NSB meets Mad Catz TE-S Special Night summary

Info
- NSB website
- Date: November 19
- Time: 21.00 to early morning.
- Umehara confirmed for the event

Rules
- Group stage is round-robin.
- First to 2 games (not round) each player.
- Character duplication allowed.

Group A
Team Epsilon J (Oni), Morichika (Gui), J Toro (Ibu) *qualified

Group B
Team Misshii (Dud), Katakana de Aoki (Abe), Jepper (Ruf) *qualified
Team RF (Sagat), Ikoma Devil *Dogura (Dict), Momochi (Ryu) *qualified

• [1st fight] Momochi OCV'd
• [2nd fight] Dogura OCV'd
• [3rd fight] RF OCV'd

Group C
Team Y24 (Chun), Tsuu-san (Jur), Yo-kun (Ado) *qualified
Team Chibata (Mak), Hamenageru (Zan), EBI (Fue) *qualified

Group D
Team a.k.a. jojo (Dic), KOK (Sag), Juso (Sak) *qualified
Team Nabe (Aku), Murata (Yun), Jam (Ryu) *[1st fight] The team was OCV'd by Hakan.

Group E
Team Nyanshi (Sag), Eita (Aku), Kindevu (Vip)

Group F
Team Umehara (Aku), Mago (Fei), Tokido (Aku) *qualified

• [1st fight] Tokido OCV'd (Yan/Vip/Gouken)
• [2nd fight] Tokido OCV'd (Ken/Vip/Guy)

Top 8

• Team RF/Dogura/Momochi beat Team Chibata/Hamenageru/EBI *Dogura OCV'd
• Team Ume/Mago/Tokido vs. Team aka jojo/KOK/Juso

1. Tokido 2-1 aka jojo *intense second game
2. Tokido 1-2 KOK
3. Mago 2-0 KOK
4. Mago 1-2 Juso *Juso had no life in the last round *Mago seems to miss his last move.
5. Umehara 2-1 Juso *Very intense match

• Team Misshii/Katakana de Aoki/Jepper beat Team Y24/Tsuu-san/Yo-kun

1. Misshii 2-0 Yo-kun
2. Misshii 2-0 Tsuu-san
3. Misshii 1-2 Y24
4. Aoki 0-2 Y24
5. Jepper 2-0 Y24

• Team Nyanshi/Eita/Kindevu beat Team Epsilon J/Morichika/Etoro

1. Nyanshi 2-0 Mochichika
2. Nyanshi 2-1 Etoro
3. Nyanshi 2-0 Epsilon J

Top 4

• Team Ume/Mago/Tokido beat Team RF/Dogura/Momochi

1. Tokido 1-2 Dogura [Pic]
2. Mago 2-0 Dogura [Pic]
3. Mago 2-1 Momochi *Nice FADC>FADC>U1 by Mago in last game
4. MAGO 2-0 RF

• Team Nyanshi/Eita/Kindevu vs. Team Misshii/Katakana de Aoki/Jepper 

1. Nyanshi 2-0 Misshii
2. Nyanshi 2-1 Aoki
3. Nyanshi 0-2 Jepper
4. Kindevu 2-0 Jepper

Final

• Team Ume/Mago/Tokido beat Team Nyanshi/Eita/Kindevu

1. Tokido 0-2 Kindevu
2. Umehara 2-0 Kindevu [Pic]
3. Umehara 1-2 Eita
4. Mago 2-1 Eita [Pic]
5. Mago 2-0 Nyanshi [Pic]

Pictures
- The event poster [Pic]
- Game setup [Pic]
- Team Mad Catz's bracket [Pic]
- Tokido, Umehara, Mago posing [Pic]
- Umehara signing [Pic]
- Tokido signing [Pic]
- Mago signing [Pic]
- Group A/B/C [Pic]
- Group D/E/F [Pic]

Note
- Some players had a problem with the buttons, they paused the game 2-3 times. The rule is if you pause the game, you'll be hit one combo for free by your opponent.
- [Interview after tournament] Umehara said using a new character in tournament is fun. His character in Ver.2012 is still undecided, but probably Akuma.
- Umehara played Akuma in a tournament for the first time. Most likely for fun and experiment. His default Ultra is Demon Armageddon (U2) and U2 setup is one of his tools. (We saw he practiced that in Kuwait.)
- Apparently Umehara's Akuma is not ready, he dropped combos and made slow decisions. We don't see something like that in his Ryu and Yun.

