EG|Justin Wong Becomes First American to Take Home Gold at Super Battle Opera

by Redrapper on August 5th, 2012 at 3:21 am

There’s an explosion of pure enthusiasm permeating on Twitter right now, and its not difficult to see why. After countless attempts and obstacles, America finally has a Super Battle Opera title under its belt thanks to EG|Justin Wong. Breaking through the Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 bracket with a keen sense of determination, Justin rocketed to grand finals and made quick work of the set in order to secure first place. It’s a goal that so many have attempted to reach without promise, and Justin made it look easy.

Another strong player worth mentioning is Eliver “Killer Kai” Ling, who represented SoCal incredibly but was unfortunately knocked out in the third round. Kai and Justin were both strong favorites going into this, and it feels good to finally see the red, white, and blue taking home the gold from SBO. It’s also worth noting that Hsien Chang was able to secure a third place finish in Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition ver. 2012 along with his teammates RB and AVerMedia|Gamerbee.

A few gut reactions from twitter:

JUSTIN WINS SBO FOR THE FIRST TIME IN USA HISTORY.

— MaRN マーン (@MarnORZ) August 5, 2012

Time to trend it. #USAJWONG

— ClakeyD (@ClakeyD) August 5, 2012

Congrats @jwonggg for winning UMVC3 at SBO!!

— gootecks (@gootecks) August 5, 2012

Yeah!!!!!JUSTINNNN WOOOOOOONG!!!!Our first U.S. SBO Champion!!Congrats @jwonggg !!

— James Chen (@jchensor) August 5, 2012

So America finally won a SBO thanks to @jwonggg now it’s time to let SBO rest in peace lol

— Arturo Sanchez (@nycfurby) August 5, 2012

It’s confirmed that the Wong Factor is an international phenomenon #USAJWONG

— Graham Large (@Suna_19) August 5, 2012

Justin Wong, you are an entire continent’s hero. Thank You Based Wong Factor. @jwonggg

— Gordon / Ponza (@Ponza) August 5, 2012

Congrats to @jwonggg for winning UMvC3 #SBO USA! USA! USA!

— Andy Jay Papa (@PotatoHead) August 5, 2012

During EVO 2010, when Justin lost to Gamerbee, I heard some kid remark, “You see that? The era of Justin Wong is over.” I’d like to hand him the picture posted above as I smile smugly, knowing that it never ended in the first place.

Source: Twitter, photo courtesy of MarkMan

http://www.facebook.com/people/Kevin-Taylor/100001170772290 Kevin Taylor

Cmon…..not to undermine the competition around the world, but I had strong feeling JWong was going to take it. Congrats to Justin. Wong Factor is too strong it seems.
- http://deafwing.tumblr.com/ deafwing
  
  the wong is strong with this one O_o? :p
- http://www.facebook.com/people/Gethoff-Mahfacebuk/558552166 Gethoff Mahfacebuk
  
  It would have been a massive upset if USA DIDN’T take Mahvel. Even Tokido said in his Evo interview, Japan isn’t on that level yet.
  
  More interested on whether or not USA got fair treatment in the other arcade games, simple courtesies like actually being PUT IN THE FUCKING BRACKET.
  - http://twitter.com/Darkforge Bevan Djernaes
    
    so Justin beats the japanese at a game they don’t really take seriously… yeah move along kid’s nothing to see here.
    - http://www.facebook.com/people/Michael-Ubiles/100002107743106 Michael Ubiles
      
      obviously they take it seriously if they put it in a tournament as big as sbo
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_PVJHG5JGSX463T3Z3JDEFJCSZM GC

good job
http://www.facebook.com/rahim.falconer Rahim Falconer

Yay now kill SBO
http://www.facebook.com/people/Brandon-Williams/138800365 Brandon Williams

Nice, says he’s never attending again, then wins the championship. He’s like CM Punk, lol.
- http://pulse.yahoo.com/_TIC7WNRSMFBSCLF6OR6JQJAAZA sb
  
  aye if you gonna go out go out with a bang
- Awsumpossum12345
  
  Its like Adel but for fighting games
http://www.facebook.com/people/Justin-Archer/747006074 Justin Archer

DAMN IT I MISSED SBO!!!!
http://twitter.com/DaSavage68 Savage

LOL at Arturo’s tweet.
http://www.facebook.com/skotgun Skot Hanna

last-chance romance.
FGCLove

good stuff Justin, now noboby will care about SBO. Finally.
http://twitter.com/JayAlanCarter ジェイアランカーター FGC

its true. MAHVEL is USA’s game
Naveed Sultan

did pz mihe play?
- mozart danno
  
  yeah, he got taken out by Kubo and his deadly X-23 I believe. He’s just happy he got to go to JPN for summer break.
- http://twitter.com/RoninJinobi Zach Gonzales
  
  I’m pretty sure it’s just mihe since you know….no pz lol
e411642

I really wanna watch the matches he played. Is there a free archive?
ReoAyanami

“After countless attempts and obstacles”

Didn’t realize it was so hard for America to win in Marvel against the Japanese.
- http://www.facebook.com/caiooa Caio Alzred
  
  maybe they aren’t talking about mahvel….
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0deim0FKD7g
  - ReoAyanami
    
    I guess this win in Marvel makes up for all the losses in every other game then.
    - Krystalmyth
      
      That’s usually how big competition works. A team could lose for 50 years, and win one championship and be on top of the world. Not sure how you don’t understand how victory works. It’s not about how many times you’ve lost. Losers think about that. Winners keep trying, until they win.
      - ReoAyanami
        
        I’m sure everyone believes that US can take any title at majors in Japan now since they are on top of the world.
      - http://www.facebook.com/caiooa Caio Alzred
        
        not really. Not in super turbo, not in 3rd strike, not in blazblue, etc
      - http://www.facebook.com/illness690 John Taylor
        
        Once again, dat salt.
      - Jano Torres
        
        Lord Knight can take BlazBlue… Kappa
      - Amer1ka
        
        Are you an idiot? Do you not watch the Olympics because Japan or whatever country you are from dwells entirely on all of their losses and never celebrates their wins? And no, we don’t feel like we can take any title in any major but we know we can take one and where you can take one there is more excitement and determination to try and do it again or do it elsewhere. Again, that is how competition works.
        
        Apparently a terrible troll like yourself has no concept of how that works. You should probably step away from your keyboard before you commit suicide over your countries non-stop failures.
      - BlackThoughts
        
        Go take a lap!!!
    - http://www.facebook.com/illness690 John Taylor
      
      Dat salt.
http://profile.yahoo.com/UN4YNPZLKJMFMYBRXOIX4G5ALA topgunz

Lmao @ “to take home gold” didn’t know he went to the Olympics…. Congrats!
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=809006529 Albert Marsh

And after all his whining on twitter. Looks like he’ll be at SBO again next year if they have it.
http://profile.yahoo.com/TGIDZZVL24YPLDA54UUDQBBABY RisingStar

Finally! Good job Justin!
Dragoomba

Good stuff to Justin Wong and all, but this is really no surprise. This was the first year they added an American dominated game, of course an American was going to take it. It’s not so much that an American made history by taking first in an SBO tournament, it’s more that SBO made history by adding a game that was free for America.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Justin-Schneider/584412916 Justin Schneider

Lol “SBO IS AZZ!” “SBO IS DEAD!!!”

