BEST of the Battle VI match videos

Here is the recorded tournament footage from BEST of the Battle 6 courtesy of the homies at Capsule Entertainment.


Dead or Alive 5 Ultimate part 1


Dead or Alive 5 Ultimate part 2


Dead or Alive 5 Ultimate part 3


Dead or Alive 5 Ultimate part 4


Ultra Street Fighter 4 part 1


Ultra Street Fighter 4 part 2

BEST of the Battle VI recap

This past weekend we hosted our sixth event in the BEST of the Battle fighting game tournament series. The event took place in San Jose, California at the Breezy Excursion warehouse. The tourney lineup for the event included Dead or Alive 5 Ultimate, Ultra Street Fighter 4, Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3, Persona 4 Arena Ultimax, and Under Night In-Birth Exe: Late. The first half of the day had tournaments for DOA5U, P4AU, and UNIEL. The tournaments for USF4 and Marvel happened later that evening. From morning till night gamers from all over Northern California gathered at the event to test their skills in their respective game. We even had a few special guests from Southern California show up to compete. Even if you didn't take home a medal or cash at the event you still had an opportunity to walk away a winner during one of the many raffles that happened. Keep scrolling to view the results and pics of the event.


Here is the stream archive of the event with DOA and USF4 getting all the stream time (I'll get around to chopping up the match vids another time)
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4 (DOA5U Grand Finals starts at 1:47:00 in part 4)
Part 5 (USF4 Grand Finals starts at 2:26:00 in part 5)

The genius who created Godlike Combo tournament software and our stream engineer for the day, Nigel Griffin


Stickers, anyone?




A portion of the items that were raffled off during the event courtesy of Booger Kids!


Who will walk out the building as the champions of BOTB6?


Earlybirds arrived to play casuals. Notice the electric chair in the background.






Craig's Lumpia got all your lumpia needs. Lumpizza, anyone?




Shout out to the guy reading a book during all the gaming madness!





Under Night In-Birth Exe: Late (9 entrants)
1st - 2 GB Combo
2nd - Illiterate
3rd - Traka
4th - Nyanderthal
5th (tie) - BK / PH|TZA
7th (tie) - Zaku Ignited / Sep Sev
9th - Vincent Rayne

UNIEL champions (left to right): Traka (3rd), 2 GB Combo (1st), & Illiterate (2nd)




Persona 4 Arena Ultimax (8 entrants)
1st - 2 GB Combo
2nd - Traka
3rd - Sep Sev
4th - Nyanderthal
5th (tie) - Ash_Kash 92 / PH|TZA
7th (tie) - Herdy Plz / A1R GEAR

P4AU champions (left to right): Sep Sev (3rd), 2 GB Combo (1st), & Traka (2nd)




Dead or Alive 5 Ultimate results (13 entrants)
1st - NykNyks
2nd - BLAZE
3rd - Vincent Rayne
4th - A1R GEAR
5th (tie) - Pink Nitro / Tokkosho
7th (tie) - EMP|Timtastic / Marsinono
9th (tie) - JN DRAMA / Modus Pwnins / Infernal Spyro
11th (tie) - Loan Grains / NEO CHAOS X

Screen cap of the video stream of Blaze vs NykNyks in the DOA5U Grand Finals


DOA5U champions (left to right): BLAZE (2nd), 3-time BOTB DOA5 champion NykNyks (1st), & Vincent Rayne (3rd)


DOA Group Photo




Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3 (15 entrants)
1st - Filipino Champ
2nd - Sexy Beast
3rd - CJ Showstopper
4th - Spiral
5th (tie) - Shorty / KevNasty
7th (tie) - KREN Devil / Jeramillion
9th (tie) - EMP Timtastic / Anh / CE|Jabdrunk / Kupo
13th (tie) - Herdy Plz / Hiro / Nyanderthal

UMVC3 champions (left to right): 3-time BOTB first place winner Filipino Champ (1st), Sexy Beast (2nd), & CJ Showstopper (3rd)




Ultra Street Fighter 4 results (35 entrants)
1st - BJ Unchained
2nd - MMD|Alex Myers
3rd - Illiterate
4th - G Dragon
5th (tie) - SBA Big Arch / Julio
7th (tie) CE|Jabdrunk / Dirty Paws
9th (tie) - Martin B / PH|Crackfiend / Hiro / CE|Tyro
13th (tie) - Smithsonian / 7 Trumpet / SRK CW KPOP / Top Shelf Player
17th (tie) - Filipino Champ / Sep Sev / NykNyks / KevNasty / @Danny / Tsefood / Marsinono / Kenzo
25th (tie) - Strakerz / Herdy Plz / CJ Showstopper / Fancy Name / NEO CHAOS X / Ash_Kash 92 / Spiral / George Julio's Homie

It was a hard fought Grand Finals between MMD|Alex Myers' Sakura and BJ's Cody. Bracket reset and all.


