Final List of Qualified Players for The King of Iron Fist Tournament 2016

The Grand Finals for the King of Iron Fist Tournament 2016 is almost here. Roughly half a year's worth of build up behind it, the long road to Japan will see every qualified player pitted together for the Champion title in the world of Tekken. A majority of the players in the tournament are from Japan and Korea with players from the United States, Europe and South East Asia coming in to compete. All the qualifying tournaments have concluded and we now have our complete list of players making it to the Grand Finals competition. The King Of Iron Fist 2016 is taking place in Tokyo, Japan on December 10th with a stream set-up on the Tekken Twitch.tv channel.

The King Of Iron Fist Tournament 2016 ≫ http://www.tekken-official.jp/2016_ironfist/

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Fergus2k8's Tekken 7 Character Overview

Ireland's premier Tekken community leader Fergus recently made a character primer going over each Tekken 7 combatant's strengths, weaknesses, and difficulty levels in under 200 words each. It's a fantastic piece of writing that can be very useful to any newcommer wanting to see what each character is about. You can find the link to the google doc here. Follow Fergus2k on twitter at @CkT_Fergus and twitch.

KOIFT 2016 Tokyo Round Qualifier Streamed Live on November 26

The last open qualifier for the King Of Iron Fist Tournament 2016 is on this Saturday in Japan and we have international guests Rip & Tasty Steve over there in person to perform commentary for the English stream. Bandai Namco's Tokyo offices will be the place where many of Japan's notable players will come together to try to get themselves a ticket to the Grand Finals and some of that big tournament prize money. Just like the Osaka Qualifier, there are 3 divisions for the event which consist of a Female group, a Students group and another group that's open to everyone. Top 2 players from the Female division & the Students division will earn the qualifying spot while Top 3 from the Anyone division will make their way to qualify. The Tokyo Round qualifier is set to start at 10:00 AM Japan time on November 26 so for viewers in USA, that's November 25 at 5:00 PM PST. You can tune into the event over on the TEKKEN Twitch channel:

Twitch Stream (Rip / Tasty Steve / Markman) ≫ http://twitch.tv/tekken

niconico Stream (Hameko / Harada) ≫ http://live.nicovideo.jp/watch/lv282205782

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T7FR - Malgu (Law) VS Knee (Bryan) Deathmatches

Streamed over on Afreeca on Nov 21st and 23rd was deathmatches between two high level Korean players. Malgu with his Law up against Knee's Bryan for the high blue ranks in Tekken 7 Fated Retribution. Since Afreeca is a major hassle for viewers outside of Korea, the deathmatch VODs can now be watched on Soyongdori's YouTube channel. You can check out the matches and more over here:

Soyongdori YouTube channel ≫ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrn5pincO53udnDv8QfbzSw

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T7FR - VSL The Fist Season 3 & Japan VS Korea Exhibition Matches

Added below are YouTube videos of the VSL The Fist Season 3 finals which took place at the G-Star 2016 event in Korea recently. The stream archives up on the VSL channel are from the semi-finals and up and features the Tekken 7 FR tournament matches with JDCR, MBC, Goraebob & Saint on stage. An exhibition match also took place there with 3 Japanese players invited over to battle Korea's strong representatives in the upcoming King Of Iron Fist Tournament 2016 Global finals. The 3v3 event had the Japanese players: Jackller, Tanukana & Take match up against Koreans; Knee, MBC & Shall We Be Happy resulting in plenty of tough competition on video. Since it was also a rare occasion, the Japanese players also made a stop at the Net Arena arcade and matched up against the locals in the region. You can see how those players fared and more on the following YouTube channels:

VSL YouTube channel ≫ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCc1xKG0YO5EXE00On-xKb1w

Karena Net Arena ≫ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxo9ujKeUWZNeTfQOAnNStw

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