" I witnessed a man get top 8 at a major tournament from just mashing buttons on wake up, with no fear or consequences."
It's a 50/50 guess that can also be circumvented with certain attacks that crush mid/highs (ie: it's less than 50/50 for the WU guy. If he won by spamming WU kicks and attacking after teching (disadvantage) and his opponents LOST to that, they deserve to eat shit for failing when at advantage.
@Brute, the point is that would never happen in any other 3D fighting game. Other games has real punishing tools that would have taught him REAL FAST to stop hitting a button on wake up. This game genuinely doesn't have any real punish on block and whiff punishing.