Capcom Cup destroyed all expectations - and our predictions | Extra Trashy with RobTV⁩

If you're not overloaded on Capcom Cup, this is the podcast for you! RobTV join Brian in reflecting on all the hype, upsets, and dropped combos of Capcom Cup 11. Did our heroes correctly predict the outcome? Will Brian ever get credit for predicting the Kakeru W? It's all on Trash Talk!

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Episode Transcript

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Welcome everybody to a very special episode of Extra Trashy.
We just saw the conclusion of quite possibly the greatest
Capcom Cup of all time, Capcom Cup 11, where Kakadu through
winter side with his JP just won$1,000,000.
But of course the main story outof this tournament was Blahs, 15
years old, out of Chile, getting2nd place with Ryu and along the

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way leaving bodies of the greatest players we had known up
until this point. Legends falling left, right and
center. On this episode, I debate date
with Rob TV, which one of us hadthe most accurate predictions
from our prediction stream? And we also discussed what does
Blaz's run mean for the future of Street Fighter E sports.
This episode was recorded live on stream, so things might be a
little rougher on the edges in terms of the quality, but it's a

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very fun episode. Please enjoy extra trashy.
It begins now. All right, Rob, it's time to OK,
we're not. We might debate.
I know we like to debate. We might just naturally end up
doing that. But I just want to talk about
Captain Cup 11 and how I called Kakadu winning from the
beginning and you and I, we got cooked.
I saw people talking mad shit about our predictions because we

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had everything completely fucking wrong.
But I called Kakadu out of that group.
I'm not going to. I'm not going to.
I'm not going to give you the credit of saying that you call
Kakadu. I'm going to say this that he
was your pick like your it. Was my pick.
What do you mean no? Look at this comment.

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That's two separate things, brother.
That's two separate things. A pick in calling it all right
on our discussion this comment that was this crazy shout outs
to the Alex Zero 10. I'm sharing my screen.
You might be able to see I don'tknow.
He went through all of our picksand said who picked what and
then put the actual pick down there.
He actually went and like gradedus.

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Who had? Who had Who was the only human
being at Group B? Only one human being had Noah,
the prodigy on Winner's side. That's true.
Yeah. OK, OK, but who?
That's the same character in thestory.
I mean, that's great, but. No, he's not.
He's a main character. He got I I predict Noah and and
I'll hold up. Let me see.

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So where where did you get Cockaroo?
What'd you say? In Group C the whole thing got
fucked up because you 2 did not.I don't understand how neither
did you put kakaroo. I said Kakaroo Tokido.
I have cockrue I don't is the stupid one.
No, I put. Cockrue on the losers though I I
guess I can give you that. But no, you did.
But you the one who I'm, I'm gonna give you that at the group

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thing at at our round table. Yeah, you did.
You. I called it from the beginning.
What are you talking? I I said Gakaru.
That was my call from the beginning.
Brian, in the end of the day, I'm gonna keep it a buck with
you. I, I, I'm gonna give you some
credit. Thank you.
Like maybe you know a thing or two.

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I'm gonna give you a little bit of credit.
Now, I don't think that's something you would have bet on.
You wouldn't have bet on him. Not a human on the planet bets
on Kaplan Cup Like from from before it starts?
Yeah, yeah. For good, for good reason.
For good reason. For good reason.
You don't bet on Kaplan Cup. I'm gonna have to check the
tapes to see if you had Kakaroo winning the whole like damn, you

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did say that. Though but he didn't make it out
of groups in our prediction. So I had to, I had to work with
what we I got outvoted. He made it out of groups in my
prediction. Yeah, but with the combination
ended up with and Noah and. Noah should have been further
along than what y'all had but y'all ain't want to believe that
the second best player in America, non debatably one of

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the best players in the world was what he is.
Cuz y'all you know what I'm saying?
Cuz he cuz he cuz he don't know how to act, cuz he'd be popping
off awkwardly, but he'd get the results.
I just called JB again, Noah getting that far, I don't think
I would have called it necessarily, but it's not
surprising to me at all. I just, I agree with your
assessment of him just being so fucking comfortable that it

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doesn't matter what stage he's on.
And this whole season he actually did better at like the
harder tournaments every single time.
Like his his regular performancein between the big moments were
was like wait, significantly worse.
I don't know what happened to him at EVO, but like any regular
season tournament he kind of didworse and.
Not enough money? Not as much money.

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You know, I'm serious when I saythat.
Look, who was I talking to on the phone with?
It might have been Danny. I know Danny's in the chat.
It might have been Danny who whobrought this point up.
But I agree that basically like he was like, you know, hot take
bro, low key. He was like, Capcom Cup is
harder than evil no matter what people say.
And I'm like, and I'm like, bro,I, I'm like, I agree because

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it's like, don't get me wrong, Ievil has the most prestige, bro.
I don't give a damn if I start atournament tomorrow with no
history, But I say there's $10 million for first place and 2nd
place get $1000 right, 10 million first place.
You can change your family life for everybody forever.
That's now the hardest tournament.

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I don't give a fuck. I and results show us that
'cause we see consistent resultsat Evil every year.
Every year it's Capcom Cup wherethe best players in EWC and
stuff like that, where the moneyis the biggest and and you.
Wanna hold on, hold on, hold on,hold on, Uma.
Thanks. Uma, you think Uma's the best

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player? What are you talking about dude?
I absolutely disagree. I think.
I think there's so much. No Uma.
Uma proves my point. Never mind I walked up for no
reason. Uma proves my point.
Yes, my point was that I I don'tknow if I said it wrong, but my
point was that the best players fail at these big money

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tournaments. I'm not saying the best player
wins Capcom. Why?
Hold on, I'm saying that I. Don't care what you what you.
I think that's what you just said.
I'm going to do a bunch of replay.
You just said that it's OK to change your opinion.
I'm just going to call you out. It's OK to refine.
No, no, I'm not changing my. Opinion.
I think you just said that. The point, the point I was
trying to make, the point I was trying to make, I'm I'm sure
I've already spoke wrong, but you've already heard me say this

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before. I think that the hardest
tournament to win is where the most money is on the line is
because because that's when the pressure is the highest.
And in those events, the best players usually fail and
struggle because their nerves are so high.
So I think the hardest tournament is the big money
tournament, no matter what the prestige says, Yeah.
And I think I. Know what succeeds at?

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That there's like a difference between the hardest tournament
to win, get off because the players can fail to win.
The best players can fail to winthe hardest tournament, but it's
not like the best player necessarily wins.
Right. I, I can see your, your
perspective there. Yeah, I can kind of, I kind of
get that. I, I think naturally the
marathon nature of Evo just justwhittles down a different type
of player to the end every time.I think Captain Cup in its

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current format with groups in the top 16, but, and there's so
many more variables because likeI said, I think 2023 in
comparison to Captain Cup 11 wasass terrible.
Like not not that there was nothing redeemable about it, but
I think captain cup 11 blew the fucking water out of captain Cup
10. And I think a large part of that
was both the the world's being better at the game right now

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because all the regions stepped up, even existing regions
stepped up. I also think there was a bit
more like the offline competition, the 10 qualifiers,
even though I think only 5 only 5 got through the top 16.
To be fair, a lot of the people in the top eight were World
Warrior like it was only. But that but they still make the
groups. They still make the groups they
more exciting, which just by being there, even if they lose,

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either they're making a group it's more entertaining to watch,
or they're building the story ofthe underdog who beat them,
which they but real quick, I just want to put out, I'm not
saying that the person who wins Capcom Cup is not the best
player. Cockaroo and Blast were the best
players at Capcom Cup. That's not my point.
I'm just saying that a lot of Cockaroo didn't fail, but a lot

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of the best players fail, which we regularly see at the big
money events. That's all.
Yeah, I agree with that. But it's interesting the the
topic of like best and consistency versus one off
because I can see it's so biased, right?
And maybe it's wrong to think this way, but I feel like when
you watch like a Bloz or Cockroot, you see a consistent

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future ahead of them. You don't feel like they're
going to, you feel like they're probably going to keep doing
that sort of thing in the future, right.
But that doesn't it's not alwaysthe case.
And you know who got hit with that was MENA Rd.
People like counted in 2017. They said MENA Rd. will never
win another to the tournament again.
And you know what he did struggle for a while.
He did struggle for a while. He had to I think he had to grow

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into that position of being the the champ and adapt.
He got nerfed heavily, right? He was he was kind of really
using like the bullhead push back at the time or bullhorn.
I keep always mix them up. But like he had a lot of his
tactics that were kind of abusable were nerfed and he had
to adapt and he became who he was after that Kaplan cup.
But watching this one, I'm like,you know, Blas Kakadu, like

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Kakadu already was that guy and Blas proved, I think, in the way
you watch him play and the way he dominated.
It's I I foresee him doing that again and again and again.
Bro, and again, a lie. I don't see how people look at
someone like Blas. Like in all seriousness, bro, I
don't see how if you're a competitor and you've been doing
this for a while and you look atBlas that 15 years old playing

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like that and I don't, I don't see how you see that and don't
acknowledge that like some people's brains are different.
Like deeper than hard work, deeper than all that I'm telling
y'all. Blas is born different bro.
Work very hard, but. What if I, I, I do agree to a
degree that that's I, I think genetics play factor and

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whatever I, you know, just like the sports, it's so obvious,
right? You're physically built some way
like, so in your mind, you couldhave an influence as well.
But I absolutely believe, and this has been backed up the most
because we can study this, your plasticity of your brain is at
its greatest when you're young. Starting young in any kind of
mental endeavor is just the cheat code.
Blas started with guidance from his dad and his community at

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like fucking probably from, I don't know the exact year he
started playing, but I'm sure itwas like when he was out the
womb almost right? And by the time he was 10-12
years old, he's beating ass. He's beating grown men and
Street Fighter Five at that timealready.
The only thing with that, Brian,that's a great point.
The only thing I would say to that is that only would would

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explain his technical ability. Whereas you don't win Capcom Cup
with technical ability, you win.Capcom.
Cup with that, with that with and I believe that's why certain
people like Noah Blas and a lot of Asian players, I think
there's a reason why we see themperform so like Lashar.

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I believe there's certain temperaments that are better for
handling these huge like they just or if you're even now, I
know Noah isn't necessarily even, but he's a different type.
He's so confident that he's damnnear aloof to the significance
of the situation, in my opinion.You know the.
Power ups for sure, for sure. Yes, he doesn't.
He doesn't know he's supposed tobe nervous right now.

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You know what I mean? He's like aloof and it makes him
like just play with supreme perfect confidence.
Whereas like the Asian, some of the Asian players, I think
they're just so you, you know, Idon't want to use, I don't know,
Stoicism would be the word, you know, but there is very, I think
those things are best at handling big money tournaments.
Whereas if you're somebody that's a little bit more hot, a

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little bit more, you know, So anyway, to the original point,
not to not to miss the point, I think you can't train that part
of laws. That only explains his technical
ability. He didn't get to practice.
You only get better at big pressure situations by being you
can't read a book for that, you can't study for that.
You can't watch a YouTube video for that.
You got to be in a situation to take in the last shot.

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This is his only his third offline tournament, his life.
Right. No, it was really surprising.
I mean, that was like what we talked about it, right?
Like because I had been you knew, saw Bloss in person at
blink respawn and I got to studyup on him heavy when he was
starting to win all the world warriors in South America East,
and I was like, dude, what the fuck?
I finally tuned in because I there's a bunch of tweets, so

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shoutouts to, you know, South America east, Chile, all that
region. They were making noise about
Blas for a while and that literally is what caught my eye.
I was like, Oh, OK, Blas is winning.
Some people were tagging me in tweets about him playing Ed
whatever, and then finally started like snooping around and
I was like, oh, wait, like this is not just like some guy
winning. He's winning with there.
You can see it like as soon as Istarted watching, I see the

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vision, I'm seeing the fundamentals, I'm seeing the
gameplay. The whip punishes that the with
Ed, with Rio, with everybody else.
Like this doesn't make sense that this is a 15 year old kid.
So I I was really looking forward to my captain cup, but I
thought like the reason why I didn't call him to get out of
that group, for example, even though it's like, I don't know,
Blas looks good. I thought he would be nervous.
I thought he would shoot his pants, get to Japan like holy

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shit, I've never been here before.
I thought he would be human in in these moments and he was
just, I'm I'm sure he was nervous.
I don't think he lacks that emotion, but I think it's a
combination of handling it well plus just being that much
better. I think it's I think it's both.
I don't want to just make it purely about.
I don't think I don't, I don't think it's just being that much
better. I I do think.
It's a combination. Hot hot take.

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Maybe for my eyeballs. He played the best out of
everybody, including Kakaroo formy eyeballs.
Now that can sound crazy becauseKakaroo played perfect and is he
won a tournament, but we can getdeeper into that when we talk
about grand finals. I think for I was most impressed
by Blas, but still still bro, like everybody does have nerves,

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but the way he was able to handle that brother, that's
different. I don't think if he sits and
plays casuals with, I don't believe he has more like
technical ability to like punk in these guys necessarily.
I'm not going to say he has more, he can have the same, but
I. I see what?
You're saying, but I would I would love to see punk who you

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putting money on who you puttingmoney on punk versus blogs
versus Evan tomorrow versus. I would still put money on punk
I guess just this is just data points.
Also it's also because data points, right?
Punk's just been doing it for solong and a longer segment is
more time to adapt and and that kind of a format I would favor
punk but I got. I do agree the most surprising

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thing was in the short set format to be immediately on
points playing near your maximumpotential and never wavering
from that the entire time at even when he was losing to
Kakadu. I do think maybe there was a bit
of a misplay. It's hard to stay within the
grand finals look like the chip sequence he could have gone for
because Kakadu is in burnout. Maybe there there was a hint of

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some decision making error, but the whole time he was just
steamrolling on point. Even when Chuto was challenging
him 32 it never felt like he theconfidence was in the gameplay
the entire time. He exuded it, consistently so.
I've never seen AI never bro, It's it's one of the most
perform, one of the most impressive performances I've
seen in my life, Street Fighter or otherwise.

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Like as far as just competition,you know I'm a huge sports fan.
This is one of the most impressive things I have ever
seen in my life as far as competition bro.
Like he's 15. He three O HE3O shin.
I think he 3 OS Noah, Angry Birdand Lashar back-to-back to back.

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And you saw, but like, it was clear once he had the top 16, he
lost to Cockney, right? So it's like, oh, maybe the
dream run is over, right? But then you remember the
opening play against yen, He didone fireball and then he did
walk, block, walk, block, walk, block, walk, block, throw.
He Daigo walked on CN round one from half screen away into his

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grill and threw him. And I when I saw that in the
first round of top 16 losers forhim, I'm like, he's gonna he's I
knew from that moment I was likeunsure.
And then Kaku beat him. I was like, yeah, maybe.
And then he did that to CN. I was like, oh, he he's going,
he's going to the moon, baby. Like I knew he was about to make
that run. Bro, and the fact that how about
the fact that he's doing it withand Chad.

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I'm not saying that this character is not good, but he
did it with Ryu. Bro, it means something to me
that he did it with Ryu you 15 and the character was Ryu of all
characters, brother like and theand who we looked at as the best
Ryu went Oh, and five the opposite.
So. The opposite type of
performance. Kusanagi, I felt like, I think

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that was the moment. I don't know, I feel like, I
feel like Kusanagi played far below his capabilities at
Captain Club. I don't think.
I also agree that it's not a skill thing, right?
I think he has the skill to beat, but he's done it, you
know? I think that was something
mentally, I'm not sure where he was in his own headspace.
I'd be interested to hear his thoughts, but I feel he very
outperformed for his level. Brian, if he wants to seen if

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laws wants to seen as his bro, that motherfucker I I don't give
a fuck. I've seen enough.
I've seen enough. I'm I'm not one to put too much
sauce on one tournament, even ifit's Capcom cook.
I'm not putting more sauce on one tournament.
That's. What I was saying earlier, it's
about how you win. He did it.
Yes, and that's why I said sometimes our it's tough to meet
those kind of predictions and and sometimes it comes across as

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downplaying the players. That's why I'm careful about it
because that's why I bring up like the MENA Rd. example and
even Uma. Uma's an amazing player.
I don't want to sound like I'm crapping on Uma super strong
player. However, there was a difference
in my soul when you see how Blasapproached it with Ryu and the
fact that he did it through losers.
We got to see so much more evidence and in such a
dominating fashion with Ryu, which even though he hits like a

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fucking truck, he's kind of busted.
His Hashrogecki burnout pressureis that is that is not the Ryu I
knew in Street Fighter four third straight.
You know Hashrogecki right now, right now with especially when
they get put into burnout and the OD Hashrogecki plus frames.
That is not the Ryu we used to know.
So let's be clear about that. He has some cheap ass fucking
pressure like that is the way hechunked the people's drive gate.
I saw him get a jump in combo and then stop the combo short

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after a heavy punch to do another heavy punch on block to
dingen hasho to another heavy punch to odie hasho to burn them
out. Like he had a combo and he
stopped the combo and say oh your drive gauge is at like 1.5
bars. Instead of getting the combo
here, let me just immediately stop and burn you the fuck out
immediately and then rush you tothe corner and then de iced on
you. But to even decide to do that

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and think like that, that fast, under that pressure of his age,
is unfathomable. Ryu has the tools to be.
To be you know, we've been we'vebeen on Twitter or fighting with
the Ryu players and letting themknow the truth about them
goddamn self. Ryu players going to cry no
matter what, you know what I mean?
Is there any way I've been crying after this I I've been.
Hell no, right? Actually got to be true by now.

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I did not think about that. I did not see one Ryu player.
Like only Blas could do. No one else could, you know, it
looked like they playing. A different it's like he playing
a different character than him, bro, like straight up, but I'm
telling you, Oh, I can't wait toyou need to got damn.
You need to do an interview withBlas or something.
If I was there, I would did a little interview with him or

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something, but Blas I'm telling y'all look, man, you know, so
I'm telling y'all. I expect him like I'm sure
everybody watching this thinks Ithink he will end up being if he
wants to keep doing this, he going to be one of the greats.
So I just got to let y'all know that early on, like I told my
boy Brian, we got God damn top 8.
Fucking blink Respawn. That was his first offline

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tournament. He got top 8.
By the way, we got to talk aboutCrime Aid too, because y'all
sleeping on Crime A. But you know, he got top 8 and
he lost. He was real sad and I wrote him
a message and I put it like I translated it or whatever
because he was sad after he lostand everything.
And you know, it's a little emotional situation.
And you know what, That's how hewon a Capcom.
That's how I got second that Capcom Cup, you know what I'm

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saying? That's how he got second that
Capcom Cup, brother, you know, Iain't bragging about it.
It is what it is. So it gave him some
inspirational words. It hit, it hit deep to him.
That's that story really did happen.
What kind of a percentage cut isthat?
Is that like a 10% fifteen of a maybe 100K?
You know how does that work 25? 25.

