EVO 2017 | Tekken 7 World Tournament on July 14 - 16

Join us this weekend for Evolution 2017, the fighting game event of the year. Taking place in Las Vegas, Nevada; Evo 2017 will feature Tekken 7's first console Evo tournament with players traveling all around the world to compete. JDCR, Saint, Knee, Jeondding, Nobi, Chikurin, Bats, Tanukana, Anakin, Speedkicks and a whole lot more, the heavy hitters in the Tekken scene are all here looking to take home the championship. Evo 2017 is the definitive fighting game event of the year and Tekken 7 will be headlining with a grand final appearance on stage in Mandalay Bay on Sunday so be sure to tune in and not miss out. Tekken 7 will be streamed on the official Tekken Twitch channel and then grand finals later on at the Evo Twitch channel.

Evo 2017 Smash.gg ▶ https://smash.gg/tournament/evo-2017/details

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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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Arcade Tekken 7 Fated Retribution Console Characters Update Coming July 27th

Back at EVO Sai, the Tekken team announced that the arcade version of Tekken 7 (Fated Retribution) will be getting a new update that will add in all the console exclusive characters into the game. Uploaded today on the Tekken YouTube channel was the announcement video for the said update but this time including an exact date of July 27th for when the update is set to arrive. So for players in Japan & Korea, they'll be able to play these console characters as well as receive console game balance changes and customization additions when the update goes live with Update Ver. L09. You can check out the trailer and announcement post over here:

Tekken Channel ≫ https://www.youtube.com/user/tekkenchannel

T7FR Ver. L09 Post ≫ http://www.tekken-official.jp/news/?p=6873

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Korean Player MajorOneTenHundred's Analysis on Knee's Feng pick for REV Major

REV Major 2017 was without a doubt one of the best showing of Tekken 7 at tournaments we've seen but it can be hard to feel involved with the players and scene with foreign players making most of the dominanting performance. Language barrier makes things a hurdle so every informant/spy that comes along to give us the juicy details and behind the scenes of what's going on in other Tekken communities is pretty valuable. For most of the viewers watching REV Major, they might not know what's going on with Knee who's known for his Bryan/Mishima play to opt to go and use Feng against his opponents in a tournament. Thanks to Kihyun96 over on Reddit, he managed to translate a big analysis post on Knee's character choice done by the Feng player MajorOneTenHundred (일십백) which provides context and details to help clue people in. Big thanks goes to him for translating this analysis, you can read it over on the r/tekken subreddit.

kihyun96's Reddit post ≫ https://www.reddit.com/r/Tekken/comments/6mf8wl/a_korean_players_analysis_on_knees_feng_pick_for/

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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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