GGXXAC: UK Media Thread

[LM_Akira]

Meant to start this for a while now but whatever here it is. I will try to keep it updated with as many UK GG matches as possible, tho that will be mostly from the players in the north west UK (where I live lol). There are loads of matches already on my youtube page but I'll will scan thru and pick out the better ones soon.

In the meantime, here are matches from a mini north west tourney we had not so long ago, as well as some casuals which took place afterward.

Tournament preview vid: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mWXl8g3aXs

Tournament finals

Semi Finals

kaworu (ED) vs Goukifafa (SL): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwSKDNYgOiA

Smraedis (MA) vs Final Ultima (SO): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFtSu-6yZVg

3rd Place

kaworu (ED) vs Final Ultima (SO): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ayjx20z-sh8

Final

Smraedis (MA) vs Goukifafa (SL): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AlBNYa0W68


Casuals

LM_Akira (OR) vs SlimAdey (PO):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPBVuNxpxTg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TFKfu_XSuE

Ryza (MA) vs SlimAdey (PO):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5L_WkTIjPA

Ryza (MA) vs Smraedis (MA):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mG_j12E9Bys

Ryza (SL) vs Goukifafa (SL):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfSiGc0SUNI

Ryza (SL) vs pawndriver (JO):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGP2wJ-gt4A

Ryza (SL) vs SlimAdey (PO):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mgk49D6gBrc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvdySjMcj5o

Ryza (SL) vs Smraedis (MA):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLq5JpF8IQY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVafwpFe52o
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-k5pMksBPrM


All the AC vids on my YT page:

http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=lmakira&search_query=GGXXAC&search=Search

(check the more recent matches lol)

[AleXander]

good to see our British friends play too. I really liked the Slayer. for some reason it bothers me that he doesnt stick with a color.

[bucklemyshoe]

did ryza drop i-no?

[LM_Akira]

good to see our British friends play too. I really liked the Slayer. for some reason it bothers me that he doesnt stick with a color.

I liken Goukifafa's Slayer to a wild dog lol. He doesn't play for knockdowns and he doesn't play with many mixups, he's just constantly in your face looking to do as much damage and cause you as much grief as possible lol. You can't really see it in those final vids but his links are pretty damn tight, he'll rarely miss his multi 5S(c),5S(f)s or 5Ks or whatever.

Ryza's Slayer on the other hand is a lot more methodical and he's pretty clinical with his combos. Big damage AND knockdown usually. And a whole different set of mind games to worry about too.


did ryza drop i-no?

Yeah, kinda. ABA was his main char thru the early days of AC, then he moved onto I-No more as she was neglected. Since then it's been more Slayer and May but now he's using May more and looking to easy off on Slayer. Tho he could always go back to I-No messing around in casuals since he's used her from pretty much the beginning of Slash (loads of experience to fall back on).

[Kane]

Oh wow a UK vid thread!

[LM_Akira]

Matches from Super vs Battle 2008, a 2 day UK tourney run by Neo Empire earlier this year:

Quarters

Keev (DI) vs Cyrox (VE):
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ulBmMZegqhA&feature=PlayList&p=FDC4CAE32D02D506&index=6

Bido (ED) vs Hadeed (AB):
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=D5mveXhSq-k&feature=PlayList&p=FDC4CAE32D02D506&index=5

Grand Lethal (PO) vs Zakuta (BA):
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=cLxkbHXGWIM&feature=PlayList&p=FDC4CAE32D02D506&index=4

Zaelock (BA) vs Ian (TE):
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=zAvQdtsJgV4&feature=PlayList&p=FDC4CAE32D02D506&index=3


Semis

Hadeed (AB) vs Zakuta (BA):
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Bj0faPRB5Vo&feature=PlayList&p=FDC4CAE32D02D506&index=2


Final

Zakuta (BA) vs Zaelock (BA):
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=XPlaXwZjXVU&feature=PlayList&p=FDC4CAE32D02D506&index=1
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=XPlaXwZjXVU&feature=PlayList&p=FDC4CAE32D02D506&index=0


We were lucky enough to have players come from all over Europe to this, several of whom actually reached the finals:

Keev (France)
Cyrox (Sweden)
Grand Lethal (Greece)
Zaelock (Greece) -> is name is wrong on the vids lol

Bido and Hadeed are both studying here in the UK and in fact live 2 flats apart. Was total fluke that they ended up in the same quarters match. I believe Bido was also a former sparring partner of Latiff!

Zakuta and Ian are the UK's own home grown talent lol

Unfortunately for Keev, the GGXXAC event over ran this time and he was un-able to play further in the tournament as he risked missing his flight home. :( French Millia player Chris was also in attendance for this with Keev.

