GODSGARDEN #4 fan vote result

GODSGARDEN announced today on Kao TV the result of the fan voting poll. The top 10 players on the list will be invited to compete in GODSGARDEN #4 tournament on August 20.

1. Umehara (Yun)
2. Fuudo (Fei Long)
3. Nemo (Yang)
4. Tokido (Akuma)
5. YHC Mochi (Dhalsim)
6. Sako (Yang)
7. Kazunoko (Yun)
8. Haitani (Makoto)
9. RF (Sagat)
10. Uryo (Sakura)

Iyo (Ibuki) is 13th. Mago (Fei Long) is 14th. Mahou Shoujo Zangi-tan (Zangief) is 15th. FAX Gimoto (Makoto) is 16th.

In case you are not familiar with GG, the tournament is usually invite-only. This time they accept 16 players. Momochi already qualified from winning Nagoya Street Battle's Nico Stream Battle. We assume that if any of these players refuses the invitation, they will choose another.

Shiro Evo Advice

Today, Shiro gave an advice to the Japanese who want to go to Evo next year that is they should start saving up right now 20,000 yen every month. He said 240,000 yen is plenty for the travel expenses. Plane ticket and hotel cost alone is 180,000 yen, the rest is for food.

Currently, 240,000 yen is around $3,000.

It's highly possible that next year's Evo will have more Japanese players. Sadly, however, the trend has changed. In the past, some people felt that Evo was empty because of the lack of the Japanese, which is the real challenge. But now the visitors are treated like they aren't supposed to be there.

Evo 2011 moments enter Nico ranking

Yesterday, two video clips of Evolution 2011 moments entered Nico Nico's daily ranking in Overall category counted by Favorites. One is BlazBlue grand final, another is Fuudo vs. Poongko.

From the comments of the BB video, the viewers were impressed by Spark's skills, and the part where AKA and Xie (commentators) shouted "YUKIKAZE" in harmony. Spark, the Hakumen player, was also praised by Ren and Kami-chan (GODSGARDEN's BlazBlue players) who were commentating on the Japan side.

Fuudo vs. Poongko video could be better if it has the Japanese crowd reactions from GG's event. Itabashi Zangief, who was watching the match live, started crying (happy tears) since the comeback in the first game.

[Ougon Musou Kyoku X] George introduced

George Ushiromiya, one of the three new characters in Ougon Musou Kyoku X, is introduced today.

His Patience ability makes your (on-screen) character gain SP every time you block an attack. (Normally, only off-screen characters gain SP from an action.) His SP2 special move resets your opponent's Touch gauge (making it unable to switch the character) while you still can continue a combo. For some reason, his Meta move isn't showed on the videos.

PC users might get to play him first via a patch in a few days just like Jessica.

Ougon Musou Kyoku X for Xbox 360 will be released on October 6. The original PC version is already released and available for import.

Behind Evo 2011 troll promo

It was revealed today that Neidel "haunts" Crisan from iPLAYWINNER is the one who made the Evo 2011's troll promo video. (to build some hype)

In case you didn't follow the old posts. It seems like Evo organizers asked Daigo Umehara for a video message, then it was edited and an inaccurate subtitle was added to make it provocative.

From my old post

"....it was intentionally misinterpreted, from simple "I'm joining everyone, it'll be exciting (with old and new players)" into something rather hostile. Here's a hint, he ended his sentences with desu or masu, and use -san. That means he's using the polite form of the language."

Like I said before, it was fun and all (it'd be funnier if they did it on Kindevu) but many people misunderstand and think Umehara actually did the video and said what they read (the subtitle). He then ended up being a public enemy in some MvC3 community, and I actually saw some hater talking about shooting him for real. (It's almost like something that you can send to the police, but I was taught that violence and jealousy is a norm in American fighting game community so I just ignored it.)

Without edit? It'll surely look like the Kuwait promo.

This post is just for a reference in the future.

Evolution 2011: Aftermath

Related posts
- Pre-Evo 2011 Updates
- Evolution 2011 Summary: Day 1 
- Evolution 2011 Summary: Day 2 
- Evolution 2011 Summary: Day 3
- The Japanese - Who's coming to Evo 2011

Great event! I just got back from a long sleep. And I still need a long break. Plus, I want to catch up with things I missed since I couldn't watch 3 streams at the same time. And those last day money matches. Not sure I have time to watch/write it all so short opinions/updates in my head/hands go first. (the summary posts will be updated over time.)

