Month: September 2017

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– Game Gear: It’s Audio Autumn in Hardware Reviews!

Welcome back to Game Gear! This month, we’re going a little off the page and giving you a peek behind the curtain into our hardware coverage, what we’ve been up to, and our plans for the coming month. It’s Audio Autumn, so let’s find out exactly what that means for our hardware content.

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NorCal Rivals Street Fighter V Rounds 5 & 6 recap, results, and replays

The fifth and sixth rounds of NorCal Rivals in the fall season of Red Bull Proving Grounds took place at the beginning of August and September. Players from all over northern California gathered to compete in Street Fighter V to earn points to qualify for the region’s 3v3 team to compete at the Red Bull Proving Grounds Championship match. Whichever team wins the 3v3 tournament at the event means they and the rest of the region’s top eight players on the leaderboard will be flown out to Red Bull Battle Grounds in Boston, Massachusetts in November, to compete for the last spot to qualify for Capcom Cup 2017 in December.

The usual notable suspects such as Rommel “ROM” Macatangay, Pavo “Pavocado” Miskic, German “Ultima” Marroquin, Clean Kill’s Ted “No Respect” Sarmiento, and pH|James “Jame” Szeto were in attendance along with bigger names such as Circa’s Long “LPN” Nguyen, Miky “XSK_Samurai” Chea, and Cygames Beast’s Eduardo “PR Balrog” Perez. Needless to say, the competition was fiercer than ever in the land of northern California this time, as everyone was hungry for those precious Red Bull points.

Below are the results and replays from the two most recent NorCal Rivals events, filled with exciting matches between some of the Bay Area’s best players and some surprising upsets. With one more event left in the fall season, you can bet it’ll only get more intense come October.

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NorCal Rivals Round 5 -SFV- Results (39 entrants)

1st: XSK_Samurai (Akuma)
2nd: CYG BST|PR Balrog (Balrog)
3rd: ROM (Vega)
4th: Pavocado (R. Mika)
5th: Higashi (R. Mika)
5th: Kimo (Abigail)
7th: LN|THE_DTRAN (Birdie)
7th: Beesu (Karin, Ed)

9th: Circa|LPN (Abigail)
9th: pH|Crackfiend (Ed)
9th: Ghodere (Zangief, Kolin)
9th: Brass (Guile)
13th: Ultima (Rashid)
13th: TAUNT (Chun-Li, Dhalsim)
13th: YJK (Karin)
13th: Stopsign (Cammy)

NorCal Rivals Round 6 -SFV- Results (30 entrants)

1st: ROM (Vega)
2nd: pH|Jame (Akuma)
3rd: CKlNo Respect (Urien)
4th: Higashi (R. Mika)
5th: LN|THE_DTRAN (Birdie)
5th: Ultima (Rashid)
7th: TigerShaan (Akuma)
7th: YJK (Karin)

9th: Pavocado (R. Mika)
9th: DM|Sal Pacino (R. Mika)
9th: DM|John B. (Ibuki)
9th: Rotten Seagull (F.A.N.G)
13th: Kimo (Abigail)
13th: GoE|Chaos Pro (???)
13th: Brass (Guile)
13th: SRK|El Cubano Loco (Vega)

Sources: Team Spooky; smash.gg; Red Bull Proving Grounds

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Method add Cole “Flux” Tocci to their growing fighting game roster

Ahead of Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite‘s release tomorrow, esports organization Method have brought a Marvel heavy-hitter into the fold. Joining other players like Luffy, Packz and REO, Cole “Flux” Tocci has become the latest addition to Method’s fighting game roster.

Famous for his Zero May Cry team, Flux has been a constant threat in top 8s for Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3, with him recently coming first at East Coast Throwdown 2017. While Marvel is the game he is most famous for, Flux is a big threat in the US BlazBlue scene too, and is currently ranked eighth in smash.gg’s Burst League.

Flux has a history with Method too, as he often competed against their raiding guild back when he was an avid World of Warcraft player. Now part of Method’s cohort, expect a whole new era of lightning loops and Dante combos in Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite.

Source: Method