Ellen proving once again to be a master of blindfold challenges. Maybe up the difficulty next time -- Beat Saber on hard, blindfolded AND both hands tied behind her back? Giving bomb defusal instructions in Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes while gagged? Dance Dance Revolution arcade machine with her feet tied together? Who am I kidding, she'd smash these challenges too. She's unstoppable! 😂
Now I want to cook up a home-brewed Panda race in D&D so I can make one as a Monk named Jean-Claude Pandammage! Actually, I guess he'd have to be a multi-class Bard / Monk for the acting / performance side of things... 😂 oh yeah, wait a second, I guess acting isn't really important for who it's based on!
Ellen is always the soft spoken one, but when it comes to games, she pops off consistently. I remember them playing a RE game, and she was just headshotting Zombies left and right when most people would be panicking. Bow down to the Tournament Queen.
Fighting games are one of the most accessible genres to the visually impaired! Not only have many traditional fighting games been mastered by players like Blind Warrior Sven, but modern ones have introduced settings to allow the games to be played entirely with audible information. The most important data; distance to opponent, position of the wall, and whether or not they're mid attack; can all be communicated by repeating pings of different pitch and frequency*. Street Fighter 6 has done an incredible job of this. *Beat, not pitch again lol
Same here. I was so convinced Mike was setting the bar too high for Ellen (because blindfolds) but actually, turns out Mike overestimated the AI if anything!
Ellen has got that enate skill when it comes to games. Ellen: i've not played Tekken viii Demolished opponent blindfolded. Fear Academy, Re game: as she is freaking out; headshot, headshot, headshot.
Clearly spoilt by 20 mins, 5 min vids greatly upset me now 😭 Love to see Ellen playing exactly how I usually play even when I can see, never known how to play Tekken but clearly I was playing optimally all along 😂
I don't think you're being spoiled. 20 minutes is on the longer side of Xmas Challenges, but 5 minutes is a bit too little. Nothing we can do about it though, sometimes a challenge just ends early (and sometimes, like in this case, it's just that short)
@mar_speedman I think those that end way too short by chance are inevitable and particularly fine if it's pvp, and ideally the solo challenges could have been adapted to fit a 12-18 min length eg this would be best of 3 of 3 (which if it had gone worse could have allowed for adapting tactics more) BUT in this case watching someone hammering blind for much longer wouldn't have been super fun so I think it's just the luck of the draw. In oxboxtra we trust! I was just caught off-guard 😂
“The Tekken AI is Rubbish so we’ll do Hard Mode” Me: Seems a little unfair *5 minutes later* Me: Well I’ll be damned. Not only was Mike right, but Ellen was cracked!
At least Ellen took that fair and square. I was concerned she might win on a tekkenicality. Yes I know that''s bad but all the good puns had gone by the time I arrived. 😁
Jane got the ugly sweater memo and thought 'Now's my time to shine'. This is Ellen's challenge and Jane turned up looking like she was at a fashion show. Be a supportive friend and turn up in a sufficiently ugly sweater next time.
Wow I knew the god-awful monetisation of Tekken 8 made it a tough sell, but *SPOILERS* "person who has never played it, wins 3-0 on hard mode with a random character whilst blindfolded" doesn't exactly entice us to open our wallets.
Yes, the aggressive monetization of *-checks notes-* selling cosmetics. Silly jokes aside, I'm sorry to say it but if you're looking at the single player AI in a fighting game to decide whether you want to buy it, you're not the right audience for the game. There is simply no way to create an AI that can interact in an interesting way with a toolset designed to let humans play mind games with each other. When I'm on offense and looking to break through my opponent's defense, I'm trying to evaluate when they'll get nervous enough about my low pokes to duck and eat my uppercut. I am actively trying to read what my opponent's tolerance for risk is, because ducking here is a huge risk that could provide them big reward. If my opponent is a cautious or otherwise nervous person, I'll just go low until I break their ankles. Against an AI it's just a coin toss. There are no emotions to tune in to. All this to say that Tekken 8 is in fact incredible. Maybe not a game for you, but if that's the case it may behove you to reserve judgement. Respectfully.
@@TheJakeJackson Respectfully, I've got all the Tekkens. I've got the cardboard first one I got with my PS1, up to T7 with the giant statue on my PS4. All of them had amazing SP content. (TTT2 was the best). Tekken 8 has no cosmetics, no treasure battle, very poor roster choices and, thanks to the endless inclusion of 1 button rage nonsense, a skill ceiling so low it's doubling as the floor. It's the SNK Heroines of the Tekken lineup. The Soul Calibur V. I'm 100% the audience for a Tekken game as someone who literally owns every fighting game ever made. T8 is just trash.
