played another two hours of championship mode.
up to 348gp which hit me up to rank B in the starting bracket (g3 iirc)
taking a breather because i FINALLY FUCKING WON. winning gave me 78gp. probably more than normal because i racked up over 2k cp while doing so (i assume the higher the cp you get, the more gp you get when you win/lose a fight). think it went rufus(a bad rufus...because i think he's the first one ive beaten), dan (the guy must have picked him on accident, he sucked. not that dan sucks, ive faught good dans but that guy...just say i perfected him round 1), then guile. only beat guile because those flash kicks man, im distanced properly, i know they are coming, i block them, and i punish him. also he is like me and sometimes goes "ULTRA IS FULL I DON"T CARE IF IT DOESNT LAND IM DOING IT" so by my previous fail of waiting till he says "three" after whiffing....you execute your ultra when he's midair of his second flashkick. because if guile whiffs his ultra, he doesn't make it to three, and the ultra ends at two, so punish him before then.
anywho, starting to get the knee press into actual combos now, and im starting to just get better and have more fun. even though i MABY win one out of every 7 or so matches.
rufus is still a pain, but im starting to figure him out. blanka is a total fucking mystery, i do not know how to approach him, the electricity doesn't make matters easier. and ken, dude, in super turbo those fierce dragon punches weren't too bad. but those fuckers seem to land on me more often than not, when i know im blocking, they hurt, and not only that, THEY DO THEM ALL THE TIME.
figures id be better against ken by now, but i guess not. im so bad at this game a ken that basically only spammed fierce dragon punch, with a few crossups, kicked my ass into the ground. and "he's totally going to dragon punch....THROW" doesn't make things better. methinks i should fight ken like gief, STAY AWAY, and annoy the piss out of him with dr and headstomp, spammy kens anyway. i ain't fraid to stay back doing headstomps and devils reverse to confuse you.
also sagat is fun to play against(i seem to win more against sagat), which is good, because sagat is as common as ken.
anything else? wtb sanwa jlf joystick and semitsu buttons to make an arcade controller. maby it would help my input problem.