Umehara on TOPANGA TV tonight

Daigo Umehara appeared as special guest on TOPANGA TV tonight. There was no main topic so they talked about everything including TOPANGA League, Capcom Cup, Umehara's manga (that will be released on Friday), training, and Canada Cup's Master Series.

• Umehara shows that there're deers on his socks.
• He thinks he already graduated from Ryu from winning TOPANGA World League, so he moves on.
• Before Evil Ryu, he tried Ken (which was better than current version) and Guile.
• He trained Yun, Elena, Ken matchup the most.
• He says Elena is so bad against Evil Ryu. He trained Ibuki matchup instead before Sako match.
• He was so cautious on Viper matchup. He felt that he needs to give everything.
• He didn't train Sagat matchup at all.
• He didn't have much time to prepare for Capcom Cup since it's right after TOPANGA League. But he wanted to win the League more anyway.
• He visited Facebook HQ, was impressed by how they have everything (arcade cabinets, spa, dentist, brand cafes, yoga room, train station, etc)
• Ryu is so bad against Decapre. The moment he saw her, he said "it's over."

http://www.twitch.tv/topangatv/b/602763903
Skip to 00:40:15 for Umehara, skip to 01:27:00 for the matches.

http://www.twitch.tv/topangatv/b/602780317
This's the 2d part (stream was down). Talk only.

4th TOPANGA League Round 11 summary

Information
The 4th TOPANGA League stream and ticket links
TOPANGA League rules and format
How to buy ticket using credit card
How to buy ticket using PayPal
4th TOPANGA League Round 1 summary
4th TOPANGA League Round 2 summary
4th TOPANGA League Round 3 summary
4th TOPANGA League Round 4 summary
4th TOPANGA League Round 5 summary
4th TOPANGA League Round 6 summary
4th TOPANGA League Round 7 summary
4th TOPANGA League Round 8 summary
4th TOPANGA League Round 9 summary
4th TOPANGA League Round 10 summary


December 6 - Round 11

1. Uryo vs. Momochi
2. Umehara vs. Michael-tan
3. Bon-chan vs. Momochi
4. Sako vs. Michael-tan
5. Umehara vs. Uryo

Commentators
R (Guy player) and Nemo

Daigo Umehara in new manga about pro gamer's life

Tip from Mad Catz Japan. New manga about the life of pro gamers "Totsugeki! Tonari no Pro Gamer" will be released on December 17.

The cover has what appear to be Daigo Umehara, Tokido, Mago with their commendations. The manga seems to focus on the pro fighting gamers.

(On the cover)

Tokido "Good job showing fighting game scene"

Mago "Probably the first time a manga goes into this level of details about gamers"

Umehara "Well, isn't that interesting. Maybe."

And Bon-chan still has no sponsor. Why.

This's not the first time we write about this.

There must be some strange reason that Bon-chan still has no sponsor.

• 2nd place Tougeki 2010 (team)
• 1st place GODSGARDEN Classic
• 1st place The 1st TOPANGA Charity Cup (team)
• 1st place Tougeki 2012 (team)
• 4th place The 2nd TOPANGA League
• 2nd place Canada Cup 2013
• 3rd place TOPANGA World League (2nd place tie if you don't count GD)
• 1st place The 4th TOPANGA Charity Cup (team)
• 2nd place Evo 2014
• 1st place Thaiger Uppercut 2014
• 2nd place Japan's national tournament (Isshuu Sengeki)

We're not just looking at the best Sagat in the world here, but currently one of the strongest players in the world with achievements, and also a respectable person with fanbase.

Now look at MCZ Mago, who is widely known in the JFGC for having bottom-tier mentality. The self-proclaimed 2DGOD can't get good result and also can't teach. He was defeated 5 times in the latest tournament (Isshuu Sengeki), winning 0 match. (We also think he uses half-baked Yang because he wants to impress his lovely student.)

