I realy liked to watch these kind of e-sport events live, i hope they do this next year or more often.

My Shoryuken sign up date – 08-19-2001 ^_^

Thanks for the great links! I’ll include your comment in my EVO post tomorrow so that everyone can take a look, if they haven’t already.

Toronto does have a scene but I’ve been shy and never tried to take part. I used to have a neighbourhood SNES SFII thing going on in grade 5, but it was basically me (Ken/Chun-li), my brother (Ryu/ Guile), Local Kid 1 (the world’s worst Blanka), and Local Kid 2 (Ryu and only ever Ryu. Ever. Would quit otherwise). Oh, the cries of “CHEAP! CHEAP!” echoed into the night. That’s why every fighter should make sure to read http://www.sirlin.net/articles/playing-to-win-part-1.html at some point if they want to actually play other people.

Daigo “The Beast” Umehara, besides earning a special mention in Episode 11 of the original Pure Pwnage, won last year’s Street Fighter IV EVO tournament. Here’s an interview from afterwards where he mentioned how much time he spends practicing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmS6PqgUH6Y

In April he played against Justin Wong in an exhibition match for Capcom to promote Super SF IV. It was an incredible match! Seth Killian (s-kill became a Capcom community manager and got SF IV’s boss named after him) provided fairly transparent commentary, live from the event.
http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/6400836

Can’t mention Justin Wong without bringing up the “Never Give Up” video from the Marvel vs Capcom 2 finals at EVO 2007.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVmc5ZepdVs And I can’t mention “Never Give Up” without linking “Never GET Up.” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMHc32ygldk That one was Final Round, not EVO, but it’s an important lesson to learn and you can see there was a lot of excitement.

I don’t know about Toronto, but I hear that Montreal has a Street Fighter tournament scene. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BhRWG6KM5E

Finally, there’s Shoryuken.com There is a wiki there that can help with understanding the jargon, but most of the posts I find on the forums there usually abbreviate that jargon even further. The new glossary threads might help, but I think I would rather just watch the combo videos that those forum members make. There’s also the occasional hilarious animated .gif.

http://shoryuken.com/avatars/capn-spanky-52610.gif?dateline=1250357202

http://shoryuken.com/avatars/jae-hoon-15023.gif?dateline=1276801828

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/1003/Folestet/Street%20Fighter/howiroll.gif

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/1003/Folestet/Street%20Fighter/SRK_AV_10.gif

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