After 4 months of Obsessive Street Fighter IV Online Championship play. I, Ryusan Daidouji made it to G1 Rank. 15,000+GP Aquired.

Took around 4,899 Online matches (mix of both casual and competitive play) and over 300Hours logged.
I'll give you the data later.

Here is proof lolz. This is the last time I'll be in G2.

Welcome to the club. Get ready for some ass whoopings.

" Good job beating that 6000 pointer. "

I have beaten higher than that before.. but this was just a pic of me reaching 15,000 points.. I only got the game late.. on April 10, 2009. I will be playing Tekken 6 when it comes out obsessively as well.

Welcome to the club.  Have fun playing against Ryu and Sagat.  :)

I got Xbox Live in June and made G1 like 3 weeks ago....who cares how long it took. Currently have 19k points. GT is Da Stang if you ever want to fight a scrub Ken.

" Welcome to the club. Get ready for some ass whoopings. "

And you will soon learn G2 tactics will not work in G1. Once you face a 60 thousand point Ryu you will figure that out though.

my gamertag is: Ryusan Daidouji. Wow. yeah.

Once, I met a G2 Ryu.. who was so good.. did the FADC Combos properly, scary like Daigo.
 
Do you think Ryu is better than Akuma? I main Akuma.. I've watched those matches between Daigo(ryu) vs momochi(akuma) on youtube.

If you you are using a shoto and can't fadc, you are going to be in a world of hurt. FADC ultra is the only consistent way I land Ken's ultra. I can guarantee damn near every Ryu you see in G1 can fadc ultra in their sleep. 
 
According to the tiers Ryu is better. If you can't use him, then it doesn't really matter. I woud use Ryu but Ken is just more fun to play as.
 
If you are looking for an amazing Akuma, LordofUltima has one. He has posted a bunch of vids in the forums, take a look.

Yo.. I saw those videos on youtube. I've seen his vids before. I've taken many tactics of myself, and from playing on championship as well as playing good akumas. :D I've seen his videos.. he puts emphasis on links and the palm.
 
Yes I can FADC.. but not like LordofUltima, just FADC after a shoryuken. 

" If you you are using a shoto and can't fadc, you are going to be in a world of hurt. FADC ultra is the only consistent way I land Ken's ultra. I can guarantee damn near every Ryu you see in G1 can fadc ultra in their sleep.   According to the tiers Ryu is better. If you can't use him, then it doesn't really matter. I woud use Ryu but Ken is just more fun to play as.  If you are looking for an amazing Akuma, LordofUltima has one. He has posted a bunch of vids in the forums, take a look. "

Well I say stick with Akuma. It is so boring fighting Ryu after Ryu after Ryu in G1. Akuma's are always fun to fight, unless they are of the run away type.

I really like how lordofultima did a ShunGokuSatsu after a jump-in. to crouch low+MK and go into a shungokusatsu is not easy for me to do. I've only did it once in training.  I used to think it was impossible to SGS a jump-in, especially a bison head-stomp.  But if I could. I would do it. However.. lately I've been able to land more SGS's :D
 
Just to take advantage of Akuma's small frame of invisibility, that is all he needs. A balrog jump in, and others.  But a direct hit to the face for akuma with a jump-in kick - requires you to crouch+MK to lower yourself and then do the SGS.. that isn't that easy to do.. but if i could do that.. i would be a better akuma player lolz.
 
I especially need to do this as a reversal for Bison's annoying head stomp.

" @banzairyusan: You map focus attack to one button? "

I map the focus onto one button, I also map lp+mp+hp/lk+mk+hk onto one button each. This leaves a button unable to be assigned, which for me, I chose the MP.
 
It's a very weird setup, but what can you do.

You guys and your crazy ass setups. I still win for the most fucked up 360 pad configuration ever though.

i never change the buttons i always use default/ 
@Baillie: Why in the world would you play without your Mp completely playing without one of your attacks would just be hurting yourself.

" You guys and your crazy ass setups. I still win for the most fucked up 360 pad configuration ever though. "

the experience i have gotten is very poor because everyone i fight plays the same as in g2. i sometimes fight a great player but for the most part its just the same old crap.
 
hopefully you have a better experience.

I have a stick with a normal layout. Eat me.

