Battle Arena Melbourne RETURNS in 2023!

Get ready – the road to Oceania’s most celebrated fighting game tournament starts now.

CouchWarriors have publicly announced the 2023 installment of Battle Arena Melbourne, BAM13, for the weekend of June 9th-11th.

There are so many exciting details still to come: the tournament lineup, prize pool, sponsorships, World Tour support, international visitors, featured artists, afterparty venue… just make sure you save those dates, and stay tuned for more announcements!

Events Calendar: March 2023

The FGC’s collective holiday hangover is fading away like the summer heat, and it’s time to dive back into the 2023 CouchWarriors League schedule! That schedule now includes The Game Expo Melbourne, which is set to be one of the first non-ranbat offline tournaments of the year.

Here are the dates and sign-up links for that, and all the other March CouchWarriors League events – both online and offline.

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CouchWarriors League 2023: Updated Points Structure & Schedule

CouchWarriors League is officially back for 2023, announcing a new format and points system for the Summer and Winter championship seasons.

The 2023 format emphasizes more local and community events while pivoting the CWL Online schedule from weekly to monthly tournaments. The points awarded at each state’s monthly ranbats have been doubled, making them an even more important battleground for our championship hopefuls.

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Announcing FGC at The Game Expo

Starting the year off with a bang, we have teamed up with The Game Expo to bring you a huge FGC major this coming March! Featuring a large list of games and over $6000 in prize money, this will be an event all of you competitors out there won’t want to miss.

Date: March 11-12

Location: Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre – 1 Convention Centre Pl, South Wharf VIC 3006

Schedule: See tournament registration page

Prizes: Over $6000 (see list below for specific numbers)

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CouchWarriors Crossup is Upon Us!

We’re just days away from the sensational last event of CouchWarriors League 2022, and the last Australian major of the year. CouchWarriors Crossup returns to Melbourne this weekend, with a bigger venue and bigger selection of fighting games to cap off another year’s competition. That includes the highlight game from last CWC, DragonBall FighterZ – and the stakes will be high, as we are once again a DBFZ World Tour Power Event.

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CWL Results & Roundup for October

October’s events were the finish line of our CouchWarriors League points race, and with how fierce the competition has been this year that meant a ton more pressure on any leaderboard hopefuls.

CouchWarriors Crossup still looms as the season finale. But the points championship for each game is still a big prize – and for players who can’t travel to that event in person, the biggest one. With one more chance at the 2022 crown, who among them would muster the strength to seize it?

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COUCHWARRIORS ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING 2022

Date: 27th of November. Time: 4pm.
Venue/Location: Brunswick Masonic Centre, 6 Davies St, Brunswick North VIC 3056.
“It’s time for the CouchWarriors Annual General Meeting!”

Annual General Meeting Structure: Our AGM is open to the public, if you feel like you would like to be a part of CouchWarriors, help out with tournaments and build up the fighting game community in Australia, please feel free to come along. Our scene is built on the passion and dedication of volunteers and organizers.

CouchWarriors Mission Statement: CouchWarriors is a not-for-profit association that was created in 2006 to help grow the Fighting Game Community. We aim to do this by providing services and events for the community such as: creating welcoming spaces for new and veteran players to learn and play, running monthly ranking tournaments, hosting our national-level tournament Battle Arena Melbourne (BAM), and providing support and resources for companion events in the community.

Nominations: 2023 Officer roles and positions of the President, Vice President, Secretary, and Treasurer will be determined at this event via the nominations of the CouchWarriors Committee. The first round will be received via nomination.
Nominees can make themselves known by emailing us at [email protected]
Only CouchWarriors Committee Members can cast votes, be nominated, and be elected. Not the general public.

At the AGM we will discuss the following agenda items:
– Review of major and ongoing events, this includes Battle Arena Melbourne, The Monthly Ranking Battles, Conventions, and Online tournaments.
– Financial Review,
– Review & clarification of our mission statement,
– Report from each interstate team,
– Our direction and strategy moving forward,
– Review of event and management structure,
– Look ahead to 2023,
– Questions/Roundtable.

If you require further information prior to the event, please reach out to us via our email at [email protected]

Looking forward to seeing you all there! 

CouchWarriors Crossup 2022 – Nov 19-20 – Dragon Ball FighterZ World Tour

CouchWarriors Crossup (CWC) returns. The end of year major for the community has all the fantastic FGC and Smash titles. This year we are also hosting Dragon Ball FighterZ World Tour with a Power Event, a call back to the first CWC

We’re at a fantastic new venue of St Kilda Town Hall for the CouchWarriors League end of season finals.

Registration: start.gg/cwc2022

Date: November 19-20, 2022

Location: St Kilda Town Hall Auditorium – 99A Carlisle St, St Kilda VIC 3182, Australia

Schedule: Fully listed on the Registration page above

Prizes: Over $15,000 in prize pool thanks to our sponsors ASTRO and MWAVE

  • Major prizes for 1st and 2nd in the top 8 titles
  • Minor prizes across additional games
  • Door Prizes for players and spectators

CouchWarriors League: Our final event of the year will see Bounties on the top players on the ladder by the end of October.

www.couchwarriorsleague.com.au

©BIRD STUDIO/SHUEISHA, TOEI ANIMATION Game © Bandai Namco Entertainment Inc.

Events and Details: October 2022

We continue the exhilarating race to the finish in this month’s CouchWarriors League schedule, with one more big event queued up to help ambitious players climb the leaderboards: Big Cheese 3.

This one matters most for our South Australian hopefuls, with a hometown Major to catch them up on all the points others have reaped from BAM 2022 and Dreamhack Melbourne. But there’s still regular ranbats and CWL Online monthlies running elsewhere, plus the Champions’ Challenge at PAX Aus – not a ranked event, but there will be sponsored prizes plus the new test build of Street Fighter 6!

Here are the dates and sign-up links for all October’s CouchWarriors League events – both online and offline.
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CWL Results & Roundup for September

October was an absolute crucible for our CouchWarriors League hopefuls, with major events studded across the calendar and a ton of points up for grabs.

With some of our more dominant leaders pulling ahead of the pack, a double points win at Dreamhack Melbourne would be one chance to reel them back in. Perhaps the last chance for our resident Victorians, since October’s Major action is all in Adelaide! As if the stage at Rod Laver Arena weren’t high-pressure enough…
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