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Just a few weeks after the completion of its French edition, KAKUTOP is back with the full European edition of its invitational league. KAKUTOP League is a great opportunity to watch Europe’s best battle it out to determine the best all-around player. And with this being the first KAKUTOP to useStreet Fighter V, you don’t want to miss out.

As usual, play begins with two groups of five players. Each player in the group faces off against the other players in a best-of-five set. The top players from each group will then proceed to finals, where matches are best-of-nine, with deuce rules.

You can watch KAKUTOP complete with Ken Bogard’s fast-paced French commentary on Gaming Live’s Twitch channel, but if you’re more interested in English, check out Unequalled Media’s English restream.

UnequalledMedia (English)

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GamingLive_TV1 (French)

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Results

Street Fighter V

Group Stage

Group A

Problem X and Valmaster advance to the finals stage. Alioune will play against Packz for the last spot in the finals stage.

1. PXP|Problem X (M. Bison)
2. YP|Valmaster (Chun-Li)
3. Alioune (Chun-Li)
4. BX3|Duppsko (Ryu, Birdie)
5. LLL|MBR (Ryu)

Group B

Luffy and Phenom advance to the finals stage. Packz will play against Alioune for the last spot in the finals stage.

1. RB|Luffy (R. Mika)
2. BX3|Phenom (M. Bison, Necalli)
3. Perilous|Packz (Karin)
4. Melty|Will2pac (Laura)
5. CCL (Chun-Li)

Source: Gaming Live

DreamHack is coming to Texas this weekend with DreamHack Austin 2016. Street Fighter V (a Capcom Pro Tour ranking tournament), Super Smash Bros. Melee and Pokkén Tournament are among the titles featured at the event. With a $5,000 prize pool each for SFV and Pokkén, and a $10,000 prize pool for SSBM, the tournament has attracted a large number of a heavy hitters in both the Street Fighter and Melee communities.

Among the players competing in the SSBM tournament are MVG.COG|Mew2King, Liquid|Hungrybox, TSM.RB|Leffen, Tempo|Axe, Duck, PG|Wobbles and CLG|SFAT. Playing in SFV are EG|Justin Wong, EG|PR Balrog, EG|K-Brad, EG|Ricki Ortiz, F3|alucarD, Hsien Chang, RB|Snake Eyez, Chris Tatarian, DL|Four Wude, STLBW.GS|gllty, brenttiscool, Liquid|NuckleDu, pH|LPN, Fox|Julio, PG|Fchamp, and many more.

Each day of DreamHack Austin kicks off at 10 AM CDT (11 AM EDT, 8 AM PDT), with pool play starting on Saturday and finals starting Sunday. Each game will also have a dedicated stream, so you can tune into your favorite games and enjoy the action how you want.

DreamHackFighters

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DreamHackPT

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Source: DreamHack

This Saturday at Game Newton Ooyama in Tokyo, Japan is Devil’s PlayGround 5. Each year, DPG is a great opportunity to watch some of the highest skilled Vampire Savior players in the world take on each other to prove who is the best in singles.

Six players have currently qualified for the event, with the last two to be decided by the same-day qualifier before the finals tournament.

• Komemaru (Zabel)
• Sakamoto (Q-Bee)
• Kaji (Lilith)
• DD (Sasquatch)
• Nakanishi (Bishamon)
• Buzz (Gallon)
• +2 Same-day qualifiers

If you’re awake and want to check out the event, head over to Niconico Live.

Sources: DPG, Game Newton

This Saturday at Game Newton Ooyama in Tokyo, Japan is Devil’s PlayGround 5. Each year, DPG is a great opportunity to watch some of the highest skilled Vampire Savior players in the world take on each other to prove who is the best in singles.

Six players have currently qualified for the event, with the last two to be decided by the same-day qualifier before the finals tournament.

• Komemaru (Zabel)
• Sakamoto (Q-Bee)
• Kaji (Lilith)
• DD (Sasquatch)
• Nakanishi (Bishamon)
• Buzz (Gallon)
• +2 Same-day qualifiers

If you’re awake and want to check out the event, head over to Niconico Live.

Sources: DPG, Game Newton

Europe’s premier Street Fighter league KAKUTOP is moving on from USFIV to SFV. This weekend is the French edition of the league, and will feature names you’re quite familiar with, like Luffy and Valmaster, as well as names you might not have heard, like TKR and Genius.

As usual, event starts with players split into two groups. The top players from each group will then move on to the finals on Sunday.

If you want to watch some high-level French Street Fighter, tune into Gaming Live on Twitch for the action and the lovely French commentary of Ken Bogard.

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Source: Gaming Live TV

Europe’s premier Street Fighter league KAKUTOP is moving on from USFIV to SFV. This weekend is the French edition of the league, and will feature names you’re quite familiar with, like Luffy and Valmaster, as well as names you might not have heard, like TKR and Genius.

