Lots of fighting game tournaments coming up in Japan.
The next two (major) NSB events are coming up fairly soon.
NSB19 will be AE, in the standard NSB format (3v3, single elimination, same character team allowed). That will be on
January 28, the tourney starting at 11:00 PM EST.
Some of the early sign-ups are listed on the
NSB site, here are some of the teams listed:
Team Thomas
Haitani (Makoto) - One of the 5 Fighting Game Gods (Umehara, Tokido, Sako, Nuki, Haitani)
Shiro Itachi (Makoto) - SFIV Arcade Akuma, the Makoto player from the a-cho AE videos.
MDR (Rufus)
Team Nemoto
Nemo (Yang)
RF (Fei Long)
Ikoma (M.Bison)
Team NSB
tsk (Fei Long)
Gama no Abura (M.Bison)
Kokujin (Dudley)
The next day is
NSB20, which will be BBCSII. Same format,
January 29 at 11:00 PM EST.
The big news today is that
GODSGARDEN #3 will be a Tekken 6 event. That's going to be on
February 5, double elimination format. The winner gets 200K Yen (~$2400), winner-takes-all. They also get an invitation to
GODSGARDEN #4 (AKA EvoGODS AKA EVO Japan), which is scheduled for the
first week of May.