ITABASHI ZANGIEF Zangief,JPN vs Poongko Ryu,KOR

K.O. Episode 1 is a major tournament held at the inaugural "The Games Xpo" or TGX'09 held at Singapore's Suntec City Exhibition Hall 404 from 3rd-5th July. This year TKA Amusements (www.tkaworld) was their official arcade partner and they teamed up with Singapore's Premiere Fighting Game Community Round1.SG (www.round1.sg) to bring you the Street Fighter IV leg of K.O. Episode 1.
We had 5 Qualifiers locally, 1 qualifer in Japan and 1 qualifer in Korea to bring about the top 16. The event featured Korea's POONGKO and LAUGH, Japan's ITABASHI_Zangief, along with Singapore's Representative PEI HOON and 12 more of Singapore's very best duking it out for glory, prize money and bragging rights.

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• K.O.
• Episode
• TKA
• Amusements
• Round1.SG
• TGX'09
• The
• Games
• Xpo
• '09
• Street
• Fighter
• IV
• SFIV
• スト4
• ストリートファイター４
• 対板橋ザンギエフ
• ザンギエフ
• リュウ
• ITABASHI_ZANGIEF
• POONGKO
• ZANGIEF
• RYU
• KOREA
• SF4Singapore

[xxmortimerxx]

When you play a good Zangief you'll notice that most lariats are used to bypass your Fireball spamming cheesetastic game play.

The lariat is actually very vulnerable and many of us Zangief players would never spam it unless we want to lose.

BUT, with that said, if you keep losing to Lariats that's really not your opponent's problem. That is your problem :). I've lost spammers but I don't HATE them I am angry at myself for losing. Its my problem if I'm not good enough to figure it out.

[hiryuGCC]

and a vid for reference or...?  lol

[mikolyyyy]

1.35 my god its almost even

[TheManowarBabsi]

what an amazing comeback by poongko !

[marcressclark]

ryu ran the whole second round

[Ammaculate44]

Amazing match.

[OgamiRei]

Poongko Hyungnim hwaiting!!!!!!!!!

[xxmortimerxx]

Hey TrooperThirtyOne my PSN is Grief_Counseling email my youtube if you added me. We can do some casual sparring matches, I like learning new fight patterns.

[TrooperThirtyOne]

good advice.... PSN?

[xxmortimerxx]

Just came back from lunch...would also like to add, this is advice my friend gave me and he is a Tourney player who's played in the States and JP. I came to him one day to gripe about Balrog/Guile players who turtle and Shoto characters who fireball trap.

He told me it was my problem I couldn't beat them and that all these moves are legal and legit. Then he gave me some pointers and now I'm a G1 :)