Arcadia Fighting Game REMIX 4/18 Issue Tier List

Arcadia's lastest edition of it's dedicated fighting game Magazine (or Mook I should rather say) is mainly focused on the recent release of Ultra Street Fighter IV but it does have some interesting discussion on Tekken Tag Tournament 2 in there. It features written reports of both MASTERCUP.6 and Matador Cup 5 tournaments as well as a TTT2 tier list made by Japan's Fukushi and Furumizu and a small author introductory piece by Zeugaru on using Ogre's 'concealing moves.' Since only the tier list got posted online onto 2ch for the Japanese to read, I've gone ahead and translated it into English for everyone else to read. You can check it out below!

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Ultimate Tournament XV | Tekken Tournament in France Held on April 26th

UPDATE: Results have now been added to this piece courtesy of Lizanias!

UTXV is this year’s installment of the dedicated Tekken tournament series of Ultimate Tournament. As like last year with getting big international competition to attend, UTXV features 4 confirmed international players such as Lil Majin from USA, El Negro Piripicho from Venezuela, Burimaru & Mattari from Japan coming to the event. That’s not all however since the registered player list for the event also has players from all over Europe registered for the event so this is certainly not one to miss. You can watch international competitor reveal trailers below and find more info on the TekkenZaibatsu page for the tournament.

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Republic Of Fighters #3 | Fighting Game Tournament Held on May 17 – 18 in Paris

UPDATE: Added the newly released AO teaser for the event!

ROF is a fighting game tournament being held in Paris, France next month that features TTT2 in the lineup. The tournament features cash prizes equating to 3500€ as well as international players such as Ryan Hart and Japan’s AO in confirmed attendance. If you happen to be in the region looking for the next best event to go for after UTXV, this is it. For more information on the tournament you can head to the English version of the website or contact the Tekken event manager for the event – Alhassane Stinson over here.

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TV E-Sports MAX Episode Snippet Featuring Nobi

In Namco Sugamo, newer players or customers that show up to the arcade may be daunted by the level of skill the average player over there has and may have trouble keeping up when playing against them. As such, the arcade has officially recognized and employed Japan's top player Nobi (or 'Instructor-san' as some of the players call him) to help teach players how to play the game and give advice on how they can improve and get better. If you have the credits to play on a side-by-side TTT2 cabinet and Nobi has the time, it may be a much wiser investment then continually losing to a really good player. To better illustrate all this, the E-Sports MAX TV show that currently airs over on the Tokyo MX TV channel in Japan filmed a small episode featuring Nobi showing the TV show's co-host the ropes of the game. The snippet of the episode is now viewable on TOKYO MX's YouTube channel.

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TTT2 - MATADOR CUP 5 & Japan East VS West 15on15 Archives

It took awhile but it's finally here; MATADOR CUP 5, the 15on15 Japan East VS West event as well as ordinary matches that happened in the arcade during the tournament are all up on YouTube.  Big thanks goes to the a-cho & MASTERCUP staff for putting all this Tekken footage up on their YouTube channels. (GAMEacho channel & MASTERCUP channel)

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