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UMA in Grand Finals with Juri. Hoping he takes it!

I knew LCQ was bound to be more hype with how whack the qualification process was this year and how many Luke's made it in to Capcom Cup.

Could be. There's time where I swear I'm hitting the button and my character just stands there and eats the DI.

If you aren't 100% sure a DI is coming it's just safer to parry because it also covers other options, plus a perfect parry off a DI will get a side switch. I prefer parry over DI when I'm cornered because even if you miss the perfect parry, you prevent the wall splat. Sometimes DI's don't seem to come out even when I know they're coming.

At this point I'm probably rooting for Nuckledu or Mena if he's using Blanka. I just can't cheer for any Luke player.

It's the safer play because it covers multiple options.

Oh yeah, he makes a lot of mistakes but I like his passion and usually David is there to correct him.

Yeah, I'm not a fan of him or Vicious. They did SFL Japan and it was painful. Ultra David, James Chen, Yipes are my favourites.

Wow, this is nuts. This suggests the patch is just around the corner. I'm liking those Jamie changes!

Group of death at 8pm eastern/5pm pacific.

As a rule I only block ragequitters - which surprisingly SF6 seems to have way less of than SFV. I think SFV just made people salty lol.

I find one and done'ing to be annoying. If it happens once in a while, whatever. But there's literally people who will always bounce after one match and most of the time these people have a very flowcharty gameplan that you know if given another match they would probably get downloaded and lose. Also, there's people that let the time tick down to 0 and then leave just to irritate the other player. I mean they're not nearly as bad as ragequitters. But at the end of the day, why not just hit rematch?

Not having a standard cancellable cr.mk in this game is a pretty big loss but then again his flickers will give him long range drive rush cancels. His other obvious weakness is having a slow reversal that can be meaty jabbed. It's looking like he might be bonkers in other areas though. I think his screen control might be pretty oppressive. That ex snatch move that is plus on block looks insane.

Nobody is shitting on the players and if they are that's a dick move. People are shitting on Capcom because of the format. The qualification process was confusing and people didn't tune in to watch. Which led to a bunch of people getting in that are basically unknown's. Which is fine in the sense that it's always nice to have a few of those players. But when over half the players in Capcom Cup are these players and you basically locked out Kakeru, Punk, Tokido, Daigo, Moke, Problem X and more - that's where people take issue.

This is a fucking gauntlet. I'm rooting for whoever takes LCQ to win Capcom Cup. Even if it's Punk 😂

The dream is dead. Rashid's corner pressure is too much.

Let's go Hibikiiiii

Just parry bro. I don't mind parry because I like having something to do on defense and I like having strong offensive options. That said, JP's Level 2 definitely needs a nerf. I'd also nerf his OD Amnesia, there's no reason that should do as much damage as it does and send you full screen to have to deal with his nonsense again trying to close the distance.

Tricky, Hard and Long range. I'm most surprised about the hard and long range because I'd say in SFV he was mid to close range and Easy. Seems like almost a completely different character and I'm for it.

Everyone was wondering why Daigo wasn't parrying against it and it turns out that it was a true block string lol.

The LCQ has been awesome so far. Kakeru/Hibiki, Daigo/Punk and MOV/Moke were all great matches yesterday. Judging by the matches and looking at the Top 16 - I think the LCQ is going to be better than Capcom Cup lol.

OD Psycho Flicker looks ridiculous. Fast horizontal range that combos off hit and pulls them in and is plus on block? Wow.

We're already pretty much there right now. International players aren't travelling and like you said it's probably a combination of travel expenses plus the shift to online tournaments. This is pretty much ass for the spectators because online tournaments aren't at all fun to watch. And then we end up with situations like this where nobody even knows half the players in Capcom Cup this year and they're playing for the biggest prize ever. Shit just seems whack to me. It's to the point now where I'm only watching what Evo and Red Bull Kumite? And the latter isn't even a CPT event. What happened to CEO, Combo Breaker, Stun fest, NorCal Regionals, Canada Cup etc. SF6 is a great product and it's a shame there aren't enough big offline events to showcase it.

I guess this is what happens when you don't have global seeding and then do a random draw for groups. Group F got completely screwed. I feel sorry for Mena, Caba, Endingwalker and Angry Bird.

I'm trying to finish my third playthrough of BG3 before the 29th when FF7 Rebirth drops. Ed drops around the same time. Plus Dragon's Dogma 2 comes out on the 22nd of March. My video game schedule is packed.