America Revere's Justin as the greatest of all time
Justin had this uncanny ability to play anything and everybody was trying to
beat him
justin wong was born on November 15th 1985 in New York City to an immigrant
family he never knew his mother and his father was always working leaving his
grandmother to raise him from a young age
Justin was instilled with a strong work ethic his grandmother always told him to
get a good job so he could take care of himself in the future so he did he went
to school and eventually started working part time always trying to stay
independent and self-sufficient and when he wasn't working most of his free time
was spent at the Chinatown Fair arcade my grandma used to take me to the local
arcade called Chinatown Fair and you know she took me there it gave me $2 to
play Street Fighter until I lose Chinatown fair would eventually become
known as the mecca of the East Coast fighting game scene but back then it was
just a place where the strongest players in New York hung out and Justin saw the
arcade as a chance to make friends so he started grinding fighting games to earn
the respect of his peers when you're in school you want to be like the cool kid
are like do you know like or do they say like the Alpha so I wanted to like just
be good with them because then they will spend more time with me because I was
like very lonely when I was a kid so I was like damn it this is like my way to
break through and make friends in no time Justin had earned the reputation
among the arcades best players actually made friends at the Chinatown fair with
like all the like the players that went to terminus before I even knew what
tournaments were like Arturo Sanchez Eddie Lee Josh McCall like all those
guys were playing like Morris Capcom my competitively Justin lost almost every
game he played against the pros but they wanted to help him out he was young not
even 15 at the time and Justin always strive to be the best his first shot at
glory came when Marvel vs. Capcom 2 came out in 2000 if everyone's still learning
the ins and outs of the game Justin was determined to become the best
mvc2 player in New York I actually said one tomorrow's guy come to came out like
if tomorrow's check him - ever came out I would be the best in this game
Justin dominated Chinatown Ferry and between 2001 and 2003 he won every
single MVC - tournament he bender he also won MVC - at b5 in 2001 the
tournament that would become Eva and went on to win MVC - at every evo until
2005 as a kid it never really came to my mind that I was unstoppable my whole
goal was just like to always play and just like beat down my friend early on
the East Coast fighting game community had a rallied behind Justin as their
first champion since fighting game legend Eddie Lee Justin bodied the West
Coast marble scene and ushered in a new era of East Coast dominance he was
always just completely dominant in that game and he did it by picking really
strong characters and he did the same thing in other games third strikes he
gets to whatever you played he played the really strong characters and he just
had good enough fundamentals this tech was never really good he just had really
great strategy and reactions and all the things that you need other than the you
know exploitation of the game agile Justin played a slow-paced defensive
style that was seen as boring not only that he had this miraculous ability to
turn around the most dire matches and come out with a win
people started calling that comeback potential but as effective as Justin's
turtle style of play was to do the ire of the community
including his fellow East Coasters he was the enemy he was the bad guy right
he was the guy that you wanted to see lose at NBC too because he kept winning
Justin kept playing Marvel too but he began playing other games and
tournaments as well in Evo 2004 Street Fighter 3 third strike event he was on
the losing end of the now iconic Daigo parenthood and though he placed third
that moment made him even more famous that was definitely my greatest loss
because I never I never like I was like wow like I can't believe Daigo parried
it but there's also was my greatest loss just because it revolutionized fighting
in general because when that happened everyone started playing fighting it
more seriously again just in place second in 3s at Evo 2005 and 2008 all
while placing top 8 in both marvel 2 and Capcom vs. SNK 2 in 2009 though the fgc
changed forever
the worldwide release of Street Fighter 4 breathed new life into the scene and
gave Justin Wong yet another chance to dominate when he first found out about
game stops National Street Fighter 4 championship justin was working a
dead-end job at bayon clusters in early 2009 justin went on to win the u.s.
