Tekken Zaibatsu scheduled to shut down soon

As you may have already heard, Castel is finally pulling the plug on the Tekken Zaibatsu website after 20 years of operation. TZ has long served as the central location on the net for the English speaking Tekken community with years of news, gameplay info, regional gatherings, competitive rivalry/beef, tournament updates, community content like combo videos, artworks, fanfics and so much more to mention. 

While the book is being closed on Tekken Zaibatsu soon, the years of history and experiences that came from it lives on in every Tekken fan that began their Tekken journey there. As for where we go next, it is in the hands of the Tekken community to keep the spirit and community alive. Shoutouts to Castel for maintaining Tekken Zaibatsu throughout the years. You can visit the TZ thread to see the closing notice and emotional farewells from the community:

Tekken Zaibatsu Going Offline ≫ http://www.tekkenzaibatsu.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=134329

▌Notice from Castel
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I personally have been checked out from the scene for some time now, and I just don't have the time or desire anymore to keep the site going.

I suspect by now most of the conversation has moved on to social media platforms, but this serves as a notice to wrap things up on Tekken Zaibatsu. Make plans to stay in touch elsewhere, save any media and data you might want, etc...

Game Over!

- Castel

Edit 12/5

Wow... I didn't expect to see all you popping in to say farewell, it is bit overwhelming and emotional. I never really thought about the lasting impact this site has made on people's lives over the years. Sure is triggering a lot of fond memories of both online moments and real life, SHGL, Electric Cancels, EVOs, gatherings, training sessions, etc...

Thanks to all contributors, members, and moderators who helped make this place what it became.

Stay safe out there! As far as archiving goes, I will be making a backup of the site before closing and would be open to providing data for that purpose.

Pulled from the Bronson's post, https://twitter.com/shiburizu/statu...053649249251328 If somebody can reach out to @shiburizu to see if he can/wants to merge the TZ Wiki with the SRK Wiki, he can just email me (this old geezer doesn't do Twitter). I'd be happy to provide a database dump.

As far as the forum goes. it runs on pretty old software. I imagine an import of some kind into another platform would be the way the go, otherwise a legacy PHP/MySQL setup would be required.