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NuckleDu to fly out local Florida FGC talent to Evo 2018 this year

Top players have always had a history of supporting the fighting game community by trying to bring up rising talent. From Justin Wong’s tradition of sending players out under his “WongNation” tag, to Infiltration bringing NL, Verloren, and Xyzzy out to overseas events, and now MenaRD’s esports team supporting Dominican players, it is always great to see the top players give back.

2016 Capcom Cup champion NuckleDu is doing the same. This year, he has endeavored to send out one local player from his native Florida to Evo 2018, in an effort to “share with players who don’t have the opportunity to travel, to experience what I do on a daily basis.” The way to take advantage of this opportunity is to win a local tournament in Seminole — called GoTE — that has NuckleDu publicized in his Facebook post regarding his choice to give back to the FGC.

The tournament is tomorrow, on Tuesday the 13th at 6:00 PM ET, so make sure you are in attendance if you are in the area!

Source: NuckleDu (Facebook)

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SRK READER POLL RESULTS: A “fantasy” Evo game lineup, as chosen by your votes!

Eight main stage games for a hypothetical Evolution Championship Series, as selected by SRK readers!

We asked you on Saturday morning to choose what eight titles — regardless of any real-world logistical, legal, or financial limitations — you would want to see on the Evo main stage. (We asked for eight because that is the number of main games Evo 2018 will actually feature this summer.) The readers have delivered, and the votes have been counted. Without further ado, here is your “fantasy” Evo eight-game lineup:

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  1. Dragon Ball FighterZ  [74.60%]
  2. Street Fighter V: Arcade Edition  [69.37%]
  3. Tekken 7  [69.21%]
  4. Guilty Gear Xrd REV 2  [58.25%]
  5. The King of Fighters XIV  [38.89%]
  6. Injustice 2  [33.49%]
  7. Super Smash Bros. for Wii U  [32.38%]
  8. Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike  [27.78%]

It seems the general readership is mostly in agreement with the 2018 lineup — with two notable exceptions in the inclusion of The King of Fighters XIV and Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike, and the absence of Super Smash Bros. Melee. DBFZ is the most-wanted by a wide margin — it will be interesting to see the registration numbers this year in Las Vegas, as this game may be poised to draw in even greater attendees than SFV!

Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite fell just shy of the top eight, with 25.40% of the total voters choosing to include it. Melee? Just outside the top ten at 21.58%, beaten by BlazBlue: Central Fiction at 24.92%. Interestingly: Skullgirls 2nd Encore earned 17.30%, tied with Marvel vs. Capcom 2. Capcom vs. SNK 2 (16.03%) beat out Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 (14.60%), Ultra Street Fighter IV (14.29%), and Super Street Fighter II Turbo (12.06%). But newly-released Under Night In-Birth Exe:Late[st] beat ’em all at 16.83% inclusion, and was itself topped by Killer Instinct at 20.79%. Pokkén Tournament DX only managed to grab 10.48% of the voters’ hearts. SoulCalibur II (11.11%), Mortal Kombat XL (10.63%), Vampire Savior (9.05%), Virtua Fighter 5 Final Showdown (also 9.05%), and JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Heritage for the Future (8.57%) all made it into the top twenty-five selections.

Evo Japan selection ARMS only earned 6.35% of your votes — new release Dissidia Final Fantasy NT is more-requested at 8.41%. Perennial side-game favorite Windjammers earned 4.92% — tied with Dong Dong Never Die, actually — and Catherine earned 4.29%. Only 2.86% of you want to see the FGC play Dance Dance Revolution Extreme, but that’s more than want to see Street Fighter X Tekken, at 2.22%.

Of course, this is not the lineup we’ll be seeing on the main stage in Las Vegas at Evo 2018 — but you can still play the games you enjoy the most at the numerous Evo side events you’ll be seeing crop up very soon. Not being a main stage title doesn’t mean your game won’t be at Evo somewhere — even if you have to bring it yourself, make sure you continue to play what you love. (Oh, and for those that may have noticed that BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle wasn’t on the poll list: we decided to leave off games that had not yet been published, even though the actual Evo lineup sometimes doesn’t — including in this year’s instance, clearly.) Thanks again to everyone that voted!

The Evo 2018 World Finals will take place at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada on August 3-5, 2018.

