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As many of you guys out there already know. It is possible to play Guilty Gear Online. However you will have to put your time travelers boots on and go back a few years to the XX #Reload version of the game. #Reload and Isuka are the only GG games that were ported to pc, and some genious decided that it would be great to play with people online, and not just in the arcade, or wait for the casual play day. And the online patch for GG reload was developed.

Playing online has it’s up and down’s, and at first sight it’s mostly down’s:

- The most common speed to play at is by playing with four frames of delay(in order to cope with the distance), which means different execution timing. This setting can be changed if your opponent has a good connection.

- It’s an old version of the game, with old combos and a lot of bullshit.

- A.B.A and HOS are missing.

These things are enough to have players not even considering playing online at all, but there is something to gain as well.

- Different from just sitting in practice mode, it’s actually another human sitting on the 2player side of the screen, meaning that this is a unique opportunity to get match up experience, and match up experience is something you want to have in order to take the game to the next level. It’s a good thing, because you will meet almost every GG gamer profile online.

-A great playground to try out new mix-ups and gimmicks. This apply’s more to the character that’s hasn’t changed too much since #Reload or Slash.

I have been playing online for quite some time now, and i feel that this is what has made me a much better player in the long run. I used to live in Norway, where i got introduced to Slash by my fellow comrades. As time flew we were still only four people playing the game, and we didn’t get together to much to play casuals either. Playing against three different characters wasn’t enough, I wanted to learn more. When i found #Reload online, i discovered that it wasn’t that different from Slash and i had no thoughts of how bad it was at all. But i got online and learned the basics of defense, pressure, and how damn annoying the dustloops was. As i grew in skill as a players i learn’t to use #Reload online to my advantage, and it quickly became my playground for testing mixups, gimicks and setups. Later, after properly testing the new tactics,  I would apply them to my AC game which is still something i do today. Being a student does not give you much time to maintain the skills in guilty gear, a lot of things can easily be forgotten, but this has been my way of maintaining it. Some people have asked me of how i cope with switching over to AC, and i would say: “It’s like shifting between gears while driving” It’s hard at first and it would usually take a match or 2 before you will get used to AC timing again, but when you have done it a couple of times, it’s not a problem.

If you don’t live near an arcade or play regularly with friends, this is a good solution in order to take it to the next level.

/Nattak

If you are a fan of watching match videos, you might be interested in checking out some live streams from the arcades of japan. They are mostly running casuals, but sometimes tournaments and other funny games.

Mikado

http://www.stickam.jp/profile/jonioggxx

TRF

http://www.stickam.jp/profile/seimitukikai

This post will update as soon as there are more live streams up.

Showdown 5 in Stockholm has been chosen to be the epic battlegrounds for the European Tougeki-qualifiers for Guilty Gear XX Accent Core 3vs3.

Get Hype Ladies & Gentlemen! And bring your A-game, ’cause both Heaven & Hell will Rock!

Showdown 5 in Stockholm

There is no better way to celebrate the beginning of a new year then the soothing words from our friends back in Sweden announcing the annual Showdown tournament.

This is the fifth and final time the showdown gathering has been held, and every year it gets bigger and better.

In the two first years the showdown was held way south, in the magical place called Lund. Shinjin and the rest of Lund worked very hard making sure that everything and everyone was in place.  Participants in the first two years were Swedish, and not aware of the impact the next event with the same name would have in the European Guilty Gear scene.

The 3rd edition of showdown was held in march 2008. This time the event was moved to Stenhamra in Stockholm which later became the Showdown base camp. This made it easier for the people to get there, and after advertising on different forums with the promise of  ”The 4 demonlords” attending, a whole army of people from all over the world started showing interest. France, Germany, Poland, Sweden, Finland, Norway, and the UK were all heavily represented. With single and team tournaments, high competition level, and the unmeasurable levels of hype made the event a magical place to be as a Guilty Gear player.

In 2009 the Showdown crew got permission to host the European SBO qualifier. With 1v1, 3v3, and the SBO qualifier the hype of the event spread quickly and reached both Russia and the U.S.A, leading to a higher level of competition.