As usual, event starts with players split into two groups. The top players from each group will then move on to the finals on Sunday.

If you want to watch some high-level French Street Fighter, tune into Gaming Live on Twitch for the action and the lovely French commentary of Ken Bogard.

Watch live video from GamingLive_TV1 on www.twitch.tv

Source: Gaming Live TV

This weekend is Northwest Majors, the premier event of the Pacific Northwest. Once again the event will be going down at Highline College in Des Moines near Seattle, Washington. NWM8 is a Street Fighter V Capcom Pro Tour 2016 ranking tournament, so expect to see a large number of players looking to score ranking points and aim for North American regional finals. In addition to SFV, BlazBlue Chronophantasma EX, Guilty Gear Xrd -REVELATOR-, Killer Instinct, Mortal Kombat X, Persona 4 Arena Ultimax, Project M, Skullgirls 2nd Encore, Super Smash Bros. Melee, Super Smash Bros. for Wii U, Tekken Tag Tournament 2, Tekken 7, Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3, Ultra Street Fighter IV and the High Roller Mystery Tournament help to make a well-rounded line-up of games.

Khaos Gaming and friends will be bringing you a huge number of streams throughout the weekend to give you as much of the action as possible. Tune into Team Khaos, Khaos Gaming 2, Khaos Gaming TV, LogicHole, TEKKEN, Cacaw Gaming, Seattle Tekken, and EastSideSmash.

The event starts off Friday with the Street Fighter V 5v5, Guilty Gear Xrd 3v3, Super Smash Bros. Melee low tier, Super Smash Bros. for Wii U doubles and the High Roller Mystery doubles events, with pools beginning on Saturday.

Streams

TeamKhaos

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KhaosGaming2

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KhaosGamingTV

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TEKKEN

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LogicHole

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CacawGaming

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SeattleTekken

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EastsideSmash

Schedule

Saturday April 30

Sunday May 1

Source: Northwest Majors

KVO of Japan and Team St1ckBuG of the United States are uniting once again to bring you KVO x TSB 2016 (KSB 2016). First run in 2012, KVO has now become a staple tournament in Japan, brining you tournaments for games both mainstream and niche. Going down at Misono Universe in Osaka, KSB 2016 will feature a wide variety of titles from Street Fighter V to Blade Arcus from Shining EX, to titles yet to hit console, including BlazBlue CentralFiction, Guilty Gear Xrd -REVELATOR and The King of Fighters XIV.

Streams

While GODSGARDEN and Heartia will be providing the primary streams for the Japanese audience, Arturo Sanchez will be bringing to you an English commentary stream under the Team Spooky banner.

TeamSp00ky

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GODSGARDEN

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KVO2K13

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SHI_Gaming

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Schedule

Friday April 29

Saturday April 30

Sunday May 1

Sources: KVO, GODSGARDEN, KVO2K13, Team Spooky, SHI Gaming

While Texas Showdown is taking place in the US and Red Bull Kumite is taking place in France, Italy will see a bit of tournament action of its own with Frogbyte 2016. Like Texas Showdown, Frogbyte is a Street Fighter V Capcom Pro Tour 2016 ranking event, giving players from Italy and the rest of Europe a chance to score ranking points towards the regional finals.

Some of the players that will be in attendance include BX3.TP-Link|Phenom, BX3.TP-Link|Veggey, BX3.TP-Link|Duppsko, Coungster, PXP|Problem X, FA|Ryan Hart, MD|Mister Crimson, Emersion, Afii and Brian.

StreamFighters will be covering the event with a live stream on Twitch. You can watch the action here, and follow the brackets here.

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Schedule

Sources: Frogbyte, Capcom Pro Tour

Red Bull is bringing back its prestigious invitational tournament for a second round. Red Bull Kumite 2016 like last year will feature some of the highest profile players in the world, but is moving on to new territory with the release of Street Fighter V. In the early life of SFV, who will prove to be the strongest? You won’t want to miss this one, so be sure to tune in to find out!

Competitors

The following fourteen players will be making their way out to participate in this year’s event:

The final two spots in the tournament will be awarded to those who fight their way through the other participants in the 256 player last chance brackets on Saturday, April 23.

Stream

Saturday’s open qualifier will be live on Twitch starting at 11 AM CET and will be available in both French and English. Sunday’s stream will be live in French, English or Japanese on Twitch beginning at 2:15 PM CET.

Saturday’s pools brackets are currently available here, and the top 32 bracket here.

English Stream

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French Stream

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Japanese Stream

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Schedule

Red Bull Kumite 2016 takes place over a two day period. The open qualifier tournament will be held on Saturday, April 23, and the sixteen-participant main event on Sunday, April 24. But there’s more going on than just tournament matches, so check out the full schedules below to plan your day around the events you’d like to see. Extra planning may be required for viewers not based in Europe.

Saturday, April 23

Sunday, April 24

Source: Red Bull, other contributions by Tarnot