Author: USD

Texas’s premier fighting game tournament is back for another round! This weekend is Texas Showdown 2015 in Houston,Texas. Established in 2001, Texas Showdown is a chance to for players in Texas and the surrounding areas to gather together and show off their shine, so if you want to catch the action, tune in beginning this Friday.

Tournament Games

• BlazBlue Chronophantasma
• Guilty Gear Xrd -SIGN-
• Gundam Extreme VS. Full Boost
• Killer Instinct
• Mortal Kombat X
• Persona 4 Arena Ultimax
• Super Street Fighter II Turbo
• Street Fighter III 3rd Strike
• Ultra Street Fighter IV
• Super Smash Bros. Melee
• Super Smash Bros. Wii U
• Super Street Fighter II Turbo
• Tekken Tag Tournament 2
• Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3
• Tekken Tag Tournament 2

Texas Shodown will be a Capcom Pro Tour 2015 ranking event, distributing points for the top 16 placers in the Ultra Street Fighter IV tournament. In addition, Bandai Namco Games will be bringing the latest version of Tekken 7, playable at the Mad Catz booth in the venue.

Ultra Fight Night – Battle at the Pandagon

The Ultra Fight Night (UFN) is back again! This series of exhibition is a great chance to see some of the regional talent face-off against your everyday top players. UFN will begin at 8 PM CDT on Friday (GGXrd, UMVC3) and at 9 PM on Saturday (USFIV).

Streams

Texas Showdown 2015 will be brought to you live by the following streamers: Level|Up, PandaxGaming, Texas Melee, and BeastChan23.

Level|Up

Watch live video from LevelUpLive on www.twitch.tv

PandaxGaming

Watch live video from PandaxGaming on www.twitch.tv

Texas Melee

Watch live video from TeamGreenSleeves on www.twitch.tv

BeastChan23

Watch live video from BeastChan23 on www.twitch.tv

Sources: Texas Showdown, Level|Up, PandaxGaming, Texas Melee, BeastChan23

The Golden Week tournament extravaganza in Japan still has a little bit of juice left. Things will be getting melty today with the second movement of the Transcendental Orchestra Melty Blood Actress Again Current Code national tournament, hosted at the PLAY SPOT BIG-ONE 2nd game center in Saitama.

The main event will start off with the finals league. The 16 teams will be broken down into 4 blocks of 4, with the top team from each block proceeding to the finals tournament.

As a national event, this is one of the best opportunities to check out some high-level Melty Blood play. If you want to catch the action, check out the streams on Niconico Live. Play is set to start at 3:00 PM JST (2:00 AM EDT, 11:00 PM PDT), with finals play beginning 30 minutes after. The finals tournament is scheduled to begin at 7:00 PM JST (6:00 AM EDT, 3:00 AM PDT).

Finals League

Finals Tournament

It’s that time of year to determine who is the best in Vampire Savior singles. Today is the fourth annual Devil’s PlayGround4 finals tournament, at Game Newton Ooyama in Tokyo. Currently six players have qualified for the finals, with two more to be determined by the final qualifier.

Players

• Kaji (Lilith)
• Sakamoto (Q-Bee)
• Nakanishi (Bishamon)
• Hellbeat (Sakai) (Zabel)
• Komemaru (Zabel)
• Buzz (Gallon)
• Two more players via final qualifier

DPG4 will be streamed on Niconico Live, but for those looking to watch without the annoyances of Niconico, check out ROTANIBOR’s restream.

Watch live video from ROTANIBOR on www.twitch.tv

KVO and Team St1ckBuG are teaming up to bring you a special tournament during Golden Week in Japan. KVO x TSB 2015 (KSB 2015) will be running this Saturday through Monday at The Nipponbashi Independent Theatre 2nd in Osaka.

KSB 2015 will feature a large variety of fighters and some big prizes. The winners of the Super Smash Bros. for Wii U, Persona 4 Ultimax and Guilty Gear Xrd will score a plane ticket to Evo 2015 this July. BlazBlue Chronophantasma Extend and Guilty Gear Xrd will be ARC REVOLUTION CUP 2015 qualifiers, while Ultra Street Fighter IV will be a Capcom Pro Tour Asia qualifier.

A sizable group of players from the US will be attending the event, including Eshi, Level5-Chan, fubarduck and the man St1ckBuG himself.

Tournament Games

Saturday May 2

• AquaPazza
• Arcana Heart 3 LOVE MAX!!!!!
• Dengeki Bunko FIGHTING CLIMAX
• Koihime†Enbu
• Under Night In-Birth Exe:Late

Sunday May 3

• BlazBlue Chronophantasma – ArcRevo 2015 qualifier
• Guilty Gear Xrd -SIGN- – ArcRevo 2015, Evo 2015 qualifier
• Persona 4 The Ultimax Ultra Suplex Hold – Evo 2015 qualifier
• Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 3on3

Monday May 4

• Super Smash Bros. Melee
• Super Smash Bros. for Wii U – Evo 2015 qualifier
• Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom Singles
• Ultra Street Fighter IV – Capcom Pro Tour Asia qualifier
• Killer Instinct (Side event)
• Nurarihyon no Mago -Hyakki Ryouran Taisen- (Side event)

Streams

OgreLive (English)

Watch live video from adastream on www.twitch.tv

KVO2K13

Watch live video from KVO2K13 on www.twitch.tv

SHI_gaming

Watch live video from SHI_gaming on www.twitch.tv

Capcom Fighters

Watch live video from CapcomFighters on www.twitch.tv

Source: KVO via Kakuge-checker

Today SEGA will be hosting its second annual national tournament for its ALL.Net P-ras MULTI arcade titles, D-1 ULTIMATE CLIMAX BLADE, at the Hulic Hall in Akihabara, Tokyo, Japan. Joining last year’s titles DEAD OR ALIVE Ultimate: Arcade and Dengeki Bunko FIGHTING CLIMAX is the Shining series spin-off BLADE ARCUS from Shining. You can catch the action from the event on Niconico Live.

