Month: November 2016

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Battle on the Strip Announces Online Qualifiers for Both Street Fighter V and Super Smash Bros. for Wii U

Bolstered by the recent successes of online qualifiers for Super Smash Bros. for Wii U, smash.gg is partnering with Battle on the Strip to bring Street Fighter V into the fold, by offering both a Smash and Street Fighter online qualifier for the latest edition of this monthly Las Vegas tournament series. These free online qualifiers will invite the top four players for each game to the SLS Resort in Las Vegas, to compete against four of Las Vegas’ best for a split $10,000 prize pool between both games.

Both qualifiers will run Saturday 12th November, starting at noon PST until the top four players for each game have been decided. All qualifying players will then be flown out to Las Vegas to compete at the BOTS finals on Sunday 20th November. The finals will be streamed over on the BattleVegas Twitch channel if you wish to tune in and all the information about event registration and attendance is available on either the BOTS website or the smash.gg page. Like most online qualifiers of this type, entrants are unfortunately limited to North America at this time.

Hopefully, this expansion into Street Fighter V online qualifiers will be as successful as it has been for Super Smash Bros. for Wii U, giving online warriors and those who cannot afford expensive flights a chance to compete at tournament level.

Sources: smash.gg; Battle on the Strip

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The Nintendo Switch Playable at Tokaigi 2017, Host of the NicoNico Super Smash Bros. for Wii U Championship

Great news for Super Smash Bros. for Wii U fans who are awaiting news on a possible Switch port: Nintendo has announced that the Switch will be playable at Tokaigi 2017. For those who aren’t familiar with Tokaigi, it is a massive gaming event held in Chiba, Japan which last year held the NicoNico Super Smash Bros. for Wii U Championship, where Masahiro Sakurai previewed Corrin, Bayonetta and the Umbra Clock Tower stage ahead of their official release.

Sakurai even announced the release date of these pieces of DLC during his Tokaigi presentation and commentated the finals between Nairo and Abadango. With a recent report stating that a remastered version of Smash 4 may be coming to the Switch within six months of the console’s launch, this event seems like the perfect place to reveal more information about a potential updated port. More and more top Japanese players have been making their mark on the world stage, so 2017’s championship should be a brilliant event. Tokaigi 2017 will take place from February 11th-12th, and it will also host the national finals for the Splatoon NicoNico Championship, which is also coming to the Switch–based off Nintendo’s initial presentation.

Sources: Nintendo of Japan; Tokagi 2017

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Learn How to Maximize Your Damage off Jump-Ins by Hit Confirming in Street Fighter V

Jump-ins are some of the riskiest things you can do in a Street Fighter game, and Street Fighter V is no exception. Even if a jumping player isn’t stopped by an anti-air, most safe options after a blocked jump in don’t really lead to big damage. This means that a lot of players sacrifice possible damage by automatically going for the safe options after a jump in, regardless of if it was blocked or not.

In his latest tutorial, jmcrofts explains that the key to maximizing damage off jump ins is to learn how to hit confirm off the jump in. Once you have hit confirmed, players can continue with the unsafe on block–but damaging on hit–follow up, without danger of reprisal. While this sounds simple enough, as with any single hit confirm, it requires some fast reactions. As such, players need to spend some time practicing it, to be able to get their reactions up to speed.

Source: jmcrofts