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Hadouken: Street Fighter Podcast #25: Pre-Evo 2009 Special featuring Mike Ross, Sabin and Ian Cofino

Yay, I’m back! Yeah, it’s been a while, sorry for the lack of new shows. The good news is, here’s a new one! Topic of discussion is of course Evo 2009 which is right around the corner. This episode is the first of (probably) two episodes of phone/Skype interviews with various members of the community that will give several different perspectives on this year’s Evo, which is already guaranteed to be the biggest yet. Although it is a tournament, Evo is much more than just a competition to see who is the best in each game and that’s what I’m hoping to bring to the table with these special episodes.

This first episode has interviews with Mike Ross, Sabin and Ian Cofino. Mike Ross is Mike Ross so that’s why he’s on the show. Sabin is on Justin Wong’s team for the SF4 regional 5v5 exhibition match at Evo and Ian Cofino is the director of I Got Next, a documentary on the fighting game scene and will be at Evo to shoot footage for the longer cut of I Got Next will be released early next year.

Also included in the podcast is a special hip hop remix of some clips of Sabin and I from episode 23. Thank you to Jon Van Dalen for that! If you are so inclined, you can download it here.

Here are some of the I Got Next links mentioned by Ian:

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Hadouken: SF4 SBO Qualifiers at Denjin Arcade Grand Finals + Mike Ross Comeback Videos

Click the image to download the Mike Ross BELIEVE wallpaper

Although we’re still waiting on some more videos to be put up on UFragTV (which include the player cameras as well as commentary by myself and Slasher, in the meantime Scott from the Arcade Infinity YouTube Channel has posted some videos to hold you guys over in the meantime. This includes the epic Mike Ross comeback which inspired that amazing photo by Kara (full site coming soon) from Get Your Tournament which you can download as a wallpaper.

Team YJDK: Mike Watson/Sin vs. Team EC: iloveu/Sabin

Mike Ross Unbelievable Comeback – Team Black $$$: Mike Ross/Keno vs. Team Tiger Knuckle: MAGUS1234/haunts

This is the video that triggered this amazing photo.

Team WC Rush Kings: Combofiend/Alex Valle vs. Team EC: iloveu/Sabin

Grand Finals – Team WC Rush Kings: Combofiend/Alex Valle vs. Team Ed I: Ed Ma/Ken I

Hadouken: Street Fighter 4 SBO ‘09 Qualifiers Results and Photos

Wow, what a weekend! The Street Fighter 4/3rd Strike SBO 2009 Qualifiers were held at Denjin Arcade and they were awesome! Congrats to the SF4 winners, Combofiend and Alex Valle, as well as the 3rd Strike winners Emphy, Rom and Ricky Ortiz! It was a ridiculously long day (10am-2am) but it was still a lot of fun. Slasher (from Live on 3 with djWHEAT) and I did live streaming video coverage of the event.

If you were lucky enough to catch the stream on UFragTV, then you know how epic the entire day was (especially the finals). About 30 teams participated and we had some hard-hitting teams.

Some of the crazier matches were Mike Ross/Keno vs. haunts/MAGUS1234, iloveu/Sabin vs. fuson909/ComboJack and of course the grand finals between Ken I/Ed Ma and Combofiend/Alex Valle. All of the matches were recorded and will be available on UFragTV very soon. We still have to go through the matches and edit them a little bit.

Here are the results:

SF4 Teams:
1)West Coast Rush Kings: ComboFiend/Alex Valle (CV/RY)
2) EDDI: Edma/Ken-I (AK/RU)
3) East Coast: IloveuJoe/Art (SA/DH)
4) MODAMAGE: MOVAL/SOMUCHDAMAGE (BL/SA)
5) YJDK: SIN/WATSON (RU/RY)
5) R+B: Ricky O./Buktooth (BA/EF)
7) Black $$$: Mike Ross/Keno (HO/BA)
7) Dae & Busta’s: Dae/BustaBust (CH/AB)

3s Teams:
1) White Cat: Deadeye/Emphy/Ricky O. (Yang/Urien/Chun-li)
2) Pyrolee-San: 5-Star/Ken-I/Kai (Ken/Makoto/Chun-li)
3) Thriller : Let Blood Run/Vinny/Renic (Urien/Ken/Alex)
4) Dream Crusher: Surewin/Shogo/Tom C. (Dudley/Makoto/Necro)
5) Monkey Wrench: Gootecks/Fubarduck/ComboFiend (Urien/Chun-li/Oro)
5) Brownie: Mike_Z/JR Rodriguez/JayJay (Makoto/Akuma/Ken)
7) Fuck SF4: Bebop/Luka/Makoto Mike (Oro/Alex/Makoto)
7) The Chin Dynasty: Pyrolee/EricxChin/Pherai (Ken/Yun/Akuma)

Check out some my favorite photos shot by Kara Leung from Get Your Tournament after the jump…