Isshu Sengeki Hai Finals summary

Info
- Taito announced first USF4 tournaments
- Isshuu Sengeki Hai revealed
- Umehara confirmed for Isshuu Sengeki Hai Tokyo qualifier
- Isshu Sengeki Hai Tokyo qualifiers summary
- Stream links and time schedule
- Finals brackets
- Isshu Sengeki Hai official page
- Famitsu event report

Team

Double Dragon 2-3 Shakariki Dynamic
Kyoku (Yan) 1-2 Dath (Vip) *close 3R
Ojisan (Abe) 0-2 Dath (Vip)
Cabbage (Vip U2) 2-0 Dath (Vip U1) *U2 finish in 2R
Cabbage (Vip U1) 2-0 Tarezou (Ado U2)
Cabbage (Vip U1) 1-2 Score (Yun U1) *Cabbage missed Ultra, cost him 1R

Karu... 0-3 FGC Raijin
(DJ U2) 1-2 Amiyu (Gen U2)
Karu (Cam U1) 0-2 Amiyu (Gen U1)
Ninomae (Ros U2) 0-2 Amiyu (Gen U2)

Kachitagari 3-1 Ultra Kaiser Phoenix
Fuudo (Fei U1) 2-1 MDR (Ruf U1) *close 3R
Fuudo (Fei U1) 2-0 (Ibu U2)
Fuudo (Fei U1) 1-2 (Sagat U1) *close 2R
Bon-chan (Sag U2) 2-1 (Sagat U2) *close 2R

Mad Catz 3-2 Chima
Mago (Yan U2) 1-2 Itabashi Zangief (Zan U1)
Tokido (Aku U2) 2-0 Itabashi Zangief (Zan U1)
Tokido (Aku U1) 2-0 Nekojita (Abe U1)
Tokido (Aku U2) 0-2 Eita (Aku U2) *nice RFADC U2 finish in 3R
Umehara (ERy U1) 2-1 Eita (Aku U2)

Shakariki Dynamic 3-1 Kachitagari
Dath (Vip U1) 2-1 Kazunoko (Yun U1) *Kaz's big slip in last 2 rounds
Dath (Vip U1) 2-1 Bon-chan (Sag U1) *close 1R
Dath (Vip U1) 0-2 Fuudo (Fei U1)
Tarezou (Ado U2) 2-1 Fuudo (Fei U1)

FGC Raijin 1-3 Mad Catz
Hagejin (Zan U2) 2-1 Mago (Yan U2)
Hagejin (Zan U2) 0-2 Umehara (ERy U1)
Gachi-kun (Sag U1) 1-2 Umehara (ERy U1) *close 1R/2R
Amiyu (Gen U2) 0-2 Umehara (ERy U2)

Shakariki Dynamic 3-0 Mad Catz
Tarezou (Ado U2) 2-1 Mago (Yan U1)
Tarezou (Ado U2) 2-1 Tokido (Aku U1)
Tarezou (Ado U1) 2-1 Umehara (ERy U1)

- Special Awards (50,000 yen) go to team Chima and Mad Catz.
- Team Mad Catz won 100,000 yen.
- Street Fighter Puzzle Spirits announced for smartphone. Coming this Winter in Japan.

Singles
Momochi (Ken U2) 1-2 Hagejin (Zan U2)
1-2 *close 2R
2-1
0-2
- Hagejin could've won since game 2. He shut down Momochi.
Umehara (ERy U2) 2-0 Mago (Yan U2)
2-1
2-0
Nishikin (Bla U2) 2-0 Cabbage (Vip U1)
2-1 perfect in 3R
2-1 *Nishikin's unsafe move cost him 2R
KoujiKOG (Haw) 1-2 Shimauta (Ibu)
2-1
0-2
0-2Meu (Mak U1) 0-2 Kazunoko (Yun U1)
1-2 *perfect in 2R
1-2
Ninomae (Ros U2) 1-2 Nekojita (Abe U1)
1-2 *nice RFA in 3R
2-1
0-2EBI (Hak U1) 2-0 Santarou (Sag U1)
2-1
2-1
Furikuri2 (Ruf U1) 1-2 Bon-chan (Sag U1)
0-2
2-1 *comeback in 3R
0-2 *almost perfect in 1R
Hagejin (Zan U2) 2-0 Umehara (ERy U1)
2-1 *close 2R
2-1 *Ume missed input and lost 3 bars with RFA
[Losers] Furikuri2 (Ruf U1) 2-1 Umehara (ERy U1)
0-2
2-1 *very close 3R
2-0 *almost perfect in 1R *Ume just threw 2R with SRK
- A bad display from Umehara today.

