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#CouchWarriors: #BAM9 - Battle Arena Melbourne 9 May 12-14, MCEC I'll be there: Saturday 13th 11am-5pm, Sunday 14th May, 11am-3pm. Black & White Single character Headshot Commissions: A6 postcard – $10 A5 Headboard – $30 Street Fighter Blank Cover – $50 Also some prints for $10 each.

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There are many reason to subscribe to CouchWarriorTV, here are a few of the most exciting!

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A FALLOUT 4 STORY EXPERIENCE

Billy's story has begun!  Set in the world of Fallout 4, Billy is a complicated and conflicted man struggling to do the right thing in a world filled with wrong. Woven together with video, audio and the written word, Saint Billy is a rich story tapestry like nothing you have ever experienced.

If you like Fallout 4 stories, I recommend to check this out! I’m supporting this project and I’m loving it so far. Please check the link! There’s audio files and videos for Youtube! :) Immersive Role Play by Couchwarrior.

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What a great final round to finish the ARMS Community Night. #magnificentnerds #couchwarriors #nintendoaustralia #arms (at Space338)

[bandainamcous]

It's now or never! Who will take the final Dragon Ball to move on to the #DBFZWT Finals next month? Watch the epic conclusion of Saga 7 at CouchWarriors Crossup by tuning in now

[mda20009blogpostassignment]

Week 10 - Online Gaming Communities

As technology improves, so does online games, and as the games and quality of the products improves, there will always come an increase in users. As a result, modern gaming communities are some of the largest online communities with several social platforms geared specifically towards gaming, such as Discord. But you can’t talk about social gaming platforms without content creation, which is where streaming platforms such as twitch.tv come in.

With the rise of video streaming sites like YouTube, there was becoming a demand for platforms that allowed users to play and talk to viewers in real time, as well as for competitions and tournaments to have a way for online spectators to view the matches as they’re happening as opposed to after they happen.

With players and viewers able to enjoy the content at the same time, naturally communities will form on these platforms to share in the experiences with each other. Taylor talks about how Twitch allows streamers to “mix together gameplay, humor, commentary, and real- time interaction with fans and audiences” (Taylor 2018).

An example of an online community here in Australia is the “Australian Anime Fighting Game Community”, a community of players who congregate on Discord to share their love of games. One of the biggest benefits of these online communities is how they allow people to find others with these interests online, and then meet with one another in person at events such as Battle Arena Melbourne.

Thanks for checking out my blog and hopefully you learned something over the last 8 weeks about digital citizenship.

References:

CouchWarriors 2022. Battle Arena Melbourne 12, available at <https://www.couchwarriors.org/tag/bam12/>

Taylor, TL 2018, ‘Broadcasting ourselves’ (chapter 1), in Watch Me Play: Twitch and the Rise of Game Live Streaming, Princeton University Press, pp.1-23

Twitch 2022, twitch.tv, available at <https://www.twitch.tv/>

[comunidadarcsystemworks]

Estos son los detalles para conseguir la séptima Dragon Ball del Dragon Ball FighterZ World Tour

El último evento de Saga del Dragon Ball FighterZ World Tour ha sido anunciado como CouchWarriors Crossup. Sucediendo del 15 al 16 de diciembre en Melbourne, Australia, será la última oportunidad de ganar una Dragon Ball y clasificarse directamente a las finales en enero.

En el CouchWarriors Crossup también se podrá jugar a Under Night in Birth Exe Late [st], Guilty Gear REV 2 y Blazblue: Cross Tag Battle.

Puedes consultar más información pinchando aquí.

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“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -- I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.” Robert frost. #robertfrostquote #troutdale #gresham #roadlesstraveled #decisions #couchwarrior #gracietechnicstroutdale #gracietechnics #choices (at Gracie Technics Troutdale)

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— The Game Tourist (@TheGameTourist) April 23, 2019

[somniax]

2017 Year in Review - Blog Revival? Part 2 - SFV

Back again for Part 2 and Wishing everyone a Happy New Year!

By far my most active game this year was SFV, entering many leagues, attending many locals and travelling to quite a few Asia tournaments.

May not be that well known but SFV S1 had me questioning whether I was going to stick around in fighting games or take a long break. Despite winning the S1 Couchwarriors ranbat league, the 8 frames of lag was a huge annoyance for me as a defensive player. S1 had me bugging out with how ridiculously easy strategy wise it was to play some of the top tier characters. 

Thankfully the minor lag reduction & S2 re-balance patch gave me hope of better days. S2 saw the rebirth of Dictator as an actual threat, no more getting abused by Chun/Mika/Ryu & v-reversals into set play so I decided to stick it out and see where it takes me.

It took me places I’d never been, like Taiwan

Dark Sided

So I started off the year 2017 by joining up with team Dark Sided.  One of the major reasons for doing so is that I saw all the great things they had been doing with ZG & Falco and they were proving that they were an organisation that cares about the local FGC. I’d been sponsored before, but it was a very hands off affair that never really went anywhere. I was originally concerned about a similar situation but Dark Sided not only proved themselves as a great team but a team that actually cares about their players. 

