Month: April 2015

A special Super Smash Bros. for Wii U exhibition will be going down at Niconico Chokaigi 2015 today and tomorrow. The event pits representatives from Japan against those of the US in a class of nations.

Players

Japan

• Deus Ex Machina Ironbottom Sound Apex (Daiki, Fsann) – Premium Fight champions
• Light and Darkness (Luminous, Shadow) – Tokaigi 1 Day Tournament champions

US

• ZeRo, Mew2King (Apex 2015 champions)
• MJG, cyve (Apex 2015 2nd and 3rd place, respectively)

Saturday is the singles tournament, while Sunday will be the doubles tournament. You can catch the stream on VGBootCamp’s Twitch channel for English, or on Niconico Live for Japanese. Watch live video from VGBootCamp on www.twitch.tv

Results

Super Smash Bros. for Wii U

Semi-final

ZeRo vs. cyve
Mew2King vs. Fsann

First Round

Luminous (Dedede) vs. ZeRo (Diddy Kong)
cyve (Sheik) vs. Daiki (Mega Man)
Mew2King (Diddy Kong) vs. Shadow (Captain Falcon)
Fsann (Ness) vs. MJ (Villager)

While Northwest Majors is raging on in the United States, across the Pacific South Korea will see some tournament action as well with Double Elimination Tournament 2015, brought to you by Arcade Stream. Double Elimination will feature three games: Dead or Alive 5 Last Round, Guilty Gear Xrd -SIGN- and Ultra Street Fighter IV, the last of which is a Capcom Pro Ranking Tour Ranking Tournament as well as a Capcom Pro Tour Asia qualifier. The winner of USFIV singles will qualify for the CPT Asia finals in Singapore later this year, while the top 16 players will earn ranking points.

In addition to Korean players such as INFILTRATION, LAUGH, POONGKO, BIGDANMUL, DBKoopa, quite a few names from surrounding countries will be participating: TOKIDO, Itazan, Eita, Kazunok0, Kim1234, KOK, Gonzalez, Shiro and Bonchan of Japan; Humanbomb of Hong Kong; Dark Jiewa of China; Sketch of the US; Chuan of Malaysia; and Burnout of Australia.

You can catch the action from Double Elimination on Xsplit’s Twitch channel (or ArcadeStream for Korean language). Brackets can be found on Touch Cookie TV’s Challonge page.

Saturday will feature the USFIV tournament in its entirely, so if you want to watch some Street Fighter, tune into the stream below.

ToughCookieTV (English)

Watch live video from Xsplit on www.twitch.tv

ArcadeStream (Korean)

Watch live video from ArcadeStream on www.twitch.tv

Sources:  Xsplit, ArcadeStream