“Wait Justin won SBO? YAY JWONG! Finally we won SBO!”

Ironic that for all the hate SBO has gotten the past like 2 or 3 years and saying it doesn’t matter, when an American wins SBO all of the sudden SBO matters.
- Bavo Bruylandt
  
  The tournament will go from being worthless (after US favorites failing to qualify for SF4) to one of the most prestigious ever (after Justin winning MvC3).
  
  In a weird way Justin may have saved his hated SBO.
- http://www.facebook.com/themightyraeli Kyle Bauer
  
  What the fuck are you even on about? Matters according to who?
  
  Are you insane? Typical stream monster activity is no fucking conspiracy you nerd.
  - http://www.facebook.com/people/Justin-Schneider/584412916 Justin Schneider
    
    Lol yes….calling people a nerd on a fighting game forum. Talk about the kettle calling the teapot black. Chill your rage then comment.
    - Amer1ka
      
      Arturo hates everything and talks shit on things that need it and I’m pretty sure UD didn’t say that. I’d like to see a link to that please.
      - http://www.facebook.com/people/Justin-Schneider/584412916 Justin Schneider
        
        Sigh fine since you are too lazy to do it yourself, David Philip Graham ‏@ultradavid
        And about #SBO’s reputation RT @SnowValue Forget the DRAMA! real shame is FChamp is not going to SBO for Marvel. That says a lot about USA
        
        David Philip Graham ‏@ultradavid@OSRyanHunter @SnowValue @fchampryan Ah that’s right. Shows more of MY stance on SBO huh? But honk if you agree SBO matters less these days
        
        and you can even ask yourself what he thinks of SBO. Now then please sit down.
        
        Btw those were taken from Twitter dating around July 24th.
        
        Any other questions?
      - Amer1ka
        
        Read what UD said. ”It matters less these days” which is what I said. You said that SBO no longer matters. There is a huge difference between those two statements.
        
        I also clearly stated that. So you twisting something to fit your view is clearly more important than what was actually said.
        
        So please, “sit down” as you put it.
      - Mabans
        
        Less != Doesn’t matter..
      - Ndebe
        
        Classic stream-monster: too dumb to even read
        
        Get exposed.
    - http://twitter.com/GregoGraham Grego Graham
      
      when did nerd become an insult
      - Mabans
        
        Around the same time people using names in a condescending tone to insult someone. Mr. GREGO GRAHAM! =P
      - JasinWalraven
        
        when did nerd stop being an insult or a sexual fetish? Nerd has always been an insult
    - http://twitter.com/dihnmohr dihn mohr
      
      Does people really care about what Marn thinks about anything?
      - Mabans
        
        Apparently you do. If you truly didnt’ why mention it?
- mozart danno
  
  Its great that he won but SBO is still azz even by JPN standards.
- Amer1ka
  
  You are the typical stream monster idiot. You see somebody type something and take it as true and that it reflects the entire community despite how wrong the statement is.
  
  The entire world had been seeing SBO get worse over the last few years and everyone wants to save it because it’s a prestigious event that has been going on for a long time. This year it’s been even worse than it has in the past. But winning an event there still matters.
  
  Let me ask…are you from the US? Or are you just doing the bandwagon thing people like to do these days and point out any form of national pride or celebration as a bad thing?
  - http://www.facebook.com/people/Justin-Schneider/584412916 Justin Schneider
    
    Lol? I am not sure if I should honestly respond to you, but hey why not.
    
    Yes, I am from the US. I was born in Hawaii and my parents have both served in the military, my mother 14 years and my father 20 years, so I have an intense national pride.
    However, I am not going to stand by while people say one thing one minute and then flip-flop to the other side just because circumstances now favor them.
    I’ll tell you like I told the other guy, chill your rage, then comment.Also, most of the community agrees in believing that SBO is outdated, and no longer relevant and that EVO is better/more important/insert whatever you want here.I also enjoy how you resort to personal insults and questioning irrelevant things, like national pride, instead of actually trying to discredit my post.
    Typical internet logic. Though I also know you are only being so hateful because you are hiding behind anonymity, which is fine we all went through that stage.
    - Amer1ka
      
      Your post was based off of information that wasn’t even accurate. You should learn reading comprehension before you decide to make long and rambling posts.
      - http://www.facebook.com/people/Justin-Schneider/584412916 Justin Schneider
        
        You are talking to me about making long rambling posts when you posted 4 longer posts? Right.
        
        Anyways, doesn’t matter/matters less are still the same group of people saying it, my point still stands which you have yet to refute and still only rely on personal attacks after your attack on my national pride failed. So please keep trying to attack my character.
        
        You also never stated anything on your own position you are simply siding with UD and said Arturo just hates on everything. Yup seems like legit logic there.
        
        Now then unless you have something to actually refute what I said that people weren’t saying SBO doesn’t matter, and to make you happy or matters less, you can please disappear back into the Internet.
        
        But hey good try on arguing try to not rely on fallacies so much though!
      - Amer1ka
        
        You were attacking anybody who thought SBO was something worth talking about to start with. It’s a natural reaction to immediately go on the defensive if you actually thought something nice about Jwong winning UMVC3. Yet you are pissed when you get insulted by being an uniformed git who twists words to try and prove his so-called point.
        
        You were wrong. You took something somebody else said and decided to try to insult people and it blew up in your face. Instead of manning up and either admitting, or at least not responding, you’re doing the try-hard stream monster act and holding on. And I love how you are now trying to twist it so that it looks like I was lying when all anybody has to do is READ WHAT WAS WRITTEN. You don’t actually believe people are this stupid do you?
        
        Now, to use your words again…”sit”.
      - Amer1ka
        
        You “attacked no one” yet you say that you mocked them? Oh to live in your world.
        
        You don’t get points for “presenting evidence” when your own evidence proves that what you said wasn’t even correct btw. Also, I wasn’t asked to give any evidence…I asked and you provided the exact quote which proved me right and showed that you are either dumb or a liar. Thanks for that
        
        Oh, that sit comment. You mean I didn’t quote you correctly like you didn’t quote, “SBO matters less these days” right? OH THAT WASN’T ON PURPOSE I SWEAR. Irony, it hurts.
        Good night!
      - http://www.facebook.com/people/Justin-Schneider/584412916 Justin Schneider
        
        Actually I attacked no one, I mocked people. You attacked me and still are because you have nothing to prove your point, hence why you are building strawman arguments, and still attacking my character.
        
        Once more I insulted no one, and I took exactly what someone said and applied it how they meant it. Once more if you have these facts you keep accusing me of lacking, present them. I presented my evidence as well as listing people who said SBO doesn’t matter.
        
