Norcal StrongStyle~5 Live Bracket Making Archive

For those who missed it, the Twitch archives of the creation of the pools for the upcoming Norcal StrongStyle tournament this month are available now for viewing. Watch Bronson Tran and subt-L rig the brackets and talk shit about most of the players entered. There's no quality options for the twitch archives so if you are like me and have really bad internet, you'll probably be stuck buffering the videos until there's a YouTube archive or something. You can have a look at the google docs of the brackets though below. For further updates on the tournament, be sure to follow their twitter account. (@NorcalSS)

StrongStyle~5 Pools ▶ http://goo.gl/gLKABC

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New Tekken 7 Announcement will be made at the Namco Sugamo Cup

Katsuhiro Harada just tweeted that the upcoming Namco Sugamo Cup event this weekend will feature an appearance by Harada himself and also that he will be bringing a new announcement regarding Tekken 7 with him to the event! The Namco Sugamo Cup for those who don't know, is a 3 day event that the Namco Sugamo arcade in Japan is running that features a True Tekken God, Nobi VS Take 'concept match', followed by a 3on3 tournament then lastly a beginner tournament over the span of 3 days. The Namco Sugamo Cup is occurring this weekend starting from the Saturday up until the Monday in Japan at the Namco Sugamo game center with the Tekken 7 announcement being made and streamed on niconico during the 3on3 Tournament event. Since it's on niconico, I'll be sure to put up the archives on YouTube eventually.

Sugamo Cup - Nobi VS Take Match URL ▶ http://live.nicovideo.jp/watch/lv192806027

Sugamo Cup - 3on3 Tournament URL (ft Tekken 7 news!) ▶ http://live.nicovideo.jp/watch/lv192806439

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Team Korea Enters MASTERCUP.7!

In a special announcement stream on the Yuu & Nobi niconico channel, MasakariJin (the tournament organizer) announces TEAM KOREA which is set to invade the tournament this coming November. The team consists of an all star, all 'True Tekken Gods' team of Jundding, Help Me, Knee, Saint & Only Practice - all of which will make their way to Japan for the upcoming tournament. This dominating team of Korean players being sent over to Japan to enter MASTERCUP.7 is all due to the collaboration between MASTERCUP and the 'Murata System of Maximum Punishment' energy drink group in Japan which supports fighting game events. The MASTERCUP.7 tournament is being held in Tokyo, Japan on the 2nd of November this year.

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Shadowloo Showdown V | Australian Fighting Game Tournament on August 29th - 31st, 2014

UPDATE: I'm back and I've just added the full results for the tournament.

The fifth iteration of Australian's Premier fighting game tournament series: Shadowloo Showdown is on this weekend! The tournament gathers the largest amount of local Australian players and frequently pits them up against international competition. For this year, the international guest participating in the TTT2 tournament is none other then the famed Korean player Help Me. The event will be streamed through the ShadowlooHQ twitch channels (Main - Sub) so be sure to tune in if you yourself can't make it out to the event this year. Since I'll be playing in the tournament, I'll be a bit late to update the results.

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POKKEN TOURNAMENT Announced, Being worked on by Bandai Namco

Just recently announced over a special 'Shocking Pokemon Announcement' livestream on niconico, Bandai Namco and the Pokémon Company is collaborating to create a new game titled 'POKKEN TOURNAMENT' which brings the world of Pokemon to the 3D fighting game genre. Tekken series director Katsuhiro Harada and Soul Calibur series main programmer Masaaki Hoshino are both attached and working on the project. The game is currently announced as an arcade game releasing in 2015.

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