KOFXI Sawakoro Festival 2024: Unterschied zwischen den Versionen

===Casuals===

Afterwards, we joined the fray as soon as we could, eager to fight everyone. Yukito sat down and started destroying people with his absurdly strong Clark - this character proved to be a completely insurmountable obstacle for all of us Germans. Whenever he would pick another point character, I had a chance to win a match here and there, but against his Clark, I was OCVed more often than not. I also watched U-rasia play, and for the first time ever, saw a use for Oswald's 2C, which I thought to be a utterly useless normal before: he used it to punish a whiffed Ralf upper, cancelled into 2363214P.

When I asked Sawakoro about BZR would make it to the Festival, he said he was tied up with work, and I was a bit disappointed. But as it turned out, I was once again tricked by BZR - he loves to play pranks. Knowing that Sawakoro told me he wouldn't make it, he hid hid behind a cab as we were coming in until I turned the corner, surprising me once again. Needless to say, I played many matches with him and watched him play whenever I could - and he was in top form that day. He is the only player to rival, or maybe even surpass U-rasia when it comes to technical characters.<br>

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We also had a present prepared for Sawakoro: As everyone knows, his unrivaled skill with Griffon is the sole reason the character got elevated from a bottom 9 character to an actually strong, high-tier character, and Griffon and Sawakoro stand synonymous for many (note: I accidentally type "Sawakoro" sometimes in the wiki when I mean to write Griffon, not making this up). I did some research because I had a hunch, and it turned out that there exists a region in the North-East of Germany called Pommern, that has a very special sigil: a red [https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wappen_Pommerns Griffon]. Since Sawakoro has strong ties to Germany due to our friendship that now spawns back years, we thought this was a good present:<br>

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===Big Team Battle===

Evening approached fast, and it was time for the big East vs West team battle.<br>

The theme of the team battle was inspired by the preferences of the different areas of Japan: in eastern Japan, the strong players have a preference for K', whereas in the West, Ryo is much more commonly played in the top teams. Therefore, East was represented by K', and West by Ryo. All players were distributed into those two teams, and each team was assigned a leader: Yanjirou for East, Gian for West. After all players were drawn and assigned, the team leaders then proceeded to order the players, with a tendency to put the strongest towards the very end.<br>

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