Re: New Century Grapple 2 LIVE!

OH great 9'00 tommorow morning on a sunday as well, man the things i do for virtua fighter. /versus/images/graemlins/crazy.gif

Re: Kakutou Shinseki 2 LIVE!

How do you watch it, what is required ?

Re: Kakutou Shinseki 2 LIVE!

jeeezus s. Christ.

Chibita lost again in the quarters,
and Heruru is on to the finals as I write this. HE had as squeeze ass match in the quarters and the semis (against homestay Akira). That dude who won in the Green Book DVD is in the Semis along with another Akira, ... it's going on right now, and I'm recording this!

Be back later

Re: Kakutou Shinseki 2 LIVE!

God damn it ever since the elite eight my connection has DIED on me.

Anyway, it was Homestay Akira, Heruru Lei Fei, Minami Akira, and Yoro (Retired) Kage in the final four. Minami knocked out Chibita to get there.

In the finals: Heruru defeated Homestay in an awesome come back (from what I can vaguely tell anyway). Minami, using a 9-kyu card at 100% wins (he must've forgotten his real card), defeated Yoro Kage pretty easily.

Championship match: Minami took the first match in straight rounds, Heruru took the next 3-1, and Minami took the last one 3-1 (3-2?).

Wow, that's an impresive streak: Chibita, Yoro Kage, and finally, Heruru. Congratulations Minami!!!

Is this guy's name even in the PS2 Quest Mode?

Re: Kakutou Shinseki 2 LIVE!

Looks like Kyasao was there too, but didn't participate?

Re: Kakutou Shinseki 2 LIVE!

Heruru was pushing it with 2 0-2 deficits... it caught up with him with Minami Akira.

I really wanted to see a Chibita-Heruru Semi at least. That Minami Akira is so... shy.

The crowd fave was definitely Heruru the whole way, along with Chibita.

The live feed was the bomb. Live T.V. The production of the event was also top notch. It had Kyasau with POS Akira and Shinz in exhibition matches... and then singing happy birthday to Shinz. They even had off-beat moments of the two finalists back stage, having mock fights with the cosplay girls. Funny stuff. That Heruru is a clown.

I got it recorded (the last 2 hours at least), and I'm glad somebody came up with StreamBox.

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Some other observations:

The stage girls were the prettiest things. Top quality females, unlike the majority of E3 Y chomosome meat.

No show for Yu Suzuki at the show. Any insider know the reason for this?

POSAkira won against Kyasao, but Shinz lost against him.

Again, I got the last 2 hours. Anybody record the full shebang?

Re: Kakutou Shinseki 2 LIVE!

I'd be interested in DLing it all or any of it since I missed it. /versus/images/graemlins/frown.gif If anyone hosts it, then please let us know.

Re: Kakutou Shinseki 2 LIVE!

The Live is available or not ??
i want to see it /versus/images/graemlins/crazy.gif

Re: Kakutou Shinseki 2 LIVE!

that was an awesome tournament. Probably because it was live. So sad to see my VF hero heruru get 2nd. He will win someday.

And no more damn akira tourney winners too many of them.

Re: Kakutou Shinseki 2 LIVE!

It WAS live.

Other notes after rewatching the recorded feed:

Homestay beat Ohsu Akira to get to the Heruru matchup in a battle of Akiras.

Napoleon lost to Yoro in the round of 16... or was it 32.

Kyasao and BunBun were panelists, along with 2 other dudes I didn't recognize.

Heruru looked like he was going to get run over by both Homestay and Minami. Homestay was up 0-2 and was half-way home on the 3rd round. Looks like the pros take a step back and admire their work too. Minami was dominating the first match, and won 3-0 against Heruru. Heruru won the 2nd match, even though he lost 4 rounds in a row including the 1st match, winning 3 straight. Minami won 3-1 in the last match. I can't help but feel the crowd reation gets to the crowd favorite's opponents- might make a player feel sorry and give a round as pity toward the crowd.

BunBun and Chibita were sporting new hairstyles. Chibita had the same white jumpsuit he had in the Green Book. He should leave it at home, as his luck is nil with it on.

Damn, I really wanted Heruru or Chibita to take home the crown.

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Someday, I'll attend this tourney in person. Man, what a day the Japanese had, NATIONAL tourneys for the majority of their arcade games. Kyasao seems to be a driving maven also, as he was seen in the Initial D tourney. The Initial D tourney had a little kid take second. What's this with small kids and Initial D. There was this one kid in Hawaii who was no more than 8 years old, and he was tearing shit up. Anyway, GameJam, judging from the pics at the various JP sites could have been my holy grail of gaming events. Screw E3, the superbowl, seeing duke play at Cameron (j/k), this is now my "have to before I die" event.

The live feed and production of the VF event though, was top tier. I feel sorry for those that missed the feed. Last years event was portrayed well in posted videos, but the live feed of this years event captured the whole MANIA of VF perfectly. It was the next best thing to being there. Wow.

Re: Kakutou Shinseki 2 LIVE!

Oh for fuck sake i missed it /versus/images/graemlins/mad.gif. Was there any good Pai players there. Also i'm hoping that somebody recorded it.

Re: Kakutou Shinseki 2 LIVE!

yeah, there were a number of excellent Pai players. Tsuchikumo made it into the final 8 but was eliminated by Yoro Kage.

I have to say that watching this live last night was truly a very exciting thing. The caps we'll have of the matches will be great, but it was almost as tense as actually being there. Great idea, Sega! /versus/images/graemlins/smile.gif

cheers,

Re: New Century Grapple 2 LIVE!

*sigh* - what a missed opportunity, are the matches gonna be recorded as small clips?

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imissoutonsuchthinhgslikethisandoneof
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Re: New Century Grapple 2 LIVE!

It's going to be painful or impossible to get individual matches out of these.

One guy recorded the whole thing and he says it's watchable... as a single self-contained 800 MB file /versus/images/graemlins/frown.gif

But it can't be indexed (rewind, fast forward, etc don't work) and it can't be chopped up or edited or converted in anything. So far.

If and when I finally have the thing I'll share it of course.

Re: New Century Grapple 2 LIVE!

the Minami I know is a regular on the last few Beat Tribe tapes, and plays a pretty machi, boring Kage. I guess he switched to Akira at the last minute for some reason.

Spotlite

Re: New Century Grapple 2 LIVE!

Apparently that's a completely different Minami.

cheers,