While at Otakon, I played some casual SF4 and 3rd Strike matches, and the competition was pretty lackluster.  That by itself isn’t so bad, but there was a lot of raging, some loser got mad that I threw him in 3S and beat him with Chun’s fierce, and I saw a fight nearly break out at the SF4 setups… Weaksauce.  Ben apparently won the Otakon SF4 tourney, though, so maybe I should have competed if I’d known he was there.  I at least did get to hang out with the kids from Fast Karate, which is always a good time.  The PS2 controller is a bit of a handicap, but canceling from crouching forward into super is really pretty easy.

I caught a few of the matches from EVO, will get to watching them in earnest once  more are up.  This match caught my eye in particular, Jimmy Tran vs. Daigo.  This one is worth watching, bad quality and all: he just doesn’t give a shit that he’s playing Daigo, and just focuses everything and doesn’t give him room to breathe. Give this man a medal.