Pictures
The commentators/MC team before tournament
Karipaku, Yoshida, Kuramochi drinking beer already before tournament

Thank you Taito
Thank you Taito for organizing these large scale tournaments and stream for free (3 separated streams even). They seem to make little to no profit for promoting USF4 (indirectly promote their arcade chain) which is also on consoles. The prize money is big, too.

Capcom Japan, who is infamous for treating the community badly and give no prize money, would've tried to find a way to charge us, like they did in 2012.

[TGS2014 Day 1] Umehara meets e-sports Square

Pictures of Daigo Umehara from e-sports Square (e-sport cafe) staff.

[TGS2014 Day 1] Team MadCatz feat. Kana Ueda

The popular voice actress Kana Ueda posted these pictures from Tokyo Game Show today. (The person who took this picture is Arc System Works' Mori!)

2014 TOPANGA League B detailed

Full details of 2014 TOPANGA League B are all revealed on tonight's TOPANGA TV.

Players and characters

1. Akutagawa (Dudley)
2. Ooitajin (Chun Li)
3. EX Pugera (Ibuki)
4. Itabashi Zangief (Zangief)
5. Katakana de Aoki (Decapre)
6. KojiKOG (T. Hawk)
7. Mago (Yang)
8. Nemo (Rolento)
9. Ninomae (Rose)
10. Nishikin (Blanka)
11. Sako (Elena)
12. Santarou (Sagat) 
13. Sasaki (Cody)
14. Tokido (Akuma)
15. YHC-Mochi (Dhalsim)
16. Yossan (Juri)

Change of rules

With the announcement of Wao quitting TOPANGA League A, up to six players will be promoted to TOPANGA League A this season. The 5th and 6th place will play a FT7 4-man round-robin play-off tournament with Fuudo and Dashio to determine two players who will play in League A.

Promotion and Relegation
1st place - To League A
2nd place - To League A
3rd place - To League A
4th place - To League A
5th place - Round-robin play-off
6th place - Round-robin play-off

Fuudo will have one game advantage over Dashio
5th place will have one game advantage over 6th place.

Prizes

League B
1st place - 100,000 yen
2nd place - 50,000 yen
3rd place - 30,000 yen


League A
1st place - 1,000,000 yen
2nd place - 300,000 yen
3rd place - 150,000 yen


Ticket pricings

League B
One day ticket - 300 yen
Season ticket (11 days) - 1,500 yen

League A
One day ticket - 500 yen
Season ticket (12 days) - 3,500 yen

League A and League B package (23 days) - 4,500 yen

The tickets will be sold starting next week.

Umehara confirmed for Capcom's TGS stage show

It's revealed today that Daigo Umehara and Mago will participate Capcom's USF4 stage show in Tokyo Game Show on September 20.

Umehara confirmed for TGS2014 tournament

It's announced that Daigo Umehara, Tokido, Mago will participate Mad Catz's 64-man USF4 tournament at Tokyo Game Show 2014 on September 21. The game will be played on Xbox 360.

The winner will receive MadCatz's USF4 Arcade Fight Stick Tournament Edition 2 and exclusive in-game title.

