Wakeup, Shoryuken E073 – The Ghosts of SBO Past and Present

Oh man, this is like the most important episode to stamp and I can’t do it for a while D:

God you people did not listen to a word he said the entirety of the interview. That being said it is really unfortunate what happened, but I completely agree with Ryan’s perspective on how we must also keep an eye on the broader scope of things.

I understand Canon trying to clear things up, but the way he put it was rude. Oh well you have to protect your product, and it’s livelihood.  

Man, coming home from night shift I expected someone to step up (and stamp up) for this exciting episode

Oh well, here it is:

00:00 – Shoryuken! Guest intro by Nick Accristo (new intros welcome)
01:15 – Chit-chat
01:54 – Jump-in to the News
01:58 – Razer to produce an arcade stick (for 360 only)
03:13 – Street Fighter Volt  (iPhone) now has Fei Long and Yun
03:36 – LG gets exclusive rights to SF4 on Android phones
04:10 – PlayStation Vita-version for Street Fighter x Tekken will have shared DLC
05:13 – SFxT: Pandora and Gem-system explained
07:25 – Dead or Alive 5 revealed
09:18 – Interview with Kensou: SBO & Planet Zero-history
11:57 – First Planet Zero-controversy in 2008
17:52 – 2009 SBO-qualifiers
19:05 – 2010-qualifiers and the “incident”
27:18 – Kensou’s take on SBO 2011-controversy
30:32 – Kensou out
31:52 – Introducing Ryan “fubarduck” Harvey
34:35 – SBO 2011 before the drama
36:24 – SBO to split into two events a year
38:49 – fubarduck’s experiences at Taito Station pre-SBO
43:32 – Calm before the storm
49:45 – “I need to talk to you guys about something. Can you please wait a minute.”
59:25 – “YOGA!”
62:00 – Swept under the rug
67:40 – 2chan’s reaction
73:12 – How to move forward
78:21 – SBO’s role and how it possibly should evolve
88:04 – Controversy of SBO last chance qualifier-rules
94:41 – Amalgame TV (http://ja.twitch.tv/frieda0914/b/292823126) – You can visit iplaywinner.com for  the summary and translations
96:35 – fubarduck’s brief answer for Salty Runback http://iplaywinner.com/news/2011/9/20/the-salty-runback-glitter-kake.html
99:05 – Comments  (featuring fubarduck)
111:23 – Closing out

I truly believe that what transpired overseas is an absolute shame and if I were personally involved I would be livid for what I had to go through not just at the tournament but what it took to get to that country to begin with. The money, the sacrifice, the training all out the window for nothing? Yeah, that’s not fair whatsoever.

My natural aggression makes me want to retaliate and say that to send a message we shouldn’t do absolutely anything to be hospitable to any players coming from Japan and be sure to show no sort of effort or care in whether they receive respect or fair treatment but when you work on an eye-for-an-eye sense of reasoning, everyone just ends up blind. So while devastating this situation must have been, I think the most respectable thing that we could do is just to remove SBO as a tournament that we allow ourselves to enter. I mean it’s not like SBO has the greatest sense of respect running behind it with all the underhanded things that transpire there so why enter? What do you earn from doing so? They should be deemed as an institution with no credibility and no sense of honor as they obviously don’t care in proving otherwise and the whole event should be deemed as important and respectable as a side tourney at your local arcade and nothing more. EVO, Revelation, ECT, and more are all available and far more reputable then that biased event held by those who don’t even play the game let alone understand it so why put effort into a waste of space? Let’s just move on and get ourselves ready for a real event like Season’s Beatings 2011 this October; where everyone will be able to play and the streams are actually distinguishable.

I truly believe that what transpired overseas is an absolute shame and if I were personally involved I would be livid for what I had to go through not just at the tournament but what it took to get to that country to begin with. The money, the sacrifice, the training all out the window for nothing? Yeah, that’s not fair whatsoever.

My natural aggression makes me want to retaliate and say that to send a message we shouldn’t do absolutely anything to be hospitable to any players coming from Japan and be sure to show no sort of effort or care in whether they receive respect or fair treatment but when you work on an eye-for-an-eye sense of reasoning, everyone just ends up blind. So while devastating this situation must have been, I think the most respectable thing that we could do is just to remove SBO as a tournament that we allow ourselves to enter. I mean it’s not like SBO has the greatest sense of respect running behind it with all the underhanded things that transpire there so why enter? What do you earn from doing so? They should be deemed as an institution with no credibility and no sense of honor as they obviously don’t care in proving otherwise and the whole event should be deemed as important and respectable as a side tourney at your local arcade and nothing more. EVO, Revelation, ECT, and more are all available and far more reputable then that biased event held by those who don’t even play the game let alone understand it so why put effort into a waste of space? Let’s just move on and get ourselves ready for a real event like Season’s Beatings 2011 this October; where everyone will be able to play and the streams are actually distinguishable.

unfortunately some games survive purely based on their sbo spot. . . 

Keits and Ski, do you guys think MVC3 and the upcoming UMVC3′s damage is way too low? character kill combos are very common or just  2 bnb’s can kill a character(ABCD sj. BBCD OTG Hyper). do you guys think this is because they want casual players to be able to win without it being a time over every time? also, do you think they will lower the damage of every move in future iterations like SFIV series? vanilla had high damage and in super it was lowered and in AE, the damage is even lower. thanks guys