Month: April 2018

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First US tournament in BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle provides thrills at Anime Ascension 2018

The time has come to see how BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle fares in a tournament setting. Anime Ascension provided an open weekend for players to try out the upcoming game. Even more attractive for some is the fact that it’s the English version of the game, with new English voice dubbing.

Level Up Live streamed the action, and the below clip has close to two hours of the tournament that took place during the event. Several players have already found their way in the game, figuring out the general flow of assist combos and neutral. There’s a good variety of characters as well. This was a tag, single-elimination tournament, so it actually consisted of pairs of players. Team Big Bois stood out in particular, and one of the members who figured out some really good synergy between his characters. Who knew that two huge grapplers, Tager and Waldstein, would be a good combo?! Go figure.

Enjoy the action below, and check out our Anime Ascension 2018 results page for more details on how the tournament went.

Watch Anime Ascension 2018 Day 2 from leveluplive on www.twitch.tv

Source: Level Up Live

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Dragon Ball FighterZ has a “big lead” in registration numbers over the other titles at Evolution 2018

The time for Evolution 2018 is slowly drawing near… Early-bird registration time has passed, and with that, Joey “Mr. Wizard” Cuellar has taken the time to provide us with a little bit of a glimpse into the numbers. Mr. Wizard tweeted out an updated list that shows which of the Evolution 2018 main stage games have the highest number of registrants, and the results may — or may not — be surprising to you.

Though we don’t have specific numbers yet, and the results are far from final, it looks like Dragon Ball FighterZ is still paving the way to the lead — beating Capcom’s Street Fighter V, which had over 5,000 entrants in 2016, and about half as many in 2017. According to the tweet, the current ranking is as following:

  1. Dragon Ball FighterZ
  2. Street Fighter V: Arcade Edition
  3. Tekken 7
  4. Super Smash Bros. Melee
  5. Super Smash Bros. for the Wii U
  6. BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle
  7. Guilty Gear Xrd REV 2
  8. Injustice 2

It’s worth noting this ranking is the same as the first update on registration Mr. Wizard provided, aside from the note on DBFZ’s larger lead. What do you think? Is this order lining up with your predictions? Let us know in the comments. And if you haven’t yet, you can impact these standings further by registering for Evo 2018!

Evo 2018 will be at Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino in Las Vegas on August 3-5.

evo 2018 logo (trailer)

Source: @MrWiz