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Exactly. Pretext.
Pretext. Hollywood rock TV words are that
inspiring. I understand.
Yeah, it makes sense. But that dude is, yeah, he's
fucking amazing. I've never seen no shit like
that I swear to God, but Cry May, please know Little Cry May
is 13 right? He's two years younger than
Blas, and he plays tired in Blasat Blink Respawn.

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Yeah, yeah, he he got revenge for for Blas and I think
crossovers who eliminated him and then Blas beat crossover and
got and got 4th place. If I'm remembering the the
bracket, I know Cry may beat crossover.
I'm just trying to remember the bracket correctly so.
Yeah bro, so all those little dude.
Honestly this the only thing that sucks I would have loved

(20:58):
for I'm I'm super happy because like one I think it worked out
perfectly but if if blahs would have won it would have been so
dope because you bring that would have brought in so many
more kids to see about her. I think.
Well, that would have brought the.
Story still there the story still there that's.
Right, that's true. And I think that Kakadu winning,
I don't know, Blas doesn't have to win too soon.

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I, I think there's so much more ahead that what if after he wins
at 15, then it's like, oh, no expectation, you know what I
mean? Like, who knows, right?
So I, I, I, I think hopefully hefeels just amazing with the
whole experience. I think there's so much more
ahead for him and he's in esports World Cup, which I am
definitely excited, excited about because I think he will

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fuck people up again. Hey hey Brian, you know what's
crazy? By the way bro, with the way
that grand finals played out with chat, I don't know if y'all
thought about this but so the big crazy thing at Capcom Cup
was the the crazy distribution of fucking $1,000,000 for first
place, 100,000 for 2nd place. This is the only player
combination in finish where the that ended up being a big

(22:03):
problem. It it's because it was a kid who
got second place. We it was the luckiest shit ever
a a 15 year old got second place.
Whereas if it was like and it was the underdog story hey
that's nice got 100K that's worth fucking even more in
Chile. And then the the adult with the
wife got $1,000,000 and it feelsOK.
If a grown ass man got second place, we would have to come

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together as a community to save his life.
Right. Yeah, but I was wondering how
Blas would be feeling. And then after that, he's like
smiling happy, like, oh shucks, he got me.
Like, look at the final hit for the, the the fireball, the
spike. He's like, oh, Dang, all right,
good job, man. That motherfucker is crying on
his knees. Like I can't believe I won.

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And Blas is like, hey man, nice job.
It's a bro. Like that was the only way for
us not to have the most depressing set of all time.
It was already bad with Chris Wong, and I know you were you
were forced to shove the mic in Chris Wong's face that that was
rough. Like after Chris Wong lost in in

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Capital Cup 10, but he stole got$300,000.
In retrospect, that almost seemslike amazing.
I mean, it is amazing, but in the moment when you just lost
out on $700,000. Bro, you're not trying to talk,
bro. Yeah, I'm up there fucking
interviewing his ass. He probably wants to smack the
shit out of me brother. I'm like, bro, I I got no choice
and I think I had to interview him before the other like, yeah,

(23:28):
that was crazy. I'm glad they didn't do that
shit this time. That was painful.
I think in general, just like the production of the whole
thing was way better. Like just the, the, the, the,
the fact that it was in that stadium, like I think that's
what was missing from the previous Captain Cups as well,
was the reverence of the stage in the crowd and it being in
Japan. I think Capcom Cup has to be in
Japan from now on. I don't see.

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You know they're doing it there.Yeah, The thing is, I don't see
a future where without Capcom Cup being tied to some kind of
exhibition, some kind of Expo, like a convention like EVO, it's
never going to fill out an entire stadium that size and
another place in the planet, I don't think.
I think it'd be very unlikely, at least not definitely not

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America. Maybe in another country they
could achieve that, maybe in like Dr. Brazil or something.
But Japan has the ability in thepool to have that stadium filled
up with no other extracurricularactivities.
Like there's no there's no convention there to draw the
crowd, even EVO. Why is EVO so big?
It's a convention that people goto, right?
That's what pulls in people. The tournament's leading the

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charge. But the reason why the the
stadium is filled is because it has so much more pool for people
to go to Capcom Cup. Without that, just a raw
tournament. I don't think anywhere else on
the planet would fill a stadium that size.
So Capcom Cup, I mean street fighters is always going to be a
lot bigger in Japan, if that. That feeling was crazy, bro.
Three floors of fucking people like that was absolute insanity.

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Everybody got damn popping off, going crazy.
But I will say it's nice that it's growing in other places
too. Like I do think the fact that
Street Fighter League US sold out tickets in a lot smaller
venue, but it's like 303 hundredtickets, but it's sold out
quickly with no extracurricularslike we couldn't have done.

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That, I mean, 300 is so it's doable, but that's not how much
is that stadium that stadium is.Yeah, no.
What's the name gap? Fucking 1020?
No, no, I'm not saying that gap Japan's biggest.
I'm just saying it's nice that it's growing in.
Other places, yeah, but Japan, Ithink that.
Energy. Is so necessary like the fact
that when you can cut to the crowd and and feed off that

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there is something psychologicalabout seeing that and I actually
I got to watch the the Japanese stream, some of the odds and
being able to hear that the crowd was way more miked up in
the Japanese stream. Oh my God, they're losing their
minds with every hit. There's something so powerful
about just the raw essence of the crowd roaring and being able
to perceive that as the viewer at home.

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I think that is super important to the spectacle of Captain Cup
because like I said it, it sucksthat we, I don't know if I
should say it sucks, but humans need that you especially as you
get further and further away from being the core audience of
like the nerd who cares about, oh, that was +3 and they did the
overhead rate, you know, the rawhuman element of competition,
the stakes at hand. The more things that you can use

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to make that visible and apparent and the stakes apparent
to the audience, the better, right?
And I think we were missing thatin previous years for a while.
I think that was a visible in like 2017 Capital Cup, for
example, that was super visible.This was 2017, I think it was
the last great Capcom Cup in terms of that experience.
And then 2024, they finally brought it back with the stadium

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because it was just the energy was just unreal.
Because 2017 they had the PlayStation experience as well,
which that was a huge stage. I don't know if you went to that
one when, when Menardi won massive stage and it was tied to
the PlayStation Experience convention.
Yeah, 2017. Oh no, I wasn't there.
I wasn't there yet. I had never seen a stage that
big, literally, I'd never seen astage that big in my life.

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The way it was set up was absurd.
And it was at the PlayStation Experience convention.
So there's a bunch of people already there and they had the
convention seating as well, right?
And then 2018 went to the the Luxor, the esports arena.
Yeah, I was there for that one. That's the one where Chris T was
on Team Beast and everything andwhere that's when Gashikun and
Idabashi I want to say. Yeah, but it didn't feel like.

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I it was, that was fun. That was good.
I like that one. I mean it was fun to to play
there and be part of the. LCQ stuff, I feel like it's
different. It's, it's like 2 entirely
different products is what I would say.
When it's in Japan versus in theStates, it's like, I think they
just have two completely different styles, you know what

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I mean? Two different, 2 completely
different cultures. But that crowd brother, oh man,
when the motherfuckers was roaring with.
And then they did a good job even showing love to the
foreigners too, bro. They weren't only showing love
to the Japanese players even though there was extra height
for them. That shit was phenomenal.
There's there's into it. It's big in Japan, man.
Like like I know we had the debate about Street Fighter

(28:09):
going to Japan. I, I, I want to reinforce that
culturally street fighters is killing it in Japan relative.
But even then at the end of the day, it's also I saw some stats
like captain cup peaked near evonumbers and it's still only like
top 10 most viewed E sport eventthis year.
Like we still have so much more to go relative to.
Hey, that's, I'm not going to lie, that's exciting to me

(28:32):
though. The fact that our shit is this
fire already and we still got that much to go that's shit.
I think mother and we on the way.
I'm not gonna lie Nah, hell no. What good reason, though, What
good reason? That shit bro, that product, the
product we just saw that Capcom cook bro I'm on the East Coast.
It was like 6:00 AM chat. I don't know where y'all like if

(28:53):
y'all if it was late for y'all too watching it.
It was like 6 AMI was still up offered that I was sleepy by the
time we got the grand finals bro, cause the the momentum was
so goddamn good. That thing is just good TV in my
opinion. Like that was that was good ass
TVI think you didn't even need to need to know Street Fighter.
Like my girl ain't no blas, but she was rooting for him.
I was. Just there's a storyline there.

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Like if Blas didn't pull that run there, it wouldn't be good
TV, right? It it, it would be hard to
capture that same magic. I think we had the perfect
storyline for this being a very dramatic event.
And I think Blas not winning is still the the best and ending,
right? This is the beginning of the
saga, right? He can't win in the beginning, I
feel like. So yeah, I knew it was a perfect

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TV, but even then it speaks to like the viewership.
I still feel like a lot more events might end up being more
Japanese audience focus. 3 fighter league like it just
there's they got a taste of it like oh this was successful.
You think more events might be Japanese focus Japanese
audience? In general, they're taking
Captain Cup back to Japan again.I just think in general they're

(29:55):
starting to, I mean, I think powerful the audience in Japan
is. Of course they, I mean, I think
they know that though that Japanbeen selling out events over
there for a long ass time. Anything they said they they
shoot, I mean they throw over there, they sell it out.
But like they still just put howmany majors in America and other

(30:17):
in other countries outside of they could have been like, Yo,
we'd about to put 90% of the majors in Japan, you know?
That's true. Like I think I think so they
they clearly some this the numbers and metrics and
everything is telling them that it's valuable to spread to other
places and stuff and maybe even these World Warrior choices they

(30:37):
made might show that as real. What's up with the UK get in the
the Super region. So for for people listening to
this who don't know they announced the format of what
you're sipping the drink we're getting.
We're getting quiet there. I'm, you know, I hate, I don't
even know, should should bring this up.
This has already been buried I feel like.
You talking about the East Coast?
I wonder if you talking. About talking about someone.

(30:59):
The controversy. Some plants that might need to
be watered, I don't know. So no one has already been
fired. Shots left right and center.
I feel like it was already buried, but there seems to be a
weird like OK, let me just startthis over to make it clear for
people listening. Don't know.
They announced the CPT format, right?
So they announced that they're going to be cutting back on
super regions for the most part.Super regions was where you got

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two people qualifying out of a region for World Warriors.
That that way they can add more.They added a point system to the
CPT tour for six players to qualify via points earned over
the 8 events and they had to cut, you know, something from
somewhere to make room for that in 48 players.
So all the Super regions are gone except for Japan, China,
Asia East and then UK and Ireland which that is fucking

(31:46):
random. Hold on, So what are what are so
So what are the ones outside of UK and Ireland?
Japan, China, Asia E which kind of makes sense to me.
They, they like if I were to decide right now of like 6
regions or something, who what would I pick to have a super
region that I would put all three of those on there, but UK
and Ireland would be lower on mylist than US East or you know,

(32:11):
games to say like it'd be lower.I'm so I'm so happy they brought
points back Yeah, the the US E the not having a super premier
though, it hurts my soul bro whowho have to fight each other
over there. Yeah, it's it's a lot, but.
This whole but but to me that concept is not like you can't

(32:31):
tell me to me like oh they got Xamount of premieres in America
bro, if it's a premiere, people are going to be here from there
it don't matter like the best players from around the world
are going to pull up regardless.Well, not.
You know what I'm saying? Not everyone, but a lot.
A lot of them if they can affordto go.
I mean, it's not your whole ethos as well, right?

(32:52):
I mean, like, we saw blahs. Blahs probably won't.
Oh, now he can. Yeah, but that was my.
That was on the accelerator program to 1st class to these
tournaments. But but I'm saying before that,
right, like they're still there is to be fair to, you know,
people from these regions, right, there are super good
players. I can't go to these tournaments,
but I also like to. I've I've heard that hear that

(33:13):
argument a lot and I agree with it.
But also I do want to be clear. Japan was in a tough spot.
Dude. Japan, I don't care what anyone
says, Japan is take the Top 40 players on the planet.
Half of them might be from Japanat any point, you know what I
mean? Just like the density of talent
there is absurd and not at any point in time.
The best player is probably not Japanese.
You know, like we've seen plentyperiods of time where the best

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part of the planet is not Japanese.
That's normal. The top dogs are from around the
world, the very, very top. But in terms of density, Japan
was getting the worst end of this deal by far, right?
Like that to me is. Just objective.
But even then it's different because US E has so there's more
heavy top hitters that would be were were being impacted where

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Japan had like 100 potential capital cup qualifiers, none of
them necessarily that much abovethe other than like maybe the
top 20, but there's still like 60 other players.
You could be like, oh, maybe if they if they did really well,
they could get in, right. There's just so many strong
players in Japan that are on that potentially on that caliber
at any point in time. So it's it's a weird well.

(34:18):
Now I wonder now, how do you feel about the point system in
general though? And you know, how is everybody
feeling about that? Like Chat and Brian.
Like, I like it. It's not.
Perfect. But I like it.
It's fire that day. Yeah, I think it's fire that
they brought that shit back. Bro.
Bro we can't have my fucking traveling submit all this paper
just to get nothing in return. It makes no sense.

(34:38):
Give me some goddamn points if Icooked up bro.
Yeah, people get in 2nd place and get nothing in return.
And I think from a viewership perspective.
We need that. It's going to add a lot for us,
too. It's going to be way more
exciting to know, oh, he needs to get at least fifth place at
this tournament or he need, you know what I mean?
That's great. And it just encourages players
to travel who can, right? Like the fact that the world was

(34:59):
becoming more and more insular with what we were seeing.
And even Daigo was talking aboutthat he was making an effort to
go. I I don't think Daigo was like,
I'm probably going to win. I don't think he was even of
that confidence of like, yeah, I'm probably going to win this
tournament. He was just going to like
support the scenes and. And make it.
Love Yeah, he, he made some comments about how he

(35:21):
understands why they're doing World Warrior and it's good to
build up scenes from around the world.
But he he said he made an effortto show support for going
through these events. You know, he's he's not saying
anything critical really. But with Japanese culture, the
way he phrases things, I would advise I, there's a specific
speech he gave about it where you can, you can kind of get
some perspective of like, he's going to these tournaments

(35:43):
because he's concerned about their longevity, literally
because people aren't going anymore because, you know,
especially from Japan, Japanese yen is weak right now.
So there's economic pressure andthere's very little incentive to
go based on the format. And he's like, well, I can
afford to go. And he knows his his pool that
he brings at least it like helpssupport the tournaments and
maybe he gets people interested.Now they will actually travel.

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I'm I'm hoping I. Think they're going to pull up?
But I wonder to what degree. I don't think it'll be like pre
COVID. I think it'll be, I think it'll
be a lot closer than what it is right now, because right now
the, the, the system is, was already so good.
The infrastructure is so good inJapan.
They're already making such bankover there by themselves.
I'm not about to travel around the world, across the world.
And I got to get first place to get anything out of it, whereas

(36:29):
now if they can get second, third or fifth, I mean, if you
know, XYZI think they'll actually pull up a lot more.
By the way, though, Brian and I know if if I'm switching this
topic too quick, then let me know because I I've seen that in
the comment section last time. But as far as back back to cup,
because I'm not going to talk about that shit.
What are we saying about like mymen's?
Like what? I guess we can even look group

(36:50):
to group. I got it pulled up.
Let's look, group, to group the evidence.
Yeah, hold up. Let me pull your shit up, group.
AII think we all called that wrong.
I mean we, I think for the most part we all saw said punk, punk,
phenom or punk eat is on. So that was a wash.
Bro talk him or to be honest. It's it's not surprising.

(37:13):
At some point we no, no it's notand we need to speak on him a
bit differently after we show him respect.
But I feel like we only talk about him as the Super genius
lab God, but not necessarily like we expect him to have
certain results, you know what Imean?
Right, right. Like honestly, he I I don't

(37:35):
remember the exact score of Punk, but I think they even
might have played the mirror match or they or did he use Ken?
I think he played the they played the Cami mirror.
No, against Phenom. Phenom played the cami mirror
and and B Punk. Yeah, right.
No Takamara. He he played only Ken this whole
tournament and and it was a crazy set versus Punk.
Punk did win that one, but it was close.
And if he had lost that set to Takamura, he was out.

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You know what I mean? Like he had one more shot to to
make it through with the next set.
But if Takamura had beat him, itwas over.
So Takamura only lost a Punk, I think.
I think he was four and one. That's the situation.
Bro, that that alone, I mean as far as group 8 punk not making
it in, not even make it out of the group.
I personally, I don't know how y'all have it for me.

(38:16):
It's too hard to. I'm not going to lie now I'm not
going. I think it's too hard to call
who's the best player in the world right now after what we
just saw, but Punk is at least in the conversation.
He's definitely stronger than not making out of the out of the
group, but I think the pressure,not that he doesn't handle
pressure wheel because he just won Evo.
So Punk I don't need no goddamn angry to.
Me, I fucked with you I. Got and you won you you the

(38:39):
chance. But I do think entire I think
this is just pressure bro. Because I don't because skill
wise is not skill wise punk not losing this in my opinion.
I think it's pressure. Yeah, I mean, I kind of agree.
I think he's, I think he's just inconsistent with the pressure.
That's all it is. I think when he's when he's on,
he's on. And if he's not on, he's not on.
It's just that happens. And then, but I mean, shout out

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to Salvatore. He definitely did his thing.
And he was another one I was looking out for because he
qualified out of the region, theSouth America East region,
right. And so after I was setting it up
with Blahs, I didn't see too many matches with Salvatore
leading up to that. But then when I saw that he
qualified and not, it wasn't like crime or, or Dookie or, you
know, those were the other namesI was thinking of.

(39:21):
Like to get out of there. I was like, oh, he must be
fucking nice. Like it like that region
established itself to me over the course of the season.
To the point where you going to respect whoever makes it out of
that. By name, which is not it's not
been the case. I have to like double check the
players level to like, you know,in the past I've I've been I
just think in general this wholecaptain Cup, the world really

(39:41):
turned up like I was is so much happier overall.
What the level of play and I I think that's just like time too,
like the the people finally caught up.
You're what I'm. Glad you said that.
I agree. I do think I do think people are
like the world is way stronger as Street Fighter.
Yeah, generally speaking, peopleare putting in all kind of time
with this stuff and this level up never happens without World

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Warrior. World War is the number one
reason of everything, the numberone reason that the world is
better at Street Fighter becausethey wouldn't even be training
that hard or XYZ as it wouldn't be as many people training that
hard and as many entrants and people to train with if not for
knowing we have World Warrior totrain for every year.

