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Fighting Games Weekly | August 6-12

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Week of August 6th to 12th.

Fighting Games Weekly is the weekly discussion for all things fighting games. News, events, streams, videos, players, drama, everything fighting game related.

Last week's thread.​



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GAF Persona 4: Arena Friday Online Tournament [ Friday, August 10th ] [ 9PM EST | 6PM PDT ]
  • GAF member FSLink is hosting a week 1 Persona 4: Arena online tournament, who he will stream as well. It will be 2 out of 3 format, on PS3 and will allow the the loser of a previous game in a match to switch characters. Signups are available here. This event is now over, and FSLink has uploaded the stream to YouTube in a series of links here.
MLG Summer Fighter Arena [ Thread ] [ Friday, August 10th ] [ 4PM EDT | 1PM PDT ]
Persona 4: Arena 24-hour Charity Stream [ Tuesday, August 7th ] [ 3AM EDT | 12AM PDT ]
Street Fighter 25th Anniversary Tournament Series - New York City Qualifier [ Thread ] [ Saturday, August 11th ] [ 8AM EDT | 5AM PDT ]
Tougeki - Super Battle Opera 2012 Recap



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Salty Battles Weekly [ 8PM EDT | 5PM PDT]
  • SCV and UMvC3 from Local Battles arcade in New Jersey.
The Late Night Show with Long Island Joe [ 9PM EDT | 6PM PDT ]
  • LI Joe's weekly talk show, and a notorious home for FGC drama.
Option-select Mixup Monday [ 10PM EDT | 7PM PDT ]
  • SFxTK, SSFIV AE and UMvC3 out of Southern Florida.
UltraChenTV: First Attack & Lv3 Focus [ 11PM EDT | 8PM PDT ]
  • Weekly FGC show dedicated to match analysis, teaching, commentary, news, debates, and more! Hosted by UltraDavid and James Chen.


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Kachitagari TV (JP) [ 9PM JST | 8AM EDT | 5AM PST ]
  • Bon-chan, Kazunoko and Fuudo's new show, focusing primarily on SSFIV AE ranked matches but is branching off into other games as well.
AmalgameTV (JP) [ 10PM JST | 9AM EDT | 6AM PDT ]
  • Frieda and Fubarduck's weekly show.
WinnerStaysOn (UK) [ 7PM BST | 2PM EDT | 11AM PDT ]
  • SSFIV AE and UMvC3 out of the UK, alternating between them every week.
The Break Weekly [ 8PM EDT | 5PM PDT ]
  • New Jersey's largest weekly featuring SSFIV AE and UMvC3. [NOT HAPPENING]
WakeUp SRK Live [ 9:30PM EDT | 6:30 PDT ]
  • Keits and skisonic host the weekly official podcast of Shoryuken.com
UltraChenTV: Level 3 Focus [ 11PM EDT | 8PM PDT ]
  • Weekly FGC show dedicated to match analysis, teaching, commentary, news, debates, and more! Hosted by UltraDavid and James Chen.
Box Sessions Live [ 11PM EDT | 8PM PDT ]
  • San Diego's largest weekly, featuring SG, SSFIV AE, and UMvC3.
Cross Counter Live [ 12AM EDT | 9PM PDT ]
  • Mike Ross and the recently resurrected Gootecks host a weekly show to discuss recent happenings in the fighting game community. [ON HIATUS]


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Game Spot Versus KoF Casuals (JP) [ 7PM JST | 6AM EDT | 3AM PDT ]
  • KoF 1998UM, KoF 2002UM and KoF XIII C action from Japan.
TOPANGA TV (JP) [ 9PM JST | 8AM EDT | 5AM PDT ]
  • Description needed.
Big Two [ 7PM EDT | 4PM PST ]
  • NYC's biggest weekly at The Next Level Arcade in Brooklyn featuring SSFIV AE and UMvC3. If the Teamsp00ky link is not working, it is likely on the backup stream on goldencen.
Wednesday Night Xanbats [ 9PM EDT | 6PM PST ]
  • Weekly streaming from Maryland, featuring SG, SFxTK and UMvC3.
Wednesday Night Fights Arcade Edition 2012 [ 11PM EDT | 8PM PDT ]
  • SoCal's biggest weekly at Super Arcade in Walnut, featuring SG, SFxTK and SSFIV AE.
Starbase Arcade [ 12AM EDT | 9PM PDT ]
  • NorCal weekly featuring SSFIV AE and UMvC3.


