MASTERCUP.9 Set to Take Place at Tokyo Big Sight TFT Hall

The destination has been set for MASTERCUP.9, the large scale Japanese 5on5 Tekken tournament set to go down on November 25th. The new venue announced for the tournament will be at Tokyo Big Sight's TFT (Tokyo Fashion Town) Hall. You might remember that venue as the place where Namco ran the TKOIFT 2015 Tokyo Qualifier, or the place that had Toushinsai 2016. This marks a big upgrade from the usual tournament venue being Leisure land in Palette town which was way too small of a venue to house a large number of entrants and had a smoking area right next to the play area. It's a new game, new tournament and new venue. For more news and info on the MASTERCUP tournaments, you can check the official website for more news to come in the future.

MASTERCUP Official ≫ http://mastercupofficial.com/17363

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Japanese Players Yuu, Nobi & Take Share Their Tekken 7 Tier Lists

Yuu, Nobi & Take of Mushin Tekken are back with Volume #2 of their Tekken Attack YouTube show. This volume discusses their thoughts on the game balance and character ranking so they do discuss which characters in the game do better than others. They took turns creating the character lists in the background but then later pool their thoughts together to come up with their placings for the tier list. The Tier Lists listed here are for arcade Tekken 7 Fated Retribution and is current as of May 2017. That being said, the console version of Tekken 7 does differ from arcade T7FR balancing wise so there's that to factor in going into the console release. For now, check out Yuu, Nobi & Take's thoughts on a tier list.

Yuu & Nobi ≫ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCICMbIe_1gc_F0y9Bt9QuZw

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Arcade Tekken 7 Fated Retribution is Getting the Console Characters this Summer

Tekken project team leader Nakatsu was live after EVO Japan's Sai grand finals to present news that the arcade version of Tekken 7 Fated Retribution is getting the console exclusive Tekken 7 characters in a future update slated for Summer of 2017. The list of console characters include Lee, Miguel, Kuma, Panda, Eddy and the pre-order character Eliza so the arcade community in Japan and Korea will have their hands on these characters when the update comes out. In addition, a console Tekken 7 countdown event has been announced and it'll give people a chance to demo Tekken 7 before it comes out on June 2nd. Date of the countdown event is currently TBA but is expected in the near future.

EVO Japan Sai stream ≫ https://www.twitch.tv/evojapan01

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Pre-EVO Japan Tournament 'Sai' Streamed Live on May 20 - 21

Taking place this weekend is a lead-up tournament to EVO Japan and this tournament is featuring Tekken 7 Fated Retribution in the game lineup. Expect a lot of strong local Japanese competition as well as Korean international presence as they come together in Akihabara, Japan to throw down in EVO's standard double elimination format. The per-cursor event will be streamed live across the EVO Japan Twitch channels with commentary so tune in on May 20 and 21 to catch all the Tekken action live. For more details on the tournament, you can check out the EVO Japan website here:

EVO Japan ≫ http://evo-japan.net/

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AfreecaTV & NiceGameTV Announces the AfreecaTV TEKKEN League 2017

Korean broadcasting companies AfreecaTV & NiceGameTV have announced a new collaborative Korean esports league dubbed the "AfreecaTV Tekken League 2017" (ATL for short). ATL 2017 pits together high level Tekken players that have performed really strongly in both international and domestic tournaments for a League with a total prize pool of around $5000 USD. ATL will be a big showcase for perhaps the best level of Tekken in the world and it will be streamed live every Friday and Saturday starting from May 19th up until the Grand Finals which is taking place on the 16th of June. The announcement PR and scheduling for the AfreecaTV Tekken League can be found below.

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