated that at the very beginning. However, you claimed that 3S was a "better" game then SF:IV and that it took a step forward in the evolutionary process, which is a completely different notion then a comment saying "I just found it Fun."

With the other statement however, you are saying that SF3 was an overall better made fighting game, which in fact, it did the exact opposite of that fact in contrast to the other SF games. However, I'm used to you saying one thing, and then changing yourself to try and cover up the holes you dig for yourself.

Again, when praise the Parry System for it "improving" the gameplay, I showed you why it made it worse, and now you change your mind and say it's just "fun"...seriously, Wow, that's about all there is to it right there.

Ryu>Jin
DJ>Ryu (Most likely)

like your "proof" that Jin beat Hwoa in T3 right? 😆

Honestly, get this stuff out of here, considering this isn't a VS thread.

I'm fed up with this, so I'm going to say that this is the last time I'll take this from you Sado. I've quoted every single time you cussed, and spewed at me directly (not even involving the fighting game but directly at me), and if you do so again, I will send them all to the mods, considering you've already been warned before already.

Instead of actually debating about the Fighting Games at hand, all you do is take this personally, thus proceed to directly assault, cuss, and flame the one who obviously knows more then you do about these fighting games, because since you have no real background into how these fighting games play like, you resort to do this, which is shown throughout ALL of your post.

However, you can't keep anything clean on these boards against anyone you debate (if you even call it a debate here actually). The fact is, you don't even own nor have access or play the game of Street Fighter IV. Yet you talk and throw nonsense and boast the claim that you know what your talking about. Just curious as to how someone can talk so much about a fighting game that they themselves don't even own must make a whole lot of sense here.

If you don't like the game of Street Fighter IV, then don't come into this thread, because it's obvious you don't care about the game of SF:IV because it's "move-list" isn't long enough, the cosmetics aren't to your "demands" or what not. We know you hate this game, so move on, and let the rest of us continue talking in a more informative manner. If you don't care to improve your game in SF:IV anymore, however step aside, because there's plenty of people here who still do.

I've had it up to here with you, because you don't know anything about the fighting games you talk about, and have turned this into a flame post instead of if actually being about the gameplay of Street Fighter IV. The next time it's to the mods man, I'm sick of this direct troll flaming coming from you. [/B]

As usual, you know your shit.

ROFL

YouTube video

Hahaha, her stance was awesome.

Sagat's moveset works well for her, but the only problem was her mouth while doing the ultra attack.

I'm a post Akuma with Dan's moveset. Its awesome dude. Taunting Smiling Ragin Demon FTW.

YouTube video

Hell, yeah! It aint cool for catz to say shit about me that aint true. I'm just clearin' the bull shit up on my name so that YOU know.

Evolution 2009 Kicks off later today Folks!!!

Street Fighter IV will without a doubt have the biggest tournament sign up in this years 2009 Evolution event, and possibly maybe the "highest" signing ever in Evo History (we'll see later). So expect there to be Old School Heads and well known faces to be competing within this tournament with the likes of Justin Wong, Alex Valle, Daigo Umehara (Not 100% sure if he'll be there), Ed Ma, Gootecks, etc, etc. However, expect to see some new faces as well, and "potentially" some new blood whom will show up within this tournament.

SF:IV is new, so I will not be surprised if this is the case, however who will take first place for this years first SF:IV hosting? Will it be a top player from Japan, maybe possibly a Euro player? Or will it be one of our very own USA top player representatives (USA! USA! USA!).

