Author: Ian "iantothemax" Walker

As the fighting game community continues to grow, it’s an unfortunate fact that keeping up with everything happening across the globe is damn near impossible. It’s an overwhelming proposition, and in order to keep our rankings up to date heading into Street Fighter V, creator Bavo Bruylandt has opened the system up to outside submissions.

Of course, it won’t be as easy to entering results from your bedroom local and seeing your friends’ names rise in the rankings. As of now, submissions will need to be reviewed before they become official, but this step will go a long way towards making sure our rankings are as representative as the larger community as possible.

If we missed out on logging a notable Street Fighter V tournament since its release last week, be sure to check out the submission form and let us know. And, as always, we are always looking for feedback in the official thread.

Over the weekend, Capcom brought the Street Fighter V servers offline for a few hours of scheduled maintenance. While it lasted a bit longer than intended (and threatened to continue on indefinitely at one point), the developers eventually opened the servers for players to scratch that netplay itch.

But what exactly has changed? In a brand new post on Capcom-Unity, Neidel “Haunts” Crisan explained that both matchmaking and battle lounges should be seeing improved functionality, but that doesn’t mean there still isn’t work to be done. Capcom acknowledges that connectivity in Europe and the Middle East continues to lag behind other parts of the world, and the ability to search and join lobbies still needs to be improved.

“Our goal is to provide the best online experience for all users, and if you are not in a region that has a large number of users with stable connections it will take longer to find a suitable opponent,” Crisan said. “Again, we will continue to look at this issue and find ways to circumvent longer than intended wait times for matchmaking.”

If you continue to encounter issues, be sure to send your feedback to SFV Server.

Source: Capcom-Unity

After a number of quick fixes were applied to the poor launch of Street Fighter V, the developers have seen fit to bring the game’s servers down today for a bit of scheduled maintenance. Starting at 1 PM PST (4 PM EST, 9 PM GMT) and ending around 4 PM PST (7 PM EST, 12 AM GMT), this period will be spent reviewing the growing list of issues and prioritizing their correction.

If you’re out of the loop, players excited to jump into the world of Street Fighter V were met with a number of problems as soon as it game released last week. Servers routinely booted users offline, matchmaking was a chore, and lobbies were broken to the point of uselessness. It was, essentially, the complete opposite of a successful launch.

Capcom has kept players apprised of their fixes via regular updates on Capcom-Unity as well as ongoing support from SFV Server. We’ll be sure to keep everyone updated as more information on their current work becomes available.

Source: SFV Server via Siliconera

One of the biggest questions surrounding Street Fighter V’s competitive future was if it would have the same impact on the community as its predecessor, and the latest details from the Evolution Championship Series organizers prove that it’s on pace to be even bigger.

Just four days after registration opened, Street Fighter V has broken Evo’s already lofty registration records. While an exact figure wasn’t provided, looking back at the previous records set at Evo 2015 gives us an idea of how high the numbers have reached.

Last year, Ultra Street Fighter IV raised the bar with 2227 individual competitors, the largest collection of players the tournament had seen since its inception. The fact that it’s taken the community less than a week to surpass that number is incredible.

Evo 2016 is scheduled for July 15-17 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Street Fighter V is among the handful of titles that will have their finals showcased at the massive Mandalay Bay arena on Sunday. Further details can be found here.

Source: Evo, tip via NightmareSteam