GameBattles.com Street Fighter 4 Ladder Entry !

Today i decided to take part in the ladder over at gamebattles.com
Test out the waters and see how the competition is over there.

I was going to record the matches and upload them, but not knowing how long they were going to actually last and how long of downtime was in between each i opted to broadcast live using uStream instead so that viewers could see the match unfold in real time.


Unlike mos matches which are 2 Rouds per match = 1 game, these GameBattles matches are best 2 out of 3 matches composed of best 3 out of 5 rounds per mach.
So one GameBattles match up is actually several fights.
To keep it simple, to win you must defeat you opponet 6 times total.

I had always wanted to compete tournaments for street fighter in the past, so this is a good opportunity for me to get in some practice.
This being my first match i was eager to get started as soon as possible, so i looked around for an opponent who was currently online.

Ah HA! Found one !
A NEW CHALLENGER ENTERS THE RING ! !

My first match was against Team SQUAD SURGED. The player was Fantasysurge, his character of choice was Cammy.
I decided to go with Ryu, i felt he has more potential over Ken in certain situations.


At first going into this fight i was very happy to see that he chose Cammy, as i never really have any trouble against them.
- Until i met this guy. Ever mistake i made i was punished for with a combo i had not seen before.
Really i was unaware of some of the moves he was pulling off as i never seem them executed back to back or even at that angel.
To be honest the guy beat me really badly, it was hard for me to land what few hits i manged to get in on him.

This was good, i came across some play style i had never seen before, i was happy to see it so early in the ladder so that next time i might be more prepaid for it.

He offered to go again just for fun, i accepted.
He picked Ken, I went with Ryu again.
This time i fully understood the character he picked, so nothin he threw at me caught me off guard.
I beat his face.. too bad he didnt go with Ken in the real match D:
We parted ways after that.


As i returned to the site to record the match data for the ladder records, i noticed my inbox was blinking.
I have a Team Challenge ! ;o
A NEW CHALLENGER ENTERS THE RING ! !
I accepted and continued my journey towards the top of the ladder.

This time the team was= FAMILY BUCKET ; the player was= sixpiecewing
his character of choice was Sagat.
I went with Ryu for the first match.
To my surprise he didn't try to turtle at all o.O ( YESS! i told my self ! )
We battled it out like 2 barbaric men in the woods with spears... even though we werent actually in the woods, and neither ne of us had spears...

He took the lead with a victory of the first match.
I returned with Ken the second match.
I had an edge on him this time.
And it worked.
I gained a victory... my first gamebattles victory.

Now we go into third and final match.
He fought well, hit me with some moves i should have blocked but didn't because i was being stupid.
I hit him even harder, with moves he couldn't have blocked at the time :D.
I was doing very well.
Then he pulled ahead some and started to gain on me.
This last match would go into the final round to see who would take home the victory.
It was very close, but I did it. I managed to beat him up and knock his ass out!

Today i earned my first victory on gamebattles.com street fighter 4 ladder !
My current team standing:http://gamebattles.com/ps3/street-fighter-iv/team/total-havoic

I think next time I will record the matches and youtube them instead of live stream.