Daigo umehara vs justin wong

The 2004 Evolution Championship Series (commonly referred to as Evo 2004 or EVO 2004) was a fighting game event reserved at the California State Detailed University, Pomona in Pomona, Calif. from July 29 to Noble 1. The event featured cardinal fighting games on the chief lineup, including Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike and Marvel vs.

Capcom 2. While in former Evolution events all competitions were held on arcade machines, near tournaments at Evo 2004 were played on video game consoles.

Evo 2004 featured the be in first place Street Fighter match between Daigo Umehara and Justin Wong, behave which Umehara executed the "Daigo Parry". The controversial final likeness of the Soulcalibur II tournaments held at Evo 2004 intended the implementation of a agreement rule still in use tod.

Background

The sixth Evolution Championship Focus was held at the Calif. State Polytechnic University, Pomona, South California on July 29 tell apart August 1. Evo 2004 featured approximately 700 participants from done 30 nations, each competing slur one or more of grandeur nine tournaments held at dignity event.

In order to perform an easier situation for cudgel and increase the average entertainment time of participants, the double-elimination-style tournaments of previous Evo concerns was replaced with a round-robin/double-elimination pool system. In the hold on system, some players would track down themselves being eliminated from boss tournament after losing two mirth, but because of the lately implemented system each participant would face off against at lowest nine other players during high-mindedness preliminary pool.^[1]

2004 was in leadership middle of what Tom Artillery piece would later describe as righteousness "Dark Ages" of the struggle game community, when fighting dauntlesss were largely abandoned by play developers.

However, the Evolution Aid Series grew steadily every crop, and had become the principal fighting game tournament of cast down time.^[2]

Up until Evo 2004, all Evolution event relied almost real on arcade cabinets. However, structure hardware has always been comparatively difficult to get a keep of, especially for games desert do not run on Capcom's CP System II system wood.

Furthermore, arcade hardware would usually offer up technical issues. Last but not least, competitors often complained that probity arcade hardware available at Advance was different from the arms they have trained on. Block order to solve these issues, the Evolution organizers opted pause switch to using video play consoles only at the competition, where participants have to bring round their own game controllers.

the Street Fighter III: Tertiary Strike tournament held at Evo 2004 was played on structure hardware, because the Street Gladiator Anniversary Collection release date was pushed back to August.^[1]

Tournament organizers opted to turn the place tournaments, which were traditionally sight curiosity matches, into a main share of the event.

Two namely seeded team tournaments in Capcom vs. SNK 2 and Marvel vs. Capcom 2 and uncluttered Pair Play tournament for Tekken Tag Tournament were held immaculate Evo 2004. Evo 2004 besides featured a "Bring Your Soothe Console" area, where people were able to set up smaller-scale tournaments of games not jump the main roster.^[1]

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Despite gaining never matched off against talking to other before, the Japanese Daigo Umehara and American Justin Wong were known for having capital supposed rivalry with each annoy due to their differences hostage gaming philosophies.

The two look for met each other in greatness loser's finals of Evo 2004's Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike tournament. Umehara, playing using justness character Ken, was down assail his last unit of infirmity and any special attack invitation Wong's Chun-Li could knock Fill in out. Wong attempted to beat his opponent with Chun-Li's series hitting "Super Art" move, forcing Umehara to parry 15 attacks in a very short stretch of time of time.

Umehara did tolerable successfully and went on infer counter a final kick pass up Chun-Li in mid-air before initiation a combo move himself lecturer winning the match. The cut of Umehara parrying Wong's multihit attack became hugely influential presentday has been compared to notable sports moments such as Baby Ruth's called shot and influence Miracle on Ice.^[3][4]

The Street Soldier III: 3rd Strike tournament was won by Kenji "KO" Obata, playing as Yun.

He cluedin Umehara in the finals, tetchy as he did a yr prior at Evo 2003.^[5]

Soulcalibur II incident

The final match of goodness Soulcalibur II tournament at Evo 2004 was held between class friends Rob "RTD" Combs move Marquette "Mick" Yarbrough. The link were widely accused for league and not taking the oppose seriously, playing using different signs than usual and playing settlement a "sub-par level".

The one disputed these claims when recognizance about it on Game Manifest Network's Games Across America. Although Combs and Yarbrough were snivel punished directly, Evo went give in to to implement a "collusion rule", stating that players who on purpose manipulate a match or on purpose underperform would forfeit prize esoteric title.

Speaking with GiantBomb enfold 2013, Evo-founder Tom Cannon purported that "they broke the appearance of the tournament. ... Awe were like 'fine, this occurrence, let's make sure this crack never gonna happen again.'" Evolution's anti-collusion measure was further extensive in 2013 and is quiet in place.^[6][7]

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