MCM London DOA5 Alpha Demo "Tournament"

[grap3fruitman]

http://www.twitch.tv/gamespot/b/319398572​

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You want to jump to around the 3 hour 18 minute mark.

 

[grap3fruitman]

Yo! They played on largest life? Frauds.


I'm pretty sure that the guy that's supposed to be providing the commentary doesn't understand what that entails. I would hate to watch the commentary tracks on a TV show if they consisted entirely of:

• Here are the characters!
• This is the commercial break!
• Oh man! It's the credits! MAKE SOME NOISE!!

 

[Allan Paris]

Why did they play on largest? lol.

 

[Rikuto]

Stay Pufft vs Superman?

 

[EMPEROR_COW]

I have to say the event was fun .. Im going to make the vid report on the event soon .. i made some nice interviews

Its a shame my nerves kinda got to me when I went on the stage .. complete mind block...
the guys pad reset didnt help either ...
but im not going to make any excuses .. i lost fair and square ..
it was good fun ..
ggs to all lol ..

more reason to train for next event

it was set on largest because the guys here set their games like that so the matches last longer ..
I dont know if I agree with that .. but that was their call ...

 

[Rikuto]

The nerves thing, its really common.

There's a trick to making it beneficial instead of a liability, but it takes a few tournaments in front of a large crowd to learn how to really tap into it.

Think of it like this... adrenaline is pumping through your system, giving you extra energy. That energy, if 100% focused into the match itself, only makes you better. Being worried about losing though, it's going all over the place and is making you worse. You aren't used to the crowds, so half that attention is worried about how they are perceiving you when they shouldn't even be important. The other half is desperately trying to keep your eye on the screen and think about the match. Every time something goes wrong, another splinter of that attention is relegated to reflecting on that instead of whats happening in front of you now. Sound familiar?

Thing is though, that rush is giving you the ability to focus and play at a much higher level than normal IF you can focus it instead of letting it run all over the place. The biggest tax on your attention is the crowd, and the only way to tune the crowd out is to get yourself to the point that the crowd doesn't even matter. If you have the right personality type you can even use the crowd itself as a weapon against your opponent, though that's some fairly low class shit in my opinion. This is the part that takes a few tournaments for most people, and not every tournament you go to is going to have crowds of that size focused on you, obviously.

Keep putting putting yourself in high-exposure situations and the crowd distraction will eventually become irrelevant to you. The rush will still be there, god knows its ALWAYS there, but you should be able to focus it better when the concept of a big scary crowd watching isn't so new to you.

 

[EMPEROR_COW]

The nerves thing, its really common.

There's a trick to making it beneficial instead of a liability, but it takes a few tournaments in front of a large crowd to learn how to really tap into it.

Think of it like this... adrenaline is pumping through your system, giving you extra energy. That energy, if 100% focused into the match itself, only makes you better. Being worried about losing though, it's going all over the place and is making you worse. You aren't used to the crowds, so half that attention is worried about how they are perceiving you when they shouldn't even be important. The other half is desperately trying to keep your eye on the screen and think about the match. Every time something goes wrong, another splinter of that attention is relegated to reflecting on that instead of whats happening in front of you now. Sound familiar?

Thing is though, that rush is giving you the ability to focus and play at a much higher level than normal IF you can focus it instead of letting it run all over the place. The biggest tax on your attention is the crowd, and the only way to tune the crowd out is to get yourself to the point that the crowd doesn't even matter. If you have the right personality type you can even use the crowd itself as a weapon against your opponent, though that's some fairly low class shit in my opinion. This is the part that takes a few tournaments for most people, and not every tournament you go to is going to have crowds of that size focused on you, obviously.

Keep putting putting yourself in high-exposure situations and the crowd distraction will eventually become irrelevant to you. The rush will still be there, god knows its ALWAYS there, but you should be able to focus it better when the concept of a big scary crowd watching isn't so new to you.

yeah ..
looking back at it now ..
the guy was playing crazy unsafe and i had many guaranteed punish chances ...
and i made so stupid mistakes all over the place ... which didnt help either ..

next time!

 

[Allan Paris]

but im not going to make any excuses .. i lost fair and square ..

Did you lose to a random or to someone who plays DOA? Everything Rikuto just said is dead on, I found my thing to get rid of those distractions. It even kills the nervous rush that comes before and during the match. Buddy, when you keep that rush at bay, you'll do some amazing shit. Skill does come into play with this though, I am not saying that you don't have it.

 

[Berzerk!]

The nerves thing, its really common.

There's a trick to making it beneficial instead of a liability, but it takes a few tournaments in front of a large crowd to learn how to really tap into it.

Think of it like this... adrenaline is pumping through your system, giving you extra energy. That energy, if 100% focused into the match itself, only makes you better. Being worried about losing though, it's going all over the place and is making you worse. You aren't used to the crowds, so half that attention is worried about how they are perceiving you when they shouldn't even be important. The other half is desperately trying to keep your eye on the screen and think about the match. Every time something goes wrong, another splinter of that attention is relegated to reflecting on that instead of whats happening in front of you now. Sound familiar?

