2nd TOPANGA League Round 5 summary

Info
- 2nd TOPANGA League announced, prizes, tickets, schedule, stream links
- Rules and format
- 2nd TOPANGA League (A) Round 1 summary
- 2nd TOPANGA League (A) Round 2 summary
- 2nd TOPANGA League (A) Round 3 summary
- 2nd TOPANGA League (A) Round 4 summary

Commentators
- R (Guy player)
- Shiro (Makoto player)

Menu
1. Uryo vs. Eita
2. Momochi vs. Haitani
3. Kazunoko vs. Fuudo
4. Sako vs. YCH-Mochi *delayed due to YHC-Mochi's Internet issue, moved to 9
5. Kazunoko vs. Eita *moved to 4
6. Uryo vs. Cabbage *moved to 5
7. Umehara vs. Momochi 
8. Uryo vs. Fuudo
9. Momochi vs. Kazunoko *moved to 10
10. Sako vs. Haitani *moved to 6
11. Umehara vs. YHC-Mochi

Spoilers inside.


Results
1. Uryo 3-0 Eita
2-1 *very close last round, Eita almost made a big comeback
2-1 *perfect in 2nd round by Uryo
2-0 *perfect in 1st round by Uryo

2. Momochi 0-3 Haitani
1-2
1-2
1-2 *Momochi made 3 mistakes in this game (drop combo, bad move, miss timing)

3. Kazunoko 3-0 Fuudo
2-1 *Kazunoko won close last round by jumping in then raw You Hou
2-0 *nice moves in 1st round by kazunoko
2-1

Fuudo was ok, but Kazunoko was in top form.

4. Kazunoko 3-0 Eita
2-1 *1st round was close but Kazunoko failed to chip Eita
2-1
2-0 *Eita threw 1st round by doing 2 random DPs

5. Uryo 3-1 Cabbage
2-0
2-0
1-2 *Uryo missed Ultra then hit by big combo and lost in last round
2-0

Uryo totally dominated in first half.

6. Sako 1-3 Haitani
2-0
1-2
1-2 *close 1st round *perfect in 2nd round by Haitani *Sako missed DP and hit by Ultra in last round (lost big lead)
1-2 *Sako missed EX DP and hit by Ultra in last round

7. Umehara 2-3 Momochi
2-0
2-0 *FADC Metsu in last round
1-2 *Only one hit in first 50 seconds in 2nd round *Momochi had a good read in last round (Ultra caught backstep)
1-2 *hit by Momochi's random Ultra in 1st round
0-2

Umehara changed his strategy half way as he stopped pressing forward (fear random Ultra?). Momochi did better after the pressure was gone.

8. Uryo 2-3 Fuudo
2-0
2-1
1-2
1-2
1-2

Fuudo was on his form in second half.

9. Sako 3-2 YCH-Mochi
2-1
2-0 *nice read/reaction (finish) from Sako in last round
1-2 *close last round *Mochi successfully landed 2 Ultra setup in this game
0-2 *Mochi won by Focus LV3 combo finish in both rounds
2-1 *Sako threw Dhalsim's zoom punch in 1st and last round *big comeback in last round from Sako (very close)

10. Momochi 2-3 Kazunoko
1-2 *perfect in 2nd round by Kazunoko
2-1
2-1 *Kazunoko dropped Genei Jin after hitconfirm in last round and failed to comeback
0-2
0-2

We noticed that both Umehara and Kazunoko chose Training Room stage but Momochi changed to other stages. (Was Momochi lagging? Or Was he trying to hide rocks?)

11. Umehara 1-3 YHC-Mochi
1-2
2-1 *FADC Metsu finish in 1st round
0-2
0-2

Same old story.

Live Table

	Player	P	W	L	GD
1	Umehara	9	6	3	+8
2	Kazunoko	9	6	3	+8
3	YHC-Mochi	10	6	4	+7
4	Fuudo	9	6	3	+5
5	Haitani	9	6	3	+5
6	Sako	9	6	3	+2
7	Bon-chan	9	5	4	+3
8	Uryo	8	4	4	+1
9	Momochi	9	3	6	-7
10	Cabbage	10	3	7	-10
11	Mago	9	2	7	-11
12	Eita	10	2	8	-11