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MarkMan · Aug 17, 2013

Get ready for the next battle! The 2013 Global Championships of TEKKEN is underway! TEKKEN TAG TOURNAMENT 2: Unlimited players from around the world will battle it out to see who the worlds best player is! Our friends at Namco Bandai Games are putting together a grand show for the TEKKEN fans! Round 1 Amusement plays host to this weekends US qualifier here in Southern California and Mad Catz is running the official stream!

In collaboration with the San Diego FGC & SDTEKKEN, Mad Catz will be providing a high quality stream on both Saturday & Sunday this weekend starting at 1PM PST! Dont miss out on the fierce competition! Special thanks to Round 1 Amusement and Ultimate Combo Finish for helping to make this possible!

Top placing North American player at EVO 2013, Bronson insanelee Tran will be in attendance as will the SoCal regulars including LevelUpYourGames Rip and AvoidingThePuddles Aris. This weekends champion will earn themselves an all expense paid trip to South Korea later this year for the Global Championship Finals in Seoul!

You can catch all the action from this weekend here:

http://twitch.tv/MadCatz

Starts at 1PM PST on both Saturday and Sunday!

Special Deals & Promos

Special Club NAMCO deal for this weekend's TEKKEN Global Championship - US Qualifier! The limited edition 'NAMCO Arcade FightStick Tournament Edition S' from Mad Catz is on sale for only $99.99 with FREE shipping! Check the image for details! To purchase this sought after item & for more information, click below:

http://store.namcobandaigames.com/store/namcous/en_US/pd/ThemeID.24355600/productID.236817100

NOTE: Offer valid for US & Canada only. Free shipping only applies to US.

MarkMan · Aug 17, 2013

I'll be showing off our new Mad Catz Arcade FightStick KE (Korean Edition) on the live stream, so if you're interested in a K-stick, make sure you tune in!

Some teaser images/shots...

Lambda Pie · Aug 17, 2013

1pm as in 13:00? it starts at 21:00 here. still gonna watch.

MarkMan · Aug 17, 2013

Lambda Piscium said:
1pm as in 13:00? it starts at 21:00 here. still gonna watch.

That is correct. 1:00 PM / 13:00 Pacific Standard Time.

Doomshine · Aug 17, 2013

Anyone travelling to this or is it mostly Norcal/Socal people?

MarkMan · Aug 17, 2013

Doomshine said:
Anyone travelling to this or is it mostly Norcal/Socal people?

Guess we'll find out tomorrow!

FYC · Aug 17, 2013

Wow I had no idea this was a thing.

Will watch! Thanks Mark my man

Horseress · Aug 17, 2013

MadCatz should make offers to people outside of North America, I'm from Brazil and sticks are really REALLY hard to find here, specially the good ones =/ MARKMAN PLS

MarkMan · Aug 17, 2013

Horseress said:
MadCatz should make offers to people outside of North America, I'm from Brazil and sticks are really REALLY hard to find here, specially the good ones =/ MARKMAN PLS

I apologize. We don't sell/ship directly there so there's nothing we can do

I know about the taxes/tariffs and high cost to import things there so hopefully we'll be able to do something in the near future.

Bgamer90 · Aug 17, 2013

Cool. Will definitely watch.

AnkiRendan · Aug 17, 2013

Looking forward to this!

Wolfgunblood Garopa · Aug 17, 2013

It must be new stick time, the KE is calling to me.

sixteen-bit · Aug 17, 2013

will tune in.

abstract alien · Aug 17, 2013

Sigh...Tekken is my first fighting game love. I had crazy fun with SF back in the day when I discovered it in a random bowling alley, but Tekken captured me. Loved King, and mained him in every iteration since.

PartTimeWarrior · Aug 17, 2013

hnnnng that Namco stick

Tempting but my TE is still alive and kicking

Horseress · Aug 17, 2013

MarkMan said:
I apologize. We don't sell/ship directly there so there's nothing we can do

I know about the taxes/tariffs and high cost to import things there so hopefully we'll be able to do something in the near future.

No problem, I know it's hard for you guys right now as it is. I hope something changes in the near future

DryEyeRelief · Aug 17, 2013

PartTimeWarrior said:
hnnnng that Namco stick

Tempting but my TE is still alive and kicking

It's Korean Edition, so I'm assuming it's built with korean parts. It has a different feel than a regular TE.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hu8qlRJnH2M

The differences may not seem like much but they tend to make a difference to players. Infiltration for instance will only play on his Korean stick.

