X-News Week #31 (May 21st-27th, 2018)

May 28, 2018

Another week another qualified player for Tournament of Legends III. This time from the Combo Breaker tournament which had 113 signed up players. Players who made it to top 8: Millertime Honda, Silentscope Cammy, LordJimmyBones Boxer, Mr Igloo Boxer, Immortal Claw, JigglyNorris FeiLong and the grand final between eltrouble Dhalsim and Alex Valle Ryu. Footage coming from the stream archive: Pools | Top 24 (minute 10:10:00) | Top 8 (minute 2:27:10 with James Chen on the mic) | Brackets | Updated ToL3 poster
Combo Breaker also hosted the exhibition tournament of 30th Anniversary. Unfortunately, Daigo wasn’t able to make it for health reasons. ST was featured in quarters between Ricky Ortiz and ShinJn whereas the grand final was between Alex Valle and Justin Wong playing Alpha 3. Video
All the aforementioned news were not as big as the real news of the week. Eltrouble and Millertime got engaged on Combo Breaker stage. Some of the tweets with pictures and videos of the magic moment are referenced in the latest STRevival results post. There is the live moment captured in the twitch archive (minute 4:06:40)
Monday Night Fightcade @ Arkadeum run their #79 weekly event. The final this week was between x64 and H-Zero. Bracket | Video | Leaderboard.
Monday Night Fightcade will also start their qualifiers for Tournament of Legends III next week (June 4). Email sergjiev@arkadeum.com to get on the pre-registration list.

X-Count posted a lot of video series played in Osaka: FT10 Murasaki Dictator vs Shinnosuke Ryu (live version | delayed commentary version), FT5 Nishio Dictator vs Batayan Guile (video), FT5 Okafei FeiLong vs Teppei Guile (video), FT5 Danjiri Boxer vs Hazi DJ (video).
Gamespot Versus weekly team tournament (Kanto), Yakitori Hawk and Kawasim Dhalsim were the team captains. Milanea Honda from France is also in the video as he was visiting Japan for a few days. [source: GSV youtube channel]
Game Daytona Shiki weekly tournament (Kanto). With their usual “winner stays on” format. There are always 2 laps. This week’s final is between Ren Dictator and Kawasim DJ.
A FT10 coming from GameSpot Versus (Kanto): Suzuki Zangief vs Kawasim DJ (video). Also a long set of casuals between Kusa ChunLi and Sasori Ryu (video).
Special Fukuyama Ryu Kumite at Gamespot Versus (Kanto).
Game Newton Ooyama team tournament (Kanto), East vs West format with two laps.
North vs South tournament from the HL-SEGA arcade (Kansai). Shogatsu Old Honda and Kusumondo Honda were defending their teams in the final.
Playland F1R 2on2 tournament (Tohoku). From the remote arcade in the very far north of Japan.

Extra Life Café in Paris is organizing a 30th anniversary launch party with both PS4 and arcade setups for ST. It will happen on Friday, June 1st.
Justin Wong confirmed he will be participating in the Tournament of Legends III qualifier at the VSFighting event in the UK. Registration
The small Spanish community run their monthly online tournament on Fightcade. Brackets

Everyone is hyped this week about the upcoming 30th Anniversary release. We are looking forward to seeing accurate input lag test results.
A new version of Fightcade 2 was released (still in beta) with improvements on netcode and performance.