Month: October 2018

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Arcade UFO Weekly streaming Tekken 7 live from Austin, Texas

Arcade UFO has served as the stomping grounds for the Austin, TX FGC for a decade now. First formed in 2008, it has produced top players in a wide range of games and hosted events for SBO Qualifiers, Namco’s Tekken Tag 2 location tests, and more.

With a growing scene for Tekken 7 that has drawn top players from surrounding cities like San Antonio and Houston, Arcade UFO has now moved into regular streaming for its growing weeklies. Every Saturday at 8:30 PM CT/ 6:30 PM PT is Tekken, and you can watch right now:

 

Watch live video from TekkenATX on www.twitch.tv

If you want to see more game streams from UFO, this Austin arcade also hosts monthlies for Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike over at its ArcadeUFO Twitch channel here. These tournaments are part of the 3S Jazzy Circuit.

Sources: TekkenATX; Arcade UFO

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Brian Holinka Returns to World of Warcraft Lead Combat Designer

Things are moving fast these days with the World of Warcraft team. It has been confirmed that Brian Holinka has returned to the WoW team as the new Lead Combat Designer. Eagle eyed users saw a post on Holinka’s LinkedIn page and he later confirmed via Twitter that he has indeed returned to WoW. You may recall that Holinka was the Lead PvP Developer from 2012 to 2017. For the past year, he has been at work “on an unannounced project”.

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CapcomFighters shares top 5 moments from SEA Major 2018

SEA Major 2018 featured two different events for Street Fighter V: Arcade Edition: a traditional open bracket and an eight player event consisting of the top 8 players on the CPT Asia Regional Leaderboard. Amazingly, as indicated in the several spots he’s apart of in today’s highlight reel, Evo Champion Tokido found himself in the grand finals of both events.

Legend he may be, he also fell to 2nd place in both events — and despite that, still walked away looking like the most impressive player at the event. His consistency and iron will shaped the events of both tournaments, and of the absurd comebacks he pulled off in this Top 5 moments video from Capcom Fighters.

Source: Capcom Fighters

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SoulCalibur VI day one tech — Cervy combos, Kayane’s beginner guides, and more!

SoulCalibur VI is here! It’s been years since the Calibur community has had an explosion of recognition like this. With new attention comes new content, so let’s take a look at what the community has cooked up on day one!

It was already known that Yoshimitsu was going to be a wildly versatile and efficient character, but I’m not sure how many people saw he bringing Tekken-length combos like this along with him.

When we first learned that Zasalamel’s Time Orbs were combo-modifiers, it seemed almost inevitable that something like this would be the result. This might be the only mid-juggle RE I’ve seen used thus far: do you have any other examples?

There is, inevitably a large amount of beginner tutorials and system primers  out for a brand new game. But, at an hour long, Namco wants to make sure that their’s is the definitive one:

Cervantes, armed with a Gun full of Just-Frames, was clearly designed for high damage combos.

Watch out — that 3B+K drop may not be a drop at all. Xianghua has a nasty crouch throw tech trap here:

And lastly, we close out with the new character Azwel showing off his damage potential from the odd FC3A, a high string with great range and loops.

Thanks to everyone that submitted content to us! If you have some SCVI tech you’d like to share with the world, reach out to us through our tipline.

Source: STL1119; SHKYEN; Bandai Namco Entertainment America; Online3001; EmptySky00; GodPress

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Get to know The Collective’s resident Tekken 7 Leo pro, MrWhooppee

The Collective, a.k.a. TCOL, is a Tekken-centric esports team with a wide variety of tournament dominating pros under their umbrella. When they aren’t securing wins in bracket, they’re giving personal, entertaining interviews over on their YouTube channel. In today’s podcast, they interview Tekken 7 pro MrWhooppee.

You may remember MrWhooppee from VGBootCamp, where he pulled off a major coup in Grand Finals versus Syco from the Loser’s Bracket. MrWhooppee shares his pride in player reads, long term goals for ESports, and more: watch the video above to learn more about TCOL’s resident Leo!

