[quote name='asianxcore']Damn. Who did Graham Run? I know his brother usually runs Sim in ST when possible.
http://www.gamespot.com/xbox360/act...ideo.html?sid=6199721&tag=gumballs;subtitle;2
That vid has some of the Bay Area's best just standing about. No offense to some of those who played but those vids showed some scrubby ass play for some of the players
Was that common amongst the brackets? Lots of pro players and lots of random scrubs?
Also the commentary might be the worst I've ever heard for a fighting game. I know it's Gamespot and not someone like Sirlin or members of a hardcore fighting community, but still...shit was awful.[/QUOTE]
when i played graham in sf4 he used gief, dunno who he used for sthd.
as far as the dudes who were playing in that vid the only one i knew was jeff and i think it was his first match so judging from his play it just looked like safe play with zoning fireballs and alot of anti air standing hk. tourney was basically one and out with no warmup so i'd say everyone was just trying to feel it out. there was also some speculation of lag on the monitors and there were some complaints on the sticks so those could also be contributing factors. sf4 i know it was alot of people's first time playing it (like me) so i wouldn't expect alot of 1 frame link corner only special cancel into level 2 fadc into ultra combos like you see in all the japanese vids these days.
there were alot of good players (of other games like sf3, cvs2, t5dr) who i knew or knew of like a bunch of sf state, bunch of east bay, bunch of keystone guys. there were also a bunch of people who just seemed like really casual gamers.
the brackets were pretty random. like most everyone i knew at least won their first match in sf4. by the time it got to final 4 in sf4 it was jeff, graham, choi, and our friend steve who at the time was probably the best gief player at sf state. i didn't really pay much attention to what happened in sthd because i was peaced out in the first round.
i think by the time it got to final 4 in sf4 i think someone more knowledgeable like seth was doing the commentary (i think i remember someone calling out combos over a speaker) but yeah looking back i didn't even notice these dudes doing the commentary because of how loud everything else was and all the games going on.
p.s. everybody got these chun li figures as a gift for coming
http://i108.photobucket.com/albums/n5/akuma001/PICT0797.jpg