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What happened to KOF at TRB today.. the finals were going to be streamed after UMVC, but the guys said the KOF players just left..

2 am that's what happened.

haha this is interesting, I need to translate what they added to my name :p

It says "famed KOF commentator", as opposed to just regular commentators like the other guys. The Japanenese love your commentaries!! 

Thanks, that's nice and I'm happy to hear that :D

haha this is interesting, I need to translate what they added to my name :p

It says "famed KOF commentator", as opposed to just regular commentators like the other guys. The Japanenese love your commentaries!! 

Well lets be honest, who doesn't?

Aawwww, now I'm blushing

A list of notable players to look out for courtesy of KOF koucha:

**Translations of selected notes added by me. 
(Don't get why they are saying sudoku watch to Chris G)

a31 米 Igl|bala Armando Velazquez  | 全米王者BALA (The King in US)
a36 米 Arcadeshocklreynald Reynald Tacsuan | 米国四天王レイナルド
a36 韓 Cafe id koogle translator Sung-jun Yoon
a37 日 Kazunoko Ryota Inoue | かずのこ氏
a39 韓 Cafeid id 1st man Jun hyung Park
a41 日 Frb bull410 Yosuke Asada
a42 米 Combofiend Peter Rosas
b31 米 Urasparkster Andrew Welker | Shoryuken KOFXIII WIKI 製作者
b31 中 Qanba x elivepro|dakou Haojun Su | 中国のDakou氏
b32 米 Team chaos chriskof Christian Gutierrez
b35 米 Xan|DJ huoshen Chris Miller | Shadowloo Shodown 実況者
b35 台 Yang Yao ren | 台湾の阿仁氏と思われる
b36 米 Vvv|TC romance Jose Navarrete | 米国四天王ロマンス
b36 韓 Cafeid|Pikachu Jung hoon Lee
b37 日 Kaoru Kaoru Inoue | 関西最強伝説カオル (Kansai's strongest legend)
b38 日 Kiyomatsu Kiyomatsu Shinichi
b38 米 Kane317 Yuhang Ng | 米国最強チン使い (America's strongest Chin)
b39 日 Frb|gx Shougo Kitagata
b42 米 Choysauce Henry Choi
c31 米 Igl|the answer Oscar Oyarzabal | KOF名物実況者
c32 米 David kong Shuai (david) Kong| CEO2012実況者
c33 米 Fubarduck Ryan Harvey | KVO実況者
c33 米 Hellpockets Chris Fields | このデカい実況者
c34 日 Umezono Umezono Nozomu　 | 梅園氏
c34 韓 Cafeid lacid Myung gu Kang
c37 日 Saru Ryuya Tazaki
c37 米 Elivepro|mrkof John Tran  | 米国四天王ゴレイヌ
c40 日 Haitani Tatsuya Haitani　 | ハイタニ氏
c41 仏 Cuong Cao Wdm.mcz cuongster
d31 韓 Cafeid verna Min-su Shin
d34 台 Dm | cc:asia @zhieeep Zhi liang Chew
d34 日 Kubo Tsutomu Kubota　 | KUBO氏
d35 日 Mago Kenryo Hayashi　 | マゴ氏
d37 米 Eg justin wong Justin Wong | レッツゴージャスティン (Let's go Justin!)
d38 日 Sange_tencho Tomoaki Yamashita　 | さんげ店長
d39 仏 Wdm.mcz fox Marvin Forestal　 | フランス・STUNFEST準優勝者
d41 中 Qanba x elivepro|xiaohai Zhuojun Zeng　 | 世界最強KOF98プレイヤー・中国のXiaohai氏  (World's best 98 player)
d41 韓 Cafeid madkof Kwang noh Lee　 | 韓国最強MADKOF氏  (Korea's strongest player)
d42 米 Ultradavid David Graham 　 | EVO実況者
e31 日 Mepu Hinami Asahina
e32 英 Prodigal son Ryan Hart　 | 英国スパ４でご存知
e34 米 Fc nychrisg Christopher Gonzalez | SUDOKU WATCH
e35 日 Kyabetsu Yuki Ishigaki | キャベツ氏
e36 米 Laban Raphael Ramos | 米国KOF13講座動画製作者
e38 昭 Zong hui Seow
e38 韓 Cafeid guts Pirsu Jun
e39 日 Nori Norihiko Shiomi
e42 昭 Dm|Xian Ho Xian　 | シンガポールのXian氏
h31 日 Tokido Hajime Taniguchi | アイスエイジ・ときど氏
h32 台 Huang Yung ming
h34 米 Tfa|rzr banana ken Jose Llera
h34 仏 Maxmode|Pharaon Ihab Hassan | フランスサイトMAXMODE運営者
h34 米 Eg floe Ari Weintraub
h35 日 Oeppu Junya Yasuda | KOF13闘劇2010優勝者おえっぷ氏  (SBO champ for kof13)
h36 韓 Cafeid kensouzzang Daehwan Kim