Umehara confirmed for NSB meets Mad Catz TE-S Special Night

Mad Catz Japan announced today that Daigo Umehara will participate tomorrow's tournament Nagoya Street Battle meets Mad Catz TE-S Special Night (November 19). That means we'll see full Japanese Team Mad Catz as Mago and Tokido already confirmed two days ago. The tournament is 3 on 3.

As the name suggests, the event is sponsored by Mad Catz to promote the TE-S stick that will be released in Japan on December 1. The game will be played on Xbox 360.

Nagoya Street Battle 30 summary

What: Nagoya Street Battle 30 (celebrating 3rd anniversary)
Where: Urban Square Nagoya
When: September 23, 12:00 to 22:00 (Japan Standard Time)
Why: Daigo Umehara participating (with Mago and Tokido)
Format: 3 on 3, double elimination (due to number of participants, it's changed to single elimination), character duplication is OK
Entry fee: 500 yen/player
Special: SSF4AE Ver.2012 location test
Website: nsb.blog.shinobi.jp
Stream: NSB1, NSB2

History
This's Umehara's first time in NSB since NSB17 (September 23, exactly one year after that) in which he won with MACHI and Momochi. (defeating Justin Wong, Ricky Ortiz, and Marn on the way) Ono, KSK, a Hori guy, was there as well.

Nagoya is 370 kilometers from Tokyo. It takes around 2 hours fastest by train but it costs around 20,000 yen round trip. Cheaper options means slower. This's why you don't see players from Tokyo much in the tournament. (Tokyo=Umehara/Mago/Tokido/etc., Nagoya=Momochi/Kindevu/Eita/etc.)

Block C
Team Ad-lib Ouji/Chiba/Pie

Block E
Team Haitani/Sako/MDR *Sako uses Ibuki
Team Juso/Banbaban/KOK
Team Kindevu/RF/BAS

Block F
Team Kenpachi/Yamazaki/MOV
Team Momochi/Ikoma Devil/Eita *Momochi uses Cody

Block G
Team Y24/aka jojo/Hishou
Team Kim1234/Fubarduck/ChocoBlanka

Block H
Team Umehara/Mago/Tokido
Team Nyanshi/Bon-chan/Kokujin *Kokujin uses Ryu even he said he'd change

Results

• 15:50 [2nd fight] Team Haitani/Sako/MDR eliminated by Team Juso/Banbaban/KOK
• 16:10 [1st fight] Team Kindevu/RF/BAS eliminated
• 16:40 [1st fight] Team Kenpachi/Yamazaki/MOV eliminated 
• 17:00 [3rd fight] Momochi/Ikoma Devil/Eita eliminated
• 17:08 [1st fight] Team Umehara/Mago/Tokido - Mago OCV'd (with 2 perfects)
• 17:40 [1st fight] Team Nyanshi/Bon-chan/Kokujin - Kokujin took 2, Nyanshi took 1
• 17:52 [2nd fight] Team Umehara/Mago/Tokido - Mago took 1, Tokido took 1, Ume took 1
• 18:10 Team Kim1234/Fubarduck/ChocoBlanka eliminated Team Y24/aka jojo/Hishou to qualify Block G
• 18:10 [2nd fight] Team Nyanshi/Bon-chan/Kokujin - Kokujin lost, Bon OCV'd
• 18:19 [3rd fight - block qualifier] Team Umehara/Mago/Tokido qualified - Mago took Nyanshi+Kokujin+Bon-chan

Top 8
19:10 - Team Hunter (Hunter Ito/Hunter Menin/Epsilon J) eliminated by Team Takeshi Gundan
19:17 - Team Umehara/Mago/Tokido eliminated Team Kim1234/Fubarduck/ChocoBlanka - Mago took Fubar/Choco/Kim - Kim taunted in the second round

Semifinal
19:32 - Team Umehara/Mago/Tokido vs. Team Juso/Banbaban/KOK - Mago took Juso/KOK (with 1 perfect)/Banbaban (with 1 perfect)
19:42 - Team Takeshi Gundan (wao/666/Furon) eliminated by Team Ad-lib Ouji/Chiba/Pie - Chiba OCV'd

Grand Final
19:52 - Team Umehara/Mago/Tokido defeat Team Ad-lib Ouji/Chiba/Pie

1. Mago 1-2 Chiba
2. Tokido 2-1 Chiba *very exciting match!
3. Tokido 2-1 Pie
4. Tokido 2-0 Ad-lib Ouji 

News
- 4Gamer: Team Mad Catz and Ver. 2011 location test in NSB30 [Link]

