For those who don't know, a few weeks ago there was an episode of Dragon Ball Super airing on Toonami that featured Vegeta and a clone of Vegeta, which excited Chris Sabat enough to tweet about the "Sweet Vegeta Action!"which in turn prompted Sean Schemmel to point out "it's just fake Vegeta, not real Vegeta" which led to a Twitter war that within 24 hours escalated to a full challenge for the voice actors to play Dragon Ball FighterZ against each other and settle once and for all who is the better Saiyan, a challenge which was supported by Funimation and Bandai Namco to make it a full ESport event streamed this past thursday night on YouTube, Twitch, Facebook, and Funimation. I watched it on YouTube, and unfortunately, they decided to time it for night on the west coast with little regard for the sleep needs of east coast viewers, and even worse, they had a lead up of other players on the game making the main event not until midnight eastern standard time. But I made the sacrifice to stay up and watch it and it was amazing.
First off, Chris Sabat comes out wearign a #TeamVegeta shirt like he's a pro fighter ready to win, then Sean Schemmel comes out wearing Goku glasses saying "Kamehame-hi!" Right away it is clear Chris Sabat is here to win and Sean Schemmel may be ready to play, but nowhere near the over 9000 of Chris Sabat. Then they got to the actual match...
Dragon Ball FighterZ allows players to have three fighters on their team, Chris Sabat chose his characters, Vegeta, Piccolo and Yamcha, while Sean Schemmel chose his characters, Super Saiyan Goku, Super Saiyan Blue Goku, and Goku Black. Sean tried to psych out Chris by using Trunks in one round, but it did not work. It was supposed to be best two out of three,but they went five rounds and Chris really won each of them, although he let Sean win the last one, but just barely. It was brutal, like setting the game to easy mode and playing with your best character. I have played a few Dragon Ball Z games and I know what an ass-whooping looks like on one of these games, Chris gave Sean an ass-whooping, HARD. In the first four rounds, Chris only lost a fraction of a health bar from one character while Sean's entire roster got slammed. For the last round it looked like Sean might have had a chance when he brought Chris down to just Vegeta at half health, but then Chris beat two out of Sean's three characters without taking any damage and it came down to a really tight finish, so Chris didn't even make the easy match easy. I'm not sure which was more humiliating, when Chris started playing with only one hand and still beat Sean or when he won using Yamcha to beat Goku. Oh wait I know, it was when Sean stated complaining that his "buttons weren't working" dude, you do that when you're playing at home, not when you're playing in a pro exhibition match in front of a bunch of fans both in the arena and at home with the streamers.
They are talkign about a rematch which I think would be great, I mean, anytime we can gt these two together for Chris to beat Sean-I mean for them to play Dragon Ball for us-it is great entertainment. For now, Chris Sabat is the undisputed champion Super Saiyan with the belt to prove it, and I'm sure he will show it to you if you ask.
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