        Try-hard stream monster act? Actually, you are acting more “stream-monsterish” if you want to turn into a “nuh-uh you’re worse than me!” kind of thing sure I suppose we can get even more childish than you are already acting. I am twisting nothing, the words are exactly like you said right there.
        
        Now then since I’ve already brought you to heel, dog, do I need to beat you more or will you keep trying to insult my character by calling me dumb, stupid, etc etc etc, and once more using more fallacies that do nothing to help your own argument, or are you going to give up?
        
        Like I said if you have these facts present them, when you asked for my evidence I presented it, why is it when I ask for your you give nothing in return? Curiouser and Curiouser as Alice would say.
      - http://www.facebook.com/people/Justin-Schneider/584412916 Justin Schneider
        
        Wait, since when does mocking someone = attack them? Please explain that to me. My quote didn’t prove anything for you….what world do you live in? I proved the point that people said SBO doesn’t matter. Seriously, the extent of how terrible you are at defending your own argument is amusing.
        
        I quoted incorrectly? I copy and pasted the quote exactly, and now you are still getting off topic by still not presenting anything to disprove what I said. You are really terrible at this, but hey I suppose to feel justified or something, so I’ll let you dwell in your ignorance and continue your use of strawman arguments and fallacies. Bit of advice, try taking a logic class or debate class you might learn how to actually defend your point instead of coming off like a 15 year old who didn’t get enough attention.
- Mabans
  
  No one thinks SBO is great all of a sudden, we happy that Justin won. You are somehow making loose connections between the 2. SBO is still ass and I’m glad Justin won despite the shit he had to deal with.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=671093328 Yahya Osama Yahya

Ummm this is the first time I hear Marvel was at SBO??? and of course he will take it, if you put MK9 at SBO Perfect legend will also take it

The Japanese must be LOLing@ how stupid the Americans are right now, happy they won over a their hometown game??? lets see Justin win a SF or KOF game or any Japn fighter with strong fallowing in Asia then we can talk
- WeESportsNow
  
  I KNOW RIGHT?
- http://twitter.com/SJ_75 SJ_75
  
  Even Justin, who hasn’t played MK in a while, will still win it cuz game isn’t popular in Japan.
  - http://twitter.com/srslygtfo Mr. X
    
    It’s not sold in Japan
  - http://profile.yahoo.com/4EON46KCPN6LBVESWEV6CLKYBE PureYeti
    
    who says Justin is taking MK?
- http://twitter.com/TLCCR TLCCR
  
  Its less that the tournament is important, and more that everyone has always said, “America can’t win at SBO, they’re free.” So, this was big.
  
  Theres also this: everyone was calling out America for being free to Japan in Marvel all this and the last EVO season, even though nobody foreign placed top 8 in either of those tournaments, to my knowledge.
  
  Also, its sort of like how the Japanese came to America with Daigo in SFA3, first contact, and just blew through most of us. Could you possibly say, “Daigo didn’t win SF4 at Evo for ten-or-so years, the organizers gave it to him by putting a game that the Japanese dominate”?
  - http://profile.yahoo.com/UN4YNPZLKJMFMYBRXOIX4G5ALA topgunz
    
    What you’re saying is kinda silly because SF4 is big in both countries as opposed to marvel being big only in the US. SF has had the most entrants by a significant margin at EVO year after year despite marvel being “USA’s game”. So don’t talk like no one here really plays SF and Daigo came and won because of that. On the other hand marvel in Japan has a very small scene compared to other games. When Kusoru and others were able to beat other top players here people just rubbed the salt in because a lot of US players are arrogant
    - http://twitter.com/xobehtef mike f
      
      If you ever went to Tokyo you would see that SF4 is clearly a hometown game for Japan. It’s actually pretty amazing that there are people in North America and Europe that can compete with Japan’s top players in Sf4 considering the average skill level disparity between Japan and the west and player density. I really think that it comes down to the fact that there are Candaians, Europeans and self loathing Americans that are unable to view things objectively.
      
      Yes, Wong or Mihe should have won SBO UMVC3, but at the same time there were a lot of people in the bracket that were able to beat them in a 2/3 set. But because the favorite came out on top you’re saying for some reason SRK shouldn’t have posted an article about it? Do you think people on 2ch don’t get happy when JP players win Sf4 tourneys in America? I doubt it!
      - http://profile.yahoo.com/UN4YNPZLKJMFMYBRXOIX4G5ALA topgunz
        
        Umm what? Did you read the post I replied to before reading mine? You obviously didn’t, that or your reading comprehension is just awful, TLCCR was trying to make it seem as if no one in America plays SF which is not the case, the game is huge here as opposed to marvel in Japan. Also SF isn’t even the most played FG in jpn arcades anyways, so keep making assumptions like “anime watching stream monster” because you think you’re a know-it-all.
    - Amer1ka
      
      Yes, but how seriously does the US take SF4? Probably not much more seriously than Japan takes Marvel. There are good players on both sides but Japan definitely takes SF4 as seriously as the US takes Marvel. There are some players who would love to be serious in NA about SF4 but because of certain conditions they are limited in how much they can grow and instead have to rely on natural abilities more than anything else…which isn’t enough when you’re going up against natural ability + extreme training.
      
      People like to make it sound like US citizens spend hours and hours each day with amazingly good arcades to train in AND crazy good internet + small geographical area when in reality that isn’t the case at all. Japan has a scene that is completely focused due to land size and culture where the US is so spaced out all we have is our local scenes for the most part.
      
      The fact that the US is good at anything is pretty surprising to me TBH. It’s like expecting the Japanese to destroy everyone in Basketball at the Olympics.
    - Jano Torres
      
      SSFIV got more entrants because theres more “outsiders”?…
- http://www.facebook.com/illness690 John Taylor
  
  What a salty Japan dickrider. Typical.
- Jano Torres
  
  Korea would take both KOF and SSFIV and im not dick-riding. It’s a fact.
  - http://www.facebook.com/illness690 John Taylor
    
    Not the entire country, you mean two specific people. Infiltration and that other guy, forgot his name.
Marvin Choi

*slow clap with tears*
bigtaz504

That boy wong.
http://twitter.com/Cloak007 Cloaker

lol Justin really did get “Bananaken’d” in a way. At least he won though.