Update
- Mago & Sako in a restaurant [Pic]
- Ume signing autograph [Pic]
- 19:00 Umehara played rock-paper-scissors with attendees for signed T-shirts. (Chiba and Tasuke won)
- Ume using Bon-chan's back as table to sign [Pic]
- Choco still used Umehara Shinja title
- Tokido signing T-shirt for Sako's wife [Pic]
- Brackets [Link]
- Someone had Sako sign Umehara Shinja T-shirt [Pic]
- Mago with cute pose [Pic]
- Champions: Mago/Ume/Tokido [Pic]

18:44 - Umehara's interview before top 8

• He's not going to use Ryu.
• "[Ryu's Shoryuken changes] are meaningless." (everyone laughed)
• He wants to see Tokido fight Fuudo.
• He is yet to see Persona 4 fighting game.
• He thinks Tachikawa and yaya are most amazing players because he thought so back in the past when he's still not good.
• He's 172 tall, blood type is AB
• He'd like to try Kyushu's food

20:06 - Umehara's interview after winning the tournament
"I didn't appear much in a tournament for [SSF4AE] so winning is good."

SSF4AE Ver.2012 location test @NSB30

It was announced during Tougeki that there'll be SSF4AE Ver.2012 location test at Nagoya Street Battle 30 (September 23).

They said the announcement is a surprise, but Ono actually said this on GODSGARDEN's stream during Evo when he was at Japan Booth. (Maybe they forgot.)

The actual new details is there'll be 8 cabinets (4 pairs). Two of them will be streamed.

Anyway, this will probably be the first time that you'll see Daigo Umehara playing Ver.2012 since he's participating the tournament.

Nagoya Street Battle 25

Nagoya Street Battle 25 today was quite entertaining. Kindevu played well and he's on the same team with Eita. As you know, Eita led his team to win NSB24 and OCV'd Momochi team. But this time, Momochi came back with Yun instead of Cody, his team beat Eita team in the final.

(Momochi keeps changing his main. From Akuma (SF4) to Ibuki (SSF4), then Ken (SSF4), then Cody (AE), and now Yun.)

One of the highlights is when Ryan Hart was on the camera chatting with Gama-san and Choco Blanka. The (Japanese) chat exploded after he suddenly switched from speaking English to Japanese. They're surprised and impressed by his Japanese. The chat and Eita agreed that he should teach Eita some Japanese. (Eita is known to speak broken Japanese, and he named his stream channel 日本語不自由配信 (Japanese language disabled broadcasting))

Hart came to Japan to start and learn about SSF4AE for 2 weeks now. His main is now Yun. He said he spent 6 hours on the bus to come to the event at Nogoya, and he didn't sleep. He's on the same team with Sako and Rikuson, which was eliminated by Momochi team.

- Around 4,500 viewers peak
- Find recorded streams here (Channel2) and here (Channel3) or see the last part below.



Winner
Momochi (Yun)
Banbaban (Yun)
KOK (Fei Long)


2nd
Eita (Gouki)
Kindevu (Yun)
Coop (Blanka)

Eita team wins NSB24

I was busy and just had time to watch Nagoya Street Battle 24's top 8 videos. The event was on May 4. Eita's team won, and Eita himself did a great job keeping the team alive. He even OCV'd Momochi's team (Momochi (Cody), Taison (Bison), Rikuson (Sagat)) in the semi-final.

Eita is a very skillful player but (his gameplay) isn't reliable (in my opinion) so this's a surprise.

Eita started his own stream channel at the end of March and plays (console SSF4) almost everyday. (He has almost 3,700 subscribers now) He's a guitarist so sometimes he plays guitar while playing game....

You can watch all the videos here (look for NSB24) or watch the last part below.

NSB TV and NSB Online announced

Nagoya Street Battle (NSB) TV (tentative name) will be streamed every Wednesday between 21.00-24.00 and hosted by Eita, Kin Devu, Kokujin, Choco, and guests.

The show will have 3 corners (as of now)

- "Kouryaku! Choco Musume" (tentative name) aims for beginners. (The name is a parody of Shinryaku! Ika Musume.)

- Ranked matches against the viewers.

- NSB Online

NSB Online is like GODSGARDEN Online but is an open online tournament, not invite-only like GGO. The winner of this tournament will receive official SSF4 online title "Shishifunjin" from Capcom. The qualifier starts on November 17. The participants must have 4,000 PP or above.

A separated online tournament "Beat By Contest Online Qualifier" was also announced, the winner from 8 nominees will get a free trip (plane ticket and travel expenses) to Beat By Contest tournament (with Mago) in Switzerland next year's February.