After a year-long hiatus, we are back to running locals at Bankstown Sports!
There will be an attendee cap for this event and all attendees (including spectators) must register via smash.gg.
Several changes have been made to the event. Please review these in the smash.gg page and remember to pre-register to guarantee your spot.
Register via smash.gg here.
Check out the Facebook Event.
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.
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
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:
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
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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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 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
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!
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
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
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
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!
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!