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Toxy Tells
For those of you who don’t frequent the Ozhadou forums, the best player in Melbourne, Toxy, has decided to start his personal thread detailing advanced Street Fighter strategy and techniques. You can find the thread here: http://www.ozhadou.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=38&t=5508&start=0 Please do not … Continue reading
Melbourne Player Profile: Sol/ Don’t be a Scrub Podcast Episode 1
We’re back with another interview, this time with Melbourne’s own Sol T. A good buddy of mine, he’s one of the brightest stars in the Melbourne scene. He put on a show at BAM, knocking out 4 of the 5 … Continue reading
Posted in Melbourne, Melbourne Player Profile, Ultra SFIV
Tagged BossLogic, Cactus, Daigo, Don't be a Scrub Podcast, EXC355UM, Gamerbee, Heavyweapons, Humanbomb, Just-S, Marn, Melbourne Player Profile, Naruga, Shadowloo, Sol-T, Somniac, TEC, Toxy
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Melbourne Player Profile: Somniac
Somniac is one of Australia’s top SSF4 players. He recently placed top 8 at Battle Arena Melbourne, and was one of the two Melbourne players to travel to Las Vegas for this year’s Evolution. He consistently places top 8 in … Continue reading
Posted in Melbourne, Melbourne Player Profile, Ultra SFIV
Tagged Alex Valle, BAM, Box Hill arcade, Brodsta_AU, Cactus, Eita, Evolution, Humanbomb, Kientan, Luong_fu, Marn, Melbourne Player Profile, Naruga, Punk54U, Sherry Jenix, Sol, Somniac, Third Strike, Toxy
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Finally…a Hakan tutorial!
I’ve been waiting for the Option-select.com Hakan tutorial for quite a while now. While not strictly an Option-select production (hit up their site for an clarification), this tutorial by Low Tier Entertainment is still a pretty comprehensive guide to all … Continue reading
BAM 2010 Match Videos
I updated my BAM 2010 recap with the link, but I felt that this warranted it’s own post. Shadowloo has done a nice collage of the BAM 2010 SSF4 top 8 match videos here: http://www.shadowloo.com/?p=2913 Much thanks to them and … Continue reading
Posted in Melbourne, Ultra SFIV
Tagged BAM 2010, Bugsimus, Humanbomb, Shadowloo, Top 8, Toxy
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Another one bites the dust
My friend HeartProfessor/ByeBi is hanging up his SF boots. And he made a nice final video eulogy of the last few fights he had. I also played him for the last time last weekend, and I was happy to send … Continue reading
Posted in Ultra SFIV
Tagged ByeBi, Demon's Souls, HeartProfessor, quitting Street Fighter
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An addendum to Links by Ribxus
I spotted this on the SRK frontpage. An incredibly good read, and I encourage anyone who cares about this stuff to read it. I’ve copied the full text below after the jump, otherwise you can just go to the link.
BAM 2010 Recap
Shadowloo BAM 2010 Recap: http://www.shadowloo.com/?p=2806 Ozhadou BAM 2010 results thread : http://www.ozhadou.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=5452 BAM 2010 SSF4 Top 8 videos: http://www.shadowloo.com/?p=2913 BAM Recap: Saturday I meet up with Spider at 930 in the morning, and he shows me his nifty new voice … Continue reading
Pre-BAM jitters
All the training has been done, the venue has been set up, and interstate players are already here beasting in the local arcades as I type this. All that’s left is to show up at BAM tomorrow in a good … Continue reading
Posted in Melbourne, Ultra SFIV
Tagged BAM, BAM stream, EXC355UM, Heavyweapons, Humanbomb, Just-S, muttonhead, Pen, Sol-T, Spoony, Toxy
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BAM update: Stream monsters, baby
Quick BAM update, it looks like there will be a stream this year! At http://www.ustream.tv/channel/bam2010 I encourage everyone who loves fighting games to come to BAM this year, or if you can’t make it, watch the stream!
Melbourne Player Profile: EXC355UM
BAM is swiftly approaching, October 2-3, and I was thinking of doing a series of player profiles and interviews before the event to sort of put faces to the names. While it might kind of late to start now, who … Continue reading
Posted in Melbourne, Melbourne Player Profile, Ultra SFIV
Tagged BAM, Daigo, EVO Apac, EXC355UM, Gamerhold, Gamespot AU, Hyper Magazine, Interview, Just-S, Melbourne Player Profile, Ozhadou, Pyro, Shadowloo, Sol, TEC
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BAM Practice at Deakin 3 Recap
CCH: http://www.ozhadou.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=5404 Deakin practice: http://www.ozhadou.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=5408 BAM: http://www.ozhadou.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=5186 Update! Somniac’s moneymatch against Naruga at Deakin Practice 1 from Stryfe’s YT channel It’s a good time for the Melbourne community with training sessions on Friday with Chris’s Club House at Collingwood, and … Continue reading
Posted in Melbourne, Ultra SFIV
Tagged Arturo, Cactus, Chris's Club House, Daigo, Deakin University, Divine Malice, Heavy Weapons, Mice Elf, Mr Gilgamesh, Naruga, Spidercarnage, Tan Joon Win, THK, Zerokill
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Daigo vs Tokido Holy War
I’m sure you guys have seen the 3 videos of Daigo vs Tokido on the SRK front page. I got this from the thread, http://shoryuken.com/f315/daigo-vs-tokido-live-stream-251223/index2.html that amatanoshikabane has been uploading the whole set! It’s up to part 21 now…so um … Continue reading
Street Fighter Podcasts
When I was starting down the path of a Street Fighter scrub, there were a lot of podcasts out there that were essential to my education to the scene. Today, there is such a profliteration of podcasts out there catering … Continue reading
Posted in Ultra SFIV
Tagged Alphaism Radio, Bunkei, Gootecks podcast, iPlaywinner, Juicebox Abel, Keits, Skisonic, Street fighter podcasts, Wakeup Shoryuken
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Street Fighter Graphs: Player Styles
Inspired a little bit by Juicebox Abel’s latest podcast about merging player style and character style, and the wonderful graphs I have been reading over the years over at http://www.freedarko.com, I have tried to come up with a rudimentary graph … Continue reading
Posted in Ultra SFIV
Tagged freedarko, Juicebox Abel, Player style, street fighter graphs
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Being a Scrub 