Evo 2020 Games Released

6 Feb

The inaugural Evo Champshionship tournament has announced their headlining tournaments for this year

It comes to no surprise as some of the largest titles such as Super Smash Bros Ultimate, Tekken 7 and Street Fighter V will be making a return appearance.

Other returning games of Samurai Shodown, Soul Calibur VI and Dragonball FighterZ will also be making another appearance.

With a breakout performance the previous year, Under Night In-Birth will be returning as its updated version Under Night In-Birth Exe:Late [cl-r]

It’s never an Evo without featuring a new release and Granblue Fantasy Versus fills that spot.

The real surprise catching everybody off guard ithe the Marvel vs Capcom 2 anniversary invitational. With 4 invited players and another 4 to qualify at other events, Marvel vs Capcom 2, a game known for creating iconic NEVER GIVE UP moments, we’re sure that it’s going to be a hell of a tournament.

If you’d like to catch the announcement as it was made live, be sure to catch the archives.

Although we lament the removal of a number of games, we’re confident they’ll make an appearance within either animEVO or other side tournaments throughout the event.

Even though some games may be removed from the main Evo lineup, us here at OzHadou are committed to providing support for the many games that are played amongst our community, no matter how popular they are.

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Granblue Fantasy Versus Release

6 Feb

It’s finally Fantasy February with the release of the long awaited fighting game Granblue Fantasy Versus by Arc System Works. Unfortunately for those outside of the asian regions, there’ll be a staggered release date for NA regions at Mar 3rd and EU regions at a yet to be disclosed date. For those looking to get into the game earlier, we’ve compiled a number of information to help you get into the game easier

Based on Cygame’s mobile game franchise Granblue Fantasy, it pits a number of iconic characters against each other. Initially releasing with a cast of 12 characters, there will also be an additional 4  characters as part of the season pass.

Currently to obtain this game, an asian region account (e.g Japan, Hong Kong etc.) is required. This can be done as shown here. After creating an account, you’ll have to obtain pre-paid PSN Cards to load up virtual currency to purchase it off the Playstation Store. You’ll be able to find these at popular online import stores such as Play-Asia, though due to current demand, many store fronts may be temporarily out of stock. (Note: There is a fully english translated version in the Hong Kong/Singapore store)

When looking through the store to purchase the game, you may encounter a number of choices. Unsure which one to get ? See this tweet by XSeed Games for a summary of each package’s contents

For those who have purchased the game, we’ve included a number of links to help you get into the game

Official promotional video playlist

Menu Translations for the Japanese Version

Character hashtags for twitter

Online mode unlock guide

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Bankstown Runbacks #07

5 Feb

Due to venue issues, we’re unable to secure YSB for February, so we’re back at Bankstown Sports Club this month for BRB07!

Doors will open at 11:30am for the day. Please confirm entry and registration at the door before playing any games.

Note: We’ll be making some changes to tournament entries so they will be opened up closer to the date

Tournament registration will be available until 2.00PM. If you’re arriving later be sure to pre-register on smash.gg and make sure you’re signed up as we won’t be taking any tournament sign-ups after.

Payment for BRB may be performed either online via credit or debit card, or at the venue in cash. Entry must be paid for anyone who plays on any setup at the venue, whether for a tournament or casually. All payments at the venue are cash only. Spectators may attend the event for free, provided they do not play on any setup.

Registration and/or payments may be settled at the door until 2pm on the day. If arriving after this time, please find a tournament organiser to pay the entry fee and/or any pre-registered tournament fees.Controllers are not provided for this event – players are expected to bring or arrange their own controllers for any casual or tournament matches at the event. All games are played on PS4, except for Virtua Fighter 5 which is run on XBOX 360.

Please also note the following:

  • The venue is restricted to guests of age 18+ only, Guests that are younger must be accompanied by an adult to sign-in
  • While alcohol is served within the venue, it is forbidden within the event room
Tournaments (upon confirmation):
  • Tekken 7
  • Street Fighter V
  • Mortal Kombat 11
  • Under Night In-Birth Exe:Late [cl-r]
  • Granblue Fantasy Versus
  • Dragon Ball FighterZ
  • Samurai Shodown
  • Soulcalibur VI
  • Dead or Alive 6
  • Virtua Fighter 5: Final Showdown
  • GUILTY GEAR Xrd REV 2
  • BlazBlue: Central Fiction
  • BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle
  • Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3
  • Street Fighter III: Third Strike
  • Super Street Fighter II Turbo
  • Skullgirls 2nd Encore
  • Pokkén Tournament DX
  • Killer Instinct

