EVO Japan to Feature Playable Soul Calibur VI & SCV Side Tournament

The SoulCalibur & Tekken 7 Producer Motohiro Okubo made an appearance during the Eastern Japanese online qualifiers for their national Tekken 7 tournament and relayed some news for Soul Calibur fans going to EVO Japan. The first of which is that Bandai Namco are planning to have playable builds of Soul Calibur 6 for people to try out at the event and it marks the first time the public will be given access to the new game. It wasn't disclosed what build the game will be (If it is still the Mitsurugi/Sophita build for instance) but more details about the playable SC6 demo is said to be coming at a later date. Next bit of news was bringing up that Evo Japan is having a side tournament for Soul Calibur V, the previous SC game on the PS3 & X360. Registration for that side tournament are now open so sign-up if you happen to be over there. EVO Japan marks a small resurgence of Soul Calibur activity so perhaps we might even see some new news or announcements about the series made at the event. If you want to check out the VOD for the announcement segment, you can find it below. EVO Japan is taking place in Akihabara, Japan on January 26th-28th, 2018.

Tekken 7 East Japan Online Qualifier VOD ≫ https://www.twitch.tv/videos/216162452

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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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Evo Japan's Lead-Up Tournament Sai Player List - Echo Fox Saint in Attendance

EVO Japan's qualifier tournament 賽 [sài] is hosting an arcade Tekken 7 Fated Retribution event and MASTERCUP was able to individually confirm that team Echo Fox's enlisted Tekken player Saint will be there participating. The registration for the tournament recently closed off and the currently registered players were published on the official site and it includes big names in the Japanese Tekken community like AO, Tanukana, Chikurin, TAKE, Nobi, Yuu and a bunch more. There's even the oddball register like Tetsuo on the list. The Sai tournament is taking place in Tokyo, Japan in the Akihabara district on May 20 & 21 so be sure to not miss it when it goes down.

MASTERCUP ≫ http://mastercupofficial.com/17182

EVO Japan Sai Player List ≫ https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-gRAKaX8lZaLUJPZXprRjFPakk/view

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