5 hour USF4 launch streaming planned

It's announced today that Capcom and TOPANGA will be doing USF4 launch streaming on Niconico on August 15, starting from 23:00 JST. The show will be 5 hour long.

Tokido, Mago, Momochi, Bon-chan are confirmed for online kumite. If they lose 10 times total, Capcom will give away special ingame title.

Umehara participates TOPANGA Banzuke today

It's reported that Daigo Umehara has participated the last round of TOPANGA Banzuke that was held today in Akihabara (Akihabara Hey game center). Again, he had to fight Momochi (picture below).

Mago, Kazunoko, Nemo, Fuudo, Nishikin were also there. Expect videos of these players in TOPANGA TV next week or later.

Umehara confirmed for national qualifiers

The schedules of Taito's UFS4 national tournament qualifiers are revealed today. Daigo Umehara is confirmed to participate in the Tokyo qualifiers that will be held on August 23. He will compete in both singles and 3 on 3 tournament.

For singles, there're 8 groups of 16 players. Umehara is in group F, same as Akimo (Hon/Ele) and Tsuna (Jur).

Other notable players

• ChocoBlanka
• TKD
• Juta
• Misse
• Santarou
• KOK
• Cabbage
• Mago
• Reiketsu
• Itabashi Zangief
• Acqua
• Momochi
• Banbaban
• Nishikin

For 3 on 3, there're 4 groups of 8 teams. Umehara is in the same team with Mago and Tokido in group A.

Notable teams

Group A

• MadCatz (Tokido, Mago, Umehara)
• USF4 Girl Club Team A (Reiko Mihashi, Yuka Kuramochi, Maribo)

Group B

• Nemomomon (Nemo, Momochi, Banbaban)

Group C

• Takahashi Ke (Hanamaruki, Shungoku Neurosis, Akimo)
• Double Dragon (Kyoku, Cabbage, Ojisan)
• USF4 Girl Club Team B (Ami0120, ChocoBlanka, Karipaku)

Group D

• Chima (Nekojita, Itabashi Zangief, Eita)
• Neko Punch (Nyanshi, Misse, Tsukiji)
• Kakutei (Shiro, Inco, Keshikaran)

The winner of each group (8 players and 4 teams) from these qualifiers will advance to the finals on October 11.

Umehara on TOPANGA TV tonight

Daigo Umehara came to talk about various things on TOPANGA TV tonight.

• He talked about Evo. He didn't think he would lose to John Choi but acknowledges that Choi was strong. (USF4) He thinks the match was tougher than F.Champ match. As for the results, he doesn't think about it much.
• He said O Sagat are rare in Japan. The strength is near the level of Akuma. (SF2X) But he doesn't think about the result much since he didn't practice.
• He talked about Hong Kong trip.
• (Hong Kong) He didn't have the details of what he really had to do. It seems like Zhi asked him if he wanted to enter Hong Kong eSports Tournament.
• (Hong Kong) He won a PS4 for winning all the challengers at PlayStation stage on the next day.
• (Hong Kong) Sony asked him not to lose because Sony had to give PS4 away.
• (Hong Kong) He joked about using overhead more because it's harder to block due to PS3 lag.
• (Hong Kong) Due to the rule, he couldn't do Ultra finish.
• (Hong Kong) He also had a match with a famous Youtuber. There're so many people around the stage.
• (Hong Kong) He talked about food and how he couldn't eat the meat he doesn't normally eat like pigeon and frog. He said frogs and pigeons are (man's) friends.
• (Hong Kong) He said fishes are definitely food ("They're food the moment I see them"). Because they came from ocean and have no legs. (which made everyone laugh)
• He talked about his manga on Weekly Georgia.
• He talked about the old generation when there weren't many tournaments and where serious players did everything to win it, even tricking other players. He brought Bishamon story as example. (They agreed they like a clean fight, but later abused the hell of a move)
• There'll be a Umehara vs. Tokido talk event soon.

There were 5,461 viewers watching the show.

