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The Midwest Rallies Its Troops for 2GGC: Midwest Mayhem Saga in February

The 2GG Championship Circuit is starting to form up, as 2GGaming and Events2Compete announce the February Saga to be held at the Esports Arena in Santa Ana, California. Titled Midwest Mayhem Saga, this event will see the Midwest’s finest invading SoCal to defend their honor against the rest of the USA. Winners of previous Midwest Mayhem events–C9|Ally, Zinoto, False and Circa|6WX–will be in attendance, with other Midwest players being able to nominate themselves to the 2GG Shop, in order to get funding for the event.

Galvanized by their previous clash at The Big House 6, SoCal are demanding a crew battle rematch with the Midwest, gathering its best players to prove their dominance on home turf. If you don’t want to nominate yourself for the 2GG Shop but still want to attending Midwest Mayhem Saga, there will be three separate qualifying tournaments to win a trip to the event. FTS: The Wreckpublic and Kingslayer 2 on January 28th will be qualifying events, as well as Midwest Mayhem 7 on February 4th.

Midwest Mayhem 7 will be special in itself, as it will see various Mexican players coming to compete in Chicago. So far, Cloud main Javi, world’s best Mr. Game & Watch SF|Regi and Lucario main SF|Richi are confirmed to attend Midwest Mayhem 7, with more to be announced in the coming weeks.

Registration for Midwest Mayhem 7 should now be available over on smash.gg and the confirmed date for Midwest Mayhem Saga will be decided later this week, as 2GG are trying to avoid clashes with international events like BEAST 7.

Sources: Events2Compete; smash.gg

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– Epic’s Tim Sweeney Thinks Consoles Waning, VR On Rise

In an interview with Glixel, Epic Gaming’s Tim Sweeney has indicated that he believes that VR will be as widely accepted and used by the end of the next decade as smart phones are today. In addition, he believes that consoles are in a “significant” downturn given the lackluster sales over the past holiday season.

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Final Round 20 Confirmed to Be Part of This Year’s Capcom Pro Tour

With Street Fighter V’s second season now in full swing, many people are looking forward to this year’s Capcom Pro Tour. With last year’s rather confusing qualifying structure, more than a few are wondering at how this year’s tour will be changed up.

Now while no announcement has been made yet regarding this year’s structure, we now know of of at least one major tournament that will be part of it. In a recent tweet, the organizers behind Final Round 20 have confirmed that the event will once again be a part of the Capcom Pro Tour.

Final Round has usually been one the first major tournaments in the Capcom Pro Tour each year–and for the past couple of years, has been the first Premier event. Whether or not it will be the same again this year is yet to be seen.

Final Round 20 takes place on March 10 to 12, at the Georgia International Convention Center in Atlanta, GA.

Source: Final Round

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PR Balrog Encounters Glitch that Lets Him Play Season 1 Version of Balrog Online in Street Fighter V

Street Fighter V’s second season brought a significant number of balance changes to the game’s existing cast; despite this however, the data for season one still exists in the game’s code, mostly to allow replays from the previous season to still work, despite all the changes.

However, it seems that there is a way to play as the season one version of the characters–at least by accident. In a recent stream, Eduardo “PR Balrog” Perez experienced a glitch in an online match that reverted Balrog to his season one version. He noticed this after being unable to perform Screw Smash, which had its input changed to a dragon punch (forward, down, down-forward) in season two, from a charge motion in season two. You can check this out in these clips from PR Balrog’s stream below.

The exact method of invoking this glitch is as of yet unknown. However, the theory is that it happens when a player gets disconnected during the loading process before a match starts.

Source: PR Balrog via Adaptive Trigger

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Dine Out on Creative Sin Kiske Voltic Deign Combos in Guilty Gear Xrd -REVELATOR-

Time after time, it’s still very much possible to find new uses of the same moves in fighting games. In Guilty Gear Xrd -REVELATOR-, Sin Kiske’s super attacks are one of the most flexible ones in the game. RTL lets him move around the screen in any direction, while the projectile, Voltic Deign, is frequently used in setups and mix-ups.

Sin player Valas Phoenix compiled a new combo video with a creative use for the Overdrive. While Voltic Deign still hits the opponent while waking up, as typical in Sin okizeme, most of the projectile goes through. Valas then combos the opponent and uses the traveling ball to carry them to the other side of the screen and continue. Not only it’s great to place them right in the corner across the whole stage, you can also look stylish while doing so.

