TKSG @ hongkong

Back from my little stint, and here's a short little report on the hk players i played. Anyway, i didn't really get to play much. And for them when any of them lost, they gave way to another player. Its a good system, but that also meant we didn't really manage to play properly vs each other. I always believe in going like 20 games or so with someone before making a decent judgement call. Anyway... here goes my mini breakdown:

Overall can't say much, because according to dragonchef i missed out on some good players. Best i met, imo, was a heihachi player, destroyer rank. Good movement/spacing, knows his punishment list (went for tp after blocking my king's fc, d/f+2), played a standard 'ms ryu' juggle game. My king lost and bryan won. My bryan won only because at the last deciding match, although he was way ahead on life, he went for a tsunami hellsweep ender, both kicks, i blocked it and jet upper-ed him to the wall. Didn't feel like a satisfying win for me, i thought he had me until that tsunami kick. =/ Anyway others took over from there.

This feng guy berserker rank has a solid poke game. Uses ss4 not abusively, but just at the right moments. Either that, or i'm too predictable in my retaliating pattern haha. Ends juggles in f+4,3 for mixups, he guessed rightly about me most of the time lol. His poking pressure kept making me eat 1>1 ch, nice stuff. His technique could use some work though. I got him with djin's ch bf2,1, and he didn't break the stun. I went into a 2nd set expecting him to break stun, but he just ate it. Happened twice. 2nd time i just finished the LC. Weird. He's supposed to be a strong jack user, too. I think i did play a game vs his jack, but i didn't play that seriously. By the time i realised he was a good player, its over already, and he changed character lol. Played mostly djin vs him, but was pretty rubbish, had no confidence in the stick and when that happens my mishimas really suck.

Had a champion rank nina who played like our favourite nina player, just even more turtle, i got the black face so just rubbishly played mokujin vs him. Lost more than i won. Then a baek took over, and i wanted to use hwoarang, but put in my king card by mistake. Beat him, and the nina came back, and i beat the nina quite a few games with king cos i didn't wanna drop my king % for a nina like that hahhaha. iSW rocked his world.

Had a champion ranked lee who was rather defensive, but solid in his overall game. Spaced very nicely. Used 1,2,4 to good, irritating effect haha. Standard gameplay, wall carry as much as possible, low poke to make you block low then launch. Felt he didn't adapt to my gameplay though, so wasn't as impressed with him as with the hei and feng.

Oh and a marduk who was quite defensive, and doing ss d/b1+2 when i attacked, but i'm guilty of the same thing haha. I insisted on using bruce to win him, and eventually relied on just 3,2,1 with the occasional ender to cheese him to death. Ok so i provoked him to attack and went from there. But it was pretty cheap, i'm disgusted at myself haha.

They say there' s a couple of players better than all those i played, but so far i must say jimmy, tugga, darkstep and what i remember of cedric rocked my world much more than them. If nik would get off his lazy ass and learn the bloody game, i dare say his mishimas will rock the hk world quite abit.

On the whole i'm surmising that there's a small group of top players who know the game very well, and many others who just manage to develop a winning style, like superman, ofs etc. There was a pretty high ranked steve who played me, happened that i chose paul, and my lame ass 50/50s just won, quite easily too. He used alot of ff, n2, i think he thought it was safe but he got quite pissed at constant ws4 punsihment. He had no answer to my random ssl f+1+4 too lol. Maybe not so used to proper punishing and ss game.

It was a short trip, so nothing conclusive, on the whole i felt the bugis crowd pushed me harder, and jimmy and tugga still stand as my toughest fights to date lol. I think i repped tksg decently, i'll do even better next time i'm down. hooooooooooooo~~~~~~~~!!!!