Month: May 2017

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Capcom Pro Tour Online 2017 North America Ranking Event 1 streaming live

The North America region’s first online Ranking Event for the 2017 Capcom Pro Tour season is going on right now! North America’s CPTO events are split between two areas, with Events 1 and 3 open to the western US and Canada, while Events 2 and 4 or open to the eastern US and Canada.

The first event has already reached its top 8 stage, with the following players having survived the bracket:

Top 8 Winners

UrbanFlow vs. Nightmare2450
CYG.BST|PR Balrog vs. Commander Jesse

Top 8 Losers

MASTASKIKLLZ vs. 801 Strider
Samurai vs. Splyce|Fchamp

See who takes first place and the largest share of ranking points live on the Capcom Fighters Twitch channel.

Watch live video from CapcomFighters on www.twitch.tv

Source: Smash.gg

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How to beat Faust: find strategy in the randomness of this Guilty Gear Xrd match-up with LordKnight

Guilty Gear Xrd -REVELATOR-‘s Faust is designed to be the wackiest, zaniest character in the cast. An abnormal hurtbox coupled with surprisingly big normal attacks and random items. How do you fight someone who can summon a meteor shower if they get lucky, teleport by opening dimensional doors, and hit you from the ground up with a sunflower?

LordKnight starts his match-up guide with a quick definition of Faust. He explains a common misconception about Faust, who is often considered more of a zoning character due to his range and projectiles. However, Faust has plenty of rushdown and unpredictable mix-up options, which make him especially scary up close. LordKnight goes through his normal attacks, which are designed to control specific spaces. Then he moves on to explaining the properties of Faust’s repertoire of special items.

Whether you have trouble with Faust or are generally unfamiliar with the character, this is a great tutorial to gain some knowledge, which is also quite relevant for REV 2. Hopefully, that will ease the match-up a little bit. Or, I don’t know, just pick Sin.

If you’re more of a reader or want to save these notes on the go, check out the Faust match-up write-up on Evernote.

More worried about Sol Badguy instead? Learn how to best him with LordKnight’s Sol Badguy match-up tutorial.

Sources: LordKnight; Evernote

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Learn to play Dhalsim competitively with Burnout in this episode of Yahoo Esports’ Tech Hit

Dhalsim may be one of the harder characters to play at a competitive level in Street Fighter V. His zoning based playstyle seems at odds with how the game itself wants you to play, and he has to take a lot of risks by getting up close and deal maximum damage.

In this new episode of Yahoo Esports’s Tech Hit, Michael Martin sits down with Xsplit’s Kevin “Burnout” Kim who talks to him about what it takes to bring Dhalsim into a tournament. In the video below, Burnout talks a lot about the mentality a player needs to play competitively, including how to go beyond just trying to keep away and start rushing down with Dhalsim, and using his new tools to allow him to play offensively and win games.

In addition to this, he also talks about Dhalsim’s tournament representation and the challenges and even advantages of picking the character in a tournament.

Source: Yahoo Esports

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FGpop shares more Touhou 15.5 Antinomy of Common Flowers combos, including a Moku/Marisa Touch of Death

The people that play Touhou games are wildly dedicated to the franchise they love. It’s probably no surprise then that merely days after a difficult-to-obtain demo for the Marvel-esque Touhou 15.5 Antinomy of Common Flowers was released, we’ve got incredibly high damage combo videos showing up in our tip-box here at SRK.

FGpop has shared with us two combo videos from the demo. The first one is innocuous enough, showing off the combo potential of the series’s new tag mechanic.

…but with the right resources an positioning, this Mokou/Marisa combo truly inherits the spirit of Marvel.  How common 100%s will be int he final build is obviously anyone’s guess, but if this is showing up in the demo this early, there’s obviously more to be found in the future.

And rest assured, Touhou fans will find it.

Source: FGpop

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Winterfox release Gustavo “801_Strider” Romero and Miky “Samurai” Chea

In a surprise announcement, Winterfox have released both Gustavo “801_Strider” Romero and Miky “Samurai” Chea from their roster. First reported by Yahoo Esports, both players have “allegedly received better offers” from other teams and Winterfox can no longer hold onto both of them.

In a statement given to Yahoo Esports, 801_Strider said that it was a “pleasure of working side by side with some of the most honest, trustworthy individuals” at Winterfox and he wishes “them the best in their future”. He is now “looking forward to the rest of the CPT season as he pursues other options”. As a bit of a late bloomer for Street Fighter V, 801_Strider has seen greater success in 2017, gaining fifth at both Final Round and West Coast Warzone with his Laura.

As for Samurai, he joined Winterfox following Red Bull Battle Grounds and his success in the NA Online Qualifiers for the Capcom Pro Tour. In regards to his departure, Samurai stated that “it has been a great opportunity” to be a part of Winterfox and that he wanted “to thank [the team] from the bottom of [his] heart” for their support”.

It is unclear whether Winterfox will add more players to their fighting game division in the near future. Both Samurai and 801_Strider are scheduled to attend Combo Breaker later in May, so expect details of their new teams to come out ahead of the tournament.

Source: Yahoo Esports