If you wanna check out the year Dark Sided has had, click the link below. Lots of great moments!

A twitter year in review for the team -

https://twitter.com/i/moments/943714052697505792

Hyper Magazine

The next big thing that happened in 2017 was pretty much a life achievement. I used to read Hyper Magazine as a kid at my local news agency and I never imagined I’d be featured in an article. Needless to say I’ve kept a few copies to reminisce about when I’m old and retired (just old right now, not retired just yet).

A full page spread in Hyper Magazine - A dream come true

Battle Arena Melbourne 9

The first major tournament that I attended in the year came around in May. 

The global Capcom Pro Tour Premiere Battle Arena Melbourne 9. I was doing quite well online and locally so my confidence levels were up there.

It’s also the first time I’ve got an interview on Capcom Fighters, which was an awesome experience

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FI_tXf-zTx4

There was one major problem I didn’t account for though... for the first time in about 10 years I lost my keys on the way home on Friday night, the day before the tournament.

My spare keys were with my partner who was sleeping, far away & had work early in the morning so I was pretty screwed.

After about an hour of trying to break into my own place, I walked to the nearest motel at around 3-4am to get a few hours of sleep before the tournament started the next day. Needless to say the motel wasn’t exactly the greatest place to sleep but I did manage to get around 3 hours.

Next day my partner let me into my place and I was able to go get my keys. Rocking up to the tournament feeling like trash, I was knocked into losers in a relatively close match vs Tokido. Once in losers, BKsama’s Urien eliminated me. BKsama took me out and had a really close match vs Gamerbee next, just falling short of taking him out.

The main lesson learned here is always check for your keys - and if you do happen to lose them you have to try extra hard to stay on point (or get a lot of decent sleep) because the best players will notice and body you systematically.

Infiltration visiting Melbourne at BAM9

As a long time fan of Bonchan’s Sagat in USF4, it was amazing to see him run through the brackets at BAM9 and take out the event with a nerfed Nash. Especially when it was against such a strong Cammy player too!

The grand finals were sick and you can review them at the link below

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNIVBDsy7fc

Stay tuned for the next part! I’ll have it up in the next couple of days.

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Check out just one of many different series that are currently out for you to watch right now.

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Fighterz have gathered here in Australia for CouchWarriors Crossup!  Tune in now to see all the battles during the Pools.

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Soul Calibur VI Will Be Playable At BAM10 From May 18-20th, 2018

Soul Calibur VI Will Be Playable At BAM10 From May 18-20th, 2018

CouchWarriors will present Battle Arena Melbourne 10 on May 18th, which will end on May 20th, at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Center (MCEC) in Melbourne, Australia. Thanks to Bandai Namco, a playable build of Soul Calibur VI will be present at the event. The fighting game is slated to debut this year for PC, PS4, and Xbox One. (more…)

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2017 Year in Review - Blog Revival? Part 1 - USF4/MVCI/KOF

What’s up all!

Been a long time since I’ve even looked at this page and I wanted something a bit more permanent than a tweet longer as they seem to be mostly used for retirement announcements. In the interest of preserving a slice of FGC history, this blog is temporarily (?) revived.

So where to start with 2017? I’ve had many adventures this year to Asia and around Australia thanks to my team Dark Sided’s support. New opportunities that have never been available in previous years have made this year very exciting.

2017 World Warriors Falco (Chun/Ibuki), Myself & ZG (Claw)

Rather than talk individually about every trip and experience, I’ll just break it down to highlights and lessons learnt in regards to each game I was competing in throughout the year. As a quick side note, I’m really grateful to all my friends that I’ve met again and for the first time during my trips this year, definitely makes the travel worth it. SFV will be continued in Part 2, so grab a seat and some popcorn.

USF4 - The Final Chapter

So as many people probably know, I got into the competitive side of Street Fighter when Street Fighter 4 landed. I was an arcade rat for many years playing Street Fighter 3, but never really tried to push myself into competitions until 2009.

As such SF4 has a special place in my heart and any visit to Japan ignites my desire to play again. Any day of the week I could head down to the Arcades and get a game of SF4, while SFV was only really available to me twice a week at most. Naturally I ended up playing lots of USF4 when I was there last in 2016. Benching my long term main Dictator for the newcomer to USF4 Decapre so that I won’t confuse myself while playing SFV.

2017 Taiwan Reunion with Lingo (Gouken) and Reiketsu (Claw)

Through some rumblings in the scene here in AU, a competitive league started up for USF4 and it saw tournaments at BAM9, OHN and SXC as well as a local league at Couch Warriors ranbats.

I placed relatively well throughout the year, 5th at BAM9, 2nd at OHN and 1st at SXC/Couch Warriors league. 

