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Handling stressful situations is half of playing a fighting game. No amount of fundamentals, neutral and matchup knowledge, combos or resets will be enough if you crack or self-destruct under pressure. While a lot of this pressure is found in tournaments, players certainly also feel this pressure while climbing the online leaderboards.

With this in mind, YouTuber PugilistPenguin–in his series “Two Minute Tutorials”–attempts to give some advice on using outside influence to improve your play. He gives tips on calming down, improving reaction time, and improving performance through sleep. Most of these tactics can be applied to tournament anxiety as well, so if your problem is those jitters you get before matches, than this could be very helpful for you!

Source: PugilistPenguin

SNK has been pressing forward with their esports-style World Championship series, with a handful of events distributing all-expenses-paid qualifying positions in the larger, more illustrious tournaments–competing for a real-life version of Antonov’s championship belt. These qualifiers have all concluded, but if you missed them you can thank Gato Ray for compiling the final rounds for the Korean, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Peru, and China qualifier tournaments.

First we’ll start with the Top 4 matches for Taiwan qualifier. The Top 4 was split into two videos, with one just featuring the Grand Finals; if you don’t want to be spoiled as to who’s in GF, don’t look at the title of the second video until you’re ready!

Up next is Road to Peru, compiled into one Top 4 video. Having South America represent is always great to see.

The next qualifier is something strange. The Hong Kong qualifier looks to have been recorded on a smart phone. Our only explanation as to why the tournament wasn’t recorded properly is in the video description:

“I can’t mention the reason why but you and I missed this tournament, definitely.

Please understand bad quality and I found only footage or article concerning this qualifier.”

The final qualifiers are China and Korea; China’s qualifier seems to only have the Grand final set, but Korea’s has the whole Top 4 of the tournament.

Source: Gato Ray