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Shadowloo Showdown 2012 Recap: Saturday

My alarm rings at around six, and we get our bleary-eyed butts down to the venue. We start shuffling things around for an hour until more people show up. Spoony shows up at seven. I think Kevin and Andrew shortly … Continue reading

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Galactic Circus Ranbat #3 03 Feb 12 recap: Create-A-Cleavage!

There have been great changes in my life recently. In addition to getting back to my daily Bluehouse lunchtime regime, I now have a lot more time to practice almost every day, which I’m mostly devoting to Marvel practice. I … Continue reading

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Final Round Couchwarriors 2010 Recap

I’ve put off writing this recap for a while for two reasons. The first reason is that while I was very disappointed and salty with my results, time passing by and a lot more training has washed away most of … Continue reading

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BAM Practice at Deakin University

Original thread: http://www.ozhadou.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=5374 Thread for this Saturday: http://www.ozhadou.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=5387&p=91918#p91918 So this Saturday we had our first BAM practice at Deakin University. I got there around 1145 am, and Igor had already been inside for ages. I was pretty impressed when I … Continue reading

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Couchwarriors Round 6 Recap: Cammy madness!

Update: Shadowloo’s Recap at http://www.shadowloo.com/?p=2287 and video: I’ve been quite excited about this CW after missing the last one. I’ve been training specific areas in my game, and after a few months of being scrub food for the community, this … Continue reading

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Chris’s Club House 23-07-2010 Recap

As you guys might know, while we’re waiting for Super to come out in arcades so that the normal Box Hill tournaments can resume, Chris and Andy have been running a weekly event at Collingwood called Collingwood Chris’s Club House. … Continue reading

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Chris’s Club House 25/06/2010: Winning with Hakan

I normally do a writeup for every tournament/SF event I go to, but I’ve just been too busy. And I’m in Singapore for a while. And EVO is here! So writing about this is kind of the last thing on … Continue reading

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Toxy and Heavyweapons go to Icecastle!

Report by Shadowloo: http://www.shadowloo.com/?p=1656 Naruga sir was kind enough to open up his house for a fundraiser for Toxy to go to Evolution. As expected, a large number of the Melbourne scene came out to support Toxy! I have had … Continue reading

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Facing the Beast part II updated with video!

I originally wrote about this fight here at https://beingascrub.wordpress.com/2010/06/02/evo-apac-recap-day-one-saturday-pools-and-facing-the-beast/ But now the video is actually up, and watching it brings all the feelings of humilation and shame back to me fresh as it were just yesterday. A few notes: -The … Continue reading

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Couchwarriors Ranbat R4: Teaching the power of mashing that fierce dp

Update: Ali’s Shadowloo report! http://www.shadowloo.com/?p=1638 I had brunch early that day with my close friend Eugene, also a budding Street Fighter player, and a couple of other friends like Pinn, Eric, and their respective missuses. And supposedly with a certain … Continue reading

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EVO Apac recap: Day Two Sunday Top 16 or Daigo and Robot Chicken

EVO Apac results EVO Apac pictures by Goswu Grand Finals, Losers Finals, and Winners Finals Videos -Updated! Ali’s EPIC writeup of the event!!! We made it back to the motel, and watched the embarrassment of Chinese culture that was the … Continue reading

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EVO APAC Recap: Day One Saturday Pools and Facing the Beast

What a weekend. I almost can’t put it into words, but I’m going to try. EVO Apac results EVO Apac pictures by Goswu Grand Finals, Losers Finals, and Winners Finals Videos -Updated! Ali’s EPIC writeup of the event!!! Pedro, Ali, … Continue reading

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Couchwarriors R3 RanBat: Or how I finally won my first tournament match

I’ve been meaning to write this recap for a while, but I procrastinate a lot. But I figured I’d better do it now before I head off to Sydney tomorrow for EVO Apac qualifiers. Report by Ali here: http://www.shadowloo.com/?p=1458 This … Continue reading

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First time at Box Hill

At long last, I finally worked up the courage to head down to Box Hill for one of their tournaments. I got seventh place! But I didn’t win a single match. Let me explain that to you: it was their … Continue reading

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One and out at Galactic Circus

One of the first tournaments I ever went to was the Galactic Circus tournament held in March 2010 with a cash prize of $1000! The writeup can be found here: http://www.shadowloo.com/?p=1237 I wasn’t planning on going for the tournament, but … Continue reading

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