Month: October 2016

To help grow their place in the FGC, Flipsid3 Tactics has added two new members to its fighting game division. The first is Brazilian Necalli player Thomas “Brolynho” Proenç, joining the team off the back of his continued success in Latin America. With first place finishes at Latin America’s second Online Ranking event and Fight for Rio: Olympia, as well as victory over Evo 2016 champion Seon-Woo “Infiltration” Lee at Brooklyn Beatdown, Brolynho’s Necalli is a force to be reckoned with and is certainly looking like one of the favorites to qualify for Capcom Cup out of the LatAm Regional Final on November 2nd. Brolynho joins Antwan “alucarD” Ortiz as the second dedicated Street Fighter V player on Flipsid3 Tactics’ roster.

With the passing of Flipsid3’s dedicated FGC Division Manager Christopher “NinjaCW” Harris, they have appointed Matthew “Glitch” Testini to build on the hard work started by NinjaCW. Glitch has earned his stripes by running events within New York City, as well as competing for Play All Gaming as their team captain. His combination of TO and player knowledge makes Glitch well equipped to lead Flipsid3 Tactics to continued growth.

Source: Flipsid3 Tactics; featured image c/o Flipsid3 Tactics

In a recent tweet, Alex Jebailey has announced that he has left Avyd.  For the past five months, Jebailey has been the company’s FGC Director, helping with the company’s efforts to support fighting game events around the country.

Today I'm leaving @avyd. I'm thankful for the opportunity but pursuing a bigger @ceogaming is my dream. Tomorrow I'm Full time CEO of CEO!

— Alex Jebailey (@CEOJebailey) October 28, 2016

Prior to working at Avyd, Alex Jebailey served as community manager for Iron Galaxy Studios, helping with the company work with the community for Killer Instinct after development shifted to them for Season 2.

Avyd CEO, Scotty Tidwell had the following to say on Jebailey’s departure.

@CEOJebailey @Avyd @CEOGaming Thank you for working with us Alex! Good luck with CEO and we're always here for you. ❤️

— Avyd CEO (@ScottyTidwell) October 28, 2016

With this announcement, Alex Jebailey will now be the full time CEO of Community Effort Orlando, and will be focusing on extending the brand beyond the United States. Already, Jebailey has stated that he has a “an amazing thing lined up that I’ll be announcing in the coming weeks throughout 2017 so you can expect to see me more at events across the globe.”

We here at Shoryuken wish Alex Jebailey and CEO the best in their future endeavours.

Source: Alex Jebailey (Twitter) via PVP Live

Certain players oftentimes get heavily associated with one character. On such player is Red Bull’s Darryl “Snake Eyez” Lewis, while he’s currently been playing Ryu, prior to this he was known for his stellar Zangief play in Street Fighter V and Super Street Fighter II Turbo.

With this in mind, it’s no surprise then that a fan is currently working to bring Snake Eyes into Street Fighter V. Modder fatihG_ is currently hard at work transforming Street Fighter V’s Zangief into Snake Eyez.

The new model, which you can see in the gallery below, is still a work in progress (you can still see some bits from Zangief, such as his arm bands). That said, aside from the oversized muscles meant to match the Zangief model, it does seem to capture Snake Eyez pretty well. In fact both Red Bull and Snake Eyez have retweeted about the mod (specifically, this in game test shot from Longshot).

Click to view slideshow.

Sources: r/StreetFighter; Longshot (Twitter)

To hype up the final saga of the year, 2GGaming are collaborating with smash.gg to bring another Super Smash Bros. for Wii U online qualifier to fruition. Titled “Hero to ZeRo”, this qualifier will have the winner receiving flights, hotel and entry to 2GGT: ZeRo Saga at the Rio Hotel in Las Vegas, on December 16th to 18th. 2GG seems to have extended the event to be over three days instead of two days, making more time for great Smash 4 action.

Similar to previous online qualifiers like Key to the PG House or Road to Shine, this grand qualifier will be split into four mini-qualifiers, culminating in a final top 128 man bracket to decide the hero with the potential to take down TSM|ZeRo. This qualifier is open to residents of the USA, Canada, Mexico and the Caribbean and like with other massive online events, players must reach the minimum Internet speed requirements to compete in this event. All of the details regarding rules and regulations are available on the smash.gg page.

Hero to ZeRo is free to sign up for, with the first qualifier starting at 12pm on November 5th. The other qualifiers will start at 2pm, 4pm and 6pm, with the final bracket starting on November 6th at 12pm.

Source: smash.gg