Tekken Tag Tournament 2 Discussion Thread

NoviGlitzko wrote: »

Sorry about late notice but I'll be in Dublin 'til half three if ye are doing casuals?

I'll be there around 2-ish, Novi.

9 people for TTT2 casuals today, largest I've seen in a long time. Granted that's the usual turnout for Ultra on most weeks, but it still impresses me that Tag 2 manages to hang on in it's latter days. GGs to all.

Final Round for TTT2

Inkog Vs Naps
Inkog Vs Speedkicks
Inkog Vs JDCR

So many good matches.

You could literally hear the sound of Speed's ego being punctured after being hit by that EWGF.

Ixayek_usurper wrote: »

Also, still can't believe BMNS13 made to top8.
He's got a good rush-down but honestly he's not a very solid player.
I really think it exposed America's lack of experience in dealing with Team Korea.
I was very surprised how cagey even Naps was when playing him.
There were a lot of holes in his game that I thought Naps would look to expose but didn't.
Really, BMNS aint a patch on SpeedKicks.

Well that it's though, almost nobody in the US plays Hwoarang, let alone Baek. I won't be afraid to admit that while I'm pretty comfortable against Hwo, I definitely lack the Baek experience to be cheesed out the way BMNS-13 did against all the US players (bar Inkog, who has played many casuals against him). I know the strings such as option selecting all the follow-ups from ws+4,4 with SSR, df, but it's more an issue of reflexes that imo can only come from playing matches.

WayGamble managed to cheese his way into top 6 with the Feng/Unknown "zoning". Trungy seemed to be baffled against her despite Kodee coaching from the side. Then of course he got caught out by BMNS-13 for not using homing moves at all against FLA.

Fergus_ wrote: »

LOL Wayne was PMing me on FB for the past 6 months grilling me for Jun info and we had a little argument on the usage of Unknown's spikes cuz I think they're ass at neutral because you can block one then dash in for free pretty much nullifying the point of using them for spacing but he thinks otherwise xd

But 5th is a sick placement for a tourney like FR anyway.

Honestly, if it wasn't so close to the date, I would try to learn Feng/Unknown and try to do the same at Hypespotting lol. The damage on that team seems mad buff as well.

Fergus_ wrote: »

It's actually just ok, it's more how Feng can let Unknown do his combos for him cuz his damage sucks.

I tried it out, the wall damage is decent but open dmg is pretty average from what I can see.

I wouldn't say Feng's combo damage sucks entirely. If you want the post-bound f+3,4 oki or tag buffer then yeah you do lose a lot, but his combos that end with b+1+2 boost it significantly at the cost of having no oki. That can be applied to the majority of the cast it's just that Feng's loses out more than others when opting for oki instead of damage.

Launchers are the issue imo with Feng. His hopkick can't reach for ****; ss whiff punishing only and f+3,4 is only going to punish large or well read whiffs/raw tags. WS+3 is solid as a crouch launcher and qcf+2 and db+4 are decent when you feel like partying.

B+1+2 would be godlike as whiff punisher if this weren't a tag game where launch damage is significantly more favourable than KND punishers, and the KND from b+1+2 is so far that it gives the opponent a free raw tag.

Fergus_ wrote: »

LOL Wayne was PMing me on FB for the past 6 months grilling me for Jun info

What does he want to know?

@Usurper this kind of shows my lack of comfort against Baek. Not punishing 1+2,4, his Sky Rocket, ff+4,3 etc and I think I let 3 ff+3s whiff even though I SWL to bait whiff punishes. I guess I get scared of ff+3 realigning and catching the late frames of the SWL. Letting Simon's Armor King bully and throw me didn't help either. Overall I was probably too respectful in the majority and probably won the sixth match because I got angry and started to bully Simon back..



Dunno what's with the random noises and DOA commentary in the background.

Also,
The match from top 32(?) at FR where Speedkicks 3-0'ed Incognito:
https://youtu.be/hOQBYFISNYk

That crowd would get to me too Incog....

Well that's the Atlanta crowd for you. Notorious for **** talk. They kinda got their just desserts though, Speed got a beatdown from JDCR and 3 California players made Top 4.

From JDCR himself;

I got back from Peru and I have something to say about Peru Trip.

I have traveled over 15 countries and joined around 30 tekken event & tournament.
This time Peru Trip was the worst ever.
Everything was a lie.

People behavior.

They always make thing so late.
I always had to wait for appointments everyday.
one time 7 hours, one time they ended up not showing up.
even at the last day, I had to wait one hour as well before my flight.
Tournament? started one hour later.

I was staying with spanish (They came from Final Round as well to join the tournament) when we went to eat something fun happened.
one of the spanish ordered fish food but when the food came he didn't eat at all and left the restaurant. I had no idea whats going on since they were speaking in spanish. But, later I heard that the spanish guy kept saying he can't eat fish at all to the peruvian like 10 times, but they finally ordered fish for him.

Funny thing is they never listen to the spanish, only listen to me.
When the spanish asked them for something, they were always negative,
when i did, positive...


Hotel.

They promised to give me a hotel.
But when I arrived, I got a small room that costs around 10USD.
It was in the central of city
but I couldn't sleep at all because the place became too loud with cars and people in the morning and during the day it was too hot (no air conditioner)
I had to find room in safe and clean area myself two times (even in the morning of tournament day too.)

Tournament?

They told me, when I was yet in korea, the tournament would be with 80 participants. Also they asked me to do announce on my youtube channel that I'm coming peru and in the script there was some part of mentioning about Peru, Venezuela, Brazil, Chile and etc. literally all the countries in the south america. So I thought it would be a great tournament.

When I went to tournament place to see (saturday, tournament was sunday) I couldn't believe my eyes.
the tournament area was the poorest and dangerous area I had even seen. even in Lima. Smaller than my room, No bathroom. No air conditioner. Nowhere to eat. Dogs eating garbage bag on the street...scary thing was they tried to make me stay that area during my trip.

Saturday night back in my room, I find out about the tournament pools.
It had only 4 pools with 28 participants..I was so sad and mad that they were even lying on the tournament and I was treated like this..literally I had no reason to play and didn't want to. But there was nothing I could do. During the tournament I had only cookie and 2 bottles of water. When the tournament was over. I was just so glad that I could leave there. As a result, I got second and I had to ask them (they never tell me anything before I ask) if there is something for second.
But the answer was, they have spent so much money for my flight so there is nothing. What did I do?

Also they announced that the tournament would be streamed on my twitch channel, but they didn't ask me until the tournament day.

There are more stories but..personal things..

I dont want to call it 'tournament' and I feel shame that I was there.
I learned a few lesson from this trip and
one of these is never be on a trip to South America ever.