TV E-Sports MAX Episode Snippet Featuring Nobi

In Namco Sugamo, newer players or customers that show up to the arcade may be daunted by the level of skill the average player over there has and may have trouble keeping up when playing against them. As such, the arcade has officially recognized and employed Japan's top player Nobi (or 'Instructor-san' as some of the players call him) to help teach players how to play the game and give advice on how they can improve and get better. If you have the credits to play on a side-by-side TTT2 cabinet and Nobi has the time, it may be a much wiser investment then continually losing to a really good player. To better illustrate all this, the E-Sports MAX TV show that currently airs over on the Tokyo MX TV channel in Japan filmed a small episode featuring Nobi showing the TV show's co-host the ropes of the game. The snippet of the episode is now viewable on TOKYO MX's YouTube channel.

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Backdash Cancelling to be made easier in future Tekken Games

Yes. RT @TekkenArgentina Backdash cancelling is too hard. Will you make it easier in future Tekken games?

— Harada_TEKKEN (@Harada_TEKKEN) April 7, 2014

Probably the most blunt answer that you can get out of this topic. No specifics on how this will be achieved but it's something to look forward to in future Tekken games.

TTT2 Added Back Into EVO 2014 - Pre-Register Now!

Announced a bit back on Iplaywinner's 'The Fray' stream with MrWizard, MarkMan & Bronson, Tekken Tag Tournament 2 has now been added back into EVO 2014 as one of the official main games! You can find further details on the announcement over on Shoryuken.com and pre-register into the tournament with the following link:

URL ▶ http://evo.shoryuken.com/registration/

If you need to add Tekken to your registration for Evo, you need to email MrWizard at mrwizard@shoryuken.com so we can do it manually.

— Evo (@evo2k) April 4, 2014

TTT2 - MATADOR CUP 5 & Japan East VS West 15on15 Archives

It took awhile but it's finally here; MATADOR CUP 5, the 15on15 Japan East VS West event as well as ordinary matches that happened in the arcade during the tournament are all up on YouTube.  Big thanks goes to the a-cho & MASTERCUP staff for putting all this Tekken footage up on their YouTube channels. (GAMEacho channel & MASTERCUP channel)

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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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