Plenty of great matches happened in the finals however....tho there IS a Baiken mirror to watch lol

[Climhazzardous]

May straight up beasting foo's

Zakuta(MI) vs Ryza (MA) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCzdfI3k6Bc)

Zakuta(BA) vs Ryza(MA) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeaCU8eGWKM)

Zakuta(BA) vs Ryza(MA)2 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rOz8SBoeGI)
Getchyo finga of my daymn screen!
Zakuta(BA) vs Ryza(MA)3 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ymi7QcPOA8)


Battle of the LOL SOLS, season 1
Sky(SO) vs Chunkis(SO) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fR4jC209un0)


I got alot more quality matches to come, including season 2 of the LOL SOLS (you ain't seen anything like it), stay tuned :cool:

[Nives]

how many people participated?

[LM_Akira]

how many people participated?

For which event?

For RBs that I run and the mini tournies I hosted we'd get on average around 11 players, think the most we ever got was 13. But GG isn't as big as other fighters in the UK anyway and generally it was just local players (traveling 200 miles to enter local RBs/mini tournies is a bit ott for London based players).

For SVB 2008 we had around 30 I'd say, including maybe 8 European dudes (the first stage was 4 groups and each group on average had about 7 players).

SVB 2008 was held on the same weekend as Showdown in Sweden tho, so we missed out on more Euro heads coming :(


We have another GG tourney coming up soon called ReBirth 3:

http://www.neoempire.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=94

Which looks to have mainly UK heads entering. We're also having an official North v South 5v5 team battle as well (at Rebirth 2, the South won by 18-7, it's time for the North's revenge lol).

[KA-GE-MA-TSU-RI]

United Kingdom come the fuck on!

[Zaelock]

SVB 2008 was great even though a lot of good GGAC were missing.

I’m waiting for SVB 2009 which is going to be awesome.

The UK scene shows its power again in organizing good tournaments we show and heard that again for BoD though there was no GGAC.

Hopefully all the European GGAC players will be in the next SVB.

[Climhazzardous]

Yeah I can't wait to play you again Zaelock ^_^ And yeah here's hoping we get some real good players from all over Europe for SVB09.

Anyway, more Troc vids:


Sky(SO) vs Chunkis(SO)2 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSUUFy9ZEuE)

Kingpin(PO) vs Kyzer(RO) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDi0zjKsels)

Adamski(IN) vs Zakuta(BA) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upLZ_Ta6gBk)

Adamski(IN) vs Aion(JA) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-Rsaz6uIaY)

Adamski(IN) vs Aion(JA)2 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-Y-AeILVCY)

Adamski(IN) vs Aion(JA)3 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxMLGg5Iv0o)


A few more match vids left, these are alot better since we ain't actually playing on broken ass sticks and there's some drama going on in the background :yaaay:

[Climhazzardous]

The Drama Saga, last batch of vids until Adamski uploads what he has left.

Two scoops
Adamski(IN) vs Ryza(MA) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrcgRwbJzog&fmt=18)
Three hit dizzies are wondrous
Adamski(IN) vs Masamune(MA) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ffZfAYqlrY&fmt=18)
"What, running Vertical Dolphin as an anti-air yeah? F*CK OFF!"
Adamski(IN) vs Masamune(MA)2 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMsavstofkU&fmt=18)
"I DON'T LIKE SEEING BULLSH*T" (2006) Chu-Fye on Baiken's Suzuran over '3' (yes, he believes he saw 3) Hitomi trees.
Adamski(IN) vs Aion(JA)4 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWGsfsGaygk&fmt=18) (lol, it says 'Gay' in the url =D I'm so childish :kitty: )
May literally ruined Zakuta's day :(
Ryo Yamazaki(HOS) vs Aion(JA) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_-9yycJJpg&fmt=18)
May deserved everything she got
Aion(JA) vs Masamune(MA) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBrRmom0qA4&fmt=18)
I'm so cool I punish with 2HS>DoT from max range :cool:
Ryza(SL) vs Zakuta(BA) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTr2o1QStE4&fmt=18)

[Koji]

hey


i am thinking bout dropin over for a weekend or just for 1-2 days in a week to spar against some good players.

Do you have any regular sparring sessions or ranbats goin on one in a while??

Please let me know


>Damn Zealock....finals....niceeeeee i see you still growing. RESPECT keep it up and hope to see u on next tourney.

[Climhazzardous]

Well, we normally get great comp at the Trocadero arcade on Fridays (we've got new sticks and buttons to fit in now as well).