And now we are in the year 2010.

If you have been to any of these events before, you know how epic it is.

For more information see:
http://bitterharmony.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=43&t=3082&p=62304#p62304

The second, and last, episode of the Southern Cross of the 2009 Spring-season ranbat was a awesomly fun ranbat, or so I am told.  puKKa has now (finally) fixed the vids with synched commentary-audio and awesome picture-quality for all of you to enjoy a great showtime!

Of course, alot of awesome Caer-commentary, alot of bullshit, and if you end up watching them you will most definitly end up having a better day. We promise you. Though Glenn & Nehle will be sad though. So don’t watch their vids. No, you have to watch Nehle vs Yonasu. Heck, watch ‘em all.

Southern Cross 3.2 - Playlist

http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=F401455AFFBD46E3
Thank you puKKa for putting the hours in and fixing the videos!

Stay tuned, for more    tales of interest!

Time to give you some intense Order-Sol action here on “Featured Player” in form of the one, the true;

0

AKA Zero, aka Beast, aka I had a awesome team SBO’08 together with KA2(JA) & Haaken(PO) but we lost-Man. Check it out some of his most awesome matches:

0(OS) vs Woshige(MI) & Shônen(TE), Grabbing the win for Kantou, vs Kansai in the 23on23 ‘08,


Thank you Xzi & MrWall for doing the work and finding awesome vids

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Most Fired up GG-Country in Europe

Both the Southern Cross-ranbats, located in the south of Sweden featuring players from Lund, Gothenburg, and sometimes even from the Stockhol-area has ended for this season, same goes for ranbats in the Stockholm-area.

Stockholm Ranbat Season 3, 2009, Top5*
1. Xzi (JA) , 50p
2. Koas(JA), 20p
3. CheeseAbuser(ED), 18p
4. Shooting Roccat(AX), 10p
5. Amn(MA), 8p

*a very small degree uncertainty of placement 3-5 exact amount of points, maybe…

Southern Cross Ranbat Season 3, 2009, Top5
1. Yonasu(SL), Caer(TE)
3. Nehle(DI)
4. Glenn(MI)
5. Svampen(BR)

Xzi thus went undefeated in the Stockholm-ranbats and keeps his crown as King of Stockholm. Interresting to see is that Rising Star Koas(JA) grabs the second spot, before both CheeseAbusing CheeseAbuser(ED) and Rensengeki aka Shooting ROCCAT(AX). Nice job! Props to all the new guys in the Stockholm-area, keep up the good work and keep on representing!

Southern Cross ranbats never got a proper Season Finalé due to scheduling problems, and a Showdown 4 in Stockholm that kind of messed up with the planning. It also ended, after two completed rounds, in a tie between the rivals Yonasu(SL) and Caer(TE), and emo’fying of both Nehle & Glenn. Svampen(BR) though, is as happy and burning with desire than ever, and keeps on showing progress. With Bridget. Will there be a titlematch held at Scandinavian Championships between Yonasu and Caer? Will there be a unification-bout for Ranbatchampion of Sweden at Scandinavian Championships? Most probably, yes!

Stay tuned for more inforation about some of the moneymatches that are going down in late August, in Sweden. As for the next ranbat-season; See you after the summer!!!

Xzi, Beast of Sweden & Stockholm GG Ranbat Champion

Caer, Tied for First place in the Southern Cross Ranbat Season 3

Yonasu, Tied for First place in the Southern Cross Ranbat Season 3

The arcade 'Play-space Magical' in San no Miya.

Today I went back to San no Miya again, despite the fact that its far away from Kyoto and the train home always sucks. Why? Because today there was a big tournament! More like, two big tournaments!

First off, a 5on5-tournament, with a grand total of 17 teams (85 entrants) participating.

Secondly, a bigteam-tournament feat. all those players divided into 4 teams:
N O-team, Dogura-team, Woshige-team, Shonen-team.