@@VonBlade Respectfully, I play professionally, TO, commentate, and hold one of the highest ranking Azu's in the world at this moment. Your opinion is a strange fiction. After a near decade of complaints about it, it is frankly astounding that anyone would ever claim T7 had worthwhile singleplayer. The worst story mode and an endless tepid treasure battle grind versus 8's arcade quest and full character episodes for the entire roster? No, look, you bought the games (and thank you for that you help fund our hobby), but you're really not the target audience for this game. If you've got beef with a reversal that doesn't gain its armor until frame 8, you're just not a fighting game player. But don't let that lead you to making things up about Tekken.
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Even blindfolded, Ellen will always find the adorable animals
mike: the tekken AI is rubbish so we’re going to do hard
me: wow that seems a little unfair
*video happens*
me: or not
Poor Hwoarang never stood a chance! Most unfair - to him.
Merilwen's (panda wild shape) Meatgrinder
100% my exact thoughts.
I was about to cast this to my TV and settle in with a cup of coffee to watch, then I looked at the video length. Go Ellen!
See I didn't look at the time and set it up on the TV lmao
Well, Ellen IS used to fighting as a bear...
@4:17 My thoughts exactly, Andy. I saw the 5min length and figured it’d be a breeze.
Ellen proving once again to be a master of blindfold challenges. Maybe up the difficulty next time -- Beat Saber on hard, blindfolded AND both hands tied behind her back? Giving bomb defusal instructions in Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes while gagged? Dance Dance Revolution arcade machine with her feet tied together? Who am I kidding, she'd smash these challenges too. She's unstoppable! 😂
Wow, even blindfolded, Ellen did a lot of pan-damage!
Ooph. 😖
It was panda-monium!
Now I want to cook up a home-brewed Panda race in D&D so I can make one as a Monk named Jean-Claude Pandammage! Actually, I guess he'd have to be a multi-class Bard / Monk for the acting / performance side of things... 😂 oh yeah, wait a second, I guess acting isn't really important for who it's based on!
Ellen didn't even have to "paws" for a moment.
Now this is what I call Bear Knuckle Boxing!
Utterly appawling joke.
Massive respect for the pun
Massive respect for the pun
... ...Show yourself out. XD
@@fthunngalha5118 She really bamboo-zled the opposition :D
On the second day of Christmas, Oxboxtra gave to me:
Two panda punches,
And a Port Vale pretzel scoring
👏👏👏
Ellen is always the soft spoken one, but when it comes to games, she pops off consistently. I remember them playing a RE game, and she was just headshotting Zombies left and right when most people would be panicking. Bow down to the Tournament Queen.
Of the entire Oxbox crew I've always thought that Ellen and Andy are the two who are most consistently better at games compared to the others!
She is the most competitive amongst them, from my observation. Andy is a close second. Least is probably Jane. Chill Jane.
The only exception to this, weirdly enough is Hitman against Mike lol.
Did you mean Fear Trauma Queen?
That was almost as killer as the time that Ellen got to show off her expert level Beat Saber skills 👏😄
Panda-ring to the crowd I see!
bearable pun
Love a good pun
Bam-boo.
Ellen, I hope you enjoyed rewatching this to see your victory! Well done!
impressive work by Ellen here, i feel they missed a trick not using the long rest sleep mask for the blindfold
I can’t believe the blindfolded martial artist trope is even more effective on screen! 😅 Way to go!!!
Fighting games are one of the most accessible genres to the visually impaired! Not only have many traditional fighting games been mastered by players like Blind Warrior Sven, but modern ones have introduced settings to allow the games to be played entirely with audible information. The most important data; distance to opponent, position of the wall, and whether or not they're mid attack; can all be communicated by repeating pings of different pitch and frequency*. Street Fighter 6 has done an incredible job of this.
*Beat, not pitch again lol
This is like Luke Skywalker learning to use the force with the helmet blocking his sight. Ellen became one with the Panda.
That fight was bear-ly a challenge for Ellen. ⚽️🐼
Absolute win, and blindfolded at that! Let this method go viral
This challenge is not to be Tekken for granted... Good luck Ellen!
Edit: No luck needed, pure skills!
I see what you did there. Very clever.
Yeah, she just BEAR-ed with it, didn't try to PANDA to the audience...
Ellen knew the brand of jam she was putting on scones blindfolded. Her other senses are beyond mortal ken.
She turned Hwoarang into Bonne Maman.
oh wow the AI really was weak, I was thinking hard is surely too much for blindfolded but I guess not
Same here. I was so convinced Mike was setting the bar too high for Ellen (because blindfolds) but actually, turns out Mike overestimated the AI if anything!
