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The road to Bandai Namco Tekken 7 global tournament THE KING OF IRON FIST TOURNAMENT 2015 kicks off in Japan! On Saturday September 26 is the OSAKA CHALLENGE, followed on Saturday October 26 by the TOKYO CHALLENGE, the first round of qualifiers in Japan for the global tournament.

Each Challenge will have a Women’s 1on1, Student 3on3 and Open 3on3 division, with prize pools of 150,000 yen, 300,000 yen and 500,000 yen, respectively. The winners of each women’s division will qualify for the GRAND FINAL directly, while the winning teams from student and open divisions qualify for JAPAN ROUND in November, with the chance to then qualify for the GRAND FINAL.

If you’ve been looking for some Tekken 7 action this weekend, Osaka Challenge is currently live on Niconico Live. If you have a Niconico account, be sure to tune in, and remember to also check out the Tokyo Challenge when it goes down next Saturday.

Source: Bandai Namco

While a variety of fighting game tournaments are going down this weekend around the globe, in Plano, Texas is Absolute Battle 6, presented by Versus Gameplay. The event has a healthy variety of fighting games, featuring BlazBlue Chronophantasma EXTEND, Dead or Alive 5 Last Round, Guilty Gear Xrd -SIGN-, Killer Instinct, Mortal Kombat X, Persona 4 Arena Ultimax, Super Smash Bros. Melee, Super Smash Bros. for Wii U, Tekken Tag Tournament 2, Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 and Ultra Street Fighter IV.

PandaXGaming will be bringing along its signature exhibition series Ultra Fight Night for Saturday, with matches in Ultra Street Fighter IV, Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3, and Mortal Kombat X.

For streams, PandaXGaming will be heading the main stream, with Salty Mayhem providing a secondary and Tourney Locator covering the Super Smash Bros. titles. If you’re interested in games outside of the fighter genre, check out Versus Gameplay’s stream.

PandaXGaming

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TourneyLocator

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Schedule

Friday September 25

Saturday September 26

Sunday September 27

Sources: Versus Gameplay, PandaXGaming, Salty Mayhem, Tourney Locator

Coming to you live from the House of Nerds in Oslo, Norway this weekend is The Call of Ragnarok. The event will have tournaments for Super Smash Bros. Melee and Ultra Street Fighter IV, the latter of which is a Capcom Pro Tour ranking tournament, offering ranking points for top 16.

Some of the Street Fighter players you can expect to see at the event are YBK|Shiro and Gonzalez representing Japan, along with KIG|Problem X, BX3.TPLink|Phenom, BX3.TPLink|veggey, Packz, Pro Fluke, RBN|Duppsko.

If you’re looking for streams, Ranking Battles Norway will be handling the Ultra Street Fighter IV tournament, while Smash Norge will be taking care of the Super Smash Bros. Melee tournament. While the tournament action doesn’t start until Saturday, on Friday you’ll be able to watch SSBM doubles along with casuals.

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Schedule

Friday September 25

Saturday September 26

Sources: Facebook, Capcom Pro Tour

A few Ultra Street Fighter IV Capcom Pro Tour events will be going down this week, including The Call of Ragnarok in Norway and EGX in the UK, both ranking tournaments. The headliner however is the premier event, KO Fighting Game Festival (KO FGF) in Kuwait, hosted by WhiteTowerQ8. Scheduled for this Thursday and Friday, KO FGF will taking place at the Kuwait International Fair in West Mishref, with competitions for Ultra Street Fighter IV and Tekken Tag Tournament 2.

As mentioned above, the Ultra Street Fighter IV competition at KO FGF will be a Capcom Pro Tour premier tournament, with one player walking away with a spot in the Capcom Cup finals this December. In addition, the top 16 placers will take home ranking points, key for qualification via the many slots alloted for total points.

Quite of few skilled Street Fighter players will be taking part in the event. In addition to local players like WTQ8|Aziz, WTQ8|Gannoon and WTQ8|Nox2 and other Middle East natives like Latif, you’ll see a number of players from Japan, including YBK|Dashio, YBK|SANTAROU YBK|KichijojiKEN, YBK|-R-, Akimo, RZR|Fuudo and Itazan. RZR|Xian of Singapore and F-Word and FA|Ryan Hart of the UK will also be participating in the event.

If you’re interested in watching the Ultra Street Fighter IV tourney, the Capcom Fighters Twitch channel will be your destination. Track brackets and progress on WhiterTowerQ8’s Challonge page.

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Scheduled Start Time (Thu, Fri)

Source: Capcom Pro Tour, Capcom Fighters

This Tuesday, Japan is giving a bit of classic action with King of Wolves ~Premium Round~. The event will feature 2on2 team tournaments for The King of Fighters 2002 Unlimited Match and Street Fighter III 3rd Strike. Each tournament features a list if invite teams along with a qualifier to fill out the 16-team bracket.

The stream is currently live, with the finals tournament about to start. Check it out on Game Newton’s Twitch channel.

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A major Vampire Savior event will be going down at e-sports SQUARE AKIHABARA in Tokyo. Judgement Day 3 is a Vampire Savior 3on3 featuring some 30 teams. You want to watch some high-level Vampire team action, check out the tournament on Game Newton’s Twitch channel.

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Sources: Darkstalkers Federation, Game Newton

A major Vampire Savior event will be going down at e-sports SQUARE AKIHABARA in Tokyo. Judgement Day 3 is a Vampire Savior 3on3 featuring some 30 teams. You want to watch some high-level Vampire team action, check out the tournament on Game Newton’s Twitch channel.

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Sources: Darkstalkers Federation, Game Newton

Mad Catz will be running its annual Tokyo Game Show Ultra Street Fighter IV tournament this Sunday. As a Capcom Pro Tour premier event, in addition to offering ranking points to the top 16 placers, the winner will qualify for Capcom Cup. Naturally the tourney has attracted many of the strongest Street Fighters from Japan and beyond, resulting in some incredibly stacked brackets.

If you want to see all these monsters duke it out, head over to the Capcom Fighters Twitch channel, or check out Mad Catz’ JP channel for Japanese language commentary.

Capcom Fighters (English)

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Results

Ultra Street Fighter IV

Top 32 Winners

MCZ|Mago vs. akimo
aiai vs. RB|Bonchan
INFILTRATION vs. twiggy
Kawaguchi vs. Shimauta

Sources: Capcom Fighters, Mad Catz

Showdown.GG and HTC eSports have put together a major Super Smash Bros. Melee event for this Saturday. HTC Throwdown will be happening at the Folsom Street Foundry in San Francisco, California, with $12,000 total prize bonus. The event will feature both singles and doubles tournaments, with the top two placers in singles winning a trip to DreamHack Winter.

You can expect to see many of the biggest names in SSBM, including C9|Mang0, TSM|Leffen, MVG|Mew2King, Liquid|Hungrybox Tempo|Axe, MacD, HUgs, Plup, Silent Wolf, WFX|Shroomed, CLG|PewPewU, SFAT and many, many more.

You can watch the action live on HTC’s and Showdown Smash’s Twitch channels.

HTC

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Sources: smash.GG, HTC, Showdown Smash