http://kofkoucha.wordpress.com/2012/06/26/kof-xiii-evo2012%E3%80%81%E5%85%A8%E3%83%97%E3%83%AC%E3%82%A4%E3%83%A4%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%88%E3%83%BC%E3%83%8A%E3%83%A1%E3%83%B3%E3%83%88%E8%A1%A8%E5%85%AC%E9%96%8B%EF%BC%81%E3%80%80%E3%82%AB/

haha this is interesting, I need to translate what they added to my name :p

Looking forward to CEO this weekend.  I hope Mago enters KOF so we get to see how good he is at the game.  I know he's been training with Dune and Tokido, but no footage of him has surfaced, so let's hope he doesn't withhold his debut until evo.

Mago vs BALA is going to be hype!!!

From what Tokido told us, Mago is a lot stronger than he is.

Thank you very much for the warm welcome.  I actually met The Answer at an EVO side tourney in Cal Poly Pomona.  I was the Korean guy that brought the Import SVC Chaos.  I think we ran Dreamcast 98, PS2 2002, and TC the Beast won SVC... 

Then I visited AI and got OCVed by Mr. KOF and Reynald.  I think I did see a strong Chin player there...  Mad respect for Kane317's Chin.  I also watch The Runback and Real Honest Sundays.  First things first tho.  I plan to join the online ranbat on 22nd.  I'm also hoping to make it out to Super Arcade soon.

Just got a one year pass for Xbox Live and wired internet.  Looking forward to leveling up here at DC! 

 

wow! that was a long time ago, haha well I'm glad you are back in the scene hope to see you around in our local events.

Also the MLG usage list isn't entirely correctly, for example I know Bala also chose Yuri against Tokido and Reynald swapped in Leona etc...so I dunno if they factored in everyone's character changes.

You are right, I will update the list. Please let me know if there's any more that they missed.

Shen-4
Mr.Karate-3
Iori-3
Benimaru-3
Hwa-3
Takuman-2
King-2
Andy-2
Yuri-2
Ryo-1
Saiki-1
Ash-1
Maxima-1
Duolon-1
Leona-1
Kim-1

P.S. I'm also going to make a ECT character usage list as soon as I have a chance, I think it will be interesting to compare the character usage from an event happening on the other side of the country at the same time.

So I made the characters usage list below based on the top 8 results posted on http://www.eventhubs.com/news/2012/jun/08/mlg-anaheim-spring-championship-tournament-live-stream-kof13-mk9-and-sc5/ at MLG.

Shen-4
Mr.Karate-3
Iori-3
Benimaru-3
Hwa-3
Takuman-2
King-2
Andy-2
Ryo-1
Yuri-1
Saiki-1
Ash-1
Maxima-1
Duolon-1

Thoughts?

Hello guys, I would like to invite you all to http://www.japonawa.com/ in Tijuana, MX there is going to be a big KOF tournament at this Anime Expo and there will be players from all over region coming to compete.

