America

• The Fall Classic TOL3 qualifier took place last weekend with Zoolander winning the tournament. Brackets | Stream
• East Coast Throwdown (October 20-21) will be the very last qualifier left before Tournament of Legends take place at Canada Cup.
• Kusumondo has been announced as the 4th Japanese invite for ToL3. new belt
• Monday Night Fightcade @ Arkadeum run their #97 weekly event with Real Decoy and H-Zero in the finals. Bracket | Video
• Psychochronic posted a recent set of casuals played in Canada with him Dogberry, Unessential, Redeyeguy, Pestro, and other special guests. No annotations.
• AtariFGC has posted footage of past tournaments that were still being uploaded or edited. No annotations. EVO Pools | EVO Top 24 | Summerjam East vs West
• Norcal Crabattle was hosted last weekend in Belmont, CA featureing ST. Unfortunately with no videos. Info
• Early Bird registration for Northeast Championships (mid-December) is now open.
• The community in Argentina streamed a special event called “Desafios” with series of FT15 and other similar challenges. Another big announcement is that the major VS Series (beginning of November) will incorporate ST as one of their games. They made a trailer to announce it.

Japan

• As MAO announced recently, the guys at Space Shuttle (Chubu) have joined the trend of making FT10s (Kemonomichi event). Finally, the video between Prince ChunLi and Superstar Boxer has been released. Played on September 23. According to the description both players have been training for this for about a month. Video
• Gamespot Versus weekly team tournament (Kanto). Special HSF2 event (they do it a couple of times per year). Tencho Ryu and Hide ChunLi were the team captains. Annotations in video description. [source: GSV youtube channel]
• Gamespot Versus weekend special (Kanto). This time with an East vs West format. Incredible performance from Kurahashi Ryu. Annotations in video description. [source: GSV youtube channel]
• North vs South weekly team tournament #97 from the HL-SEGA arcade (Kansai). Teppei Guile and Hazi DJ face each other in the decisive match. Player name annotations on screen both in Japanese and English.
• Game Daytona Shiki weekly tournament (Kanto). With their usual “winner stays on” format. There are always 2 laps. This week’s final is between Une Guile and Seo Dictator. Annotations in video description. [source: Daytona twitch channel]
• Playland F1R 2on2 tournament (Tohoku). From the remote arcade in the very far north of Japan. No annotations. [source: Playland twitch channel]

Europe

• One of the two big European team events on Fightcade this year is going to be streamed on Saturday, October 6 at LaDOSETV channel (9pm CEST) and commented by Isimorn and Zartghatt. It is a 20vs20 match that has been played in the last months and put together now for you to see. Trailer
• XSB Tournament had many more big players signing up from the UK: Orf, Kaosflare, GolcarJack, Vile-Island as well as Spinalblood from Italy. There will be 7 players coming from Spain. In total, a third of the total list is coming from countries outside of France which is probably a new record.
• LaDOSEnet posted the footage of their last ranking battle #607 which they do monthly in Lyon. Top 6 video | Top 3 video | Brackets | Blog post
• The guys from Navarcade in Spain run a few events in the last weeks both in Murchante, Zaragoza and Madrid. One of the finals played in one of those events was recorded and commented by Marcade (who btw also posted a recent video about reaching 1M points in ST)
• Rival Scenes Major in the UK has announced that it will include ST as one of the main games for 2019. Signups are already open.

Others

• The event Hong Kong Retro Gaming Expo organized a series of tournaments and ST was one of them. They posted the video of the finals on facebook.
• Gwenroc has posted a video about how to build the Multi CPS2 Darksoft. Content in French.

Also, please check out the TOURNAMENT OF LEGENDS III fundraiser at https://www.gofundme.com/legends3 to help support ST Revival with tournament expenses and pick up some awesome Super Turbo related goodies in the process. If you can’t swing a full donation for one of the prizes, a small donation of even a couple of dollars is still greatly appreciated! The next Japanese invite will be unlocked at $1950!

America

• Art Sanchez hosted a Matcherino fundraiser tournament for TOL3 on 30AE. RenoMD, Millertime, Kuroppi, LordJimmyBones, Rekkaken among others were present. The final was between Krost and BORT. Bracket | Main tournament video | Top 3 video
• Monday Night Fightcade @ Arkadeum run their #96 weekly event with RenoMD and H-Zero in the finals. Bracket | Video
• An ST tournament was held at Star69 Garage Arcade in Austin TX last weekend. With American bat top sticks and unfortunately with no videos. Info
• The community in Argentina posted the video of their last league matches (top 8).

Japan

• An FT5 coming from MAO-db at Space Shuttle arcade between Nakamu Blanka and Futachan Ryu. Strongly recommended. Video
• More treats for Blanka fans with a Komoda Kumite that is 3 and a half hours long. The matches are played in Osaka so most opponents are top players like Gunze, Otochun, Aniken, Mayakon, etc. No sound nor annotations. Video
• Gamespot Versus weekly team tournament (Kanto). Nakamu Blanka and Kawamata Ryu were the team captains. Annotations in video description. [source: GSV youtube channel]
• Gamespot Versus weekend special (Kanto). The format this week is a Guile vs Ryu only. In the first lap you can see players with their main as such but in the second lap they switch characters. So you can see the final match being an unusual Kikai Ryu vs. Kawamata Guile. Annotations in video description. [source: GSV youtube channel]
• North vs South weekly team tournament #96 from the HL-SEGA arcade (Kansai). Otochun ChunLi and Murasaki Dictator face each other in the decisive match. Player name annotations on screen both in Japanese and English.
• Game Daytona Shiki weekly tournament (Kanto). With their usual “winner stays on” format. There are always 2 laps. This week’s final is between KKY Boxer (visiting from Osaka and showing off his alt char) and Seo Guile. Annotations in video description. [source: Daytona twitch channel]
• Playland F1R 2on2 tournament (Tohoku). From the remote arcade in the very far north of Japan. No annotations. [source: Playland twitch channel]