(Skip to 1:33:00 for Umehara)

New USF4 promo posted: 3 on 3 featuring Umehara part 2

A new Ultra Street Fighter IV promotional video is posted today. This's the fourth promo for Japanese launch of the console version, which is August 7.

1st promo (Umehara tries Edition Select)
2nd promo (Umehara Hugo vs. Sako Decapre)
3rd promo (3 on 3) part 1

New USF4 promo posted: 3 on 3 featuring Umehara

A new Ultra Street Fighter IV promotional video is posted today. This's the third promo for Japanese launch of the console version.

This time they'll have 3 on 3 using the following rules.
1. First to five.
2. A player cannot play 2 times in a row.
3. The team that won the previous match will have to announce their player first in the next match.
4. The team that has 3 point lead will have to randomly pick one of the new characters.

Each player of the winning team wins Toshiba LCD TV Regza 42Z8. The show will continue in the fourth promo.

1st promo (Umehara tries Edition Select)
2nd promo (Umehara Hugo vs. Sako Decapre)

The console version of USF4 will be released in Japan on August 7. While the Japanese have access to the game earlier in the arcades, most of them don't have access to training mode like foreigners because of this. This's the reason we think the Japanese didn't really have advantage at Evo 2014.

Evolution 2014 Day 3 summary

Information
- Niconico to stream Evo 2014
- Evolution 2014 Day 0 summary
- Umehara's Road to Evo 2014 champ
- JFGC's new low: Going to Evo just to do PPV show
- GODSGARDEN to do PPV stream
- Kana Ueda confirmed, learns English for Evo 2014
- Nagisa to cosplay at Evo 2014
- Beast Note's Evo 2014 wishlist
- Evolution 2014 Day 1 summary
- Evolution 2014 Day 2 summary 
- Bon-chan to win Evo2014

BBCP
9:24 - [Winners] Dogura 2-1 Yoshiki *39088v
9:36 - [Winners] Garireo 2-0 N-O *42436v
9:47 - [Losers] Tiku 2-0 Tochigin *45122v
9:54 - [Losers] DoraBang 2-0 SG *49090v
10:02 - [Losers] Tiku 0-2 Yoshiki *51773v
10:10 - [Losers] DoraBang 2-1 N-O *54861v
10:23 - [Losers] DoraBang 2-0 Yoshiki *55661v
10:33 - [Winners] Garireo 0-3 Dogura *62145
10:46 - [Losers] Garireo 3-2 DoraBang *64938
11:04 - [Grand Final 1] Garireo 3-2 Dogura *70196 *Dogura lost big lead in 2R5G
11:19 - [Grand Final 2] Garireo 3-2 Dogura *80861 *Dogura lost big lead in 3R4G

Killer Instinct
12:00 - [Winners] Rico Suave 1-0 Tswagg *64315
12:04 - [Winners] CDJR 2-0 Justin Wong *65341
12:14 - [Losers] Pretty E 0-2 Guttermagic *68528
12:22 - [Losers] IC ENTH MyGod88 2-0 Mr Grimmz *69166
12:28 - [Losers] TSwagg 0-1 Guttermagic *69631
12:35 - [Losers] Justin Wong 2-1 IC ENTH MyGod88 *73076
12:45 - [Losers] Justin Wong 2-1 Guttermagic *79032
12:57 - [Winners] CDJR 3-0 Rico Suave *81455
13:05 - [Losers] Rico Suave 3-2 Justin Wong *82878
13:18 - [Grand Final ] CDJR 3-1 Rico Suave *88517

Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3
17:04 - [Winners] Justin Wong 3-1 Flocker *107817
17:13 - [Winners] F.Champ 3-0 Jan *113150
17:28 - [Losers] Marn 0-3 ChrisG *113821 *lovely comeback from Chris G in 3G
17:35 - [Losers] RayRay 3-1 Insaynne *117728
17:48 - [Losers] Flocker 0-3 ChrisG *115650
18:08 - [Losers] RayRay 3-2 Jan *119004
18:16 - [Losers] RayRay 0-3 ChrisG *121467
18:24 - [Winners] F.Champ 2-3 Justin Wong *129228
18:40 - [Losers] F.Champ 2-3 ChrisG *138864
18:58 - [Grand Final] Justin Wong 3-1 ChrisG *149470v

