S-C: I am here with Chi Rithy (Chi rhymes with rye) one of Montreal’s finest. Chi Rithy, you’ve been attending these T-Series tournaments for quite some time as well as many other tournaments. When did you start playing fighting games and when did you start taking it to a competitive level so that you can compete in these tournaments the way you do now?

CR: I started with Street Fighter 2 Turbo on the SNES like everyone else, and I’ve been playing fighting games casually all my life. And after I saw the EVO moment, Daigo against Justin, that’s where I saw that there’s another level of deepness in fighting games and it really blew my mind. After that I started with 3rd Strike for a funny reason; I would buy fighting games because I was a fan of them but then I saw Street Fighter Anniversary Collection and it featured 3rd Strike and I read on the back where it said “Arcade Smash Hit!” it made me wonder since I’ve never played it in the arcades and it basically went from there. Read the rest of this entry »

This was an amazing tournament where everything seemed to go better than one could have planned. Great stream, matches, and side events (from what I’ve been told by attendees). Many games were held, but not all results are up yet. Special thanks to Keits, the entire UFGT7 staff and Level-Up series for putting on a great show.

Marvel vs Capcom 3
1: EG Justin Wong (She-Hulk, Wolverine, Akuma)
2: Rex0r (Magneto, Wolverine, Sentinel)
3: KeraHime~<3 (Tron Bonne, Dante, Sentinel)
4: fLoE (She-Hulk, Dante, Dormammu)
5: DMG PR Balrog (Dante, Wolverine, Tron Bonne)
5: Frankie G (Dante, Trish, Doctor Doom)
7: TS NerdJosh (She-Hulk, Taskmaster, Tron Bonne)
7: Omg ITZ Andre (Magneto, Amaterasu, Wesker)

Super Street Fighter 4
1: EG Justin Wong (Rufus, Adon)
2: Alex Valle (Ryu)
3: DMG PR Rog (Balrog)
4: EG Ricky Ortiz (Rufus)
5: BLG JuiceBox Abel (Abel)
5: TFA BananaKen (Ken)
7: Wolfkrone (Viper)
7: fLoE (Rufus)

Mortal Kombat 9
1: Perfect Legend (Kung Lao)
2: DMG PR Rog (Raiden)
3: EG Justin Wong (Kung Lao)
4: Michaelangelo (Kabal)
5: KTH (Cyrax)
5: Alex Valle (Shang Tsung)
7: Playing To W1n (Raiden)
7: Limbo (Reptile)

Super Turbo
1. Damdai (T. Hawk)
2. Alex Valle (Ryu)
3. Justin Wong (O. Sagat)
4. DSP (Dee Jay, Vega)

Source: SRK

The longest running fighting game tournament is going on right now, and is being streamed by TeamSp00ky. Check out the stream for some SF4, MvC3 and more. FRXIV is part of the Evolution Tournament Season.

Watch live video from teamsp00ky on Justin.tv

This was announced last Evo as Evo Japan, and has had a few delays, but now its finally here. Games that will be held are SSF4, MvC3 and Tekken 6. Winner of each game will receive round-trip airfare to Las Vegas for Evo 2011. This is also part of the Evolution Tournament Season, and points will be given out to those who place for seeding purposes in this years Evo. The tourney will be best two out of three, double-elim, and is open to everyone. For more info Check out the announcement post made by MrWizard.

The XBL tournament that was held earlier today by Jackie Bogard came down to Saikyo Seth and SA2, with SA2 coming out on top. I don’t know the full results, but top-three are:

1: SA2 (Guile)
2. Saikyo Seth (Hakan)
3, Incident (Rose)
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last place: -Hibikster (Rose)

Jackie will be uploading videos to his Youtube account soon, so subscribe to his channel and keep an eye out for them.

Thanks to a tip from Mike Ross’s Twitter, Arcade Infinity finally have Oni Akuma (Named Oni) and Evil Ryu as playable characters. Check out the pics and vids below!

Check out the YouTube vid here!

Super Battle Opera concluded the TGS festivities this weekend. As always, SBO didn’t disappoint the fans. For the first time the pay to watch stream was viewable by people outside of Japan, and many watched.

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This update will be free

Source: Unity

For Street Fighter 4 (not Super Street Fighter 4 since SBO is done all on arcade hardware) Team EG: Justin Wong (Rufus), Marn (Viper) and Ricky Ortiz (Chun). For Tekken 6 BR Team SoCal Aris (Dragunov), RIP (Law) and Suiken (Lei). These players will be representing the US at Tougeki (Super Battle Opera) tourney in Japan on September 18-19.

Watch as the world’s top players in Super Street Fighter 4, TvC, MvC2, Tekken 6, and HDR compete for the ultimate glory in the world’s largest fighting game tournament.

MvC3 exhibition will be played on Sunday.

Live Stream and Scheduling

Game: Street Fighter 4
Console: iPod Touch
Genre: Fighting
# of Players: 2 (via Bluetooth)
Date Released: February 17th, 2010
Update Release: June 23rd, 2010

So I decided to give in and buy this little piece of software for my iPod Touch. Now before I get into the details of the game itself, this concept of playing games on the Touch has always intrigued me, especially when Capcom decided to release this tiny gem. I’ve been hearing nothing but decent reviews on this game (4 stars out of 5 in the app store), so after much procrastination and $9.99 later, I got it on my iPod touch.
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