(40:26):
So that's why we're seeing everybody so much stronger now.
So World Warriors. I got to.
I got to agree. I hope we can capitalize on that
and get them offline at some point that's.
That's my big. Thing with this is like I love
what the World War has done for the individual competitors, but
and, and I see people like I, I have a reputation for some
people. Some people think I hate World

(40:47):
Warrior and I don't want people to ever have opportunities,
which I, I that drives me fucking nuts considering all the
work I try to put into on my platform to highlight people
that drives me. I'm a little hurt when I see
that, to be quite honest, considering how much I've done
on my own spare time to try to make an effort for the Western
world. Who's not familiar?
With these players are showing up, you want you want a good
product even for them. I want these players to be

(41:08):
visible in some kind of way and,and maybe like the way it works
right now, if we only had World Warrior where you you finish
your regional finals and it's all faceless offline tournaments
and that's it. And then they go to Captain Cup
and they potentially don't do good.
That fucking sucks for everybodyinvolved.
For everybody involved, the player gets disrespected.
It's just bad. It's just bad optics, right?
But if you maybe had more inter season opportunities, like, oh,

(41:31):
maybe you're the top point earner halfway through, we fly
you out to an offline qualifier like something.
I don't know, I don't have a perfect system, but maybe you
can start bringing people into tournaments if they get to some
point through the World Warrior program or have some kind of
halfway season point where you have players play it out for
seeding. Something to bridge the gap to
start seeing their face and getting familiar with their
level and be like, oh, look, this guy from this region took

(41:54):
this set on this guy from this region.
Now you have a reference point for people across the globe who
never meet with each other. And now, you know, oh, once he
shows up to this group, yeah, I kind of have a feel for where
he's at in the world because otherwise, it's great that when
they turned up this captain club, but it could have been
horrible. It could have been like last
year or five all over the place.No, that never happened.

(42:15):
That Capcom Cup, I don't want tospend time.
I don't want to spend time goingback.
But no, I can show you. There was one fours everywhere.
It was. Born bro at Capcom Cup the last
two years the world warrior guysthat were unknown did good
because I remember I was talkingshit all on Twitter about it and
and I specifically remember for the last two years that happened

(42:37):
they did good. I'm not saying they made it this
far. They did, but a lot of them did
good. But it was better.
It was. Better this year it.
Was better this year. I think the the stats are it's
objectively better. This the all the from the world
warriors, from the players from the Regents who generally did
not have much offline presence. I think objectively did better
this year. I don't think there's any.
You know that, you know, the only rough thing I feel on which

(42:59):
I know I'm not, I feel like I can't even, I'm not even allowed
to speak on it 'cause people arejust going like the homies even
be calling me a fucking the Capcom employee and shit even
though I'm not. But in the end of the day, like,
like there's so much expected ofthem, bro.
Like what can you like? What's the answer to some of
this stuff? You know what I mean?

(43:19):
Like how easy is it to just make?
So you're going to make more offline tournaments out of thin
air and pay money for all of theplayers to travel?
The reality is tough, but they there's tournaments that exist
that are big in these for these regions.
There's majors in Chile, there'smajors in Brazil.
They there are tournaments that exist.
Or you said just work with work with work with stuff that's

(43:39):
already there. But you.
But you get what I'm saying. If you're going to make an
official Capcom production you need to pay for, there's a
minimum standard. There's a minimum standard which
costs money is all I'm saying. No, it's not easy.
It's not easy. That's that's why I like I'm.
But but I feel not. Too critical.
But yeah, everything this is a pie in the sky ideal reality,
which it's not easy to get there.

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And so in some ways, this this format to many is a step back,
right? Like a lot of people were like
pissed at their they lost super their super region status.
And like, I definitely empathizewith that.
Format is a step back. Oh yeah, Oh yeah, go talk to
someone from Chile right now. Oh, because they lost the They
lost the spot. Oh yeah, you don't think?

(44:22):
You don't think I'm getting tagged left right and centered
from people pissed at me? I'm telling you, you hate
different. That's because you hate
different countries. Oh yeah, that's why.
Of course you think the little guy should stay down of.
Course bro, that's always what I've been saying F that's always
what I've been. Saying F lost you guys are a
spot. A Brian F lost you guy.
He got a big platform. Listen, this is going on there.
There's going to be something lost, the translation and this

(44:43):
humor is not going to come across well, man, you're going
to get me, OK? I'll get it.
I'm trolled. I'm trolled.
I'm trolled. Listen, we're going to have that
CPT event in Chile and I try to roll up.
That's not going to end well, man.
Come on. No bro what the hell no Ryan
Ryan got y'all got their back. He just want to point system
too. He didn't know that they was
going to goddamn do it like this.
Shit like. But I understand like they they

(45:07):
lost access to Capcom cup and or50% right.
So I can understand definitely being upset about that.
That makes sense to me. So I I just hope they can build
it up in some way like it it's. To be fair, as far as making a
better Capcom cup overall, I feel like this is this makes
sense. Balance like this.
This helps balance wires in my opinion.

(45:27):
I empathize though with the regions that's losing a spot.
That fucking sucks. But you still are getting
represent. We still get representation from
these places, which is a beautiful thing, but now you're
going to even more offline qualifiers, which is fucking
awesome as far as making a better show, you know what I
mean? It it is.
Making a better show. And that is a better show.

(45:48):
It makes a better show season and it makes a better overall
season. What I've noticed is we've been
to clear about we've got things so much more consolidated.
Evo and Capcom Cup I think are thriving, but everything in
between is hurting, which has been my major concern.
The season itself in terms of spectating has been is it's
objectively worse. And as a spectator you have you

(46:10):
have far less opportunities to see this kind of action.
And the events themselves mean alittle bit less overall,
considering there's no interconnection between them,
and less players are incentivized to travel to them,
which hurts the overall attendance rate and the level of
competition. And you know what?
And it and it and it really, I think it's going to be way more.
Before it was like, OK, we mightas well just go to fucking grand

(46:31):
finals, you know what I mean? That's all we fucking want to
see. And then all this shit
technically don't even fucking matter now.
It actually matters the whole way through.
And before we had that horrible issue of like, what was it like
if, Oh yeah, if somebody alreadyqualified, but they're in first,
they're in grand finals. Winners side.
Now grand finals don't even matter.
And we only care about losers finals.
Right, which happened in the world, right?

(46:52):
Yeah, yeah, it happened to multiple tournaments, right?
Even like the the Super premier,right?
You only care about grand finals.
Winners side is already decided.Then losers finals is actually
the grand finals. Like when nephew, he went up
against Zhen, I think, right. Once he got once he got the
fight shuto like it was just forpride, which does matter a
little, but it's not the same. It's already deflating the
stakes for the audience. Yeah, So honestly, Brian, oh,

(47:16):
and I know we sit on on on GroupA, but I just want to throw in
here too. I really think that like Street
Fighter is in an amazing place because of the point system now,
because we're coming off of a fucking super classic cap palm
cut. I think we we have a champion
who is going to fucking stay playing and he's.

(47:39):
Playing today, you know, You know he's already been
streaming. I was watching him this morning.
He's already on ranked, he's playing JP.
My akuma. Thanks.
Yes, thank. God he's literally back on the
grind. So much for the scene that does
so much for us. He.
He. Was reviewing Blas replays and
and the replay viewer. He's playing Ryu himself.
He's immediately, immediately on.
Uzura, Uzura, he coming back. But that's true.

(48:04):
If you guys don't know, Kaku used to be Uzado.
He was the original Evo at the tail end of Street Fighter Five.
In case you don't know God like Ryu at Red Bull Kumate.
I got to play him back from the day.
Him being that, I feel like us having him does so much for the
whole scene now. Like I feel like I just saw for
me personally, for raw TVI saw my First Street Fighter

(48:28):
millionaire last last week. Me personally, I don't count the
UMA one for me because I didn't get to have the emotion of
seeing somebody that is my homie, somebody that I've been
around. And when I say my homie, I don't
mean like tight like me and Brian, just I consider everybody
in the scene my goddamn homie. If you've been around this
motherfucker for long enough, like you my goddamn dog.

(48:50):
So cockroot is like, you know, one of us, one of us, You get
what I'm saying? Fucking won $1,000,000 bro.
I love that shit man. Like, yeah, it's just good to
have someone you know, is going to, like, stick around, you
know? Yeah, I, I feel bad for the UMA
example because he's free to do whatever he wants.
But it does hurt. It hurts to be honest because we

(49:11):
want to see the stakes of. It we worked hard to to build
this shit up to the point where this shit somebody can get
$1,000,000 and out of everybody who could have won it, he won
fair and squirts for God bless him.
I'm I'm not trying to shit on you buddy.
That's OK. You won a million you no, but
you rich, you don't get fucked what I'm saying.
So in the end of the day we workthat hard just for my fucking to

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just take it and leave. Well, he's still, he does do
things like streaming and he does do some coaching.
So it's not like he's totally removed.
He has his own online presence. So I just want to be fair to
Uma. It's not visible to us in the
West. So he's doing some things right.
He's I think he's been coaching some V tubers, some Street
Fighter stuff. I I think that actually did
happen, but I'm not misremembering it like so he's

(49:58):
just bridging his passions here,man, I don't know.
So I, I think I he's still contributed in some ways, But
yes, it's a bit different when you know, it's a player that's
invested and and wants to continue to compete.
It's definitely different and itit like we we think of like a
Daigo. Like the reason why the Daigo
means so much is not just because he was so dominant in
his prime and continued to be one of the best in the world for

(50:20):
so long. It's because he continues to be
that right, like the will of thekeep winning right.
That is what makes it so great. Winning once and then doing
nothing. It's great, but continuing to
try and continuing to improve yourself, that constant testing
yourself and, and constant innovation and, and reforming
yourself and improving, that's what makes someone legendary.

(50:41):
So I feel like there's a spirit of that in Kakadu.
Like you immediately. See, I agree.
I agree immediately. OK, just a real quick side
thing. As for I see Idabashi, of course
he went two and three, but did you see that video?
Did y'all see that video about Idabashi like the?
Interview about Idazon or his interview about Nemo No.

(51:02):
No, no, he was talking about like how he lives life and like
the whole like why he lives a grappler, like he, he believes
in gambling in life, like he believes in high risk, high
reward, and that's how he lives his whole life, even right now.
So that's why he plays. That's how he lives and that's
why he plays Inky. We need this crazy.
I didn't know he would get philosophical like that with
that. We need the grappler anime that

(51:22):
sounds. What is the the gambling anime?
There's a whole it's our whole degenerate gambling anime.
Like the the point of life is isgambling it it gets pretty
messed up. It's a, there's a pretty famous
anime where he keeps like raising the stakes and gambling
like his whole life away. Yeah, I've, I've been touching

(51:44):
some of the stakes and some of the plot points for that.
That anime, it's absurd. Like, and like there's like
screenshots, just keep gambling.Like the guy's whole mantra,
it's like, just keep gambling. It's pretty good, but it's meant
to be messed. Up.
Maybe. Maybe that's where Edison was
inspired by, but that's nuts. I didn't think he would take it
to a philosophical level. Yeah, like even like it's

(52:07):
probably career choices and everything, you know what I
mean? Like that's cool as hell, St.
Fighter players gamble. Group motherfucking B brother.
You know what the fuck I want totalk about, Brian?
You know who I want to talk about?
Nobody got their project. You don't like it?
What it is what it is. That little motherfucker
understand on business now he needs to learn how to pop off.

(52:27):
He need to learn how to pop off.I'm not going to sit up here a
lot of y'all. That should be awkward sometimes
that should be crazy sometimes No, you got to fucking come on,
brother. You talk about our oh hood HOOD
*** in the hood. We smoother with that shit ***
You got to God damn get a littlebit of it.
You know what I'm saying? That should be a little what the
fuck you doing, but. You're winning, but have you

(52:48):
considered that? Have you considered that he has
to give Shout outs to Reggie, shout outs to Quincy, shout outs
to. That's the blackest shit I've
ever seen shout out. Stuff I've Over the course of
this season in Capital Cup, I'vebegun to learn his whole crew by
name. Like I'm predicting those are
the real names. Reggie Quincy.
My boy USO. USO who else is in there?

(53:09):
There's a there's a handful. There's there's a few other in
there. I, I, I feel like I've known
them. I've grown with this crew.
To understand Noah and his journey.
Shit in the fucking chat. I told you about that shit.
Oh my God. He'll put fucking stupid ass
gang shit in chat. Stop it.
He's a slat. Shout out to slat.
Yeah, shout him out. He cooked slat.

(53:30):
Cooked in groups. Oh, I thought he was saying slat
as in. OK, never mind Brian.
I think you might be confused. Oh, I hope not.
What is? What is?
What is no one making me say? No comment.
Nothing. No comment, Brian.
You initiate it now You initiateit, Brian.
Damn. That's it.
Remember we did that freestyle back in the day.
I can't go to LA. Like, yeah, this podcast is

(53:54):
taking me down, man. I'm just trying to talk Street
Fighter. Bro, OK, not because Noah's
here, we we can be completely honest chat and everybody here.
Oh you are talking about Slack OK, OK Noah but chat Brian
everybody where do we have Noah in America?
Is he #2 Why? Why are you trying?

(54:17):
To start this, what are you trying to start this?
I want to know your No, I'm not.I'm not.
He's one of the best. He is now.
I think no. No, no, no, no, no, I'm not.
Shut up. Don't say who is one of the
best. I didn't say that.
I said numerically because before.
I ain't doing no numerical. Well, if I had to do numerical,
can I do it? Let me think.
Hold on. I think it's too ambiguous, but

(54:39):
now I got Noah #2. Yeah, yeah, who #2.
I used, I had Kev #2 even thoughhe was beating Kev because I
felt like Kev was more consistent and was just
stronger. But at this point, I can't, I
can't. That's disrespectful.
Like he, he's done. Kev was so close to making this
happen, too, because he was one round away from like he was
almost about to be Kakadu in that group.

(55:00):
You know, he was so close to to making history happened for
himself. Yeah.
And but. Everybody who's saying three,
who y'all got #2 if y'all don't got no one, number two, you
know, for now. His his argument he used to
always make is like, oh, resultswise I'm the best now I know
notice in the chat the problem I've had with also with the

(55:24):
format. The way things work.
Noah has won tournaments, amazing tournaments.
It gets amazing competition. However, so many players don't
show up to these tournaments because the formats don't
incentivize people to show up. So like the players that like he
when he wins, like you don't, you don't have punk often there.
You don't have like Knuckle do often there, like there's
players were and not to discredit his wins, but it then

(55:45):
becomes hard at least this stupid ambiguity because people
are at home to know his credit, though.
I want to be absolutely clear, clear.
He's the one actually going to every tournament and trying to
show up and and play, which I must prefer.
I much prefer that. That though, Brian, This is why
I got Noah #2 and if anything, nor my little guy.
No, he won. He's done the best.
But Kev is my goddamn like real life, like my one of my best

(56:09):
friends in my life and I'm even having to say this little dude
#2 off of results. He's been beating cabs
consistently. Beating camp consistently. 1
premiere. Motherfucker went to EWC.
Qualify for EWC in a hard ass tournament in France.
And got 9th. Beat God like players qualify
for in France and then at EWC he's the highest place in

(56:29):
American at EWC. Then he go to Capcom Cup.
Then he win 2 majors, 1 premiere, one regular and then
he go to Capcom cup and he's thehighest place in American but
not like even highest place in 16th place.
He got fucking 5th place at Capcom Cup.
That's crazy. Brother, there is it's over.
I don't see the logic in this debate.

(56:51):
There is no more debate. Like it's not even at that
point. It's like now I want to add a.
Let me add a caveat, Brian, I'llgo ahead.
Go ahead. I just love when Noah wins
because it's so funny seeing so many people try to grapple in
their mind like no, how was he like like to me?
Because they definitely play ugly as fuck.
He play ugly as fuck. I don't even think it's ugly.
I've I've grown to really appreciate when Noah plays.

(57:13):
It's not ugly. It's not ugly.
It's just it's constantly, it's this constant freight train of
momentum. But you can see the pattern
there. And I do think he gets like shut
down when he runs into certain players like a Kakadu Blahs,
right? I've seen Angry Bird do a
similar thing to him, right? It's like, I think there's some
players who are the top level echelon where they just pick
that apart immediately and it's just not working versus them.

(57:34):
But for everybody else on the planet, I think Noah has a
really good shot of beating themfrequently in high stakes
moments. And then like so many people
when they watch them play, I feel like there's a deep
psychological reason for it. It's because Noah on the surface
level reminds them of that random dude in ranked who played
like ass, but for some reason hebeats you free and maybe he even

(57:58):
like won and dunge you and quit and you're like, what the fuck
is wrong with this guy? He's such a scrub.
You know what I mean? Like that, that that trauma that
occurred from that ass beating and ranked people see Noah and
it has on the surface that same that same style and they'd go
that's that's that guy. They're they're seeing their
demons in Noah's. Gameplay and it's also the

(58:18):
fucking people look at Noah as like a Street Fighter 6 product
like they feel like he is. They think he's the embodiment
of everything was St. Rider 6.
They think he's the embodiment of it.
So if you don't like street Rider 6, then Noah's success
extra piss you off. But I want to add this Brian, in

(58:39):
my opinion, ask me if you ask mewho's my top five in America
chat, listen to this. Tell me if I'm tripping, there's
one talk about in America in a regular low stakes tournament
and no one might not even be in my fucking top five.
Make it TNS or some shit like that.
I don't got no. If we talk about just raw
casuals or fucking something like that, I'm gonna have like 5

(59:00):
people. I'm gonna have JB over.
No, I'm gonna have Knuckle Doo over.
No, I'm have a cab over. No, I'm gonna have all these
people over. Noah now put it when it matters
the fuck most. That *** might be #1 right now.
But Punk one evil so I can't saythat, but low key I I kind of
when it matters the most. That *** is better than him.
He better than all them facts. Am I tripping chat?

(59:24):
I don't. I think you're statistically.
Correct, his style and his personality.
His style and his mentality is his superpower is not for
casuals. You it's bro.
You know what it is Brian. I know exactly what it is.
It's the same reason why grappler players at Capcom Cup,
at least for a lot of years, we're always doing great because

(59:45):
it's so scary to fight that style.
For a million dollars, $250,000 are the biggest.
Money. They're used to gambling.
They're used to getting on a plane and flying 14 hours across
the planet to play first and twoon a coin flip.
Yes. So now you plan Noah, You and
his domain expansion, You and the Gray.
And then now you, you playing him for all that mother fucking

(01:00:07):
money, No one don't give a fuck about none of that.
He don't even know people to be scared.
He really. I talked to a backstage when you
got to play in the big tournament or something like
that. Bro.
He talking crazy about everybodylike end game.
End game. He's like, yeah, you know, these
*** scared of these lights. I'm from the hood.
I got my house raided. All this time the *** are
telling me all these random ass stories.

