Month: December 2014

This weekend, Big E Gaming is set to put on yet another installment of Northeast Championships. Now in its fifteenth year, this event is bigger than ever, featuring tournaments for a wide variety of titles in an effort to placate as much of the fighting game community as possible.

A full list of games being played this weekend can be found below.

• Ultra Street Fighter IV
• Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3
• BlazBlue Chronophantasma
• Persona 4 Arena Ultimax
• Guilty Gear Accent Core Plus R
• Injustice: Gods Among Us
• Killer Instinct
  Tekken Tag Tournament 2
• Soulcalibur V
• King of Fighters XIII
• Dead or Alive 5 Ultimate
• Super Smash Bros. Melee
• Project M
• Mortal Kombat
• Arcana Heart 3 LOVE MAX!!!!!

Before all that, however, the action begins tonight with another installment of IFC Yipes’ Curleh Mustache Battle Royale. Much like past chapters in this lengthy saga, Yipes has pulled together teams from all over the country to compete in Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 and see how they stack up against the big dogs.

You’ll find a variety of streams below, as well as the full event schedule.

Schedule

Streams

Team Spooky

Watch live video from TeamSp00ky on www.twitch.tv

Bifuteki

Watch live video from bifuteki on www.twitch.tv

Kombat Network

Watch live video from KombatNetwork on www.twitch.tv

Kick Punch Block

Watch live video from KPBLive on www.twitch.tv

FunkyP

Watch live video from FunkyP on www.twitch.tv

Sources: Big E Gaming, Team Spooky, Bifuteki, Kombat Network, Kick Punch Block, FunkyP

While Super Smash Bros. for Wii U was just released last week, the game is already making rounds in the competitive circuit. Collision X, held in Scarsdale, New York, represents one of the first events to hold a Super Smash Bros. for Wii U tournament. As such, many top players from the region were in attendance, such as LoF|NAKAT, Nairo, LoF|Keitaro, Jtails, CT|Salem and more.

If you’re interested in how the game is looking in its early days, CLASH Tournaments recently uploaded replays from the event. We’ve included each finals match below, and the rest over can be found in the official playlist.

Source: CLASH Tournaments

We’ve all been there: barely visible health, no meter to speak of, back to the side of an old temple or the outside of a drive-in on a Friday night with a rock opera-loving dude who has no business in a suit that tight winding up an EX Messiah Kick to send us packing thanks to chip damage. It’s a mouthful, but it happens.

Chipping out an opponent with an EX Messiah isn’t an inherently bad tactic; the move deals great damage through their block and is pretty fast, too. But there are ways around it that might not seem very reasonable when we’re staring death in the face.

This quick clip from Macro Micro Games’ Carolyn Dao shows team member Julio using Yun’s focus attack to absorb the first hit of this physics-defying move before dashing out of the corner to punish the overzealous Rufus. This tactic certainly isn’t going to change the way that we fight against Rufus every time we face off against him, but it may give pause to the Rufus player itching to get the match over with so they can go dive kick someone else.

Source: Carolyn Dao