Australian Fighting Game Community

Congratulations to OzHadou’s “Namco Community Manager” FaYd, who has emerged victorious at the GamespotAU and Namco Bandai Partners pre-launch single elimination tournament for Soul Calibur V in Sydney yesterday.

As the winner FaYd will represent Australia in Europe this March at Namco Bandai’s worldwide Soul Calibur V tournament. If you’d like to challenge FaYd and other Soul Calibur V players, be sure to check out the Soul Calibur V DIY tournament at OHNX on 17-19 Feb 2012 in Sydney.

We have a second dose of OHNX: Regionals action in Melbourne this week, with the first OHNX:R tournament for Tekken Tag Tournament 2 taking place on Thursday 26th Jan 2012. Competitors will be able to earn the first available rank seeds for the TTT2 tournament at OHNX, which is being sponsored directly by Namco Bandai Partners.

We’ll have more news regarding Namco Bandai Partners’ support of OHNX soon. In the meantime, we’ll reminding you that tomorrow night they’re teaming up with GamespotAU and OzHadou to run the first Sydney tournament for the forthcoming Soul Calibur V. Registrations are already closed, but if you’re in the area you might want to stop by and see some of the action for yourself.

For many attendees a tournament is more than a competition to determine the best player. As support for fighting games in arcades continues to decline, community organised tournaments have taken their place as the best environment for playing fighting games offline.

This week I’ll discuss the role of casual play at fighting game tournaments. I’ll review the expectations players have regarding casual play during a tournament, and how you can vary your tournament format to meet these expectations. I’ll also review some of the things organisers can do to provide attendees with the best possible casual play experience.
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The OHN Team has issued a public call for volunteers to help with various tasks during the event.

Volunteers will be eligible for a free OHNX shirt and other benefits. However as a volunteer you’ll have less time to play games during the event, so please think carefully before applying.

Visit the call for volunteers forum thread for further details, and email your application by 31st of January 2012.

Come down this Sunday to the M9 Bar in Crown for a chance to win a paid ticket to Sydney to represent Melbourne at OHNX in either SSFIV: AE 2012 or UMVC3.

2nd place in either tournament will also receive a minimum of $50 that can be used towards a trip to OHNX. You can find out more information here.

Spectating is also free, or simply watch the action on the stream.

So, with all the OHNX stuff going on, with regionals and our behind the scenes organising, sometimes things get passed through to you and you have to do a double take to make sure you’re not just seeing things. Case in point, we just got this from the Australian distributor of Capcom titles.

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