championship then beat Japan and Korea's champions
before facing off against Daigo Umehara
he may have lost but this time the crowd was on his side
in Marvel Justin was the villain the defensive boring player that everyone
wanted to see go down but in Street Fighter he was America's champion facing
off against Japan's beast the biggest moment for Justin was 2009 grand finals
evolution when he went up against I go because one they're the two guys from
the infamous tiger Perry video and so now all of a sudden they're rematch that
grand finals for the first year of Street Fighter 4 are you kidding right
like it's like amazing and then he kind of became the hero in a way because
people wanted the u.s. to win see Justin do some damage guy goes here to play
goes all over him all right oh there's the brawl it's gonna break down he's
gonna go for all
after winning the US national championship Justin moved down to
California during the week justin worked at the now-famous Family Fun Center
arcade and used the money he earned to go to tournaments on the weekend but
playing in California put him in front of the bargaining eSports scene within a
year of moving out west Jess Lee was signed by Evil Geniuses
which let him travel to even more tournaments you know he was one of the
first American fighting game players to be sponsored by like a really legit
major eSports team he's a great ambassador to just a really nice guy and
so whenever he has a chance to meet people from different scenes I think he
does a really good job at representing us he placed first at World Cyber Games
fort at SoCal regionals ninth at Evo 2010 and seventh at Canada Cup 2010
eventually Justin got an office job at Nexon then snail games and later and
video but all the while he was still competing still traveling and entering
tournaments every weekend nearly Friday night leave Friday night get there
Saturday morning play Saturday morning leave Monday morning and go back to work
Justin Wang didn't take vacations he went to tournaments but in 2011 a game
came out that completely changed the course of his career
Justin was good at Street Fighter but he was a Marvel legend and Marvel vs.
Capcom 3 gave him a shot at redemption
he immediately went for an in-your-face aggressive team to distance himself from
the team that made him a villain an MVC to the first boys night fights like the
Tuesday game comes out Wednesday Wednesday fights I pick Wolverine strong
feeling you know a lot of people told him to move away from Wolverine storm
Akuma but he didn't want it he wanted to win his way and he's a good enough
player that he did that in 2011 Justin's Street Fighter 4 results slip but his
Marvel results were incredible that's the pressure that you feel when you
fight Justin walk I think and I don't know like what you're doing is not
enough you have to do something crazy I don't he didn't place below top eight in
any MVC 3 tournament that he entered between the game's launch and March 2014
in that time though Justin developed something of an Evo curse he was always
one of the best players in Marvel going into Evo but he could never take home
any combo we'll be right here
evolution 2013 champion it was at Evo 2014 that Justin finally exercised that
demon in the winners finals Justin made an unbelievable comeback against
Filipino champ to secure a spot in the grand final
there he faced Christine the heir to his old unpopular defensive style this time
Chris was the heel as everyone wanted to see him and his lame play style go down
oh my god we'll be crowning a new champion
this might be it guys the King returned as the mobile God has returned to his
throne
he's back he's back winner's bracket little time the best piece is the best
that was the sickest thing I've ever seen I think if anybody's gonna remember
something it's a lot of moments that you're gonna remember of Justin but
that's gonna be my number one by taking out Chris G Justin had redeemed himself
as the hero RESA menteng his legacy as one of North
America's greatest fighting game players but being the king of MVC again was
still not enough while he was playing Street Fighter and Marvel Justin was
placing in major top eights in Dead or Alive guilty gear killer instinct
Mortal Kombat Tekken King of Fighters Tatsunoko vs. Capcom Soul Calibur pokken
Skullgirls and even divekick eventually though the life of working full-time and
competing in tournaments wore him down after signing with echo fox in 2017
Justin left his job at Nvidia to finally go into eSports full-time he moved to
Las Vegas set up a gaming house and even began using his money to start
sponsoring players it's been pretty fun I would say I've been more like just out
of it in terms of like I don't have to think as much like like to put my years
in and I wanted to focus on this whole time
because how amazing FTC is growing and like how so many people are interested
in justin hasn't stopped but he has slowed down he finally broke his Street
Fighter capcom cup curse in 2017 and didn't go Owen too but he still only
played 17 just be warm with all the right reads on wakeup haitani was scared
of DP that he got hit with so many times what a result for Justin won't he's
expressed interest in playing every fighting game that comes out though from
Super Smash Bros to Dragon Ball fighters a lot of the games out there they're
scenes like if Justin doesn't play it like people don't think it's like you
know important Justin Wong is living the eSports
version of the American dream he started from nothing and worked day in and day
out to eke out a living dominating the fgc was what he did in his spare time
he's the most decorated player in Evo history with 24 Evo top eight medals
across 10 different games including nine first-place trophies justin wong isn't
just dominant at marvel or good at Capcom fighters he's fluent in fighting
games justin wong is perhaps an may's go down just as the greatest fighting game
player from the US like ever he could retire today and he doesn't
have to do anything for the rest of his life that says a lot of God
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