Australian fighting game event runners and community. Hosts of BAM: Battle Arena Melbourne, Australia's largest fighting game/open entry esports event.
Check out this documentary about #bam7 competitor Skeletom by Kinch Kinski, Ethan Miller and Naim Kurt!
http://www.magnifymelbourne.com/episodes/skeletom-super-smash-brother/
Awesome stuff! Nice to see some BAM footage coming out.
Smash pools:
| Melee Singles 1 | http://melbournemelee.challonge.com/BAM7Pools | ||
| Melee Singles 2 | http://melbournemelee.challonge.com/Bam7Pools2 | ||
| Melee Doubles | http://melbournemelee.challonge.com/Bam7teams | ||
| Smash 4 Singles | http://melbournemelee.challonge.com/BAM7WiiUpools | ||
| Smash 4 Doubles | http://melbournemelee.challonge.com/BAM7WiiUdoubles |
For Ultra SFIV, MKX, UMVC3, KOFXIII, DOA5, VF, Skullgirls, KI, ST, GGX:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1nEfoNbAjMTquhtQ5lB-yOFU0Ao1fOAZv0QlHefeTKvE/edit?usp=sharing
Schedule: http://couchwarriors.org/battle-arena-melbourne-7/schedule/
Community: The Australian FGC is a series of player profiles from our local scene. In each episode we ask our guest who they are, where they come from, what/who they play, and what is it about fighting games and the FGC that keeps them around.
This episode features Anthony “A1Major” Majarian, a prominent KOF player from South Australia. He tells us about his history in the SA arcade scene, the rise of the modern SA console tournament scene, what he loves about arcades, life+fighting game philosophy and why he keeps coming back to Battle Arena Melbourne (BAM).
This episode comes out just in time for BAM7 and was actually filmed last year at BAM6. This episode offers a no-holds barred glimpse into the raucous fun that goes on at BAM, and all the colourful characters and hype moments that happen. So if you want more fighting game action be sure to check BAM7 out in the Melbourne CBD, May 22-24!
BAM7 Facebook event:
https://www.facebook.com/events/680544222054295/
Venue: Event Room #2: CQ, 123 Queen Street, Melbourne
Registration:
http://couchwarriors.org/battle-arena-melbourne-7/bam7-registration/
Stream:
If you can’t make the event check out our stream at http://www.twitch.tv/newgameplustv
When: 22 May 2015. 5-7PM
Location: Hofbrahaus. 18-28 Market Ln, Melbourne VIC 3000
Cost: $39 per head
We’ve wanted to have a mass dinner/social event at BAM for a long time now. On BAM Friday we finally have a space and time to get everybody together, whether you’re a smash player or an anime player or a street fighter player or international player, we want everyone to get together before the tournament and have a great time chowing down and catching up.
At the Hofbrahaus, there’s a big hall upstairs with plenty of broad tables that can fit up to 150 of us, so we can get up there and get rowdy FGC style. Because there’s so many of us, we can’t get an ala carte menu, but the preset Bavarian Table Buffet (3 Mains & 3 Sides) is a giant platter of food, enough for everyone on the table. There’s a great Bavarian atmosphere at the Hof and plenty of friendly and fulsome waitresses roaming around. There’s also a bar so we can get our drink on. (I quite like the banana bier.)
It’s in Chinatown on Bourke Street so we can all take the free tram down Bourke Street or walk down to CQ afterwards and continue the fun at BAM with exhibitions and casuals. You can pay for your spot at the dinner at the BAM7 preregistration page http://couchwarriors.org/
In Part 2 of our OHN special our two guests discuss the history of Ozhadou and OHN, ST in Sydney, attracting new players to our scene, what keeps them in community, EVO2014 and who they would bring to a desert island.
