>>167347491. Majority of the players in major tournaments like CR Cup and Vsaikyou are still male and JP. Even the fps thread on /vt/ still talks about other male participants like Kamito, Masanori, Selly, Mondo, Niru, etc and this thread has already mentioned a JP male like Gorilla twice so Astel can be discussed
2. Far from being the best, he's got good mechanical skills but needs more work on other areas. If we're talking Master-ranked chuubas then even Hatsume and Hinano are better. Considering he's recently been playing with that pred from DeToNator, he might just improve
