Month: August 2016

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Earn a Free Trip to Shine 2016 Through the Road to Shine Online Qualifier

If you haven’t signed up for Shine 2016 but still want to enter for Super Smash Bros. for Wii U, this online event may be just the thing. Hosted by Big Blue eSports, the winner of this online qualifier will receive a free flight, housing and entry for the event, along with a custom smash.gg hoodie. All top 8 placers will also gain free entry to Shine 2016, along with some merchandise to commemorate their placing.

Starting this Saturday, there will be four separate qualifiers with the top 12 of each tournament going forward to a final top 48 bracket on Wednesday the 10th at around 5pm PDT. This top 48 bracket will not be reseeded, so if you qualified in Losers, you will stay in Losers for the top 48. This online event will be restricted to the USA and Canada only, with players requiring a 2Mbps upload and 5Mbps download speed in order to compete in this event.

There will be a 512 player cap for each of the four qualifiers, so register now on the official smash.gg page to ensure you can compete. Registration is free, so no worries about losing any money if your connection drops out mid-match or you suddenly cannot continue playing. Make sure to correctly type your Nintendo Network ID during registration, so that matches can be played as fast as possible. Top 48 on Wednesday will be streamed on Big Blue eSports’ Twitch channel, so tune in to see who will be getting that golden ticket to Boston.

Sources: r/smashbros, smash.gg

 

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Overwatch: TBS to Broadcast Grand Finals + Olympic-Themed Skins

The Overwatch Grand Finals are bringing eSports to the masses when they will be broadcast on North America’s TBS, one of the largest cable networks. Turner Broadcasting has partnered with eLeague to host the $300,000 tournament. Regional playoff rounds will take place in August with the Grand Finals to be held in September.

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SMITE: Hi-Rez Celebrates the Olympics with the Goddess Terra

The Roman goddess Terra, the Earth Mother, has been added to SMITE. Considered a protective guardian character, Terra anchors the Summer of SMITE that celebrates the Olympics with a new map called the Great Games as well as a series of new skins, achievements, Pool Party Jing Wei, Floaticorn Ward and the F. Announcer Pack bonus item.

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WildStar: Redmoon Rising Dungeon Preview, Debuts August 17th

The WildStar site has been updated with a preview of the Redmoon Rising dungeon that will be heading into the game on August 17th. The preview gives a nice stack of lore that includes what can be called nothing less than space pirates headed up by the risen captain, Ish’amel. Other characters of note include Swabbie Ski’li, Robomination, the Redmoon Engineers, and Mordechai Redmoon.

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Players, Start Your (Feng Shui) Engines! Useful Juri V-Trigger Combos for Street Fighter V

YouTube user VesperArcade recently gave use some videos showing off Juri’s bread ‘n’ butter combos. This time, he brings us combos that she can do perform when her V-Trigger, Feng Shui Engine Type Alpha, is activated–giving Juri access to Fuharenkyaku specials without having to store them, and gaining the ability to cancel normals you wouldn’t normally be able to. VesperArcade breaks down which normals and specials can be cancelled into the V-Trigger, as well as various links to extend combos for further damage.

One interesting aspect about this combo video: VesperArcade shows which V-Trigger combos to use effectively–ones that consume precious V-Gauge meter, as well as ones that don’t consume too much and can be ended with EX or non-EX specials instead. This will give Juri users ideas of how to balance her damage-dealing resources and her mix-up game to open up their opponents.

Source: VesperArcade