Author: USD

Among the tournaments taking place in this packed weekend, there’s a showdown in Houston. Texas Showdown 2016 is one of the Lone Star State’s major events, bringing together players of the South and beyond. In addition to Street Fighter V, part of the Capcom Pro Tour 2016 as a ranking tournament, featured games include BlazBlue Chronophantasma EXTEND, Killer Instinct, Mortal Kombat X, Street Fighter III 3rd Strike, Super Smash Bros. Melee, Super Smash Bros. for Wii U, Super Street Fighter II Turbo, Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3, Ultra Street Fighter IV.

Some of the players you’ll see at Texas Showdown included EG|PR Balrog, NYChrisG, WTHamad, UA|Jan, DL|Four Wude, WFX|801 Strider, Julio, PandaTV|Jiewa, Kid Viper, Wolfkrone, STLBW.GS|gllty, UA|Stone and more.

Level|Up, PandaxGaming, Smash United, Texas Melee and BeastChan23 will be bringing you live streams of Texas Showdown through the weekend. Head over to Twitch, follow the brackets on Challonge and watch the action!

Streams

LevelUpLive

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PandaxGaming

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SmashUnited

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TexasMelee

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BeastChan23

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Schedule

Friday April 22

Saturday April 23

Sunday April 24

Source: Texas Showdown

It’s time to rise above the summit, again! This Thursday through Sunday, esports studio Beyond the Summit will be hosting its second Super Smash Bros. Melee invitational, Smash Summit 2. Sixteen of the best Smashers in the world –ten selected by invite, six by fan vote– will play with and against each other in a variety of fun and competitive events, Smash and beyond. There’s also quite a bit of cash to be won, with a current total prize pool of over $30,000 up for grabs, bolstered by the community through the Smash Summit 2 compendium and shop.

Competitors

Catch all four days of the action live from the BTS house in Los Angeles, California on Beyond the Summit’s Twitch channel and join in on the fun!

Watch live video from BeyondTheSummit on www.twitch.tv

Schedule

Thursday April 21

Friday April 22

Saturday April 23

Sunday April 24

Sources: Smash.gg, Beyond The Summit

Going down this weekend is West Coast Warzone, a Capcom Pro Tour ranking tournament. Taking place at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Anaheim in Orange, California, the event will feature Guilty Gear Xrd -REVELATOR-, Mortal Kombat X, Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3, Ultra Street Fighter IV and Street Fighter V.

If you want to watch some of California’s best like EG|Justin Wong, EG| PR Balrog, EG|Ricki Ortiz, PG|Filipino Champ, RB|Snake Eyez, Chris Tatarian, YP|Filipinoman and more duke it out, it’s a great time to tune in! Level|Up and Guard Break will be bringing you live streams of the event for the weekend. Watch on Twitch, follow the brackets on Challonge and enjoy!

LevelUpLive

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GuardBreak

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Schedule

Friday April 16

Saturday April 16

Sunday April 17

Sources: West Coast Warzone, Level|Up, Guard Break

The 2016 Capcom Pro Tour makes its first trip to South America this weekend with CACOMP Arena Jam. A part of the JAM Nerd Festival in Brasilia, Brazil, the event will feature Guilty Gear Xrd, Mortal Kombat X, Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3, Ultra Street Fighter IV and Street Fighter V, the last being a Pro Tour ranking tournament.

You’ll see some familiar faces at CACOMP Arena Jam. In addition to local players like Keoma, EG|Justin Wong, EG|K-Brad and RB|Kayane will be taking part in the festivities.

The action starts on Saturday with GGXrd, MKX and pools for USFIV and SFV. Two live streams will be bringing you the action from Brasilia, so check them out, follow the brackets on Challonge and enjoy.

JamGameCup2

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DabanditBR

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Schedule

Saturday April 9

Sunday April 10

Sources: CACOMP Fight Club, Jam Game Cup, Dabandit

NYU Game Center is welcoming in another spring with Spring Fighter 2016. This year’s event brings together the NYC area for tournaments, in Guilty Gear Xrd -SIGN-, Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3, Super Smash Bros. for Wii U and Street Fighter V, with the winner of the SFV competition scoring a sweet round trip flight to Evolution 2016.

Each year, the Game Center brings in Seth Killian to interview a legendary player of the fighting game community; past guests included Daigo Umehara, Alex Valle and John Choi. This year’s special guest will be Ricki Ortiz. Catch her sit-down with s-kill at 6 PM EDT (3 PM PDT).

Team Spooky’s Arturo Sanchez will bringing you the live broadcast of the event on Twitch. Check out the stream and enjoy!

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Source: NYU Game Center, Arturo Sanchez

Osaka’s monthly(-ish) tournament series Mix Up Night will hosting its first Street Fighter V tournament this Saturday. A number of players from the area and beyond will be attending, including KoujiKOG, Souji, Dogura, BANBABAN, GO1-3151, Eita, and Kindevu.

Check out the action live from Maid Café CCOcha in Osaka on MUN’s Twitch Channel.

Watch live video from mixupnight on www.twitch.tv

Source: Mix Up Night

Larry “ShinBlanka” Dixon and the Final Round crew are putting on another show in one of the biggest and longest-running tournament series in the US. The 19th edition of Final Round will be going down this weekend in Atlanta, Georgia at the Hilton Atlanta Airport hotel. Of note, FR19 is the first premier event of the 2016 Street Fighter V Capcom Pro Tour, with over 900 entrants at the time of pre-registration. In addition to SFV are a healthy helping of other fighting game titles:

In addition are a number of set-ups and side events for others titles like Super Street Fighter II Turbo, Melty Blood Actress Again Current Code, and the spanking new Wii U release of Pokkén Tournament.

A number of streams will be covering the action live from the Hilton. Thanks to Capcom Fighters, Team Spooky, FunkyP, Kombat Network, Smash Studios, Sixfortyfive and Arturo Sanchez.

CapcomFighters

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Team Spooky

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FunkyP

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KombatNetwork

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SmashStudios

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Sixfortyfive

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nycfurby

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Schedule

Friday March 18

Saturday March 19

Sunday March 20

Source: Final Round