Ultra Street Fighter IV
19:52 - [Winners] Bon-chan (Sag) 3-1 Gackt (Fei) * 119421
2-1
1-2
2-1 *Unsafe grand tiger shot cost Bon 2R
2-1
20:07 - [Winners] Snake Eyes (Zan U1) 1-3 Fuudo (Fei U1) *124340
1-2
1-2
2-1 *SE changed to U2 in this game *close 3R
1-2 *intense 2R *close 3R
20:25 - [Losers] Momochi (Juri U2) 0-3 Louffy (Ros U2) *126140
0-2
1-2
1-2  *Momochi changed to Ken U2 *close 1R (Louffy mistake for blocking chip firebal)
20:40 - [Losers] Ricky Ortiz (Ruf U1) 3-1 Sako (ERy U2) *128916
2-1
2-1 *huge comeback from Ricky in 3R
1-2 *20 hit combo by Sako in 3R
2-1
20:55 - [Losers] Gackt (Fei U1) 0-3 Louffy (Ros U2) *129027
00:00 - [Losers] Snake Eyes (Zan U1) (P3G) 3-0 Ricky Ortiz (Ruf U1) *128313
21:26 - [Losers] Snake Eyes (Zan U1) 2-3 Louffy (Ros U1) *129205
21:37 - [Winners Final] Bon-chan (Sag U1) 3-1 Fuudo (Fei U1) *128078
2-0
2-0
0-2
2-1 *very close 2R *intense 3R
21:48 - [Losers Final] Louffy (Ros U2) 3-0 Fuudo (Fei U1) *123183
2-0
2-0
2-1 *nice comeback in 2R by Luffy
22:09 - [Grand Final 1] Louffy (Ros U2) 3-1 Bon-chan (Sag U2) *1265542-0 *very close 1R
2-0 *very close 1R (Bon failed to go for timeout) *very close 2R
0-2
2-0 *very close 2R
22:14 - [Grand Final 2] Louffy (Ros U2) 3-1 Bon-chan (Sag U2) *130396
2-1
2-1 *very close 1R
0-2
2-0