Hope you guys enjoy the episode and see yall tomorrow at SXC!
http://sxc.agongame.net/sxc
https://www.facebook.com/events/571204462992371/
Dusty Cartridge has shut down, RIP DC! But the show must go on…
This episode filmed at Sydney major OHN12 features two pillars of the Sydney FGC. You have Youssef “FaYd” Faddoul, a huge community driver of Tekken and a former SBO competitor, and David “Kyokugen” Lee who is pushing the Sydney KOF and ST scene forward. Both guys are key organisers of the Sydney monthly YSB and put in huge amounts of work at events like OHN12.
Youssef and Kyo are two sides of a coin personality wise. David is the more reserved and shy one, whereas Youssef is the opinionated, loud-mouthed bundle of energy – yet they’re both just as lovable in their own way and represent the exact same heart and passion when it comes to supporting our community. In Part 1 of this episode we discuss their origins, OHN, Melbourne vs Sydney and an intimate encounter with a certain Mr. Umehara.
Hope you guys enjoy the episode and come to our next major: Southern Cross Championship at Adelaide, December 6-7!
http://sxc.agongame.net/sxc
https://www.facebook.com/events/571204462992371/
http://dustycartridge.com/videos/community-australian-fgc-episode-09-colin-colonov-tan/
The last episode filmed from the Queensland major Buttonsmash features Australia’s best King of Fighters XIII player – Colin “Colonov” Tan. A long-time top player in Queensland in multiple games, Colonov had an unbroken streak of KOFXIII titles in local majors for almost eighteen months – until Adelaide’s Falco broke his streak at Buttonsmash. Colin has done so much for the Australian KOF scene and has brought up so many new KOF top players, such as Sam Baxter from Brisbane who got 2nd place in KOF at Buttonsmash.
Colin owns the House of Ham, a gamerhouse which is the training and social hub of the Queensland top player circle, and is also a proficient streamer, streaming his show Beyond the Hype and local matches/sets. In this episode we talk about growing the Queensland scene, Colin’s history with KOF and fighting games, the top player mentality, the social side of fighting games, relationship advice and much more. Hope you guys like the episode, and I hope to see you all this weekend at BAM6 in Melbourne!
The fourth episode filmed at the Queensland major Buttonsmash is a double special featuring Adric “Falco” Middleton from South Australia and Sam “The Ham” Baxter from Queensland. Both of them are young and relatively new to the scene, but are widely considered to be two of the best players in Australia.
Falco is known for his amazing Zangief in Street Fighter IV and for winning tournaments without even owning the game on console! He has taken his multi-game ability to another level by winning the KOFXIII tournament at Buttonsmash, breaking Colonov’s long and uninterrupted streak of Australian KOF titles.
Sam Baxter is only 19 years old, and is already an international-class Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 player, claiming fourth place at SEAM2013 in Singapore as well as multiple top 3 placings in Australia. In this episode the duo go on to talk about their love for fighting games, community and competition, their local scenes and how new and hungry players can get on their level. Hope you guys enjoy this episode!
Hi guys,
I’m pleased to announce a special edition of CCH on the 12th of May, BAM6 Monday. We’ll be at the Richmond library from noon till late, and entrance is free to all BAM6 entrants!
I encourage everyone to come for a day of casuals and fun, just hang out after BAM6 with our interstate guests and we could even do some MMs or exhibition matches if you guys want. There’s a lot of nice food in the area so we could all go out for a big post-BAM meal together too. There’s parking behind the library, so since it’s a Monday if you guys get in early it should be fine.
Hope to see you guys there!
http://dustycartridge.com/videos/community-the-australian-fgc-episode-07-dejan-stantic/
The third episode filmed at the Queensland major ButtonSmash features Dejan Stantic, an organiser from the beautiful Gold Coast and the founder of the fighting game group Gold Coast Fighters.
Here in Australia we have a small population spread over such a large land mass, so you see a lot of small regional communities pop up run by passionate dudes like Dejan. Props to every regional community organiser out there for their hard work, I hope to see everybody get together at the yearly majors and that we can work together to make our national scene even bigger.
In this episode Dejan talks about; the Gold Coast scene, how the different communities in Australia influence each other, Buttonsmash 2014, and the correlation between fighting game players and musicianship. Hope you guys like it!