I talked on msn two days ago with a few top players from the USA, and I'm going to say this. It's going to be absolutely insane at this years Evo2k9, and I'm expecting to see upsets, and shockers, all of the likes. Will we get another "Greatest comeback of All Time", considering that Justin Wong's Cyclops comeback of 2007 in MvC2 is arguably the greatest Evolution Comeback of all time. (If you haven't seen it..shame on you!!! Also, do not try to dispute this with Wolfe's ST comeback, or Daigo's "Parry" comeback, considering both were great, however none of them were as dire nor demanded such crazy psychic ability as Wong's full bar Cyclops against Yipes nearly full health team of Magneto/Storm/Psylocke and here's the link...--->>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVmc5ZepdVs )

So will we have another at the same magnitude such as this? How will all of these unfold, well, if you want to get a heads up, head over to www.shoryuken.com and check out the updates later (I remember there being a live feed on radio for Evo somewhere, and I "think" you can find it there), when the biggest fighting game on US soil kicks off. As for me, here's to hoping that a Ryu player takes it all at this years SF:IV Tournament 😄 . Personally, I'm rooting for John Choi!!! I know the cat plays Ryu, and hopefully he'll do so at Evo, so I cannot wait. This is why playing at the tournament level rocks, and it's going to be one crazy Weekend.

Here are the RuleSets for each Fighting Game being played at Evolution 2009

http://forums.shoryuken.com/showthread.php?t=181540

Evo 5 on 5 SF:IV Tournament Special with link and Team Captains from each region.

http://forums.shoryuken.com/showthread.php?t=181970

In fact, just check out the Evolution Championship Thread at shoryuken.com to keep updated!

GET HYPED!!!

Evolution 2009 Fighting Game Tournament is finally Here!

Justin Wong is an ugly, obnoxious douche. I hope Daigo schools him again.

Yay@Evo

I'm looking forward to this.

I wonder if MickeyD will be in it. Ed Ma...will he be using Ken or Akuma? (hopefully Ken unless his Akuma has gotten better) Didn't Daigo win a trip to Evo after winning the gamestop tourny? Hopefully he will be there.

I watched a J. Wong interview where he commented about the difference between US & JPN players. He said japanese players like to think their strategies and zoning while US players are more on instinct/reaction. He claimed that is because US players have better reaction time than japanese. I think he is right about japan playing mind games oriented and stuff, but I don't think their reaction time is lagging behind US. I mean...how can he say that after Daigo's insane parry rape a couple of years ago. Perhaps he was using himself as the mold since he said he didn't like to think too much during matches, relying more on instinct and his muscle memory to whip ass.

He also talked about the difference between Poongko & Daigo's Ryu. He made an analogy of Poongko being a lance, a spartan with a lance on your face all the time; and Daigo being a spartan with a lance and a shield. Interesting.

Originally posted by ArtificialGlory
Justin Wong is an ugly, obnoxious douche. I hope Daigo schools him again.

In all honesty, in real life, Justin Wong is super humble and a really, really nice guy. You have to know him, to really see that he's not a punk, I'm sure your probably talking about his "Wong vs Iyo" moment where he didn't want to shake Iyo's hand right? To be truthful, Wong was caught in the moment, I mean, he defeated the S. Korean and Japan's National Winners there and ended up walking home with a SF:IV Cabinet, so anyone would have been jumping for joy.

I don't take it against Wong, because he's a huge contributor to the fighting game community, and when you ask him how to improve your gameplay, he's more happy to give you a hand about it. So again, he's an awesome guy.

Also Zack, I'm quite sure if Ed Ma's there, that he'll be using Gouki over Ken, simply because Gouki's match ups overall are far better then Ken. So I would most likely look to him using Gouki instead, considering he got to the SBO Quals Finals with Gouki. So look to him most likely choosing Gouki.

Lastly, on the Parry notion with Daigo to Wong, that really wasn't reaction, Daigo was already fishing for Wong to do SAII. Which Wong ended up doing, because at that range, and that low life, some people take the gamble to go for chip damage. Imo, Wong should have tried to do something else along with it to make it more of a "guess work". However Daigo just simply sat there and waited for SAII, then it was dream Parry to victory. Not only that, Parrying SAII isn't entirely difficult, because the physics for SAII never change, thus you can learn it and parry it within similar situations.

