Daigo Umehara's Event Schedule 2015

- Canada Cup's Master Series [January 9-11]
- 5th Niconico Shotenkaigi [January 18]
- Yonpahi radio show [January 23]
- 6th Niconico Shotenkaigi [January 25]
- Taipei Game Show [Jan 31]
- Tokaigi 2015 [Feb 1]
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Thursday, December 25, 2014

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.

Thursday, November 20, 2014

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."


Sunday, November 16, 2014

4th TOPANGA League Round 6 summary

Information
The 4th TOPANGA League stream and ticket links
TOPANGA League rules
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

November 16 - Round 6

  1. Tokido vs. Pugera
  2. Bon-chan vs. Kazunoko
  3. Michael-tan  vs. Santarou
  4. Momochi vs. Nemo
  5. Sako vs. Tokido
  6. Umehara vs. Uryo
  7. Fuudo vs. Pugera
  8. Nemo vs. Michael-tan
  9. Kazunoko vs. Uryo
  10. Bon-chan vs. Momochi
  11. Umehara vs. Sako


Commentators
R (Guy player) and Shiro (Abel/Makoto player)
(Opening skit: Hiding)

Saturday, October 11, 2014

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.

Thursday, September 25, 2014

[Video] Tokido Drift

Someone at Beast Note apparently had too much time for a parody video.

Click here to download


Thursday, September 18, 2014

[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!)

Thursday, September 11, 2014

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.

Tuesday, August 19, 2014

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.

Tuesday, August 12, 2014

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.

Sunday, August 10, 2014

"Umehara's Room" talk show planned

A special episode of R's Room pay-per-view talk show called "Umehara's Room" is planned on August 16, starting from 21:00 JST (right after Umehara vs. Tokido special talk show).

The show will be hosted by Umehara himself and Tokido.

Saturday, August 9, 2014

Nico to stream Umehara vs. Tokido talk show

It's revealed today that Niconico will be streaming Daigo Umehara vs. Tokido talk show on August 16, starting 20:00 JST.

Umehara will come to talk about his manga serialization on Weekly Georgia while Tokido will talk about his book that was released last month.

Tuesday, August 5, 2014

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.

Wednesday, July 30, 2014

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)

Sunday, July 13, 2014

Evolution 2014 Day 2 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

Super Street Fighter II X

Team Japan 2-3 Team OGSF
Tokido (Claw) 2-1 Mike Watson (Box)
Tokido (Claw) 0-2 Alex Valle (Ryu)
Umehara (Box) 2-0 Alex Valle (Ryu)
Umehara (Box) 0-2 John Choi (Sag)
Nuki (Chu) 1-2 John Choi (Sag)

Saturday, July 12, 2014

Evolution 2014 Day 1 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

Pools
8:50 - Infiltration (Aku) 2-0 775 Yao (Cam) *28,000v
9:06 - KB (Abe) 0-2 Xian (Gen) *30,100v
9:18 - Arturo "Sabin" Sanchez (Ros) 0-2 (P2G) Cabbage (Vip) *34,400v
9:39 - Todakai507 (Gen) 0-2 Yossan (Juri) *32,000v 61,200u
9:48 - Dieminion (Gui) 2-1 Xiaohai (Cam) *37300v *DM went to hell and back
10:04 - Illija (Aku) 2-0 Gootecks (Ros) *39100v
10:20 - Haitani (Ruf) 2-0 Tuck (Ruf) *42300v
10:26 - Christian Santos (Sak) 0-2 Nuki (Chun) *42900v
10:33 - S42 Blanka (Bla) 0-2 Latif (Vip) *41200v
11:13 - Kaneka (Dec) 0-2 (P1G) Momochi (Ken) *42400v 85700u
11:19 - Ryan Hart (Sag) (P1G) 2-0 Floe (ERy/Yan) *42400
12:47 - Samson (Chun) 0-2 Koji KOG (Haw) *39,600v
12:54 - Isauro Mishima (ERy) 0-2 Laugh (ERy) *41300v
12:58 - KSK (Abe) (P3G) 2-1 Dragoomba (Ruf) *43,200v *somewhat great comeback
13:10 - Cryoh (Gui) 0-2 (P2G) GamerBee (Ado) *43,700v
13:28 - PR Rog (Box) 2-0 PieGuy (Cod) *43,300v
13:49 - G Flow (Dan) 0-2 GamerBee (Ado) *45,900v
14:14 - Semitry (Hak) 0-2 Nyanshi (Sag) *47600v
14:24 - KSK (Abe) 2-0 Fraser Ching (Cam) *48300v
14:30 - Dawgen Hower (Zan) 0-2 Air (Ryu) *48700v
15:32 - Mago (Fei) 2-0 Li (Haw)
15:53 - K Brad (Cam) 2-1 Somniac (Dic) *50400v
16:15 - Smug (Dud) 2-0 Stebs (Ryu) *53000v
16:31 - MOV (Yun) 2-0 Yomi Knishes (Vip) *52200
16:38 - Layec (Hak) 0-2 Misse (Mak) *51600v
16:46 - Bon-chan (Sag) 2-0 BrolyLegs (Chu) *53000v
16:52 - AKG Grandmaster B (Hon) 0-2 Umehara (ERy) *53800v
0-2 *P1R, almost P2R
1-2 *missed Ultra timing in 1R
17:16 - Umehara (ERy) 2-0 Emersion (Claw) *52500
2-0
2-0
17:25 - Dakou (Cam) 2-0 C-Los (Ken) *52800
17:31 - Mike Ross (Hon) 2-0 Daytrip (Fue)
17:52 - Flash Metroid (Cod/Zan) 0-2 Alex Valle (Ryu) *53800