<3 Art's post
eilegz

lets be surprised? i mean serious who have doubt that justin or killerkai will take this, japan its free as fuck in marvel, this its one of more reason that SBO this year really sucks, i mean it was so free that even justin wong could finnally win SBO

Kappa face
- Bavo Bruylandt
  
  well, actually, Justin was one game away from being eliminated in second round by Chou and other foreign competition was dispelled real fast. So I guess the level that Justin got up against was quite high, making his win respectable, but also giving hope to stronger competition coming from Japan in the next year.
- Zonder88
  
  Japan so free that Killer Kai didnt even make top 4. Derp.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Pippy-Short-Stockings/100000884295902 Pippy Short-Stockings

Are you saying USA won at a game they have been playing since they were infants which Japan just picked up yesterday? This is very very shocking, how did they do it? If USA didn’t win they should sit their ass at home and not attend SBO ever again. Don’t be so excited, it’s like because you can never win you go create your own game where only you know the rules then invite people to challenge you so you always win. Can’t feel too overjoyed about that.
- mozart danno
  
  Even if they won they still aren’t going back cuz even top JPN players who won or ranked high said they aren’t coming back in their tweets. Its fine to be a hater just state the full facts not just the ones you like.
  - http://www.facebook.com/people/Pippy-Short-Stockings/100000884295902 Pippy Short-Stockings
    
    I could care less about who or what will attend SBO again. Not even related to what I said, learn to read and not interpret what you like.
  - http://pulse.yahoo.com/_YV2437XOBMNL5UI3GR3PWIDHWY Rong
    
    Even JPs are not going back to Scam Bogus Opera, they’re coming to EVO 2013.
- http://twitter.com/xobehtef mike f
  
  implying marvel 2 skill translates that much into marvel 3… implying japan doesn’t have good marvel 3 players…. implying americans invaded tougeki and forced them to add marvel 3… implying you wouldn’t have made some retarded excuse if the US reps won SF4 this year… can’t you just give him props for travelling across the world and winning a single elim tournament in a foreign country in a game where its super easy to get randomed out?
  - http://www.facebook.com/people/Pippy-Short-Stockings/100000884295902 Pippy Short-Stockings
    
    If he won SF4 then we have something to celebrate. At first reading the take home gold at SBO I thought it was SF4 and was impressed and thought finally, but then saw Marvel.. psshhh.. please.
  - http://www.facebook.com/people/Pippy-Short-Stockings/100000884295902 Pippy Short-Stockings
    
    Also, Justin did what Justin did, props to him, it’s the rave from the outside about finally winning SBO that is sad. Marvel??? That was a given. Are you that desperate to say you took a SBO title? Take it in the games you HAVE BEEN trying to get it in. That’s what I am saying.
- http://www.facebook.com/illness690 John Taylor
  
  You sir, are fucking idiotic salty Japan dickrider. They didn’t just pick up the game YESTERDAY, and America didn’t go create they’re own game where only they know the rules, if you knew your shit, you’d know that Marvel was created by JAPAN in the first place. It’s not our fault that the Japanese didn’t take to the game as strongly as the US did, and believe it or not, there are TONS of deadly Japanese players in this game, and one almost eliminated JWong, so it wasn’t completely free like everyone thinks. Get Japan’s dick out of your ass for a little bit, it’ll help you think straight so you won’t post idiotic comments like this one.
  - mozart danno
    
    hahahahaha
  - http://www.facebook.com/people/Pippy-Short-Stockings/100000884295902 Pippy Short-Stockings
    
    You sir, are just a pure dick rider period. You are just another idiot making pointless statements like which country made the game. LOL how stupid are you? Could care less what country made it, it’s about who dominates in it. Based on your logic the literal creator of the game should be the best LMAO. So what if there are good/top/beasts here and there. J Wong is a consistent beast and USA has proven they tear people apart in Marvel. So surprised J Wong won Marvel? Hell no.. pay attention retard. And what is this crap.. not your fault they didn’t take to the game as strongly as US did? you only strength my point DumbAss! Forget Japan and US you need to lay off all the dicks and get your mind straight.
    - Parker_S
      
      real talk: what happened to civility, guys? we’re just talking about videogames, here.
    - http://twitter.com/satchow satchow
      
      This. I agree totally. Japan is completely incompetent in MVC3. Winning a tournament against them in this game isn’t an accomplishment because they’re really terrible at the game.
      - http://twitter.com/cnorw00d Caleb Norwood
        
        I bet you were one of those “lol kusoru trap #usalandofthefree” fags.
      - http://www.facebook.com/illness690 John Taylor
        
        Have you watched ANY Japanese Marvel footage AT ALL??!!! Go youtube some Japanese Marvel and THEN come and correct your horribly incorrect comment sir.
    - http://www.facebook.com/illness690 John Taylor
      
      ”If USA didn’t win they should sit their ass at home and not attend SBO ever again. Don’t be so excited, it’s like because you can never win you go create
      your own game where only you know the rules then invite people to
      challenge you so you always win. Can’t feel too overjoyed about that.”
      Hey dumbfuck, clearly YOU care about who made the game, since you brought it up in the first place to defend Japan losing in Marvel. I should know better than to argue with idiot trolls on the internet, no one ever wins. Keep riding that Japanese dick and stay free bro.
http://twitter.com/Shin_Hogosha Michael Connolly

Justing. Effing. WONG. Screw any of the haters in here. They just don’t know.
Mar Star

I was all like 0_0. Then i saw that it was for marvel and then i was all -_-. Good job and congratz of course, but the headline should be “Oh well, Japan lost at marvel again”
- http://www.facebook.com/people/Pippy-Short-Stockings/100000884295902 Pippy Short-Stockings
  
  same here.. really? won!? .. marvel -_-
  - http://profile.yahoo.com/4EON46KCPN6LBVESWEV6CLKYBE PureYeti
    
    It’s better than losing
    - http://www.facebook.com/people/Pippy-Short-Stockings/100000884295902 Pippy Short-Stockings
      
      lol you could say that too
KubikiriTurkojin

are you guys fucking serious? thats like the dream team going to somalia and fucking cellebrating winning a basketball match over there. thats just fucking sad. it would have been shocking if they didnt win.
http://twitter.com/hammermountain Kori F

Justin’s just lucky there isn’t parrying in Marvel.
- http://twitter.com/hammermountain Kori F
  
  also stop being fags and discrediting Justin’s win just because “it’s Japan and this is Marvel”. yeah, it’s considered kusoge over there like HnK and shit, but the people playing it actually do love the game and they tried just as hard as Justin to win. plus this isn’t MVC2, it’s not just default America’s game simply because it’s Marvel. i love Japanese Marvel and American Marvel, they both have different interpretations of the game and both scenes can learn from one another. but that’s not going to happen because “OMG JAPAN SUX AT MARVEL LMAO GET OWNED PELICANS #RAFFLE #DONATE”
  - http://profile.yahoo.com/UN4YNPZLKJMFMYBRXOIX4G5ALA topgunz
    
    This, especially that last line.
  - mozart danno
    
    I know right, JPN bust their as playing Marvel and those players take it serious and by saying oh what a shocker Jwong won discredits their hard work like they had no chance, so if your gonna do some hard JPN dic ridding you should take note of that.
    - http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=885480710 Kenley Tang
      
      I’m by no means a Japanese dickrider. I love me some north american shit. But please. Disrespect? They might be busting their asses off to catch up but MvC is an American game, accept it or not. It takes time to level up, USA took YEARS to catch up in the SF.
      
      Japanese players truly started playing the Marvel series with MvC3. Whether it is MvC2 or 3 or 1, the fact remains that USA’s got history with the crossover title. They know the pace, the mindset that’s required, the common crazy tactics employed.
      