Non-match result updates
X:XX - Fun Fact: Evo2013 had 145099v peak.
X:XX - Fun Fact: SFxTK sold around 58,000 first week. (TKxSF expected to sell less.)
8:12 - Venue
8:57 - Xie and Dacid Bro at commentator's desk 
9:06 - Guy with Idolmaster mantle
9:08 - 15381v
9:18 - Nagisa (cosplaying Amane) and Tsujigawa and ASW's Mori on Nico
9:22 - Crossdressing Yoshiki is on stage with Dogura. 30117v
9:25 - Watch official stream because we like Xie ('s commentary) and nothing good will ever come from Mori anyway. (And what's the point of having Nagisa when she barely plays this game)
9:35 - WOW REAL TIME ONSCREEN BRACKET THIS'S SO HIGH TECH.
9:53 - Kana Ueda is in front row.
10:22 - Mori is gone.
10:33 - Super awkward moment by DoraBang (playing with the crowd).
10:43 - Fun Fact: In Japan, BlazBlue is officially pronounced without Z sound, BlayBlue. Blame Mori.
11:28 - Dacidbro needs to calm down. Commentating, not cheering.
11:34 - Dacidbro is offically a bad commentator. "This's not human. He's not human. He's a legend. This's the birth of a GOD." (shout) Only Zhi would say that!
11:40 - Mori and Kana Ueda on stage for award ceremony
11:51 - Garireo, Mori, Kana Ueda on Nico. Mori cried. Then no one talks, R has to come out to take the mic and do interview.
11:52 - Heartbreaking: Gyas, Dogura's girlfriend cried.
11:55 - Fun Fact: Garireo won only 6 games against Dogura. Dogura won 7. Is this Injustice?
11:59 - Filthierich and Maximilian are KI commentators
12:03 - R is left alone. But we don't think anyone in Japan can commentate Killer Instinct /hyperbole
12:05 - OGTY, the Marvel player, will commentate this.
12:19 - Dogura cried, for the first time in a tournament. He said 2nd place is the worst (feeling).
12:30 - "Garireo-san" is trending in Japan.
13:10 - Umehara will have autograph session at 1:30.
13:32 - A Nintendo's party game is next. Let's take a nap.
13:40 - Nico showing people at GODSGARDEN's Evo 2014 public viewing.
16:23 - Umehara Deal with It Mode and Markman
16:30 - Markman vs. Kana Ueda
16:35 - We woke up in time. We skipped the entire tournament to the exact moment the grand final ended. Wonderful. 138554v
16:49 - Do people pay to see KSK sleeping?
17:02 - UMvC3 intro. What do you call a rapping that has no rhyming?
17:02 - Yipes and Skisonic on the mic. Quick, start counting buzzword and "ooh" from Yipes. For us, mute. Nico's commentary is useful for a time like this.
17:10 - What happened to Magus123? He was the best Marvel commentator. No buzzword, no fake gangster accent.
17:26 - GamerBee Yun Motteru (JFGC's inside joke about how GamerBee has Yun as sub)
17:46 - Dawn of the Planet of the Apes trailer: Best part of Marvel right now.
18:04 - Hatia and Abegen commentating on Nico. They're doing decent job.
18:39 - Why they have no highlight replay (after a match) this year?
19:10 - UMvC3 sets new viewer peak Evo record
19:16 - ChrisG trending in Japan. Imagine ChrisG being top P4U player, Japan would love him so much.
19:17 - Umehara and Markman on Nico. HYPE!
19:19 - Announcement from Markman: New fightstick launching in Japan same day with console USF4 in August. MadCatz will be at Tokyo Game Show, there'll be tournament.
19:21 - Harada on stage. Announcing Pokejuggler 7. More info July 25 at ComicCon.
19:25 - Award time *118923v
19:28 - Annual combo video time
19:30 - Official stream dies, Nico still ok. Nico master race confirmed.
19:34 - Official stream is back. 70,112v
19:38 - Ono on stage. Expect NOTHING. 104124v
19:41 - Annual Ono's Shoryuken group pic.
19:42 - Ono's gone. Nothing happened.
19:45 - R and Haitani to commentate on Nico
19:48 - USF4 intro. INDESTRUCTIBLE
19:49 - OMG top 8players intro video
19:50 - Seth Killian and James Chen to commentate
20:11 - One of the most patient players in Japan vs. impatient Zangief. You know what will happen.
20:28 - Momochi picked Juri.... Enjoy not winning Evo. (Ken hour used = years, Juri = 3 months)
20:48 - People need to stop spreading 5 Gods myth. It's just a list made up by fanboys who keep repeating even before SF4 and no achievements considered. (Unless "repeat until it's a fact" is your thing) Do you keep passing on stranger's tier list for years? No? Then stop.
21:04 - Mago joins R and Haitani on Nico.
22:15 - James Chen is trying to say Louffy could be the first non-Asian champ, despite the fact that Louffy is Asian.
22:26 - Bon lost 4 very close rounds in first set. C'est la vie.
XX:XX - Umehara with booth babe.
XX:XX - Umehara with Mad Catz crew
XX:XX - Umehara, Nyanshi, Tokido cheering Bon-chan

Days After
- Eita said people at Evo were mistaken him for Mago 2 times. Previous year 3 times. And 4 years ago when he was with Tokido, a guy who wanted Mago's autograph made disappointing expression when he learnt that it's not Mago. That's Eita's highlight.