Doomshine · Aug 17, 2013

Stream is up

Mr.Marston · Aug 17, 2013

Tekken <3

CSX · Aug 17, 2013

DAT TOP 16 for Casually Bronson

all the effort lololol

SDBurton · Aug 17, 2013

Haven't played Tekken in ages. Will definitely watch, maybe it'll bring me back!

Dereck · Aug 17, 2013

Why has this game never had pair play tournaments?

Doomshine · Aug 17, 2013

...and twitch servers decide to take a huge dump on the tournament just as it starts....

Passive Assassin · Aug 17, 2013

YES. WE'RE IN THERE.

Dereck · Aug 17, 2013

Yay Aris

Dereck · Aug 18, 2013

Too much damn lag in the streams, looks like it's fixed now though.

Accoun · Aug 18, 2013

boutdown said:
Too much damn lag in the streams, looks like it's fixed now though.

Not really. I know I'm from Poland, far from the US, have a pretty bad connection, but I never had any problems on medium quality (I'm on Android app, I guess it might be 480p or something) regardless of country. Here it lags like hell.

Doomshine · Aug 18, 2013

It's Twitch, everyone is lagging.

Dereck · Aug 18, 2013

Accoun said:
Not really. I know I'm from Poland, far from the US, have a pretty bad connection, but I never had any problems on medium quality (I'm on Android app, I guess it might be 480p or something) regardless of country. Here it lags like hell.

It's lagging again now like you said.

Ultimatum · Aug 18, 2013

Always loved tekken but I didn't realise it was taken serious by the competitive scene, pretty cool. Does anyone use Lee or Raven?

AAK · Aug 18, 2013

Thanks for doing this MarkMan... I won't be able to tune in for the majority of it but much love for keeping the scene alive.

DryEyeRelief · Aug 18, 2013

boutdown said:
It's lagging again now like you said.

for some reason the mobile app has no lag for this, but the regular stream does.

MarkMan · Aug 18, 2013

Thanks for tuning in guys. We will be back with top 16 tomorrow! 2PM PST!

Manbig · Aug 18, 2013

Ultimatum said:
Always loved tekken but I didn't realise it was taken serious by the competitive scene, pretty cool. Does anyone use Lee or Raven?

It's arguably the deepest fighting game right now. It just might have TOO much depth though.

Dereck · Aug 18, 2013

Ready for top 16

Doomshine · Aug 18, 2013

Some great matches for top 16.

Chet vs Naps? Give it to me. Aris vs Rip? Sure I've seen it before, but the stakes are way higher this time. Bronson vs Kane? Sign me up.

MarkMan · Aug 18, 2013

Stream should be back up around 1:30/2:00 PM PST. Tune in!

http://twitch.tv/MadCatz or http://madcatz.tv

Passive Assassin · Aug 18, 2013

it's about to start

Passive Assassin · Aug 18, 2013

And it's a blow up :l Dat lag.

Doomshine · Aug 18, 2013

I'm just going to watch the archives this time, I can't deal with this shit,,,

Passive Assassin · Aug 18, 2013

lol goddamn they can only get 250kbps from twitch. nvm now 1400 kbps.

poopninjamvc3mk · Aug 18, 2013

Great looking tourney ruined by some awful quality

Doomshine · Aug 18, 2013

Ok it's fine now, but the next time a lag spike hits I'm done.

Accoun · Aug 18, 2013

Suddenly, I jumped a round forward. :-/

Also, are there people playing in the background? I'm sure I've heard "KO" in the middle of a match picked up by the commentators' microphones...

Doomshine · Aug 18, 2013

I think there's 2 cabinets and they are doing the losers bracket on the other one until top 8.

Accoun · Aug 18, 2013

Ah, true. They said before they're gonna skip the losers' bracket (maybe except one fight) before it started today.

Doomshine · Aug 18, 2013

Now the audio is behind the video? Are we just going to go through every single technical issue on this stream? :/

Accoun · Aug 18, 2013

By the way, players can't change their characters in that tournament. But are they allowed to change the character order (so f. ex. Rip usually starts with Law, but he wants to start next fight with Paul)? Haven't played TTT2, so I dunno if it's even possible without going back to character select.

Passive Assassin · Aug 18, 2013

Chet vs Naps

Doomshine · Aug 18, 2013

Accoun said:
By the way, players can't change their characters in that tournament. But are they allowed to change the character order (so f. ex. Rip usually starts with Law, but he wants to start next fight with Paul)? Haven't played TTT2, so I dunno if it's even possible without going back to character select.

You can hold the tag button before the round starts to change the point character.

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