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Game Spot Versus SFIII:3S Casuals + East-West Battle (JP) [ 8:20PM JST | 7:20AM EDT | 4:20AM PDT ]
  • 3rd Strike action from Japan.
Stream Monster Online Tournament [ 8:30 EDT | 5:30 PDT ]
  • Weekly 16-player UMvC3 online tournament run by FGTV and sponsored by eightarc.
Valley Stream Monsters Thursday Night Casuals [ 8PM EDT | 5PM PDT ]
  • MK9. Description needed.
The Breakdown with DJ Huoshen and Unkn0wn [ 8PM EDT | 5PM PDT ]
  • Description needed.
The Runback Season 3 [ 11PM EDT | 8PM PDT ]
  • The UMvC3 and KoF XIII branch of Wednesday Night Fights also hosted at Super Arcade in Walnut, California.
Thursday Night Throwdown [ 12AM EST | 9PM PDT ]
  • Description needed.
Ask Dr. Sub-Zero Show [ 1AM EDT | 10PM PDT ]
  • [ON HIATUS]


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Game Spot Versus Gundam: Extreme Vs. Full Boost Casuals (JP) [ 7PM JST | 6AM EDT | 3AM PDT ]
  • Streaming the newest version of Extreme Vs.
KaoTV! (JP) [ 11PM JST | 10AM EDT | 7AM PDT ]
SKILLIONAIRE FIGHTING: GRAND PRIX de SKILLIONNAIRES [ 7PM EDT | 4PM PDT ]
  • SKILLIONAIRE returns with the first of four Heats. There will also be a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tournament Fighters 5v5 Poverty Exhibition. Featuring games such as SFA2, CvS2 and VS as well.
Fraud-Free Fridays [ 9PM EDT | 6PM PDT ]
  • Weekly tournament run at the FGTV house. Don't forget about the second FGTV stream as well which compliments the main one.
Southtown Arcade Ranbats: No Mercy Fridays [ 10PM EDT | 7PM PDT ]
  • Norcal weekly featuring VF5:FS, SCV and T6. [NOT HAPPENING]
Electric Wind God Fridays [ 11:30PM EDT | 8:30PM PDT ]
  • Back! [Previously on hiatus until TTT2]


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Game Spot Versus SSFIIX Casuals & 3on3 Tournament (JP) [ 8:20PM JST | 7:20AM EDT | 4:20AM PDT ]
  • Super Turbo action from Japan.
Team St1ckBuG [ 12PM EDT | 9AM PDT ]
  • For the very first time, St1ckBuG will have a (standard) 3D title with Virtua Fighter5 Final Showdown. Also featuring BBCSEX, GGXXAC, and SG.
Southtown Arcade Ranbats: Saturday Night Snapback [ 10PM EDT | 7PM PDT ]
  • NorCal weekly featuring SFxTK, SSFIV AE and UMvC3. [NOT HAPPENING]


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Game Spot Versus CvS2 Casuals & 3on3 Tournament (JP) [ 1PM JST | 12AM EDT | 9PM PDT (previous day) ]
  • CvS2 action from Japan.
Southtown Arcade Ranbats: Real Honest Sundays [ 4PM EDT | 1PM PDT ]
  • NorCal weekly featuring CvS2 and KoF XIII C. [NOT HAPPENING]



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On GAF we have various members that stream fighting games from time to time too:
Additionally, if you want to really get involved, you may want to check out the various OTs for specific games:
GAF isn't the only FG community in town though. Here are a whole bunch of other FG communities across the internet that may be of interest:
  • 8WayRun - Soul Calibur franchise community
  • DOACentral - Dead or Alive franchise community
  • Dream Cancel - King of Fighters franchise community and resource
  • Dustloop - Forums/community for Arc System Works-developed games
  • Eventhubs - Frequently updated news blog, resource and forums for all things fighting games
  • FGCPros hub on Twitch.tv - A collective group of fighting game streamers on Twitch.tv
  • FreeStepDodge - Dead or Alive franchise community
  • iPlaywinner - Large fighting game news site and resource, and the home to Teamsp00ky and iPlaywinner
  • Mayonaka Midnight - Persona 4 Arena community and resource
  • Melty Bread - Melty Blood community
  • Shoryuken - Mainly 2D-game centric hub, and probably one of, if not the largest FG community on the internet
  • TekkenZaibatsu - Tekken franchise community
  • Test Your Might - Mortal Kombat and Injustice community and resource
  • Smash Boards - The largest Smash Bros. Community™
  • VFDC - Virtua Fighter franchise community site

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If you have any suggestions for the OP, please do not hesitate to post in this thread or PM me to let me know.
 
As usual, if I'm missing anything big going on this week, if you have some extra descriptions to provide for stuff that's missing a description, or suggestions, let me know.

Imm0rt4l said:
Nas Life is good is a solid album


He still lost though
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Can someone please transfer Beef's doctorate to this man?

AzureJericho said:
This free and I like Kanye. :lol

He def lost though, dat Kelis child support unblockable...
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Oh god :lol


Also, for Kadey, when making the new SF 25th thread, make sure to check out the new schedule I linked in OP. The official site says it's updated.

Millionth edit: MLG Summer Fighter Arena added to OP because I felt it wasn't eSports enough.
 
You should add as a special event the 24 hour Persona 4 Arena charity event.
It's being streamed FinestKO.

Has raffles and whatnot, but 100% of everything is going to charity.

It starts at Midnight tonight (PST).

All the info.
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Busaiku said:
You should add as a special event the 24 hour Persona 4 Arena charity event.
It's being streamed FinestKO.

Has raffles and whatnot, but 100% of everything is going to charity.

It starts at Midnight tonight (PST).

All the info.
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Done, thanks.

Edgeward said:
ANIMAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
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Fixed.