While it was fun, I did notice that I was finding myself annoyed a lot while playing, getting hit by a lot of gimmicks that I never really had issues with before and mostly bemoaning the fact that I couldn’t play Dictator anymore.

It was extremely hard to practice the game, as there wasn’t a sizeable list of competitors anymore and at most you’d get to practice once every 2 weeks or so. Which meant that people were playing with rust on at all times and just attempting to gimmick each other out. Didn’t really have the same competitive feel like it had before.

I think with this in mind and with the fact that 2018 is going to be packed with new Fighting games, It’s time for me to finally call it quits on USF4 competitively.

With DragonBall FighterZ, Soul Calibur 6, MVCI, Tekken 7, Injustice 2, Fighting EX Layer & Street Fighter 5 AE in 2018 I think that people are going to be even less focused on USF4, so it’s probably time to “Let the past die” and look towards the future.

Marvel Vs Capcom: Infinite

This is a tough one for me, as I loved UMVC3 and spent a lot of my time trying to grind out the game. One of the first games to even get me into Fighting games was Marvel Super Heroes vs Street Fighter - which Toxy always reminds me was “the boring one” because it wasn’t as broken fun as Xmen vs Street Fighter. I really love the series as a whole and have always enjoyed watching and playing the games.

MVCI started out very different to me, I couldn’t grasp how the game was meant to be played and it seemed like defensive play was an impossibility for the longest time. I reached out to a few people for some help and understanding of the strategy involved. After playing KillerKai a lot in Taiwan I had a bit of a better idea but I would say I’m still trying to understand the neutral game.

Myself & Burnout Getting wrecked by KillerKai’s Zero/Dante for hours in Taiwan

I placed 9th in the Singapore Battle of the stones event, despite having no expectations as by my own standards I’m pretty bad at the game. SXC was a fairly low turn out but I believe I ended up 5th.

Some of my concerns about the game were patched recently, with others still remain. The discovery of fairly easy unblockables doesn’t really help the game tbh. Post patch I’ve had better results, finishing 2nd place at the Couchwarriors Ranbat Finals to Toxy with a fairly large relative turnout. I want the game to do well, and I want the issues to be ironed out - I really want Marvel to take it’s place next to Street Fighter as one of the most hype games at EVO (even more hype most of the time). Hopefully the developers can address the remaining issues & potentially re-release the product like they did with MVC3 and UMVC3.

I’ll probably spend some time learning Strange combos because he’s pretty sick, but don’t expect too much from me results wise in this game when 2018 rolls around because my only strategy so far is “never get hit”. I haven’t forgot about my give away of an MVCI copy (1k followers!), I’ll be doing it fairly soon to one of my twitter followers but I still haven’t decided the best method to do it yet. I want to give it to someone who will get the most use out of it.

ANZ Players to watch in 2018: I think this is fairly obvious, Baxter will be one of the unstoppable few in MVCI in 2018. Outside of Baxter I’d have to say keep an eye out for Mason in New Zealand, and Canpakes (Betterpart) who plays an extremely cheap Fireband/Raccoon team. I’m not too sure how the unblockables will change the game, but I imagine that the good players will still remain good.

King of Fighters 14

I doubt it’s very well known, but I used to spend a lot of time playing KOF2002 in the arcades. I wasn’t any good, but I played. Mature was by far my favourite character, so I’ve had a habit of using her in every game she’s in. KOF13 was a game I lightly played, never really learned that deeply but placed relatively well considering.

KOF14 rolled around and we were excited to have a new KOF to play. Although, it was a broken mess the first patch - Birds were everywhere. Eventually the patch came out and I decided to get a bit more serious about it and try to actually learn the game.

I spent a fair bit of time trying to level up and learn the combos/hit confirms and just as I got to a level where I was starting to compete with the upper levels of the AUS KOF community (compete, but not yet defeat) my local scene all dropped the game.

My last major for the game was in Taiwan, where I got destroyed a few rounds through winners of my pool by a player called BALL. I had no idea what to do against Yuri as I’ve fought the character maybe twice in KOF14. I thought “well, I was bound to lose because there are actual amazing KOF players out there” and as it turns out BALL made it to top 5 of the event so I couldn’t be too upset about that.

Getting slapped up by Yuri

I really enjoyed playing KOF14 and it’s sad that I had to drop it off my list of games I was playing. Online was not that playable and I couldn’t get anyone to play me locally, there’s only so much I can do in training mode by myself.

Luong is actually one of my favourite characters of any KOF series to play and I’m hoping that a patch 3.0 revival brings people back to the game. 

Speaking of Luong, one of the highlights of the Taiwan Major 2017 was Kindevu’s amazing run in top 4. If you haven’t seen it - make sure you check it out!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMZowG9ZoSE

ANZ Players to watch in 2018: I’d have to give this to Baxter as well, if patch 3.0 reignites the scene I imagine that he’ll be back on top of it with Falco & players like Chen/Kyokugen/AlexK there to challenge him.