(01:00:28):
They don't got shit to do with Street Fighter.
Like, yeah, *** I got my house raided.
I ain't worried about this but. Drive rush over beat.
His ass. Then he were at work cooking in
my buckets. Oh my God, he got top.
In my captain. Cup no, he got top in a captain
cup winters side and then in hissocks ran around arms up the

(01:00:48):
whole stage in Japan and the andthe whole audience is like golf
clapping like yay no ones there it is socks Taco maras in
shambles. Like I can't fucking believe I
just lost this to Noah the prodigy.
And then no ones running around everyone there.
Like yeah, you saw the front rowaudience or like what?

(01:01:10):
Yes, like. Yes and then he went over there
and then he'll go clapping peoples hands and shit.
He'll take all day too. He'll give a fuck out of
production. He would.
Have his. Miles, he would have climbed
that entire stadium, yeah. He gonna have this fucking
moment out there, I think. You're right.
I think you're right. I think statistically he's just
been doing better in these big events compared to everyone.
And I, I definitely agree with your assessment.

(01:01:31):
It's like it's so hard to call who's best because I think
stakes, context and format matter so much.
But our formats right now for the biggest price tournaments
besides EVO, which I would stilllet me let me give Noah some
fuel, I would still bet on like a punk, do whatever at an EVO.
I think that's a different type of format.
A marathon format is different, but in a group stage format and

(01:01:53):
to a condensed top 16, I feel like Noah, that's his.
That's his domain. His style might be too fucking
volatile to win a fucking 7000 man tournament.
I think there's something so different about a marathon like
Evo, and that's where I think you see players like like Punk
shine better and even like a Blase.
I can see Blase. I don't see any flaws.

(01:02:15):
I don't see any flaws. Well.
You know, honestly Brian, I feellike if not for, if not for,
what's the name for Blas? I think Noah would have had a
decent chance to get second place to be honest.
Second, really hold on. You're thinking that Noah was
going to beat after Blas. It was Angry Bird and Lashar.

(01:02:39):
I think Angry Bird is the the road stop for for Noah.
I mean, I'll believe it when I see.
It. Yeah, yeah.
No, no, no, no. That's fair.
That's fair. That's fair.
I don't know. I don't know.
You're right. I.
I Angry Bird picked apart Noah at his esports World Cup
qualifier. Was it the mix up in France?
Angry Bird picked him apart. Like kind of how punk does, you

(01:03:00):
know what I mean? Like there's a certain type of
play style. When Angry Bird did that, it was
at it was after Noah already qualified.
True if I remember. Correctly, he already, you know,
he already had the pop offs. He beat he beat Lashar.
Yes, he beat Lashar to do that. Lashar.
Noah Noah beat Lashar to do that.
Yeah, you didn't know that Noah beat Lashar to qualify for E
Sports World Cup and then. OK, OK, yeah, he could have got

(01:03:22):
like, I'm not saying he would have, but he had a.
Good. No, but I think Angry Bird is
more more stable than Lachar. I think Lachar is is showing
he's human. I think Lachar is technical
skill wise, I still put Lachar potentially top one, but I think
I think that that's what he's lacking.
If I had If I had a guess. OK OK shit, but that's really a

(01:03:46):
good conversation from Capcom. Cut bro 'cause we got to keep
going on the group but. Group A we we were fucking
wrong. Group B you called it Noah.
Group C you guys were fucking wrong.
I don't know how neither of you talked about Cap could do this.
I feel like I was losing my mind.
Chat listen all through the the group draw stream.

(01:04:09):
We did the podcast after as wellwith Ridge and Yipes, then doing
this stream with Idom. The whole time I kept just
saying Kakadu, Kakadu, Kakadu. I feel like no one was lit.
Like where what planet was everybody on this whole season?
I don't understand like this wasthis is such an easy objective
call because Kakadu was just winning everything in Japan.
Well, not everything, I'm exaggerating, but he was the

(01:04:30):
most, he was winning the most out of everybody in Japan, in
Japan the entire season. Well excuse me for not knowing
that JP was still top one. Broken as fuck.
That's what. It is after the nerve excuse me
for not knowing that Brian no, but you know you know I had Kev.
I had Kev but I had cock were losers.

(01:04:50):
I don't didn't have cock remainsat.
All that's crazy. But I was not.
But I did not put the same levelof respect that you put.
To be fair, you know, I'm biased.
Allegedly so. You know, I've heard rumors.
To be fair, the only, the only person that I had him not making
it out on top of was my goddamn best friend.

(01:05:12):
Right, Respectfully, right, respectfully.
And I think, I don't think it's going to be biased.
I wonder if I don't was being a little biased too, but dual
Kevin could have done it. You know, it's these groups are
fucking tough, but still like I want numbers on that one.
Kakadu. Just, you know, it's a Pango
league and then World Warrior Japan.
It's just, and he did it with somany characters.
You know, he, he, he did it withBison, he did it with Akuma, and

(01:05:34):
then he did it with JP. So at that point I'm like the
dude's metaproof. It doesn't matter.
And then he got #1 rank with my right away.
He, he was doing it with Ryu andStreet Fighter Five.
Like he's proved to me a good JPplayer.
I, they, they're not necessarilymetaproof, you know what I mean?
Like I hey, case in point here, you know what I'm saying?
Like they're not necessarily meta proof, but Kakadu quickly

(01:05:55):
proved. That's what I was wondering
after the the that second Topanga league was like, oh OK,
it doesn't matter what characterit is.
He's just of that caliber. Even when doing with the
character like JP. I think a lot of JP players are
their JP specialist, right? Like that's their guy.
And Kakaroo is the the best and he is the definition.
He the definition of motherfucking when that bag on
the line. Gamers A.

(01:06:16):
He he more he more of that than Noah.
That mother fucker is when that bag on the line.
Bro how much money? Is 1.4 million minimum.
I mean, he's got a lot more. Yes, 1.4 something million bro
bro you when he won that game was eight.
That was the highest paying Street Fighter tournament of all
time at that point. Y'all got to remember that he

(01:06:38):
won it when it was the most money somebody ever won and then
he wins this. Approximate Winnings 1,457,657
Approximate Without sponsorships, without Street
Fighter League, whatever behind the scenes, you know what I
mean? Like without whatever other
extracurriculars he has going on.

(01:07:00):
It's crazy because like all he could win so many more
tournaments and it'll just be a rounding error compared to this,
how much income he's made now from these.
You know The funny thing I want,I want to see how it if it
affects his play at all. I don't think it will, but just
for some people it could be the silk pajamas issue where you

(01:07:23):
know you so successful now that like you know what I mean, you
don't have that same. It's hard to force that sense of
urgency, that it's hard to fake it right when you know you
already just reached his hell already.
You know what? I mean, well, like I said, he
was immediately this morning, this morning he was already
streaming and not like a joke stream He did.
He did one celebration stream the day before, just chatting,

(01:07:45):
whatever. And then today he was
immediately playing and not like, fucking around, like
playing his characters. His dead ass.
Like yeah, playing his characters, doing VOD review,
doing replay review of blahs, trying out re you learning, you
know? What I mean keep it a bug if you
won that, if you won that $1,000,000 bro keep it a buck.
You doing var reviews and shit the next day?
No, I do a stream though. I I, I I.

(01:08:08):
Do a stream. I'm doing a stream.
I do. I'm going to be.
Talking to everybody I'm. Going to be there, you know,
Yes, Silk Road, baby. Yeah, the champagne bottle.
You know, I'm not going to be able to wake up the next
morning, you know, like that's, that's going to be the
difference. If you bro, if you won
$1,000,000, you better fucking give me some goddamn help Brian
before you. Talk.
I can spare a few. That's crazy.

(01:08:30):
But yeah, he I think so since he's doing that, I think he's
going to keep beating ass. But what about the people who
didn't make it out of the group or who the people outside of
Cocker room in? General Zingy Pilato had a had a
good run. Ziggy Pilato almost got out.
Jobby M dude. Jobby MB Tokido.
That's a that's a big one, he proved.
It bro he that bro Jobby validated, he validated his.

(01:08:53):
Wings, it's not a fluke. Yeah, that was big.
And him winning that over Taquito and then he almost got
out. I was really impressed by Jab
Him. He made me want to play some
more Terry. And you were, that's the there
we go. You were like Jabi M's not
playing no fucking Terry the whole time.
And I'm like, he's playing Terry.
Literally the only thing I'd seen from Jabi M leading up to
Capcom Cup was he went on Twitter and someone was like,
oh, I don't know how to do XY orZ.

(01:09:15):
And then Jabi M's like, what character do you do it with?
Like maybe I can help, but it's like, oh, I play Ryu and he's
like, sorry, I can't help. I only play Terry and like the
guy said I played Ryu in the 1stpost.
So Jaby M replied to a random Ryu player.
I was like sorry I can't help you I play Terry and they're
like why the fuck did you reply?So the only thing I knew about
Jaby M going into this was that I only play Terry.

(01:09:37):
Bro, I refuse to believe it. I had refused to believe it and
I was goddamn wrong. And he cooked up with that shit
too. He was doing stuff that I did
not know you could do, like the the fact like when he he was so
prepped in that Ken matchup because I think Mark the shark
of a not mistaken like the the next competition for him in
South Africa right now. Yeah.
And I think he mentioned it in the in the in the interview as

(01:09:57):
well. He plays Ken if I'm not
mistaken. He was using that level 1 to
punish everything, all the, all the Jin Ryze because I think Jin
Rye, some of the strings are -7 on block potentially.
And then if you're in range withthat, that level one has half
screen range almost, you get an immediate punish.
So he was doing level 1 on everystring that Tokido is doing.

(01:10:18):
So I think like Tokido wasn't ready for the Terry matchup.
He kept doing unsaved block streams in the Jin Rye.
And I, I didn't know you could do that, that effect.
Like I sort of knew, I knew you can use level 1 to punish some
things, but he did that every single time.
And I was like dude, holy shit, he is so ready for this.
And he beat the crap out of Taquito that was free.
You know, I, I think, I think it's fair to say that's Taquito

(01:10:39):
demon in my opinion. Losing the first of five in
South Africa round one. And then Capcom cup he almost
like these are big ass. And Taquito had to come clutch.
He had to beat Kakadu, which he did.
And then he had to beat, he had to beat Halibol 2O.
You know Halibol almost fucked up Taquito's future with Guile.

(01:11:01):
Do you remember the match? What happened?
Oh, see, I don't even remember. I don't even.
Remember Taquito's last match and he had to win 20?
It came down to a game differential between Ziggy
Pilato and all of them. And, and you know what I mean?
It was like a down to the wire games.
Hollable gets beat in the Kenmirand then he goes to Guile and
you know, that's what he does atCaptain Cup.
He's like, it's like, oh, my Captain Cup's over.
Let me just. Fuck around he went to.
Was it Manon last time? He did Manon and that was the

(01:11:22):
first game he won was when he swapped to Manon.
He finally won a set. I'm not saying I'm not going to
say I know for sure he's fuckingaround.
Maybe that was what he truly thought was his best option
there, but he switches to guile.He plays guile with no Sonic
booms. I'm I'm telling you he did not
keep charge at all and he almostbeat Tokido 2 round straight.
Tokido had to make a clutch comeback on hollibles guile to

(01:11:45):
not get eliminated from captain cup and he barely made one the
round it was down to the wire. Hollible did like a wake up
level 1 on his fireball and Tokido had a pixel and he had
like barely survived and then hewon the game in the set 2O but
he literally almost got eliminated right there by
Hollable. With guile, that's how.
Cool it is. Ziggy Pilato because Ziggy they

(01:12:08):
would have had a 0 game differential each and Ziggy
Pilato beat Tokido in the head to head.
So Ziggy Pilato, if Holoble had one with Guile One game, Ziggy
Pilato would be in top 16. Instead.
Wow, you know, we had to, you know, that was I see.
I probably didn't even see that match because, you know, they
were so late. Sometimes you'll go to sleep
before it's done and you just skim in through the the group.
I didn't even know that. No Group C was crazy because

(01:12:29):
because Jabi and Ziggy Pilato Taquito had to like really come
clutch the final day to make it happen.
And then Jabi M you like when Cockadoo he dropped the Level 3,
did you see that Jabi M? Oh my God, yes, no, I saw that
live, I think. I think I didn't see that live.
He could have back. Yes, I did.
Yes, bro, he was. He he was looking down like he

(01:12:50):
had put his hands on his head. He thought it was over.
Bro, that is true pain. Yeah, 'cause if he wins that
he's in, right? Yeah, for sure.
If I mean he was still down in the set he lost O2 but like he
could have made a comeback. But he was.
Burned out. Yeah, he was burned out and he
had no super super meter. So he could have just back
thrown the punish on the Level 3with and then potentially just

(01:13:13):
beat the shit out of him. And if he made that comeback,
yeah, he'd beat Kaku. He was in Capcom Cup or in top
16 rather down. Bro that's AI, don't think I've
ever lost like that. Have you ever lost like that?
I don't think I have like the whole stand up.
No, I, I, that's my number one pet peeve and whenever I'm
restreaming these tournaments I'm always talking shit to the
players like what the fuck are you doing?

(01:13:34):
You drive me nuts when they do that.
When they stand up, even when the Super meter is they land at
Level 3 and they start popping off.
I'm like, sometimes it's a little ambiguous.
Did you see? Shine at in in world finals and
and World Cup Street Fighter league world finals.
He he literally lands a super tofin because you know, Shine was
beating everybody else and he lands a super to knock somebody

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out. The guys come over to pop off
with him and he like gives him the and stays there first to
make sure it kills. The good.
That's what the fuck I'm talking.
About there we go. I've seen too many players fuck
around before this. The KO pops up and then they're
like shook. It's happened.
And the other thing that drives me nuts is it they activate a

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Level 3, they grab the water, they grab the water, they're
like struggling to get the the bottle cap off the bottle and
they're strong. I've.
Seen the mental thing? I know it's a mental tick but
I've literally seen players likefuck up the execution on the the
bottle and drink actually them spill water on themselves.
I've seen them go and then put the bottle back down because
they don't have time. I've seen them almost choke.

(01:14:39):
Malfunction your stick or something bro Like you just
fucking drop the water or. You start choking literally like
you're rushing a sip of water. Like, I know it's a mental tick
to like clear your mind during the enemy, but I, I, everyone is
doing it and I'm like, dude, I've seen this.
Like it. It's happened in the past where
players have like dropped their water bottle.
I feel like everybody has their own specific thing they do

(01:15:01):
during the Super. Like some people, if they play
like people who play on stick, Ifeel like a lot of y'all would
like fucking like you know, I play on pad, but a lot of y'all
would like do a fucking some weird ass piano, piano pissing
me off. I I I actually mad I don't.
Think we all hit a super? Yeah, I'm actually mad Buttons.
Yeah, Like, yeah. And and, you know, somebody
actually in a chat at Capcom Cup, I guess they're new to this

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and they're like, why do the guys drink so much water?
Like like if they like is, is that not going to make them have
to pee a lot or something like that?
Like are they that thirsty? And I'm like, bro, it's a mental
thing. It's not it's a tech.
You don't even they don't even notice they're drinking water.
Like all everybody do that. Like we've all we all have in.
Between sets, I engage, I absolutely reach for the water.
Absolutely. And you do you know?

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It's not a nasty thing I've everseen.
Was for some reason shot of the punk.
This motherfucker was at NCR or something like that.
I wasn't able to turn around on stream.
This motherfucker was after drinking a Coca-Cola between
6:00. I said punk.
That's the fattest shit I've ever seen in my life.
It's my fucking drinking Coca-Cola between 6:00.
Well, on the day he won his matches and group stages, what

(01:16:06):
was he drinking? The Kirkland brand organic apple
juice juice box. On stream so it's healthy.
On stream it was, it's still sugar.
It's I think that might be the secret, you know what I'm
saying? You got to keep.
That you know what? Yeah.
You got to sacrifice something. Keep that, that sugar going in
the system. It might be something, I mean,
Coca-Cola, that sugar, caffeine.The one time I would go for like

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a sugary drink would be if you're about to do something
competitive or like exercise or something.
That's the one time it makes sense to me.
That might be the secret. But to sip it every time between
it's, it's just horrible. Yeah.
I'm sorry. Yeah, I'm not you.
Can choose a better drink than Coke?
Yeah, you could have got. Something you know, Gatorade or
you know, an energy drink, maybeeven.

(01:16:50):
I've done Gatorade, Yeah, yeah, even though you shit on me about
Gatorade, I mean. You don't need.
Yeah, no, it's not good. No, no, I don't drink.
I don't be drinking it, bro. OK, How about my boy Kev
brother? What about him?
Zengy got him. He, he got cooked by Zengy
Bilotto and he almost, he almosthad Kakadu.

(01:17:11):
But yeah, it didn't work out. He got jumped in on it, he got
jumped in on it, and then he gotjumped in on it twice.
Remember at the time where he had to play Zangi Bilado too?
Zangi Bilado had nothing to gain.
I don't know if you remember that.
By the time they played, Zangi Bilado was already out.
For sure. I remember he was already out

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but Kev needed to win that to get in.
Yeah, because Tokido 12O which ensured.
Oh, OK, so maybe I I spoke it backwards.
Yeah, I misspoke up with a halibut one earlier.
I forgot that Zingy Bolotto played dual Kevin after.
So it but is if Zingy Bolotto won that 2O and Taquito lost the
game and Zingy Bolotto and made it over.
But yeah, you're right, by the time Zingy Bolotto went up
because Taquito won 2O, it was over.

(01:17:55):
But also, who knows if you even did the math at that point.
You know, maybe you're just, like, blocking that out of your
head and you're sticking. Yeah, maybe because it's kind of
complex, like, you know, if you're stressing about the
match. That's a scary spot to play
somebody though. Well, I think he knew because he
didn't. He wasn't even like popping off,
like winning. I mean, of course he's fucking
God like, but I didn't. That's so scary.

