X-News Week #75 (March 25th-31st, 2019)

May 10, 2019

America

  • Norcal regionals took place last weekend with a final between Riz0ne Dictator and Ganelon Claw. [Bracket | Video]
  • Super Turbo Showdown 3 took place on the weekend with a final between SuperRV and OldManFrank in the solo tournament [Bracket Solo | Bracket Teams | Video Playlist]
  • Fromo Blanka had a session at his place with a few players performing several FT5 [Video – see annotations] as well an FT10 with the guest Hokuto Claw who was visiting from Mexico [Video].
  • Super Turbo Garage Sessions in Toronto from March. [Video]
  • Belated post from Atari of the ToL3 warmup sessions from last year with the French guests [Video – no sound].
  • Defend the North has been announced for the weekend of July 19-21. [Details and registration]
  • Ohio will host an ST tournament on July 27, apparently on arcade hardware. [Details and registration]
  • Monday Night Fightcade @ Arkadeum ran their #121 weekly event with H-Zero and TechMonkey in the finals. [Bracket | Video]

Japan

  • Cloiwan Honda posted an old FTX between him and Hakase Dhalsim [Video] and another one between him and Tamashima Boxer [Video].
  • FT5 at Space Shuttle arcade in Nagoya (Chubu). Hakase Dhalsim (visiting from Tokyo) vs Fujimon Deejay. [Video]
  • North vs South weekly team tournament #122 from the HL-SEGA arcade in Osaka (Kansai). Murasaki and Otochun faced off against each other in a decisive match. Player name annotations on screen are both in Japanese and English. [Video | source: Shogatsu’s youtube channel – live stream every Monday night – Japan time)]
  • Game Daytona Shiki weekly tournament in Tokyo (Kanto). With their usual “winner stays on” format. There are always 2 laps. This week’s final is between XSPR Ryu and Haku Cammy. Annotations in the video description. [Video | source: Daytona twitch channel – live stream on Friday nights (Japan time)]
  • Belated Game Daytona Shiki weekly tournament in Tokyo (Kanto). With their usual “winner stays on” format. There are always 2 laps. This week’s final is between XSPR Ryu and Gucchi Ryu. Annotations in the video description. [Video | source: Daytona twitch channel – live stream on Friday nights (Japan time)]
  • Special team battle at the Sun Seibu arcade in Hamamatsu (Chubu). Annotations in English on screen. [Video]
  • Playland F1R tournament (Tohoku). From the remote arcade in the very far north of Japan. [March 22 edition (no annotations) | March 29 special tournament (annotations in video description) | source: Playland twitch channel]

Europe

  • LaDOSEnet posted their #703 monthly ranking battle in Lyon with a final between Zarghatt ChunLi and Kazel Deejay. Annotations in the video description. [Bracket | Video Part 1 | Video Part 2].
  • A tournament was run in the south of France at le Tignet with a final between Marcade and XavierF. [No brackets | Video]

Asia

  • Weekly sessions from the arcade in Singapore. Annotations in the video description. [March 29 edition].
  • FTX in Singapore between Kumar Hawk vs William ChunLi. [Video]

Others

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