Kotaku Editorial Names Daigo, Justin Wong, and Alex Valle in Top Competitive Gaming Moments

@magocyber

Let me educate you here. It’s without a doubt that Valle is the Best Alpha 2 Player on the Planet during the prime of that games life. He destroyed everyone here in the States, and he also destroyed everyone Internationally.

You might not know, but he actually went to Japan during the time of Alpha 2 and schooled every single top player their for free. Hence, Greatest Alpha 2 Player on the Planet. That’s not an opinion, its a fact. Go back and read my post on Alpha 3 when Valle vs Daigo went off. Valle actually Won the Japanese Set, as how both of them were told prior too. The Capcom reps were supposed to have Japanese 1-set win and American Best out of 5. They never lived up to what they had told both players prior to playing one another, hence why you saw Valle talking to the Reps when Daigo “magically” won 2-1. So please, get your head straight on.

As for Laakuma, do you seriously not know who that is? That’s Jeff Schaeffer, one of the greatest OG SFII Players of the Golden Era. He has every right to state Tomo>>>Daigo. Anyone who was there to play Tomo during his prime would vouch for that, not just Jeff. Ask Apoc, Kuni (A Japanese Zangief player that Daigo Had to switch to O. Sagat in order to beat, but Tomo schooled Kuni w/ nobody besides Ryu, and Guile), Watson, Kwang, etc, etc, they’ll all tell you.

Jeff also played and beat Daigo and even perfected All of Daigo’s Best Characters in SFII while using Guile, a character that wasn’t his main during his zenith. He’s not trying to disrespect Daigo, because The Beast is a great SFII player, however in comparison to the Great SFII players of the Past, Daigo’s abilities would be Upper-Tier. Go and look up Tomo’s resume first before you like to make that assumption. Jeff’s not talking out of his ass, its just 99.9% of you people don’t know enough about the Past SF Greats, hell, most of you don’t even know how dominant Valle was back in the mid-late 90′s and he came after Tomo and co.

@Magocyber

The information that I received was from Alex Valle himself whom posted the tournament and the incident here at srk.com a few years back. I forgot which thread it was in, but it was one pertaining to OG SF players and the history of their play.

Valle stated that the Capcom reps told Daigo and him that they would first play the traditional 1-Set Japanese style, and then play the American Best out of 5 Set style.

As was seen, Valle won the first set, but the Capcom Reps did not live up to their word and instead quickly anointed Daigo the winner after being up 2-1. A pretty bullshit call by the Capcom Reps, and Valle did speak with the rep afterwards, however he wasn’t bitter about it.

If it was me, I would’ve been pissed. You tell me one thing and do another, that’s hogwash.