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TV New Zealand interviews 17-year old top Street Fighter V player Ghostchips

“Street Fighter is almost twice my age.”

New Zealand’s state owned TV network “TVNZ” recently dove into highlighting its local esports scene. Inevitably, they’ve encountered the FGC, and interviewed one the country’s most dominant fighting game forces: 17-year old Street Fighter V: Arcade Edition M. Bison player Reagan “Ghostchips” Kelly.

Heading into Red Bull Kumite NZ 2018 Qualifier, Ghostchips talks about his tournament nerves, accomplishments in the scene,and what he hopes to achieve at the Kumite. With six major wins under his belt for Street Fighter V alone, Ghostchips is the local hero to watch.

The Red Bull Kumite NZ 2018 Qualifier will be held September 22nd, 2018.

Source: Re:Sports

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Virtua Fighter 5: Final Showdown will have a side tournament at SoCal Regionals 2018

Hot off the heels of its appearance at NYG13 ,Virtua Fighter 5: Final Showdown adds another date to its continued US tournament presence. This time though, Sega’s flagship 3D fighter is getting repped on the West Coast: VF5 will be at SoCal Regionals 2018 this year on September 16th, 2018 in Ontario, CA thanks to the efforts of Dropkick Events.

SoCal Regionals registration time is running out — if VF5:FS is your one true FGC love, you’ll need to sign up for it here and register for SCR here.

Sources: SCR; vfdotcom

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Eliza has a new glitch in Tekken 7’s latest patch that makes her super unblockable

Uh oh. It’s starting to look like Season 2 Eliza unlocked an ancient, forbidden evil — breaking the way her super works in-game!

In Season 1, Eliza’s “Bloody Horn” super had a glitch where it could be used without having the meter for it, allowing her to have what was essentially infinite super meter. This was banned at Evo 2017 and patched out relatively quickly afterwards. Unfortunately, with Season 2 out, the seal on Eliza’s power apparently broke — as did her super, which now becomes unblockable when done after a blocked ff+4,2.

It’s unclear why this keeps happening to Eliza’s super. Just like before, we expect a swift patch will be issued by Namco in response sometime in the future.

Source: RinSenpaiii

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Chang breaks free in the latest The King of Fighters XIV combo video from Persona Entertainment

Despite the fact that The King of Fighters is a series known for its long combos — particularly its recent entries — this was never the most recognizable feature of series big man Chang Koehan. This powerful grappler trades long combos for long range, brutal  single hits and, of course, that grab.

Still, that doesn’t mean he can’t pop Max Mode and make you regret getting touched. Persona Entertainment continues their long project of pushing the combo possibilities of every character in The King of Fighters XIV, and as evidenced by the loops and cross-unders above, Chang can be a combo video monster just like any other KOF character.

Source: Persona Entertainment

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Lethal League: Blaze tournament to be held at “Firstlook Festival” in the Netherlands

The original Lethal League was a huge success, selling 100,000 units in its first sixth months and capturing the hearts of players in and out of the FGC. Now, developers Team Reptile are taking the demo of its sequel — Lethal League: Blaze — to live events for testing. If you want to be among the first people to try out this sports/fighting hybrid (and their amazing new cop character Nitro), you now have a destination: the Firstlook Festival in the Netherlands, October 6th-7th.

If you want to give feedback on Blaze, this is currently one of your best chances to do so before its release — Lethal League: Blaze is set to launch on PC in the 4th Quarter of 2018.

Source: ReptileGames

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Pullum and V. Rosso roundup for Fighting EX Layer: Rosso fireball counter, Pullum fuzzy cross-ups, and more!

Vulcano Rosso and Pullum are out in Fighting EX Layer! The long-awaited ARIKA originals have made it to the new era and even within its first few hours of release, they show some excellent potential.

V. Rosso is for those that want to apply pressure — get the knockdown, rush their lives down. He still has setups for his multi-hitting fireball…

And he has some nice new tools to work with, too. Call out fireball-ending strings from Kairi and others with his new fireball counter!

Be careful with his parry, though. It has no invincibility once active, it seems.

Fans of Street Fighter‘s Cammy, meanwhile have a character clearly made for them. Pullum has divekicks, cannon drills, and something Cammy wishes she had: the ability to manipulate her jump arc with a double jump.

As demonstrated, she also has damage.

Air-to-air conversions hurt too, thanks to the divekick’s wide angle.

Though she has a Iori-like crossup command normal, it’s her j.MK you should probably fear (and abuse, if you’re playing as Pullum).

Things will only go up from here. If you find tech for these characters that you want to share with the world, send it to us here at SRK!

Sources: tawarazawa; frionel26; Iron_Tager_God; NerdJosh

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Jump into Blade Strangers with these optimized Solange combos

When jumping into a new fighting game, particularly a new IP like Blade Strangers, it’s typically good advice to start out with the game’s on-the-box character. They usually serve as the game’s balance point and, more often than not, show off all aspects of the game’s engine.

In this game’s case it’s Code of Princess‘s Solange. A shoto archetype, Solange properly zones and hits hard when she wins in footsies. End Gang‘s optimized combo video is an excellent start for anyone choosing Solange to get the basics of Blade Strangers down quickly.

Source: End Gang

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Jump into Blade Strangers with these optimized Solange combos

When jumping into a new fighting game, particularly a new IP like Blade Strangers, it’s typically good advice to start out with the game’s on-the-box character. They usually serve as the game’s balance point and, more often than not, show off all aspects of the game’s engine.

In this game’s case it’s Code of Princess‘s Solange. A shoto archetype, Solange properly zones and hits hard when she wins in footsies. End Gang‘s optimized combo video is an excellent start for anyone choosing Solange to get the basics of Blade Strangers down quickly.

Source: End Gang

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EgyptianDarknessTeam presents Tekken 7 Season 1 finale combo video for Yoshimitsu

On the eve of Tekken 7 Season 2’s release, combo creators EgyptianDarknessTeam punctuate Season 1’s eclipse with one last sword-slinging hurrah.

As the combo collective is known for, this Yoshimitsu finale is chock full of creative, postion-specific interactions, odd gimmicks, and difficult execution. Considering they found a combo that uses two power crushes AND includes a NSS-to-Sword transition mid combo, this is an excellent bookend to a successful space octopus year. Here’s hoping that Yoshimitsu’s new wall bounce and adjustments in Season 2 allow stuff as flashy as this!

Tekken 7 Season 2 drops on September 6.

Source: EgyptianDarknessTeam

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Kinetiquettes to open pre-orders for Terry Bogard diorama to celebrate Fighting EX Layer crossover

SNK characters have been busy lately: Geese is feuding with Tekken 7‘s Heihachi, Iori is introducing Orochi powers to (several) King Arthurs, and Terry Bogard is blazing his way into ARIKA’s Fighting EX Layer universe this week. And that’s just on the fighting game front!

It’s that last character, though, that’s been really making waves lately: Terry’s Fighting EX Layer announcement — coupled with her surprise appearance in SNK Heroines: Tag Team Frenzy — has risen the Fatal Fury protagonist’s visibility high enough that Kinetiquettes has decided to jump on board the “Buster Wolf” train.

You can pre-order the Terry figure via Kinetiquettes’s website on the 5th. Conveniently, there’s a timer counting down to coincide with Terry’s FEXL release.

Source: Kinetiquettes