Check out the Facebook event

Special thanks to the following

Battle Kat Bunker – Sydney’s fighting game hang-out https://www.facebook.com/BattleKatBunker/

GVP Esports – Newcastle’s fighting game scene https://www.facebook.com/GVPesports

Couchwarriors and Twitch for organising the BAM Path to Evo league https://www.bampathtoevo.com.au/

Catch up with the community on our discord https://discord.gg/DGMyGKw

OCE FGC Bushfire Relief Charity Tournament Summary

20 Jan

With the tragedy of the ongoing bushfire affecting large parts of Australia, the Oceanic Fighting Game Community banded together in support of those who are affected by the bushfires. On the 18th and 19th of January, the community ran a two day online tournament event covering a multitude of games across the community. Partnering with Gamer Aid Australia, a charity drive was hosted for all affected. All money raised, including tournament entry fees, will be transferred to Gamer Aid Australia’s donation fund for NSW Rural Fire Service and WIRES. These funds will be split evenly before being donated to the two organisations.

We’re absolutely floored with the reception this event has had. With an initial estimate of $2,000, we easily achieved that within a few hours of the event, closing off the first day with a bit over $4,000! With one more day to go, we managed to double that to raise just over $8,000!

From the larger games like Tekken 7 and Street Fighter V, to the smaller or lesser known games like Killer Instinct and Touhou Hisoutensoku, it’s wonderful to see people from all corners of our FGC come together. From participating in the chats of eachother’s communities, to the many enjoyable quips and shoutouts that were made over the weekend. We hope you all had as much of a good time as we did with this event.

From all of us who organised this, we’d like to extend a heartfelt gratitude for all of you who helped make this the success it was, from viewers, donators to competitors. It was an absolute pleasure to see the community come together for such a cause.

Here are some quick facts about the weekend

Total Unique Entrants: 166 players across 16 games!

Total Stream Time: Over 40 hours of games!

Total Money Raised: $8264.35AUD

Total Money earned from Entrants:  $1195.70AUD

Total Money earned from Donations: $7068.65AUD

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For those wanting to catch up to the event we have a quick list of results and a link to the brackets and VODs (where applicable) just below.

Interested in a game that you may have saw this weekend? Be sure to check out some of the various community discords linked below to get started!

Tekken 7
1st) Kanga | Wowzer
2nd) Mia
3rd) twygs
Bracket | VOD | Discord		 Under Night In-Birth Exe:Late[st]
1st) Silent
2nd) Rusecruise
3rd) 394_
Bracket | VOD | Discord		 Street Fighter V
1st) Schenkan
2nd) Damosk
3rd) freeser
Bracket | VOD | Discord
Mortal Kombat 11
1st) gilbagz
2nd) GilbagzSlayer
3rd) Wizard_of_Aus
Bracket | VOD (Soon) | Discord		 Guilty Gear Xrd REV2
1st) Toneblerone
2nd) Blackwind
3rd) Mercy
Bracket | VOD | Discord		 Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike
1st) Julian
2nd) Dr. Kimble
3rd) raiyouden
Bracket | VOD | Discord
Soul Calibur VI
1st) Atheroll
2nd) Dylan
3rd) Goat
Bracket | VOD (Soon) | Discord		 BlazBlue: Central Fiction
1st) Morpher
2nd) Life’s  Mental Scars
3rd) 394_
Bracket | VOD | Discord		 Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo
1st) Helixodron
2nd) Genxa
3rd) gov
Bracket | VOD | Discord
Dragon Ball FighterZ
1st) Agent17805
2nd) SweetLeaves
3rd) CugeltheClever1
Bracket | VOD | Discord		 BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle
1st) Rusecruise
2nd) ArtyBlazy
3rd) RaodenNZ
Bracket | VOD | Discord		 Samurai Shodown
1st) Genxa
2nd) Somniac
3rd) TAJGarou
Bracket | VOD | Discord
Skullgirls 2nd Encore
No Tournament Exhibition Matches
VOD | Discord		 Touhou Hisoutensoku
1st) Cirno Man
2nd) xyzcv5
3rd) Helixidron
Bracket | VOD | Discord		 Killer Instinct
No Tournament Exhibition Matches
VOD | Discord
Dark Souls
1st) MOLBY199
2nd) Ippo
3rd) It is the end | Cestial
Bracket | VOD | Discord

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Gamer Aid Australia is a not for profit charity focusing on assisting and supporting charity drives amongst gamers. Our fighting game community is proud to work with them to support such an important cause

Check out some of their previous collaborations on their twitter

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Charities donated to

WIRES – A wildlife life focused charity. Helping rescue and support many of our native animals during this crisis.

