I’m satisfied that this 12 months’s Olympics are for the players. Some time in the past, a runner who was on his strategy to the Olympics saved flashing Yu-Gi-Oh playing cards earlier than his races. Then, the Video games really started with an obvious nod to Murderer’s Creed, full with rooftop parkour and hooded figures. There was even a Hunter from Future 2, or at the least one thing shut to 1. Now, there’s a man who’s clearly been perfecting his impartial sport in preventing video games. His title is Sebastien Patrice, and if fencing stops understanding for him, he’s bought a future at subsequent 12 months’s EVO event.
This turned evident in a match this weekend that Patrice finally misplaced, however not earlier than making some waves. That’s as a result of as he was down, Patrice settled on an unorthodox technique to attempt to clinch victory: he started leaping ever so barely, after which very aggressively, in direction of his opponent.
An totally ridiculous clip of Patrice pulling this off on the Paris Olympics goes round now, and I’m form of incredulous at the entire thing. He’s clearly like a wounded (and shedding) animal lashing out because it’s backed right into a nook, however the transfer really stuns the opposite man a lot that he simply retains having the ability to press the advance and frantically whip his saber in search of a contact till it will definitely connects. It’s the equal of smashing the buttons at your native arcade’s exhibition and truly stealing a win off your opponent.
I all the time thought fencing had rather more to do with composure, mild touches, and ripostes, however I’m unsure Patrice has ever heard of the phrases if I’m being trustworthy. One of many prime feedback on the video jokes that his “0-60 is quicker than most automobiles,” they usually aren’t exaggerating. This isn’t in any respect like how fencing appeared in Mario & Sonic on the Olympic Video games.
His impartial leap actually popped off within the gaming group, which began jokingly commentating on his method. Contemplating that simply two weekends in the past, the most important preventing sport event on this planet occurred in Vegas, of us who had the style contemporary on the mind (together with myself) began getting jokes off about footsies and jabs, that are assaults you do to attempt to poke the opposite participant and achieve management of the house earlier than you, opening them as much as additional strikes.
Within the parlance of the preventing sport group, my man Patrice nailed the jump-in. His opponent, who appeared baffled on the sudden burst of vitality from Patrice in addition to his strategy, couldn’t determine how one can punish the transfer. As a substitute, he wound up on his backfoot, holding that guard till Patrice lastly went in for the unblockable. He might not have received, however on the very least he supplied the (gamer) Olympics with its very personal EVO second.
