AfreecaTV & NiceGameTV Announces the AfreecaTV TEKKEN League 2017

Korean broadcasting companies AfreecaTV & NiceGameTV have announced a new collaborative Korean esports league dubbed the "AfreecaTV Tekken League 2017" (ATL for short). ATL 2017 pits together high level Tekken players that have performed really strongly in both international and domestic tournaments for a League with a total prize pool of around $5000 USD. ATL will be a big showcase for perhaps the best level of Tekken in the world and it will be streamed live every Friday and Saturday starting from May 19th up until the Grand Finals which is taking place on the 16th of June. The announcement PR and scheduling for the AfreecaTV Tekken League can be found below.

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This Year's MASTERCUP.9 Tournament Shifts Date to November 25

Word came in on an update notice for the Tekken 7 MASTERCUP.9 tournament that is scheduled to take place later this year. During the MORIBE CUP event, the MASTERCUP tournament head honcho Masakarijin; appeared on stage to present the news that this year's MASTERCUP.9 event has now moved dates from the previously announced date of November 4 to the 25th of November (Saturday). Apologies for the delay in relaying this news but we hope anyone that was already planning on attending MASTERCUP.9 prepare in advance for the event and the shift in dates. MASTERCUP.9 is expected to be another monolithic Japanese Tekken event with Tekken 7 that'll celebrate 10 years of MASTERCUP tournaments in the region so it is definitely an event not to miss out on. Hopefully for this year we can see more international presence, team USA where you at!?

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Battle Arena Melbourne 9 - Australian Premier FG Tournament Featuring Tekken 7

[Update] Official Youtube archives of the Tekken 7 tournaments from BAM9 have now been added from Team Solid.

Taking place this weekend in the city of Melbourne, Australia is the 9th Battle Arena Toshinden Melbourne! This tournament marks a big deal for region as it is a Capcom Pro Tour event but more importantly has a large showing of Tekken 7 as Bandai Namco Australia is supporting the event by running tournaments for the game with a large amount of setups for people to play. There's even a beginner only Tekken 7 event which is completely free to enter for anyone looking to get into the game. Echo Fox's own JDCR & Saint are also down in the country and entering the tournament offering strong competition for all the Tekken players that are entering. BAM9 goes big this year by upgrading from the previous CQ venues to the much bigger Melbourne Convention & Exhibition Centre and you can catch most of the action live on Twitch as it happens.

Couch Warriors Website ≫ http://couchwarriors.org/wp/

Tournament Twitter Account ≫ https://twitter.com/couchwarriors

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MORIBE CUP 3on3 MASTERCUP Tournament YouTube Archives

MORIBECUP KIWAMAI 3on3 MASTERCUP M1 CLIMAX2017 ..... Or simply Moribe Cup was a Japanese Tekken 7 FR tournament that took place early last month in the southern Japanese region of Fukuoka. Held at Namco's Hakata Bus Terminal Arcade, this tournament had 150 people enter which included notable names like Yuu, Nobi, Take, Karei, Hakai Ou (Destruction King) and a bunch more with even Tanukana doing commentary on the stream. Since the stream ended awhile ago, here are the YouTube archives courtesy of the MASTERCUP channel if you happened to miss them live.

MASTERCUP Channel ≫ https://www.youtube.com/user/MASTERCUPOFFICIAL

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Evo Japan's Lead-Up Tournament Sai Player List - Echo Fox Saint in Attendance

EVO Japan's qualifier tournament 賽 [sài] is hosting an arcade Tekken 7 Fated Retribution event and MASTERCUP was able to individually confirm that team Echo Fox's enlisted Tekken player Saint will be there participating. The registration for the tournament recently closed off and the currently registered players were published on the official site and it includes big names in the Japanese Tekken community like AO, Tanukana, Chikurin, TAKE, Nobi, Yuu and a bunch more. There's even the oddball register like Tetsuo on the list. The Sai tournament is taking place in Tokyo, Japan in the Akihabara district on May 20 & 21 so be sure to not miss it when it goes down.

MASTERCUP ≫ http://mastercupofficial.com/17182

EVO Japan Sai Player List ≫ https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-gRAKaX8lZaLUJPZXprRjFPakk/view

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