Author: Sam "Trilby" Foxall

The modding community for Street Fighter V has come on leaps and bounds since the game’s launch on PC, with some standout mods like the multitude of Overwatch character swaps or Zangief being redone to look like Snake Eyez. While some modders focus on making new costumes, others are focused on bringing fan favorite costumes back for SFV.

While known for making more revealing costumes for Juri, Brutal Ace has recently released a trailer showing Juri in her original costume from her first appearance back in Super Street Fighter IV. If someone had been shown this trailer without a channel name underneath it, you would honestly think it was an official costume made by Capcom.

The mod is still a work in progress but expect a complete version of the legacy costume to appear on PC versions of Street Fighter V in the very near future.

Source: Brutal Ace

Order versus chaos. Night versus day. Floe versus Mike Ross. These are some of the which will be eternally remembered by humankind. With the loss of Capcom Pro Talk and their friendly banter over who is better at Street Fighter, Floe and Mike Ross are back at it again for yet another first to six set in the arena that is Street Fighter V online.

Much like Floe and Mike’s conflict battle, the grand keeper of the CFN replay compilation XusesGB will always be there to bring these matches together into one collection for our viewing pleasure. This set is a close one in particular, as Floe’s Necalli takes Mike’s Laura all the way to game 11. You can only imagine the rage spewing forth from both sides of the screen as this struggle goes back and forth.

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With last year’s landmark victory for Liquid|Hungrybox at DreamHack Winter 2015, all eyes were on him to see if he could repeat his success on Swedish soil. With over a year to prepare and to shore up their defences against the devilish puffball, Sweden was able to hold the fort, resulting in this year’s DreamHack Winter going to Alliance’s Armada.

Both finalists went through their brackets relatively unchallenged, putting them on track for a real clash of the titans. Hungrybox did not drop a single game on his journey to Winners’ Finals, while Armada dropped one match to Crunch on his trip through bracket. When they finally came to a head, Armada was able to defeat Hungrybox 3-1 in both Winners’ and Grands, with his Fox making quick work of Jigglypuff. He’d had quite the warm up for his Fox going into Winners’ Finals, facing TSM|Leffen in Winners’ Semis and smashing through him with a clean 3-0.

With his substantial time away from top level tournament play, Leffen does have some catching up to do compared to the four Gods who are still on active duty. He and COG|Wizzrobe looked fairly shaky in their set, with it eventually going to game five where Leffen managed to regain his composure to take it against the paragon of 20GX. Having said this, he did make it all the way to Losers’ Finals, running over C9|Mango’s Falco in Losers’ Semis with a 3-0 of his own before Hungrybox just pipped him to the post, preventing an all Swedish Grand Finals.

As for the other Europeans, VwS|Professor Pro narrowly defeated Luminosity’s Ice in an absolute nailbiter of a Fox mirror, sending Ice out at 7th place. Spain’s leading Peach, Trif, had quite the run, taking out fellow Peach main Splyce|MacD in Winners’ Bracket and then defeating Armada’s brother Android in a tense 3-2 set in Losers’ round 7. He would eventually lose to Wizzrobe in an equally tense set in Losers’ Quarterfinals, getting 7th place alongside Ice.

DreamHack Winter is really starting to establish itself as the premier major to finish a year of Melee, so let’s hope for an equally dramatic tournament in 2017. This tournament acts as another victory for Armada in his ongoing battle with Hungrybox ever since this year’s Evo. Will this victory finally cement Armada’s position as 2016’s number one Melee player?

RESULTS:

1. Alliance|Armada (Fox, Peach/Sweden)
2. Liquid|Hungrybox (Jigglypuff/USA)
3. TSM|Leffen (Fox/Sweden)
4. C9|Mango (Falco/USA)
5. COG|Wizzrobe (Captain Falcon/USA)
5. VwS|Professor Pro (Fox/UK)
7. LG|Ice (Fox/Germany)
7. Heir|Trif (Peach/Spain)

Sources: dreamhacksmash; smash.gg

Just before the serious competition of Smash Summit 3, Mango and many of SoCal’s finest Melee players hosted a special event for some casual practice time ahead of the main invitational. Creatively titled Smash Summit 2.5, this event saw players like Alliance|Armada, TSM|Leffen, Liquid|Hungrybox, Tempo|S2J and many more descend on Mango’s house for almost two solid days of Melee.

To celebrate this jam-packed Melee session with some of the game’s greats, editor turndownforwalt has compiled a sort of video storybook of this massive stream, showing some of the best moments over the course of the event. With slick play and even slicker editing, it results in quite the combo video.

Source: Cloud 9 Mang0

Ever since Daigo’s run in with Nuckledu’s Guile back at Red Bull Battle Grounds, he and the other Japanese Ryus have been working tirelessly to discover how to beat the all-American hero. After doing some extensive training by himself, Daigo has been fighting online against Japan’s best Guile, Esuta, ahead of Capcom Cup next weekend.

As is the way with online bouts, XusesGB has been on the case, bringing these best of three sets together to show everyone how Daigo has been progressing in his journey to beat his demon. Based on the results of these matches, he may be prepared should he face Guile on his way through the Capcom Cup bracket.

Source: XusesGB

Rather than focusing on a single player on their roster, DMG Alliance has brought its combined might together in this third installment of its “Tons of DMG” combo series. This montage shows combos from players like Tweek, Ryuga, LordMix, 6WX, Sodrek and many more, in the typical flashy style present in most DMG combo videos.

There is a little bit of everything in this teamtage, from footstool into Rest combos from Jigglypuff, unconventional edgeguards from characters like Dr. Mario, and the occasional zero-to-death. Beware of ending up in a combo video like this, should you ever have the luck to play one of DMG’s members in a tournament.

Source: DMG Alliance

For eons, Melee players have tried to find the ultimate controller. It started with carving notches into the ridge around the control stick for perfect shield drops. It then progressed to the Smash Box and its ability to make advanced movement tech a breeze to input. Now, Heeew may have discovered the true future of playing Melee; using the humble computer mouse.

If you haven’t quite caught on yet, trying to play Melee with your computer mouse is an awful idea. Heeew previously tried to play with a keyboard and that was difficult enough, so imagine how hard it is just to recover by dragging your mouse around to move. While dashdancing becomes super easy, even basic actions like up-tilting and angling your Up-B correctly become nigh-on impossible. It may not be the future of Melee input methods, but it certainly makes for a humorous video. Don’t expect a wave of players bringing the Mario Paint mouse to tournament any time soon.

Source: Heeew