Month: April 2017

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Return of the Beast: Michael Martin and Rip discuss Daigo Umehara’s reemergence at ELEAGUE

One of the big stories to come out of TBS’s Street Fighter V ELEAGUE this past week was the performance of Daigo Umehara. While “The Beast” seemed to have trouble finding his groove during Street Fighter V’s early life, up until the start of season two, he seemed to have found it at ELEAGUE, having switched to Guile and putting on some amazing performances against the likes of HM|Eita and ZW|Gamerbee.

Daigo’s resurgence is the subject of this latest installment of Yahoo Esports’ Conversations and Fireballs. Here, Host Michael Martin and guest Reepal “Rip” Parbhoo discuss Daigo’s improved at the event, including his return to Guile (who he also played in Super Street Fighter II Turbo and Super Street Fighter IV).

Of course, this is just one of the topics related to ELEAGUE that they discuss. With Rip being one of the commentators at ELEAGUE, they naturally talk about the state of fighting game commentary as well. Additionally, they talk a bit about competitive Tekken since that the series that Rip is known for playing.

Source: Yahoo Esports

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TheMainManSWE will be making official Tekken 7: Fated Retribution character guides for Namco Bandai

Swedish streamer and Tekken personality TheMainManSWE will be partnering with Namco Bandai to make character guides for the entire cast of Tekken 7. The guides are set to be ready by release of the game on June 2nd.

The announcement came on TheMainManSWE’s YouTube channel. He’s made lengthy character guides in the past for Tekken Tag Tournament 2, which went into excruciatingly high-level detail on his characters. However, he has promised that his official videos, which will be made at Namco’s headquarters, will be more generalized in scope and will keep new players in mind.

Source: TheMainManSWE

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DreamHack Austin 2017 streaming live

The Capcom Pro Tour keeps rolling this weekend with the North America region’s third Global Premier Event. DreamHack Austin 2017 will feature Street Fighter V as well as Super Smash Bros. Melee and Super Smash Bros. for Wii U (as part of the 2017 DreamHack Smash Champion season) as part of its main line-up, along with community events for Pokkén Tournament, Guilty Gear Xrd -REVELATOR- and For Honor. The prize pools are quite significant, with SFV backed by a $15,000 pool, and $10,000 each for the Super Smash Bros. titles.

As with any Premier Event the Street Fighter V brackets are back with top players, with international talent such as Haitani, Bonchan, Daigo Umehara, Momochi, GO1, Yukadon, Dogura, Xiaohai, Dark Jiewa, Oil King, GamerBee, Xian,Phenom and Marn; and American talent like NuckleDu, Justin Wong, Punk, Snake Eyez, Fchamp, LPN, Sabin, alucarD, Vagabond, Alex Myers and more.

The Super Smash Bros. events are quite stacked as well, with familiar names like Armada, Mang0, Mew2King, Hungrybox, SFAT, Plup, ESAM, ZeRo, VoiD, Ally and many more.

Brackets for both games can be found here.

Check out the Capcom Fighters channel for the Street Fighter V action, and DreamHack Smash channel for your Smash needs.

CapcomFighters

Watch live video from CapcomFighters on www.twitch.tv

DreamHackSmash

Watch live video from Dreamhacksmash on www.twitch.tv

Schedule

Saturday April 29

Event CDT (Local) EDT PDT GMT Stream
SFV Pools 10:00 AM 11:00 AM 8:00 AM 3:00 PM CapcomFighters
SSBM Pools 10:00 AM 11:00 AM 8:00 AM 3:00 PM DreamHackSmash
SSBWiiU Pools 10:00 AM 11:00 AM 8:00 AM 3:00 PM DreamHackSmash
SFV Semis to Top 8 6:00 PM 7:00 PM 4:00 PM 11:00 PM CapcomFighters

Sunday April 30

Event CDT (Local) EDT PDT GMT Stream
SSBWiiU Finals 10:00 AM 11:00 AM 8:00 AM 3:00 PM DreamHackSmash
SSBM Finals 1:00 PM 2:00 PM 11:00 AM 6:00 PM DreamHackSmash
SFV Top 8 3:00 PM 4:00 PM 1:00 PM 8:00 PM CapcomFighters

Sources: DreamHack Austin, Capcom Pro Tour, Smash.gg