BBH said:
SBO4 isn't until next month I think. I only grabbed the 3rd Strike torrent from KSK's site, it was a qualifier tournament for SBO, so I'd assume it's the same for Hokuto no Ken.
You sure there's no seeders? I checked it out right now and there's 9 seeds and 20 peers. If you can't get it from there I could try uploading it somewhere else, but I don't know where since yousendit is gayer than ever now. Maybe Filefront but that sucks too.
(the 3rd Strike qualifier tournament was pretty interesting too, a lot more character variety instead of being a Yun/Chun borefest)
Of course, you're absolutely right (on multiple counts). I forgot about my office's impregnable firewall right after I posted this. You're also right about SBO4, it seems like these were just the qualifiers. I'm getting this now.
To be honest, 3rd Strike is such a mature game at this point that the imbalances really show through. Like how the game uses the SF3 "choose only one super art" system, yet the top 3 characters (Chun Li, Ken, and Yun) all have one "best" super that they always choose. You almost wish Capcom would put out a 4th version of SF3 where all the characters, and super arts, are balanced. You never see more than half the roster in serious play (though to be fair, that more than half the roster consists of a zany breakdancing Inspector Gadget, a blob shaped like an old man, a blob shaped like a blob, etc.), but at the highest levels of play, there are only a few "right" characters to play in only certain "right" ways.