The last time I had local FGC tournament experience was SF4 a decade ago. Time has gone and so I decided to try my first local tournament at the local FGC.

One thing I forgot was just how nerves impact your play such an incredible amount. And having not played in a tournament or even at the local group, I was definitely shaking at each match.

My last double-elimination match, I had a lot of mistakes on combos that I know I am consistent on in ranked matches. I sensed my opponent was in the same situation and dropping his combos too. On Game 3 Round 3, both in CA stage, he dropped a combo that would have finished me and I then dropped the punish combo that would have finished him. He deserved that win.

I still had a great time. If you haven't looked up your local FGC yet, they're starting to come back up again after the pandemic and I would encourage you check them out. The only thing that will calm tournament nerves is more local practice.

I’ve done my placements and a decent amount of games and some training mode and I’m currently ranked low-mid silver on my Juri. Any tips to improve?

I just got my Eternal Rival S Rank enclosure and I’m really pleased with it. Now just to hit the training room.

Some controversial picks in here! Juri not top tier, Dee Jay down in B tier. What do people think?

Which character do you think has the highest potential for optimisation?

Congrats!

I can't wait.

A very handy document I found on SF6 discord.

NCH SF6 Resource Compilation

Hey everyone! I’ve been playing mostly Blanka with some Kimberly and just broke into Silver 2 with my Blanka! I’ve really been loving this game more than any other street fighter or fighting game before. How have you all been enjoying SF6 so far?

As someone who hadn't played fighting games in a long long time and jumped into Street Fighter 6 ... it's very helpful to see something that explains what these numbers are.

Hope this helps someone :)

That was a fun. Incredible to see how good he was with Blanka.

In honor of switching off my Ken main to start learning Cammy now :)

I would do a poll if I knew how, but screw it.

Which do you use? I use classic controls and I get salty whenever I get destroyed by a modern player even though it’s 100% my fault for sucking.

This belongs in a museum!

I'm very new to fighting games, and have been practicing getting my inputs right with some simple Ryu combos.

I was practicing doing s.MP, od-tatsu, heavy DP into lv3 super in the corner and got pretty consistent landing it.

Then I decided to test it after a blocked DI corner crumple, and the super will never come out. Even after tons and tons of attempts, the super won't come out. But without the DI at the start I get it every time. I don't really understand what is going on.

Is there some game mechanics reason why it won't let me cancel DP into super after the DI corner crumple? Or am I just bad? 😅

I sort of expected a bit more. I dont really see avatar customisation being that popular longterm if they dont have some kind of ranked system for avatar battles.