Don't pretend you know anything about Justin's training regime. He was saying all year long AE was the game he was training hardest for.
Well that's a change from the last few years where he was telling everyone @ tournaments he never trained in it and only played it @ tournaments since Marvel is his #1 game.
Also, it makes me laugh that Daigo has beaten Justin every time they're faced for 8 years, but as soon as he loses once he's not good anymore.
You mean losing to a rival you generally beat isn't an indication of a slide? Ignoring how the last two fights should've been scored... (last one was a disgrace and I'm half filo) if Manny Pac fought Marquez a 4th time and lost I'm pretty sure most boxing experts would say he's done, that's how it works. What did he finish @ Topanga A-League? You can fanboy Daigo all you want, he's slipping it happens. He's Roger Federer now instead of Roger Federer 6 years ago like he use to be. He's still bloody good but he's not what he was....
He's getting paid by Square-Enix to promote Gunslinger Stratos, if he generally enjoys it I doubt that leaves much time to train for SFIV like he used to, especially with all his book writing and other shit he's doing outside of gaming lately. But fuck maybe he'll win SBO for the first time in SFIV this weekend and you can bump this post and laugh!
And while HB had a tougher bracket than Daigo in theory, Daigo would have had no trouble with any of those players apart from Poongko. I can't say the same for reverse though. Latif and Gamerbee wouldn't have lost to HB, and Gamerbee showed that in Top 8. Real talk.
Quite a few players who lost to HB you would've said the same thing about not losing.., Latif hasn't done shit since last Evo except whine about not being able to mash EX Seismo and actually having to block against Iperu. Wolfkrone's always been the better Viper, take out last Evo and Latif would still be "that guilty gear player with that GG execution!"
Still people worked out the brackets for Top 8, easiest was firstly Infiltration and than Daigo, on the Finals one proved themselves beyond doubt, the other didn't.
And please noone bring up the "you can't do better" argument, it's dumb as fuck since I'm sure you diss sports stars you obviously can't do better in their field.