NSW Rural Fire Service – New South Wale’s volunteer fire brigade

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OCE FGC Bushfire Relief Online Events

10 Jan

With the tragedy of the ongoing bushfire affecting large parts of Australia, the Oceanic Fighting Game Community will be banding together in support of those who are affected by the bushfires. On the 18th and 19th of January, the community will be running a two day online tournament event covering a multitude of games across the community. Partnering with Gamer Aid Australia, we will be hosting a charity drive for all affected. All money raised, including tournament entry fees, will be transferred to Gamer Aid Australia’s donation fund for NSW Rural Fire Service and WIRES. These funds will be split evenly before being donated to the two organisations.

If you’d like to make a donation to the event, you  can donate through Gamer Aid

The games will be streamed across a number of community channels but you can catch the action on our designated stream channels for the weekend (GamerAidAus/OzHadou), where we will be hosting the tournaments consecutively for a full day’s worth of games.

  • All tournaments will have a sign-up fee of $3.5USD (~$5AUD), this money will go to Gamer Aid Australia as a donation to the fund
  • Various artistic community members will also be offering up art commissions as a raffle prizes throughout the event
  • Courtesy of Gamer Aid Australia, the winners of teach tournament will receive Paladins branded Sennheiser GSP 305 headsets
  • Tournaments can be found at https://challonge.com/events/OceFGCBushfire, with registrations closing an hour before the tournament begins
  • Upon signing up to the tournament, be sure to be in the respective community’s discord during the tournament time to report for matches. Links will be below
  • Closer to the event, we will be providing a donation link to donate directly to our fund in collaboration with Gamer Aid Australia. Funds raised will be towards the NSW RFS and WIRES
  • All games will be played on PC with the following exceptions. Mortal Kombat 11 (PS4), Samurai Shodown (PS4), Super Smash Brothers Ultimate (Switch). Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo and Street Fighter III: Third Strike will be played on 30th anniversary (or Fightcade if not possible. See their related discord for more)

All times below are in AEDT (GMT+11)

STREAM A: https://www.twitch.tv/gameraidaus

Saturday

Smash Bros. Ultimate – 12PM – Cancelled – https://discord.gg/h47pspf
Soul Calibur 6 (Top OCE Player Invitational) – 4:30PM – https://discord.gg/QrAcg7p
Street Fighter V – 8:00PM – https://discord.gg/rDe8Vzn
UNIST – 12:30AM – https://discord.gg/JaCqGjS

Sunday

Mortal Kombat 11 -12PM – https://discord.gg/BWfKt82
Tekken 7 – 4:30PM – https://discord.gg/Tw6Mgyf
Dragon Ball FighterZ – 9:00PM – https://discord.gg/kbPWTZQ

Stream B: https://www.twitch.tv/ozhadou

Saturday

Blazblue: Cross Tag Battle – 4:00PM – https://discord.gg/JaCqGjS
Skullgirls: 2nd Encore – 6:30PM – https://discord.gg/WKG373f
Killer Instinct – 9:00PM – https://discord.gg/8rYxtv5
Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike – 10:30PM – https://discord.gg/rDe8Vzn
Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo – 1:00AM – https://discord.gg/rDe8Vzn

Sunday

Samurai Shodown – 4:00PM – https://samsho.co/
Blazblue: Central Fiction – 6:30PM – https://discord.gg/JaCqGjS
Guilty Gear Xrd Rev 2 – 9:00PM – https://discord.gg/JaCqGjS
Touhou 12.3 – 12:00AM – https://discord.gg/JaCqGjS
Dark souls – 2:00AM – https://discord.gg/vnrQHZ2

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Gamer Aid Australia is a not for profit charity focusing on assisting and supporting charity drives amongst gamers. Our fighting game community is proud to work with them to support such an important cause

Check out some of their previous collaborations on their twitter

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If you would like to donate outside of our campaign to some charities directly or support indirectly, see some of the following organizations doing amazing work.

WIRES – A wildlife life focused charity. Helping rescue and support many of our native animals during this crisis.

