Month: May 2017

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Street Fighter V at Red Bull Proving Grounds: NorCal Rivals round two recap, results, and replays

The second round of NorCal Rivals took place this past weekend at the Gamers Den in Campbell, CA. While the number of entrants were only around half the size of last month’s first round, the Street Fighter V competition was just as fierce as ever, but with quite a few shakeups in the standings.

German “Ultima” Marroquin–the young up-and-comer with the rambunctious Rashid who placed fifth at last month’s event–took the first place spot this time around: shimmying some of NorCal’s best in the winners bracket such as Mattypie, G-Dragon, Pavocado, and ultimately (no pun intended) BJ Unchained in grand finals. With this victory, along with his fifth place finish last month, Ultima has the lead with 500 points in the overall standings.

Brian “BJ Unchained” Jeon, who dismally placed 32nd last month, finished strong in second place and made up some ground to tie for third with his brother Kelvin (who won last month’s event) with 300 points each. His matches were really close throughout the night, with Brian almost losing to BrolyBallz’s solid Akuma and Pavocado’s cold and calculated R. Mika play. He only ended up losing to Ultima earlier in the winners bracket and in grand finals. The fact that the two Jeon brothers are tied for third in the standings will make for an interesting result next month if only one of them can make it through barring some bizarre shakeups. One of three things can occur in this scenario: either only one of the brothers qualify for the 3v3, both brothers make it or none of them do. Everything hinges on what transpires at the beginning of June.

Lets also not forget Pavo “Pavocado” Miskic who has been the most consistent player so far with two third place finishes in a row and is currently in second place overall with 450 points. While I’m sure he’s not satisfied with that result, if Pavo can place in the top three for next month’s event, he will have secured a spot for the Red Bull Proving Grounds finals in Santa Monica to try and win the trip to Evolution 2017 along with whoever his teammates will be.

You can watch the whole tournament below, which clocks in at a little over three hours long. Some NSFW language is used here–so watch with discretion.

NorCal Rivals: Street Fighter V

Top 16 results (54 entrants)

1st: Ultima (Rashid)
2nd: BJ UnChained (Necalli)
3rd: Pavocado (R. Mika)
4th: BrolyBallz (Akuma)
5th: G-Dragon (Karin)
5th: Higashi (R. Mika)
7th: PH|Crackfiend (Urien)
7th: DM|John B. (Ibuki)

9th: CE|Isaiah Raider (Laura, Guile)
9th: ROG|Kelvin Jeon (Urien, Ibuki)
9th: LDO (Birdie)
9th: Lamerboi (Rashid)
13th: Supa (?)
13th: Danphan (?)
13th: GenesisFrenzy (Laura)
13th: THEDTRAN (Birdie)

Sources: Team Spooky; smash.gg

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Nintendo will be running a tournament for ARMS at E3 2017 on June 14th

Nintendo’s slow pivot towards accepting esports continues. Among their recently revealed E3 plans, Nintendo just announced that they will be running two tournaments at E3: a Splatoon 2 invitational, and a tournament for their more experimental limb-stretching fighter, ARMS. While this is not their first time allowing the unreleased Dhalsim-simulator to be in tournament (that would be its appearance at Tokaigi 2017), it is the first time there will be an ARMS tournament on American soil, and the first Open Invitational tournament for the game.

Considering E3 is open to the public this year, there’s a chance some true fighting game heads will be able to enter the tournament. No announcement on price of entry or prizes have yet been made, so its safe to assume–until further notice–that this is a free-to-enter affair.

You can check out Nintendo’s press release here.

Source: Nintendo

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PlayStation Underground shows off Tekken 7 gameplay with MarkMan & Dalton Link

Tekken Community Adviser for Bandai Namco Mark “MarkMan” Julio appeared with Dalton Link on PlayStation’s official YouTube channel to show off the console build of Tekken 7:

In just over 30 minutes of footage, MarkMan demoed some gameplay with Eliza, Akuma, King, and Lucky Chloe. They also show off Arcade Battle to get item unlocks, then go straight into customization mode to equip their spoils. The customization mode is up to par with what we would expect from the Tekken franchise, with the nice new addition of being able to alter and customize the user interface in a way that your opponent can also see.

Source: PlayStation