The 4th TOPANGA Charity Cup summary

- The 4th TOPANGA Charity Cup announced
- Umehara confirmed for the 4th TOPANGA Charity Cup
- 635 players registered (final number)
- Main stream
- Sub stream 
- By subscribing in those stream links above, you donoate $9.99 to charity via TOPANGA.
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- Brackets
- After grand final Capcom's Ayano came to talk about something not important at all (he always does this....)
- Viewers peak 20,000+ at main stream, 9,000 at sub stream.
- They raised 670,000 yen to charity at the venue alone. (not counting online donation)
- GetNews has event report.
- Dengeki has event report.
- Famitsu has event report.

Pictures
- Venue in the morning
- Team Hori Japan participated (The Employee)
- Kindevu + KSK
- Fuudo + Sako + Kazunoko
- Negi + Sako
- Crowd at venue
- KSK playing
- Tokido playing 2nd fight
- Team Kachitagari after winning 2nd fight: Fuudo, Bon, Sako, Kazunoko, Tokido
- Bon-chan after saving his team from elimination (by defeating Hanamaruki)
- Team Mada Hashiritai eliminated: Nekojita, KSK, Sentosu, Oshino Pepe, R
- Capcom's Ono + Sako
- Sako playing something on his phone (Love Live?)
- Mago's annoying alter ego
- Crowd wathing grand final
- Ono after grand final
- Team Kachitagari after grand final
- Umehara + R (commentator)
- Sako + Umehara


Team TOPANGA eliminated in the third fight

Honjitsu no Bonus Game 5-4 TOPANGA
Gen@CT (Ado) 0-2 Nyanshi (Sag)
Yano (Rol) 0-2 Nyanshi (Sag)
PE (Gen) 2-1 Nyanshi (Sag)
PE (Gen) 1-2 Umehara (ERy) *huge comeback in 1R from Umehara
Root (Ado) 2-0 Umehara (ERy)
Root (Ado) 0-2 Mago (Fei)
Shinchan (Ele) 2-1 Mago (Fei)
Shinchan (Ele) 2-0 Misse (Mak)
Shinchan (Ele) 2-1 Nemo (Rol)


Complaints
TOPANGA didn't reveal the stream links until the moment the tournament started. A lot of people were at the TOPANGA TV channel and knew it from some guys who were kind enough to wait and redirect people.

We don't know why make a good tournament just to fail at PR. They should announce days before and also keep tweeting about it during the tournament. This's why we miss Niconico. They have better management and will put the stream on the first page.

A lot of people also didn't know about the online donation via subscription. They should mention about it on the official Twitter or at the stream page. In fact, we think they should make the chat sub only. There's nothing wrong with it, since the money will go to charity and also make chat peaceful. (A cute chat icon for the sub would be nice too)

Umehara confirmed for 4th TOPANGA Charity Cup

Ten players, two teams are now confirmed to compete in The 4th TOPANGA Charity Cup on July 5.

Revealed last week was a team that consists of Nyanshi, Mago, Nemo, Misse, and Umehara.

Revealed last night was a team that consists of Bon-chan, Kazunoko, Fuudo, Tokido, and Sako.

Note that Sako will return again after last year's absence.

TOPANGA Banzuke Day 2 results

Daigo Umehara went to Fukuoka this weekend to compete in TOPANGA Banzuke in that region, with Nyanshi, Momochi, Mago.

Results

• Umehara won Gachi-kun
• Umehara (E. Ryu) lost to Mago (Fei Long) (pic)

Overall results of notable players

Points	Players
4-0	Mago
3-1	Umehara, Momochi
2-0	Nemo, Nishikin, Santaro, Mizoteru, Gachi-kun, Kazunoko, Bon-chan
1-1	Tsuna, Fuudo, Zangi-tan, ChocoBlanka, Itabashi Zangief, Dogura, Tokido