AK from The Philippines Is Invited to the King Of Iron Fist Tournament 2015

In a new update to the official Japanese website for the King Of Iron Fist tournament 2015, it's been brought to light that Tekken child prodigy AK from the Philippines is invited to the Grand Finals event on December 12th. He is listed under the delegation of the TEKKEN 20th Anniversary event so he was selected after his performance in the last year on December 7th. AK will head on to compete against other strong qualified Tekken players like Naps, Nobi, AO and more come this end of the year. The same update on the website also details the total amount of qualifying spots for the Grand final event and they are as follow:

THE KING OF IRON FIST TOURNAMENT 2015 Qualifying players:

• 11 qualifying players from Japan - 2 of which from the female division. (Yurisan no Hou & Maxi)
• 8 qualifying players from Korea
• 2 qualifying players from EVO 2015 - Nobi & AO.
• 2 qualifying players from North America - West Coast (Mr. Naps) & East Coast (Oct 18th.)
• 3 qualfyiing players from Europe - Paris Games Week (Oct 29th.)
• Tekken's 20th Anniversary Event performer - AK from the Philippines.

Official website ≫ http://www.tekken-official.jp/20th_ironfist/

Tekken 20th Anniversary PV "Why Do You Play Tekken"

The tekkenchannel recently uploaded a new promotional video commemorating the 20th Anniversary of Tekken. It looks like they're going to do a version for a bunch of players that attended the 20th Anniversary event in Japan. The first video uploaded highlights AK. I suppose we could look forward to move of these in the future.

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TTT2: Japan Invasion Event at The Philippines

Over at the Philippines this past weekend; Nobi, Genkids & Jackller (Tekken Bancho) got the opportunity to play in a 3v3 tournament as well as exhibition matches against the local competition in an event held by Timezone. The internet at the venue was not good at the time to stream the great matches however the PinoyVersus YouTube channel have started uploading the archives for the tournament and exhibition matches which is now available for viewing. The playlist will run through most of the 3v3 tournament in reverse order and the exhibition match features AK, Maru, & Doujin vs Nobi, Genkids & Jackller. Customs are off (Maru is another Dragunov/Lars player) and the matches were set to 4 rounds to win.

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SEA Major 2014 - Top 8 Official YouTube Archive

Catch up on all the action from this past weekend's South East Asia Major 2014 with the Top 8 archives up on toughcookietv's YouTube channel. Commentary of the TTT2 tournament was performed by Markman and ZomgACrayon.

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AK Acquires New Sponsorship, Might Go to EVO Depending on SEA Major Performance

Alexandre “AK” Laverez - the so called 'child Tekken prodigy' that you may remember after getting 3rd in last year's Global Championships has recently gotten sponsored by the SMM Philippines Multimedia company. With this sponsorship, he's gotten a free, all-expenses-paid trip to SEA Major 2014 which is being held in Singapore on the 20th of June which is roughly a month away. Depending on how he performs in that tournament, the sponsorship announcement teases that AK may also earn himself a trip to EVO 2014 in Las Vegas potentially adding to the international competition that are said to be attending EVO such as AO (JP), Chikurin (JP) & BooK (TH). You can read the SMM Philippines sponsorship acquisition announcement over on the GamesInAsia website.

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