      You’re saying that J.Wong had high chances to lose? Please. That’s more like stealing a candy from a child.
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_YV2437XOBMNL5UI3GR3PWIDHWY Rong

Justin Wong is definitely going to get a raise from EG after this! This is only thing that matters you know!
k4polo

Jeez not much respect here. Japan had some killers in UMvC3 and they play dedicate to playing the game.

J. Wong did a fantastic job out there and people are undermining it. This is very sad from our very own American FGC.
RenaTurnip

To be honest, part of me feels sort of like shrugging at this because UMvC3 was a game that was taking itself straight out of the usual SBO format and that Justin won on very familiar territory, whereas perhaps this will never happen on any arcade-based titles that remain at SBO, which is where this continent has never shown much progress in.

I realize it’s an arbitrary point, and I’m absolutely not undermining or discrediting anything at all. That’s just sort of how it rubs the back of my mind, I guess. It feels like an easy win or some slightly handicapped win. I know what I’m saying isn’t going to make anyone happy, too.
- tiki.92
  
  Nah, I feel the same way actually.
- http://www.facebook.com/desmond.pinkney Desmond William Pinkney
  
  How is it a handicapped win? What was so easy about it? You are coming off like Japan does not play this game.
  - RenaTurnip
    
    I’m trying to keep a neutral tone. Like I said, I know what I’m saying is kinda silly. Also I really hope I’m not the one responsible for the like five other comments below this one because I didn’t say any of those things.
    
    But anyways, it’s just that SBO has always been that unbeatable hurdle. The American players get thrust into the unusual, uncomfortable arcade format of the Japanese tournament and never perform very well despite their hardest efforts. Now we poof Marvel 3 over there and oh Justin takes it apparently very easily. It doesn’t feel like part of the same journey all the hard years of losing SBO have been. If it had been SFIV or SFIII or something, that would have caused an uproar of unimaginable proportion. It would have been the most exciting, unthinkable thing ever. But it was “just Marvel” instead. It was just Marvel.
    
    I already said I wasn’t undermining or discrediting the win, but it’s hard not to see it in this sort of dimmed light, is all. Nobody has to like it. It’s just how it feels to me. If anyone thinks I’m putting Justin down or saying the win is worthless or anything, you aren’t understanding me well enough. But I doubt many people can try to tell me it wouldn’t have been a much larger impact if it was one of the Street Fighters, even if it was some other American player(s). I’d be flipping tables in celebration if someone had taken one of those games.
    - http://www.facebook.com/desmond.pinkney Desmond William Pinkney
      
      Again, how was it not hard? Sounds like you are downplaying the Marvel scene in Japan. Didn’t Japan win a few US Marvel majors with a bunch of top players attending? This is not MvC2 where there was a huge gap between skill level. So I don’t see how this was easy for him.
      - RenaTurnip
        
        >It’s a goal that so many have attempted to reach without promise, and Justin made it look easy.
        
        “Easy” in Italics, even. It says this right in the article. I assume it wouldn’t say this if it wasn’t the truth, and it’s not one of SRK’s new authors that everybody seems to hate for some reason, so I would further assume this statement is not just being pulled out of a hat.
      - http://www.facebook.com/desmond.pinkney Desmond William Pinkney
        
        Just because Justin made it look easy it doesn’t mean it was. Infiltration made winning EVO look easy. Does that mean EVO was easy with all those players?
  - http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=885480710 Kenley Tang
    
    Well, it’s almost as if they don’t.
- k4polo
  
  Well you could be discrediting the Japanese players there as well. There were very strong there and J.Wong did a good job. No way was it easy win or a slight handicap.
  - RenaTurnip
    
    I guess so. Still not my intent, but I’ll acknowledge the undertone and quietly point out it’s not what I wanted to express.
    
    Just how good were the Japanese players, anyways? Apparently there was a brutal X-23, and I’d like to see that.
- http://pulse.yahoo.com/_YV2437XOBMNL5UI3GR3PWIDHWY Rong
  
  Same.
http://twitter.com/Tha1337ness Cameron

Exactly why does SBO “not matter”? Can someone explain this to me please? I haven’t heard this argument before.
THEQUEENOFLOVEHD

In other news, USA beat Nigeria in Olympic Basketball.
- http://twitter.com/Whit3owL Kevin Sewell
  
  Nigeria has a basketball team?
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1298498818 Isaias Arguello

To anyone who plays 3S, SBO is easily the biggest tourney of the year and always has been. I wish they still sold DVDs :/.
http://profile.yahoo.com/TGIDZZVL24YPLDA54UUDQBBABY RisingStar

Japanese riders have the most circular logic, if the USA wins they lose because “nobody in Japan plays the game ” but they are very quick to bring up “LOGTRAP!”. Its a lose-lose situation as Japan will always be better in their mind, even if they lose.
- YourAshyAss_Elbows
  
  NIGGA SHUT THE FUCK UP AND CELEBRATE! FUCK THE HATERS!
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_TIC7WNRSMFBSCLF6OR6JQJAAZA sb

DAMN its alot of J Wong haters and Japan dickriders in here UMVC3 is a Japanese game like all he rest MK9 i would understand and this isnt basketball that dude did it all by himself if a japanese dude woulda won it would be the japanese it the best they have the new tech US is free and behind and thats coming from the US RETARDS fucking wannabees
- Bavo Bruylandt
  
  Marvel is Japanese?
  - http://twitter.com/VictorYoon_GG victor yoon
    
    its made by a japanese company, in a japanese studio, in japan. Im gonna go out on a limb here and say its a japanese game
    - Bavo Bruylandt
      
      aimed at a Western market
      - http://twitter.com/satchow satchow
        
        It’s Capcom. It’s aimed at whatever market will get them pay-puh.
YourAshyAss_Elbows

I SEE YOU CRUSTY ASS NIGGAS HATIN ON THE WONG FACTOR. GET YOUR SKILLS UP AND ACTUALLY *LEARN A FIGHTING GAME*
http://www.facebook.com/people/Pippy-Short-Stockings/100000884295902 Pippy Short-Stockings

As crappy and garbage SBO is, the goal in going and representing the US is to conquer what WAS and is still believed by many to be Japan territory right? Am I wrong? Please correct me if I am wrong. Not just the tournament format but the GAMES/TITLES they thrive in right?? Isn’t that what the hunger is for winning a title at SBO regardless of the SBO bullshit? When did it become.. we will take what we get.. YAY let’s rejoice at what we have proven to be stronger at. I am not saying that Japan doesn’t have strong Marvel players, that is not the case at all. But is that what it has become.. has it been forgotten what the real goal was?
- http://www.facebook.com/people/Nathanial-P-Connor/1557216555 Nathanial P Connor
  
  Pretty much all I have to say is. You don’t know shit about the UMvC3 scene in japan. Done.
  - http://www.facebook.com/people/Pippy-Short-Stockings/100000884295902 Pippy Short-Stockings
    
    -__- hopeless smh
D Major

Capcom had SF4 sitting in Japanese arcades for how long? Their guys always get first dibs on games, their guys are the ones who are actually getting listened to during location tests yes?

