Month: October 2016

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Yahoo! Esports Talks with Gllty at SEAM

St. Louis native Leah “Gllty” Hayes has been one of the biggest travelers on the Street Fighter V circuit this year, and has certainly went all-in recently. She was seen at Japan Cup, the Topanga house, and just last weekend made her way to Singapore for Southeast Asia Majors.

Michael Martin with Yahoo! Esports sat down with the Dhalsim main to talk about her time in Japan, and what training in the country did to her game. They also talk about her win in the Southeast Asia Major Amateur Event, and her future plans with regards to travel back to Japan. They also talk about the differences between Japan and Singapore.

Source: Yahoo! Esports

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Don’t Miss This Weekend’s Major Japanese Tournament Toushinsai, Featuring Guilty Gear Xrd -REVELATOR- and More

This weekend is Toushinsai 2016, a Japanese major tournament featuring a multitude of titles. There’s a focus on anime games, but it includes Ultra Street Fighter 4 as well as Tekken 7. This is a huge tournament, notably, for Guilty Gear Xrd -REVELATOR-, heavy hitters such as Ogawa, Nage, Ain, Kedako, Samitto, FAB, and more.

The main stream is over on ToushinsaiOfficialTV. This will have all the Blazblue, Guilty Gear, UNIEL matches (and Tekken 7 on Sunday).

Be sure to also keep an eye on Jonio’s stream, Joniosan, for side events:

On Friday (8:00 JST), we’ll see a first to 7 grudge match of Samitto vs. TopGaren; a Japan vs. Korea runback of a late-stage Evo match from earlier this year.

On Sunday, cheer on US players Mynus, and PG|MarlinPie as they try their hand in this exhibition.

Here, we have a translation for the epic Guilty Gear bracket on Saturday:

Next is a translated tournament schedule. Do note that these are Japanese Standard Time (JST), and thusly 16 hours ahead of the US west coast:

Stay tuned to 2djazz on Twitter to stay updated on other translated brackets and info as it springs up.

For those who can read Japanese, the official website can be found here, and information about the 23-on-23 exhibition here.

[Editor’s note: Japanese readers can also check out the brackets here. Thanks to Patrick for the tip.]

Source: 2djazz