The East Coast Spring Series 4 qualifier was run in NYC with a final between Damdai and TechMonkey. Bracket | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Top 4
The West Coast qualifier will be run at Don’s arcade in LA on February 16. Top 3 of the tournament will qualify for Spring Series 4 at Free Play Arcade in Texas. Event Info | Stream channel
NorCal Crabattle run their February edition with a final between Myung and RusselCasse. Stream (starts at 1:33:00).
Lost Ark arcade in North Carolina will be running a tournament on ST 25th anniversary date, February 23rd. Event info | Stream channel
Retro Night is back at Defend The North 2019 in New York. July 19-21. Starting prize pool of $250 courtesy of CitiGaming and powered by Matcherino. Event info and registration
Monday Night Fightcade @ Arkadeum run their #112 weekly event with RenoMD Dictator and x64 in the finals. Bracket | Video
Japan
The last two Starcup qualifiers took place last week. However, MAO still hasn’t posted the videos. We’ll hopefully have them next week and publish the whole list here.
Enpara arcade in Osaka (Kansai) has been running casual sessions on Saturday night for the longest time. Last week and for the first time one of the cabinets was streamed on youtube. Some players you will be able to see are Otochun, Aniken, Murasaki, Kusumondo, Matsu Blanka. Ando Ken, Batayan guile, Takashikiyo old ken and 2P Deejay. No annotations. Video
North vs South weekly team tournament #115 from the HL-SEGA arcade in Osaka (Kansai). Shogatsu Old Honda and Ao-reppu Ryu face each other in the decisive match. Player name annotations on screen both in Japanese and English. [source: Shogatsu’s youtube channel – live stream every Monday night – Japan time)]
Game Daytona Shiki weekly tournament in Tokyo (Kanto). With their usual “winner stays on” format. There are always 2 laps. This week’s final is between Piroshi Honda and Haku Cammy. Annotations in video description. [source: Daytona twitch channel – live stream on Friday nights (Japan time)]
Special team battle at the Sun Seibu arcade in Hamamatsu (Chubu) with Isimorn Claw as guest.
Playland F1R tournament (Tohoku). From the remote arcade in the very far north of Japan. February 8 edition (no annotations) | January 26 (annotations in video description). [source: Playland twitch channel]
Europe
Zarghatt ChunLi and Donyann Ken have been announced as invited players for the FactorX tournament at HFS in France. More info
Extra Life Cafe in Paris will run a qualifier for HFS this weekend where the first 2 will get the spot. Golcarjack and Myco are likely to travel there for the spot. Sunday 17 at 3pm CEST. Stream | More info
A bunch of players have been now confirmed for the Fightcade Offline Festival in Spain (April 5-7). Seven Japanese players with different game specialities. For 2X there will be the two players who contributed to the game footage of the High Score Girl manga: TMF Zangief and TZW Guile. SpinalBlood Sagat from Italy has been confirmed as well.
First attack group have announced they will be running an ST tournament by the end of July at Morlaix (Bretagne, France). The exact dates are still TBD and they are working on bringing a Japanese guest. First attack facebook group
Capcom has released the music of several games on Spotify including ST. ST Playlist | More info
Arcade Shop has released the special stickers of the 2X logo that they created for the last EVO.
Capcom Japan has released several merchandising products related to Street Fighter on their website. One of the products is a 17 keychains with all the characters of ST with the chibi drawing style.
Someone on twitter has created an unofficial 2X wallpaper based on the design of the aforementioned keychains.
Displaced Gamers channel has released a detailed video about the 4:3 aspect ratio in CPS1 and CPS2 systems. They explain many of the myths and questions asked from players, why CRT don’t use pixels, how console ports found workarounds to other systems or why the native resolution of the games is different than the ones shown in the arcade screen, etc.
Brook has released their first full featured stick with their popular PCB inside. It comes with a removable lever as well. The stick will be presented at EVO Japan.
Hori has released a series of compact sticks meant for nintendo switch and PS3/4.
Arcade Paradise Shop has released several JAMMA related products. One of them is a switcher board that can be controlled from the joystick panel.
