Crazy match between Madzin and Perfect Legend

Seeing that hat that Madzin eventually landed on slowly make its way across the screen, that got a laugh out of me.

@yummytreesap: Agreed, KOFXIII deserved better than the amateur hour commentators that did its final top 8, hopefully it'll be remembered for the previous years more. Hoping KOFXIV is announced soon.

Seriously though, give Cassie more voice samples or some shit. UuaAAAAAAoh! is the single biggest reason I can't play that character.

Failed fatality at the end of the match, and I said you were okay PL.

Lol expecting PL to do fatalities, come on people.

@fredchuckdave: He's probably the worst at fatalities of any pro MK player in history. He should just make it his trademark (instead of being the petty heel).

Bad tournament again with losers finals being directly after winners finals.

Also Sonicfox is on another level compared to everyone else there. How much time did he need to get his Kitana to this level!?

@hmoney001: Well it would be one thing if he hadn't tried, but he just obviously failed it.

Carl "4th Place" White

@hassun I think Cassie actually has a bunch of "in pain" clips, they all just sound the same.

@thunderslash: Yeah she has a few but during play they it feels like there are just two which constantly get repeated. It's incredibly annoying to me. Kitana's screaming is awful too but she seems to do it less than Cassie Cage.

All that ducking cus of those fans. Should've asked PL for advice. :P

@hassun: I'm happy Pig of the Hutt got third since he's not a true Yomi as of yet; just has the tag; that way we could have a traditional Yomi vs Sonic Fox final.

Perfect Legend at least prevented any European invaders from stealing that $5000.

Good shit from SonicFox, he made that look free.

Challonge for Curleh Moustache West vol. 4: http://challonge.com/curlehmw1014

@l1ghtn1n: Yeah I love UMvC3 a whole lot more with this level of character variation.

Now the question is if they'll patch EX Fan's combo damage scaling before EVO, though guess it's past the deadline; alas. But those 53% corner combos might eventually go away, the horror!

Clack finished third, not a demigod yet. That triple P was sick/sad.

@hassun: That's uh..a weird reason to not play a character.

So catching up on ESL stuff this morning. Forgot it was yesterday. Really glad that Sonicfox won. Dude has put a lot of work into MKX while still winning at other games. He is insane.

Salty Legend coming in 4th is too hilarious. I wonder what his excuse is this time?

That MKX stuff sure was esportsy. The whole production made me feel a little ill. Especially the incredibly awkward segment before the Big D vs Madzin match. I liked the sponsored headphones on top of earbuds though. That was at least funny.

@demoskinos: Is it really? Would you play a character for hours upon hours if that character constantly made the most annoying noise? I mean I suppose it would a good incentive to never want to get hit but that's about it.

On another note, the Topanga Ranking Battle continues over in Japan with some huge names like Kazunoko, Fuudo, Xian, Akimo, Wao, Nemo, Nishikin, Kyabetsu, Kyoku, Gonzalez, etc.

You can watch the archive here: http://www.twitch.tv/topangatv/v/7400181 (Thankfully, the video quality was much better this time.)

Some highlights:

Tokido vs Momochi

Kazunoko vs Shiro

Xian vs ついっぎー (Japanese T.Hawk)

Fuudo vs Kazunoko

Tokido vs Nishikin

Kyabetsu vs Gonzalez

@hassun: The Sharapova strategy?

The annual previous year's EVO's championship Sunday rebroadcast has begun http://www.twitch.tv/srkevo1

Looks like there is another FGC documentary coming soon.

how was curleh? Feel asleep and missed it.

I fought a Predator, was fun (4:40 in the video) also only took like 10 matches to find one:

The 111-fan link just doesn't believe in coming out online anymore, alas. I did do a few IA fans today just doesn't come out consistently and I think I have to mentally make my thumb jittery for it to which is rather unappealing to me. I did have a cool match against Erron Black today but this wasn't the one, just free meter for days.