If you want a real fight use the online lobby.... and go hunt the most dangerous enemies imaginable.
@@marhawkman303 8th graders? 😱💀 J/k, this isn't fortnite
@@dawsonbusenbark3945 I mean... not exclusively 8th graders, but.... well... no guarantees.
Ellen smashed it
This makes my Christmas every year! Love y'all so much!!
That juggle combo was badass
Ellen has got that enate skill when it comes to games.
Ellen: i've not played Tekken viii
Demolished opponent blindfolded.
Fear Academy, Re game: as she is freaking out; headshot, headshot, headshot.
Wow, once again Ellen is pure panda-monium! 😆🐼
I knew there would be an ursine pun panda-mic in the comments, but it's so dire it's nearly BRUINing the fun!
Holy crap. Way to go Ellen! 🎉
Edit: I'm loving all the puns in honor of the Ellen challenge 😂
I love Mike.
"Pro strats: There are buttons, and you should mash them."
Wow I didn't expect that challenge to be that easy but it was incredible
Wonderful! Thank you for doing this each year. I look forward to it from October. Soooo good!
I'm glad I missed spotting how long the video was, it's sad that content was short but great to see the Spirit of the Tournament burns in everyone.
Clearly spoilt by 20 mins, 5 min vids greatly upset me now 😭
Love to see Ellen playing exactly how I usually play even when I can see, never known how to play Tekken but clearly I was playing optimally all along 😂
I don't think you're being spoiled. 20 minutes is on the longer side of Xmas Challenges, but 5 minutes is a bit too little. Nothing we can do about it though, sometimes a challenge just ends early (and sometimes, like in this case, it's just that short)
@mar_speedman I think those that end way too short by chance are inevitable and particularly fine if it's pvp, and ideally the solo challenges could have been adapted to fit a 12-18 min length eg this would be best of 3 of 3 (which if it had gone worse could have allowed for adapting tactics more) BUT in this case watching someone hammering blind for much longer wouldn't have been super fun so I think it's just the luck of the draw. In oxboxtra we trust! I was just caught off-guard 😂
Settings --> Playback Speed --> x0.25
As if by magic, a 5 minute video becomes a 20 minute video.
You're welcome.
@@gwishart Too bad there aren't any settings to tweak your rudeness
Yeah, saw the length and thought, well, either it was a quick win or a really, really quick loss. :)
“The Tekken AI is Rubbish so we’ll do Hard Mode”
Me: Seems a little unfair
*5 minutes later*
Me: Well I’ll be damned. Not only was Mike right, but Ellen was cracked!
This video was panda-monium!
I always suspected that Ellen was a Jedi... now I'm sure of it!
Is that a point for Ellen or a point against Tekken?
🎶On the second day of OXmas, the algorithm served me ... blind panda fight! (etc.)
Poor Ellen, unable to find a challenger worthy of her skills. 🙂
At least Ellen took that fair and square. I was concerned she might win on a tekkenicality.
Yes I know that''s bad but all the good puns had gone by the time I arrived. 😁
Andy checking his watch when Ellen finished was hilarious!
LOL
Truly mashing is the way to win.
Or the tekken AI even on hard is that bad
Gratz on point Ellen!
It would have been a real hoot to see Ellen's reaction to her own footage here. An idea for next OXMAS :)
Great fun, thanks!
Jane got the ugly sweater memo and thought 'Now's my time to shine'.
This is Ellen's challenge and Jane turned up looking like she was at a fashion show.
Be a supportive friend and turn up in a sufficiently ugly sweater next time.
I love these guys. I want all of them to win.
Ellen's year! Ellen's year! Ellen's year!
Congrats Ellen!!!
Congrats on your first point, Ellen! That was some liquid Tekken!
Honey, wake up! A new Outside Xmas Tournament of Champions video just dropped
Honey, don't bother waking up. It's already over.
Go, Jane, go!
Uh-oh. A 5 minute run time? It's either a crushing defeat or a glorious victory. Go Ellen!
That was really fun to watch and amazing that Ellen almost got a perfect in all three rounds
Damn ellen you smashed this challenge ❤
Ellen's business degree clearly providing a strong grasp of Tekkenomics.
That was amazing. Absolutely demolished the opponent there. Well-earned point, Ellen!
I hope they all win😊
There's a gong now? The things they can afford now after Luke's gone are incredible
Oh, that was a LOT of fun to watch.
Nothing like wrapping up presents with you on the side... But this one made me wrap quick!
Seriously. Ellen could handle Beat Saber blind folded, the lady got rhythm. Just put on a tune and let her h-whip Hwarang
Time Square? New Years Eve? Pandamoneum!