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Tune into Arc System Works’s Twitch stream today at 5:00 PM PST for a special announcement

Are you an Arc System Works fan, and had nothing to do planned in a few hours? Well, thanks to this surprise teaser on the @ArcSystemWorksU Twitter, you do now:

While there’s very little indication of what the announcement could be, the guests involved at least allow us to speculate a little. With Blazblue: Cross Tag Battle and the the re-balance of Guilty Gear Xrd REV 2 both set to roll out soon, the producers may be brought on for more information on these titles. Then again, the above image references the company’s comical Evo 2018 promos — perhaps we have a future bombshell related to the world’s biggest fighting game tournament…?

Source: @ArcSystemWorksU

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StrongStyle 6 — NorCal’s premier Tekken 7 event — results

NorCal StrongStyle 6, Northern California’s major Tekken tournament, was held over the weekend with more than 230 players competing in Tekken 7. A tournament with strong grassroots origins, StrongStyle, made a return in 2018 after a hiatus of several years. It was last resurrected in 2014 in memory of player Patrick “ILOVEYOURMOM” Collins, who passed away during the same year due to sickle cell complications.

Despite its humble beginnings, this year’s StrongStyle was a prime destination for top international competition. Among the field were players from Korea (Saint, JDCR, JeongDing), Japan (JacKiller, BKC), and Europe (Fergus, BlackBeard, Jopelix). Top American players SpeedKicks, JimmyJTran, and JoeyFury turned up for the action as well.

StrongStyle was streamed for the first time by TeamSp00ky with support from 10/0 Productions. The high production value of the broadcast was an exciting addition to the tournament; in the past organizer Bronson Tran had chosen to forgo streaming StrongStyle in favor of focusing on the player experience at the event.

The two day event brought its fair share of upsets, with 2017 Tekken World Tour runner-up and King of Iron Fist 2016 Champion Echo Fox|Saint failing to make top 8 after losing to Jimmy Tran and Marquis “Shadow 20z” Jordan. Tran, a NorCal native, fought his way into winners finals with the crowd behind him and raced out to a 2-1 lead before falling to JDCR.

Here is the Twitch archive for day 2 of StrongStyle:

Results

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1. Echo Fox|JDCR (Dragonov)
2. JimmyJTran (Brian Fury)
3. UYU|Pling (Xiaoyu)
4. Rickstah (Akuma)
5. WalkerGaming|BKC (Brian Fury)
5. vS|Trungy (Geese)
7. Shadow 20z (Claudio)
7. Jackller-Bancho (Jack 7)

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Dragon Ball FighterZ round up: tag concepts, beam clashes, resets, and combos that do over 9000 damage

Three weeks since launch and we’re still getting a lot of new video content for Dragon Ball FighterZ. This latest round up features a ton of combo videos as well as some guides and breakdowns.

We start with none other than Final Showdown, who has become one of the biggest contributors in terms of video content to the Dragon Ball FighterZ community. His first video focuses on some concepts that players can apply to the game’s tag system.

Next he breaks down the game’s implementation of the series’s trademark beam struggles.

Next up, he shares a couple of new combo videos. The first being for Cell, followed by one for Kid Buu.

Of course, Final Showdown isn’t the only player making content for the game. AnaboliChris shared a video showing an Adult Gohan combo developed by noted French player Alioune.

Meanwhile, AlukardNY has shared a video demonstrating some advanced combos for Frieza.

Wakbott on the other hand explores Majin Buu and the resets that he can pull off.

For those struggling to do combos for our lord Yamcha, here’s a basic combo guide from DextrousLee.

Finally, we have a couple of full on touch of death combos. The first video from TheSchmogi shows a couple that the team of Trunks, Super Saiyan Blue Vegeta, and Tien can pull off.

Meanwhile, SuspiciousLock demonstrates a touch of death combo that Android 16 can do on his own, given 5 bars of meter (without having to use Sparking Blast).

Sources: Final Showdown; AnaboliChris; AlukardNY; Wackbott; DextrousLee; TheSchmogi; SuspiciousLock

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Hacker imports Story Mode “Hidden Stage” into online battle versus Tekken 7 Korean player CherryBerryMango

CherryBerryMango, a popular Korean Tekken 7 streamer (and a tournament force worth reckoning, as evidence by his defeat of Chanel at the Tekken World Tour 2017) encountered a surprise when playing on the PC version of Tekken 7 versus a use appropriately named “HiddenStage.”