 

Source: MrWhooppee; The Collective

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Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection to get new patch on October 23rd across all platforms

Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection will have an update next week across all platforms, per a recent announcement over at the Capcom Unity blog. While light on specifics, the patch notes seem to indicate the focus is largely on UI and polish, as well as a few bug fixes:

Nintendo Switch

Online Improvements:

  • Improving online capabilities and ability to host lobbies
  • Friends between the Japanese and international versions can locate one another’s lobbies
  • General fixes

Localization Fixes:

  • Updated Japanese strings
  • Corrections to Korean Photo-sensitivity Warning

Training Mode Improvements: Multiple fixes have been made to improve dummy behavior.

Audio Improvements: Stereo playback improvements for Street Fighter III titles.

Museum Updates: Text and asset corrections have been applied.

PlayStation 4 and Xbox One

Online Improvements:

  • General Fixes

Localization Fixes:

  • Updated Japanese strings
  • Corrections to Korean Photo-sensitivity Warning

Training Mode Improvements: Multiple fixes have been made to improve dummy behavior.

Audio Improvements: Stereo playback improvements for Street Fighter III titles.

Museum Updates: Text and asset corrections have been applied.

The patch drops next Tuesday, October 23rd.

Source: Capcom Unity blog

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JAM Festival 2018 streaming live from Brasilia, Brazil

While East Coast Throwdown is taking place in North America, in South America is JAM Festival 2018, the final LATAM Ranking Event for the 2018 Capcom Pro Tour. In addition to Street Fighter V Arcade Edition, the line-up is rounded it out by Dragon Ball FighterZ, Super Smash Bros. Melee and Tekken 7.

Competitors include Itabashi Zangief of Japan, StunneR, Brolynho, ChuChu, Dark, PR3DA, Pauloweb, BabyBrasil, Doomsnake, HKDASH and more.

Check out the JAM Pay stream to watch live, and track the brackets on Smash.gg.

Watch live video from jamplay on www.twitch.tv

Sources: JAM Play, Capcom Pro Tour

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East Coast Throwdown 2018 streaming live from Fairfield, New Jersey

Another throwdown is happening this Saturday and Sunday! East Coast Throwdown 2018 in Fairfield, New Jersey is the final offline Ranking Event for North America in the 2018 Capcom Pro Tour season, the Last Chance Qualifier for the Injustice 2 Pro Series, and a Tournament of Legends III qualifier. Carrying a tradition for bringing the hype, this year’s line-up features current mainstream titles including the newly released SoulCalibur VI, as well as a host of arcade titles as part of 2 Old 2 Furious.

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  • BlazBlue Cross Tag Battle
  • Dragon Ball FighterZ
  • Guilty Gear Xrd REV 2
  • Injustice 2
  • Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite
  • SoulCalibur VI
  • Street Fighter V Arcade Edition
  • Tekken 7

2 Old 2 Furious x East Coast Throwdown

  • Capcom vs. SNK 2
  • Fighting EX Layer
  • Super Street Fighter II Turbo
  • Street Fighter III 3rd Strike
  • Street Fighter Alpha 2
  • Street Fighter EX 2 Plus

Players competing over the weekend include GamerBee, Gama, NuckleDu, Punk, Chris Tatarian, Alex Myers, Nephew, XsK_Samurai, CJ Truth, SonicFox, NYChrisG, HookGangGod, Nakkiel, Lord Knight, KnowKami and more.

Five streams will be covering the event live, with Team Spooky heading the main stream, TSB_Blaze and Kick-Punch-Block Live providing secondaries, Arturo Sanchez covering the arcade titles and NetherRealm providing dedicated coverage of Injustice 2. Check out all the streams below and follow the brackets on Smash.gg.

TeamSp00ky

Watch live video from TeamSp00ky on www.twitch.tv

TSB_Blaze

Watch live video from tsb_blaze on www.twitch.tv

KPBLive

Watch live video from KPBLive on www.twitch.tv

NetherRealm

Watch live video from NetherRealm on www.twitch.tv

NYCFurby

Watch live video from nycfurby on www.twitch.tv

All times in EDT (UTC -4).

ect-2018-stream-schedule

Sources: East Coast Throwdown, Capcom Pro Tour