Europe

• Up to 20 participants (new record) gathered last week at Extra Life Cafe in Paris. Really good news for those who wanted to see the Paris community revive. They also managed to stream the content. Amazing performance from Max31 Cammy. Bracket | Stream
• The upcoming XSB tournament had a sudden 4th Japanese player signing up. The player himself asked to not reveal his identity until the day of the tournament so he will remain as the “Mystery Japanese player” for now.

Others

• NKI has returned to the scene with a new combo video volume (number XII). The last one he published was 10 years ago. This time he dissected ST with the help of other people in the community. The result is really impressive. Video | Direct Download | Transcript (recommended reading)
• Damdai has recently revealed in one of his streams a trick for shotos to consistently avoid meaty Sagat (old and new) tiger shots. The trick was not so known in the community until now. The trick is as simple as jumping back on wake up. He says he noticed that watching a Yondaime match in the recent X-EST tournament. Demo
• The ST community in Singapore started posting videos on youtube of their meetups. One very good thing of these videos is that they are all annotation (in video description)
• Daniel James created a poster for CPS2 fans. In his own words: “As a graphic designer, I wanted to capture this, and so I made this poster which is free for download. All I had to go on were random wiki articles, old forums and some bits from the old manuals, which originally left a lot to be desired visually. I felt the CPS2 is worthy of a poster. It’s sized at 18×24″ so it should print up to that size. Long live our CPS2 boards“. Download
• @konosuke on twitter has found a way to revive dead cps2 boards without the need of replacing batteries nor touching the ROMS. In this case he found a way to inject the security key at boot time into the RAM. Another major accomplishment for hardware and CPS2 lovers. Tweets (1, 2, 3)

Also, please check out the TOURNAMENT OF LEGENDS III fundraiser at https://www.gofundme.com/legends3 to help support ST Revival with tournament expenses and pick up some awesome Super Turbo related goodies in the process. If you can’t swing a full donation for one of the prizes, a small donation of even a couple of dollars is still greatly appreciated! The next Japanese invite will be unlocked at $1950!

North America

• Murasaki Dictator has been announced as the third Japanese invite for Tournament of Legends III.
• DGV Ryu takes the SCR tournament against BAS Old Sagat in the finals. He is now qualified for Tournament of Legends III. The tournament had 47 entrants. Pools (part 1, 2, 3), top 8 (minute 5:16:58). Bracket
• Monday Night Fightcade @ Arkadeum run their #95 weekly event with RenoMD and x64 in the finals. Bracket | Video

Japan

• MAO has posted a trailer and some player interviews talking about the upcoming FT5 between Prince ChunLi and Superstar Boxer on September 23.
• Amipara Technoland arcade (Chugoku) in the very west of Japan is now also joining the trend of FT5s. This one is between Hakumai Ryu and Ken Ichiro Ken. Video
• Gamespot Versus weekly team tournament (Kanto). Kotaka Shoten Guile and Kawamata Ryu were the team captains. With tomo Ryu back to Japan now. Amazing performance from Kotaka Shoten. Annotations in video description. [source: GSV youtube channel]
• Gamespot Versus 2vs2 weekend special (Kanto). With many strong players from the arcade. Annotations in video description. [source: GSV youtube channel]
• North vs South weekly team tournament #95 from the HL-SEGA arcade (Kansai). colors DJ and Hatenko Ryu face each other in the decisive match. Player name annotations on screen both in Japanese and English. Audio is messed up.
• Game Daytona Shiki weekly tournament (Kanto). With their usual “winner stays on” format. There are always 2 laps. This week’s final is between Aoki Cyclone Zangief and Gucchi Ryu. Annotations in video description. [source: Daytona twitch channel]
• Monthly tournament at Amipara Technoland (Chugoku) in the very west of Japan. September edition. Player names in video description. Main tournament | East vs. West special [source: Amipara nico channel]
• Playland F1R 2on2 tournament (Tohoku). From the remote arcade in the very far north of Japan. No annotations. [source: Playland twitch channel]

Europe

• Sige Blanka is organizing one of the top online tournaments in Europe called King of Fightcade 2018. The 18 participating players have been preselected to play during some weeks: Max31, Balcork, Zagi, Wolmar, Milanea, Myco, Oldsamir, Bansheebot, Er Commander, Shari, 41i45, FortEuropa, DJ-Sylenth, Pijo80, Quenellier, Kouni, Spiritmad, Shari, FortEuropa. The resulting edited video will be posted soon. Trailer | Bracket
• More and more players are signing up for XSB. Check the current list on their website.
• First attack September Ranking Battle have been posted. Pe1port, Solinvictus and Keikun formed the top 3. You can see some posted videos of the finals in their group.

Also, please check out the TOURNAMENT OF LEGENDS III fundraiser at https://www.gofundme.com/legends3 to help support ST Revival with tournament expenses and pick up some awesome Super Turbo related goodies in the process. If you can’t swing a full donation for one of the prizes, a small donation of even a couple of dollars is still greatly appreciated! The next Japanese invite will be unlocked at $1950!