Players

A special Super Smash Bros. for Wii U exhibition will be going down at Niconico Chokaigi 2015 today and tomorrow. The event pits representatives from Japan against those of the US in a class of nations.

Players

Japan

• Deus Ex Machina Ironbottom Sound Apex (Daiki, Fsann) – Premium Fight champions
• Light and Darkness (Luminous, Shadow) – Tokaigi 1 Day Tournament champions

US

• ZeRo, Mew2King (Apex 2015 champions)
• MJG, cyve (Apex 2015 2nd and 3rd place, respectively)

Saturday is the singles tournament, while Sunday will be the doubles tournament. You can catch the stream on VGBootCamp’s Twitch channel for English, or on Niconico Live for Japanese. Watch live video from VGBootCamp on www.twitch.tv

Results

Super Smash Bros. for Wii U

Semi-final

ZeRo vs. cyve
Mew2King vs. Fsann

First Round

Luminous (Dedede) vs. ZeRo (Diddy Kong)
cyve (Sheik) vs. Daiki (Mega Man)
Mew2King (Diddy Kong) vs. Shadow (Captain Falcon)
Fsann (Ness) vs. MJ (Villager)

While Northwest Majors is raging on in the United States, across the Pacific South Korea will see some tournament action as well with Double Elimination Tournament 2015, brought to you by Arcade Stream. Double Elimination will feature three games: Dead or Alive 5 Last Round, Guilty Gear Xrd -SIGN- and Ultra Street Fighter IV, the last of which is a Capcom Pro Ranking Tour Ranking Tournament as well as a Capcom Pro Tour Asia qualifier. The winner of USFIV singles will qualify for the CPT Asia finals in Singapore later this year, while the top 16 players will earn ranking points.

In addition to Korean players such as INFILTRATION, LAUGH, POONGKO, BIGDANMUL, DBKoopa, quite a few names from surrounding countries will be participating: TOKIDO, Itazan, Eita, Kazunok0, Kim1234, KOK, Gonzalez, Shiro and Bonchan of Japan; Humanbomb of Hong Kong; Dark Jiewa of China; Sketch of the US; Chuan of Malaysia; and Burnout of Australia.

You can catch the action from Double Elimination on Xsplit’s Twitch channel (or ArcadeStream for Korean language). Brackets can be found on Touch Cookie TV’s Challonge page.

Saturday will feature the USFIV tournament in its entirely, so if you want to watch some Street Fighter, tune into the stream below.

ToughCookieTV (English)

Watch live video from Xsplit on www.twitch.tv

ArcadeStream (Korean)

Watch live video from ArcadeStream on www.twitch.tv

Sources:  Xsplit, ArcadeStream

This weekend is the seventh annual Northwest Majors tournament at the Highline Community College in Des Moines near Seattle, Washington. Northwest Majors 7 is the event for the Pacific Northwest and surrounding areas to show what they got. Joining these players are a few heavy hitters from Japan: Ogawa, Dogura and KoujiKOG.

MWM7 is a part of the 2015 Capcom Pro Tour as a Ranking Tournament, giving the top 16 in the Ultra Street Fighter IV singles event ranking points towards Capcom Cup 2015. In addition, Bandai Namco’s Tekken 7 will be playable at the event.

Tournament Games

• BlazBlue Chronophantasma
• Guilty Gear XX Accent Core Plus R
• Guilty Gear Xrd -SIGN-
• Injustice: Gods Among Us
• Mortal Kombat X
• Persona 4 Arena Ultimax
• Project M
• Skullgirls Encore
• Super Smash Bros.
• Super Smash Bros. Melee
• Super Smash Bros. for Wii U
• Tekken Tag Tournament 7
• Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3
• Ultra Street Fighter IV
• Under Night In-Birth Exe:Late
• Vampire Savior

Tekken 7 will also be available for play at the Mad Catz Booth.

Brackets for the event can be found on the Northwest Majors 7 Challonge Page.

Streams

Five streams will be bringing you the action from NWM7: TeamKhaos, KhaosGaming2, LogicHole, 62bitgaming and SeattleTekken.

Watch all five streams via Multitwitch

TeamKhaos

Watch live video from TeamKhaos on www.twitch.tv

KhaosGaming2

Watch live video from KhaosGaming2 on www.twitch.tv

LogicHole

Watch live video from LogicHole on www.twitch.tv

62bitgaming

Watch live video from 62bitgaming on www.twitch.tv

SeattleTekken

Watch live video from SeattleTekken on www.twitch.tv

Schedule

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Results

Ultra Street Fighter IV

Sources: TeamKhaos, KhaosGaming2, LogicHole, 62bitgaming and SeattleTekken