And I am always willing to host GG sessions on the weekend if no one else is doing them =D

Other than that, there is a GGAC tourney on Sunday 9th of November called Rebirth. KoF98UM and GGAC are the only tourney games; however there will be many games up for casuals and such.

Anyway, it'd be nice to see you if you do come down, and hopefully we provide some good enough comp ;)

[Zaelock]

>Damn Zealock....finals....niceeeeee i see you still growing. RESPECT keep it up and hope to see u on next tourney.

Hey Koji sup man!!!!

Dont even think of not comming to the next SVB2009, UK has a GG raising scene.

Koji you know me tooo many years, from my fist guilty gear steps... its been a while since then.


Give more videos i will upload some more matches from svb also.

[Kane]

really enjoying these southern vids!

Quite worried now though seeing as theres not alot of Manchester activity at the moment, and Rebirth 3 is only a month away!

[Koji]

thx for info

sounds nice but....why this f%ckin weekend?! I had last weekend off, i have a weekend off two weeks from now, but i have to work on sunday 12th!!!!bitch.....

Anyway i prefer home sparring over tourneys coz theres always more of the actuall training in it.
Thanks for invitation i will definitely drop in in next week.I am off on thu,fri,sat,sun :P
Unfortunately i STILL play on gamepad:vbang: so arcade is not my fav place but if somebody could organize a ps2 session you can count me in.


>Zaelock

u dirty bastard:keke: nooo worriesssss, i am back on my tourney track now and try not to miss any good event. Hope to see ya bro.

U say that GB scene is rising??? well, i would be happy to lift it up even bit higher and faster :D hehehe i do my best and try to live up to your expectations.

peace

[Zakuta Asura]

If anyone passes by Luton then I am more than willing to accomodate some GGAC, but seen as no-one even comes...oh well. I end up spending unlimited cash to go and play games.

[Climhazzardous]

thx for info

sounds nice but....why this f%ckin weekend?! I had last weekend off, i have a weekend off two weeks from now, but i have to work on sunday 12th!!!!bitch.....

Anyway i prefer home sparring over tourneys coz theres always more of the actuall training in it.
Thanks for invitation i will definitely drop in in next week.I am off on thu,fri,sat,sun :P
Unfortunately i STILL play on gamepad:vbang: so arcade is not my fav place but if somebody could organize a ps2 session you can count me in.
Ok no prob, we'll keep you notified on the status of next weekend's sessions.

[GuerrillaTactic]

Well the Trocadero in London now has working buttons and sticks (all sanwa), so if anyone is in the country please post it up some where and proper games can be had.

[LM_Akira]

Update:

zer0kage (MI, DI) vs Aion (JA):
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=6zIVdUVUUUE
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=9uJH0H5XWHU
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=RxHw6OfhDzM


Zakuta (MI) vs Adamski (IN):
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUznUpSJaUk


zer0kage (MI) vs Adamski (IN):
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=p91TY2Cv7NI


Kingpin (PO) vs Adamski (IN):
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=063HNoXchQk
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=eHi5x0xyLGQ


Kingpin (PO) vs zer0kage (MI):
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=oQiTlxm6ZIg

[LM_Akira]

Recent tourney matches from ReBirth 2008:


QUARTER FINALS:

...

Cris (PO) vs Sky (SO)
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=W5SfSwosC-k


SEMI FINALS:

....


FINAL:

Inti (MA) vs Goukifafa (SL)
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=5FYvv55_jwA



ReBirth took place on the Sunday just gone in Harrow (just outside central London) UK and was run by Neo Empire. There were single events for KOF98UM and GGXXAC and there was a North vs South GGXXAC Team Battle in which the South beat the North 19-6 (all matches were capped and will be uploaded at some point).

We also had 4 linked setups of SFIV and ran a mini tournament which Desk won. There was also the latest build of Super Turbo HD Remix playable on casuals as well.

[Neithan]

Hum... Are the finalist the best players of UK or is there players better than them ?

[LM_Akira]

Hum... Are the finalist the best players of UK or is there players better than them ?

:?:

The finalists were the people who got to the finals out of all those who entered on the day. Same with any tournament.

Around 24 players entered and there were 4 groups of around 6/7 with top 2 going thru to knockout stage. There were quite a few upsets in the groups and not all the strongest players could make it on the day/enter anyway.

But Goukifafa has won 2 AC RB seasons and now 3 tournaments, he's def one of the stronger players in the UK.

[Neithan]

I was just curious because the may seemed a bit lost, the slayer is just agressive, the sol does not know any loop and the potemkin miss the same combo 4 times...

