King Of Iron Fist 2015 - European Qualifier Finals At Paris Games Week

Paris Games Week is taking place as we speak and the organized European qualifier for the King of Iron Fist Tournament 2015 will be occurring soon. The winning 3 players from this event wins an 'all-expenses' paid trip to Japan to compete in the KOIFT2015 Grand Finals alongside the likes of Nobi, AO, Mr. Naps, Bloodhawk, AK and more on December 12th. The event is being streamed live across Bandai Namco and ESL's Twitch channels with commentary available in French and English. I don't exactly know when the event will go live (I was just told 'in about 8 hours from now') so follow the channels to get notifications on when they're live. Here are the players that are participating in this qualifier.

Participants:

• Vanex
• Caiper
• Genius
• Starscream
• FARM2FARM|Devil
• Real Menace
• Tenshimitsu
• Harry Potter
• Mitrust-storm
• Tissuemon
• FARM2FARM | Matt-JF
• Caradolph

Streams:

Bandai Namco Europe (ENG) ≫ http://www.twitch.tv/bandainamcoeurope

ESL France (FR) ≫ http://www.twitch.tv/esl_france

Premium PV Released for Japanese 5on5 Tekken 7 Tournament - MASTERCUP.8

MASTERCUP.8 returns this year on November 22nd and as usual, the latest PV for the tournament has been released! The PV features commentary by Fumihiko Tachiki and looks back at all the previous MASTERCUPs that lead up to the big tournament this year. MASTERCUP.8 will take place in Odaiba, Tokyo next month and just to remind everyone, tournament sign-ups for the event end this Saturday 24th of Oct in Japan so time is short if you want to make plans to attend. You can check out the PV on the Mastercup YouTube channel here:

MASTERCUP OFFICIAL ≫ https://www.youtube.com/user/MASTERCUPOFFICIAL

In other news, a Korean team has finally entered MASTERCUP.8! The team comprises of the following players:

This team will participate in the tournament alongside the team that wins the tournament in Green Arcade on Oct 24. You can take a look at the massive list of team entered into the tournament here.

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King Of Iron Fist 2015 - East Coast USA Qualifier YouTube Archives

The King Of Iron Fist tournament recently concluded the East Coast USA qualifier to find a US representative player to fly to Japan and just like UTXVI, this event unfortunately couldn't be streamed live on Twitch. Team Spooky has however uploaded the video archives of the event so you can use those to catch up with the event. The entire playlist is now up and available to view. No spoilers in here, so feel free to watch the archives if you've managed to avoid social media up to this point. You can check out the rest of Team Spooky's channel here:

Team Spooky ≫ https://www.youtube.com/user/teamspooky

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AK from The Philippines Is Invited to the King Of Iron Fist Tournament 2015

In a new update to the official Japanese website for the King Of Iron Fist tournament 2015, it's been brought to light that Tekken child prodigy AK from the Philippines is invited to the Grand Finals event on December 12th. He is listed under the delegation of the TEKKEN 20th Anniversary event so he was selected after his performance in the last year on December 7th. AK will head on to compete against other strong qualified Tekken players like Naps, Nobi, AO and more come this end of the year. The same update on the website also details the total amount of qualifying spots for the Grand final event and they are as follow:

THE KING OF IRON FIST TOURNAMENT 2015 Qualifying players:

• 11 qualifying players from Japan - 2 of which from the female division. (Yurisan no Hou & Maxi)
• 8 qualifying players from Korea
• 2 qualifying players from EVO 2015 - Nobi & AO.
• 2 qualifying players from North America - West Coast (Mr. Naps) & East Coast (Oct 18th.)
• 3 qualfyiing players from Europe - Paris Games Week (Oct 29th.)
• Tekken's 20th Anniversary Event performer - AK from the Philippines.

Official website ≫ http://www.tekken-official.jp/20th_ironfist/

King Of Iron Fist 2015 - EU Qualifiers Being Held at Paris Games Week

Update: Top 3 placers from Ultimate Tournament XVI will be invited to the European Qualifiers for the King Of Iron Fist Tournament 2015!

Paris Games Week, an annual gaming event held in Paris, France will be the host to the official European qualifiers for Bandai Namco's King Of Iron Fist 2015 tournament come this Oct 29th! 3 winning European players will receive an 'all expenses' paid trip to Japan to compete in the Grand Final event on December 12th. The tournament will feature invited players who have proved themselves in tournaments around this season to participate so it makes for an premium invitational event for Europe. For those not in the region, you can catch the stream live on twitch in English in the near future. For further details on the tournament, you can consult the facebook page here:

TEKKEN 7 EU Qualifiers @ Paris Games Week ≫ https://www.facebook.com/events/1642624309337874/

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