TTT2: Weekly Local Tekken Gatherings

School's out in the USA I hear, so what better time to play and enjoy some quality offline Tekken. Death™ over at Tekken Zaibatsu has rounded up several weekly Tekken gatherings ('locals') that occurs in several parts of the world that you yourself may be able to go to and participate or at least follow the streams of. The list comes with stream URLs as well as places you can visit to help get into contact with people in your local scene so it's well worth looking through it.

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TTT2: Help Me's Online Kumite 6/1

Help Me is giving everyone the chance to play against him in an online TTT2 kumite event with Tekken Mura members. It's open to everyone to participate as long as you sent in the small application to participate in the kumite on the website. If you do manage to play against Help Me online, Help Me will also give you advice and tips to help improve your Tekken play through the Tekken Mura website and through commentary. Entry is free for those looking to get in on this but it is capped at 30 people and probably only for either Japanese or Korean players due to the latency. Help Me's online kumite is going to be streamed on Twitch.tv through his newly created Twitch channel.

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AK Acquires New Sponsorship, Might Go to EVO Depending on SEA Major Performance

Alexandre “AK” Laverez - the so called 'child Tekken prodigy' that you may remember after getting 3rd in last year's Global Championships has recently gotten sponsored by the SMM Philippines Multimedia company. With this sponsorship, he's gotten a free, all-expenses-paid trip to SEA Major 2014 which is being held in Singapore on the 20th of June which is roughly a month away. Depending on how he performs in that tournament, the sponsorship announcement teases that AK may also earn himself a trip to EVO 2014 in Las Vegas potentially adding to the international competition that are said to be attending EVO such as AO (JP), Chikurin (JP) & BooK (TH). You can read the SMM Philippines sponsorship acquisition announcement over on the GamesInAsia website.

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UFGT10 - TTT2 Tournament Twitch Archives

Ultimate Fighting Game Tournament 10 happened over the course of this past weekend and the Twitch.tv archives for the TTT2 tournament held there is now available for viewing for those who missed out on watching it live. For full results on the tournament, you can consult the challonge bracket for the tournament. Twitch archives are courtesy of BGCallisto's Twitch.tv channel.

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High Stakes TEKKEN Weekend SUMMER 2014 ATLANTA

ATL Gamer Society originally announced this tournament with a $2,500 guaranteed pot payout at EVO weekend on account of the news of Tekken not being included into this year's EVO tournament. Since then, EVO has later added TTT2 back into EVO leaving the dates of these two tournaments clashing for players interested in traveling to either of these tournaments. The ATL Gamer Society website now offers new details on the tournament saying that the tournament has been pushed back to the weekend after (July 18-19, 2014) to ease concerns of date clashing. Among that, $2,500 pot payout is still guaranteed and players like Lil Majin, Anakin, Kor, Inkognito and more are confirmed to be participating in the tournament. You can find more details on the tournament up on the tournament's website.

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