Four SFV internationals confirmed for BAM8!
CouchWarriors would like to welcome the four confirmed internationals for BAM8! Razer Xian, EG Momochi, MJS Haitani and Mago-san!
Australian fighting game event runners and community. Hosts of BAM: Battle Arena Melbourne, Australia's largest fighting game/open entry esports event.
CouchWarriors would like to welcome the four confirmed internationals for BAM8! Razer Xian, EG Momochi, MJS Haitani and Mago-san!
We are pleased to announce the return of special guest Jeffrey “Chamba” Cruz to Battle Arena Melbourne in 2016!
The artist for Udon Comics’ Street Fighter Unlimited will be appearing both Saturday 14th 11am-5pm, and Sunday 15th May, 11am-3pm.
Chamba, who was a popular guest at BAM 2014, will be available to draw commissions of your favourite characters, sign prints and hang with fellow gaming fans!
To browse through his fantastic art visit theCHAMBA.com
Follow Chamba on Instagram and Twitter
For a hint of what Chamba will be working on for fans at, browse his website or Instagram above to see recent art including amazing Free Comic Book Day sketches.
Prices:
Black & White Single character Headshot Commissions:
A6 postcard – $10
A5 Headboard – $30
Blank Cover – $40
Prize:
Chamba is providing to #BAM8’s prize pool a one custom colour and one black and white piece illustrated on Limited Gold Foil UDON Street Fighter Unlimited #1 blank sketch cover!
Hit the break to read Chamba’s Bio
BAM8 Schedule:
Be sure to check when your games/pools/finals are on so you don’t miss out!
Check out which pool you are in here: https://smash.gg/tournament/battle-arena-melbourne-8-3/brackets
CouchWarriors is pleased to announced that Bandai Namco Entertainment will be supporting the Tekken 7 tournament at BAM8 with a prize pot bonus of $1000. Register now!
http://couchwarriors.org/bam8/bam8-registration/
You can also view the Facebook version of the video here
It’s time to reveal the BAM8 t-shirt design! Designed by our own Kenneth Chan and concept by Daniel Chlebowczyk from the CouchWarriors Committee.
Prepare to battle in style, you can pre-order with your registration here: http://couchwarriors.org/
Just mention your size preference in order notes. (Sizing: S, M, L, XL, XXL.)
We’re pleased to announce the addition of three side tournaments at BAM8:
Super Street Fighter II Turbo, Virtua Fighter 5: Final Showdown and Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3.
Sign up now or add the games if you’ve already pre-registered!
Big thanks to SpiderCarnage and Jake Lovett aka Naked Jake for running Super Turbo and Marvel at BAM8!
CouchWarriors always encourages DIY tournaments and to reward passionate champions of the game in the community. So if you want to see your game at BAM next year – step up and let us know!
BAM8 is swiftly approaching!
We’ve already announced a $500 pot bonus for the top 3 Australian players for Smash 4 and Melee:
And we’re pleased to announce a new pot bonus – $500 for Street Fighter V!
And one last pot bonus- this time $300 for BlazBlue: Chrono Phantasma Extend!
Remember to pre-register for BAM8 before the 7th of May when pre-reg closes! Hope to see you guys there.
Hi guys, just want to let you know about the upcoming BAM8 qualifiers!
16 April Canberra: BAM8 Qualifier by Stick Addiction
17 April Perth: WA BAM8 Prologue by Ozhadou Perth
24 April New Zealand: BAM8 NZ Qualifier by Standing Fierce
30 April Sydney: YSB #41 by Ozhadou
A big thank you to our fellow TOs for organising these qualifiers and hope you guys make it out to these!
And thank you to the GC Fighters for throwing a great tourney last week, and be sure to check out Dejan’s post-tournament recap.
Hi guys,
We’re happy to announce that the official BAM8 afterparty will happen on Sunday night May 15 at 10PM-3AM at the Crafty Squire nearby on 127 Russell Street.
We will have drinks till late together with multiple setups there for your drunken team matches or moneymatches!
Drink specials for the night:
Happy hour prices ($8.50 pints) on tap beer & cider, house wines & house spirits for the night
$12 cocktails – Long Island, Apple pie & mojito
$5 “wet p***y” shots all night (vodka, peach schnapps and cranberries)
The kitchen will be open till late with the likes of: fish & chips, beef burger, chips, wedges, calamari, pork belly, school prawns, lamb ribs, sweetcorn fritters.
In addition, we’ll have our own Deejay: the infamous arcade Ryu player himself Phil “Def-P” Nguyen– feel free to hit him up with some requests.
Hope to see you guys there!
(Over 18 only!)
Facebook event link in case you missed it: https://www.facebook.com/events/261565857518169/