Name: Tyler Sanderson

Alias: Kang, TS

Age: 24

Its been a long time since I updated.  With new games coming out this past year and the epic release of Street Fighter 4 is has brought out many new players to the scene.  Many of them have been grinding hard to make a name for themselves in the scene.  One of said players is Mike Badejo.  To my surprise he came out to TST 3 and entered the brawl tournament.  He’s worked his way up to being one of the top players in our scene and is always a threat to place top 3 at any SF4 tourney.  I recently caught up with him for an interview.

Name: Mike Badejo

Alias: BMike, KillaSasa

Age: 20 (i’ll be 21 two days after Super releases…

Alright with evo coming up this weekend.  I decided to interview the players going.  The guys going are Steffan Fields(srf3po), Tyler Sanderson (Kang), James Kim(Korea), Shane Fleury(ShinAkuma).  Enough of the intro here’s the interview

What games are you entering(Official or not)?

Tyler: My original plan was not to enter anything.  I felt there was more than enough to do in the way of seeing hyped matches, hanging with friends, meeting the pros and of course, Vegas.  Then I went from entering no tournaments to entering all these tournaments in order:

Street Fighter 4.  Because I’d be an idiot to go all the way to Evo and not at least play SF4.  Soul Calibur 4.  I’m seemingly regarded as one of the main 3d fighters here so I…

Yeah I know it’s been awhile. I’ve been somewhat busy but mostly lazy. I did an interview with Jerome, he’s a relative newcomer to the scene and is someone who pretty much came out of nowhere to place really well at TST3 in 3rd Strike finishing 2nd with Norman in teams and tying for 5th in singles. He also placed 3rd at the SF4 Launch Tournament. He’s been doing a lot of practicing since. Without further ado, here is the interview:

Name: Jerome Fulgencio


Handle: AznDestiny



Which games do you play?

Jerome: I play Street Fighter IV, Super Turbo and 3rd strike. I have tried a lot of other games like Melty Blood, Arcana Heart, Guilty Gear and the Alpha series.

How did you get into fighting games?

Jerome: I grew up in the states and lived near a lot of arcades where my uncle would take me almost every weekend

What was that like?

Jerome: It was really fun, I would play a lot of different games including some fighting games. And the arcades are always busy/ have people in them.

I’m too lazy to write a look at my favorite games of 2k8 so instead I’ll just say my favorite games last year were: The world ends with you, Portal(I played it in 2k8), STHD, Dead Space, fallout 3, Dragon Quest 4, Final Fantasy 4 and Warhawk. I didn’t play as much games as I would have liked to, and on that note leads me to my thoughts on 2k9 and my resolutions.

With the calendar flipping to a new year means we are that much closer to getting access to Street Fighter 4 on console. I think it should be really obvious to everyone that the game will be the main focus of our scene and probably the entire scene in general. Right now there are 6 potential…