Well to start it all off, I can start talking about myself. The reason why I in the end went was that Nezu(RO) invited me on his team. An awesome team filled with Robo-Kys. Nezu(RO), Eru(RO) and some dude(RO), + Takashou(AB) and me. How alot of japanese tournaments works out is that they don’t completely randomize, nor do they seed the spots. They randomly give people a number, and then procede by letting #1 put their team wherever they want in the bracket, followed by #2, #3 and so forth. Well, probably not all japanese (non-SBO)-tournaments are run this way, but some of the ones that I’ve been to has worked out this way. When it was our team (Team ‘My overclock is to fierce’) we could either chose between:

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Alot of blood was spilled at this qualifier.  The team that won the local qualifier would have to face off with the Team of Legends in the areafinal. And in the end, it came down to a battle between Omito(ED), Maddo(VE) & Susumu(CH) vs Niiyama(AX), Yuuzen(IN) & Defure(FA). Yuuzen(IN) beat Susumu(CH) in the first match, but Maddo(VE) came back and OCV’d the whole team. The battle between Defure(FA) and Maddo(VE) was a really close one, and Defure(FA) kind of had it when he got an okizeme into a drillcancelled high-mixup, but failed the confirm and just ran up and whiffed Fausts commandthrow, which after that he lost.

The Epic Battle thus came to be:

Shônen(TE), Woshige(MI), N O(VE) vs Omito(ED), Susumu(CH), Maddo(VE).

First up:

Shônen(TE) vs Omito(ED)
Shônen started off with taking a dominant win in the first round. Woshige, proud of his teammates nicely performed first round, said “the tougeki-spot is ours!”. The second round though didnt go as good. Shônen simply lost in the zoning-game and good Eddie-raped. 1-1. Final round. Omito(ED) starts of the round by attacking with an IAD. Shônen didn’t play supersafe and obviously guessed wrong so thus ate the IAD, combo into sweep, into unblockable, into unblockable, into unblockable, he bursts but recistance was futile. Omito wins.

Woshige(MI) vs Omito(ED)
The girl made of glass, and the character that has so much damage-potential so that characters like May can’t count as S-tier in damage. Pretty much made for an dramatic battle. And it started out pretty bad for Woshige, well.. In a way. But then he got a knockdown and went unblockable (millia-mixup) on Omitos toptierwhoring ass (well… you can’t blame him in a way… AC-Johnny lol). Omito won the second round though! And the last round really came down to the wire. Omito has Woshige down to about 20%, but eats a combo and has so little life that he will die if he eats the next mixup. Woshige does FB-Disk. TK Badmoon, blocked. TK Badmoon, blocked. Shit I dont remember, blocked. And its back to zoning-wars. Though Woshige seems to has bigger balls, and finishes it off with a roll-to-throw.

Woshige(MI) vs Susumu(CH)
You can’t hurt what you can’t touch. Susumu handled Woshige pretty good and took a stand for all the Chipp-players in the world. Which leavs everything up to N O(VE), who keeps on talking about how much he sucks in his posts at mixi.

N O(VE) vs Susumu(CH)
The first round was rape from Susumu. Venom has a hard tough with Chipp, but if he manages to catch him… N O is down to like 10% life, Susumu at a confortable 70%. Susumu gets in, but N O smoothly evades. And then he gets it, the combo that he needed. Followed up with ball-pressure, but not going too aggresive though. He clearly did not want to give the opponent any chances for scoring a shoryuken into win. He ends it low-airmeaty jP into throw. Crowd goes wild, and N O lets out a roar of victory. 1-1. Final round is not as close as the second. Both players are in the middle of the screen a bit away from eachother, and N O reads that Susumu is going to do something, and blasts away with a Double Head Morbid and romancancels it into a combo for the kill. There was much rejoice.

N O(VE) vs Maddo(VE)
Even though Maddo did pretty well, it was clear who had the better Venom. N O won overall in the zoning-wars, and he relentlesly owned Maddo by doing some semi-bullshit IAD Pressure-string which Maddo continued to block, which N O clearly didnt approve since he screamed out “YOU SHOULD GO AND STUDY A LITTLE THING CALLED SLASHBACK”.

N O won, and this the team of legends qualified to SBO. Congratulations! We wish you all the best of luck!