Red Cross – A chairty focused on disaster relief for those afflicted by the bushfires

NSW Rural Fire Service – New South Wale’s volunteer fire brigade

VIC Country Fire Authority – Victoria’s volunteer fire brigade

and many more (Reddit link to a compiled post of a number of charities)

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For further information, there will be a number of organisers across the various game channels that will be happy to address your inquiries.
Special thanks to all the communities involved in our event

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Changes to OzHadou Website

7 Dec

For all those who visit the OzHadou website, you may have noticed a recent amount of articles that cover general fighting game news

As we come into the new year, we’ll be making some significant changes over time to both our events and our media. We’re aiming to cover a lot more community content and we’ll be making some radical changes to our website. Be sure to follow as we enter the new year with some exciting ideas!

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Soul Calibur 6 2.00 Released

25 Nov

Today marks the release of a new season for Soul Calibur 6 with a radical number of changes to really shake up the game.

Here’s the important things

  • Balance Update 2.0 will be free to all players, just update the game today and you’ll have it!
  • New character Hilde will be part of the Season 2 character pass and will be released tomorrow (26th)
  • Two new system mechanics in Soul Attack and Resist Impact

Be sure to brush up on the rest of the patch notes here. For all the specific balance changes, check the patch notes

For all competitors attending York Street Battles #73 this weekend, We’ll be running on the 2.0 patch for the final event of the year so be ready

Looking to get into the game? There’s no better way than to join the OCE Soul Calibur Community. Between the wealth of helpful players and fortnightly tournaments, there is no better way to be ready on the stage of history

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BlazBlue Cross Tag Battle 2.0 Has Arrived!

21 Nov

Today is the release of the long awaited BlazBlue Cross Tag Battle 2.0 on PC, with the release of 2.0 on PS4 being followed up tomorrow on the 21st.

Here’s what you need to know

  • Official 2.0 Patch Notes from ArcSytemWorks
  • The update will be released as a free balance patch. This means all existing owners of Blazblue Cross Tag Battle will be automatically upgraded
  • An additional 2.0 DLC pack will be available for $25USD. This adds 9 new characters to the roster. Celica and Susanoo from Blazblue, Elizabeth and Adachi from Persona 4 Arena, Hilda from Under Night In-Birth, Akatsuki and Blitztank from Akatsuki Blitzkampf, Yumi from Senran Kagura and Neo Politan from RWBY, making for a total of over 50 characters!
  • The Deluxe Edition (With DLC Packs 1-7) will be replaced with the Special Edition (Deluxe Edition + 2.0 DLC Pack) when the patch drops. If you don’t have the game yet, be sure to hold out on purchasing to ensure you get all the content!

With plenty of changes to both characters and system and a leading pace on the ArcRevo2020 tour, There’s no better time to get into this zany mash-up of a versus game.

Due to being released over a week from York Street Battles #73 and a non-entry fee tournament, it will be run on the 2.0 patch. Be sure to spend the week beforehand to brush up on all the character and mechanic changes before then!

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Samurai Shodown – Kazama Kazuki released!

20 Nov

Yesterday was the release of the third of Samurai Shodown’s DLC characters in the first season pass, Kazama Kazuki

If you have the season pass, be sure to hit up the playstation store to download this character for free, otherwise he is available for $8.95AUD

As he is releasing over a week before York Street Battles #73, he will be legal for the tournament on the day. Be sure to brush up on the matchup before hand or be turned to ash!

 

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Street Fighter V Championship Edition – New characters, New package

20 Nov

Over the weekend, the North American Regional Finals for the Capcom Pro Tour for Street Fighter V occured. With two major tournaments, an open tournament for all entrants and a regional tournament for those from the NA region, this was the last chance to snatch up any points to qualify for the Capcom Pro Tour

For a summary of the event, check out Capcom’s recap blog post

To catch up on any of these exciting matches you might’ve missed, be sure to check out their youtube channel

Concluding this event, Capcom  announced some very exciting news

Street Fighter V Championship Edition has been announced with a slew of enticing new features. Here’s some of them

  • A compiled package of all currently released content including new upcoming content until the conclusion of the season
  • New character: Gill from Street Fighter 3
  • V-Skill 2 for all characters

All of this coming at a discounted price of $30(USD) on February 14, 2020. There’s no such better time to jump into this series

Curious to see these changes in action? Check out the trailer

And be sure to follow Capcom Fighters for more news related to the Capcom Pro Tour!

 

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