E-Sports MAX TEKKEN Showdown Featuring Nobi, Yuu & Tekken Bancho

E-Sports MAX is a TV show currently airing in Japan through the Tokyo MX channel that covers e-sports in Japan. Over the past few months of broadcasting, there's been a few episodes which had included coverage of Tekken Tag Tournament 2 with Nobi, Yuu & Tekken Bancho participating in the show by playing matches as well as having Hameko in to do commentary. This all aired on Japanese TV before but for most of us who probably can't watch it, the Tokyo MX channel finally got to uploading the archives of these matches onto their YouTube channel. Tokyo MX's E-Sports MAX show can be caught on TV at Friday 6:30 PM.

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TTT2: Japan Invasion Event at The Philippines

Over at the Philippines this past weekend; Nobi, Genkids & Jackller (Tekken Bancho) got the opportunity to play in a 3v3 tournament as well as exhibition matches against the local competition in an event held by Timezone. The internet at the venue was not good at the time to stream the great matches however the PinoyVersus YouTube channel have started uploading the archives for the tournament and exhibition matches which is now available for viewing. The playlist will run through most of the 3v3 tournament in reverse order and the exhibition match features AK, Maru, & Doujin vs Nobi, Genkids & Jackller. Customs are off (Maru is another Dragunov/Lars player) and the matches were set to 4 rounds to win.

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TTT2 - Japanese Tournament, Kumites & Online Ranked Matches ft. Kuro Kuro & Knee Archives

There was a suprising amount of Tekken going on this past weekend. First off, Kuro Kuro & Shana (both Japanese players) visited Korea to interview Korean players for the Tekken Mura website and play some Tekken. Kuro Kuro went to Knee's house to stream online Ranked matches with him onto his niconico community page. Secondly, Nobi and BKC went to the Oita prefecture in Fukuoka for a kumite event as well as a random 2on2 tournament inside the Amusement Spot arcade. Lastly, Namco held a Kumite event in Osaka, Japan featuring the recent Ranking Battle winner Amigo as well as Osaka's own Burimaru and Matador. This was all streamed on niconico but for those who don't have premium accounts, I've got it all archived on YouTube below.

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TV E-Sports MAX Episode Snippet Featuring Nobi

In Namco Sugamo, newer players or customers that show up to the arcade may be daunted by the level of skill the average player over there has and may have trouble keeping up when playing against them. As such, the arcade has officially recognized and employed Japan's top player Nobi (or 'Instructor-san' as some of the players call him) to help teach players how to play the game and give advice on how they can improve and get better. If you have the credits to play on a side-by-side TTT2 cabinet and Nobi has the time, it may be a much wiser investment then continually losing to a really good player. To better illustrate all this, the E-Sports MAX TV show that currently airs over on the Tokyo MX TV channel in Japan filmed a small episode featuring Nobi showing the TV show's co-host the ropes of the game. The snippet of the episode is now viewable on TOKYO MX's YouTube channel.

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Stream Archive of Knee's Online Ranked Matches (2/27)

For those who don't know, Knee streams online Tekken from time to time on the Korean live streaming service: afreecaTV. Yesterday he streamed a long online session that includes the entire Yuuji Cup as well as normal ranked match play up against Japanese players like Nobi, Yuttari Yuuki and Special Pikoham. It looks like the connection quality between Korea to Japan holds up well since the matches all look pretty good. There's a complete archive of the online battles up on Knee's afreeca page. (Click below for an embed of it.)

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