Month: November 2017

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Tournament organizer apologizes and withdraws from the Smash scene after allegedly endangering the lives of others

Multiple sources on Twitter have been writing about a bizarre incident last weekend in Las Vegas, Nevada. According to several Smash players, a tournament organizer who goes by the handle JK has endangered the lives of some members of the scene.

The incident, described in several Twitlonger posts, occurred in a parking lot after a local event at Game Nest. A group of eight split after deciding on getting food — Tsugi|Technicals, CDK, S2H, SoCalGohan, Brosinex, Kswz, and Turtle, with JK separating. According to Tsugi|Technicals, JK nearly ran some of the members over with his car — had they not dodged in time. Afrokunsenpai says he didn’t witness the exact moment of the incident, but corroborates the later exchange at a restaurant with JK, where a confrontation took place. According to them, JK expressed no remorse for endangering the lives of those he nearly hit with his car.

Ultimately, there are no charges pressed, and there is no police report filed about the incident — not because there’s doubt that an incident occurred, but because there’s supposedly not enough evidence to prove that it was an attempt to harm the players.

JK still played in a tournament following the incident, but he is getting banned from attending further ones, according to multiple sources. JK posted an apology Twitlonger, citing his own mental health issues. He also posted on his Twitter that he is withdrawing from the Smash scene.

Sources: JK; @Afrokunsenpai; Tsugi|Technicals; @_charliedaking_

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Destiny 2 – Bungie’s Mea Culpa & a Promise to Keep Communication Lines Open

Rather than run a Destiny 2 live stream today, Bungie opted to post a detailed blog to provide players with insight into its lack of transparency over the recently discovered XP mechanic. Over the course of the last week, players have been loudly castigating Bungie for what it felt was a way to unfairly treat high end players. “Our intention was to keep slower-paced activities as rewarding as high intensity grinding without confusing variations in displayed XP values”, Bungie wrote.

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Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite Battle for the Stones Latin America Online Qualifier results

While many of us around the world were enjoying the Thanksgiving holiday with great food, loved ones, and Black Friday shopping deals, Latin America’s Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite‘s Battle for the Stones qualifier was raging in cyberspace, as some of the region’s finest battled in out in the second of three online qualifiers to determine the final three entrants in the BFTS finals at the Hilton in Anaheim, California this December. Currently qualified players include:

  • Evo 2011 Marvel vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds Champion Jay “Viscant” Snyder
  • Evo 2012 Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 Champion Splyce|Ryan “Filipino Champ” Ramirez
  • Evo 2013 Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 Champion Job “Flocker” Figueroa
  • Evo 2014 Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 Champion Echo Fox|Justin Wong
  • Evo 2015 Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 Champion Nicholas “KaneBlueRiver” Gonzalez
  • Evo 2016 Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 Champion EG|NYChris G
  • Evo 2017 Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 Champion Splyce|Ryan “RyanLV” Romero
  • Space Stone Bearer Robert “Sacktap” Capps
  • Soul Stone Bearer RISE|Richard Nguyen
  • Time Stone Bearer GGP|Ryota “Kazunoko” Inoue
  • Power Stone Bearer Jonathan “Cloud805” Morales
  • Mind Stone Bearer Luis “Teemo” Gomez
  • Reality Stone Bearer Carlos “Linj” Silva
  • European Online Qualifier Alioune Camara

Results

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Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite

1. Moise (Ghost Rider/Nova – Reality) – Qualifies for the Battle for the Stones Finals
2. NeoGeo (Jedah/Gamora – Space)
3. Serpentaurus (Thor/Dormammu – Reality, Strider Hiryu/Doctor Strange – Mind)
4. Zeca (Gamora/Ghost Rider – Reality)
5. Acido (Ultron/Dormammu – Space)
5. UB|Shin (Monster Hunter/Ultron – Soul)
7. DanteLinkX (Dante/X – Soul)
7. Coronel Massacre (Rocket Raccoon/Firebrand – Space)

With 15 of our 16 valiant heroes confirmed, all eyes now turn towards the North American Online Qualifier, taking place this Saturday, December 2nd, at noon CT, (which already has over 400 entrants, as of this writing) where we’ll learn the identity of the final competitor who will be able to vie for control of the MvC:I Universe, in addition to having a shot at a prize pool of over $30,000.

If you’d like to get in on the action, registration is currently live at smash.gg.

Source: BattlefortheStones

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Check out the new Holiday and Nostalgia premium costumes in action in these Street Fighter V online matches

The closest Street Fighter V can get to try-before-you-buy.

Street Fighter V received a big batch of new premium outfits yesterday, providing Nostalgia costumes for Chun-Li, Birdie, Karin, and Balrog, while also adding Holiday outfits for Alex, Cammy, Kolin, and Menat — and a couple more Chun-Li designs from Akiman, too. RektScrub has compiled this collection of online matches featuring the new threads in action, so you can see what they look like in battle before spending that hard-earned real money.

(Chun-Li’s Alpha-era Nostalgia costume didn’t make the cut for this compilation — though she’s already included for her other two Akiman outfits.)

Source: RektScrub