Capcom Cup 2013

Last weekend Street Fighter fans and competitors from all over the world gathered for the first ever Capcom Cup. Hosted by Capcom, the event took place at the Hyatt Regency in San Francisco. The event brought out many of the worlds best fighting game players to compete for the gold. Those who qualified to enter the tournament, such as Justin Wong, Chris G, Fuudo and Infiltration competed in one of three games; Street Fighter x Tekken, Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3, and Super Street Fighter 4 Arcade Edition. Attendee's also had the chance to play an early build of the newest Street Fighter game, Ultra Street Fighter 4, before it releases this summer.






The Capcom store was selling everything from tee shirt's to inflatable mega-buster's




Super Street Figher 2 HD Remix lead designer Long Vo sold custom character art at his booth






Sako, a Street Fighter player from Japan, won the Street Fighter 4 tournament

Clicks, Beats, & Tekken 2

When I'm in the mood & feeling the groove, I like to sit down for while and try to piece together a hip hop instrumental (or a rap beat, whatever). I'm a big fan of sampling other songs so I decided to borrow the sounds from one of my favorite fighting games to make a beat. Old school 90's fighting game music contains some of my favorite music of all time for video games. A couple months ago I was browsing through the Tekken 2 soundtrack and I was really diggin' Devil & Angel's stage theme. Nonetheless, I used some of the sounds from the song to help make my own version.



The OG Version

Food Drive Results

Thank you to everybody that donated cans to Second Harvest Food Bank at BEST of the Battle IV a couple weeks ago. Y'all are awesome.

BOTB4: Soul Calibur V recap

1st - Signia
2nd - Alex J
3rd - FoxBot
4th - N D K
5th (tie) - Evil Bowl of Cereal / Big Bunny
7th (tie) - BBC SniperWolf / Mr Tails
9th (tie) - TSP Timtastic / Got Trees / Chemie / Sorry Baskets

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BOTB4: Dead or Alive 5 Ultimate recap

1st - NykNyks
2nd - AFD Requiem
3rd - Sorry Baskets
4th - Nai
5th (tie) - Griffin / VirtuaCosmic
7th (tie) - TSP Timtastic / Mysterio
9th - Shytzoo

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Grand Finals. AFD Requiem vs NykNyks

BEST of the Battle IV

Last Saturday we teamed up with Capsule Entertainment to bring the 4th installment of the BEST of the Battle series (BOTB). 7 games, 6 tournaments, 2 floors, and a bar full of beverages inside a graffiti covered warehouse. BOTB is a seasonal video game competition that is exclusive to the fighting game genre. The event draws out some of the strongest fighting game pro's in the region. Some people go to the event with intentions of victory. Some go to see how their skills stack up against other players. Some go to support the scene. Even if competing isn't your thing, people showed up to play casual matches with other players. In order to get inside the event you had the choice of paying a venue fee or donating canned goods to the Second Harvest Food Bank (just in time for Thanksgiving). #BESToftheBattle

The registration line


Pay $10 for venue? Or donate 5 cans of food? Hmmm...






The upstairs game room had a back-to-back monitor set-up that projected on the big screen. Complete with a DJ.



*Pic via @HelloKittyRicky twitter



Our friends from Sturdy Pine Entertainment interviewed various players from the fighting game scene


Craig's Lumpia got that pipin' hot lumpia for the low low


Bulldogg CPU was there showcasing their latest hardware


Tekken Tag 2 champs (left to right): KissArmy1989 (3rd), Evil Bowl of Cereal (1st), & RedX916 (2nd)


Joe Capsule and DOA5U tournament winner, NykNyks


Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3 winners (left to right): Neo (2nd), Filipino Champ (1st), & CJ Showstopper (3rd)


Street Fighter legends Ricky Ortiz and Fchamp took 1st & 2nd in the Street Fighter 4 tourney


Much respect to Tom Lee of Tecmo Koei for donating these copies of Dead or Alive 5 Ultimate to raffle


This Marvel player from Sacramento won a brand new EightArc arcade stick in one of the raffles




Shout outs go to Humberto, Chris Mitsumori, TigerKills, Jason Gallego, DJ Self De Struct, Mad Valencia, Joe Capsule, Hardy Lafayette, Bulldog CPU, Marvelous Customs, & Breezy Excursion for all their support of the event. Ya'll are the BEST.