Dude what is with this backpedaling? First Mika and now Cammy? I don't understand how this could make the game any less ridiculous. Cammy's ass is still hanging out during the match, why cover it up on the character intro?

All of this censorship stuff is really half-assed (That pun just writes itself)

@viciousbearmauling: I'd hardly call it censorship. Tons of things change before a game is released, and at least this gives some indication that Capcom is aware of how creepygross their shit is getting. Even if it's too late to fix the character models before Feb, maybe this will give them a slightly different design philosophy moving forward.

I mean, probably not, but one can hope.

http://womenwriteaboutcomics.com/2015/11/02/oh-my-shiranui-aj-brooks-talks-grappling-costumes-video-games/

Interesting conversation with pro wrestler AJ Brooks about fighting female video game character costumes.

Also sad about the Kinniku Buster but it probably would have caused all sorts of problems with costumes moving forward. Better to change the move than limit costume designs.

I'd much rather they'd change the character designs/costumes.

@hassun: I'm talking about future costume designs that might have had weird clipping issues etc, especially since you get a juicy freeze-frame if you KO with her CA. Seems silly to preserve one minor aspect of one animation of one attack if it means you cut yourself off from any future costume that might have difficulty properly portraying a character in an upside-down splits.

@starvinggamer: Do they really care about that though? Plenty of later SFIV costumes cause a lot of clipping during some moves.

@hassun: Probably? I mean, what animator doesn't care about clipping? Just because it happened in SFIV doesn't mean they didn't care about it, they just didn't feel the annoyance of clipping outweighed the coolness of whatever costume they were designing.

Also yo Snake Eyez is on Ultrachen!

With Infiltration Razer is adding it's third SFIV EVO champion to the team.

What stick did Infil use to this point?

Also yay Infil going to tournaments again. Please Razer boys go gatekeep Dreamhack.

The banner on R/Kappa is hilarious.

@fredchuckdave: Afaik Infiltration uses a Razer Atrox with a Korean lever. Not sure about the buttons.

And I don't think we'll see him at tournaments before CapCup. Unless they can convince him to go to Lyon but I kind of doubt it. Hiding tech and preparing for Capcom Cup is all that matters. We do know he's working on Guy, just like Momochi. Why exactly both of them are working on Guy is a question I don't know the answer to though.

Guy vs Elena = 10-0 matchup no doubt.

After this weekend we will know who is the second-to-last Capcom Cup Finals entrant.

We're off to Singapore for the Capcom Pro Tour Asia Last Chance Qualifier and the Capcom Pro Tour Asia Finals!

Stream:

twitch.tv/capcomfighters

Brackets:

http://gamestartasia.challonge.com/

More info:

http://www.beastapac.com/

Yoshinori Ono and Tomoaki Ayano are also going to attend the event so it could very well be that the final unannounced character "Fan" will be revealed in Singapore.

Many years in the future kids will ask what killed SFIV and people will know the answer is not SFV but Elena.

Sucks for Rog, maybe he'll find a better character to play in SFV. Yay for Kindevu, more Elena please!

@fredchuckdave: You're right, that is hilarious

After the duffing Poongko got early on from Xian I'm really surprised to see him end day one with the best record. It seemed like he was dropping of for a while but this might give him some good momentum moving toward Capcup.

I can't remember, is it just the round robin, or does that seed into a bracket? Just trying to figure out if Kindevu has any chance left. Or MOV I guess.

Man, I love watching Misse's Mak. Such a damn freight train once he gets momentum.

@starvinggamer: It's a round robin tournament. Normally there is a final match at the end but I'm not sure it's still there with the CPT and all.

@hassun: I remember last year like there was a deciding match between GamerBee and... Tokido? Fuudo? to get into CPT and I can't recall if it was an actual final match or if it was just the deciding match on who won happened to fall at the end of the tournament. Or maybe this is all a figment of my imagination?

@starvinggamer: Last year's tournament was this one. It's how Daigo got into the Capcom Pro Tour 2014 Finals.

Fuudo got in at Dreamhack Winter, the last possible opportunity. And he did it at Gamerbee's expense.

@hassun: Ah right, I was conflating the two events in my brain banks. Yeah, CPTA was just the round robin.

@l1ghtn1n: Gonna pat myself on the back here for claiming Elena as strongest of USFIV characters right when Ultra came out. It's like Zero all over again.

But yeah, MOV is free to Elena, Justin beat him too.

Seems like it will be round robin but also with the final FT7.

I missed the first couple of hours, anything interesting happen?

@fredchuckdave: Dakou vs Misse and Kindevu vs Bonchan.

Oh shit, Kindevu vs Misse will decide who wins the spot!

@hassun: To root for the 32 Elena dream or the actually interesting character dream, questions questions...

@hassun: So Kindevu for CPT!? Nah this looks pretty even.

