Daigo Umehara
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Daigo Umehara (梅原 大吾), born May 19, 1981, is a renowned Japanese player of arcade fighting games, most notably the Street Fighter series. Among his accomplishments is winning the official 1998 Capcom Street Fighter Alpha 3 global tournament, defeating the USA champion Alex Valle. He has also placed highly at the annual Evolution fighting games tournament in the United States as well as many of the major tournaments in his native Japan. Because of his success in various games and his uncanny ability to predict and react to opponents, he is commonly referred to within the fighting game community as "The Beast".
Street Fighter Alpha 3 - Japan vs. USA
Daigo Umehara shot to fame in 1998 after winning the official Capcom Street Fighter Alpha 3 national tournament in Japan. As the tournament champion, he then went on to face Alex Valle, the winner of the U.S. national tournament. This final showdown was held in San Francisco on November 8 1998. The final was played as best out of three games, with each game consisting of up to five rounds. Daigo won the match 2-1.Evolution 2004
During the Evolution 2004 3rd Strike losers' finals, Daigo's Ken [makes a dramatic comeback] against Justin Wong's Chun Li. In the final round of the first match, Wong manages to reduce Daigo's health bar to just a few pixels.Wong attempts to win by using a Super Art 2 (SA2), which would reduce Daigo's health bar even if he blocked the attack - a tactic in fighting games known as "chip", or cheap damage. Seemingly ready for this tactic, Daigo parries all fifteen hits of Chun Li's super, including an air parry on the last delayed hit, and combos into his own super (SA3) for the win (the number of parries is sometimes confused, since a chun li SA2 hits 15 times mid-screen and 17 times in the corner). The large audience that witnessed this live erupted in cheers and shouts.
A video clip of this famous comeback was first released on [shoryuken.com] (the main tournament organizer for Evolution), but has since spread to many message boards and video clip sites across the Internet.
Notable recent tournament placings
- Capcom vs. SNK 2
- *Super Battle Opera (2003) - 2nd [C-Guile/Chun-Li/Sagat]
- *Evolution 2003 - 2nd [C-Guile/Cammy/Sagat]
- *Absolution 2004 - 5th [C-Sagat/Ken/Guile]
- Guilty Gear X2 (and #Reload)
- *Super Battle Opera (2003) - 3rd [Sol] w/ Arisakashinya [Slayer] and Pachi [Faust]
- *Evolution 2003 - 1st [Sol]
- *Absolution 2004 - 1st [Sol]
- *Evolution 2004 - 1st [Sol]
- Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike
- *Evolution 2003 - 2nd [Ken SA3]
- *Absolution 2004 - 1st [Ken SA3]
- *Evolution 2004 - 2nd [Ken SA3]
- *The 2nd a-cho Cup (2004) - 2nd [Ken SA3] w/ K.O [Yun SA3] and Onanism [Urien SA3]
- *Super Battle Opera 3 (2005) - 1st [Ken SA3] w/ Ohnuki [Chun Li SA2]
- *Cooperation Cup 4 (2005) - 1st w/ Deshi KFG, Hayao, Boss, and Raoh
- Super Street Figher II Turbo
- *Super Battle Opera (2003) - 1st [Ryu] w/ Kurahashi [Guile] and Yng.Bro.Chun [Chun-Li]
- *Evolution 2003 - 1st [Ryu]
- *Absolution 2004 - 1st [Ryu, Balrog, O.Sagat, Zangief]
- *Evolution 2004 - 1st [Ryu, Balrog, O.Sagat]
- Street Fighter Alpha 3
- *Absolution 2004 - 3rd [X/A/V-Ryu]
- *The 2nd a-cho Cup (2004) - 2nd [V-Ryu] w/ D44 [V-Akuma] and West Coast Dhalsim [A-Dhalsim]
- Capcom Fighting Jam
- *Super Battle Opera 3 (2005) - 2nd [Urien/Guile] w/ Dan [Ryu/Karin]
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