​This is a DBLTAP Exclusive Interview with Ghost Gaming's Kenneth "K-Brad" Bradley, a professional Street Fighter V player. K-Brad shares his thoughts on the transition from Evil Geniuses to Ghost, the state of SFV, and more.

Henry Khost - How has your motivation been during the switching of your organization, and the changes to Street Fighter V ?







Kenneth "K-Brad" Bradley - My motivation has always been there, like no matter what I do, I'm definitely gonna be motivated to accomplish my goals. But it's been a little different type of motivation. When I joined EG, my motivation was to not get super left behind. Because we had Justin "JWong" Wong, Yusuke "Momochi" Momochi, Eduardo "PR Balrog" Pérez, and Ricki Ortiz. So when I was on the team all I was thinking is "Crap I have all these superstars, I really don't want to get left behind," so that was what motivated me to practice a lot.





But now the transition over to Ghost, it's different. They don't have a fighting game player, so it makes me feel like I have to do it. They don't have a championship in fighting games, I'm the only guy. Now it's not one of those things where Justin Wong can carry the weight, or I can mess up. The only person I can look to is myself. I've been practicing a lot lately ever since I came here -- I've been playing a lot.





With Street Fighter V, they actually fixed a lot of the problems, but they did not fix all of the problems that people have. However, I think it's gonna be a better game than season two. I think season three is gonna be pretty great. Cammy's still pretty good, some of the other characters are pretty solid, so I might mess around with Cammy.





As far as Street Fighter goes, I'm super motivated to play the game and see what the future holds in that.

HK - How was the transition from EG to Ghost?





K-Brad - I was with EG for four years and it was pretty hard to walk away from that team. It was pretty devastating for me, even now if I see someone wearing EG gear or if something shows up on my Facebook memories. It was pretty hard at first, but I've been looking forward to the future, and I just felt like it was time to try something else, because everybody left Evil Geniuses.





All the people that I started with left, the only person that was still there was Ricki. Ricki is still on the team and then they brought in Christopher "NYChrisG" Gonzalez, and I've been really good with Chris, but, you know, he wasn't one of the people I started with. Even a lot of the management, the people that managed me, they are no longer with Evil Geniuses either. I hold them very near to my heart, the team means a lot to me. I always still wear the shirts and the EG wristband; I love the team.





Ghost made the transition super simple and super easy for me. That was the No. 1 problem I had. I was like "When I go to a new team, I'm gonna have to learn the new org, learn who the big boss is, and maybe I have to be super professional." I felt I could always be myself with Evil Geniuses, so I was worried that if I went to another team I could not be myself. They might be like "What's wrong with this guy, he's not the typical gamer, he's trying to party, trying to drink."





I was talking to other organizations, but I was talking to Ghost the most and we had dinner together, and I met the CEO, Director of Operations, and Director of Content. They were telling me "Listen, we really want to push content. We definitely want you to go to these tournaments and we want you to do well at these tournaments, but we need you to do a bunch of content for us." I was like, "Oh you're talking the right words to me right now, you're preaching to the choir right now." I love content. Anything to do with making videos, anything to do with putting myself out there, I love.





We talked about gaming, we talked about sports, just basic stuff that made me feel right at home. Then I met the Gears of War team, and they were super welcoming. I played Gears before I turned pro in Street Fighter, I played Gears a ton. Everybody's been super welcoming, and super happy that I'm here. They made it a lot easier than I thought it was going to be.

Henry Khost - Do you see Ghost Gaming expanding more into the FGC?





Kenneth "K-Brad" Bradley - I'm not sure if they want multiple fighting game players or if they just want the one. Maybe they'll think "We're done here, let's go over to the next thing," or "Now we have a Street Fighter player, let's go get an Injustice or Dragonball player."





I think they should go out and get one or two more players in the FGC.

HK - Who do you consider to be some of the stronger players going into season three of SFV?





K-Brad - With the changes coming in, definitely the two people you're gonna have to look at are Daigo Umehara and Du "NuckleDu" Dang, because Guile is so strong now. The problem is that Guile was already great; he was already a great character and then they gave him this stupid V-Trigger II.



​They also made his Sobat kick, his forward medium kick, go farther. It was already annoying enough, because it's pretty hard to actually punish it. So they made that move better, his Sonic Booms are pretty much still the same, and they gave him an amazing V-Trigger II. He's just killing it. If you want to be one of these top guys, you can pick Guile and do better than you were before. Daigo and NuckleDu are gonna do amazing this season, unless everyone suddenly picks up a character to counter Guile.

Street Fighter Gods I beg of you. Do not Nerf anyone. Let Abigail, Akuma, Blanka and whoever else run wild this season. I want so much Chaos this season! MORE V TRIGGERS



MORE ROBBERIES



MORE COMEBACKS



LET'S GET ITTTTTTTTTTTT — Kenneth Bradley (@KBradJStorm) February 13, 2018

HK - With the recent release of Dragonball FighterZ and all of the hype surrounding it, do you believe that it has a chance to become a mainstay in the FGC?





K-Brad - Yeah, because of the name. I don't even know how good the game is, I haven't touched it yet. But I watch it, and I know people will play it just because they love Dragonball Z. The characters are so popular, and everyone knows I'm a huge Vegeta fan. The game also has characters like Hit, Android 18, and Cell. It has all these characters that people are fans of.





So they pick up the game and think "Oh my favorite character is so good." In the Street Fighter community , you don't have many people that like a lot of different characters. In Dragonball FighterZ , all of the characters look sick and the game itself looks really good. I think it'll be around for a long time.

Blanka can do Blanka Ball INTO ANOTHER BLANKA BALL???



Yes, more Chaos



I stand by what I said! I want Chaos and destruction this entire season! If you don't feel like punching your opponent in the face after a loss then



Capcom has failed us — Kenneth Bradley (@KBradJStorm) February 12, 2018

HK - Finally, is there anything you would like to say to your fans and the fans of Ghost Gaming?





K-Brad - I'm definitely happy for everybody that made this easy for me, and everyone that told me "Oh yeah we're here for K-Brad!" It's nice to see all of the sponsors, like Monster and Xfinity reach out to me and say, "Thank you for all the work you've done."





Stuff like that really means a lot to me. To all the people that support me, thanks a lot and I definitely appreciate it. Look forward to what Ghost is gonna do in the future, I'm pretty excited. The Ghost Gears team got second place in Mexico City, they broke the curse of always placing third. Ghost is gonna have the merchandise store up soon, so it would be nice to see everyone rocking some Ghost gear.

Cover photo courtesy of Ghost Gaming