Southern Cross Championship 2016: December 2-4 Adelaide

Hi guys, the fourth iteration of South Australia’s fighting game major Southern Cross Championship (#SXC2016) happens on December 2-4, occupying two floors of The University of Adelaide.
 
They will be featuring some incredible prize support from their sponsors including:
 
-$1000 pot bonus for SFV courtesy of Steelseries and $1000 worth of prizes for the whole event.
-$1000 worth of prize giveaways courtesy of Mwave
-$1000 pot bonus for KOFXIV and GGXRD Revelator courtesy of MSI gaming
-$1000 pot bonus for Super Smash Bros Wii U and Super Smash Bros Melee courtesy of Arena Internet Cafe
 
 
Register now at http://safgc.org/ !
 
It will be an awesome event in Radelaide, so see you guys there!

CouchWarriors FINAL 2016 Ranbat- December 10 at CQ Hotel!

CouchWarriors is capping off 2016 with a huge event – just like last year we’re hosting our final ranbat at the CQ hotel right in the Melbourne CBD for a one day fighting game extravaganza.

Ring in the holiday season with some fighting game cheer- and we have many special surprises in store for you!

The top 3 placers in our 2016 ranking battle points for Smash 4, Melee and SFV will be competing for a $250 prize bonus – with the highest point placer for each game receiving a medal and a special prize (TBA).

The December Ranbat will bring extra weight- placing in December will earn you double points! (Usually 10 for 1st, 8 for 2nd and 6 for 3rd) The top two current places for Smash 4 and SFV are currently separated by three points, so do your best at the remaining two ranbats in November and December!

Check out current rankings here: http://couchwarriors.org/wp/october-ranking-points-update/

Pre-register for the December ranbat here and put yourself in the running to win some prizes from our sponsors!

See you there for an exciting day of casuals and tournament hype – who will make it across the finish line?

Dates: Saturday, December 10
Time: 10am-10pm
Location: Event Room #2: CQ Functions, 123 Queen Street, Melbourne
Entry Fee: $15 Entry + Tournaments (Expected pot fee is $5 per tournament)
Facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/1795761604018988/

Schedule

11am – Project M

12pm – Smash 4 Doubles (you cannot enter melee doubles if you enter s4 doubles)

12:30pm – Melee Doubles (you cannot enter s4 doubles if you enter melee doubles)

1pm – Virtua Fighter 5 Final Showdown

1pm – Mortal Kombat X

2pm – Guilty Gear Xrd Revelator

2:30pm – Rivals of Aether

3pm – Smash 4 Singles

3pm – Dead or Alive 5 Last Round

3pm – King of Fighters XIV

3:30pm – Melee Singles

4pm – Street Fighter V

Bring Your Own Controller

There is a BYOC / Sticks policy for the event. We have some available for emergency and our friendly players will often loan a controller, but we ask you to please bring your own! Also, while we have enough equipment to run the tournaments, everyone will appreciate anybody who can bring setups for casuals and DIYs.

How to get there

CQ Functions is on Queen St, a short walk up from Melbourne Central train Station, or Flinders St Station.

CouchWarriors November Ranbats -19th and 26th of November

CouchWarriors ranbats are back in November!

The Traditional Fighters + Melee ranbat will be on the 19th of November. And we have the Smash 4 + Rivals of Aether July Ranbat on the 22nd of October.

Be sure to check which weekend coincides with the games that you play:

Dates: Saturday 19th and 26th of November
Time: 10:00am – late
Location: 6 Davies St, Brunswick North, VIC 3056
Entry Fee: $10 plus tournaments

Don’t forget our December final ranbat will have prizes and medals for the ranking battle points winner- so make sure to do your best at this November ranbat as well!

Check the latest points rankings here.

 

COUCHWARRIORS HOSTING FIGHTING GAMES AT PAXAUS! NOV 4-6

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Another year, another huge PAXAus!

CouchWarriors have been called upon once again to host the fighting game section of the Console Tournament area at PaxAus, running through all three days and hosting a wide variety of games to suit any gamer, new or old.

As usual, between tournament sets we are open for learn to play sessions and casual matches. So feel free to take a break between all those panels, cosplaying and indie games to come join in for some competitive fun! Winners for each tournament will receive a limited edition PAXAus medal!

Games Available:

Guilty Gear Xrd Revelator
Pokken Tournament
King of Fighters XIV
Super Smash Bros for WiiU
Street Fighter 5
Dead or Alive 5: Last Round
Tekken Tag Tournament 2

Direct link to the fighting game schedule can be found here.
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October Ranking Points Update

Every month at the CouchWarriors Ranking Battles, the results are tallied and at the end of the year, we’ll celebrate our most consistent placers with a top of table medal.

Here are the Top 3 in each game after October’s Ranbat.
Take a look at the Results Section for the full total.

