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Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Oreno Kachi DA!!!! (Victory is mine)

Oh yes its official there is a Tounament here in PIttsburgh April 3 im pretty pleased about this you have no idea trust me. so this will be the first step into my grad project i'm hearing there will be a couple professinals in this tourney coming from areas such as New York, and San Fransico. I'm going to start my pratice back up this weekend so i can be fully prepared for this tournament. My Schedule will be 2 Hours of Street Fighter 3, 3 Hours of Capcom vs Snk 2 and a few casuals in Guilty Gear so i can be up to par. Also i have completely Paid off my copy street fighter 4 so as of February 17th i will be takeing this day of school off additional to the already long weekend. yea i know it sounds pretty bad, but this is for my interest and the sake of my grad project as well.

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Foundation Questions

Essential Question
What does it take to become a Video Game Pro?

1. How much dedication does it take to get into the higher level of play?

2. Can just anyone become the best?

3. What are ways to get better?

4. Is it possible to teach someone what it takes?

5. How often should people practice?

6. What are the best ways to learn an opponet?

7. What is the best way to practice?

8. What makes the tournament factor of competition the most significant part of play?

9. When did organied competiton start?

10. What was the first offcial tournament and where was it?

Key Terms

1. Bread and Butter
These are essential combos that will help you win matches

2. Chains
These are multiple hits that land in succession

3.Combo
is a chain of hits that are unblockable after the first hit

4. Zoneing
The term used when controlling space in a match

5.Tick Throws
The use of a weak attack to combo into a grab

6.Cross Up
An Attack that makes the other fighter block in the reverse direction they would have to.

7. Turtle
To play in a defensive matter.

8. Parrying
The ability to counter a players move to use your own.

9.Cancelaing
the ability to cancel a frame to do something else such as supers ultras or a bread and butter combo.

10. Stun
When a character gets dizzy from either takeing too much damage getting their guard bar depleted or being hit by a move

11. Scrub
A word used as a ranking system a scrub is a person that is just begining their journey in becomeing a pro.

12. Infinites
The infinite is a combo that, once started, cannot be interrupted using the game's mechanics by any methods

13. Juggle
When the opposing character is hit mid air multiple times

14. Mind Games
Mind games are described as the use of psychology to maximize one's chances of winning. A big part of mind games is archetyping, dissecting the way an opponent plays and then immediately gearing oneself to prepare an effective counter strategy, as well as a great deal of other tactics that take advantage of the amount of predictability present within an opponent

15. Mix Up
a strategy or technique of making one's attacks more difficult to predict.

16. Baiting
consists of doing certain moves and movements to try and elicit a certain reaction or move from an opponent, and then punishing that reaction or move.

17.Punish
Attacking an opponent who is recovering from performing an attack.

18. Frames
A frame is a single still picture on a display screen such as a television set or computer monitor. Fighting games generally run at a fixed 60 frames per second (50 frames in Europe) which means they show 60 still pictures every second to simulate motion.

19. Charge Move
A move whose command input involves holding (charging) either a direction on the joystick or button(s) for a brief period of time. This kind of move is most popular in 2D fighters, although it is occasionally seen in 3D fighters (more commonly as a button charge than a joystick charge).

20. Button Mashing
derogative term used to define the way in which inexperienced players play fighting games. It literally involves the consistent, focused mashing of one or more buttons in a random fashion, with or without random joystick movements.

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Oreno Kachi DA!!!! (Victory is mine)

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