Europe Smash 2026, Malmö, 8/8-16

[kindof99]

Harimoto just outplayed Alexis in almost every aspect of the game.
Alexis might have to learn to slow down to think a little bit at crucial points.

 

[NextLevel]

China: Gambling is strictly forbidden in China.

That's good to know. It still points to the fact that their insights have no objective way of being verified as valuable sonce 1) they are being filtered by your biased perspective and 2) saying that Tomo vs Togami would go 5 games isn't particularly deep given they have a history of competition. Just pointing out that using such speculation as a measure of insight says more about your bias than anything else.

 

[kindof99]

Miwa's path from now on(possible)
CY WYD WYM, quite similar to Yokohama.
Harimoto's is similar, needs to possibly beat Sora first to get to the final.

 

[NextLevel]

Harimoto just outplayed Alexis in almost every aspect of the game.
Alexis might have to learn to slow down to think a little bit at crucial points.

His playing style gives Harimoto too much time and his power level doesn't consistently bother Harimoto. Ultimately, he has to find solutions in the short game look for better pushes and counters closer to the table.

 

[kindof99]

That's good to know. It still points to the fact that their insights have no objective way of being verified as valuable sonce 1) they are being filtered by your biased perspective and 2) saying that Tomo vs Togami would go 5 games isn't particularly deep given they have a history of competition. Just pointing out that using such speculation as a measure of insight says more about your bias than anything else.

Most Tieba users are just like you and me. I can do a lot of speculations and comment a lot if I prefer to. It is a good source for info and points, but I would not cite them to prove anything.

 

[kindof99]

His playing style gives Harimoto too much time and his power level doesn't consistently bother Harimoto. Ultimately, he has to find solutions in the short game look for better pushes and counters closer to the table.

Alexis did not expect/return the 3d balls well from Harimoto. A lot of them came from his not thinking/preparing well before the serves.

 

[NextLevel]

Most Tieba users are just like you and me. I can do a lot of speculations and comment a lot if I prefer to. It is a good source for info and points, but I would not cite them to prove anything.

I know this but unfortunately, @zeio thinks otherwise and continually shares with us things that we would be better off without in the tournament threads. I am close to creating a Tieba thread.

 

[zeio]

Most Tieba users are just like you and me. I can do a lot of speculations and comment a lot if I prefer to. It is a good source for info and points, but I would not cite them to prove anything.

No one is proving anything. It's to show that no one would raise an eyebrow at them unlike here, which is what I've kept repeating.

The West is in this mess because people are afraid of speaking what's on their mind nowadays when people get offended at every small thing. For instance, the word fat can no longer be used as an adjective for a human. Little Fatty? Big Fatty? 社死.

 

[zeio]

WD F
Harimoto/Hayata 3-1 DHK/Ng Wing Lam (6, -9, 11, 9)
Much closer than expected.

Aichi-Nagoya 2026 is gonna be interesting.

 

[kindof99]

I know this but unfortunately, @zeio thinks otherwise and continually shares with us things that we would be better off without in the tournament threads. I am close to creating a Tieba thread.

Well, maybe it is annoying for someone to see those posts, but still in my opinion not to the extend that the mod needs to interfere.

 

[kindof99]

No one is proving anything. It's to show that no one would raise an eyebrow at them unlike here, which is what I've kept repeating.

The West is in this mess because people are afraid of speaking what's on their mind nowadays when people get offended at every small thing. For instance, the word fat can no longer be used as an adjective for a human. Little Fatty? Big Fatty? 社死.

Tiaba mods delete many many posts as far as I know. Sometimes these arguments came from cultural difference. Coaches in China used to yell/whip (?) students/sons, but that would send them to jails in the western. And I think China is getting more and more like the western in many aspects, especially younger people.

 

[pongfugrasshopper]

Second WD Smash title this year for Miwa / Hina which pushes them to the top of the WD rankings.

 

[banbekas]

Alexis was able to keep Tomo guessing in the early part of the game. Tomo is always unbelievable when he is able to anticipate and reach the ball, but once the opponent gets him guessing, which WCQ often did, Tomo was often left wanting.

Alexis couldn't do it cobaistently. Most of the time he tried to play Tomo's game. It's okay, but he was much behind when it comes to consistency compared to Tomo.

 

[kindof99]

Alexis was able to keep Tomo guessing in the early part of the game. Tomo is always unbelievable when he is able to anticipate and reach the ball, but once the opponent gets him guessing, which WCQ often did, Tomo was often left wanting.

Alexis couldn't do it cobaistently. Most of the time he tried to play Tomo's game. It's okay, but he was much behind when it comes to consistency compared to Tomo.

The percentage of serve success for Alexis was about 34%. That told you how well Harimoto figured his game out.

 

[zeio]

Alexis was able to keep Tomo guessing in the early part of the game. Tomo is always unbelievable when he is able to anticipate and reach the ball, but once the opponent gets him guessing, which WCQ often did, Tomo was often left wanting.

Alexis couldn't do it cobaistently. Most of the time he tried to play Tomo's game. It's okay, but he was much behind when it comes to consistency compared to Tomo.

That usually happens when it's not the player but the coach and staff that come up with a different game plan from usual to be executed and the player gets lost when it fails to work.

Back at WTT CS Yokohama 2025, Harimoto and Kishikawa came up with a game plan for WCQ and it worked for the first 3 games but then WCQ started adjusting and that's when Harimoto decided to change course. Had he not and used the MTO, he could've lost.

 

[zeio]

Tiaba mods delete many many posts as far as I know. Sometimes these arguments came from cultural difference. Coaches in China used to yell/whip (?) students/sons, but that would send them to jails in the western. And I think China is getting more and more like the western in many aspects, especially younger people.

Not necessarily the mods, because there is just a handful of them and they have said it's the system doing much of the work. After a certain threshold of reports, the system would hide the thread and then the thread starter could appeal the decision but most just don't bother. And then the thread starter becomes a provisional mod for that thread that can also delete the thread and posts within. Only when China is losing badly do you see a crackdown on "dissent", like at the start of WTTC 2026. People argue all the time and then one would block the other, and until the next time that one would ask for the other to come argue again but wonder why the other doesn't reply, then the other would tell the one has forgotten to unblock the other under a different thread... It's funny.

The younger generation is definitely more connected to and well-read on the West than the other way around, but without the political correctness of the West bogging them down. So long as it has nothing to do with political red lines, I'd argue they have more freedom than those in the current West. Like Douban and Hupu, Tieba is no doubt more close-knit than 5ch, that always feels like there's a wall because of its anonymous nature despite the similar toxicity.

 

[SilvestriDaVini]

As someone said earlier, everything in this event right now is pointing to Harinoto winning it unless Sora regains sharpness or Felix/Hugo find another gear. The Felix and Hugo matchup is the only one that I have some reservations about the favorite winning. But I still believe at the moment that Felix will take it.

I'd say 60/40 Felix. Hugo hasn't been too convincing lately, but you never know with him. He can suddenly turn it on or off at any moment..