Author: Ian "iantothemax" Walker

The folks over at VGBootCamp recently went live with another installment of Smash @ Xanadu from Xanadu Games in Baltimore, Maryland. These weekly broadcasts provide a great look at the region’s Smash community, and tonight’s installment will feature competition in Super Smash Bros. Melee.

If you’re interested in some Smash Bros. action, be sure to tune in. The stream is live below, but you can also head on over to Twitch to join the chat.

Watch live video from VGBootCamp on www.twitch.tv

Source: VGBootCamp

ESL’s Mortal Kombat X competition returns tonight with its eighth outing, the last one before the main event. A recent qualifier narrowed the playing field down to sixteen competitors, and those players will be going at each other’s throats tonight to prove they have what it takes to do well in this new arrival to the fighting game community.

Some of the more noteworthy names you can expect to see play tonight include Dab, C88|Cupcake, Pig of the Hut, Kitana Prime, Shunjinkydink, cR|WoundCowboy, and more.

The tournament’s stream can be found below, but you can also visit Twitch if you prefer to chat with fellow viewers.

Watch live video from NetherRealm on www.twitch.tv

Results

Mortal Kombat X

1.
2.
3.
3.
5.
5.
5. Kitana Prime (Royal Storm Kitana)
5. Nerdd (Kobu Jutsu Tanya)

9. Bread
9. Shujinkydink
9. BugvMan
9. Crawlingshadow
9. Killstreak
9.
9. Wetwork
9. CryophobIKroniK

Semifinals

Gunshow (Tempest Kung Lao)

Top 8

Nerdd (Kobu Jutsu Tanya) vs. Gunshow (Tempest Kung Lao) – 1-3
Kitana Prime (Royal Storm Kitana) vs. Kidigital (Bone Shaper Shinnok) – 1-3

First Round

Nerdd vs. CryophobIKroniK – offstream
Wetwork vs. Gunshow – offstream
Dab vs. C88|Cupcake
Killstreak vs. Pig of the Hut – offstream
Crawlingshadow vs. Kidigital – offstream
BugvMan vs. Kitana Prime – offstream
Shujinkydink vs. cR|WoundCowboy – offstream
Black Mamba Moan vs. Bread – offstream

Sources: ESL, NetherRealm

While Street Fighter V has made multiple public showings in the United States, folks living abroad have had little chance to try the game out unless they traveled outside of the their country. Capcom plans to alleviate that later this month with their tour of the United Kingdom, but recently gave a handful of European players the opportunity to play the game during a recent installment of WinnerStaysOn’s gameplay session broadcast.

Over the course of two hours, notable players like Problem X, F-Word, Shoryusengan, and more jumped into Street Fighter V to mess around with the various characters available in the early build and play a variety of exhibitions. We’ve seen quite a bit of footage of the game thanks to its time at E3 2015, but now we get to see what a fresh batch of players bring to the table with Ryu, Chun-Li, Nash, Birdie, and more.

If you missed out on the live stream, be sure to check out the archives below for your regular Street Fighter V fix.

Source: Capcom Fighters via Siliconera

After watching EG|PR Balrog and MCZ|Mago’s incredible losers bracket match at Community Effort Orlando 2015 this past weekend, Desk jumped into the lab to experiment with something that piqued his interest: super freezes.

As you can see in the video below, super freezes can get kinda weird when used in relation to other supers activations and cancels. While normally these situations would be lost to us due to their occurring over just two frames, the slowdown enacted by these moves gives us a deeper look at these interactions.

Numerous oddities can happen, including missing sound effects, whiffing instant grabs, and more.

Here’s Desk’s original explanation on what happens during these two frames:

Frame 1: P1 hits with a special move which has already had the super cancel command inputted (so after it hits, it will be cancelled into super). On this same frame P2 performs a special with armor which, again has been buffered with the command for a super or ultra. This is to allow P2 to ‘armor cancel’ into super or ultra on the following frame.

Frame 2: P1 automatically goes into the super activation animation without anymore inputs. P2 hits which ever button(s) needed to activate super/ultra and both player’s action happen on the same frame, at the same time (in this case P1: Super cancel/P2: Armor cancel)

Although the Street Fighter IV series is preparing to make room for Street Fighter V when it launches next spring, it’s cool to see folks are still exploring some of the more intricate portions of the aging title. Let us know what you think in the comments.

Source: Desk via Desora

If you thought Panorama City’s Ultimate Gaming Center only played host to Skullgirls events during the week, you would be sorely mistaken. Tonight, the folks behind another regular event, Ultimate Fighter Tuesdays, will be featuring competition in both Ultra Street Fighter IV and Mortal Kombat X.

With Super Arcade currently out of commission, many of the same players who appeared during their weekly tournaments have migrated to Ultimate Gaming Center. While you can expect to see regulars like Brentt, Chris Tatarian, EGP|WonderChef, EGP|Krayzie, HB|Tyrant, and more making their way through the brackets tonight, the event will also have a special guest from Pakistan named MicroNuke in attendance, so be sure to tune in and see what they are made of!

You’ll find the live stream below, but you can also head over to Twitch to join the chat. More information on the venue can be found on their website.

Watch live video from UGClive on www.twitch.tv

Source: Ultimate Gaming Center, special thanks to Jeremy Lopez for his help with this article.