The Stream
- Why didn't they announce the stream URLs on the news? They revealed just when it started, and even announced the URL on the stream!
- Choosing Ustream is one of the best decisions. I don't have a problem at all.
- Having the low quality stream is also one of the best decisions (I mentioned about it before.) There're 4,200 viewers peak on the LQ stream.
- The main stream's presentation was great. Scores were updated as it happened. Camera switching was great.

Kindevu
- I'm glad he came! (He wasn't sure at first.) He's one of the true top players.
- Seth Killian said something bad about him, but I don't think it's true at all.
- He said he'll return next year!

Umehara
- The result didn't surprise me at all. He had to fight Poongko first, and there're 3 C. Viper players.
- Good thing, some people now finally realized that he's not invincible.

Other players
- I don't expect Momochi to win Evo, but I didn't expect Tokido and Mago to beat him either.
- Mago was random as usual. He won or lost when he shouldn't.

Commentators
- AKA & James Xie (BlazBlue finals), Chen, UltraDavid, Keits, Aris were impressive. I think AKA & Xie made some people buy BlazBlue after watching.

Japan Booth
Thanks to Gama no Abura (with the help of Nekohashi who acts as a translator), this's the first time Evo has a Japanese media coming directly from its fighting game community. There's a lot of interviews and casual talks, and all streamed to Japan. The station was also used as a place to hang out, too. Even Harada (Tekken producer) and Ono (SF4 producer) were there. (Check all the archived videos here.)

Evo 2012
- Shiro said that he'll come again! (That means Fuudo, Shungoku Neurosis will probably come, too)
- Gama-san is in love with Evo now and it looks like he'll return again.
- I hope Frieda return next year. The big changes in UMvC3 will help. He's the only well-known JP player who chooses MvC3 over SF4. All he can do is studying from YouTube clips, beside playing with Tokido and Nemo. Respect.

Fuudo
This is actually the second international SF4 tournament he won. He won World Game Cup in France last year with Ryu, over Umehara. He also plays with Umehara in the game center often. He trained with Shungoku N. Viper before the finals. Winning Evo is understandable. Now he's on everyone's radar, it'll be tougher for him from now on.

A Viper killer?
Fuudo beat Wolfkrone 2-0, 4 rounds straight. He beat Latif twice, winning 5 games out of 6.

Evolution 2011 Days After
- Gama-san, Nekohashi, Kindevu, Frieda at a restaurant [Pic]
- The venue after the event ended [Pic]

Evolution 2011 Summary: Day 3

Related posts
- Pre-Evo 2011 Updates
- Evolution 2011 Summary: Day 1 
- Evolution 2011 Summary: Day 2
- The Japanese - Who's coming to Evo 2011

(Chronological order, time is Las Vegas local time)


BlazBlue: Continuum Shift II

• 10:40 - [Losers] Severin 2-1 Wuku
• 10:40 - [Losers] Spark 2-0 DSMoove
• 10:50 - [Winners] Lord Knight 2-0 Zong_One
• 10:51 - [Winners] Tokido (Noel) 2-1 Heart Nana (Makoto) *28,000 viewers
• 10:58 - [Losers] Severin 0-2 Zong_One *28,800 viewers
• 11:05 - [Losers] Heart Nana 0-2 Spark *29,500 viewers
• 11:14 - [Winners Final] Tokido (Noel) 1-2 Lord Knight (Litchi) *32,500 viewers
• 11:29 - [Losers] Spark 2-0 Zong_One
• 11:35 - [Losers] Tokido (Noel) 1-2 Spark (Hakumen) *34200 viewers
• 11:46 - [Grand Final] Lord Knight (Litchi) 0-3 Spark (Hakumen) *35,600 viewers
• 11:54 - [Grand Final 2] Lord Knight (Makoto/Litchi) 0-3 Spark (Hakumen) *37,400 viewers

