The King Of Iron Fist Tournament 2016 - North America Finals Going Live on November 9

The culmination of all the Tekken USA Tour events is taking place during this week in the city of San Francisco. Ruby Skye will be the destination set for all the qualified USA competitors to come battle it out to see who is best suit to represent America for the King Of Iron Fist 2016 Global finals held in Japan next month. For players that have not yet qualified into the NA Finals, there is a last chance qualifier a day before that is open to USA residents present that will give another window to make it in. A live stream is being organized so you can catch the action live but for the people in attendance, you'll get opportunities to meet the lead Tekken developers with signing sessions, grab yourself new Tekken related merchandising and meet top US Tekken players at the event. Last chance qualifier is on November 8 (Tuesday) with the NA Finals on November 9 (Wednesday.) For full details for the event including buying admission tickets, you can check out the website:

KOIFT 2016 North America ≫ http://tk7.tekken.com/kotif16

KOIFT 2016 NA Finals Stream URL ≫ https://www.twitch.tv/tekken

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OzHadou Nationals 14 | Australian Fighting Game Tournament on Aug 26 - 28

Taking place this weekend in the city of Sydney is OzHadou Nationals 14, an Australian fighting game event that is the longest running tournament series in the country. The arcade version of Tekken 7 (vanilla) makes an appearance at the event as a main tournament game with the updated version T7 Fated Retribution available for competitors to play at the venue on the side. (Thanks to Bandai Namco AU!) Some of Australia's well regarded Tekken players from Melbourne & Brisbane are there and will be going up against the forces of Sydney and it'll be a treat to see if they can defend home court this time around. OHN14 is also a Capcom Pro Tour Ranking event with Diago Umehara participating making it one not to miss if you also happen to play other fighting games. For full details on the tournament such as scheduling and player brackets, you can catch them on the OHN 14 website. The Tekken 7 tournament will be mostly streamed on Yigg's Twitch channel up until the Top 8 finals which will move over to the OzHadou channel so follow those channels and tune in this weekend to catch it all live.

OzHadou Nationals 14 ≫ http://ohn.ozhadou.net/

TEKKEN Stream (Pools) ≫ https://www.twitch.tv/yiggs_au

TEKKEN 7 Top 8 (Finals) ≫ https://www.twitch.tv/ozhadou

OzHadou Twitter ≫ https://twitter.com/ozhadou

YUU NOBI CUP | MASTERCUP 5on5 Tekken 7 Tournament on May 4

Taking place tomorrow at the Namco Hakata Bus Terminal arcade is the YUU NOBI CUP 5on5 tournament. Named after famed Japanese top players Yuu and Nobi, this MASTERCUP tournament pits the best East Japan has to offer against the south in TEKKEN 7. The tournament is being streamed entirely on Twitch.tv so you can watch all the TEKKEN 7 action live on the Game Newton channel. Additionally, later tonight in Japan (May 3) is the TEAM YUU VS TEAM NOBI 'Night before the tournament' event taking place at the same arcade in Fukuoka Japan. Everyone out there interested in watching fierce Tekken competition, this event is not one to miss.

YUU NOBI CUP Stream URL ≫ www.twitch.tv/gamenewton

Team YUU VS Team Nobi ≫ http://mastercupofficial.com/14030

Tournament updates ≫ https://twitter.com/masakarijin

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Tekken 7 'Just Before Launch' Special YouTube Broadcast

Update: Show is complete and uploaded onto YouTube. The announcement was that Bandai Namco is organizing a online Tekken 7 event on March 29. This event will allow everyone in the country to play everyone else throughout the country. There's going to be a niconico broadcast on the event which will feature new information on Tekken 7 inside it. More details on it will come out in the future.

Tekken 7 is less then a week away from being completely launched out in arcades and Namco is organising a special 'Just before' web broadcast for the occasion. On the show, Tekken's head producer Katushiro Harada and special cosplayer guests Kinako Sano & Yuriko Tiger will be present to play some matches and discuss the new character design of Lucky Chloe. Additionally there's also going to be new 'Tekken Event' related news announced on the show and who knows what else. The show will go live on the official Tekken YouTube channel at 2:00 PM Japan time today which is less then 30 minutes away from now. You can watch the web broadcast with the URL below:

TEKKEN 7 'Before Launch' Special Broadcast ≫ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMMjCxGKJJI

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SCLS - Collect Fragments of Soul Edge to Get a School Blazer

Bandai Namco released new details of an upcoming in-game event for Soul Calibur Lost Swords to several Japanese gaming websites. This new update announces a competition 'Ranking event' that allows player to earn fragments of Soul Edges in quests which will eventually yield a School Blazer for your character in the game. If you happen to have the currently Japanese only version of the game, the period in which the event will be live is from the 26th of March and runs until the 9th of April. For those wondering when Soul Calibur Lost Swords will come out in US/EU regions, the game is still slated for Spring 2014.

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