Does that not effect what character get tweaks, and which ones don’t according to Japanese culture and character select habits? Does that not effect how embedded the game is into their game culture?

Correct me if I’m wrong wasn’t MvC released in a little bit more fair way internationally?

Bottom line is, Japan got a whole year and change with SF4.

An American winning SSF4 AE is a bigger accomplishment than UMVC3 simply because of the handicap they’re overcoming.

What’s so hard to understand about that?

What’s so hard to understand that people came in thinking J. Wong won SSFIV AE 2012 and were a little disappointed that it was UMVC3?

Congrats to J. Wong either way, but if you’re so blinded by the thirst to beat Japan at SOMETHING don’t speak. You know in your heart this isn’t what you wanted.

We need to be beating the Japanese at SSFIV AE at SBO. Fuck moral victories.
http://www.facebook.com/thurl Thurl Bailey Jr

Lewong James.
Zonder88

Its nice that JWong won Marvel and all, but lets be real, its hardly a real accomplishment when it was pretty obvious it’d happen.

Not trying to undermine his win but you lot are making this to be a bigger deal than it actually is “American won the gold yay! *cries*” give me a fucking break, you won the gold in a reject game, by Japanese standards.

If USA actually made it FAR, not even win, but make it top the top 4 of SFAE, THEN it’d be a big deal. Marvel, a game that was probably just an experiment and wont be in SBO again? Cool. Moving on.
- http://twitter.com/Anawnnemus john doe
  
  ….
  
  .. You are so unearthly retarded it’s amazing how you can even function…
  - Zonder88
    
    It seems you do not understand what a retard is. But as a hint, you’re a good example of one.
    - No One
      
      I liked the part where you qualified for SBO and then placed respectably in anything.
      - Zonder88
        
        I liked the part where your lack of intelligence believes your statement actually has any relevance to the point.
Federico Cortez

LOL at the ” USA rules !!!!”
UMVC is a mediocre game.
USA winning SF4 at EVO is gonna be a big deal.
There is not competition because the game suck.

This is like USA winning at MK9, who cares.
http://www.facebook.com/kadesh.miller Kadesh Miller

i laugh at all you dumb fucks in this forum because in sf4 they play that game religiously in japan and even though we do that here in america, they still have that strong arcade scene which is what gives them the upper hand not the fact that they are purely better than the u.s. look at american tourneys this year…..what japanese representative took a sf4 title in any of our majors this year? none. not even at evo they took a title which does say something…that we have caught up with them in that series but as for the formats? if sbo was double elim on console america would have won because we own that format(this year proves that free idgaf what u dumbasses say cuz u cant prove otherwise) but the japanese have experience way way more experience than 99% of the americans that play fighting games in the arcade format and that single elim….so they have that mindset already built in which makes it 1000 times easier for them. an example would be a 1st time tourney goer vs jwong in a tourney but the other player is better at the game….who would win? jwong!! as he has proved it time n time again over the fucking years so dont come with any sort of fiction cuz i only reply to facts. so all that to say this…if america would have tourneys that use sbo format leading up to sbo to get players prepared then we would win but we dont which puts us back cuz evden tho we are just as good as they are…they ALWAYS owned that format of playing FREE
- Bavo Bruylandt
  
  ok
- Zonder88
  
  Cool story bro.
José Llera

great tournament, great summer festival
http://www.facebook.com/people/Alexander-Baughman/100003658407796 Alexander Baughman

You know I saw the title of this article and got really excited. Then after I read ‘MvC3′ I instantly stopped caring. In similar news, USA wins the SBO tic tac toe competition. I actually think that Hsien Chang’s 3rd place is far more impressive.
Los Illuminados

heh…Well well. about fucking time America finally won a SBO. on a fighting game America has there head in the ass of it so much they sure took a long time for someone to win one. LoL. Arturo Sanchez’s tweet says it all.
Jkzm

I love the hypocrisy that goes on here.

All of these haters, “HAD” Justin Wong lost and not won it all in Japan in SBO, everyone who says “Well America should win this” right now would be saying “Stay Free America, you can’t even win in a game you’re supposed to be good at.” However, since Justin won, everyone who is a hater will go the opposite and state we should have won, however believe me, had Wong lost, all of the haters would’ve came on here hounding.

Like I said, typical hypocrite nonsense here, I guess there will always be haters against Americans for some odd reason. We have players who celebrates, or is a showman and somehow they’re ignorant or whatever. We shout “USA!” chants and somehow we are egotistic. I mean, we shouldn’t have pride for our players right?

I mean, even in sports No Other Country roots for their countries players right? Please shut up right now you hypocrites.

I’ve also noticed that some of the posters here are from Euro. All I can say is, players from other countries were able to represent and place top-8 within Evo at AE:2012. Where were the reps from your Euro countries? Oh yeah, Zero at Top-8.

Someone mentioned Daigo coming in Alpha 3 and sweeping our best players back in 1998. That’s completely false here, yes he beat Valle 2-1 back then, however lets get something straight. The Capcom Rep there stated that they would first played a Japanese format of FT1 and have a winner then, then play a Best out of 5 USA format style.

Noticed how Valle actually defeated Daigo to a FT1, however the Capcom Rep didn’t hold to his words, instead Daigo goes up 2-1 and they magically throw Daigo the winner. Even watch the video and you’ll see Valle talking to the reps going “What’s going on?” as well as Daigo.

We were not always “free” to Japan or to whatever everyone says, especially Pre-1998. Go back even further to SF:Alpha 2 and Alex Valle destroyed everyone, including Japanese players in that game. Kids these days don’t know their history period.

Again, I don’t hate on anyone, however I feel that sometimes I need to slap the silly kids here who talk trash but don’t have a proper ounce of clue, or more importantly respect to the top-players from any country in which they aren’t trying to obtain milk from. All I can say is, thank goodness the FGC’s main core doesn’t have the mentality of you people, otherwise the FGC would’ve been buried by now.

I’m happy that we were able to take UMvC3 in a play format of SBO that is greatly despised by many players, including Japanese players. FT1 is never good, and hopefully next year, SBO will improve upon its format and go back to an indoor location so people aren’t playing in 90 degree + humidity weather, with sun-glare nonsense on the screens.

Good Job Justin!
http://www.facebook.com/people/Jon-Slayton/563921933 Jon Slayton

Good job Justin. Now we need to win a game they actually play.
http://twitter.com/B1jyu Stano Jaeger

My favorite part is you can see justins sunburned cheeks because SBO put their tournament outside in the sun where cicadas were crawling around in the machines, glare was on all the screens and rain almost delayed matches by an entire day.

