Month: October 2017

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Have a look at the brackets for Group A of the Injustice 2 ELEAGUE before tonight’s battles

The final portion of the Injustice 2 Championship Series, ELEAGUE, begins tonight with the eight players of Group A facing off. In an absolutely stacked lineup,we’ll see Echo Fox|Sonic Fox battle Last Chance qualifier Circa|Forever King. Beastcoast|Honeybee faces Vertex|HeeyGe0rge, fresh off a second-place finish at TRETA 2017. Flipside Tactic’s DR Gross takes on Nubcakes in a runback from the GameStop Hometown Heroes Finals, and the newly-signed Allegiance|Dragon faces Bambooka, a Russian Supergirl player who placed 4th in the Path To Pro Finals.

You can see the full bracket below, and don’t forget to tune in to https://go.twitch.tv/eleaguetv at 6:00 PM PT tonight, where the entire tournament will be streamed, before heading over to TBS at 10:00 PM. You can also find the action at http://live.eleague.com/ for the chance to win some in-game prizes — similarly to how Fight Money was obtainable during the Street Fighter V ELEAGUE Invitational.

You can find more details on the event, including the commentary lineup, here.

Source: ELEAGUETV (Twitter) via Test Your Might

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Canada Cup 2017 streaming live from Mississauga, Ontario

This weekend is eighth annual Canada Cup tournament, hosted at the Hilton Toronto Airport Hotel & Suites in the Greater Toronto Area. Canada Cup 2017 is the final Global Premier of the 2017 Capcom Pro Tour, leaving only the upcoming Latin America and North America Regional Finals remaining (as well as Capcom Cup itself). The tourney is also a Battle for the Stones qualifier, with the winner claiming the Mind Stone. Of course, there also is the clash of nations in the annual Street Fighter International 5v5.

Tournament Games

As the last Capcom Pro Tour event open to all players, and those one of the last chances many players to make moves on the global leaderboards, a ton of top players will be competing over the weekend, with strong representation from not only the North America but Asia and Europe as well. NuckleDu, Punk, Justin Wong, NYChrisG, Daigo Umehara, Fuudo, Yukadon, Gachikun, GamerBee, Xiaohai, Phenom, Problem X, Mister Crimson and Takamura are just a few of the many, many names. For a full list of attendees and brackets, check out Smash.gg.

Canada Cup will be providing four streams, with streams 3 and 4 dedicated to Super Smash Bros. Melee and Wii U, respectively. Capcom will also be providing exclusive channels for Street Fighter V singles on the on the Capcom Fighters channel and for Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite singles on the Battle for the Stones channel.

CanadaCup

Watch live video from CanadaCup on www.twitch.tv

CanadaCup2

Watch live video from CanadaCup2 on www.twitch.tv

CanadaCup3

Watch live video from CanadaCup3 on www.twitch.tv

CanadaCup4

Watch live video from CanadaCup4 on www.twitch.tv

CapcomFighters

Watch live video from CapcomFighters on www.twitch.tv

BattlefortheStones

Watch live video from BattlefortheStones on www.twitch.tv

Stream Schedule

All times in EDT (UTC -4).

Friday, October 27
Saturday, October 28
Sunday, October 29

 

Source: Canada Cup, Capcom Pro Tour

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Echo Fox’s Julio Fuentes shows off how to create whiffs in Street Fighter V — by just standing up

When your opponent created their blockstring in the practice mode of Street Fighter V, did they test the string on both standing and crouching opponents? Depending on the answer to this, you can potentially ruin your opponent’s day by just standing back up near the end of their block string.

As Echo Fox’s Julio Fuentes demonstrates, the hurtbox of your character is wider when they crouch, than when they stand. Most blockstrings are built around a crouching opponent, since crouch blocking is the safest default option. By standing at the right time, you can create a big whiff in what your opponent thought was a safe pressure string…

Source: FOX JULIO FUENTES