The stage, originally the story mode only setting for Alisa and Nina’s battle, is so narrow for a Tekken stage that it might be too claustrophobic for most tournament players. On the bright side, the stage has some nice, dramatic lightning from the back-lit industrial fan in the center. It’s impossible to say whether the stage was intended for competitive play and scrapped due to its size, or if it’s part of a future DLC pack.

The most interesting (and possibly troubling) thing about the hack is that it works for both parties. This hacker, after all, showed us the stage on CBM’s stream, whom as far as we know has not hacked the game.

Sources: 체리베리망고 CherryBerryMango; Tekkengamer.com

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Blanka, the Warrior of the Amazon, joins the Street Fighter V cast on February 20th

Happy Birthday Blanka! Just as the Brazilian beastman turns 52, Capcom have announced that he will be joining the Street Fighter V cast on February 20th. Retaining his primal and electrifying fighting style, Blanka comes to Arcade Edition with a brand new command grab and a special crouching stance.

His new command grab is called Wild Hunt, causing Blanka to leap forward and scratch at his opponent with his claws. His V-Skill is Coward Crouch, which has Blanka ducking down before returning to his neutral position. Blanka can low-profile fireballs while in Coward Crouch and he can act out of the stance by hitting either a Punch or Kick button. Wild Lift happens when you hit Punch, and it has Blanka swinging his arms up to launch his opponent. You can then follow up with either a normal, a special or even Blanka’s Critical Art. If you hit Kick, Blanka does his Raid Jump, causing him to leap high into the air.

His V-Trigger I is Jungle Dynamo, which increases the power of his rolling attacks and gives you access to additional follow-ups. His Electric Thunder also gets an attack boost and an animation change, having Blanka step forward before he discharges electricity. He also gains access to Ground Shave Rolling, which can be performed by hitting HK+HP and is a great combo extender.

Blanka’s V-Trigger II is Lightning Beast and gives Blanka access to a new special called Rolling Cannon. By pressing HK+HP and a direction, Blanka can roll in any direction he wants. You can combo into Rolling Cannon from any of his rolling attacks, turning Blanka into a deadly electrified pinball.

If you have the Season 3 character pass, you’ll get access to his Story, Battle and Nostalgia costumes. The Battle costumes will look very familiar — it’s the toy Sakura has hanging off her belt in her Story costume!

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Source: Capcom-Unity

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Arina romps through this Waku Waku 7 combo video

Rarely do you hear of Waku Waku 7 combo videos. While Sunsoft’s fighting game has a slight following, not much is heard of this retro title — possibly due to its obscurity and its limited roster of seven characters. However, the game has some interesting mechanics to toy around with.

In this video, we see Arina — a parody of manga characters — do some major damage thanks to Waku Waku 7’s charged supers. We also see a bit of mockery in the video with a bit of teabagging between dizzies.

Source: PAUL-KNIVES

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21 Hits shares Aegislash Duel Phase combos for Pokkén Tournament DX

21 Hits’s latest combo video for Pokkén Tournament DX opens with the following text on the screen: “Get used to all the just frames in Aegislash’s moveset for optimal damage.” It isn’t kidding: Aegislash might be one of the game’s most technical characters.

While Pokkén players are still working out the neutral and meta of Pokkén’s latest DLC character, one thing is certain: you have to be on point to be worthy of wielding Aegislash. Just frames, stance switching, and buff-management are all required to get this sword’s momentum going.

Source: 21 Hits

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Bandai Namco announces Mobile Suit Gundam: Extreme Vs. 2 for arcades

While Bandai Namco is still adding new content to Gundam Versus, that doesn’t mean that they aren’t working on the next iteration of the series. A the 2018 Japan Amusement Expo, the company announced Mobile Suit Gundam: Extreme Vs. 2.

Mobile Suit Gundam: Extreme Vs. 2  is the latest entry in the Gundam: Extreme Vs. sub-series. It follows in the footsteps of Mobile Suit Gundam: Extreme Vs., Mobile Suit Gundam: Extreme Vs. Full Boost, Mobile Suit Gundam: Extreme Vs. Maxi Boost,  and Mobile Suit Gundam: Extreme Vs. Maxi Boost ON.

All of the above games are featured in the teaser trailer that Bandai Namco released alongside the announcement.

While no footage of the actual game was shown, Bandai Namco have confirmed that the game will not only launch this year, but will also have location tests in the summer.

Source: Bandai Namco