Wong "maybe" using himself as well, however, there were other SF greats who had ridiculous reaction speeds. Jeff Schaeffer of the Old School Street Fighter II days had untold reaction abilities, that I have never seen even to this day amongst any top SF player. He used to be able to Shoryuken/Tiger Uppercut a Headbutt, Psycho Crusher, Blanka Roll from the range distance of when you start a match (you know, when the round starts and the distance between you and your opponent).

However, Tomo Ohira took it to the Broken Cheat Code level, because it was basically just that. He was able to Shoryuken sweeps on reaction, like Chunli's c.fk, which to this day...nobody, USA, Euro, Japan, none of the current top players today can do. With a reaction that sick and that ridiculous, you absolutely turn matches like a Ryu vs Chunli from being a 6-4, to like a 7-3 or 8-2, making it almost impossible for Chunli to win now.

Alex Valle back in his prime years (Mid-late 90's) also had insane reactions, so yeah, I could probably see where Wong's coming from. However the case, to be honest, Japan currently edges out the US, and to me, the real advantage is because they have more people playing fighting games, and a larger group of players whom are consistently solid to good, not only that, but their terrain is to their advantage, where most competition is a train station, or a few hours away.

We within the US don't have that luxury, we either have to downright drive to different states, or fly to get to these competitions, which is the problem, not only that, but fighting games isn't how it was back in the early 90's.

If we had a US vs Japan like say, back in 1992 or 93, I would vouche USA>>>>Japan, I'm sorry, but nobody in Japan is beating a in his prime Tomo Ohira, the greatest Street Fighter player to ever walk the planet. Lol...I guess I'm getting off topic here, however, if any of you have noticed.

There's going to a Exhibition Match Up, Mike Watson vs Daigo Umehara in Anniversary Collection. The match up is Hyper Fighting Ryu vs Super Turbo Ryu, and obviously I'm rooting for Watson to take it to the house with Hyper Fighting Ryu. Still, I hope he changes over to CE. Ryu instead, considering he's everything HF. Ryu is minus the aerial hurricane, but does nearly double the damage of HF. Ryu. Basically it's a battled dubbed "Which Ryu is the Best?!"

Again, this year's Evo2k9 is going to be madness.

I wish I could see some tournaments of the game online but any profiles on Youtube have them jumbled or incomplete.

You can check out the Evo tourny live. Goto www.Shoryuken.com and get the livestream.

Always nice to get insight about old school top players, JustFrame.

Did you watch the stream? I'm a bit annoyed at the fact there were technical problems with the LCD, but its understandable. Kind of funny to see pad/ps3 controller players in the tourny. Loved the noobie Ken vs Blanka match. LOLOLOLOL.

I agree about Gouki having easier matchups. I just saw 1 video of Ed Ma's Gouki and I wrongly assumed he didn't improve.

Also Gootecks had a tough time in the beginning with that nice Fei Long player(PS3 controller dude) and although he did eventually wipe the floor with Fei, I think Gootecks was somewhat overwhelmed in the beginning. But thats understandable since you don't really get to play against console chars that much. Once Goo got in his comfort zone it was Game Over.

Say is Evo over for today? I'm pumped!

Yeah, Evo is over today, I was away, since I was away installing new tiles for my kitchen (my kitchen looks super sexy now!). Anyhow yeah, funny stuff on the first day, and hilarious with all of the scrubby comments on people crying about Sagat being overpowered in SF:IV on the live stream.

I swear, these new cats really need to get a wake up call, it seems every new person I see cries "cheap" or "overpowered" and use it way too often on characters who really don't deserve it at all. I mean, trying to debate with a few of them is lost causes...one guy spewed about how 3S was "more balanced" then SF:IV on there.

Yet any right single mind would know that 3S is in fact not even breathing on the same level as SF:IV. Chunli being #1 in contrast to Sagat #1 is not the same thing, considering many of Chunli's match ups are 8-2, which are pretty much, unwinnable unless the Chunli player downright just stops playing.

