Month: September 2017

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InTheSkies expands into Street Fighter V, BlazBlue, & Guilty Gear by signing Beautiful Dude and Pinoy

Las Vegas-based esports team InTheSkies is primarily known for their extremely powerful division of Tekken 7 players, including the likes of CuddleCore, CuteTricks, BC20FLY, Jackie Tran, Kane, Kawaii, Lil Majin, P. Ling, MYK, SourPiggy and YanFlip. However, they’ve recently begun to expand their reach further into the larger fighting game community, by making their first signings outside of the 3D realm.

First up, they’ve acquired Street Fighter V M. Bison player Richard “Pnoy” Clink, who’s coming off of a victory at Japonawa 2017, as well as a 5th place finish at West Coast Warzone 6, placing 2nd at Genesis 4, getting 17th at Combo Breaker, 25th at Evo, and, most recently, 3rd at 2GGC: SCR Saga. He is also ranked 81st on our SRK World Rankings for SFV.

Pinoy will also be picking up Tekken 7 as a secondary game alongside his teammates. On Twitter, Pnoy noted that it was now time to, “put in even more work at more events.”

But things don’t end there, as last week ITS announced they would also be signing one of the top American puppet players in Arc System Works games, Julian “Beautiful Dude” Franco. to represent them in BlazBlue: Central Fiction, Guilty Gear Xrd REV 2, and Tekken 7.

Known for his devastating pad-based Zato-1, Relius Clover and Ken Amada in BlazBlue, Guilty Gear and Persona 4 Arena Ultimax, Julian also gained some infamy in Tekken 7 circles earlier this year at Evo 2017, where he eliminated Cyclops Osaka’s Tanukana in Losers Round 1 of Pools 2-1 with his hopkick-happy Claudio.

He currently sits at 21st in our Guilty Gear Xrd REV 2 World Rankings, coming off of 3rd place showings at NCR and Texas Showdown 2017, getting 17th at CEO, 25th at Evo and 5th at the August 2017 edition of NorCal Dogfight. He’s also a frequent top 8 placer in Xrd at Wednesday Night Fights. As for BBCF, where he sits at 14th on our World Rankings, he also placed 3rd at NCR and Texas Showdown, before getting 7th at Combo Breaker and 13th at CEO. He will begin representing the team later this month at Southern California Regionals 2017. You view those announcement tweets below.

We here at Shoryuken would like to congratulate both of these players, as well as ITS on these new signings, and wish all parties involved the best in their future endeavors.

Sources: BeautifuldudeGG (Twitter); ITS_InTheSkies (Twitter); PnoySD (Twitter)

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– Monster Hunter World PAX West Hands On Preview

Monster Hunter World is looking to position itself as a more approachable version of the game while still maintaining what hardcore fans have to come to love and expect from the series. And while at PAX I got to experience that accessibility first hand in the form of a brief hands-on demo.

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Manila Cup 2017 streaming live from Manila, Philippines

The third annual Manila Cup is happening this weekend in the Philippines. The event is as Capcom Pro Tour Ranking Event, attracting a number of strong players from the Asia region.

Tournament Games

Some of the players competing include, Daigo Umehara, Mago, GO1, Dogura, sako, moke, gachikun, Verloren, INFILTRATION, GamerBee, Oil King, Xiaobao and gllty. Brackets can be found on Challonge.

 

If you’d like to tune into the action, Team Spooky will streaming the event live on their Twitch channel. Watch and enjoy!

Watch live video from TeamSp00ky on www.twitch.tv

Source: Manila Cup, Capcom Pro Tour