Tekken 6

• 12:50 - [Losers] Tokido (Bob) 0-2 JustFrameJames (Law) *33,700 viewers
• 12:55 - [Winners] RIP (Law) 2-0 Kor (Bob) *34,400 viewers
• 13:03 - [Losers] Ryan Hart (Kazuya) 1-2 Crow (Bob) *35,700 viewers
• 13:16 - [Winners] Mr. Naps (Bryan) 0-2 Fab (Bob) *36,000 viewers
• 13:19 - [Losers] JustFrameJames (Law) 2-0 Mr. Naps (Bryan) *36,200 viewers
• 13:29 - [Losers] Crow (Bob) 1-2 Kor (Bob) *35,600 viewers
• 13:40 - [Winners Final] RIP (Law) 0-2 Fab (Bob) *36,200 viewers
• 13:51 - [Losers] JustFrameJames (Law/Baek) 0-2 Kor (Bob) *36,700 viewers
• 13:57 - [Losers] Kor (Bob) 0-2 RIP (Law) *37,800 viewers
• 13:40 - [Grand Final] Fab (Bob/Miguel) 0-3 Kor (Bob) *39,400 viewers
• 14:16 - [Grand Final 2] Fab (Miguel/Bob) 1-3 Kor (Bob) *40,000 viewers

Mortal Kombat 9

• 15:14 - [Losers] Online Tony 1-2 16-BIT *42,600 viewers
• 15:21 - [Losers] FR ATL REDD 0-2 REO *43,700 viewers 
• 15:28 - [Winners] JOP 2-1 Chris G *46,300 viewers *Crowd boo'd JOP because he didn't do any Fatality
• 15:38 - [Winners] Denzell Terry 0-2 PerfectLegend *47,300 viewers *Crowd makes noises @trashtalking after the match
• 15:43 - [Losers] 16-BIT 0-2 Chris G *48,200 viewers + 1,700 in LQ ver.
• 15:50 - [Losers] REO 2-0 Denzell Terry *48,700 viewers
• 15:55 - [Winners Final] PerfectLegend 2-0 JOP *49,500 viewers 
• 16:08 - [Losers] Chris G 1-2 REO *50,300 viewers
• 16:16 - [Losers] JOP 1-2 REO *51,900 viewers | Aris talked about the pic of UltraDavid and Magus half-naked in front of the mirror in a bathroom. (I actually saw that.)
• 16:26 - [Grand Final] PerfectLegend 1-3 REO *53,900 viewers + 2,000 in LQ ver.
• 16:38 - [Grand Final 2] PerfectLegend 3-0 REO *55,400 viewers

MvC3

• 18:23 - [Losers] X-Ray 0-2 Noel Brown *55000 viewers 
• 18:28 - [Losers] Mine 1-2 Combofiend *57600 viewers + 2,500 in LQ ver.
• 18:36 - [Winners] PR Rog 2-0 Filipino Champ *59300 viewers
• 18:44 - [Winners] Justin Wong 1-2 Viscant *61900 viewers + 2,700 in LQ ver.
• 18:52 - [Losers] Combofiend 2-0 Filipino Champ *62300 viewers + 2,800 in LQ ver. 
• 18:57 - [Losers] Justin Wong 2-1 Noel Brown *64900 viewers + 3000 in LQ ver. 
• 19:08 - [Winners Final] PR Rog 0-2 Viscant *65300 viewers + 3000 in LQ ver.  
• 19:12 - [Losers] Justin Wong 2-0 Combofiend *66200 viewers + 3100 in LQ ver.  
• 19:18 - [Losers Final] Justin Wong 1-2 PR Rog *66800 viewers + 3100 in LQ ver. | perfect'd on the last game
• 19:24 - [Grand Final] Viscant 2-3 PR Rog *69500 viewers + 3300 in LQ ver. | Intense match
• 19:37 - [Grand Final 2] Viscant 3-0 PR Rog *71,000 viewers + 3400 in LQ ver.

SSF4AE

• 20:14 - [Losers] Tokido (Aku) 2-0 Flash Metroid (Zan/Vip) *66800 viewers + 3300 in LQ ver. | Tokido posed Akuma's U2 after the match [Video]
• 20:35 - [Losers] Wolfkrone (Vip) 1-2 Kindevu (Yun) *69300 viewers | Kindevu trolls the crowd before the match by trying to pick Boxer | Then wave (thank you) and kneel down (apologize) to the crowd
• 20:44 - [Winners] Latif (Vip) 1-2 Fuudo (Fei) *71000 viewers + 3600 in LQ ver. 
• 20:51 - [Winners] Poongko (Seth) 2-0 Umehara (Yun) *73500 viewers + 3800 in LQ ver.
• 20:57 - [Losers] Latif (Vip) 2-1 Tokido (Aku) *74900 viewers + 3900 in LQ ver. 
• 21:05 - [Losers] Umehara (Yun) 2-1 Kindevu (Yun) *76400 viewers + 4000 in LQ ver. 
• 21:13 - [Winners] Poongko (Seth) 0-2 Fuudo (Fei) *78400 viewers + 4100 in LQ ver.
• 21:13 - [Losers] Umehara (Yun) 1-2 Latif (Vip) *80000 viewers + 4200 in LQ ver.
• 21:28 - [Losers] Latif (Vip) 2-0 Poongko (Seth) *80900 viewers + 4200 in LQ ver. 
• 21:37 - [Grand Final] Latif (Vip) 0-3 Fuudo (Fei) *82000 viewers + 4200 in LQ ver.  