(01:18:15):
I feel like though, to play against that, like to play
against that amazing Zengy player in that situation.
Now I do wonder if Kev have a geek problem.
Though, Because if Kev won that 2O, he would have made it out
over Taquito. Yeah, he would.
He would have had a higher game differential plus three.
I think he lost two. ODA saying he yeah he would have

(01:18:36):
been +3. He would have made it out over
Tokido at minimum. OK, he.
Would have had +2 or +3. The the group, this is the group
that we was honestly one of the one of the ones we were most
excited about and we thought it was the most balanced.
Did anybody pick blast to even make it out the blahs to make it
out even loser side out of out of me you and I don't know and

(01:18:56):
chat to any of y'all. Keep it a bug, don't care, you
have to. Be from South America or like oh
someone's saying I did it. You can check the Vods.
If you're from South America then I understand, but that's
also like Rob calling dual Kevin.
Yeah, that's like me, yeah. Someone not from South America

(01:19:18):
also call calling blahs. Like the thing about blahs is,
yeah, it was just, you have to be.
It's. That's objectively, in my
opinion, almost a bad bet because you just don't have
enough data points, almost like you'd have to.
Be in because he's 15. He's 15.
Yeah, I, I if you are from SouthAmerica, I get it though.
But his level of play was super impressive.
Like when I watched the vods of him playing World Warrior,

(01:19:40):
Amazing. But I thought, I thought he
would just be nervous. I can could not have predicted
that. He's a machine.
Bro and in a group even skill wise, even though you like we
knew his God like and everything, not 5 O even skill
wise we know he was five O in this this group literally
everybody he beat is God like and he won he he went five O

(01:20:04):
bro. No, I wouldn't have predicted
that. I mean, after day two, I was
like, oh, well, this is this might be his hard.
Hardest matchups I think were day one and day 2.
So going into day three, at thatpoint, I was like, OK, good
luck. You know, Bravery and Item had
to play him on day three. At that point I was like, I was
convinced. I don't what the fuck are you

(01:20:26):
doing? Where is Adam man?
Is that on him in the chat? Is.
Is he back? What?
What the fuck is Adam doing going one and four?
Yeah, I feel bad for Idam because day one he was last
game, last round on both his matches.
Literally he was so close to winning against Armpur and
bravery. Once he dropped those two I was
like, dude who? Travels across the planet Brian

(01:20:51):
to go to character select and Menon who travel across the
Earth for $1,000,000 tournament You in the air for 14 hours
knowing you bought the land and get your ass beat 'cause you
bought a big Menon. You know it, but you just do it
anyway. Did he play his masochistic,
objectively the lowest tier character in the whole

(01:21:11):
tournament? And who you?
What are you, Jesus? So you think you about to just
go there and change the whole, you better spark the fucking Red
Sea or some shit or the Moses dothat.
You know what fucking I'm saying, Brian?
Who's worse? Mr. Crimson.
Dal SIM or Manon who's who's lower tier?
Manon. You think so?

(01:21:33):
Maybe bro? Mr. Crimson was doing his shit
bro. I mean he's always trying to do
his shit, but I do think the meta is not he's doing his his
his best man. OK but but Menon just bro who's
scared of her like that? Like in the to win a tournament.
To win a tournament, No. You go you you scared of her in
the first or two, but you're notscared of her like on.

(01:21:54):
An individual level, she's scary, but over a, a, a longer
tournament, yeah, it's bad odds.And you're playing round Robin.
You need stability. Yeah, You know, I feel like Adam
got to decide this is my thing. Like because Adam is God like he
wanted the best in the. World and he can play zoning.
Characters handicap right now. What do you say bro?

(01:22:15):
He. Can play zoning characters.
He's not he, he had poison, you know what I mean?
Like he can play space control characters.
He he doesn't and he he's playedJPA little bit.
JP is always kind of crusty. JP will be God like I.
Think yeah, his JP is always a little crusty but has solid
fundamentals. Like he's taking games and sets
of like players like nephew and stuff, you know what I mean?
Like it's like he just has to commit to something.
But yeah, his his mental attitude.

(01:22:40):
That's JP. What?
If only JP had titties. Pretty much that's that might be
the problem here. That might be the one thing that
could get him over his disdain for dry rush and throw loops
would be a waifu. JP Yeah.
You know he's in an interesting situation.
What do you do if you're a Pro Street fighter?

(01:23:01):
Like if you're a pro basketball player, you're going to like
basketball, like you like basketball.
It's just this is going to be the same from when you were a
kid to when you fucking 40. The game not going to change.
If you're a pro E sports player,then the next Call of Duty might
be different than this Call of Duty.
And do you still like it when it's jet packs and all this
shit? But you don't.
Like it the next month might be different, but to be fair, you

(01:23:23):
know, and the worst part is you already see that with sports.
What happened to the game I love?
Isn't that like the most like one of the most famous NBA
Twitter memes? Like they they make the most
minute adjustment to the rules of the game and people lose
their fucking minds. That's more so the the old dudes
that don't play anymore complainabout the new game.
The current players not complaining about the new game

(01:23:44):
as much, You know what I mean? I'm like and this is like.
Usually the rules aren't significant enough for active
players who complain that much when they do change rules
because. It takes a while.
Yeah. There's no big, there's no heavy
ass balance patch or. They're not they're not patching
physics, right. That's that's what I was talking
about with with sports, like physics aren't being patched.
So like, yeah, at least you havesome stability there.

(01:24:05):
Like if you're 7 foot three, like Congrats, you know, like
you're not going to wake up nextseason and you're 59, you know,
like it's not you're going to beOK.
But yeah, it's tough. I was some.
Respect on 5/9 Brian, I'm. There you go, There you go.
Maybe Rob in the NBA. What was Bugsy?
What was his name? Did you just try to tell me I'm

(01:24:25):
mugsy bowls height? What what what's is his name
Bugsy or Mugsy? There's a mugy.
Is it he 5 three? Let me see.
Is it he like something crazy like let?
Me see mugsy bowls height this *** 5 three bro I'm waving
you're like I'm fucking muggy balls and I'm fucking never I'm
way. Well above, you're ready to go,
man. Jesus Christ, But yeah, I don't

(01:24:49):
was in, I don't was in a weird spot to me bro 'cause I just
feel like if you going to play anyway, bro, pick a fucking top
tier. And like I sound like Sanford
out of my boy Sanford. If you're going to play, pick a
top tier or at least pick a better at least pick a mid tier.
Damn right. I mean that stuff I.
Don't pick no bad. Hopefully the cast keeps
picking. Up you qualify for this.
No, he's he's. Mad good.

(01:25:10):
He needs a he needs a healthier mental attitude and to accept
the game as it is that that's what's holding him back.
It's all in the mind. I mean, yeah, yeah, yeah, 'cause
when how you going to beat somebody like Noah don't give a
fuck about none of that. He he didn't think about all
that. No, he loves it.
He. Embracing the game quickly.
No, he loves it, actually. Yeah.

(01:25:31):
Does No1 sold in the chat? I don't know if I've ever heard
him actually talk about the gamelike that.
He just talks about competing and you know.
Oh, I asked him about it. I asked him about it before on
the phone and like, bro, what doyou like?
I'm like, so do you just embracethe game like, like the, you
know, even like the bullshit parts and everything?
He's like, Oh no, I fucking lovethe game.
He's like, he's fucking great. There you go.
He, he liked it way better than 5 and everything.

(01:25:52):
So he, he loved the game and yousee it in that goddamn plate.
I'm not going to make sense whatsoever.
Makes sense item has to he he want to play mark that all right
group. E5O in that group.
It's crazy though. OK group E Damn meno and loser
side bro. We all called the two people

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getting out except for I don't put Mr. Crimson instead of Fudo,
but we all put Meno winners. No one put food or.
Winners. But you know the thing with
Mina, that's the big conversation, one of the big
conversations of that group right there.
And I feel like with the Mr. Crim, I mean with the Mina Rd.
situation, it's just a characterfucking.
It's character crisis bro. Him busting out the bison was

(01:26:38):
surprising. I mean, that's when he used that
Street Fighter. Right.
Once he once he brought that outand Street Fighter, he goes
like, oh, like he's serious. Like I know I saw like replays
of him using Bison, but I didn'tknow if that was like the
tournament pick. Fudo, on the other hand, locked
into Ed locked, locked as soon as Ed dropped, right.
He's just been refining, refining, refining and Ed's

(01:27:02):
super good, still super good after the patch.
And I think it shows his his awareness in some of these
matchups was absurd. Like Chad was telling me it's
not unusual, but when I watched him play Mr. Crimson, the way he
handled Dalsem was he was ducking underneath mid screen,
spaced out stand, heavy kick from Dalsem.

(01:27:22):
You know, the diagonal leg that goes out.
He would duck underneath it likebe right at the perfect range so
that it would with instead of making contact, he would with
punish that with the crutch and like a drivers cancel from like
a half screen away and then drive rush all the way in
crouching medium kick because it's a punishment counter.
In it combo. Full combo, full combo he did
like 3 or 4 times in the set andI was like OK, you know, I mean

(01:27:43):
like as soon as that was day oneand I was like dude, he just
he's going to know the matchups inside and out on such a
practice level where. That stuff that you can't pick
up in a few months with a character.
MENA Rd. is the best at playing the player, you know what I
mean? It's not like I'm watching MENA
Rd. I think his strategies are very

(01:28:04):
simple. He simplifies the game, but we
don't often see like super in depth matchup specific
breakdowns and I think that's part of he's.
He's reading you. He's reading you.
Yeah, he's using the tools to simplify the game plan to
counter what you want to do rather than having like real

(01:28:24):
match up specific character specific answers and I think it
shows. You know, have you, Brian,
you've been in a situation whereyou like go to a tournament,
like I I'll go to a spot where like maybe I'll I'll go and play
in a tournament and I'll have a a counterpit character for like
if I run into a bad matchup, butmaybe I'll lose that first match
with my with the match up that Iwin and I go to my main, my

(01:28:47):
Kieran, who loses the matchup, but I win.
You get what I'm saying? I think, like have you, I'm sure
you experienced that shit too. Like you in the end of the day,
your main is your motherfucking.It's like breathing.
It's like a part of you on some weird.
That's like some fucking lame ass shit, but it's a truth.
It's like your character that you play all the time with a

(01:29:07):
billion hours is deeper than a tier list right?
So I think Mina would have performed better if he literally
just was like fuck it this who Iwant to play and be and just
play that character alone. But that was that's a decision
he'd have to make a long time ago, right?
Yeah, That's, that's that's tough.
He was in a bad spot with. But but but that's what it

(01:29:29):
looked like though, right? I don't think it didn't look
like nervous or anything to me. It is literally like that.
His bison is not as sharp or as nor as like second nature to
him. Yes.
Futo beat MENA harder than I've ever seen MENA get beat ever.
I don't know if you saw that match.

(01:29:50):
I think it I think it was 4 rounds.
Straight washed that shit out mybrain.
It's like a one minute, 30 second match, 2 minutes maybe it
was bad. What was the characters?
What was the character? He went Blanca, then he went M
Bison, or he tried both. I don't know what order it was,
but he used both. It was?

(01:30:10):
Yeah, it was done. Fudo plus 9 even more than BLAS.
Right, +9 and the game differential BLAS was +7.
But is that rounds right there? He went 10.
He I think he won 10 rounds and lost one.
Yeah, yeah, no. Plus, yeah, he only lost one
game the entire time. 10 games to one.
Oh my God. Who got the game?

(01:30:32):
It was Chris CCH did the best. Chris CCH actually almost beat
Vudo. He had a really close, really
close set with with Vudo. Chris just started off slow
overall in the tournament. He started off bad and then was
bring and then was bringing it back.
I feel like Chris is just like got his real life shit going on.

(01:30:54):
Not negative stuff but good stuff.
I think he and that got damn career mode and shit.
Yeah, he's an engineer. I think he's working as an
engineer right now, right? So he he's got he's busy, he's
balancing this, which all respects.
You know, I, I, I understand that, that split, but he's he's
making it work. But he's also a little bit like
a, a MENA Rd. Like I told you, he's probably

(01:31:14):
going to play Terry and he played Terry.
His best performances were with Terry, like I think he mostly
did he use Terry, Any other character, Terry, Terry, Terry.
That's the danger of using different all these different
characters bro. To be honest I don't think
anybody should play more than like as far as serious
tournament. Generally speaking, who plays

(01:31:35):
more than three characters in like use them in tournament?
Really low key it'd be like 2 characters.
There's people who go through seasons.
Seasonal's one thing, like Kakadu is seasonal, right?
Like he got results, wins with all three of his characters,
Akuma, M Bison and JP. But it's more like seasonal.
And it's not like in the same tournament, you know, except

(01:31:58):
Topanga League, you could argue in between different sets he
would use two different characters.
So he got second at Topanga League and he used both Akuma
and then M Bison came out and then he picked up M Bison and
won his last couple sets. What were you talking about,
Brian? Kakadu.
OK, OK, OK, OK. So he got second to I think he
only lost by like one game record to Kobeyan cause Kobeyan
beat everybody. So I think Kobeyan, I think that

(01:32:20):
might have been his only loss with Kobeyan and he beat
everybody else with Akuma and Bison.
Yeah, that's thinking the one character.
Oh, Xiaohai, people were saying Xiaohai Yeah, East West World
Cup Xiaohai chat you right? Yeah, yeah.
People mentioned the KO, I wonder if that's a real thing.
You you think that's how? How relevant do you think that

(01:32:41):
is? Xiao Hai playing KOF.
What What? What you mean?
You're required to play 3 characters to win in KOF.
You know you have to master 3 soseems like he might be wired.
You. Didn't know that you had to play
3 characters in KOF. I don't play KOF.
Oh man, yeah, I don't play KOF. I know you don't play it, but

(01:33:02):
you might have accidentally see I I mean I.
Played it as a kid or something.10 hours total.
I played all this shit as a kid.Oh, OK, OK, OK.
I've watched it, yeah. There's some classic KOFSI mean
I guess. Were you around for K OF13 era
like 20/13/2012? Were you in the scene back then?

(01:33:23):
No, I, I I I got to the offline scene in 2017.
Reynolds. You know Reynold, right?
From. Yeah, I know that.
Yeah, he won. He won Evo in 2013 and that was
one of the best Evos of all time.
I got my homies in college not playing fighting games at all to
watch that one. That was one of the greatest
ever. He was wearing the sunglasses
inside and he's going up againstthe the Koreans and the Chinese

(01:33:44):
and did. He play with them all.
Who was the Yeah, he had them onthe whole time.
He's looking like that kind of how F Champ did it in Marvel
back in the day. And he and he's from, you know,
he's Mexican going up against the top players from Cafe ID in
Korea. I'm forgetting their names.
And they're like all E sport jerseyed out and everything.
And he's like doing the punk, the thinking pose and

(01:34:06):
everything. It was one of the best.
Oh. He popping off on everybody and
everything. Oh.
Yeah, no, I mean, he's like looking confident, cocky, like
making gestures, like, you know,it was, he was, he was bad ass.
It was sick. God.
Like that's with the shades is crazy.
No, it's a classic that's not. Like I got to watch that.
Yeah, because KO 13 was sick. I can understand not watching
the other KO watch. KO 13 was a beautiful game just

(01:34:28):
to look at. But anyway, yeah.
Did y'all just ask if F champ isMexican name is Filipino champ?
I mean, they're trying. They're trying, man.
OK, all right, group FA lot of people thought group F was like

(01:34:50):
a group of death, but I mean, I mean, I guess it it was, but the
people that we Oh no, Sheen. Sheen was the story of that
group for me bro. We.
Didn't we? Didn't know Sheen was going to
play so amazing. He shows up at Capcom Cup
consistently after. Like because he struggled to
even get in to Capcom Cup he he didn't get in through the the

(01:35:12):
World Warrior point system here in Cross.
Had a really good post shout outto In Cross.
Hold on. In Crosby Yo In Cross got one of
the best FTC Twitter account specs.
Yeah, he has CNN Futo's record here at Capcom Cup CNN from
2013, 2025, second, second, third 9th, 13th, 4th, 9th 2023

(01:35:34):
didn't make it 9th, 9th so. That's that's CN.
That's CN. He's had four top 4 finishes and
he's been in all of them except for 20/23.
That is amazing. He just always shows up in some
way top 16 at every single one of them minimum, and usually at
least ninth. Damn, that's somebody.

(01:35:57):
So he's somebody who shows up when it matter most for show.
Yeah, and he struggled. He struggled to qualify.
So that's why I feel like. Yeah, I remember we were talking
about that video he put out. Yeah, with Mike.
Yeah, it was a really good video.
He he he got kind of cooked. He got like 9th in the last
World Warrior. He had to do the regional
finals, barely made it in, but then he cooks.
He's almost the most cap palm cup appearances.
Who has the most Cap 1 cup appearances?

(01:36:19):
It's a futo phenom. Futo who?
Who said that? Phenom be cooking at that cup
too I. Don't think it's Phenom.
Phenom wasn't there early on. I mean, he's he's tied with
Futo. Maybe it's his Futo.
Hey, yeah. Shannon Futo.
Oh it is Shannon. Damn you know how God like that

(01:36:39):
is bro fuck damn she won an evilthird.
I mean 12 years ago. That's wild.
Yeah, but Lashar making this out, We we all called the char,
right? Yeah, we also Lashar, Big Bird,
Big Bird, Big Bird. Man, he has a cut problem man.
Shout of my boy Adele bro. He got a cut problem man.
Man 32 CN got him he Jack almostgot him.

(01:37:02):
He came clutched his set versus Jack was down to the last
interaction shots to Jack also getting the win over Lashar that
put the the group into chaos beating Lashar 2O kind of free
actually day one. Yeah, day one Jack is fucking
nice bro. It was he still finished how we
would expect. I would say overall. 2-3 Yeah, I

(01:37:25):
mean, he could have if he beat Big Bird.
No, it was. It was still done for.
I wouldn't have had Uriel, Oreo,Oreo.
I wouldn't have had him going. I wouldn't.
I think I would have had him. I thought he'd take at least one
or two sets, yeah. I got him taking one or two.
Yeah, I would have had him taking one or two.

(01:37:45):
But Big Bird, I feel like there's this weird fucking force
field around Capcom Cup for, for, for, for Big Bird.
Because it's not a skill issue. Obviously it's some, but I'm
telling you. It's becoming a complex I feel
like. Yes, and I don't even like the
way he talks about it on Twitter.

