The Decline of Fighting Games on Consoles in Japan

This isn't directly Tekken related but I felt this was a fascinating compilation of info that deserves to be shared and spread. GamesCharts.fr posted an article last month graphing the sales of respective fighting games throughout the years and the results are flabberghasting.

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TTT2 - 9/28 News & Media Round-Up

MC: Chanel, Knee, Nin, Saint & JDCR joins MASTERCUP.6
MC: Ryou (DVJ/AMK) VS Genkids (BOB/LEO) Tekken Emperor Deathmatches
OH: Second Generation Tetsuo (LEI/LEE) VS Burimaru (KNG/AMK>BOB/BRY) Matches Uploaded
TS: Knee (DVJ/MIG) VS JDCR (HEI/AMK) for 3rd/4th Place of Tekken Strike
TS: Season 2 Saint (BOB/GAN) VS Jundding (EDD/CHR) Finals
GC: Special Commerative Title Wanted

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MASTERCUP.6 - Help Me!! and Qudans Attending

This year's MASTERCUP.6 tournament in Japan looks to have some strong Korean players attending once again to try and take on the very best that Japan has to offer in the big 5on5 tournament series. Help Me will be returning to the Mastercup tournament after losing out to Shana's team just outside of Top 8 of MC.5 and Qudans will be joining Help Me and hopefully not dropping out like last time. The players are already registered up on the official website and it's surprising to see that they're both on AO's team. Qudans has registered under his Mishima team (Kazuya/Devil Jin) while Help Me is registered with his Paul/Marduk team. Hit the link to see the team.

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RedBull Japan's 5G Competition Featuring Tekken Tag Tournament 2

The RedBull 5G event is a national gaming competition set up by Redbull Japan to find the country's best competitive gamers in 5 gaming genres: First-Person-Shooters, Racing, Sports, Fighting & lastly a free genre which is announced to be puzzle games. The event uses qualifiers in East & West Japan and pits the two side against each other in offline & offline qualifiers. It was announced back in June that the Fighting game selected for this year's competition will be Tekken Tag Tournament 2 and RedBull JP have set the dates for the event's qualifiers & finals event. I'll hopefully have more information regarding it being broadcasted closer to the event occurring but you can see the set dates and rules below.

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BLACK★KNEE Kumite Videos By Kuro Kuro

Kurokuro uploaded a series of videos featuring several US players up against Knee during his stay at Las Vegas for EVO 2013. There's also some extensive video editing featured within these videos as frame data on the player's moves is displayed within the matches. You can watch all the matches below and you can find more Black★ series of videos up on Kurokuro's YouTube channel.

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