Thing is though, that rush is giving you the ability to focus and play at a much higher level than normal IF you can focus it instead of letting it run all over the place. The biggest tax on your attention is the crowd, and the only way to tune the crowd out is to get yourself to the point that the crowd doesn't even matter. If you have the right personality type you can even use the crowd itself as a weapon against your opponent, though that's some fairly low class shit in my opinion. This is the part that takes a few tournaments for most people, and not every tournament you go to is going to have crowds of that size focused on you, obviously.

Keep putting putting yourself in high-exposure situations and the crowd distraction will eventually become irrelevant to you. The rush will still be there, god knows its ALWAYS there, but you should be able to focus it better when the concept of a big scary crowd watching isn't so new to you.

Good tips. Becoming acclimated to all kinds of pressure is going to help you get through a tournament and it comes with experience.

The note about the crowd, one simple practical thing everyone is allowed to do, is just put headphones on. Helps some people.

 

[Berzerk!]

whoa cool I just noticed Messy was part of the tournament

 

[EMPEROR_COW]

Did you lose to a random or to someone who plays DOA? Everything Rikuto just said is dead on, I found my thing to get rid of those distractions. It even kills the nervous rush that comes before and during the match. Buddy, when you keep that rush at bay, you'll do some amazing shit. Skill does come into play with this though, I am not saying that you don't have it.

no he wasnt random hes appearently one of the top players here ..
i beat him in casuals and i was punishing all his unsafe stuff but when we got to the tournament yeah .. my nerves just got to me ..

hes a pretty nice guy too .. so its nice to also make friends with good players here ..

and thanks for the advice rikuto .. I hear revs setting up an event of sort in 2 weeks .. so im deffinately planning on making it there hopefully ..

 

[Awesmic]

The nerves thing, its really common.

There's a trick to making it beneficial instead of a liability, but it takes a few tournaments in front of a large crowd to learn how to really tap into it.

Think of it like this... adrenaline is pumping through your system, giving you extra energy. That energy, if 100% focused into the match itself, only makes you better. Being worried about losing though, it's going all over the place and is making you worse. You aren't used to the crowds, so half that attention is worried about how they are perceiving you when they shouldn't even be important. The other half is desperately trying to keep your eye on the screen and think about the match. Every time something goes wrong, another splinter of that attention is relegated to reflecting on that instead of whats happening in front of you now. Sound familiar?

Thing is though, that rush is giving you the ability to focus and play at a much higher level than normal IF you can focus it instead of letting it run all over the place. The biggest tax on your attention is the crowd, and the only way to tune the crowd out is to get yourself to the point that the crowd doesn't even matter. If you have the right personality type you can even use the crowd itself as a weapon against your opponent, though that's some fairly low class shit in my opinion. This is the part that takes a few tournaments for most people, and not every tournament you go to is going to have crowds of that size focused on you, obviously.

Keep putting putting yourself in high-exposure situations and the crowd distraction will eventually become irrelevant to you. The rush will still be there, god knows its ALWAYS there, but you should be able to focus it better when the concept of a big scary crowd watching isn't so new to you.

As a player who believed he'd place second-to-last at D.I.D. 7, I'd take this advice Emperor Cow.

 

[Raansu]

That was extremely difficult to watch...

 

[Berzerk!]

the largest life setting slows things down too much.

 

[EMPEROR_COW]

the largest life setting slows things down too much.

like I said .. i didnt agree with it ...
i would have preferred everything to be set on normal ..
im ok with the 3 round bit ... (soul calibur style) ..
but i like to keep everything else on default ...

 

[PhoenixVFIRE]

I'm surprised by how many people don't like the largest health setting(is this just for DoA5 since there's actually more health or all DoA's?) I play with largest settings in any DoA I've played. I'm not really a fan of fights that end rather quickly.

 

[Matt Ponton]

Then increase the round or match count, don't get hit so often, or fight people that aren't reckless. The life setting was balanced at normal and changing the setting skews the character balance and flow of a match.

 

[Allan Paris]

I'm surprised by how many people don't like the largest health setting(is this just for DoA5 since there's actually more health or all DoA's?) I play with largest settings in any DoA I've played. I'm not really a fan of fights that end rather quickly.

That is for all DOAs, the life should be and was played on normal for the most part. The reasons Sorwah just gave is why it should be on normal. Largest life was played on in tournaments starting out, but at those times the proper science wasn't done to show the indifference in the game balance. For DOA4 some argue that the life should be on largest because of the hold damage, that also effects quite a few characters when that is done. For DOA5 the life setting will stay on normal.

 

[PhoenixVFIRE]

I see. I wouldn't know that because I've never been to a tournament :/ ...yeah I don't have a problem with the normal setting on DoA5, but in DoA4, I don't even bother with rooms online less than largest and if I do go into one it's because there's no other choice. Of course, if I'm playing with my friends then we can set it to w/e we want Anyway, I understand now, thank you.

 

[DrDogg]

no he wasnt random hes appearently one of the top players here ..
i beat him in casuals and i was punishing all his unsafe stuff but when we got to the tournament yeah .. my nerves just got to me ..

So, one of the top players there was using a ton of unsafe stuff?

Seems contradictory...