Updates

• 11:05 - GODSGARDEN public viewing event has 2 BlazBlue players (Kami-chan and Ren, from Ura Kao TV) commentating BlazBlue [GG Channel 2]
• 11:30 - Ono is at the Gama Station (aka Japan Booth) [Pic][GG Channel 1]
• 11:40 - These BB commentators (AKA & James Xie) are very nice and informative. Their play-by-play are great. 
• 12:20 - Gama-san interviewing Lord Knight and Spark 
• 12:26 - Harada is on the stage. SoulCaliber V producer announcing a new character. 
• 12:34 - SoulCaliber V playtesting. *32,800 viewers
• 12:49 - [Commentators] MarkMan, FithieRich
• 13:40 - FithieRich is not doing a very good job...
• 13:47 - MarkMan: "Tekken is very deep, it's not a button masher." FithieRich: "All I wanna see ..is CHOP CHOP CHOP CHOP CHOP CHOP..." 
• 14:21 - The commentators don't concentrate on commentating on the characters' actions on the screen or strategies. Viewers can't get hyped when they don't know what's going on.
• 14:41 - Tekken Tag Tournament 2 playtesting. *39,800 viewers
• 15:09 - The crowd shout: "MORTAL KOMBAT" Otherside: "SUCKS"
• 15:14 - [Commentators] ARIS AND ULTRADAVID! THANK GOD!
• 17:09 - SF3 Third Strike OE exhibition begins *50,700 viewers
• 17:09 - [Commentators] James Chen & UltraDavid
• 18:04 - [Commentators] Good job! @during the exhibition
• 18:05 - Combo video *51,900 viewers
• 18:12 - (MvC3 producer) Niitsuma on stage
• 18:21 - The stream cut off (not down), something's happening. There*53,400 viewers
• 18:23 - [Commentators] Seth Killian, UltraDavid
• 19:56 - Balrog: Behind the Glory movie *60300 viewers
• 20:15 - Combo video from Desk and other people
• 20:25 - Ono apologies for balance issues? and asked for everyone to shoryuken again like last year*62,500 viewers
• 20:25 - [Commentators] James Chen & Seth Killian
• XX:XX - Japan Team  was near or in front of the stage during the SSF4AE final. After Fuudo won the championship everyone went up on the stage to congratulate Fuudo with national flag.
• 22:06 - Gama-san streaming once again (GG channel) *3,600 viewers
• 22:39 - GG's Evo meeting is still going on. KSK, Itabashi Zangief, Umezono, are the hosts. They interviewed many players, both JP and non-JP. (including Latif, F. Champ, etc.) *2,200 viewers

Updates with no timeline
- Ricky Ortiz x Kayo [Pic]
- Team Japan [Pic]
- Kayo with Hadada [Pic]
- Kayo with Harada and Niitsuma [Pic]
- Kayo x Kara [Pic]
- Kindevu attemped to dive after getting the medal [Video]
- Kayo, Alex Valle, Kayane [Pic]
- Day 1-3 photo gallery from Kara [Link]
- Evo 2011 funny moments [Video]
- Evo 2011 breaks online viewership records [News]
- Kayane vs. Kayo match [Video]
- After Evo, MomoChoco, Mago, Nyanshi, Shiro Team went to shopping [Video]

Final results (tournament placings)
- SSF4AE
- MvC3
- MK9
- Tekken 6
- BlazBlue CS2

Gama-san Live at Japan Booth from Evo 2011 (GG channel 1)
- Frieda commentated MvC3 for JP viewers

Evo 2011 meeting by GODSGARDEN (GG channel 2)
- KSK fought Murata (Mago's pupil Yun user) a game and won.
- Japanese gaming news site 4Gamer.net reported about this event. [Link]

Twitter's Trends during Evo 2011 Finals