SPECIAL HAMMERs CUP 2 - MASTERCUP S1 Climax 2014

SPECIAL HAMMERs CUP 2 is the next Japanese tournament that MASTERCUP is going to run this year and it will be another 3on3 tournament with a team entry limit set to 42 teams (126 total players.) It was announced a bit before the top 8 at MATADOR CUP 5 and I now have more details about it from the official website. It's going to be held in a Namco arcade 'Hakata Bus Terminal store' which is in Fukuoka, Japan during Japan's Golden Week holiday period. The tournament is named after the famed Japanese Dragunov/Lee player 'Special Hammers' from Fukuoka and is going to be run similiar to the Mastercup J1 Climax from last year. This tournament as well as an upcoming MASTERCUP tournament in west Japan (No date yet) and of course MASTERCUP.7 in November this year is expected to be a good send off for the game just before Tekken's 20th anniversary in December.

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MATADOR CUP 5 | Japanese 5on5 Tournament Streamed From A-cho

UPDATE: Tournament is now over and results have been added.

MATADOR CUP 5 tournament is streamed live from the renowned A-cho arcade in Kyoto, Japan and features a great amount of teams entered which sums up to 420 players competiting. South Korea sent two teams over which features great players like Jundding, HelpMe, Nin, Saint and more to the tournament to once again take a shot at toppling the Japanese community at their hometurf. Fortunately for most of us, the tournament is held in the A-cho arcade so that means A-cho will provide a stream of the tournament onto their Ustream channel as opposed to niconico. Be sure to tune in if you have the time as this will be entertaining to watch!

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MASTERCUP Japan East VS West 15on15 Battle Announced!

UPDATE: Results have been added. Smoiler alert.

Hope everyone enjoyed themselves over the past weekend with Final Round but don't go anywhere just yet because MATADOR CUP 5 is upcoming the following weekend! The Japanese tournament boasts an impressive amount of 420 total entrants and with this large gathering of players; MASTERCUP has announced a 15on15 between East Japan and West Japan. The competition will feature Matador leading the Japan West team up against Furumizu's Japan East team which will be formed of players of the team captain's choosing. The 15on15 East VS West event will happen a day before MATADOR CUP 5 which is on the 22nd of March this year. You can see further details on the event as well as the players on each team below.

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Top 8 Tekken Player Rankings By @KITVandy

Kumite in Tennesse tournament organiser: Ian Vandy Davis recently created an online Google Document that ranks Tekken players that have placed top 8 at US Tekken tournaments. Points are given to players for their final placing and the amount of points given are directly proportional to the amount of entrants that a tournament has. There's a main ranking list that scores players solely in the US with another scoring US + Korean players and it comes up with interesting results. You can check out the online document here.

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Matador Cup 5 - Another Korean Team Entered, Collaborative PV Released

Another Korean team has been spotted on the team list page for the tournament and it features some recognizable players. Okay (Wang/Jinpachi), Liliman (Lili/Devil Jin), Bohee (Steve/Miguel), Sonic (Bryan/Ganryu) & finally Malgu (Law/JACK-6) have been entered into the tournament. Just as an added refresher, the team is entered into the tournament's preliminary contest so they will have to be one of the 14 winning teams to advance to the main phases of the tournament. Additionally, MASTERCUP have also released a new Combo PV in collaboration with the 'Tekken special analyzer’s' team that's entered into the tournament. It features combos performed by Ortega, STL, Monga Munga & Fuu-chikurin.

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