" @JJOR64: Yeah I lost my first battle and lost  -5 GP. Then I lost the 2nd battle and gained 10+GP. Interesting.@Stang said:

" Welcome to the club. Get ready for some ass whoopings. "

^_^ "

LOLz. I look forward to it. Here, I may learn advanced Ryu Strategies in G1. I main Akuma so I hope to meet some Akuma's. :D

Congratz. 
 
I'll never get there. Not sure I want to...

Wait, G1 is the top rank in Championship mode? I'm suddenly not as excited about being so close.

" @Illmatic: Nope, SG is the top. You have to be a monster to ever see that though, I think it takes 70,000 points to make it. 51,000 more and I will be there....no problem :( "

" @Stang said:

" @Illmatic: Nope, SG is the top. You have to be a monster to ever see that though, I think it takes 70,000 points to make it. 51,000 more and I will be there....no problem :( "

That shit must be ELITE. I can't even find videos of ANY SG matches. "

damn you guys make G1 sound fun! Im trying to get there :P im only G2-E right now but Guile will get me there!

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" @Stang said:

" @Illmatic: Nope, SG is the top. You have to be a monster to ever see that though, I think it takes 70,000 points to make it. 51,000 more and I will be there....no problem :( "

That shit must be ELITE. I can't even find videos of ANY SG matches. "

Like a few weeks ago there were only 7ish players in SG, not sure how many there are now but I doubt many matches have been played. "

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" @Stang said:

" @Illmatic: Nope, SG is the top. You have to be a monster to ever see that though, I think it takes 70,000 points to make it. 51,000 more and I will be there....no problem :( "

That shit must be ELITE. I can't even find videos of ANY SG matches. "

Like a few weeks ago there were only 7ish players in SG, not sure how many there are now but I doubt many matches have been played. "

Out of curiosity, how does the Championship Mode actually conclude? If SG is the final ranking, and assuming all rankings have an exit championship match, do you just need to complete the SG championship match to get out SG? If so, is there a congratulations screen? Or are you just stuck in purgatorial SG elite hell forever? "

" @JJOR64: yeh its a matter of time, I fight some G2-A players that arent very challenging. "

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" @Stang said:

" @Illmatic: Nope, SG is the top. You have to be a monster to ever see that though, I think it takes 70,000 points to make it. 51,000 more and I will be there....no problem :( "

That shit must be ELITE. I can't even find videos of ANY SG matches. "

Like a few weeks ago there were only 7ish players in SG, not sure how many there are now but I doubt many matches have been played. "

Out of curiosity, how does the Championship Mode actually conclude? If SG is the final ranking, and assuming all rankings have an exit championship match, do you just need to complete the SG championship match to get out SG? If so, is there a congratulations screen? Or are you just stuck in purgatorial SG elite hell forever? "

I don't think you get out of SG, I think you just play in there forever. Of course, nobody really knows, there's not that many players in it.  I hate championship mode though, I liked the ranked system a lot more. Too bad everyone was boosting points and now nobody plays it. "

Wow I'm surprised so many people play Championshio mode. I only really played ranked (some player matches), but I think I'll start playing more Champ. mode for PC when my FP arrives next week. 

There are a lot less rage quitters in championship mode compared to ranked, and level of play is relatively good (in G1 at least, G2 is hit or miss). Player matches are a joke, but I find myself there more often then not just for shits and gigs. I would much rather play the people on my buddy list then play in either championship or ranked though.

I've only had a few people disconnect on me in G2. I guess once you hit 15%~ disconnect you might aswell start over because no one will play you.
 
Ps. I have my controlls default on 360 pad with the exception of 3x punch and 3x kick on the shoulder buttons. There's no point having 1 button for focus or grab, the mp/mk and lp/lk are right next to each other and easy to hit at the same time.

" @Stang: Everyone quits in ranked because if you disconnect you don't lose points. Once people figured this out they exploited it to boost BP. Thats why if you look on the leaderboards there are some ridiculous numbers. "

" @Stang: Everyone quits in ranked because if you disconnect you don't lose points. Once people figured this out they exploited it to boost BP. Thats why if you look on the leaderboards there are some ridiculous numbers. "

Nice, good job.  That game is hard to become good at.

" @Napalm: Your ability to connect the dots is uncanny! "

I gave up a long time ago.