TOPANGA League Round 9 summary

Info
- TOPANGA League revealed (with rules, schedule, and stream links)
- TOPANGA League prizes details
- TOPANGA League Round 1 summary
- TOPANGA League Round 2 summary 
- TOPANGA League Round 3 summary 
- TOPANGA League Round 4 summary 
- TOPANGA League Round 5 summary
- TOPANGA League Round 6 summary
- TOPANGA League Round 7 summary (coming in 2012)
- TOPANGA League Round 8 summary (coming in 2012)
- Knockout stage fixtures
- Round 7, 8, 9 postponed

Notes
- Commentators: R and Shiro (the Makoto player)
- Shiro came after work so he's still in suit.
- The show ended with 45,063 attendees and 112,674 comments.

Spoilers inside.



Momochi (Cody) 0-2 Mago (Fei Long)
- Mago got to choose side, he chose 2P side.

First set: Momochi 6-8 Mago
- Momochi chose night jungle stage.

1. 0-2
2. 2-0
3. 1-2
4. 0-2
5. 2-1 *Momo almost lost in 2nd round, Mago couldn't chip him
6. 0-2
7. 2-1
8. 2-1 *Momo won in last round by LV3 Focus Ultra
9. 1-2
10. 2-0 
11. 0-2 (deuce) *Mago won playing patiently in last round
12. 2-1 (deuce)
13. 0-2 (deuce)
14. 1-2 (deuce) *Intense last round

Second set: Momochi 4-6 Mago
- Momochi chose Overpass, Mago's favorite stage.

1. 1-2 *Mago played with more confidence than in 1st set. It looks like he just got his first command grab in last round
2. 1-2
3. 1-2 *Momo's Ultra didn't get full hit in last round so he lost
4. 2-0
5. 2-0
6. 2-1
7. 1-2
8. 0-2
9. 2-0 
10. 1-2

Mago (Fei Long) 2-1 Umehara (Ryu)
- Umehara got to choose side, he chose 2P side.

First set: Mago 5-7 Umehara

1. 2-1 *Mago almost won in 1st round but he missed
2. 1-2
3. 2-1
4. 1-2
5. 2-1
6. 2-0  *After this game, Ume just realized that one of his buttons was misconfigured (K came out instead of  P?)
7. 0-2
8. 1-2
9. 2-1 *very close last round
10. 0-2 
11. 1-2 (deuce) *very close 2nd round
12. 0-2 (deuce)

Second set: Mago 6-1 Umehara
- Mago chose hippo stage.

1. 0-2 *good game for Ume
2. 2-0
3. 2-1
4. 2-0 *Ume missed ex SRK chip and lost in 2nd round (Mago backstep'd)
5. 2-0
6. 2-0
7. 2-0 

Third set: Mago 8-6 Umehara
- Umehara told Mago to choose Overpass stage!

1. 2-1
2. 2-0
3. 0-2
4. 2-1
5. 1-2
6. 0-2
7. 2-0
8. 2-1
9. 0-2
10. 0-2 
11. 2-0 (deuce)
12. 1-2 (deuce)
13. 2-0 (deuce)  
14. 2-1 (deuce) *Ume almost won in 1st round, he won 2nd but that's it

- Mago did well in 2nd set FA-ing Ume's jump kick to avoid guessing. He stopped in 3rd set. That's when Ume started to kill his FA with tatsu.
- Umehara still dropped many solar plexus combo. (Though he eventually used plexus tatsu instead plexus SRK.)
- Umehara could have done better. He made many risky moves that probably avoidable.