Grats to justin for winning. He was the favorite to win but that doesn’t mean anything. Not a single “favorite to win” won evo this year. So good on him. Now I have an entire year to wait before I can laugh at SBO again.
Satsui

He won UMVC3… so? He was supposed to win. Obviously as the Japanese UMVC3 level isn’t nearly as high as America’s, and Justin is one of the best Marvel players, he was always going to win. It’s like the USA bragging about winning in basketball when the game is taken most seriously in america and they easily have the best players on the planet. If he won SFIV, I would be much more impressed. And despite what Justin’s nuthuggers might say, I’m not ‘hating’, I’m just stating facts.
GameLink7 (GL)

Pros think it’s awesome and rightfully congratulate him while people here think it’s no big deal and not worth celebrating.

It’s still USA’s first Gold win, and still very much a big deal. To those who don’t think so I believe deserve the rightful overused title to be called in the FGC: Scrubs.

~GL
EOTL_Yoyo

Props to Justin Wong. However its sad people want SBO to die. It’s nice for Americans to have to travel for once to prove themselves
http://www.facebook.com/MarnORZ Martin Marn Phan

All of you guys who says this doesn’t mean shit because Japanese don’t play this game are fucking tools. Frieda, Chou, Abegen, GX, everyone over there plays this game a lot. They come up with glitches, new combos, and all this random bullshit. Sure they don’t have a big ass scene, but they are still good in their own ways. Saying that Japanese don’t play this game and it’s supposed to be free for Justin is hella insulting to the Japanese players. Go to Frieda’s twitter and say, “Hey, I heard you fucking suck and you didn’t have a chance at all against America.” and I’m sure you’ll get shitted on all day. If they weren’t good, they wouldn’t have people wanting to watch them, people wanting them to win.

Win or lose, the Japanese dick riders will always hate on Justin. What happened to the Japanese at CEO? Oh they were sandbagging. What happened to the Japanese at EVO? Oh right. None of them were top 3. But… Japanese play so much at SSF4 that they can’t even make top 3 at EVO? Must be the non 1 game single elim format. That’s right. But Japanese loses UMvC3 at their tournament? Oh damn. Play them in SF4. What the fucking cycle are you on? Hsien an AMERICAN player on Gamerbee’s team OCV’d a fuck ton of teams to get to Top 4. Oh non of you JDR’s are talking about that right?

Holy shit, shut the fuck up and enjoy the fucking win.

P.S. I’m not a Justin dick rider. I’m a Justin’s best friend. ^_^.
P.S.S. All of you who dickride Japan so much that you can’t give a single piece of credit to Justin who traveled out to a tournament and mind you, got sunburned to represent America should be a-fucking-shamed of yourselves.
- http://www.facebook.com/people/Nathanial-P-Connor/1557216555 Nathanial P Connor
  
  I heart you sir.
- Zonder88
  
  U mad, American Dickrider Supreme Commander?
  
  I certainly dont see your ass in any FGC events.
  
  Though I do remember you embarassing yourself at MLG with League of Legends, kekeke.
  
  Now leave us “Japan dickriders” alone. <- term typically used to describe a fan of Japan players, usually used by overly arrogant Nationalistic Americans themselves.
  
  PS: This has nothing to do with Justin hate. Just tired of reading idiotic comments labeling everyone as japan dickriders just because some of us have the brains to see the values in certain wins.
  - Jkzm
    
    He went into a tournament hosted by Japanese players, and had more japanese players vs Foreign/American players, and yet he still won UMvC3.
    
    It’s no different then a japanese player coming here to play in SF4, and taking it. The only difference is that the roles were switched. Again, why didn’t anyone say anything when Justin beat Daigo and Momochi at CEO prior to Evo? Hell, Daigo was eliminated by Justin and Ricky in the same tournament.
    
    Or that a Korean, Taiwanese, and an American placed in the top-3 at AE:2012 at Evolution. Again, all this talk about Justin’s win in UMvC3 not being great when the majority of you would’ve turned it around and said “Well look, Justin Lost in UMvC3, a game Americans claim they dominate at.” comments.
    
    Down playing his win is stupid period. This isn’t MvC2 here where US clearly ruled with an Iron Fist. With UMvC3 directly playing more like TvC and the fact of X-Factor can change a lot of matches and turn the outcome on the quarter of a dime.
    
    Give the guy some props, and btw, Hsien Chang made Top-4 in AE:2012, last I remember, the dude was American ^_^.
    - http://profile.yahoo.com/UN4YNPZLKJMFMYBRXOIX4G5ALA topgunz
      
      Right, when Japan got bodied at EVO in marvel, they’re all free, when jwong wins SBO, oh yeah they work hard and they’re actually good now…. Not accusing you of doing this but it’s just how dumb the FGC can get, people say w/e it is that will make the players they like look better at the time, if player A beats player B in a one game format, oh it was free, but if player B loses to player A, this format sucks, this tournament sucks, etc. It’s all just pointless arguing, goes back and forth with people using the same logic and excuses they ridicule -insert nationality- dick rider of using, people take sides, and cheer for players they like, and they don’t like to see those players lose.
Blam57

lol, so sbo and not evo huh
http://www.facebook.com/MassimoNJ Massimo Mastrolia

SBO is still important to the 3S crowd. I dont understand how the largest invitational tournament of the year can not mean anything because of some fixable things. Lets be real, people dont like it because its not easy to watch a stream and thats the sad part. If the internet went down the fighting game world would come to a grinding halt. . . but not for players. why is that.
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ODQDSCANHBLPLA336YMMEWZS5E jonathan

congratz to justin but did anybody really not expect justin not to win? I mean mike ross yeah…but justin?
Dosen’t seem that big of a deal.
Natat

Well of course US takes Marvel SBO, I would have been pretty worried if they didn’t… Gratz to JWong of course, but who didn’t see this coming…?
http://www.facebook.com/people/Yan-Zhao/10516382 Yan Zhao

I’m really confused at all the enthusiasm and hype that everyone is getting over JWong’s win in UMVC3, especially this article heading “first American to take home the gold”.

While the statement itself is true in definition, it also implies that America has attempted numerous times in the past (which is also true, but for SF4AE, a non-American dominant game). JWong took the gold for Marvel, not SF4AE, which can pretty much equate to Jwong winning a side tournament rather than the main event. This was the first time Marvel was in SBO, and we all know JWong was probably the favorite to win it, yet you people act like he’s just accomplished what America’s been trying to do for years (Taking the gold in SBO, in AE), which did not happen, as America got knocked out in merely round 2, as embarassing as it always has been.

But I guess Americans will do anything to mend their oversaturated ego, as fallacious as it may be.

Be that as it may, congrats to JWong for winning Marvel, as easy and underwhelming as it may be.
- http://www.facebook.com/MarnORZ Martin Marn Phan
  
  Little did you forget that Hsien Chang is American and got Top 4 with GamerBee/RB… And before you say more dumb shit like oh GamerBee carried the team and Hsien didn’t do anything, Hsien OCV’d 2 teams and did mad work.
  - http://www.facebook.com/people/Yan-Zhao/10516382 Yan Zhao
    
    You’re right, and I’m glad to see Hsien Chang doing so well, which was unfortunate because he didn’t exactly fully represent America as it was mainly Taiwan (with Gamerbee and RB). The official US team, which probably makes up some of the strongest players the US have right now for AE (Dieminion and Pr Rog), got knocked out early.
    