Side note: I've been watching Dacidbro screw around in P4:A for the past few hours.
 
Anybody else been feeling burnt out after EVO i haven't been able to watch any stream at all. I have "gasp" actually been playing more fighting games than watching them
 
Rice-Eater said:
Don't you mean 4?
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Nah he means 3.

Floe a professional salt mine.

Dark Ninja said:
Anybody else feel burnt out after EVO i haven't been able to watch any stream at all. I have "gasp" actually been playing more fighting games than watching them
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Yea I watch like a total of 1 hour of WNF, Big Two, and TRB combined. Basically GF only.... I semi watched the Austin thing, and I watched Marvel only for SBO. Which is a lot less then normal for a professional stream monster.

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I assume your guess is based on dudes showing up for Marvel being more likely to enter Persona for the hell of it then dudes showing up for SF4?
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Yep....
 
What is the over/under on someone showing up to WNF or Big Two cosplaying? It counts as two if they are still dressing as Bridget for some unknown reason.
 
WesternHeretic said:
Pulling numbers out of my ass

15 for Big Two
27 for WNF if they move it to TRB then I say 33.
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No way there will just be 15 for big two. Judging by the amount of people that was here all this week playing it and the fact that its a new game I would say about 25 - 30. Also east coast anime players.
 
Next level right now is all P4u setups. Everyones playing it, it'll get a lot more than 15. There was also a P4u tourney at super dojo a week ago that got 41 and it wasn't advertised at all just randomly happened.
 
Dark Ninja said:
Anybody else been feeingl burnt out after EVO i haven't been able to watch any stream at all. I have "gasp" actually been playing more fighting games than watching them
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I've still been playing the same amount but not watching all that much. I did stay up late for SBO though.
 
Deps said:
Next level right now is all P4u setups. Everyones playing it, it'll get a lot more than 15. There was also a P4u tourney at super dojo a week ago that got 41 and it wasn't advertised at all just randomly happened.
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Infinite said:
Yeah.
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o.0 So... like are you guys expecting this to be a "hot of the month" type of deal or do you guys think it's going to stick and compete with AE for long periods of time.
 
P4u will never get Capcom numbers after the first few months. But if anime players don't go full retard all of a sudden and just decide to stop coming out the game should be pretty big.
 
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o.0 So... like are you guys expecting this to be a "hot of the month" type of deal or do you guys think it's going to stick and compete with AE for long periods of time.
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It's hard to say right now but I know pretty much all the guys who were playing alternative fighters (meaning non capcom/namco fighters) are picking this up. Whether or not those guys will show up to tournaments remains to be seen.
 
Kellen said:
If some of the more well known guys in the FGC pick it up and back the game that will go a long way.
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FGTV's been playing it on stream. Mostly Shady K, I dunno if they're going to pick it up seriously at all. They invited Dacidbro on to stream it tonight though.
 
LeadProtagonist said:
FGTV's been playing it on stream. Mostly Shady K, I dunno if they're going to pick it up seriously at all. They invited Dacidbro on to stream it tonight though.
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Yeah I was watching earlier. I thought I remembered Justin Wong and Combo on twitter talking about how much they enjoyed playing the game.
 
Kellen said:
If some of the more well known guys in the FGC pick it up and back the game that will go a long way.
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Yeah I agree. If it gets good tournament support and decent numbers they will have no choice almost

LeadProtagonist said:
FGTV's been playing it on stream. Mostly Shady K, I dunno if they're going to pick it up seriously at all. They invited Dacidbro on to stream it tonight though.
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I hope the rest of the house picks it up. Ricky doesn't seem to like games in the vein of Guilty Gear though
and Dacidbro just sucks
 
Has anyone else been having problems with NorCal streams lately?
Stuff from like FinestKO and FGTV have been pretty bad.
 
Would people be interested in a streamed P4A tourney for FGCGAF? I'm kind of interested in hosting one. I can't do a Day 1 tourney due to work, but if people wanna do some sets on Friday or Saturday, I'm down for hosting a lobby (most likely PS3 unless 360's online ends up being fine at launch)
 
FSLink said:
Would people be interested in a streamed P4A tourney for FGCGAF? I'm kind of interested in hosting one. I can't do a Day 1 tourney due to work, but if people wanna do some sets on Friday or Saturday, I'm down for hosting a lobby (most likely PS3 unless 360's online ends up being fine at launch)
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This is the first game I've played in a while and I'm a scrub, but I'll get bodied online by GAF, sure.
 
FSLink said:
Would people be interested in a streamed P4A tourney for FGCGAF? I'm kind of interested in hosting one. I can't do a Day 1 tourney due to work, but if people wanna do some sets on Friday or Saturday, I'm down for hosting a lobby (most likely PS3 unless 360's online ends up being fine at launch)
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Lol sure that could be fun
 
FSLink said:
Would people be interested in a streamed P4A tourney for FGCGAF? I'm kind of interested in hosting one. I can't do a Day 1 tourney due to work, but if people wanna do some sets on Friday or Saturday, I'm down for hosting a lobby (most likely PS3 unless 360's online ends up being fine at launch)
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That would be cool.
 
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