MeleePointsSmash 4PointsProject MPoints
S.D54Earl45Tyler74
DonB32Ghost42Splice32
Splice22BIGBOSS40Corspecreate30
SF5PointsDOA5UPointsGGXrdPoints
Toxy42Ebabil30Javi22
Somniac39Bezerk28Julian14
Reepuplzorg23Isaac24Feri14

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[Melb] CCH Fighting Game Casuals – October 22

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The next CCH (Chris’ Club House) will be held at the RICHMOND Library at 3PM this Saturday for more casuals n’ chill.

Pyro’s KOFXIV League will be on hiatus this week because he is away.

Date: Saturday, October 22
Time: 3:00pm till late
Location: 415 Church St. Richmond (Richmond Library, right next to the East Richmond train station or take tram 70 down Swan St)
Entry Fee: $4 venue fee; anybody that brings either a monitor/console/laptop gets in for free.
Facebook Event Page here.
BYO: screens, consoles and sticks are all appreciated, even if they go unused. The more the merrier.

Pyro’s CCH KOFXIV league: The Prologue

-Swiss format FT3
-Starts at 4PM
-Two tiers T1 and T2

T1 Signup: http://challonge.com/tournaments/signup/o4iW8QmbtG
T2 Signup: http://challonge.com/tournaments/signup/QafTTU4XIA

Tier 1 is your competitively driven players or veteran players, expect to be playing people that know what they’re doing and are looking to improve even more so. Tier 2 is your new to King of Fighters or I’ve only played it a handful of times. Expect that these players would be looking to get into the game and maybe one day make it to Tier 1. You may choose your own tier, if you think you’re a Tier 1 player, then enter T1 otherwise enter T2. If you’re stomping T2, you may be moved to T1.

Scoring: If you win your set 3-2, you’ll be awarded 3 points. If you’re the loser in this situtation, you’ll only earn 2 points. Effectively you accumulate score over how many games you win regardless of the overall set victory, so consistent attendance will help you here.

End of Season: There will be a prize for the highest number of points for each division, but there may be other prizes to be won should you show vast improvement or community spirit so don’t be discouraged from playing KOFXIV. Pyro will update you on exactly what we’re going to do as soon as he has a good idea.

 

CouchWarriors Annual General Meeting 2016

It’s time for the CouchWarriors AGM.

When: November 13 at 1PM

Where: 6 Davies St, Brunswick. Masonic Hall.

Facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/1779256145696803/

Since we are a non-for-profit organisation, we are required to run this every year and to give one month’s notice to board members and the public.

At the AGM we will discuss an agenda of the following:
-Review of events done this year such as BAM8, ranbats and convention activities
-Financial review
-Review of mission statement and strategies/plans moving forward
-Election of board members: President, Vice-President, Secretary, Treasurer.

Our secretary Rory Betteridge will add a detailed agenda based on last year’s AGM agenda soon.

Our AGM is open to the public, if you feel like you would like to be a part of CouchWarriors and to help out with tournaments and building up the fighting game community in Melbourne, please feel free to come along. Our scene is built on the passion and dedication of volunteers and organisers, we couldn’t do it without you guys.

The AGM will be held at 6-8 Davies Street, in the meeting room at the back of the Masonic Hall. (Basically the venue of our ranbats)

Hope to see you all there!

CouchWarriors October Ranbats – 15th and 22nd

CouchWarriors ranbats are back in October –  the traditional fighters + Melee ranbat will be on the 15th of October. And we have the Smash 4 + Rivals of Aether July Ranbat on the 22nd of October. This will also be the first time we run KOFXIV at our ranbats – the tournament starts at 2PM (The traditional fighters tournament was cancelled in September due to a double booking at the venue.)

Be sure to check which weekend coincides with the games that you play:

Dates: Saturday 15th and 22nd of October
Time: 10:00am – late
Location: 6 Davies St, Brunswick North, VIC 3056
Entry Fee: $10 plus tournaments

Official Facebook event pages and pre-registration: 

CW Traditional Fighters+Melee October Ranbat – Preregister by making a Smash.GG account and visit here to register.

CW Smash 4 October Ranbat – Preregister by making a Smash.GG account and visit here to register.

September Ranking Points Update

Every month at the CouchWarriors Ranking Battles, the results are tallied and at the end of the year, we’ll celebrate our most consistent placers with a top of table medal.

Here are the Top 3 in each game after September’s Ranbat.
Take a look at the Results Section for the full total.

MeleePointsSmash 4PointsProject MPoints
S.D54Earl45Tyler64
DonB32BIGBOSS36Corspecreate30
Splice22Ghost34Splice24
SF5PointsMKXPointsDOA5UPointsGGXrdPoints
Toxy40GooGie26Ebabil30Julian14
Somniac29Kdeee-1026Isaac24Feri14
ZG20Pan1cmode20Bezerk20Javi12

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