Next Tekken Crash To Be Aired on July 5th!

Update: Official post on the eSportsTV Board has further details on Tekken Crash! Twitch is sponsoring the event and the entire season of Tekken Crash (July -> September) will be streamed on Twitch! The Twitch streams (no URL yet) will go live every Sunday at 7:00PM Korean time starting from July 16th. The July 5th episode will be the preliminary qualifier for the season.

Tekken Crash, the recently brought back TV show centered on Tekken in Korea has a date set for it's next episode. July 5th is the day it goes live according to the recent quick promotional video uploaded on ESportsTV and will no doubt feature great Tekken players in Korea. As of right now I'm not too sure if there's plans to broadcast this episode on the internet like the last time but if there is info on it, we'll report it hopefully soon.

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Yuu & Nobi Now Sponsored by ORZ and Will Be Going to Evo 2015

Nobi just recently notified his twitter that both himself and Yuu are now both being sponsored by the Otaku React Zest group in Japan. ORZ will be sending both Yuu & Nobi to EVO 2015 this year in Las Vegas to represent Japan in Tekken! They will no doubt be participating in the Tekken 7 tournament so they will be strong contenders for taking the event. These two players are among the top Tekken players in Japan so it'll be interesting to see how they perform at the event. And just so you know, these aren't the only international players coming over to play Tekken 7 at Evo that I hear of, but that's an announcement for another day. Expect fierce competition at Evo this year everyone!

Announcement tweet ≫ https://twitter.com/daichinobi/status/614045569179254785

Evo 2015 trip tweet ≫ https://twitter.com/daichinobi/status/614045638913712129

Tekken 7 Tournament Being Held at Japan Expo in Paris

Harada mentioned awhile back on Twitter that he will be attending France's Japan Expo event in July and we now have confirmation from the official Tekken Facebook page that he will be bringing Tekken 7 with him for attendees at the event to play. They're hosting an actual tournament for the game too over there so this makes for a good opportunity to get a good handle of the game while there. The date and time of the event is listed in the image above but If you're interested in further info on the Japan Expo event in July, you can look at their website here:

Japan Expo ≫ http://www.japan-expo-paris.com/en/

Tekken 7 - Nobi & Shou's Tier Lists + Karei VS Kagemaru Match Videos

Just to blaze through introductions real quick - Nobi is Japan's proclaimed #01 Tekken player currently (generally considered) while Shou is a reputable Devil Jin player who had his major hey day back in Tekken 5 when he won SBO 2006. Karei while not as well known, he was a Tekken Emperor ranked Lars / Jinpachi player in TTT2 and was on AO's team that lost to Pekosu at Mastercup.5. He's also currently the highest ranked Kazumi player in Japan. Next up, Kagemaru is another high ranking player in TTT2 with his Bruce / Jack-6 team and got to rep Japan alongside Nobi in Global Championships 2013. This was his crowning moment in his Tekken career. Think that covers the gist of it all so here are the Tier lists and match videos. The Karei vs Kagemaru also ends up extending to Karei's sessions playing Tekken 7 online matches with Kazumi so there's that too. Footage is courtesy of the Enjoy Paradise arcade in Osaka Japan.

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Tekken 7 - Tier List from Top Japanese Player Yuu

Yuu (ユウ) of team No Respect from Japan is among the most well known Japanese Feng players and since the launch of Tekken 7 in arcades, he's been updating his own Tekken blog with a lot of gameplay related topics and discussions as well as answering gameplay related questions from players to help them learn the new game. The most recent update on his blog site is his current thoughts on a tier list for this game in the now available version of the game which has 27 characters (last time release character being Kazumi.) It's just the view of one high ranking Tekken player but Yuu himself stresses in the post that this isn't a completely 'correct' tier list for the game since that requires the thoughts of several other high level players and to sort their character evaluations among them into numerical figures for a big diagram to get a good average and placing for each characters. Yuu says he might plan something like that in the future but for now it's a hassle so here's just his current thoughts. You can read the tier list on his blog here or below for a translation:

Yuu T7 Tier List ≫ http://t7-norespect.blogspot.com.au/2015/06/blog-post_13.html

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