Meet Taisei, a veteran Japanese player who wants to win Evo for his single mom

(L) Chikurin, (M) Taisei, (R) GenHailing from Fukuoka, Japan; Taisei enters the Evo 2017 tournament taking place in Las Vegas this weekend. A veteran figure in the Japanese Tekken scene, Taisei has made a strong name for himself during his Tekken years for consistently staying at the very high end ranks during the years of Tekken 6, Tekken Tag Tournament 2 and now Tekken 7. For the first time in his Tekken career, Taisei will finally make his way overseas to compete on the world stage for Tekken and hopefully leave his mark on the world. Get to know the Japanese Tekken player Taisei personally through the newly published MASTERCUP Interview feature with him:

MASTERCUP Evo 2017 Taisei Interview ≫ http://mastercupofficial.com/17582

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REV Major 2017 - Tekken World Tour Master Event on July 8 & 9 from the Philippines

Taking place this weekend is Rev Major 2017 in the Phillipines. Rev Major is a Tekken World Tour Master Event meaning all qualifying players that perform really well during this Tekken 7 tournament will earn points contributing to their placing on the Asia-Pacific Tekken World Tour leaderboards. A strong international presence is expected at the tournament with big Tekken names like Nobi, Knee, Saint, JDCR, Tanukana, Chikurin, Yuu and more confirmed for attendance. The brackets for this tournament is absolutely stacked with these world class Tekken players so be sure to tune in this weekend to watch all the high level Tekken live. REV Major 2017 will be streamed with commentary over on the official Tekken Twitch channel:

REV Major 2017 Stream ≫ https://www.twitch.tv/tekken

Challonge Brackets ≫ http://playbook.challonge.com/

Tekken World Tour ≫ http://tekkenworldtour.com/

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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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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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