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Last weekend saw Japan’s best Super Smash Bros. 64 players gather together for their 11th annual 64 tournament, Kanto 2016. While arguably the two best Japanese players, Wario and Jouske, did not enter this year’s competition, this allowed some of the other members of Japan’s elite to get their time on the stage and show their skill at 64.

Alongside the onslaught of puffballs with the multitude of Kirby players and the threat of Wangera’s Jigglypuff in this final bracket, there was some character diversity: with FAUST’s Mario making it all the way to Losers’ Semis, while sekirei made it all the way to Losers’ Quarters with Link, who is deemed as the second worst character on the current 64 tier list. You can catch all of the matches via this special playlist, and you can see Losers, Winners, and Grand Finals below. It is not direct capture unfortunately–it is the recording of a projector screen showing each match–but the quality is still decent.

Source: 64スマブラ

Another weekend of Street Fighter V action went down at EGX 2016 in Birmingham, England, which hosted one of the last CPT Premier tournaments of this season. A lot of European and international competition were in attendance, which inlcuded BST|Daigo, RB|Bonchan, RB|Snake Eyez, Ryan Hart, RB|Luffy, CBZ|Ohnuki and Zowie|Gamerbee.

Gamerbee took home his second CPT Premier tournament victory for Taiwan, defeating England’s hometown hero Ryan Hart in grand finals with a convincing 3-0 victory. This win puts Gamerbee at fifth place in the current overall standings and Ryan at 25th for the moment.

Here are the videos which include Losers Semis, Winners, Losers and Grand Finals from EGX 2016. The top five moments from the tournament are also shown here, which might as well be a four-minute hype comeback compilation video. If you want to see pools, top 32 and top 16 action, you can find the rest on the Capcom Fighters YouTube channel in the source below.

Sources: Capcom Fighters; Capcom Pro Tour

With FOX|Julio Fuentes still in Japan for his training sessions, Kim1234 decided to test his anti-air skills. Fortunately for us, Fuentes failed the test and ended up on episode 15 of the Jump-In Podcast.

In the interview, Kim1234 talks with Fuentes about his expectations and culture shock that has come with his first trip to Japan. They further lament about the lack of weekly tournaments in Japan, and how his overall training time at the Topanga house. They also talk strategy, especially in how to optimize training time and how many sets are necessary to learn something.

Source: The Jump-In