So if your ever playing online and you hear someone texting you saying that Sagat is overpowered and that SF:IV is unbalanced. They obviously don't know what they are talking about, and lack the ability to know the Sagat match up well enough. However, playing a few times online on the PS3, nearly 85% of my matches ended in Rage Quits, which was full of LOL. Whenever I was spacing with projectiles, zoning and using footsies to beat my opponents, I got labeled "cheap bastard who just zones!". However, when I started using Viper to rushdown, I got rage quitted and called a "cheap bastard for rushing down using TK all the time?!".

The only time I don't get this kind of hate is when I'm playing against the Old School Heads that I used to compete with, or up against solid players from outside of my city whom play competitively now. I really cannot wait for the day when there is less whining and complaining and more to just simply start improving your gameplay, because that's the real problem here. Nearly 80% of the peeps don't even really know how to play, and when they lose, they blame it on something else, and but they never understood that they don't either know how to get around projectiles.

Don't know how to block that particular cross up, or have never seen that strategically sound player with his/her character, and thus lack the knowledge to play against them. I await the day there is less whining, and more with just simply improving your gameplay. To be honest, it's worse then the early 90's, there was complaining then, but not to this magnitude of stupidness.

Anyhow, sorry to get off topic again, but too many whining scrubs these days, and even on the Evo LiveStream Feed which was annoying at times. The 2nd day of the tournament is going to without a doubt get way better then the first day, I can tell you that much, and with even bigger upsets.

Evolution 2009 with live feed continue again on Saturday at 5:00 PST, so look to that according to your own time to watch.

Note: This Live Feed gives out huge wealth of knowledge to people here in KMC who look to improve their gameplay in SF:IV, you can seriously learn a thing or two from this.

Yes. I learned a couple of things from watching Evo today. Stuff I'm unfamiliar about.

So you use Viper too? That is nice, man. She is one of the hardest characters to play with. Her execution is tight, but she can definitely bring the rain. I've played a couple of good Vipers and they are not to be taken lightly. She is very entertaining though, and those crossups of hers are lethal. Can you give me some basic zoning/rushdown/crossup tips for her? I'd go to Shoryuken, but most of the time the members end up fighting among themselves over what is more efficient and what not and it becomes a bit hard to grasp her basics.

Also 1 final question; what is your opinion of Chun Li in SF4? I've grown interested in learning her, and I know a few things but nothing deep enough to become a real challenger.

On some up to date News for Evolution 2009...

If anyone here ever, ever tries to dispute Street Fighter IV's manliness in competition, then remember this day...because as of now....(Drums Rolling).

Street Fighter IV has over 1000 entries for the tournament of Evolution 2009 as stated by Dog Face one of the Evo threads at srk.com. Yes, you heard me...not 100, not 10, but over 1000, you know, one grand? I know, even I'm having a wet dream just thinking of how manly that number of entries is, especially for a fighting game at that and at this time of age.

This has given me tremendous hope, that the fighting game community and that Street Fighter the series, is still about as popular as it ever was in the 90's. With this number, it completely and utterly shatters the one that Street Fighter III:3rd Strike held at the 2005 Evolutions tournament with over 100+ entires. I was at Evolution 2005, and at the time, thought that 100+ was nearly impossible to achieve, however I'm proven wrong in 2009 with the arrival of Street Fighter IV.

Looks like Hadouken's, Shoryuken's, and Tiger Uppercuts still connect to alot of competitive fighting gamers in the modern day. Yes, this is a truly spectacular achievement in my eyes, to the SF community, but the fighting game community period. Good luck to all of the Evolution Staff Members, because this weekend is going to be insane with the 1k+ SF:IV entires, not even including the other fighting game entries they still have to do as well, lol.

SF:IV ='s 💃 🤘 💃

Ps: Will give you some tips on Chunli later Zack, since I'm still in awe at the # of SF:IV entries and I also play Chunli as well (My characters are Ryu, Chun, and Viper in SF:IV btw, though obviously my #1 main nearly 90% of the time is Ryu).

Are Momochi and Kindevu in this tournament you keep talking about?