https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKtsn-RME8oGDLK
Yesterday, we hit up Mikado. What a great night. Pherai, LBR (letbloodrun/ryan), and I show up at Mikado at around 5 pm to play some 3rd strike. In the beginning there were nothing but scrubs so we had streaks on all three machines. Later in the night I saw Ryan playing a green ken and he was up two rounds. I check to see who he is playing and surprisingly it is Boss(!!!). Being the jackass that I am I go around to tell Ryan that he is playing Boss. Ryan proceded to lose 3 straight against him (3/5 is set @ mikado). Oops.
Later in the night a bunch of people came. Two people I noticed right away were Momochi and Rikimaru. At one point in the night I go over to Rikimaru and tell him that I am from America and told him he was very strong. Rikimaru looks at me and gives a slight nod and precedes to play. Ouch. I then think to myself, why why why did I do that. That was so fanboy of me. I think nothing of it and just continue to play.
A couple minutes later Rikimaru comes up to me and literally slaps me in the ass and asks me for my name. We chat for a bit and I find that he is a very nice and funny guy. We talk about 3rd strike and he was very impressed w/ my knowledge of 3s players. He then introduced me to all the other players who were there such as: Tokura (YA), Vanao (RY), Ruu (RY), Yuukitori (YU), Raoh (CH), Pierrot(RE!!!), Magu (RY), and a handful of others. Jon and I interviewed Rikimaru at the end of the night, here is the video that Haunts over @ iplaywinner.com posted,
Some highlights of the night:
- Boss (YU) vs Momochi (MA) played a long set on the big boy cab. Momochi's makoto is fuckin gdlk. Rikimaru said he has the best Makoto in the world. I believe it. A lot of one parry into makoto dp. So cheap.
- Rikimaru's Chun is so goddamn cheap. Jesus Christ. You can't do shit against it. Too gdlk.
- Ryu and Hugo were really popular last night. Pretty much no Kens.
- Ruu is unbelievably talented. Hands down the cleanest Ryu I have ever seen live.
- I didn't feel like playin that much. Watched way more matches then actual playing. It was like watching 3 youtube channels at one time. Every match being gdlk.
- The two most popular games last night were GGXX:AC and 3s. No love for SF4 last night however Big Box (#1 arcade for SF4) was 2 minutes away.
So far Japan has been amazing. To be honest, I don't plan to do much besides play 3s. Vinny flies in today. 3s 4 life.
