Month: May 2018

Over 200 pieces of spectacular fan art to peruse!

Following the success of their fan art collection to honor Street Fighter’s 30th anniversary (which gathered a massive amount of impressive artwork), Instagram’s @streetfighterlegacy decided to follow up with the same gameplan for the 20th anniversary of Capcom’s other fighting game franchise: Rival Schools. And the results are equally — if not more — spectacular. The love for this Street Fighter sister-series is going strong!

You can view the RIVAL SCHOOLS 20TH ANNIVERSARY ART TRIBUTE as a digital artbook over on issuu. It features 204 slides of Rival Schools greatness. Here are some words from StreetFighterLegacy’s Pete Pearce about the project:

After the success of our “Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Art Tribute”, an also-beloved Capcom fighting game “Rival Schools” is in its 20th anniversary year. I felt we needed to celebrate this often-forgotten and underappreciated game. As my inbox fills up with artwork from our users daily for reposting, I decided to set a challenge to our followers to create an online art tribute. This tribute will only available online, and will be FREE for everyone to view. For the moment we will not be producing any physical copies.

Like with the “Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Art Tribute”, our ethos for this was all-inclusiveness. So every person that submitted a piece that adhered to the rules was included. (Rules being that it had to be “family friendly”, that was not a redrew or reproduction of existing art and created specifically for this project, and not available online before.) I didn’t want this to be elitist. Everyone was welcome, no matter of style or skill level. This has brought in a wide rage of art.

I was a little worried that this project would not reach the volume of submissions like we had for the “Street Fighter” one, but to my pleasant surprise the art came in waves and has exceeded the amount of submissions from its predecessor. This in turns warms my heart, as I have a great affinity for this retro gem of a game, and the number of artists who backed this project proved I am not alone.

Feast your eyes on these samples of the work on display in the RIVAL SCHOOLS 20TH ANNIVERSARY ART TRIBUTE:

Source: issuu via StreetFighterLegacy

Yesterday, Twitter voting for the Dragon Ball FighterZ Summit of Power nomination phase was opened. As previously reported, Beyond The Summit is allowing any unqualified players who’ve placed within the top 32 of Winter Brawl 12 or Final Round 2018, or made top 16 at either NorCal Regionals 2018, Anime Ascension 2018, Brussels Challenge: Major Edition, Michigan Masters 2018 or Super TSB 2018 to opt-in to the nomination process.

Each nominee will have a unique tweet button, with each tweet counting as a vote, limited to 1 vote per Twitter account (though you can connect your Twitter on smash.gg for 10 nominations). The top 20 will advance to the final round of voting, of which only 5 will emerge to fill the remaining spots in the Summit of Power. Eight players have already been invited, with another pair qualifying on the East and West Coasts. There will also be a Last-Chance Qualifer at Combo Breaker 2018, in St. Charles, Illinois May 25-27. The Summit of Power will take place June 8-10th in Los Angeles, California, and will be streamed on twitch.tv/beyondthesummit.

The full list of nominees and current vote standings (as of this writing) are as follows:

• Echo Fox|dekillsage – 3,128 Votes
• CLN|Yohosie – 2,311 Votes
• Kane Blueriver – 1,353 Votes
• Lord Knight – 1,229 Votes
• Teemo – 1,184 Votes
• PsrK|BeyondToxin – 1,153 Votes
• NRG|Supernoon – 876 Votes
• PONOS|Moke – 854 Votes
• FP|Chavo – 803 Votes
• UYU|Kizzie Kay – 793 Votes
• CE|Doza – 654 Votes
• EMP|RogueYoshi – 561 Votes
• PAG|Fame96 – 540 Votes
• NinjaElephant – 534 Votes
• UYU|Cloud805 – 443 Votes
• Toki – 402 Votes
• Ebonic Plague – 391 Votes
• brkrdave – 358 Votes
• PAG|LostSoul – 331 Votes
• SQ – 290 Votes
• IG|Zer0q – 257 Votes
• PGTV|Lowry – 250 Votes
• Kudaytaa – 236 Votes
• Psyken – 235 Votes
• ZomBmu – 206 Votes
• CDV|WhiteBl4ck – 204 Votes
• NecroUndine – 197 Votes
• Roman Healey – 178 Votes
• ABEGEN – 151 Votes
• ScrawtVermillion – 133 Votes
• EMP|KN.KDZ – 128 Votes
• Echo Fox|Punk – 126 Votes
• Mikeand1ke – 113 Votes
• AnBi – 110 Votes
• PsrK|NicoMaki – 103 Votes
• Eifi – 98 Votes
• PAG|Grover – 96 Votes
• Randomfiend – 91 Votes
• CSE|Hidan – 65 Votes
• JaazzRap – 58 Votes
• Zero_Hour – 56 Votes
• ASAP|R1CKY – 48 Votes
• CLN|IronGod – 36 Votes
• PONOS|Garireo – 31 Votes
• GREATFERNMAN – 28 Votes
• TempleNut! – 22 Votes
• Papa Leo – 17 Votes
• TSB|Drunkenchicken – 15 Votes
• Method|Flux – 2 Votes
• EyECoNiC – 1 Vote

The Voting Phase for the top 20 will begin on May 7th at 2:00 PM PT (4:00 PM CT, 5:00 PM ET).

Finally, the talent lineup for the Summit has been revealed, as Beyond The Summit announced that they’ve used the Dragon Balls to wish IFC|Yipes, Chris Matrix, Rynge, Sajam, Zhi, LI Joe, and HellPockets to the Kame House to call all the action in Los Angeles. You can see the announcement tweet below.

The seven balls have been collected, summoning your very first #SummitofPower Talent lineup! @IFCYipeS @Chrismatrix303 @Rynge_ @Sajam @Zhieeep @thisislijoe @HellPockets pic.twitter.com/SunzlPSNN7

— Beyond the Summit (@BeyondTheSummit) April 30, 2018

Twitter nominations for #SummitofPower are now open! Which #DBFZ fighter do you want to see at the event? https://t.co/30uMvobNXx pic.twitter.com/vFQ69Kbhtf

— Beyond the Summit (@BeyondTheSummit) April 30, 2018

Who would you like to see make it into the Summit of Power? Are your favorites doing well? Share your thoughts in the comments below.

Sources: smash.gg; BeyondTheSummit (Twitter)