(01:38:06):
Yeah, he talks about it in the interviews.
Too. I really don't like that.
You mentioned it in the interviews too, Yeah, I mean.
You you already putting into existence like, oh, hopefully I
don't do bad at cup again and you know, it's my worst like a
cup. Like I feel like he just
shouldn't bring it up so that hecan just have a positive
mindset. Or or not to process it, I don't
know. It's weird how much of this is
psychology because I'm not goingto sit here and pretend like I

(01:38:27):
know best what he should do, right?
I think there's also that element to it.
But like, I do agree that it, itgives puts a bad omen into the
universe where I can understand that if I was in his position
and I was feeling those things and verbalizing those things, I
feel like for me, that would putme into a negative mind space
where I'm inviting negative energy.
And when things start going not my way, I can feel the walls

(01:38:50):
caving in and like, oh, of course, what I the, the, the
negative outcome I expected is coming to fruition.
It's like I'm free Johnny now. Your reactions might slow down a
little bit. Yeah, I'm already trying to cope
with my impending loss rather than not even making that a
reality that could exist. Whereas if you go in thinking
I'm going to win, I'm going to be the best, whatever, It's

(01:39:11):
probably going to hurt more whenyou lose, but you kind of.
But you got a better chance to not lose, right?
Yeah, I feel like you're kind ofalready coping for your loss
prematurely. You got to put your heart.
You got to put your heart on thefucking on, you know, heart on
your sleeve. You got to risk it.
Right. I'd rather you at least be like
you. Got to risk it.
I I know I'm not the favorite towin, but I'm going to give it my
fucking best. Like I rather that, you know

(01:39:32):
what I mean? Like even if you got to not be
totally. Delusional, but it's going to be
hard as fuck to beat me like I you're going to have to earn
this. Some kind of gusto with it.
You know, personally, anytime I feel like I've done well, I'll,
I'll perform my own expectationsor skill.
It's because I had some gusto with it.
There's something, some kind of chip on your shoulder, something
in the back of your mind that's driving you.
Anytime you're like, I don't know, then that's how it ends

(01:39:54):
up. I think that's the biggest
story, though not the biggest story.
The biggest story is blogs, but the.
Overarching theme is the conceptof psychology these tournaments
is not about skill alone this these players are so good and
there's so many that are so amazing you're not about to win

(01:40:16):
this shit off of just skill brother right everybody's skill
not everybody but. You got to reach that echelon
and then once you're there, it'sabout managing your mental
because the margins are razor thin.
And, and a game like Street Fighter, it's fast-paced poker,
man. Like it's, it's a mental game at
that point. Like, you have to work really
fucking hard to get there, and you take any edge you can in

(01:40:36):
terms of skill, but those margins are still tiny, tiny
margins. And the way you had your bets
into your favor is having a better mental game.
Absolutely. You ever think about what it
means? Even when like, I don't know if
you think about this, but like when I'm watching like cup, when
I watch a cup, I'm like bro, every time somebody did like a
wake up DP, it's like fuck, likethis is like, you know what I

(01:40:59):
mean like. 10s of thousands of dollars on the line when people
do that, people Shuto. Shuto was doing that against
blahs. I think he was about to, you
know, it was 3/2 that set, right?
He did like a wake up DP and it landed and then on the next
knockdown he had wake up level 1and it got blocked and he lost.
But like you see Shuto, like Shuto was another big story to
me. I really love the energy he

(01:41:20):
brought the whole way through. We'll talk about when we get
there. But yeah, let's keep moving.
I want to. I want to get through this Group
G OK Anything crazy here? We called Xiaohai dude.
Yes, your boy, bro. You talk so highly on Juicy Joe
now. I don't think you had.
You ain't having to make it out this shit, I don't think.
He was another Blas. Blas Broski and Juicy Joe were

(01:41:41):
the three people I was hyping upbut I was not confident to bet
on. Those are the three people where
I was like, I know no one's going to really put them as the
the people to get out, but thoseare the people to look out for.
And he fucking cooked. Cooked.
He's one of the most slept no stories because Blas and Autumn
took the picture. Thunder.
That motherfucker went crazy brobeat.

(01:42:01):
Everybody didn't see. That coming at all All right, so
that I, I want to see who he beat.
He beat everybody except for Xiao Hai.
Damn in that group. Yeah, and then top 16, he beat
Angry Bird 32 and winners. And then what?
He lost both his matches and and.
He lost to Lashar and then he lost to Angry Bird again in the

(01:42:25):
run back. So Angry Bird got his revenge.
Oh. Shit, that's a, that's an
amazing run. Yeah, that's amazing.
He got top eight winners, a cap home cup man.
Yeah, and look at that group he beat fucking Xiao, who beat him
in the only. Xiaohai and it was close and
Xiaohai beat him with my and it was super.
Close. Look how close.

(01:42:46):
Look how close kills you was to qualifying.
After getting cooked, he got he he went was Owen 3 until the
final day and then he beat Shaohai.
He beat Shaohai kind of free. He.
He cost, well, he didn't cost necessarily.
What are you? It would have been he would have
had a he. Did something I know what you're

(01:43:07):
talking about, No. It it did that did if Xiaohai 2O
kills you, he would have got outin winter still.
So Xiaohai kind of fumble the winners at the end of the last
day. Nephew beat him 21 and then
kills you. If Xiaohai beat and kills you 2O
he was still would have made it out in winners.
He would have had the tied game differential with Juicy Joe and
win the head to head. So Xiaohai, at the very last,
they fumble. He only would have been +2

(01:43:29):
though, right? No, because he he would have
been before the match. He would have been +2 before
going into the match versus kills you.
He lost 02 to make him zero. Yeah, so he would have been tied
with a Joe and then got out on winners.
So shall I kind of fumble? You know in this group what we
got to talk about, brother, we not bought to move on without

(01:43:50):
talking about the elephant in the motherfucking room chat.
Kaba Group. G Knuckle Doo Dang versus Kaba
oh shit, I thought it was over after the after the set look 1
going into the set. Let's set the stage a little bit
just a little bit. This was the goddamn beef set of
Capcom cut. We didn't get him in the punk,

(01:44:10):
obviously, but we got this. This was the biggest beef set in
general. So going into that match, it was
like, all right, whoever get this is Gigi.
Now we have to understand cobblewas already eliminated, but
knuckle dude Kaba beat an uncle dude, and that is what
eliminated him from you. Did you knew that?

(01:44:32):
You remember that, bro Kaba beating him eliminated him from
Kaplan cut, which is fucking imagine, bro.
That is the type of shit I dreamabout.
You understand what that the hate that the the salt that I
can put on the motherfucker. We hate each other.
We got beef. I get to drag you to hell with

(01:44:53):
me. I get to that's.
I'm the that's. Literally exactly what I said.
What I that's the line verbatim.I dropped when I saw this side.
Like Cabo was like, I ain't getting out of groups but I'm
dragging you to fucking hell with me, and then the pop off of
the number one silently. Let's go, let's go.
That's. All that had to be say.
Oh, it had to be said. That shit was fucking crazy,

(01:45:16):
brother. Yeah, because yeah you're right.
Dude had won that set. He would have had a three two
record and a better than 0 game differential.
He would have got out in losers.So and that was the the last set
Shaohai would have been knocked out and knuckled.
He would have taken his spot. So yeah, cop been doing that and
the way he did it, first of all,Dugo and Cami, which is what I I
predicted. Like Du's been doing that a lot

(01:45:37):
versus Kaba. And then but Kaba landing The
Dirty DI, you remember the setup, He does the knock down
meaty into the corner that he does a meaty DI, but he does it
early so that it barely whiffs before Du wakes up.
And then Du presses counter DI on wake up, but Kaba recovers
and then DI is in return. It's ADI, but you didn't see

(01:45:58):
that. Hold on, I gotta look at that.
Hold on, let me pull. You didn't see this?
I watched this. Live, but he was trying to beat
out the OD Flash kick. What an exchange.
Holy smokes, the perfect Perry. And still.
Got the trade off, you see it? That's a setup.
Go back that shit up again. No Diddy bro did.
That's a setup. Bro did he want to throw after

(01:46:19):
two? Holy smokes, the.
Perfect. No, I just see media DI after
the flash kick. That's a setup.
Oh my God. People call that The Dirty DI.
Have you seen that before? People have been doing that.
Some Japanese players started doing that this season and
people started incorporating that.
They do set ups for you with DI so meaty that you barely recover
in time like last frame to counter DI.

(01:46:40):
It's a it's a fuck with people. And also it's like you with
Perry. I think you might be safe if
they with Perry. I'm not sure the exact frame
data but like you think you knowyou know.
If they try to perfect Perry it even then they don't get to
punish. Oh, that's disgusting.
So it starts fucking with people'cause they're like their whole
reaction game playing. Gets if it's If it's messed up,

(01:47:02):
Perry, you get a punished counter throw.
Yeah. So you have to be ready for, I
mean, you can do like Perry intodry rush maybe, but like, yeah,
it's to do it at Cap'n Cup in the beef set.
Like that's, that's huge. God damn OK look bruh.
So then I'm thinking, look, thisis what I thought I was texting
my dad because my dad stayed up watch her too.

(01:47:24):
I'm texting pot. I'm like, damn, I'm like, well,
in my opinion, the beef is over.So I fucking thought because I'm
like, after I win the Capcom Cup, it's over.
Like I won the beef. You know what I mean?
Like what's more important than this?
And then the tweets chat. The fucking tweets.

(01:47:44):
Pull them up, Brian. That's always the tweets.
You want me to pull it up. I don't even know if I this one
doesn't even. This doesn't even make me feel
good at this point. Bro, it's OK, this is me, this
is me, this is me being dramatic.
You guys see the tweets? At this point I don't even feel
good about it. That shit was oh and in a punk
cult tweet and everything but. All right, Du says.

(01:48:09):
Emotions was high and I didn't even notice the pop up as I was
sad about not qualifying. I just hugged copper to show
there's no bad blood. I don't regret it.
How come no one from Dominican Republic says anything when I
beat him at St. for the League? Maybe because I don't pop on?
No, don't try to go fast, that too fast.
Read slowly. You read it, Rob.
I don't want. I don't.
This doesn't even make me feel good.
I normally like the beach. This one don't even make me feel
good. I'm not even.

(01:48:29):
This is not even. Moment for me.
I got this. Hold on.
This this one I don't, I don't, I don't like this one.
This is the energy that he had. I'm going to tell you all
emotions was high bitch ass *** and I didn't even notice the pop
off as I was saying about not qualifying.
I just hugged this whole ass ***to show we cool.

(01:48:51):
Ain't even no bad blood and I don't even regret it because I'm
real like that. But how come nobody from Dr. say
shit when I beat this motherfucker at Street Fighter
League? I don't be hearing none of that.
Everybody cried. Maybe it's because I don't pop
off after wins because I ain't got to pop off because I got
some class. You know what I'm saying?
Maybe because I'm not going to do that class.

(01:49:12):
Maybe Copper, you ain't got no fucking class.
So you popping off so that now the Dr. going crazy when you win
because you're doing all that extra shit.
But I'm going to tell you this though, hear this out, because
I'm not going to do my fucking thing.
I got a Capcom Cup. You don't being me, don't prove
that you're the best guy especially when you out of
contention for Capcom Cup and I'm still fighting for Capcom

(01:49:34):
Cup qualification. So why you even hype is
different stakes, so it's easy for you.
Let's the best let's the best gal now how about that?
Let's the best gal. The $10,000 money match offer is
still there. By the way, Gal versus Gal first
to 10. Take care, *** I think you might
have improvised a few parts of that that quote, maybe not

(01:50:00):
verbatim. Whip it, chat.
The the energy, I mean, maybe the energy like that was there
like maybe not verbatim word forword, but I think you did maybe
a decent job of capturing the essence of of the message.
Yeah. I don't know about this one.
I I didn't want to get into thisone because I feel like this.
Damn. Punk quote tweeted it and said

(01:50:21):
I'm down for the two V2 Mina andKaba versus me and do question
mark. They're just on a warpath.
They just want to fight Dr. Dude.
What is it's going to be a du versus punk kumite at Dr. Just
like send them all up. Every single Street Fighter
player in the Dominican Republic, 1 by 1.

(01:50:44):
Punk and du versus minute and Kaba.
Please give us that Blink Reese Morn bro, please.
That would be pretty sick. That shit is God like.
I like that. I personally love do all respect
to him. I feel like he shouldn't have
this one. I feel like he should have left
in the in the drafts. You think so?
I. Think he should have left this

(01:51:05):
one in the drafts. I I don't, how come I don't?
I I see the arguments. I just think there's no way
there's good optics for that to mention anything about a loss at
Cap'em Cup to say that you're fighting for different stakes.
While I do agree that definitelyimpacts the results, that's
something you leave for the media to mention the context for

(01:51:27):
and you as the player in the moment for your own optics and
your own mental health for the chatter on Twitter would leave
in the drafts. So that's why I don't even feel
good. I don't even feel good about
talking about this is I just feel like this is just not.
I don't know. He's standing on business.
This is, this is this is now. This is his.

(01:51:48):
He he comfortable with this likehe's he's standing on it.
Their their beef is just that deep.
Now the only thing I say is again, can we please stop the
10K? It's.
Too much. Just 10K talk, it's too much.
I agree. Stop it if you it to me that's
like, you know what I mean? Like yeah, let's fight.

(01:52:09):
Let's fight each other. Let's meet up and fight.
But only if it's for $1,000,000.Like bro, you saying you don't
want to fight? You know what I'm saying?
I agree. I'm I'm with all the trash talk,
but if you really want to play, it's about the principal.
It's not about the fucking pay. It ain't like you're trying to
do this to make some money. It's the principal so y'all can
play for fucking appearance feesof fucking three KA person or

(01:52:30):
something like that or but the winner get fired.
Or they can play like Captain Cup for qualification into tops.
I don't know. I just feel like we saw Ryan.
I just feel like we saw. To me I.
Feel you. I feel you though.
To me, that's what I'm saying. I just don't feel like this was
the best time. I don't know, I just feel like
there's time and place. 'Cause he won like.

(01:52:51):
Kaba just wanted to say. That's why I thought it was
over. I was like, because I I'm not
gonna lie on my end. If if buddy beat me at Capcom
cut after we got beef and you eliminated me from cut, I
probably would respect it as like for now, that's the end of
this beat or the beat the end ofthat chapter.
Like at least it's the end of that chapter.
But it like cool down a little bit and then reignite it.

(01:53:13):
I'll see you later on. Yes, I'll see you later on, but.
I still want dude, my boy, I'm I'm just speaking from the
perspective of I want him to be happy, healthy.
Well, you know what I mean. That's that's all I'm coming
from. You know if.
This said, the best gal lives insuper region UK, Ireland.
Yes, Sajan was what's up Sajan Sajan was dropping the what

(01:53:36):
about Higuchi? That is funny that this keeps
happening. I do agree all the chatters
every time this comes up, peoplego like Higuchi, Higuchi hello.
And Higuchi was like one set away from being a captain cup
over Kakadu. By the way.
You know like Higuchi would nearly did the damn thing.
He was the the next runner up inthe the points and it was like
almost a three-way tie with Higuchi, Kakadu and Memochi and

(01:53:58):
Goichi basically. Hey man, got to speak English
but. Or actually no, nevermind, Cabin
don't speak English. Nevermind.
I'm about to say they must have an invisible line.
I'm the best guy an. Invisible line.
Would you say I'm? Saying all Cabin knows is I'm
the best guy. He knows all he needs to know.
That's the only phrase he has toknow.

(01:54:19):
It'll get him by. You don't.
He doesn't have to know anything.
I hate a motherfucker to learn one sentence.
Like you had to come to the tournament prepared to shit on
this motherfucker. Like I can't wait till.
I like plus something I'm. Going to say this as soon.
I need Higuchi to learn something.
I need Higuchi. This CPT come to blink.
Respawn beat both of them. Yeah.

(01:54:41):
Yeah, yeah, I'm the best guy. Why?
Did why did dude say like shout out to Lex?
Why did dude just randomly say Lex the best gal?
Lex is still in Capcom Cup. I don't know.
Was he though? At that point, because this was
the first group of the day on onelimination.
Day, but you can't say that likeit ain't like he made it
further, he made. Anybody by the time you know

(01:55:03):
he's in Capcom Cup for longer? That's crazy.
I don't know group. Just was right later in the day
or so, like, who knows? Yeah, his group was.
That was so random. This was the first group of the
day. Lex's group was at the end.
Oh my God. He got a full 8 hours longer in
Capcom Cup. That shit was.
But I will say I think we going to get these matches though, by

(01:55:25):
the way, man. I didn't imagine, I think.
We're going to get, but it's notgoing to be no goddamn 10K like
they like. Stop.
I think A2V2 would be cool. But I would love that.
Who you OK, Chad? Who you got punk and punk and do
versus minute and cobble? How were they scoring that?
I don't even know how that wouldbe scored.

(01:55:45):
I think you got to know the format a little.
Bit we've ever have, we really seen a lot of BIG2V2 money
match. We haven't really seen much of
that. Usually 2V2's are in like a
larger bracket and they're more,you know, single a limb, like
first of two, both players single a limb kind of deal.
You just beat like Pokémon style, right?
So I don't know how you would dothat in a longer format if you

(01:56:08):
want to make it a bigger set. So.
Bro what's up with the fuck up? Why the fuck would we do a 2V2?
Just play each other one V1 in two separate money matches the
same day. Shut the fuck up.
Why the fuck would y'all do a 2V2 That's stupid.
I want to see Mina versus Punk with the full shit talk and and
drama and I want to see Do versus Kaba after that would.

(01:56:31):
Probably be better. Yeah, I kind of agree.
Yeah, that's like making it 2V2.Take some of the salt and
pressure off of the one the dudewho lose so y'all can share it.
That's. Kind of the.
No, I want a negative. I want a negative.
Feel it. Hell no.
I mean, listen, they got to go up against the whole Dr.
community. They're trying to, they're

(01:56:52):
they're scared, man. They're scared of the, the shit
talking that would will ensue. Yeah, I think they're maybe
trying to team up here to deal with the the onslaught on social
media. That crowd will be so fucking
liberal. Oh my God.
Kabul and the jab. The crime people get, people
passing out from a jab. Every Sonic boom blocked.

(01:57:15):
I swear, yeah, just the just thepush back, just the.
Drive gauge. Get taken away, I'm telling you.
But yeah, I did not expect that tweet.
But yeah, I think, I think it was.
Don't seem to highlight it. Bro honestly think it's like 10%
chance of happening I the the 10K thrown out there.
I don't know if something happens, I think they'll be
sick. They they, we've already seen

(01:57:37):
the stipulations that it can't be blink creates one has to be
like a, a neutral territory. I don't know.
There's there's a lot of stipulations around these kind
of showdowns happening. So I don't think it's likely.
I never going to put you in a position to ask I because that's
beef when we don't want no, we don't want no smoke.
We can't speak on that. I don't know who go with on this
other side. I don't know.
All right, we want no smoke. All right, let's go to the next

(01:57:59):
group, Group H, the last one. Group H angry Bird and shooto.
Is that what we called? We called kusanagi, my guy, Alex
here says Angry bird question mark shooto.
Not super clear for Brian, FI said Angry bird Shooto if that's
what happened. And I said.