Hope you guy can make it, it's going to be a lot of fun and it's only $5 to enter. SEE YOU THERE !

...wait, why was Bala playing Mai exactly?

Not that it matters a loss is a loss and doesn't take away any credit on anybodies win but his experimental character for this week was Mai just like Takuma was last week (mine was Joe this week not that anybody cares) and he agreed to use her all the way to the grave.

I think David Kong recorded a few matches definitely check them out when he uploads them if you are looking for some high level Mai play.

They both beat him. Mr. KOF beat him in Winners, Reynald followed suite in Loser's.

Yup.  I guess when it rains it pours.

Sad but true, looks like his Mai wasn't good enough to defeat this 2 strong opponents =(.

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We know that it was going to take something like winning a major with Leona so people can remove that stigma from her and that's why I challenged Bala to win PowerUp with her.

I dunno what you're smoking because she's never been low tier and honestly you guys were the one that created the stigma. The harsh truth is you guys just didn't do the research or just failed to recognize that.

Now granted the majority of these videos are from the arcade version, you know how little has changed for her hence it's still relevant.  Lastly, not to take anything away from Bala's stellar performance at PU'2012, she was already known to be good since 4leaf used her in STA matches, ESB Sam's infamous Leona, and more recently Reynald using her in the last few TheRunBacks; it doesn't take a major to know what we already knew.

Here's evidence from older posts of Japanese players tearing it up shown here (Post was from as early as 10/11/2010), here, here, here, this one is just off a counter hit, here, another list of videos and one more for kicks from the console version.

The irony of the whole thing, we remember you telling ESB Sam, the same person who beat you with Leona, to drop Leona because she wasn't good =)

Well I'm pretty sure there's video from every character beasting in the FIRST 3 months when the game was released in the ARCADE version lol so your videos don't mean much.

You say "we knew" but I've done some research and I CAN NOT find a tier list from you where you we point out that Leona is good. What I see here is that you are trying to capitalize on somebody else success at a major tournament with Leona, now that you see her potential you come out and say "we knew" when our tier list has been out for moths and you just now come and say this, that is not right in my opinion.

To make a tier list it not only requires knowledge about the game but also BALLS since we are putting our ideas out there and we gotta be prepared for people's reaction and the possibility that we can be wrong. So if you want to compare apples to apples grab your "TIERS" and put a list together.

From day one when we made the tier list and put Leona all the way to the bottom we said a that she is viable an that it's only going to take a little more training and work to win with her. We know that it was going to take something like winning a major with Leona so people can remove that stigma from her and that's why I challenged Bala to win PowerUp with her.

Remember guys, this is KOF ANY CHARACTER IS VIABLE in this version.

I wonder how many people are going to check out Leona after seeing Bala use her? That was a damn good Leona.

Leona forum blowing up lol!

Looks like Billy, Saiki, EX Kyo, EX Iori and Mr.Karate have been retouched. If they have been nerfed, then I want this as patch for console version :D

Most of them are really minor bug fixes.  The only real nerf is they fixed Billy's invincibility during HD activation.

That straight up sucks... That feature has saved me on quite a few situations...

Can you please elaborate on this feature? I'm not too familiar with it and how it works.

thanks!

Well Mastaroth had a video on it, but he took it down for whatever reason.

Anyway, basically if you HD Activate off of your normals, you're invincible for a short amount of time.  Pretty much makes it ideal to bait Guard Cancel CD's and like, Guard Point moves.  In other words, it can make people like EX Kyo pretty damn free if you guess right.

Thank you, I'll be testing this out.

Looks like Billy, Saiki, EX Kyo, EX Iori and Mr.Karate have been retouched. If they have been nerfed, then I want this as patch for console version :D

Most of them are really minor bug fixes.  The only real nerf is they fixed Billy's invincibility during HD activation.

That straight up sucks... That feature has saved me on quite a few situations...

Can you please elaborate on this feature? I'm not too familiar with it and how it works.

thanks!