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Tougeki Executive Committee Announces Temporary Suspension of National Competition 27 Mar 2013
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Since it began in 2003, the Japanese national tournament series Tougeki (Super Battle Opera) has provided a number of exciting events, allowing some of the world’s best fighting game players a platform to showcase their skills. Despite numerous issues in recent years, they were seen as one of our scene’s strongest pillars of global competition. [...]
UltraChen TV’s Tuesday Show Streaming Live – Super Battle Opera 2012 7 Aug 2012
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It’s Tuesday night, and that can only mean one thing: another episode of UltraChen TV! Ultra David and James Chen will team up once more for a night full of interesting discussion topics. Tonight is all about Super Battle Opera 2012, so if you missed out and want to catch up on what happened or [...]
Tougeki 2012 -SUPER BATTLE OPERA- Results 4 Aug 2012
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NOTE: TOUGEKI 2012 is a pay-per-view stream. Details can be found below. This weekend, August 4-5, is TOUGEKI 2O12 -SUPER BATTLE OPERA-, The 10th Arcadia Cup Tournament. This year, Tougeki is a part of a larger event, GAME SUMMER FESTIVAL 2012, presented by Enterbrain, Inc. This event will be held in the city of Narita [...]
[UPDATE] No New Game Announcement from Capcom at Tougeki, Yoshinori Ono Confirms JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure HD Presentation 4 Aug 2012
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UPDATE – Unfortunately, it seems the announcement was just a presentation for the upcoming HD re-release of JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure. Professor of MMCafe noted that the updated schedule revealed the news yesterday, and Yoshinori Ono confirmed this morning that there would be no new game announcement. Every year, players look forward to the Super Battle [...]
BT|Dieminion Shares His Thoughts on Super Battle Opera 2 Aug 2012
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“The Great American Hope” BT|Dieminion has written up a pretty insightful blog about his thoughts leading into SBO 2012. Paired with Latif and PR Rog, Dieminion has an incredibly strong team– but he’s not resting on his laurels just yet. USA has not had a great showing at Tougeki in previous years. Perhaps it could [...]
Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 at Tougeki 2012: Qualifier Results and Breakdown 23 Jul 2012
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 UPDATE: It was originally written that this year’s Tougeki stream would be free to watch. The Game Extra Stage is indeed free to watch, but the main stage stream is paid. TOUGEKI 2012 -SUPER BATTLE OPERA-, the 10th Arcadia Cup Tournament, is less than 2 weeks away. On August 4 and 5, players from all regions [...]
Tougeki 2012 Soul Calibur V US Qualifier at Super Arcade Results 22 Jul 2012
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The US has one slot alloted for the SoulCalibur V finals at TOUGEKI 2012 -SUPER BATTLE OPERA-, and that spot will be decided today at Super Arcade in Southern California. Super Arcade 1211 N. Grand Ave. Walnut, California 91789 Super Arcade on Twitter (@SuperDojo) Challonge bracket The format for the qualifier is double-elimination, best 3 [...]
Persona 4 Arena – Super Battle Opera 2012 Player Lineup, Character Representation 21 Jul 2012
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Roman Cancel recently compiled the full list of players who qualified to play Persona 4 Arena at this year’s Super Battle Opera, as well as the characters they’ll be using in the tournament. A few notable names include Yume (who qualified by winning Chou Tougeki), DIEchan, and Stunedge. It’s also good to see that every [...]
Tougeki 2012 US Southwest Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 Qualifier Results 15 Jul 2012
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Today is the first Tougeki 2012 qualifier in the US, at Arcade UFO in Austin, Texas for the Southwest US region. This Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 qualfifier is actually split into two tournaments, with the first running on Saturday and the second on Sunday. The winners of each tournament will qualify for Tougeki 2012 [...]
Ketubato U -Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3- Tougeki 2012 Qualifier Results 14 Jul 2012
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UPDATE: Due to a poor network environment and PC trouble, the tournament was not streamed nor recorded. You can however find results for the 16-player finals tournament below. Yesterday in Niigata, Japan was Gushiken Matsuri, an event with Tougeki qualifiers for both SoulCalibur V (2 spots) and Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 (1 spot). While [...]