"Ellen, can you fight this guy blindfolded?"
"Oh yeah, super easy, barely an inconvenience."
Well, I think if that proved anything, it proved that Ellen is the best bear-knuckle fighter in the group. :p
Hell yeah! Git em Ellen!
That must be the most efficient challenge I've ever seen!
A full 20 minutes shorter than the giant-killing challenge. Even Team Andy (which I fully represent) should admire this show of skill.
Ellen totally demolished that challenge!
ROFL. Andy checking his watch. XD
Absolutely beautifully done. Haha. I couldn't have done even a fraction as well playing normally.
Unreal how slayed!
LOL Awesome! 😅 ❤ Ellen
This is no different from how I normally play fighting games ❤
You mean, choosing your characters and looking at the screen? lol
Is there going to be some version of a Pikachu drawing competition this year? Maybe bring Luke back to judge?
Wow I knew the god-awful monetisation of Tekken 8 made it a tough sell, but *SPOILERS*
"person who has never played it, wins 3-0 on hard mode with a random character whilst blindfolded" doesn't exactly entice us to open our wallets.
Lol yea, this makes the game's gameplay look terrible. So, you basically can just mash your way to win against the AI at any difficulty.
Yes, the aggressive monetization of *-checks notes-* selling cosmetics. Silly jokes aside, I'm sorry to say it but if you're looking at the single player AI in a fighting game to decide whether you want to buy it, you're not the right audience for the game. There is simply no way to create an AI that can interact in an interesting way with a toolset designed to let humans play mind games with each other.
When I'm on offense and looking to break through my opponent's defense, I'm trying to evaluate when they'll get nervous enough about my low pokes to duck and eat my uppercut. I am actively trying to read what my opponent's tolerance for risk is, because ducking here is a huge risk that could provide them big reward. If my opponent is a cautious or otherwise nervous person, I'll just go low until I break their ankles. Against an AI it's just a coin toss. There are no emotions to tune in to.
All this to say that Tekken 8 is in fact incredible. Maybe not a game for you, but if that's the case it may behove you to reserve judgement. Respectfully.
@@TheJakeJackson Respectfully, I've got all the Tekkens. I've got the cardboard first one I got with my PS1, up to T7 with the giant statue on my PS4. All of them had amazing SP content. (TTT2 was the best).
Tekken 8 has no cosmetics, no treasure battle, very poor roster choices and, thanks to the endless inclusion of 1 button rage nonsense, a skill ceiling so low it's doubling as the floor.
It's the SNK Heroines of the Tekken lineup. The Soul Calibur V. I'm 100% the audience for a Tekken game as someone who literally owns every fighting game ever made. T8 is just trash.
@@VonBlade Respectfully, I play professionally, TO, commentate, and hold one of the highest ranking Azu's in the world at this moment. Your opinion is a strange fiction. After a near decade of complaints about it, it is frankly astounding that anyone would ever claim T7 had worthwhile singleplayer. The worst story mode and an endless tepid treasure battle grind versus 8's arcade quest and full character episodes for the entire roster? No, look, you bought the games (and thank you for that you help fund our hobby), but you're really not the target audience for this game. If you've got beef with a reversal that doesn't gain its armor until frame 8, you're just not a fighting game player. But don't let that lead you to making things up about Tekken.
"Draw me like one of your French bears" 😂
Ellen you crushed that fight!
This is great
when you are the ace student of the blindfolded mastery class but you have to play it safe because the schools motto is: blindfolded in class, none shall see and silent outside, none shall hear of
This is about how I play fighting games anyway
Wow Ellen, making Tekken looks easy 😅
Ellen always up to date on her bear combat techniques
Damn that was fast one. Well done Ellen.
Reminds me of Rachel Riley playing Street Fighter
I thought that was 'Mortal Kountdown'? 😎
Ellen totally crushed it with the panda
Yayyy Ellen!
Good Lord Ellen! You took that man apart!!!
Andy checking his watch is peak something.
Well, this could be difficu... oh, it's over.
Well done Ellen!
This proves the key to mastering Tekken is to just mash buttons. Don't think just mash!
Put Ellen in control of something cute and fluffy and she will in fact dominate any fight. Even blindfolded.
Damn, the most disrespectful way to win a fight xD Well done Ellen!
Blindfold Tekken is Ellen's new Beat Saber.
Me: Oh yay! The next Christmas Challenge! (sees the video is 5 minutes long) ... either this goes really well, or really bad...
that fight was super easy BEAR-ly an inconvenience
Ellen just channeled the effing matrix!
I like how they randomize by not hitting the random button. 🤣
Let's go Ellen! GLGL!!!