Category: Fighting Games

Before Capcom Cup unfolded two weekends ago, the folks behind the weekly Churning the Butter tournament series hosted a pretty incredible event of their own thanks to the international talent visiting San Francisco, California. The usual cast of NorCal players were joined by competitors like r/Kappa’s Poongko, Tonpy, Team YP’s Valmaster, YUBIKEN’s Dashio, Itabashi Zangief, Red Bull’s Snake Eyez, and more, making for a night of great high-level Street Fighter play.

If you missed out on watching this tournament live, we’ve included a handful of matches from the end of the bracket below. Give them a watch and head over to the full playlist for more.

Be sure to tune into Churning the Butter every Thursday around 8 PM PST, and check out the Folsom Street Foundry if you plan on attending future events.

Source: Showdown.GG

Before Capcom Cup unfolded two weekends ago, the folks behind the weekly Churning the Butter tournament series hosted a pretty incredible event of their own thanks to the international talent visiting San Francisco, California. The usual cast of NorCal players were joined by competitors like r/Kappa’s Poongko, Tonpy, Team YP’s Valmaster, YUBIKEN’s Dashio, Itabashi Zangief, Red Bull’s Snake Eyez, and more, making for a night of great high-level Street Fighter play.

If you missed out on watching this tournament live, we’ve included a handful of matches from the end of the bracket below. Give them a watch and head over to the full playlist for more.

Be sure to tune into Churning the Butter every Thursday around 8 PM PST, and check out the Folsom Street Foundry if you plan on attending future events.

Source: Showdown.GG

This year’s Capcom Pro Tour painted the planet with hype. Hopping from country to country, this series of tournaments not only provided viewers with top-notch footage on a near weekly basis, but it also worked to unify the global fighting game community. With so many events throughout the year, deciding on a single moment to act as a crystallization of the whole tour is, obviously, no simple task.

With this in mind, Capcom’s Matt Edwards spoke with the folks behind the sticks, including Keoma Pacheco, Red Bull’s Darryl “Snake Eyez” Lewis, and Razer’s Seon-woo “Infiltration” Lee, to get their opinion on the best moments of the year. But Pro Tour participants aren’t the only ones to share their thoughts, as Ryan “Gootecks” Gutierrez, Logan Sama, and David “UltraDavid” Graham also weigh in on the discussion.

Did your favorite moment make the cut? Let us know in the comments.

Source: Capcom Fighters

If you’re looking to prepare yourself for the upcoming Street Fighter V beta, TeaMandem’s video series is a great place to start. They’ve already covered combo and tech options for Nash, Cammy, and R. Mika. Most importantly, their videos favor practical technology as opposed to the stuff that will only come up once in a first-to-fifty set, assuming you actually, you know, play a first-to-fifty set.

Their most recent offering provides a smattering of options for Karin. On top of showing players how to dish out serious damage as the heiress, TeaMandem also discusses her approach to mixups through the use of V-Trigger.

Source: TeaMandem, tip via Zero

As we get to play more of Street Fighter V through stress tests and beta phases, we’re starting to learn more and more about how it plays, at least in early builds. The latest discovery, however, may be one of the most important yet. In a new video, periodikoSF demonstrates what appears to be a normal priority system a la Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike.

For those who may not be familiar, 3rd Strike’s priority system governs trades. The basic rule is that stronger normals always beat weaker ones, special moves beat light and medium attacks but trade with heavy ones, and supers beat special moves.

In Street Fighter V, the game apparently applies this priority system to normal attacks, but specials will still trade with normals. Anti-airs aren’t part of the equation either.

While already important in Street Fighter V, this discovery places extra priority on learning frame traps, both from an offensive and defensive position, and mashing jab to escape pressure is now much less useful than it was in earlier titles. Also, the slower Crush Counter moves now have greater importance in situations where they trade with weaker normals, so get those counter combos in order!

Street Fighter V is scheduled to launch for PlayStation 4 and PC on February 16.

Source: periodikoSF, special thanks to UltraDavid for sending this our way.

It’s time to determine the next King of the Iron Fist! The aptly-named The King of Iron First Tournament 2015 Grand Final brings together 27 players from around the world in a global Tekken 7 event, organized by Bandai Namco Entertainment. These players have their eyes on the prize, a prize pool totaling ten million yen, over $80,000.

The grand final event starts with the group stage. The 27 players are broken into 8 blocks. Players in each block face off against each other in best-of-3 game matches. The top player of each block advances to the double-elimination finals tournament. Matches here are also best-of-3, with the exception of the best-of-5 grand finals match.

With some of the biggest names in Tekken competing, including Nobi, AO, Gen, Knee, Help Me, Mr. Naps, Bloodhawk, AK and more, if you’re a Tekken fan, this event is certainly worth checking out! Tune in to the official Tekken channel on Twitch (or on Niconico Live for Japanese) and watch the digital fists fly!

Watch live video from TEKKEN on www.twitch.tv

Source: Bandai Namco via Kakuge Checker, Tekken