Month: August 2016

Known of some of the best Super Smash Bros. for Wii U content creators out there, the Beefy Smash Doods are moving from exclusively making videos, to now fielding an esports team. Smash 4 will be one of their main games, picking up suitably beefy players from Europe and beyond to represent their team.

Alongside original members of the Beefy Smash Doods vyQ and Luigi_player — two renowned Austrian Smash players — BSD has picked up Swedish Link extraordinaire Ennis “IzAw” Al-Maatooq as one of the first members of their Smash 4 team. Known for his own stellar Smash 4 videos as well as his Link play, IzAw joins the Beefy Smash Doods, further strengthening their video production and their Smash skills. Syndicate is the next big tournament for Smash 4 in Europe, so the Beefy Smash Doods will no doubt be hoping to make a big entrance with their new players.

Source: Beefy Smash Doods

Killer Instinct is well and truly booming in Europe, with scenes across the continent slaving away to get their players up to standard to fight on against the rest of the world. As such, there is a real influx of local and online tournaments to help up the standard of play across Europe. The Netherlands esports team, The Dutch Brawlers, are leading by example on this front, starting up a new online championship series called King of the Ring.

This monthly has a cap of 64 players so get signed up over on the Challonge page should you wish to compete. It is set to be held on the 18th of September at 2pm CEST so mark your calendars and get practicing those combos for a chance to win the first in hopefully, a long series of online KI tournaments. There is also the promise that if this first King of the Ring meets its 64 player cap, it will become a points event for the KI World Cup so if you want to be in the running for some precious Ranking points, sign up now.

Sources: The Dutch Brawlers; XboxViking

Another top Street Fighter V player from Japan will be joining the ESL’s Brooklyn Beatdown. Capcom Cup 2015 Champion Ryota “Kazunoko” Inoue has won the Asia qualifier for the Brooklyn Beatdown, going through a loaded field of high ranked players to win a trip to New York this October.

Kazunoko, the only Japanese player to make the top 8 of the qualifier, blew through the winners side of the bracket, including the two top Korean players who who he would later face in winners and grand finals, NL and Tourniquet. Kazunoko first sent NL down to the losers bracket in the winners semi-finals before facing Tourniquet, who is currently ranked at #1 online, in winners finals.

Both these players would later face each other in losers finals, NL having eliminated Razer’s Xian along the way. NL played an amazing set against Tourniquet, bringing out some clutch reads and amazing reversal Critical Art punishes to earn the right to face Kazunoko again in grand finals. NL would again bring these same thing against Kazunoko in grand finals, however in the end, this wasn’t enough and Kazunoko won the set with a convincing 3-1 win.

With this win, Kazunoko joins players such as  EG|Ricki Ortiz, F3|Alucard, NVT|Flash, MJS YDlHaitani, and RZR|Xian who also joined the qualifier despite already being confirmed for the tournament.

Results

1. Kazunoko
2. NL
3. Tourniquet
4. Lineni
5. RZR|Xian
5. Adelloon
7. NarahKof
7. xyzzy

Source: ESL

Featured image c/o Robert Paul