Quarter Final
18:47 - XSK Samurai (ERy) 0-2 Koji KOG (Haw) *46100
18:51 - Eita (Aku) 2-1 Shinba (Abe) *50400
19:03 - Brentt (Ruf) 1-2 Taiga (Yun) *49800
19:13 - Cabbage (Vip) 2-1 Tampa Bison (Dic) *54200
19:16 - [Losers] Umehara (ERy) 2-0 Alex Valle (Ryu) *61300
2-0
2-0
19:24 - Sanford (Oni) 1-2 Mago (Fei) *60900
19:33 - NGL Chris (Ken) 0-2 Xian (Gen) *60400
19:51 - Marq Teddy (Guy) 1-2 Sako (Ele) *66200 *Sako almost lost

Non-match result updates (Las Vegas local time)
7:56 - Crowd before open
8:02 - Niconico stream starts
8:02 - Venue
8:16 - Arturo "Sabin" Sanchez is both player and judge in the pool. Controversy awaits.
8:21 - Nagisa cosplaying Lilith (she prepared just for this event)
8:30 - 22,300 viewers on Twitch. 33,000 unique views on Nico.
8:31 - R eating something on Nico stream again (same as last year). Bad MC.
8:32 - Fuudo on Nico.
8:54 - James Chen in red shirt. Ultra David looks normal.
8:59 - Yossan is in Losers already.
9:00 - 29,300v
9:00 - R is eating while commentating. What a pig.... (And how does Nico allow this?)
9:02 - Company booths
9:08 - MomoChoco
9:09 - Someone in chat said Xian has world's strongest eyebrows. Agreed.
9:10 - Tokido
9:15 - Uu (pronounced Ooh, KoF player) and Umezono (3rd Strike player) on Nico.
9:21 - Tokido, Eita, Haitani went through their 2nd fight.
9:23 - R realized half way that he's supposed to commentate Cabbage match, not talking to guests.
9:50 - ASW's Mori is in LA. (presumably with Kana Ueda)
9:51 - Cabbage survived first pool.
9:57 - Eita and Xian survived first pool.
10:01 - KSK on the mic. He said GODSGARDEN channel is "currently" free. It's too late, man. Damage is done. You locked people out from the beginning, some people already paid you, and now you say it's free for now? And we know you'll charge people for a crappy "show" again soon. (Like charging people to listen to your karaoke session you did.)
10:11 - Note that KSK doesn't actively play SF4 so don't expect any real commentating.
10:14 - 70,900u
10:14 - Nagisa playing something
10:29 - ChocoBlanka survived first pool
10:33 - Hameko (writer) on the mic. He's interviewing Gen, 13 year old Japanese Tekken player sent by Twitch (coming with his father).
10:54 - Kazunoko won first fight
11:17 - No commentator on Nico at the moment because R goes to play. No complaint from us.
11:34 - Harada x Nagisa
11:42 - Nuki survived first pool. Kokujin & Nuki on Nico.
11:58 - Sentosu survived first pool.
12:04 - R is back on the mic, was eliminated in first pool.
12:09 - Kazunoko survived first pool. He said Alex Myer (Sakura player) almost got him in the Winners final.
12:21 - 99300u
12:24 - Cabbage on Nico.
12:33 - Momo Choco on Nico.
12:44 - Sentosu (MC, Poison player) and AO (Tekken player) on Nico.
12:52 - 111,800c
13:07 - Sako survived first pool.
13:17 - Mizoteru lost his passport and iPhone last night....
13:21 - First pic of Nyanshi
13:21 - Nagisa & Itabashi Zangief
13:25 - Momochi survived first pool.
13:33 - Koji KOG survived first pool.
13:43 - Fuudo survived first pool.
13:51 - R wants GamerBee match to end quick so he can eat burger. Yes, the pig is eating again. They even show him eating at the desk beside the chewing sound. Shame.