Didn't watch it. Heard Chris G won, not going to watch the archive either!

@hmoney001: Fell asleep before the end of it but it was nice seeing the variety in teams (as mentioned above).

Going to be interesting to see if Kitana can be figured out before Evo (and even then that just means Sonic Fox is going to bring out Erron Black).

@recspec: Kitana is pretty easy to figure out, you just play certain characters that can deal with her projectiles. There's nothing special about Sonic Fox's approach other than the absurd execution and so on (and maybe not being as stupid as the other Kitana players). Sonic Fox gave a shoutout to Yomi so presumably he's been playing Kitana against them as well so it's just a matter of whether DJT can beat him or not (or MIT I suppose, Scorpion is pretty good against Kitana unless you get baited hard).

Barrel roll incoming!

So it appears that the Rektreational 2 has veered off schedule and now Team Brad is going to play another match next Sunday. On the bright side, EVO on Sunday is only 1 stream so we might be able to share the chat.

Man this is the longest episode of UltraChen ever. Glad I'm on the west coast for this. Who's going to Evo? PS4 casuals in my room!

@starvinggamer: I highly enjoyed Ultrachen tonight, been digging there stuff more and more lately.

I've never seen an Ultrachen (live) and I've never seen a Wednesday Night Fights ever. West Coast is no fun for UKers.

uggggggggggh, why on the Sunday?

@flstyle: Well the solution seems rather obvious, never sleep like @hassun WNF is/was late for everyone, used to be like 4am on the West Coast (and these people have jobs!).

Damn, that's dedication!

Warming up for EVO by breaking in my hrap4 kai in usf4 training mode and watching E3 SFV matches. BIG stick, not sure I like the buttons yet, but the hayabusa lever feels nice. First time I've tried one and so far it's right up there with the Seimitsus for me.

@fredchuckdave: ... I have a job.

@flstyle: Not sure how the situation will be handled next Sunday. But I think we should at least be confident EVO will get top billing.

@hassun: We can always use Chaser's explosive runs application.

I assume both srkevo1 and the Rektreational streams will be in chat for as long as Brad's match is on for. Maybe everyone will behave themselves and some Rektreational people who wouldn't have tuned into EVO will stick around. Then again it'll only take one comment from either side saying something against the stream they're not there for, for it to all kick off.

And on EVO weekend of all weekends.

@thunderslash: The plan is to use both. Although explosiveruns will be more of a thing on Friday and Saturday because of the massive amount of streams.

@flstyle: We just need to have faith that everyone will be awesome to each other.

Even if it turns out to be the worst GB stream chat in the history of the site it'll still be infinitely better than the official twitch chat at least.

I hope with this alliance with Sony that Capcom does very well with SF5. So much so that Sony money hats all their future projects ala Capcom vs SNK 3. :O

I'm not worried about the chat going to war with each other, the GB chat is generally respectful. Unless we get our own LTG impersonator, I'm sure nothing bad will happen. I'm more concerned about the part in which the chat is gonna be an unfocused mess because everyone is using the same outlet to talk about 2 completely different streams/games. Then again, I'm sure we've already done this before with Dan playing Bloodborne. And that went pretty much fine.

On another note: The tightest links in Street Fighter 5 will be three frames!

We ain't plinkin' no mo'! Now I can focus on my double tap game. And you can cancel into specials from chains now!

HUGE stick. It's my first, so I have nothing to really judge it against, but I don't know if I like the buttons either. I was thinking about getting Sanwas, since they are highly regarded, but haven't yet due to lack of experience with alternatives.

What makes one button feel better than another?

@hassun: Poongko is streaming, no tech is safe!

Weight of the press needed to activate the switch, how deep the button goes, if it depresses evenly even if you hit the edge, the sound...there's a lot. I find it hard to put in words what I don't really like about it, kinda like trying to explain why I prefer cherry mx brown switches to reds or blues for keyboards. A set of 6 sanwas isn't that expensive, I think I'll just go for it.