Set to a festive tune, the video shows what attack string to start with to get the proper distance and timing depending on the opposing character, as well as what combo to follow up. Character weights matter a lot here, but there’s room to improvise with aerial enders, a charged Beak Driver, and so on. The video description explains a few caveats:

“2K 2HS 5HS 2D allows to use just one hit of Voltic Deign, so you can use the other 4 to try cool stuff, unluckily it’s not universal and on some characters, like Zato, works in a really weird manner.
2K 2HS 5HS works really well and probably it’s the closest to be universal, you get less free hits out of the Bubble though.
2K 2HS 5HS 236K it’s similar to 5HS 2D, it’s another way to set it up.”

Source: DM613Valas

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James “Duck” Ma Leaves Denial Esports; Cites Lack of Pay

In all the signings this past week, it’s not all sunshine and rainbows for rising esports stars in the FGC. As evidence of this, Super Smash Bros. Melee star James “Duck” Ma has been forced to leave Denial Esports after only five months with the organization.

The reason for the departure: Duck is facing two months of back pay from Denial. While he stated in a confirmation with ESPN Esports that Denial “have been very transparent about how they’ve been trying to pay me back and as of now have already paid the majority of what they owe me,” this is not the first time that the organization has landed in hot water over nonpayment of their players–the company has two other such instances in the last 18 months.

Ma will leave Denial to enter free agency.

Source: ESPN Esports

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Justin Wong Debating a Move to Southern California after Signing with Echo Fox

Justin Wong is full of surprises recently; first, he parts ways with Evil Geniuses. Then, he inks a deal with rising stars Echo Fox. Now, he may be considering even bigger moves.

According to Yahoo! Esports: Justin Wong, who has been living in Northern California working for nVidia while training with Northern California fellow Evil Genius Ricki Oritz, is considering giving up his position at the company to move to Southern California. This move would allow him to be closer to the Echo Fox studios to practice alongside his teammates.

Source: Yahoo! Esports

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Mastercup 9 Will Return in 2017 for More Tekken Action

The Tekken series has a history of amazing competitions over the years. While we have yet to see any announcement of a revival of Tekken Crash in Korea, one of the largest Tekken events in the world, another team-based Tekken event is returning nonetheless.

Mark “Markman” Julio just passed along the announcement of Mastercup 9, Japan’s most prestigious Tekken event. A team tournament much like Korea’s Crash events, as well as Mattsun’s X-EST tournament for Super Street Fighter II Turbo, this will shape up to be a massive event.

While dates are not yet set in stone, we should be expecting amazing matches at this event, as well as the potential for a dangerous Team USA with Tekken 7 releasing on consoles soon.

Source: Mark Julio

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Skullgirls 2nd Encore Arcade Cabinet Spotted at Akihabara Arcade, a Barcade Near Denver Colorado

Wild arcade sightings are nowhere near as common as they once were, making secret niches all the more exciting to happen upon. While the existence of pure arcades are rarer now, Barcades have persisted, and are becoming more popular recently. Barcades are, as their name implies, a combination of a bar and an arcade, helping ensure their livelihood.

Akihabara is one of these, located in Westminster, near the heart of Colorado. You can find details like store hours and reviews on their Yelp page. This arcade is fairly unique in being one of very few, if any, Arcades to house a Skullgirls arcade cabinet.

Skullgirls Arcade

The cabinet looks to have been imported from Japan, but appears to be playing the English versionof Skullgirls 2nd Encore. It will be receiving the coming patch update, so it is prepared to be played for years to come.

Source: Akihabara (Yelp); Skullgirls (Twitter)

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Skullgirls 2nd Encore Arcade Cabinet Spotted at Akihabara Arcade, a Barcade Near Denver Colorado

Wild arcade sightings are nowhere near as common as they once were, making secret niches all the more exciting to happen upon. While the existence of pure arcades are rarer now, Barcades have persisted, and are becoming more popular recently. Barcades are, as their name implies, a combination of a bar and an arcade, helping ensure their livelihood.

Akihabara is one of these, located in Westminster, near the heart of Colorado. You can find details like store hours and reviews on their Yelp page. This arcade is fairly unique in being one of very few, if any, Arcades to house a Skullgirls arcade cabinet.

Skullgirls Arcade

The cabinet looks to have been imported from Japan, but appears to be playing the English versionof Skullgirls 2nd Encore. It will be receiving the coming patch update, so it is prepared to be played for years to come.

Source: Akihabara (Yelp); Skullgirls (Twitter)