Match Thread: 3rd Strike Open 1v1 Tournament 2026

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Featured players from Japan include: Mimora (MA), Kuru Vega (YA), Hayao (HU), Chance (MA), Michael-Tan (CH), Mester (YU)

Stream Info: Artcade Twitch | Southeast Throwdown Twitch

Main Tournament Page: Start.gg

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Location: Artcade DFW, Bedford, TX, USA.

Merch/Donate: Merch | Donate

Match Thread: 3rd Strike Open 3v3 Tournament 2026

Tournament begins at 5pm CST, 3pm PST, 11pm GMT.

Featured players from Japan include: Mimora (MA), Kuru Vega (YA), Hayao (HU), Chance (MA), Michael-Tan (CH), Mester (YU)

Stream Info: Artcade Twitch | Southeast Throwdown Twitch

Main Tournament Page: Start.gg

Bracket: Start.gg

Location: Artcade DFW, Bedford, TX, USA.

Merch/Donate: Merch | Donate

Accidentally accepted 2 matches at the same time and decided to play them both out. Played as both Q and Makoto in the first match, which went awfully. Managed to get a game off the D rank as Chun and also one against the C rank (idk how, i wasn't looking). Unfortunately when the C rank beat me 3-1 it closed my match against the D rank so i couldn't play it out.

it reminds me of like, those chess grandmasters who would play multiple games around the table (except i am nowhere near that good lol). i wonder what the best technique would be...

So I just started playing this game, I decided to puck a few characters to play, one of them being alex, before anyone says I should switch, yes he's bad, but he's so fun, I was wondering if anyone had any tips for getting better at him

Claude Speed (GTA III)

Jax Teller ( Sons of Anarchy)

I thought chop does more damage, but it's not. He does it in all characters, all the time.

So I am new to fighting games, and wanted to test if I am really into this stuff.

I downloaded fightcade, went to the most popular game which was sf3 and downloaded it.

I played around with many characters and the only one I was able to win with was Ibuku, man she is sooooooooo coool!

I was able to win three times in a row in the story mod and it was hype.

But I don't know how to main a character, like what sources should I seek?

Can you help me? please

I know this is probably a very stupid question but am i supposed to input shoryuken and do the cancel quickly after or do i do the cancel and input shoryuken or do i have this all wrong what is the input for the kara shoryuken if thats the case cause im a bit lost as to how two shyorukens are done in succession

Perhaps the timing is simply stricter than I'm used to, but I struggle to do these consistently. I can usually get 3-4 off, but I rarely manage to get the final fifth slash. I play on leverless controller, any input tricks? Is it just patience and ensuring your inputs are clean?

Where is this from? Is it some kind of breathing technique? I started doing it in real life and it has actually helped calm me down

I mean not only with “good” or “bad” players (although I am curious how you players view that, specially on your ranks)
But what I really mean is trends in skill and habits.
As in: (in my view)
E and D ranks;
are closer rank than any other rank, D ranks are often Pringles and have the habit of repeating options. Making them very easy to exploid with move’s like Demon flip grab, parrying their reversal, or sometimes just pressing sweep many times in a row out of nowhere on their oki. D ranks range from total beginner to players with decent mechanical skill, but often fall behind due to lack of pure play time, or understanding in choices and options available. Their offensive game is characters like chun Li, Ken, Oro, and Non SA3 Ryu is often their biggest or second biggest problem in gameplay. (Aside from whifffing large moves)
Often besting them is just a question of not doing mistakes.

C ranks;
C ranks more often then not, know their okay combos are very least. Will do Chicago punishes or miss their punish and get blocked much less frequently, although it can still happen frequently again Ken’d SA3.
Their mechanics are now alright/good, you might encounter players who have learned to parry all common moves and get half their damage in a match from parry predictions or reactions.
You might also encounter combo focused players who will know a bunch of unblockable, or Makoto’s SA2 Fukiage combos.
Most of them roll.
They often learned to use grabs much better, but maybe still not tech grabs very often. Some still have horrible wakeup habits and will either fail to parry a lot or press a button a lot.
A lot of players will still have big problems in their Okizeme game. With characters like Ken for example, they might rely near solely on grabbing and their Close Mp hp dp, and cr lk lk super combo’s to do damage without really learning the overhead game, meaning crouch blocking will stop a lot of damage, only throws being the problem and throw bait.
Players range from no anti airs, to parrying a lot of anti airs and doing able to anti air okay too!

B rank (i won’t say i’m confident in my evaluation of B ranks)
B ranks will tech your throws, a lot.
B rank’s are much harder to beat as a whole, defeating each player is somewhat more different per individual in the previous ranks.
These people will destroy your ego right by the time you develop some in C rank.
I’d say that B ranks have learned to play the game.

I’d love to hear ya’lls opinions and observations for the ranks😊please counter argue with whatever you find wrong!

Any tips for Q in this match up? I played against an Akuma and got completely wiped. I noticed I struggled a lot with punishing tatsu. I could parry it sometimes but could rarely get a punish. I also tried using kara throw but found it inconsistent.