Daigo Umehara's Event Schedule 2015

- Canada Cup's Master Series [January 9-11]
- 5th Niconico Shotenkaigi [January 18]
- Yonpahi radio show [January 23]
- 6th Niconico Shotenkaigi [January 25]
- Taipei Game Show [Jan 31]
- Tokaigi 2015 [Feb 1]

Sunday, December 14, 2014

Capcom Cup 2014 Finals summary

Info
Date: Saturday 13 (Saturday, local time)
Location: The Warfield, San Francisco
Official Capcom Pro Tour website
Official Capcom Cup website
Stream link (English)

Daigo Umehara's Road to Capcom Cup 2014
Umehara had the most difficult route for a spot in this final day. He had to win Capcom Pro Tour Taiwan, then had to win a round-robin featuring two Evo champs plus three Evo top 8 (even played GamerBee twice) in Capcom Pro Tour Asia Finals.

Results
Nishikin (Bla UW) 1-2 Luffy (Ros U2) 38578
0-2
2-0 *extremely close 2r
0-2
- Nishikin refused to do a combo twice! Why?
PR Balrog (ERy U1) 1-2 Ricky Ortiz (Ruf U1) 44760v
1-2 *Ricky almost perfect in 2r *perfect in 3r
2-1 *Rog changed to Box U1 *Ricky dropped Ultra 2r
0-2 *Ricky dropped Ultra 2r
Momochi (Ken U2) 2-0 Snake Eyez (Zan U2) 47387
2-1
2-1
Nuckledu (Dec UW) 1-2 Ryan Hart (Ryu U1)
2-1 *close 1r
1-2
0-2
Bon-chan (Sag U1) 0-2 Fuudo (Fei U1) 50083v
0-2
0-2 *Fuudo almost perfect 1r
Infiltration (Chu UW) 2-0 Chuchu (Sak U1) 51728v
2-1
2-0
[13:44] Valmaster (Ele U2) 0-2 Xian (Poi U1) 51499v
0-2 *Xian almost perfect 2r
1-2 *Cal changed to Chun U1
[13:53] Justin Wong (Ruf U1) 0-2 Daigo Umehara (ERy U2) 53673v
0-2
0-2 *Ume toying 2r

LOSERS BRACKET
[14:13] PR Balrog (Box U1) 2-0 Nishikin (Bla U1) 53854v
2-0 *very close 1r
2-1
[14:20] Nuckledu (Gui U2) 2-1 Snake Eyez (Zan U1/2) 57274v
1-2 *close 3r
2-1
2-0 *Nuckledu almost perfect 1r *close 3r
[14:29] Bon-chan (Sag U1) 2-0 Chuchu (Vip U1) 58223v
2-0
2-1
[14:35] Justin Wong (Ruf U1) 0-2 Valmaster (Chun U2) 59950v
1-2
0-2 *Val perfect 1r

WINNERS BRACKET (5 Evo champs are here!)
[15:27] Luffy (Ros U2) 2-1 Ricky Ortiz (Ruf UW) 60694v
2-1 *very close 2r
1-2 *close 2r
2-0
[15:36] Ryan Hart (Ryu U1) 2-1  Momochi (Ken U2) 65151
2-1 *very close 2r (nice reaction Ultra from Hart)
1-2 *very close 1r
2-0 *very close 1r *close 2r
[15:48] Infiltration (Ele U2) 2-1 Fuudo (Fei U1) 67588
2-0
0-2
2-0
[16:00] Daigo Umehara (ERy U2) 1-2 Xian (Dha U1) 70475
1-2 *very close 1r (nice Ultra reaction by Ume) *close 3r
2-1
1-2 *close 1r

LOSERS BRACKET
[16:11] Valmaster (Chun U2) 2-1 Ricky Ortiz (Ruf U1) 71288v 8653v
0-2
2-1
2-0 *very close 2r
[1620] Bon-chan (Sag U1) 0-0 Momochi (Ken UW) 71100
2-1 *Momo almost perfect 2r
0-2
1-2 *Momo almost perfect 3r
[1629] Nuckledu (Gui U2) 0-2 Fuudo (Fei U1) 70492
0-2
0-2
[1636] PR Balrog (Box U1) 0-0 Daigo Umehara (ERy U2) 72259
0-2
2-1
2-0

Updates
- In front of venue
- Umehara and the gang outside the venue
- Beautiful shot of Umehara, Bon-chan, Fuudo
- Umehara and the gang going Fisherman's Wharf
- Umehara eating with Nishikin on his side
- Umehara literally blocking Fuudo's sauce
- Umehara and Alcatraz Island
- Umehara and the gang walking and laughing
- Ono and line in front of venue 
10:32 - Ono in front of stage  
11:10 - Japanese stream said PR Balrog mains Claw. (this's why we use Claw/Boxer/Dictator)
11:26 - Ono at back stage
11:30 - 15507 viewers
11:32 - Stream actually starts
11:33 - The Megas & A_Rival perform opening music. Nothing wrong with the music, but we rather spend time for FT3 than FT2.
11:36 - Mike Ross appears as host, in car repairing suit. Hope he uses script.
11:37 - Matt Dahlgren appears, thanking the Illuminati.
11:40 - Alex Valle appears to play OSF4, with a Dhalsim player who should be banned from the FGC long time ago for collusion and behaviors. (But hey, half of VIPs will be gone if we actually have regulations) Combofiend and Michael Evans to commentate. We must remind you that Combofiend can't commentate.
11:54 - Random players appear to continue OSF4.
11:56 - Nishikin just said he wants to play ASAP.
12:03 - Dahlgren appears, OSF4 coming Dec15. *25186 viewers
12:04 - MH4 Ultimate 3DS trailer. 30 minutes wasted.
12:09 - Mad Catz CM feat. Daigo Umehara followed by Mark Wahlberg movie trailer The Gambler.
12:27 - Event resumes after break. About to waste 1 hour already. Mike Ross on stage introducing players.
12:31 - 34030v
12:35 - Momochi appears with Juri theme, his chance of winning this tournament just dropped to 0%.
12:37 - James Chen and Ultra David appear.
12:46 - Tournament actually starts!
13:38 - By the way, Chun(-Li) is pronounced Choon, not Chan.
14:51 - 7410v on JP stream
15:03 - This band put lyric in Megaman song. Time to watch something else. (JP chat said is this high school cultural festival?)
15:06 - 42622v (almost 18000 viewers gone in this break
15:14 - Yesterday, a Japanese game event had underground idols sing and dance as a filler. We thought it was bad as they could barely sing or dance. This's worse. Some of the girls at least looked good.
15:21 - The band stopped. Then they said they'll be back. OMG.
16:45 - Tournament is over. Time to sleep.

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