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.