    Didnt see their match cause of the lack of free stream but I honestly expected them to advance further with their level of skills. Dont know what happened.
    - Jkzm
      
      Yet you’ll sit here and act like this accomplishment wasn’t good. Really? If Justin lost then you would’ve came here saying “Hahaha, look an American lost in a game they thought was ‘there’ game!” comments.
      
      You see the hypocrisy here? I mean, just reading your comment I can tell already of how foolish and bias your comments are “do anything to mend their oversaturated ego”.
      
      Ifyou look back to CEO 2012 prior to Evolution 2012…who did Justin beat to win it all? Daigo and Momochi, hmm? Who did Daigo get knocked out by? Justin and Ricky Ortiz am I right?
      
      Fact of the matter is, at FT1 formats are despised by many players, even top-japanese players prefers the US tournament formats over SBO’s FT1.
      
      Hell, Michael Phelps should’ve been the most dominant swimmer in the Olympics just this past week, however that doesn’t downgrade his accomplishments. Same here.
      
      You people are all the same to me. Had Justin of lost all of you would be on here barraging about how America lost, however since he won it’s supposedly “not a big deal”.
      
      All I can say is, you can’t even give a moments thumbs up for this accomplishment and can do nothing more but downplay it.
      - http://www.facebook.com/people/Yan-Zhao/10516382 Yan Zhao
        
        I never said JWong’s accomplishment wasn’t a big deal. It just wasnt as big as everyone here is making it out to be. You people are over-celebrating the accomplishment as if it was something much bigger, which frankly, it wasnt. Its like someone winning the bronze/silver in the olympics and his nation celebrates as if he won the gold.
        
        And sure, hypothetically if JWong lost, he’d get smack for it, because let’s face it, theres no reason he should have lost.
        
        Not to hard to understand, for those with adequate comprehension level.
      - Jkzm
        
        Now you’re changing your tone. First we went from being too egotistical as Americans to saying that it’s not that big of a feat. Seriously, Japan comes in and beats us in SF4 and its a big deal, however if we go and beat them in UMvC3 it’s not that big of a deal.
        
        Btw, winning the Silver and Bronze is no small feat, period, just to be able to place Top-8 or better yet Top-3 is an achievement in itself.
        
        The fact that you undermine how difficult it is to be consistent and more importantly to keep winning is nothing short of being a great/big accomplishment.
        
        Worst of all, you downplay the abilities of the japanese players in UMvC3. Last I remember, they came up with a ton of great setups and options, and they were the ones to realize how dominant Vergil as a character was as opposed to the US whom felt Wesker was superior.
        
        He went to Japan, played against their BEST UMvC3 and proved to them why he is considered arguably the best UMvC3 out there, no small feat there.
- http://twitter.com/satchow satchow
  
  Agreed. Japan is incompetent at MvC3.
http://www.facebook.com/MarnORZ Martin Marn Phan

Oh, you don’t see me in any FGC events… But you know who I am, and that’s more than you’ll ever be. Are you ever in any FGC events? Oh wait, I’ve won many in the past, and I’ve placed top 3 many times too. What the FUCK have you ever done? Ok then. Japanese fans and Japanese dick riders are different. Fans are disappointed when they lose. Dick riders make up excuses for when they lose.
spider1991

I’m happy that Justin Wong win the gold medal in SBO for Marvel and the feats that came with it. However, in my personally opinion, Justin was defending US dominance in the game against Japan and other countries. While I’m happy for J-Wong, this also makes me want see the US beat Japan in their own games (SSFIV, KOF and others). I feel that would be twice as great as Wong winning SBO this year.
spider1991

I’m happy that Justin Wong won the gold medal in SBO for Marvel and the feats that came with it. However, I felt that Justin was just defending the US dominance in Marvel against Japan and other countries. While I’m proud that Wong bought gold to the States, it also makes me want to see America beat Japan in their games for the gold (SSFIV, KOF, and others). Seeing that would be as great, if not better than this moment for Wong and the USA FGC, but until then lets enjoy this historical moment for SBO and American FGC.
http://twitter.com/Gemakai Gemakai

Props to Wong. It’s couldn’t have been easy and while I’m not his biggest fan, I’m glad he won it.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000840001915 Eugene Wolf

FYI for anyone that doesn’t already know, watch the match again and check out the shirt that Kubo is wearing. The shirt reads “Kusoge”, which pretty much translates to “crap game”.
http://twitter.com/CaseyIsForever Casey

I just want to say of course it was no surprise that Justin Wong won UMvC3 at SBO, but what really surprised me and also made me kind of happy was the fact that Eliver Ling and Mihe didn’t make top 4 and Flocker made top 8 at EVO. All I have to say is YES WE STILL HAVEN’T FOUND THAT UNSTOPPABLE ZERO YET. XD I will hit the lab harder with my Zero now.
http://www.fightercon.com William Traylor

WTF is up with all this hate? Can’t a dude get a W and not get shitted on for it? This is what is wrong with FGC…Salty Haters.

Look, if you got a problem with somebody winning SBO then i suggest you qualify and you win it yourselves then cause much like EVO it’s not a walk in the park and 75 to 80 percent of the people that talk all this noise DON’T make TOP 8 or DON’T even go. And the ones who do go more than likely can’t get out of their pools.

For Justin, he has proved time and time again that he can body in UMVC3 for FREE. Most of us have witnessed it. To him I say good shit bro i don’t rep west coast but that’s your W man. Good Shit.

As for all these haters, you fools need to HOLD DAT SHIT, til you can win your own tournaments.

There’s nothing wrong with friends supporting their friend win or lose but don’t demoralize somebody because they won something no one else did. Level up your game and win it next year if you THINK you can.
Mabans

Grats Justin, glad you gave SBO a nice Fuck You with a win!
Zonder88

Marvel aint gona be in SBO again so enjoy this measly win, USA.
Savonne Johnson

It’s such a shame that people are saying…”of course USA would win marvel”, “Japan doesn’t care about the game anyways”, “it’s not that big of an accomplishment”.

We all know that everyone who says anything close to the above phrases or who hold such beliefs would be more than happy to switch places with Justin AND would be bragging all on social media and srk about the win. So please, spare us all the non-nonchalant B.S., get over yourselves and stop the god damned hating.

Your attempt at concealing your jealously does not go unnoticed, so pathetic.
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http://twitter.com/popem757 marquis pope

If he would have won SSFAE2012 it would be different, but this is UMVC3. I didn’t know Japanese played this game until EVO. So, this was like beating up babies to JWong. Any top USA player could have won this tourney, (Combo Fiend, Marlin Pie, ChrisG, hell even Yipes) could have easily take UMVC3.
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