13:56 - Japanese Smash Bros. players on Nico.
14:01 - Note that Niconico does not focus on streaming every matches. They sometimes cut it to show the guests.
14:04 - KSK in Losers now.
14:08 - Up until now, R didn't really provide a professional commentary.
14:15 - Nyanshi is playing and R is still talking to Smash players. This's a nightmare.
14:20 - We reached our limit. Closing Niconico and watch official stream instead (just like what we did last year). 実況・解説 しっかりしろ.
14:28 - James Chen doesn't realize that KSK looks so happy after a win because KSK thinks he's an underdog.
14:28 - KSK survived first pool in Losers
15:18 - Itabashi Zangief survived first pool.
15:25 - ASW's Mori arrived at venue.
16:26 - Mizoteru survived first pool.
17:07 - It's a break, watch Nico in case there's Umehara interview. Square Enix producer Takamasa Shiba on Nico... for no reason. He's a fan and friend of Umehara though. He even calls Umehara "Ume-chan." Hey, how about Dissidia sequel with Umehara as battle planner?
17:09 - Mago survived first pool.
17:21 - Bon-chan survived first pool.
17:28 - Clearly Nico stream is smoother. Only we have to deal with the idiots on the mic.
17:36 - Kana Ueda arrived at the venue!
17:45 - Why are R and Shiba talking about BUKKAKE? WTF.
17:59 - Kokujin survived first pool.
18:02 - Now R is inviting Shiba to his PPV show. Great. 格げー関係ないなら消えろ....
18:05 - Nico basically put random people on stream and expect things to happen. No script, no time limit. 台本ないのはまずい
18:13 - Shiba just called Square Enix "Kuso-Enix." That's brave.
18:19 - Infiltration put in Losers by Velociraptor
18:22 - It's supposed to be a closing statement, why is Shiba is still talking?
18:28 - Shiba finally gone. Now only R is gone too.
18:30 - Umehara vs. F Champ, where's the stream!
18:34 - Umehara put in Losers by F.Champ. So it's E Ryu vs. Dhalsim, and Umehara didn't counterpick with Yun? Our worst nightmare.
18:41 - Official stream is showing trailer of Dawn of the Planet of the Apes.
18:44 - Skisonic & Ultra Davis on the mic.
18:50 - While KOG is playing, Nico has Harada and Tekken players talking without the match showed. gg
18:58 - Skisonic will do 15% better if he doesn't randomly raise his voice.
19:06 - Skisonic needs to realize that the hype comes from the match, not the tone of his voice or the way he talks.
19:08 - Ski and Ultra David got trolled by fake result, saying Umehara is out of tournament.
19:25 - Sentosu put in Losers by Taiga.
19:32 - Sako beat Laugh.
19:34 - Nagisa vs. Ono
19:35 - R begins actual commentating. Thank God.
19:38 - Haitani put Eita in Losers.
19:39 - Cabbage and Tokido put in Losers by Snake Eyes.
19:51 - Despite saying he's a fan, Ski still doesn't realize that Sakonoko is just online ID, not his alias. Sakonoko now means Sako's daughter.....
19:55 - Yossan eliminated Xiaohai
19:58 - Fuudo the mic. Good.
20:01 - Umehara elimitaed by John Choi.
23:28 - Umehara vs. Nagisa vs. Ono

Since Umehara is out of the tournament, we end our record here as usual.

Sunday, July 6, 2014

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.
- A Block
- B Block
- C Block
- D Block
- E Block
- F Block
- G Block
- H Block
- 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)