Month: May 2017

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Get ready for Toryuken 6–Toronto’s Capcom Pro Tour Ranking event–this weekend

The competition will be fierce in Toronto’s own annual major fighting game event!

This weekend–from May 19th to 21st–Toronto will be rocked by their annual FGC major: Toryuken! As a Capcom Pro Tour Ranking event, Toryuken will draw in hardened competitors from around the globe for Street Fighter V, and for the variety of other tournaments, as well–including the majors debut of Injustice 2!

Featured tournaments:

  • Street Fighter V
  • Injustice 2
  • Guilty Gear Xrd REV 2 [demo version]
  • BlazBlue: Central Fiction
  • The King of Fighters XIV
  • Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3
  • Mortal Kombat XL
  • Super Street Fighter II Turbo

Side events:

  • Ultra Street Fighter IV
  • Garou: Mark of the Wolves
  • Street Fighter Alpha 2
  • Street Fighter V (teams)
  • Guilty Gear Xrd REV 2 [demo version] (teams)

As you can see above, there’s a lot going on at Toryuken 6! Notable players expected to travel in to the event include Echo Fox|Justin Wong, EG|Ricki Ortiz, RB.CYG BST|Snake Eyez, OG|Shine, Flash, EG|K-Brad, Splyce|FChamp, and UVG|Noel Brown, among others. Naturally the top local players will be in attendance, such as Chi-Rithy, SJ, Italdan, Shane Walker, STDxBlitzman, Snafoo, OCV L.E.S., Honeybee, Biohazard, Hayatei, and more.

The event will be streamed by TorontoTopTiers on both a main and a secondary Twitch channel; the stream schedule can be viewed here.

More information can be found on the TorontoTopTiers Facebook page, the Toryuken page, or on smash.gg.

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Sources: TORYUKEN; smash.gg

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Get ready for Toryuken 6–Toronto’s Capcom Pro Tour Ranking event–this weekend

The competition will be fierce in Toronto’s own annual major fighting game event!

This weekend–from May 19th to 21st–Toronto will be rocked by their annual FGC major: Toryuken! As a Capcom Pro Tour Ranking event, Toryuken will draw in hardened competitors from around the globe for Street Fighter V, and for the variety of other tournaments, as well–including the majors debut of Injustice 2!

Featured tournaments:

  • Street Fighter V
  • Injustice 2
  • Guilty Gear Xrd REV 2 [demo version]
  • BlazBlue: Central Fiction
  • The King of Fighters XIV
  • Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3
  • Mortal Kombat XL
  • Super Street Fighter II Turbo

Side events:

  • Ultra Street Fighter IV
  • Garou: Mark of the Wolves
  • Street Fighter Alpha 2
  • Street Fighter V (teams)
  • Guilty Gear Xrd REV 2 [demo version] (teams)

As you can see above, there’s a lot going on at Toryuken 6! Notable players expected to travel in to the event include Echo Fox|Justin Wong, EG|Ricki Ortiz, RB.CYG BST|Snake Eyez, OG|Shine, Flash, EG|K-Brad, Splyce|FChamp, and UVG|Noel Brown, among others. Naturally the top local players will be in attendance, such as Chi-Rithy, SJ, Italdan, Shane Walker, STDxBlitzman, Snafoo, OCV L.E.S., Honeybee, Biohazard, Hayatei, and more.

The event will be streamed by TorontoTopTiers on both a main and a secondary Twitch channel; the stream schedule can be viewed here.

More information can be found on the TorontoTopTiers Facebook page, the Toryuken page, or on smash.gg.

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Sources: TORYUKEN; smash.gg

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Overwatch – Three New Arena Maps to Arrive for Anniversary Celebration

The Overwatch EU team sent out a tweet to tease a trio of arena maps coming to the game along with the anniversary celebration scheduled to begin on May 23rd. These are small-scale team arenas seemingly taken from the larger Dorado, Temple of Anubis and Eichenwalde maps. These new maps will expand the 1v1 and 3v3 game modes with a more structured map environment with possibly more ties to eSports and ranked competitive play.