CEO 2015 (June 26-28, live from Orlando, Florida!) Preview PLUS more June tournaments & Fighting Game news!
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We may be only a month away from EVO 2015, but that's no excuse to sleep on its biggest rival, Community Effort Orlando, CEO 2015!
CEO 2015 Preview
In truth CEO isn't a "rival" as such to EVO, a given FGC event doesn't tout achievements in comparison with one another but to itself, not unlike Ryu really.
And CEO has had a lot of success year on year to celebrate since its 1st event in 2010, breaking entrants/attendees and live-stream viewer-ship records alike, and CEO number 6 should be no different. The boxing/wrestling ring (depending on who Jebailey rents from on a given year) returns, both Street Fighter V (for the 1st time in the USA) and Tekken 7 will be playable!
Let's take a look at the games and entrants shall we?
Game | Entrants | Notes |
---|---|---|
Divekick | 39 | |
Guilty Gear XRD | 115 | |
Killer Instinct | 85 | $15,000 bonus* |
MKX | 289 | $10,000 bonus** |
Persona 4AU | 53 | |
Smash Melee | 466 | |
Smash Wii U | 512 | |
Tekken Tag 2 | 51 | |
UMvC3 | 177 | |
USFIV | 377 | $15,000 bonus*** |
- Courtesy of the KI community fund drive which took 100% of money from sales during the time period specified to go to Combo Breaker, CEO and EVO prize money
- Courtesy of sales from the "Blue Steel" Sub-Zero costume
- A portion of $500,000, courtesy of CEO's premier tournament status as part of the 2015 Capcom Pro Tour
Stand up and take a bow Smash community! They get their own room for CEO, well deserved. It's a pity Nintendo isn't handing out any money to its players, especially when the MKX and KI tournaments have a lot less entrants for this event. Marvel is still hanging on (relatively) as it dwarves a lot of the other games as much as it itself is dwarfed by MKX, USFIV & the Smash games
Schedule and streams
Streamer Channels |
CapcomFighters |
TeamSp00ky |
vgbootcamp |
vgbootcamp2 |
funkyp |
ceogaming |
st_ultimate |
Other June majors
Before CEO, East Coast Throwdown (June 13-14) and South East Asia Major (June 19-21) happened, they were great events, I've removed the preview stuff for those events as this blog is big enough as it is!
News
Street Fighter V details!
A pre-E3 event was held for Street Fighter V and articles and videos are going up everywhere! And then E3 happened and Birdie and Cammy were announced and a Giant Bomb Unfinished went up, videos!
http://shoryuken.com/2015/06/11/going-hands-on-with-street-fighter-v-versatility-has-its-v-benefits/
Ryu (Street Fighter) & Roy (Fire Emblem) confirmed as Smash Bros. Wii U DLC
Rumours have persisted via supposed leaks for the past few months that Ryu and Roy would feature as DLC characters in Smash Wii U and now we have some victory videos of their appearances.
While it's probably safe to assume that this Ryu will be a combination of his USFIV (there's definitely a focus attack in that 9 second video) & UMvC3 version you might want to check out Nintendo's pre-E3 Smash Bros. briefing just to be sure.
Masahiro Sakurai will host a video presentation about #SmashBros on 6/14 at 7:40 a.m. PT. You don’t want to miss it! http://t.co/MM4LcYwsR0
— Nintendo of America (@NintendoAmerica) June 8, 2015
We'll be streaming a #SmashBros video presentation from Mr Sakurai on 14/06 at 16:40 CEST! http://t.co/xMukXCkSow pic.twitter.com/vh12xVoZTM
— Nintendo of Europe (@NintendoEurope) June 8, 2015
Capcom Pro Tour USFIV Rule Change
FGCers brought up a good point on Twitter last week. If a Capcom Pro Tour Premier event's top 4 was full of people already qualified for December's Capcom Cup, and keeping in mind that as fighting game tournaments 90% of the time are double elimination bracket style (meaning there's a joint top 5, a joint 7 etc.) who gets that event's Capcom Cup spot?
Well it turns out neither of the joint top 5 get that spot, instead that spot goes to another person on from the leaderboard (which consists of players who've gained the most seeding points from doing well in tournaments), making the ratio swap from 16:15 to 15:16
16->15 Premier Events Qualifiers
15->16 Leaderboard Qualifiers
1 Previous Year’s Champion
You might have heard that PS4 USFIV is not doing very well
Work has begun on patching the broken mess that is PS4 USFIV (some of it has been patched out thankfully), but CEO and EVO are solving a problem with maximum efficiently by declaring they will use the 360 version for their USFIV tournaments, here are some of my favourite glitches and problems.
Yatagarasu lives up to adding FGC commentators in-game
This is the first time I've seen a disembodied @ultradavid head as part of a press release: http://t.co/WNw0FoU11I http://t.co/oVPhJFDG8C
— Jason Oestreicher (@unastrike) June 9, 2015
In case you forgot about this game or are seeing it for the first time, check out the indiegogo campaign that got the ball rolling, James Chen and Maximilian will also feature in the game. Ultradavid looks just like one of the Persona 3/4 characters from Arena/Arena Ultimax, does this mean he's anime now?
I love Killer Instinct's Shadow Mode
Killer Instinct's Shadow Mode is not just a great concept, it is surrounded by useful tools and ways to play against friends. if you're a Giant Bomb premium member check out Jeff and Jason trying it out on the Unprofessional Fridays: 05/29/2015!
Tekken 7's Kazumi Mishima with a true Tiger Uppercut
I get she can transform cause she's got devil powers but I've no idea why she can summon tigers, I don't care, it's awesome!
Thanks for reading and happy watching!
VGCW's End Game X was amazing! Bringing season 10 to a close. It's also the end of Bazza's time with VGCW, handing his creation over to a new person. You should totally check the archive to see such great matches as Guile defending the VGCW championship in a tables match against Sabin Rene Figaro and Dan Hibiki!