Seriously. In all honesty I played the guy a handful of matches, he got some decent combos, very good combos with Ermac but the main factor for his wins were:
Random containments or attacks that connect due to lag/delay and not through tactical forcing of mistakes. There is a huge difference and he'll see people won't fall for the things that are handed to him online. It's a shame that there is delay vs him and he is so close to me while I have zero delay vs ILP who is completely across the country.
Ie: he caught me with 5 TKS's between fake blocks. Fake blocks are like fake ducking, they bait a move like that so you can instantly block then counter almost like a parry, however online it's not nearly as possible. Also, when I played CD, I random selected all the matches and he picked his best. He asked how to random via message and he did one match, lost then never again. I mean, I'm not expecting people to random, but the only reason I did was because I couldn't play to my full ability, all the matches were close, he even messaged me and said I was a very good player so he knew the score. The consistency of his combos and reaction time leads me to believe that he doesn't have lag or delay. Overall compared to the rest of the people I've run into on XBLA he is one of the best, I'm sure he could beat 99% of players on or offline.
Is he better than Moe? Lex? Thrower? Tom Brady? Julian? No. All of those players are more of a challenge to me offline than he is online even with handicaps. Remember how important that is, not even talking about the random select because I beat his top tier character choices with Sheeva (whom I got twice in random). Of course not saying that anyone is unbeatable, but there seems to be a serious case of unknown players claiming to be the best. I've never claimed to be the absolute best in the last few years we've revived the community, but a lot of players have come along and said it, and never proven it.
If this tournament were at an arcade with an official arcade machine and no chance to use a gamepad or whatever, he probably wouldn't even show up it sounds. That's not a true player.
The bottom line is, I want him to show up, I want all the possible players to show up because the more good players who represent, the more respect the game earns. People like Axem Black only want dissention. I got along with CD and then once Axem Black started up, so did he. It's a shame.
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