Except the slayer in fact who have a good agressive play and solid combos, the others does not seem very strong, and almost all are using burst dangerously and not garding very well.:(

But perhaps conditions, stress, and many other things happened and made it hard for players, I am myself not so good and tournaments makes me stress a lot. :keke:


EDIT : the others quarter finals


Quart de finale GGXXAC : Kaworu v Inti
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=fyNY81msowA

Quart de finale GGXXAC : Kane v Bido
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Lfd4pl91hjs

Quart de finale GGXXAC : Goukifafa v Robocop2
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=MwW6C80N9_k


Liked the testament of Kane and the chipp of robocop, the others are playing hem... Strangely I think.:psyduck:

[Climhazzardous]

Thanks for the comments Neithan!

That May isn't our best May, doesn't really play the game, he is a Tekken player. If you want a good May check out SM_Raedis or Ryza's May on the earlier pages.

Goukifafa has a good Slayer which is just pure offense however...but you will understand when you play him 0_0

The Sol player is Sky, our resident joker. He has never owned the game and he just plays Sol very basic, but in doing that he plays well.

We aren't as solid as the Rest of Europe? I don't know, we'll have to play to find out ;) I'll hopefully be traveling next year so I would love to play others.

[Kane]

I'm frankly embarassed at my performance.

ahh well.

I hope some euro GG players come to SVB '09, I'd love to play them.

[Neithan]

Thanks for the comments Neithan!

That May isn't our best May, doesn't really play the game, he is a Tekken player. If you want a good May check out SM_Raedis or Ryza's May on the earlier pages.

Goukifafa has a good Slayer which is just pure offense however...but you will understand when you play him 0_0

The Sol player is Sky, our resident joker. He has never owned the game and he just plays Sol very basic, but in doing that he plays well.

We aren't as solid as the Rest of Europe? I don't know, we'll have to play to find out ;) I'll hopefully be traveling next year so I would love to play others.



I think you are as great as others in europe, I did not ask to pretend being superior or all (re-reading my post can make it feel that way), I was just very surprised as, like I said, some players seemed in stress or not knowing the game, and as only two players came out of the qualification, it was very surprising ! ;)

Hope to see others matchs of all to see improvement !

[reaVer]

I'm frankly embarassed at my performance.

ahh well.

I hope some euro GG players come to SVB '09, I'd love to play them.
You could also go to showdown in Sweden somewhere in the summer, B3C in Germany somewhere in the summer or the SBO qualifiers in France in the summer. In any case, get off your damn isle:P

[LM_Akira]

You could also go to showdown in Sweden somewhere in the summer, B3C in Germany somewhere in the summer or the SBO qualifiers in France in the summer. In any case, get off your damn isle:P

Yeah but SVB '09 is penciled in for Easter time.

So you get your damn self to our event :P (there's going to be Japanese players too :P)

Here are some of the matches from the NvS 5v5 event. zer0kage capped them and uploaded them (but had to record over all mine/his group matches :().

North Team

Final Ultima - Sol
Goukifafa - Slayer
Kane - Testament
kaworu - Eddie
Smraedis - May


South Team

cris - Potemkin
Kyzer - Robo-Ky
Inti - May
Robocop Two - Chipp
Zakuta - Baiken


Smraedis vs cris:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrf-wlkoyEE

Smraedis vs Zakuta:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYztQG3bTAQ

Kane vs Robocop Two:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2cwpGh2OaE

Final Ultima vs Zakuta:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rp2vPD1a5k

Kane vs cris:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syCXhZVpvOc

Smraedis vs Robocop Two:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZjs6bDMXP4

Inti vs Smraedis:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0M-TjEGON8

Zakuta vs Goukifafa:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPkpaAGYxbM

Kyzer vs Goukifafa:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6UVAdmN5Eg

Kyzer vs Smraedis:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZINmet4iCA

Kane vs Zakuta:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qxi3vYuN7RM

Goukifafa vs Robocop Two:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRfKuPhslLU

[Climhazzardous]

I think you are as great as others in europe, I did not ask to pretend being superior or all
Oh no, I'm not accusing you of saying that lol. It's my personal opinion that we aren't that strong (maybe because our players hardly travel), but I could be wrong thus why we need to travel and find out!

[Neithan]

Come to paris to participate to the gnouz ranking, some great players are coming each time and the level is increasing. I am myself not from paris but from normandy and try to come each time to level up ! ^^

In fact many french players were interested but they were sometimes problems for sleeping and as hotel is expensive, many can't came, and the others forget. :/

Next time I hope. ;)