EDIT: I mean free

EDIT2: Hm, if Kindevu gets the autoqual that means not only did Dakou bomb this weekend, he gets edged out of CPT entirely. Yikes.

DON'T GET RUSHED DOWN MISSE! Fuck.

@starvinggamer:To be fair Dakou sucked most of the year so /shrug (12 points + 128 for winning one event). He did go to a fair amount of stuff as well, unlike Misse who's only been to like 5-6 events. Not to say Balrog/RB/etc. didn't suck most of the year also; 32 is a lot.

@fredchuckdave: @starvinggamer:

False alarm. Grand final is Poongko vs Nemo. Misse is now qualified for the Capcom Cup Finals.

@hassun: Golden Fatty denied, huzzah.

Infiltration already travelled to Singapore, even has the RZR jacket on. Wonder if they will announce the new character.

Edit: Guess not.

Fun fact: Poongko has now won more CPT2015 Premier tournaments than Infiltration.

@hassun: Can't imagine they'd give up their last big reveal before capcup. Only other major reveal I can think of might be story mode, but that would be 1000% less impactful at capcup when compared to a new character. Then again, if they wait until like right before finals to do the reveal, no one will get a chance to have any hands on time. Hm.

Best thing about that Grand FInal: Infiltration on commentary and calling play by play LITERALLY before it happens and being honest about his bias towards his fellow countryman.

This weekend has 2 major tournaments coming up.

First up there is the -surprisingly stacked- Street Grand Battle 2015. Sadly there seems to have been an issue with the original location so the tournament has been moved to a new location.

Furthermore Xian will not be able to attend.

The other big event of the weekend is the conclusion of the Topanga A League.

The character choices have also been revealed:

• Daigo: Evil Ryu ONLY
• Bonchan: Sagat & Ryu
• Kazunoko: Yun & Seth
• Nemo: Rolento ONLY
• Momochi: Ken & Guy
• Dashio: Seth & Decapre

Da Capre Show? KazuSethKo

Do we have any idea who's going to Dreamhack Winter yet?

Probably Luffy.

Not PR Rog.

o_O

@fredchuckdave: Just today Haitani posted he's not going so his chances of getting in the Capcom Cup Finals are gone.

参加予定だったドリハクですが、諸々の事情により今回は見送る事になりました。 CCに出場出来なかった事は残念ですが、この経験を糧に来期は必ず良い結果を出したいと思います。 この約二ヶ月の間応援して頂いた皆さんありがとうございましたm(_ _)m

— ハイタニ (@hai090) November 17, 2015

Would be kind of sad if Luffy won Dreamhack. I'd rather have an exciting winner, setting up a cool first round match with Infiltration or Momochi. I don't think Dakou is that player.

Other competitors: http://binarybeast.com/xUSFIV1510080#participants

Seeing some interesting possibilities like Reiketsu, Ryan Hart, Infexious, Pro Fluke, MBR, Kreymore or Phenom.

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Guess who's back (and got an extra member)?

Ultrachen is doing a series on the competitors of the Capcom Cup Finals again. The introductory episode is up on Capcomfighters.

Looks like next week will be a good time to get the blog for Capcom Cup up, this video will make a fine addition. I'll give it a watch this evening after some USFIV training.

PS. I'm actually playing fighting games now, what a novel idea!

@hassun: Chen with the classic "5 people can use the same character completely differently," but what about 32 Elenas!?

@flstyle: Sounds good. Although I still have massive misgivings about the organisation of the actual Capcom Cup Finals. It's starting to look like a goddamn TGS tournament. I sure am not looking forward to barely seeing any matches on stream and a FT2 format for a tournament as big and important as this.

Lots of bad news related to Street Grand Battle as well. Big Bird no longer going, Santarou and Kichikenno longer going to that nor going to Dreamhack, ...
Apparently the Paris attacks have a lot of people worried.

@l1ghtn1n: I never got good at Guilty Gear but it did feel like I was making progress over time en route to the platinum. Was fun /shrug It's just a game I'd have to put in like 3-4 months of work to get really good at it (in terms of execution) and SFV will take like a day tops per character. I will say it does have a dedicated enough fan base to where you'll rarely have trouble finding matches online; despite said fan base being less than 100k people.

The challenge mode is fantastic for teaching you things about the game as well as fighting games in general and the tutorial is better than everything's tutorial including Skullgirls.

@hassun Sounds like Nuckledu had some fun yesterday.

Capcom Cup 2015 details via ComboFiend, my blog will be up on Wednesday

2 out of 3 until top 16 is interesting, not as big of a deal as if it was all the way to top 8. I like that it's all in one day frankly; unless we were getting like FT7's or something otherwise. Most of the players you'd consider better in a shorter set are matched up against a similar player or were probably going to win anyway. Tonpy vs JWong possibly even more free.

Bonchan vs Misse is probably the most impacted by this; sucks for Bonchan if he loses I suppose.