Author: Dylan Lake

October RanBat – SoulCalibur VI Launch Event

CouchWarriors has some good things in-store for all of our SoulCalibur fans attending this month’s RanBat! To celebrate the launch of SoulCalibur VI we’ll be giving away a whole assortment of goodies, with door prizes being given away at random and a chance to walk away with full collector packs, with one going to this month’s SCVI champion.

All of this is up for grabs:Winners and door prize:

  • Collector Edition ‘Sophitia’ Figurine

General giveaways to everyone while stocks last!

  • T-Shirts
  • SoulCalibur Playing Cards
  • Metal Plates
  • Free copies of the game for the PlayStation 4!

You can sign up now at https://smash.gg/CWRanbatOCT2018. This month’s RanBat is being held at a new location for CouchWarriors, with Bayview by the Park being host to the big launch event. With all of our monthly events under one roof, be sure to check out the updated schedule before Saturday. You can find more details on the facebook event at https://www.facebook.com/events/1705796982846057/.

Doors will open at 10am this Saturday (the 20th of October). Hope to see you all there!

You can find more details about SoulCalibur VI ahead of this week’s release at https://en.bandainamcoent.eu/soulcalibur/soulcalibur-vi.

Melbourne Esports Open 2018 Results

With the help of Melbourne Esports Open we were able to bring some of our fiercest fighting game competition to #MEO2018! With the weekend over and our players from five separate events still celebrating their wins, we give you the top 3 for each event.

View the full brackets on Smash GG for each of our events here.

Link through to the announcement post for stream archive links

Tekken 7

  1. Daniel
  2. Kanga | Chand NY
  3. Rame

Street Fighter V

  1. ORDER | ROF
  2. VS.DS | ZG
  3. ORDER | Travis Styles

Dragon Ball FighterZ

  1. Zed
  2. VS.DS | Baxter
  3. Agent17805

Smash 4

  1. Saber
  2. Justice | Joe
  3. Kanga | Jdizzle

Melee

  1. VS.DS | Spud
  2. ORDER | Sora
  3. LGC | DonB

Congratulations to all of our top 3 placing players!

You can find information about Melbourne Esports Open at their website: https://www.melbourneesportsopen.com.au/

CouchWarriors Annual General Meeting 2018

Date: 14th of October.
Time: 1PM-5PM
Venue: Kathleen Syme Library and Community Centre, Activity Room 1, 251 Faraday Street Carlton VIC 3053.
Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1786899318073600//events/1786899318073600/

It’s time for the CouchWarriors Annual General Meeting!
Another successful year behind us, we have a lot to talk about and a lot to be excited for.

CouchWarriors Mission Statement:
CouchWarriors is a non-for-profit association that was created in 2006 to help grow the Melbourne Fighting Game Community. We aim to do this by providing services and events for the community such as: creating welcoming spaces for new and veteran players to learn and play, running monthly ranking tournaments, hosting our national-level tournament Battle Arena Melbourne (BAM), and providing support and resources for companion events in the community.

Annual General Meeting:
Our AGM is open to the public, if you feel like you would like to be a part of CouchWarriors and to help out with tournaments and building up the fighting game community in Melbourne, please feel free to come along. Our scene is built on the passion and dedication of volunteers and organisers.

Nominations:
2018 Officer roles and positions of the President, Vice President, Secretary and Treasurer will be determined at this event via the nominations of the CouchWarriors Committee. The first rould will be recieved via nomination will be sent out within the next two weeks before the event, Nominees can make themselves known by emailing us at [email protected].

Only CouchWarriors Committee Members can cast votes, be nominated and elected.
A nomination form will be posted leading up to the event, cutoff September 21st.

At the AGM we will discuss an agenda of the following:
– Review of BAM10, Ranking Battles and Conventions,
– Financial review,
– Review & clarification of our mission statement.
– Our direction and strategy moving forward,
– Review of event and management structure,
– Define, nominate and elect secondary officer roles,
– Election of board members,
The secretary will add a detailed agenda based on last year’s AGM agenda soon.

Our current secretary Dean Eddy will be posting a detailed Agenda within the next two weeks leading up to the event, you can find the venue at 6-8 Davies St, Brunswick VIC 3056, Australia within the Masonic hall in their meeting room.

Looking forward to seeing you all there!

CouchWarriors July 2018 Ranking Battle Results

The end of July sees the return of our monthly Ranking Battle events, with one slight change to the schedule. All of our Smash games are now being held under one roof, taking place on the 4th Saturday of each month alongside Rivals of Aether and Pokken!

Not only does our Smash scene benefit from joining together, this means our FGC RanBat will be packing in even more of your favourite games and events, with our TO’s hosting a free Tekken 3v3 tourney this month to start things off. If you are interested in running a bracket for any game for future events, please feel free to let us know and volunteer!

View the full brackets on Smash GG for FGC here and Smash Bros. + ROA here.

See below for the current year rankings to date. Read on after the break for this month’s winners.
(Smash + RoA results and RanBat points will be added after the event takes place)

SF5PointsTekken 7PointsDOA5LRPointsGGXrdPoints
Somniac38Chand NY40Berzerk32Ashzu48
Rupps24Lee Min Ho32AlexMD32Javi36
syo22Aken24Ebabil20Feri20
Burnoutfighter & Cadzow_18Bboy Phoenix20ROBDAWGG61914Rindows & popo12
DBFZPointsSm4shPointsMeleePointsProject MPoints
DaBeast20Extra58Dekar46Tyler52
Zed16Duon28Fess34Microsoft J32
MajinBeng14Ignis21DonB22Dekar23
TANA9314Ghost20Sora16Bubby23
UNISTPointsInjustice 2PointsROAPointsPokken DXPoints
Haiku54Zprime28OSU32AntWerp48
Tomo00936Hazzles25SNC26Dan Dandy28
Spoony2895leo20MAST18Sir Banana24
Julian19GooGie18Neeson & Stutter14Techless24

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CouchWarriors June 2018 Ranking Battle Results

CouchWarriors returned for more RanBat action in June, with players coming back refreshed after last months huge turnout at BAM10. Now halfway through the year, it’s time to look at the current points for each of our games.

View the full brackets on Smash GG for FGC + Melee here and Smash4 + ROA here.

See below for the current year rankings to date.  Read on after the break for this month’s winners.
 

SF5PointsTekken7PointsDOA5LRPointsGGXrdPoints
Somniac28Chand NY40Berserk32Ashzu42
Rupps24Lee Min Ho24AlexMD32Javi34
syo22Brownman17Ebabil20Rindows12
Burnoutfighter18DaBeast & Bboy Phoenix16ROBDAWGG61914popo12
MeleePointsSm4shPointsDragon Ball FighterZPointsUNISTPoints
Dekar36Extra50DaBeast20Haiku44
Fess30Duon24Zed16Tomo00928
DonB14Ghost20Tomo00912Spoony24
Microsoft J14Ignis15King & Issei & MajinBeng & Sketch10Julian18
ROAPointsInjustice2PointsPokken DXPointsProjectMPoints
OSU24Zprime28Antwerp38Tyler44
SNC16Hazzles19DanDandy28Microsoft J22
Neeson14GooGie18Sir Banana24Dekar19
MAST & Stutter12Ctay16Techless16Bubby17

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