(01:58:20):
They said you said. They said you said Angry Bird.
Shooto, there's a little question mark that said not
super clear, but if that's what happened in reality, that's
that's that's what I said. Hell no, hell no 'cause we had
Kusanagi fucking up. Angry Bird.
Angry Bird. Shuto, baby.
Hell no. Let's go.
I'm a prophet. Kusanagi beat angry bird ass at

(01:58:40):
Street Fighter league. We were like, oh, he beat him so
bad. Kusanagi just didn't play so
well. But like the big one about this
one, this this group was nuts because how Shuto first day, you
know, he beat Kusanagi and AngryBird.
So after that, I'm like, OK, Shuto, you know, he did the
hardest part day one. He's the favorite to get make it
out. And then that soul set, did you
see how that ended? Soul versus Shoot I.

(01:59:02):
Don't remember. I've seen it but I don't
remember. Brother, no, no, we're watching
another site. You, you.
This is the most. Please, please, yeah, this is.
The most insane moment I think of Captain Cup almost.
Oh, I know. That's that's when he jumped
through the like he was. Yeah, I want to see it anyway,
but he was in like burnout at the end.
He had to like do the dive and everything.
I. Remember.
Right, Right. Yeah, it was.
He was. Too.

(01:59:23):
Way too thirsty for the chip andthen it cost him.
Yeah, but this whole yeah Chuto look.
At that, wake up low. Forward yeah, Chuto wakes up
with every button like medium heavies, like he has different
strategies on the timing of whatBunny wants to wake up with.

(01:59:43):
This sequence was nuts too. Oh, look at that.
Come here, you know what I love?By the way, Shuto's personality
is fucking. I love his energy.
He's feeling it every set he's popping off.
And then look at the life deficit here.
Come on, that's GG. That's supposed to be GG Mirror.

(02:00:08):
This, this changed the fate of Captain Cup.
That moment right there. Oh my God, all.
He had to do was not throw that fireball and Chuto would have
gotten out in winners and he might have won the whole thing.

(02:00:28):
The way he was playing. He just needed to not throw
fireball there. He could.
He just had to wait, you know what I mean?
Like there's enough Seoul still had.
He has one bar super but he's still in burnout for a long ass
time. It's over, you don't need to
rush it. If he just didn't rush this
fireball and this like do a waitfor the right moment.
To be fair bro that's such a weird interaction.

(02:00:49):
You told demon the heavy demon flip I think.
He just got knocked down and they they flipped over each
other. He did the the dive and he
crossed over. Yeah, he demon flipped top kick
and he died. So that's such a weird in his
full full screen. Yeah, that's a.
Weird situation to not I don't. Blame him that he he didn't

(02:01:12):
realize he could get hit there. I'm just saying if he had just
waited a few a few frames, he probably would have got the chip
That is a nuts. I would have gotten clipped the
same way. I would not have thought that he
could recover in time to do that.
And that changed everything, man, that that lost right there.
You know that that put Shuto andlosers and Shuto was destroying
people in the top 16. And he almost beat Blas, right?

(02:01:34):
That set with Blas was nuts. Shuto 31, Xiao High 32, Taka
Moral popping off the whole timefeeling it.
I love Shuto's energy. He's one of the few Japanese
players who like, yeah, he's popping off.
He's like yelling, he's getting into.
It bro, No, Shuto did something where I'm telling you, I don't
remember the exact sequence, butI promise you, Brian, he

(02:01:56):
screamed. The set's still going.
He did something. It was just like.
Like, no, in between games and sets, yeah, he's popping off
while the set's going on the whole time.
That was the Takamura set. That set was nutty, too.
The set versus Takamura. It might.
Have been that. One, so he had to make a
comeback in that set, I believe.I think he was down to one of
the games, if I if I'm remembering yeah, he was down to

(02:02:18):
1:00 and had to make a comeback and he was just like feeling it.
So I I love his energy but if hewas in winners instead of.
Yeah. He he angry bird.
Angry bird lost to Juicy Joe with Ken and beat him with
Akuma. I think Shiuto might have had a
better shot beating him first try with Akuma.
My bro, my bro Junio Ross can fucking play bro.

(02:02:42):
Yeah, that was unfortunate. Ross Ross style he could play
bro. He was cooking and he was up.
The thing with the Junio's run is that he had obviously the two
favourites on the last day like he had.
He built so much momentum three games straight and then the last
day he had to play Angry Bird and shoots Out or obviously.
The guys to be. He was up three O You're right.
He was, he was after day two, hewas the leader.

(02:03:03):
He was the only undefeated player after two days so.
Yeah, I'll tell you what, what'sthe name?
But Kusanagi? I can only explain Kusanagi's O
and five by nerves. Something was felt off yeah.

(02:03:24):
He did not play anything like himself.
He's super strong. I I definitely and the other
thing I was seeing here like it felt like he didn't have his
like Capcom cup legs ready. And I want to give a shout out
to Seoul because Seoul looked the same way.
Seoul on day one. He had a 21 set against Jonino
and he was he got a game, but hewas very shaky, very like

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dropping combo through the interactions.
Lex bullied him. Lex was smacking him up and down
the stage. It was bad.
Like almost like fucking with him bad.
I was like, oh, like that's whatI'm always concerned about.
Like, no, he's not ready. You know what I mean?
Like you want to have this showing for yourself. 19 years
old, from Kuwait, moved to Australia.
You know, he's like all over, like so far away from home, you

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know what I mean? Like, I just want you to show up
and as a young player in that position and like, be proud of
how it goes down. And his set versus Lex was
demoralizing to watch. And then the next day, he beats
Chuto like that. I was like, OK, we're good, You
know what I mean? I was like, no matter what
happens when you run out, like, you made history.
You changed the course of history there.

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Can I say this too, Brian? This is something I learned from
battle rap and I took it into like the FTC in my competing
days and shit. But I feel like this it still
applies it's moments or remembereven more than placements.
Unless, unless you win a tournament or something like
that or you got a crazy storyline, like we will remember

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that soul come back that round more than we're going to
remember who the fuck got 9th place at Capcom Cup 11.
Oh yeah, absolutely. Like that's just how it goes.
That's like. 37 dude. Moments where your career is
bigger than one. Tournament.

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Yeah, remember Uzur? You know, Cockaroo the cobbler,
wake up four dash on AV shift, DP, everybody's gonna remember
that shit. And that stuff boosts your
career up a whole lot. So I think that's huge.
Even like Jobby beating Taquito,right?
No, that's huge for Jabi. Like Jabi, that's almost like,
yeah, I agree with you. Like maybe in the moment he

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would trade getting top 16 and maybe he lost his efforts to
Tokido. The groups work out a different
way. But I think legacy wise, Jabi
beating Tokido in that group wasthe best thing that could have
happened. And I don't think for his his
career too much would have happened.
I mean getting top 16 for him would be huge.
Yeah, but that's huge. But I still think this is, I
still think this is bigger. It's more memorable.

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Like if he made it out but then lost immediately versus this, I
would have picked this. I think this is bigger for his
career. Tokido came out publicly
apparently and said that Javi Emmis his rival bro like.
Yeah, it is true. Yeah, he can't deny it too high.
Much of A rivalry because your ass losing.
Yeah, right now, like that's that's that's everybody know.
Oh yeah, everybody respect Jaby M ski wise like it ain't like

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oh, that's nice that somebody from South Africa.
No, Didn't mother go? I think he reaffirmed that.
I think people like last CaptainCup, Jaby M didn't have a moment
like that, You know what I mean?He, he, his, his prestige was
waning from that moment. He had that big explosion even
in the previous Captain Cup since he was in Captain Cup
2022, I think, I think in the last one for Street Fighter

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Five, he's been there for a while now, right?
He hadn't had a moment at Cap Home Cup yet.
So he had the moment with Tokidoat Rubicoumete and it's
reaffirmed it. So I, I think that's a big, big
win for him legacy wise, Like putting South Africa again on
the map and like solidifying it.This was not a fluke.
This was real. This was in a tournament for
$1,000,000 that Tokido really, really wanted to win.

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But the details of how Tokido made it out will be blurred.
But they'll remember that moment.
Yeah, yeah, this is that. That was absolutely fine.
By the way. Can we just say it to Kita real
quick, bro? Common sense, common sense.
But damn, that motherfucker is one of the ghosts, bro.
He is that that motherfucker. How long has he been doing this?
And he is consistently at the highest level.

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Like he gets results through every single game.
And no matter how the game changes we never even hear him
complain about the game or nothing like that.
Like which I I think it's OK to complain personally but his
mortal of consistency is unbelievable bro.
Another top 8 and. I feel like he definitely, and
he's so famous, like I'll be damned Taquito not reach by my

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standard. You know, I was thinking about
that today too, because, you know, Bon Chan, they had a Bon
Chan celebration tweet for his birthday.
And Bon Chan, on the other hand,you know, also legendary, but
you know, he hasn't been he's been doing Street Fighter
league, I think, but he hasn't been really competing as much or
succeeding as much in the World Warrior and making his
appearances in E Sports World Cup, right.

(02:08:09):
Or I guess did he go to E SportsWorld Cup?
He had a really good showing recently in some major
tournament. I.
Don't think Monchen was at EWC. But yeah, he hasn't been as
prolific in Street Fighter 60. He did.
He did go, yeah, but relatively like, it's a keto.
He hasn't been as prolific. And I was just, it got me
thinking, I was like, man, how much more does he have left in
him? Because Bon Chan's a dad too.
And I thought about Tokido, how we he's so revered.

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He doesn't have any kids, right?He is he still maybe he's
married and keeps him on the down low.
I don't know. He's single.
That's a thing I thought about. He's like married to the game
and he's handsome, he's successful, he's in shape, he's
a great role model. And I think about it and I'm
like, man, he's really giving his life to this.

(02:08:56):
Brian, man, God, shut the fucking Brian.
I'm dead serious. You can try to make a joke out
of it. I'm dead serious.
This dude you look at? Him married to the game.
You right, but that's. No, but I'm thinking about it
like. They said you glazed in taquito.
Facts. I will always glaze taquito.
Facts. That's how I feel about that.

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But it makes me think about like, life, right?
Like you can't do anything forever.
Life is we have seasons in your life.
And Tokyo somehow is still doingthis.
Yeah, Daigo as well. It's like, man, that makes me
wonder about like, the balance of life as a competitor like
this. Like they're really giving
their. If they're all most people, when
they come to goddamn, well, I want to, to be honest, a lot of

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people who create, who've accomplished the craziest shit
in life did not have balance. Yeah, you don't really achieve
crazy shit while having a balanced.
Life, that's what he's getting at.
But I'm looking at Banshee and he's so one of the greatest but
I'm like. I'm.
Like, how much more does he havein him?
Yeah, he he has a wife and his twin kids.
You know what I mean? Like, I don't know, like, how

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much more do you have in you to?He can do it.
I'm not saying it's impossible to be a parent and do all this,
but yeah, it's just really as our as our goats are aging, it's
something I think more and more about.
About how long do you live this imbalanced life, especially as
talent like blazes showing up 15years old and beating your ass?
You know the you know the crazy thing too bro is like I feel

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like it's a possibility if if things stay how they are.
You know how we have so many 40 plus year old or around 40
legends from Japan. I think there's a possibility if
it stays like this that we don'thave the same thing from America
act active, active tournament placing because of the
infrastructure, because in Japanyou could be 40 something, you

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making so much, you making enough money that you sustain in
your life and everything. You don't need to win.
And you know what I mean? These guys don't need to win a
tournament at all. They make enough money without
that. They're famous over there,
whereas in America is not necessarily like that.
So we might not see our great, Ihope so, but we might not see
our great stick around for as long if the infrastructure
doesn't change a. Lot No, it's, it's been

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everything for a long time. I, I've talked about it all the
time in the Street Fighter Five era, the talent drain we had, we
saw it from generation from Street Fighter 4 to Street
Fighter 5A. Handful of players fell off
because they didn't like the game, right?
But a lot of them fell off because there's no
infrastructure to support it. It's like, well, it's time to
grow up and get a job and pay for my rents and dental

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insurance. You know what I mean?
Go do content or something, whatever it is like, but
something more stable. Yeah, we've had a talent drain
for a long time. That was something I talked
about a lot in the Street Fighter Five era, but it hasn't
changed that much. I think we're seeing some turn
around in the West, but it's still, I think Street Fighter
League is the solution or the most budding solution we have so

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far for that. But it's.
Like I said. It's only it's only really took
off. I and still I still argue it's
only really, really, really taken off or already shown
results in Japan. I think it has.
It will continue to grow in America.
It's big bro, it's it's big in every bro, I promise no cap
every country I go to one of thefirst things people bring up is
Street Fighter league and in America people random people

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the. American players get a salary
from it get a salary. From it.
I can't speak on that. None of the players from the
last season got a salary, or most of them.
They are adherence fees, but it's not the same thing.
They're not eating from that. Well, I well, yeah, I mean, I
believe that things. OK.
So. Maybe, but what I'm saying is as
of today, right now it hasn't. And that's why I'm saying St.

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for the league is the most potential to potentially return
that results. And we've already seen it do it
in Japan. So unless some of that continues
to grow in our region, we might still have that problem.
So we we are seeing potential. We haven't solved it.
We're seeing potential. And that's why I always say I
have major concerns. That's why I talk about people
going to Japan literally becauseof that reason.
So not only will we have a talent during the West for not
having the opportunities, eventually if that doesn't take

(02:12:57):
route here, they just go to Japan where the opportunities
are. So I'm I'm definitely hoping
things change because. We might have, yeah, because I
want to see, I want punk to be goddamn 40 and still smoking
motherfuckers, You know what I'msaying?
Like I want damn, bro, these motherfuckers are doing that
that long? I'm just thinking about that

(02:13:18):
now. Like it make me think it's
already been bro back in 2017 and shit we like I've thought
about it right bro? When me and you played at SCR in
2017 or whatever the fuck that was 20/18/2018.
Yeah, yeah. Yeah, that's 2018.
That was my. No, that was 2017.

(02:13:38):
Oh, it was my first year then. Yeah, you're still rocking.
The red shirt, it was, yeah, when we played at that.
Bro. Blas is 15 right now, so that
means he was eight years ago. Eight years ago, yeah.
Let me see what, 7 years old when we were playing that
tournament? What the fuck?

(02:13:58):
Now he's in grand finals of Capcom Cup.
Bro come on brother, we fucking suck.
We fucking suck. Sheesh.
We had all this time. What are?
We doing I'm telling you, nothing can compare.
The only thing that would solve that is a time machine.
Dude, you have to find yourself when you're 7 years old and hand

(02:14:20):
them the controller and be like this is a short.
You can you know, like get practicing.
That's the only thing you can do.
That shit is they say he's fucking born in O 9 Jesus
Christ. Yeah, I wanted to make that joke
somewhere in my recap, like, oh,the O Niners are finally
stepping up, but it's it's it's an actual O Niner.

(02:14:42):
Bro what the fuck is being born in fucking O 9?
Are we getting older? What the fuck is this?
We're ancient, dude. Bro we're younger, bro.
We're not old bro. Whatever.
Whatever you want to believe. Bro, we're in our fucking early
30s. Bro that's fucking young.
Don't say that out loud. These my fucking just so good.
What's happening to y'all bro? These little ass kids, the FTC

(02:15:03):
making *** feel older than anything else bro.
Because everybody got me that ain't.
True, and this is only. Fucking 25.
This is an old, old community, dude.
What do you listen? You know, I prepped for this
before we went live because I thought you were going to go
this angle because you mentionedwhen we were talking earlier
before a stream, you mentioned how it's the most impressive
competitive feat you've ever seen or one of them, right?

(02:15:24):
I was trying to think I was like, it's not, It's, I agree
this is more impressive. But what I want to talk about
is, you know what, the Fortnite tournament scene, they're
winning 1.1 million at 13 years old.
At 16 years old, Bugo won 3 million.
Another kid from Brazil won $900,000 at 13 years old.
You know, like in other scenes, there are literally children

(02:15:47):
becoming millionaires from thesegames.
You're right and you know what bro, I feel like there's a
certain to be honest, this is what I what I have felt and I
don't know if it's a hot take. In my opinion, if more kids
start playing Street Fighter, they going to run this shit.
No disrespect, no disrespect to to the to the people who killing

(02:16:08):
this shit right now and doing great, but I think if all these
little 13 year olds like crime man and blahs, all these little
dudes come play this shit, they going to run the whole shit.
I think they will run the whole you can't compete to me with a
motherfucker who never paid a bill, don't got shit to do all
day, but play the game and don'tcan't even conceptualize what

(02:16:31):
the money that they're playing for is.
They really out there having like blahs was looking like he
out there really having fun likea little ass kid because he is.
I think it's old enough to understand.
How much a million a decision? But to take it to an extreme,
there is a they don't. There is a point if you.
Go. They don't know what a million
is bro. OK, they know more, but it's
still big enough to mean something at that age for sure.

(02:16:52):
But if you go younger, there is like AI do agree with your point
to an extent where like the difference between 1050 thousand
1000 to a 12 year old is alreadyincomprehensible.
Like you can get an Xbox with that.
You know what I mean? Like, right, right.
Like that's the limit. You know you got a mortgage.
Or like a down payment on a car,you know?

(02:17:15):
If me if me and the homie had $5to go to to the corner store, we
was happy as fuck. Like we thought he was rich as
fuck. You got $20 to go to the
motherfucking mall and they get like they're going to fuck about
know what the fuck they going tobuy bro, What the fuck Noah
going to buy if he got $1,000,000?
I was thinking about that. More socks and slides.
Yeah, like he doesn't want to play Street Fighter.

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How many, how many pairs of those slides do you think he
has? Is it?
Is it the same one that he's been wearing all these
tournaments? I hope he has at least more than
one pair of socks. He's got this slide around the
world in bed. And running bare, not barefoot,
but in the socks, on the ground everywhere, collecting the the
crumbs from the globe. Combined, that's where.

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That's where all his power is. Man, that sock is powering up.
Bro, I'm telling you though, Brian, I really do think those
little dudes is the future, bro.It's just not never been
playing. They're lucky.
Blogs ain't win, I'm telling you.
And but it's still more right and fucking when I when we're at
these tournaments now, there's so many even kids just playing
in pools. There's little kids.
There's little kids that play. I've met.

(02:18:21):
Little kids, I meet them all thetime.
I've met a lot of. That's not weird.
I'm talking about the tournament.
I'm talking about the tournament.
That sound fucking crazy. All right, moving on.
Yes, I've met the parents of of children who say they, they've
approached me and said, Oh, my kids watch your stream and I'm
like, they should not be watching you.

