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The Kumite comes to London for a high-stakes qualifier!

The next qualifier event for the upcoming Red Bull Kumite 2018 will be hitting the UK — it will be held in London, England at the Red Bull Gaming Sphere on July 15th! Details from the press release:

The most accomplished Street Fighter V: Arcade Edition players in the nation are invited to battle it out at the Red Bull Gaming Sphere, the largest public esports studio in the UK on July 15th in a Red Bull Kumite pre-qualifier. The invitational Street Fighter V tournament, which last year saw 1.4M viewers on Twitch and 700k on Facebook Live, is giving the winners of the London qualifier an opportunity to represent the nation at the Red Bull Kumite Last Chance Qualifier in Paris on November 10th, the night before the main event.

As well as securing themselves a seeded position at the Last Chance Qualifier, the victors from the event at the Red Bull Gaming Sphere will also win the trip to Paris and a luxury Noblechairs EPIC gaming chair. The Last Chance Qualifier will see entrants pitted against 256 of the best Street Fighter players from around the World to battle it out for a top spot in the grand final against the pros, taking place in Paris on November 11th. Professional players Packz, Shakz, and Hurricane are already confirmed to compete, with further names to be announced over the coming weeks.

Red Bull Kumite returns for its fourth edition following three exhilarating tournaments which have secured the Street Fighter V competition’s position among the most prestigious events in the fighting game calendar. Kumite is unique within the competitive fighting game scene, with the grand final taking part in a cage in Paris, and with a focus on player rivalries and backstories, Kumite offers spectators a riveting and emotionally charged experience.

Eight countries, including the UK, are hosting their own Kumite pre-qualifiers for the first time to determine the strongest fighting game players in the country to take part in the Last Chance Qualifier. The two finest players will then go on to compete in the iconic cage at the main event in Paris.

Want to watch? The qualifier will be streamed live on the Red Bull Esports Twitch channel. Want to join the fight? Register here.

Source: Red Bull Esports [press release]

Here’s your chance to prove yourself in the last DOA — before the release of the new one!

In addition to having Dead or Alive 6 stations available for fans to try the upcoming sequel, Team NINJA is holding a side tournament at Evo 2018 for the current iteration; you can sign up to compete in Dead or Alive 5: Last Round right now in the Dead or Alive Evo Showdown 2018!

Register here if you’d like to join this fight. DOA swag will be offered to tournament entrants, as well as t-shirts for attendees that try out DOA6. You need to have a pass for Evo 2018 to do either, of course; registration is still open for the main event as well.

Evo 2018 takes place at the Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino in Las Vegas on August 3-5.

Source: Team NINJA

Street Fighter Carnival 11 is Mikado Arcade’s currently-ongoing, month-long, multi-game tournament series for a wide variety of classic (and sometimes, obscure) arcade titles. This series is well under way, so start from the beginning if you want to catch up!

Today’s entry is the Technōs Japan-developed Double Dragon fighting game from 1995, whose rights are now owned by none other then Arc System Works. Do you think the only reason they got the rights to it is because it has double jumps and air blocking?

After that is Cyberbots: Full Metal Madness, a criminally underrated and underutilized title from Capcom. This 2D fighter has incredible mobility and full-screen footsies, and you can read more about its game-play over on the SRK Wiki.

You can follow the action of SFC11 by subscribing to Mikado’s official YouTube channel. For the night owls in the US, you can even try to catch them when they livestream.

Source: Mikado Arcade

Australian esports organization Dark Sided has just expanded their fighting game roster: joining the team is 2018 Battle Arena Melbourne Dragon Ball FighterZ champion Sam Baxter.

A longtime competitor in the Australian fighting game community, Baxter has found success in competing in multiple fighting games in and out of Australia. His victory at Battle Arena Melbourne 10 further cemented his place in the Australian scene.

Originally founded in 2009 as a Gears or War team, Dark Sided has since grown into an organization that’s dedicated itself to growing the Australian esports scene, expanding into multiple games and genres, including fighting games. At Dark Sided, Baxter will be joining other fighting game players such as Xavier “Somniac” Nardella, Adric “Falco” Middleton, Duong “ZG” Nguyen, Tasman “Waz” Stephenson, Te Tuhi “Spud” Kelly, and Nick “Extra” McKenzie.

We here at Shoryuken wish Baxter and Dark Sided the best in their new relationship.

Source: Dark Sided

This year marks the first year that Street Fighter players in Japan get to compete as paid professionals in the country, thanks to their new pro licenses. With this in mind, it should come as no surprise then that the upcoming Capcom Pro Tour Premier tournament for Street Fighter V at the Tokyo Game Show will have a significant prize pool. This year, players competing at TGS will be fighting over a massive ¥10,000,000 pot. This is equivalent to about $90,500 USD.

From this prize pool, the first place winner will be receiving  ¥5,000,000, half of the total prize pool. The rest will be divided among the remainder of the top 8. You can check out the breakdown below:

• 1st place – ¥5,000,000
• 2nd place – ¥2,500,000
• 3rd place – ¥1,500,000
• 4th place – ¥500,000
• 5th place ties – ¥150,000
• 7th place ties -¥100,000

For any players interested in flying to Japan to try to win some of of this prize money — and the accompanying CPT points — registration for the tournament is still open over at smash.gg.

Source: Capcom