>>492712437According to some of the commentaries I could find in their local FGC forums, the pad he used at that event wasn't his, as his device literally broke during the tourney, so he had no time to repair it and was force to go and beg other players to let him borrow any controller at all, so that he could compete. Apparently, that pad he managed to obtain, had sawed off analog sticks and was dirty, grimy and sticky to all fucks, probably never cleaned even once since the day it was bought.
And it was a PS1 DualAnalog pad to the boot, not even DualShock 2, so quality of plastic and buttons was way worse. The dude literally managed to persevere against every and all odds imaginable, as he played with a shitty pad and didn't even use his main characters, fighting against actual champs at the time, and managed to beat both of them while also having a handicap of not setting up controls for himself and pulling through with whatever was set up before he sat at that console.
This was also, apparently, the very first time ever when they've brought Third Strike to a tourney event, as it barely just came out and they only played the Dreamcast vanilla release up to that point, so they were playing PS 2's version of Third Strike at that championship literally for the first time ever, not just as a tourney, but in overall, because players didn't have this version of the game on their hands at their homes prior to that, so they all didn't have time to lab or thoroughly study the differences between Dreamcast's vanilla and PS 2's release. Hence why that video looks like they're absolute newbs randomly mashing buttons (while in reality they are both pros).
In my personal opinion, hosts/orgs of that events should've never brought such completely-fresh-at-the-time game to the tourney and they definitely shouldn't have made it a discipline right away. That was fucking retarded as fuck.