(02:18:41):
Know like I, I. Curse way too much.
I'm not saying a good example, but yeah, I've I've met
families. Basically you meet families now
and they have children that are participating in the tournament.
So I I've I've met met families like that and it's bizarre to
see and I'm like, damn, like I got to clean up my ACT It it
really does. It's one of those moments where

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I'm like, Oh, I got to be on my best behavior.
I got to clean up here. Don't don't fill with the F word
every other sentence because your brain pull the right
letter. Out give a fuck Brian.
I've thought about that but I'm like if they already watching
and their parents is letting it happen then that means that they
know what I do already. But what you do is more on that
entertainment spectrum where it makes sense.
For me, I use like cursing and stuff as a filler which it

(02:19:23):
doesn't even add anything to what I'm saying.
It's just like a verbal tick, you know?
No, when you add that that should do something that that
should be funny as fuck. When?
You do. It depends.
It depends. When I hear you feel that should
be funny as. It depends.
Sometimes it's sometimes it's it's called for.
I agree. Yeah, they're the future.
We're coach. OK, Brian, we did the groups,
but there is another. OK, I don't know how you want if

(02:19:45):
you want to end the extra trashything, but there's something
else I want to talk to you about.
What you got What? You got all right chat.
What I want to talk about is actually how would I put this
bro? People like fuck this and not to
discourage people from pursue people should pursue this shit
if it's your passion, what you want to do.
What I will say is I don't thinkpeople realize what the fuck is

(02:20:08):
actually required to be a fucking Pro Street fighter
player and really make a living doing this.
Like to really how hard it like people be like, oh, blah, just
inspired me with his performance.
I'm gonna hit the lab, all right?
Do you know who Boss had to beatback?
The back, the back, the back, the back, the back to get second

(02:20:29):
place, To get second place and to be a God like like Street
Fighter player, like to be even in the money in the
conversation, you have to regularly beat the coldest
motherfuckers ever. You got to beat.
You might go and beat Punk, Knuckle Doo, Mina, Daigo and
Taquito in one tournament and you got 7th place or 5th place.

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You hear what I'm saying? I don't think people really
think about what is really goingon in these events and like why
it's so crazy that Punk is able to or Taquito's able to or
whatever the hell, you know? Well, that's why.
Oh, go ahead. Oh no.
No, but no. And I and I just think, so it's
like I think about that a lot. And then I think about the
natural talent aspect as well. And I think there's a

(02:21:18):
prerequisite of natural fucking talent at this thing.
I think everybody has natural talent, but people have
different levels of natural talent.
And maybe you're the thing you're naturally great at is not
Street Fighter percent. Maybe it's something else.
But what players chat. We all Street Fighter fucking
historians, allegedly. What player has ever not made an

(02:21:43):
immediate splash and ended up being one of the greats?
I feel like all of the greats were damn near immediately
within the first couple years gone.
Like we're the B, the vast majority, the plus level player.
The vast majority. Oh fuck it, that was.
But I have C + B level. I have to think for the

(02:22:03):
exception to the rule. I do.
I do agree. I think it's the rule.
I think there have been exceptions.
Kakadu, you could argue Kakadu Imean, but he was playing Ryu at
the end game of Street Fighter Five.
He went to Red Bull Kumite. He had a good Red Bull Kumite
though. He almost beat NLI.
Think it was with Ryu who ended up getting second to problem X.
He went to EVO, had made a splash but didn't get far.

(02:22:25):
But he's playing Ryu and then the Street Fighter Six.
He immediately. Somebody starting off fire.
I consider somebody him startingoff he.
Had like one or two Street Fighter five doing solid and
then started off fire in Street Fighter six.
He immediately burst out of the game.
Street Fighter Six being one of the best so.
Remember angry Bird at Capcom Cup, this this one that just
that we just watched. He did wake up dash forward
super like and it reminds me of Cockrou doing wake up dash

(02:22:50):
forward DP that dash forward DP on wake up at evo in the big
pressure moment alone. And it was the right to read.
That's enough. That's all I need to see.
That's not skill, brother, that's not talent, that's not
skill, that's talent. That's natural talent.
You don't, you don't train that you felt that in that moment,
and you know what I mean? There was no your brain, your

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body did. The thing is, I I agree with you
to a degree. We see that pattern over and
over for who ends up being the best and the best.
However, I will say the other perspective, which I don't think
you disagree with this, I think you also agree.
You should still try. Yeah.
At the end of the day, I think there's something human about
it. There's something about training
and working to improve. And I think that's such a

(02:23:32):
psychological need that all humans have is to work on a
craft, work on a skill and make incremental progress.
And that's required for you as ahuman to maintain your self
esteem. It's so critical and I think
fighting games just represent another Ave. for self
improvement. You can approach it from a
healthy aspect and be like, thisis another aspect of my life

(02:23:55):
where I will create the grind, create the environment and
markedly show my progress and work towards improving my skill.
And whatever results may come, may come.
And that's not the primary goal of it necessarily.
I'm just inspired by the maybe I'm inspired by the greats who
performed feats that I can't even imagine.
And that inspires me just to work on improving myself in some

(02:24:16):
aspect, right? So I think that's important no
matter what. Now, to your point as well,
don't immediately drop out of school and quit your job.
And you've never even played thegame before.
Yeah, unless you're Rob Tvi don't know.
Isn't that? That's not.
Exactly what I did, yeah. That's not exactly your story,

(02:24:37):
but it's a little a little similar.
I didn't drop out to play StreetFighter.
I dropped out of college just because like I was on my fucking
self help book shit and I started a YouTube channel but.
You are the type of person to commit Go go all in for what you
want. To do?
I wouldn't. I don't believe in Plan B.
Yeah. See.
I I think people this. Is how I know.
We're getting old. I know we're getting old.

(02:24:58):
We're telling people to not go all in, not do all this when you
did it yourself. That's that's, that's the
fucking shit. Yeah, I wouldn't recommend it
for everybody but I. I wouldn't recommend, but this
is what I did. That's that's when you know,
you're we get older and older because you, you survived, you
made it. And you look back and go, what
the fuck? Like I did that.
Yeah, yeah, that's just dangerous.

(02:25:19):
It's fucking the end of the day.But yeah, I mean, I will say to
O'Brien and chat I, I will agreeto and I will say that I don't
think most people even try hard enough to even see where their
fucking feeling is at. You never know what else you.
Tried. You never even got to the top of
whatever your natural fucking talent could get you to, so you
don't even know you might be thefucking be able to be the best

(02:25:40):
in the world or some shit, you know what I mean?
And it's also about environment,but there's so many variables
outside your control, like environment and like you
mentioned, I, I, I 100% believe that starting young is the
number one cheat code. I, I, I think beyond talents, I
think that's the number one way to unlock your potential is you
just had to have started young. And so then also like how much
exposure you had, how much free time you had, There's so many
variables out outside your, yourcontrol.

(02:26:01):
The best you can do is maximize what you can, what you can't
control and maximize your effortand see where your ceiling is.
And even if you don't make it, there's a joy in that.
And that's when like, I see, youknow, you're on social media,
people trying to talk shit aboutyou like, oh, you didn't win
XYZ. Why you've been trying They try
to like pull you down because you you dare to try to be great.

(02:26:22):
If if you're like chat, I'm not I'm talking to chat too.
If you are ever afraid of that. Those people are punk ass
bitches who have never done anything in their life.
I think anyone who's tried to achieve something great can
respect somebody else giving it their all.
Even if you don't achieve it, even if it doesn't come to
fruition, just the fact that you're willing to put your pride

(02:26:42):
out there and your ego out thereand and be willing to accept
that you might fail is respectable to any decent human.
It's. Like when you watch boxers or or
UFC fighters, you could get knocked the fuck out.
But I'm a respect that you even in the right in that
motherfucker. However, Brian, I, you know, I
you the goddamn good cop, right?I'm the bad cop.

(02:27:06):
When Daigo, I remember Daigo said he was talking about some
young player and young players in Japan and Diego Straight told
motherfucker like, yeah, you ain't cut off for this stop.
But I think what he has said after the translator was talking
about this, but what he told him, but what basically his
reasoning was like if he really stopped after I said that, then

(02:27:27):
it's not for him. I agree, look look if you too.
Scared of stuff like. If you 2 never could tell you
no. Showed it anime bullshit like.
Diego. Diego.
Diego, watch one too many animes.
Like whom? I should tell him to stop and if
he continues on, he's meant for you.
Know Diego did it, he did that and that kid.

(02:27:49):
Cried and went home and he nevertried to learn his skill ever
again in his life and he became a.
Shot and. Loser.
Yeah, that's his life. That's what he get here, fucking
loser. He's shitting to quit.
But honestly, I don't know, bro.I feel like if you realistically
though, like, I don't know, bro.I I just don't think I don't
necessarily think every as far as like professionally, I don't

(02:28:10):
I don't think this shit for everybody and I don't think I
don't think people respect the skill that they're seeing.
I'll say that most importantly, the most important part, I don't
think people will respect the significance of what the fuck
they're seeing on that screen. Like you got to beat bro when
Punk was winning fucking 1000 tournaments, when Taquito was
winning 1000 tournament, the rowdo you know what the fuck they
was beating bro like every fucking everybody month, every

(02:28:33):
weekend, and you got to beat allthem in the first two.
In this tournament, you had to win round Robins, you had to
beat everybody in your group. Different characters, elite
players, Capcom Cup champions, evil champions, different
countries, years of experience. Well, that's what I'm saying.
What Blahs did is that is this the best performance that we've
ever seen in a modern era? I'm a.

(02:28:59):
Put look. Maybe, or this might be one of
the most impressive turn around for for Street Fighter 6.
I think Jin's is still Jin. Damn it's it's the 15 chat.
Jin's run versus blahs run blahs15 and did all this shit and was
dominating. Jin won fucking LCQ.

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And went to grandpa's back pump cup.
That's tough. It's the age thing that makes it
close to me. And Jen beat everybody also.
LCQ bro and even the fact that he had to beat problem X and he
was fake problem X like that shit was crazy bro.
I just feel bad for Jen for doing it not at this venue, you

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know what I mean? Like when I'm imagining the
images of my my head, just the way it looked on stream was just
so much bigger. There's something, too, that my,
my, my bias is already being themy emotional bias is already
being pulled by the spectacle before.
Me. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
There was just so much going on.There like but Jim probably had

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the best rent ever. Though Yeah, from LCQ all the
way through to 2nd place, yeah. That's unbelievable.
But but what I'm like as far as I just mop my natural, my me
being a bro. I don't know the last time I
felt this emotion when watching Street Fighter of of when he
beat fucking Noah three O Angry Bird three O Lashar 3 O.

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That emotion was one of my like my brain could not even just.
With my five O in groups also with a + 8 game differential
beating Giko, Mortzi, Mono, Big Bird, Mamochi and then he beat
Kawano the evil champion and he beat Angry bird.
Three O lost the MENA Rd. Then he beat Idon 31 when Idon
was beating everybody and then lost the MENA 31.

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So he only lost the MENA. There's a lot of parallels here.
Those names that you just. Said three out Angry Birds, 31
Kiwano and three one idon Mamochi and Mamochi the Angry
Bird. He didn't go to losers early.
Big Bird and Angry Bird. He beat Big Bird and Angry Bird,
Yeah. Stop, stop, stop.

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The thing is, Blas had a had a more satisfactory narrative to
the run because he also went to losers earlier so he got to beat
more people in the bracket. Yeah, which which in the actual?
Cup like if he had to play MENA Rd. cross right out of groups,
if he played MENA Rd. right awaylost and then beat all those

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people and more in losers, it would have felt more powerful.
But yeah, run wise and. Cross said.
He beat. He beat fucking.
He beat Broski Gachi, Kung Shiuto and Kichi Palmer in LQ
and Problem X. You ain't even say Problem X.
You didn't even make the cut. Damn.
You didn't make the cut? What'd you say?

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He didn't make the cut? Yeah.
He, he, he, he got. He got the real title for
Problem X. Yeah, he's nasty.
Oh man. Hof, I said him using Ryu as a
big factor. I agree and he's like if he was
using fucking. Playing like Daigo in Japan,
Daigo's getting old now. There's a young kid and there's

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a lot going on narratively. It's like, it's like Michael
Jordan ain't just cold because he might.
It's also the way it looked dopeas fuck, like nobody give a
nobody want to see the boring ass.
It's the way he did it too, right?
The way he did it. That was the most the way he was
playing, bro. The drive rush overheads and
shit Yeah no, he was bulldoggingthem like bro what?

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What even is blah style? I feel like it was like a his
fundamentals were very solid butup close he was fucking.
Oppressive. Oppressive.
No, he, he was suffocating you. You couldn't breathe.
He was constantly forcing the offensive issue.
I mean, not like a Noah, but like you felt the aura of his
approach. You felt the threat of all his

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options at every range. Like you could feel like you'd
be in corners like, like, like in the boxing, like.
Like I said, that first round against CN, I was like, oh,
there's Daigo. Like it's over.
Like he he understands the ranges and he uses that to to
pressure them and get into offensive situations and then he
beats the shit out of them quick.

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Yeah, yeah. Not, you know, throwing
everything against the wall. Speaking of Noah, shout outs to
Noah for the big raid. Oh, what's up, Noah?
Noah, how many pairs of those slides you got?
I'll say it 1. He dropped combo for burnout.
I talked about that earlier highfight.
I mentioned that how he like landed a big jump in and he
stopped the combo to reset aftera heavy punch.

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On hit he stopped and just did another heavy punch into the
hash ogeki string to burn him out.
I've never seen that that to me.Like, imagine making that
calculation that goes against almost everything I know as a
Street Fighter player of dropping guaranteed damage.
Like maybe in a reset here and there at the end of his scale
time. But to drop guaranteed damage to

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do a block string that quick? Yeah, and from a heavy.
Yeah. Oh, I see what you mean.
Like not even a reset to try to hit you with like a overhead or
something like that, No. Or like to kill you or to throw
you a reset for you to block. Yes, he he he got a combo to set
up plus frame so he can do a block string in the middle of
it. And then it took like I think

(02:34:15):
almost 2 bars of drive meter andit was yeah, I forgot which
match that was, but I I visualizing the hash Ogeki
sequence in my head. It was somewhere near the the
top 4. But yeah, that was.
It was like a Pitbull when he when he got in, it was like a
Pitbull like his his jaws locked.
You know what I mean? When he was in it was over with
bro. He just, I just feel like he had
everything in the style of it was just so there was no, it's

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that his age and the style was so it looked repeatable for him.
Like it looked like there is a reason why he's winning.
It's not oh, he's going crazy. People not ready for this or it
was like the style was, it was solid as fuck, but then the
reads were. But then the reads he had were
like, you know what you would expect from Adam Idabashi?

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Right. Did you see also?
Consistency of he. He does do overhead resets a lot
I noticed though. But did you see the one where
you got on CN the the overhead from the he?
Did standing light kick drivers cancel into overhead link
straight into Level 3 to end theset?
I don't remember. He did that to to CN to end the
set three O, but just like he had it in the corner tap like a
quick drivers cancel overhead, immediate Level 3 like a link

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and then he put he would like inthe corner camera.
You can see he like looks up to the crowd and goes he does the
shore you can and CNN had a shitton of life.
And I did that. Yeah, he did that.
And he was like smiling, like, yeah, you didn't see that.
When I saw that, I was like, no,the fact that he.
I'm not a mislead. The fact that he even knew that
was gonna kill, that was gonna kill.

(02:35:47):
I'm telling you, you look at thelife situation and I'm like, why
is he? He started.
To not look at the whole chat. Not expecting it, yeah.
Not expecting it, no. One, it wasn't like, oh, is this
good a kill moment? I thought he had a pixel or
something left. He I'm like, why did he stop
looking at the screen? And then he emotes on CN to
three of them after that start and that finish.
I was like, OK. That's in top 16.

(02:36:08):
That's the first match for losers against CN.
Bro that boy was not up there with no pressure man.
Yeah, high 5 says it was like a 45% overhead to Level 3.
I've never seen that combo. Apparently that's the optimal
combo from overhead, if not drive meter situation.
You just go straight into Level 3.
I didn't know. That's a peek.

(02:36:28):
That's a peek behind the curtainof what his training is like.
Yeah, that's a peek behind the. Curtain It's clear that he has
optimal conversions and awareness.
Like I didn't notice them until I did the recap.
I went back and watched and thenI was like, like just like that
drive burnout sequence and the heat of the moment I thought he
dropped the combo. Then I watched it again and I
was like, no, like he had the dungeon charge, he had this

(02:36:49):
meter and he like. Crunched the numbers, thought it
was a draw. Yeah, or I was like, I don't
know what the I don't really understand what happened.
But then I saw that he got a burnout.
But when I watched the reset, I was like, when I watched it
again, I was like, oh, like thiswas planned.
And to crunch those numbers in that moment in Capcom Cup.
Yeah, that's. Crazy he's got extra CPU.
I don't know. Different brother that's I'm so

(02:37:10):
excited. I'm excited about him now this
is I just want bro. We need him and kumite bro, but
Mama. They they planned it ahead of
time. That would have been sick.
But he'll be at E 4th World Cup so there'll at least be another
international showing. We'll see.
Yeah, that's true. Yeah, Hey, by the way, I'm very
excited. I know we're going to close the
stream, but I'm just going to say I'm very excited about the
whole I think the EWC 3 year partnership shit for the scene

(02:37:35):
as a whole, like just outside ofeverybody's subjective, the I'm
just speaking as far as objectively that shit is huge
for like that's how most playersget their sponsorships this year
right now, in my opinion, Not inmy opinion, it's just a fact.
Like it's because it's because of EWC and now we got well, the.
Tour is stepping up. It's weird because when I looked

(02:37:58):
at that I thought the I thought esports World Cup was going to
eat Capcom Cup's lunch. That's what I thought.
Unless they made a change. I.
I wasn't expecting a partnership.
I thought literally esports World Cup was going to eat with
the Capcom Pro Tour. Yeah, absolutely.
So them doing a partnership is interesting and it makes sense.
But yeah, we'll see. I mean, it does it, it's paying

(02:38:20):
for the players for sure. For sure.
The players are getting sponsored specifically for the
esports World Cup because they're paying for it.
I mean, they have infinite money.
It's it's not a fair game. It was dry for a minute.
So that really is like, yeah, for the.
They have three years, bro. Like that's fucking huge, right?
That's huge. I mean, I already know people
are talking to teams behind the scenes and shit, I, I.
I, I don't know, don't. Start your boy I.
I also have some concerns. The gentleman Hopefully you guys

(02:38:43):
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You only get one. Oh, trash talk is the fucking is
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About you and Brian joint with Oh, yeah.
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