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Back in February, Bandai Namco began what would become a year-long tour of North America, bringing Tekken 7 to conventions and major fighting game community events for fans of the series to show what they’re made of. Prior to today, many details surrounding this tournament tour remained shrouded in mystery, but now we’ve got the full scoop on what to expect moving forward.

Each stop on the tour will feature a $3,000 prize pool with the final event boasting $20,000 in cash prizes. The winner at each stop along the way will qualify for the finals event, the date and location of which are still forthcoming. The full schedule follows below.

So far, five players have qualified for the final showdown: Geesemaster (Wizard World Portland), Circa|Anakin (Final Round XIX), Brawlpro (Wizard World St. Louis), Mr. Naps (NorthWest Majors 8), and ZTS (Wizard World Minneapolis).

When Mark “MarkMan” Julio contacted Shoryuken with this information, he also made it a point to direct our attention to an important rule in place for the tournament tour, which states that “[q]ualified champions cannot compete in future ‘TEKKEN 7: The King of the Iron Fist Tournament 2016’ events after qualifying unless they relinquish their qualifying spot.” This should help encourage plenty of new faces to make themselves known in the Tekken scene.

For more information regarding this series of events, as well as a complete list of rules, you can visit the Tekken 7: Tournament Rules page.

Source: Bandai Namco with a tips from GamerDWreck and Jerry M.

Some time back, we published a story about comparisons of the speed of SNK’s upcoming King of Fighters XIV versus some older games in the franchise. As part of this, we included some observations on the speed of the game’s jumps.

Despite this however, there still seems to be some misconception about the game’s jumps supposedly being “floaty.” To put these concerns to rest, ATRyoSakazaki has put together a new video–using footage from Ken Bogard’s stream–that directly compares the speed of the jumps in The King of Fighters XIV with those from its immediate predecessor, The King of Fighters XIII.

As the video below demonstrates, there’s very little difference in the speed of the jumps between these games. In fact, there are times when the jumps in KoFXIV are clearly faster than those in its predecessor.

Source: ATRyoSakazaki