USF4 champions (left to right): MMD|Alex Myers (2nd), BJ Unchained (1st), & Illiterate AKA 2 Chainz (3rd)




Last but certainly not least, I want to give a special thank you to the people who went the extra mile to help with the event. Shout out to Team Ninja, Koei Tecmo, and Tom Lee for supporting the event, Chris Mitsumori for being a BOSS ASS HOMIE, Nigel Griffin for holding down the stream all day, Hardy Lafayette for always being down to run brackets, Bryan Khoi for bringing out the anime community, Joe Capsule & the good people from Capsule Entertainment for sponsoring the event, Nicole for picking up the pizza, Carolyn Dao for running brackets like a CHAMP, A1R GEAR for helping out our Southern California DOA brethren attend the event, Shorty for attending all 6 BOTB events, Jerry for helping clean up the place, Kelvin for shouting out the event, r/Kappa for talking hella shit, all the weed smokers for keeping it LIT, the MMG folks for being chill as always, EVERYONE who commentated, EVERYONE who bought Breezy Excursion gear, Marvel 3 GOD Fchamp & CJ Showstopper for consistently showing up to support the event, the stream monsters, Booger Kids, and of course, Breezy Excursion. I said it before and I'll say it again. Y'ALL ARE THE BEST.

BEST of the Battle VI preview

It's that time again. We are proud to announce that we will be hosting our sixth fighting game event in the BEST of the Battle tournament series. BOTB6 will consist of a 5 game lineup with tournaments for Dead or Alive 5 Ultimate, Ultra Street Fighter 4, Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3, Persona 4 Arena Ultimax, and Under Night In-Birth Exe: Late taking place. Raffles, food, good vibes, music, competition, and of course, video games is what the BOTB series is all about. Can't make the event? No worries. Watch the battles live at twitch.tv/cpsiv

See you on September 27th.

EVO 2014 Street Fighter III: Third Strike Tournament Matches

Back in July, we teamed up with our fam from Capsule Entertainment and Godlike Combo to host a Street Fighter 3: Third Strike side tournament at Evolution 2014 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The quality of competition was thick at the event with players ranging from America to Japan participating in the tournament. Here are the results and replay footage from the event.

1st - Saru (Japan)
2nd - Nima (NorCal)
3rd - TGL Duralag
4th - Ryan Braccamonte
5th (tie) - Ramin / Ngyboy
7th (tie) - Cookie / Aneurysm X /
9th (tie) - Chrisdat / Part 2 / Yoon / Mopreme
13th (tie) - HawaiiMonkey / Mike W / Lance3rd / Shin
17th (tie) - StylinG / Worst Dudley / Kouma / C-Royd / AryKheartX / CE CPS_IV / RobGreco / Soushihan
25th (tie) - Mokuto / Virtual Cosmic / Mike Jones / Kane / Sebastian Nguyen / Saikyo Style / BigRed


Part 1



Part 2



Part 3



Part 4



Part 5



Part 6



Part 7

Yung Lean - Hurt

Bitch I light up
Call me Charmeleon
Life on the line
I ain't Charmander
But I'm nearly on
Clearly on drugs


Make sure the volume is turned up and the bass is on blast up before you watch this music video by Yung Lean.

Evolution 2014 recap

Last week we attended the largest fighting game tournament in the world, Evolution 2014. Over 5,000+ fighting game fans gathered in Las Vegas at the LVH Casino & Resort, with many people attending from various countries such as Japan, Australia, Great Britain, and more.

The calm before the storm…


We teamed up with Capsule Entertainment and Godlike Combo to run a side-tournament for Street Fighter 3: Third Strike and Dead or Alive 5 Ultimate


Attendee's got to play a pre-release of the new Jojo game, Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: All Star Battle




The Qanba booth had a gigantic fightstick on display


Tried out a Virtual Reality headset…way better than the Virtual Boy




This was just a small fraction of the seats available during Sunday finals


The DOA5U grand finals consisted of 2 EVO world champions, FNATIC|Perfect Legend and RG|SonicFox. Here is the top 3 for the Dead or Alive 5 side tourney; 1st-RG|SonicFox (middle), 2nd-FNATIC|PerfectLegend (right), 3rd-AFD|Requiem (left)


Wouldn't be right if we didn't take a team photo before we left Vegas. Till next year, EVO.

Evolution 2014 Side Tournaments

We are headed out to Vegas this weekend to compete in the world's largest fighting game event, Evolution 2014. Aside from competing, we teamed up with Godlike Combo and Capsule Entertainment to host tournaments for 2 different games; Dead or Alive 5 Ultimate and Street Fighter 3: Third Strike.  We'll also be giving out free stickers at our booth so keep your eyes peeled for the Capsule Entertainment and Godlike Combo banner.