Australian fighting game event runners and community. Hosts of BAM: Battle Arena Melbourne, Australia's largest fighting game/open entry esports event.
Just a reminder that Ozhadou Nationals (OHN14) – the longest running FGC major in Australia – is just a month away.
Our Ozhadou friends in Sydney are running it, and the early bird registration along with T-shirt orders for OHN closes this month – so we recommend you jump on rego now to save some money!
OHN14 is also an official Ranking Event for Capcom Pro Tour(CPT) Asia 2016, and runs on the 26-28 August at the The Menzies Hotel, Sydney. To register and to find more information visit ohn.ozhadou.net !
Hi guys the July CouchWarriors ranbat for traditional fighters went down last weekend – and also served as the official OHN14 qualifer for Victoria! Here’s a summary of the top 3 players along with some of the photos from the day.
July 23th Ranbat Results
Street Fighter V 1) DS_ZGnoud 2) Burnoutfighter 3) Zed
Top 3 for SF5: (left to right) Burnout, Zgnoud and Zed.
Super Smash Bros. Melee 1) Nuovo | S.D 2) DonB 3) Glacial | Noxus
Top 3 for SSBM: (left to right) DonB, S.D. and Noxus.
Every month at the CouchWarriors Ranking Battles, the results are tallied and at the end of the year, we’ll celebrate our most consistent placers with a top of table medal.
With the first half of 2016 over, here is how things are currently looking. Take a look at the Results Section for the full total.
Melee
Points
Smash 4
Points
Project M
Points
S.D
34
Earl
29
Tyler
46
Splice
20
BIGBOSS
24
Corspecreate
20
SANick
18
Ghost
24
mask1n
20
SF5
Points
MKX
Points
DOA5U
Points
Toxy
30
GooGie
26
Isaac
22
Reepuplzorg
18
Kdeee-10
26
Ebabil
20
Carnage
16
Pan1cmode
20
Berzerk
12
Join us for our next Traditional Fighters + Melee day on July 23th and Smash 4 day on July 30th for fun casuals and perhaps to add your name to the ongoing tallies!
CouchWarriors ranbats are back in July – the traditional fighters + Melee ranbat on the 23rd of July will serve as the official Qualifier in Melbourne for the Ozhadou Nationals 14 in Sydney August 26-28! Place in your respective games and receive seeding points to ease your journey into the top 8 brackets at OHN14. And we have the Smash 4 + Rivals of Aether July Ranbat on the 30th of July.
Be sure to check which weekend coincides with the games that you play:
Dates: Saturday 23th and 30th of July Time: 10:00am – late Location: 6 Davies St, Brunswick North, VIC 3056 Entry Fee: $10 plus tournaments
We’re also very pleased to announce a partnership with Royal Stacks Brunswick– a joyous burger joint less than 300m (3min walk) from our ranbat venue on 6 Davies Street.
The good folks at Royal Stacks Brunswick (800 Sydney Road) will give any of our ranbat attendees 25% off their order – simply show them the CouchWarriors ranbat event page on your smartphone- and they will apply the discount to your order!
We’re incredibly excited to announce that CouchWarriors, in collaboration with Nintendo Australia and NewGamePlus, will be running the Pokken Tournament gaming area along side this year’s Pokemon VGC Nationals event.
We’ll be hosting casual matches throughout the event, then opening up registration for a double elimination tournament on the Sunday (July 3rd).
Tournament registration opens at 12:30pm and the tournament itself will start at 2:00pm, with the winner taking home some prizes supplied by Nintendo!
FREEPLAY RULES
Winner Stays On – Limit to 3 wins in a row (Then allow two new players on).
Freeplay is only allowed on systems that are not being used for tournament.
TOURNAMENT RULES
In-depth Pokken Tournament game rules can be found here.
Capped 32 man double elimination bracket (If demand is high, a 64 player bracket will be made instead). Please allows for upto 2 hours for a 32 man tournament. If you are unable to stay to play your matches please notify the TO.
Players may use their own controllers, but must remember to desync their wireless controllers between games. Match penalties may apply if an owners wireless controller disrupts another station. WiiU pads will be supplied for free use.
Players may remap their controller settings, but are limited to 30 seconds and may not remap once a game has started.
Basic Ruleset:
Matches will be best 2 out of 3 games (First to 2 wins).
Only the losing player of the match may swap Pokemon between rounds.
Support Pokemon and Cheer skills may be changed by both players between rounds.
You may request a “Blind Pick” for your first game of the match.
60 second time limit for Pokemon, Support Pokemon and Cheer skill selection.
10 second time limit for Support Pokemon selection while in-game.
Round time is set to default 80 seconds.
All Pokemon are legal. Random is legal.
All Supports are legal. Random Support is legal.
All Cheer skills are legal.
Stage is always set to “Ferrum Stadium”.
Skill Level and Player Data must be set to OFF and NO accordingly.
LEARN TO PLAY!
At any given time (for a game not currently being run as a tournament), you may ask our friendly CouchWarriors staff members for a basic ‘learn to play’ session to move onwards from button mashing to a competitive playstyle and mindset!
INFORMATION
Entry Cost: Free!!!
When: 2nd & 3rd of July
Where: Melbourne Park Function Centre (Next to the Rod Laver Arena)
CouchWarriors Ranbats are back in June after a massive BAM8! We have traditional fighters and Melee: SF5, GGXRD, DOA5LR, MKX, Smash Melee and Project M on Saturday the 18th of June and Smash 4 and Rivals of Aether on the 25th of June.
Be sure to check which weekend coincides with the games that you play:
Dates: Saturday 18th and 25th of June Time: 10:00am – late Location: 6 Davies St, Brunswick North, VIC 3056 Entry Fee: $10 plus tournaments
Hi guys, we’re very pleased to announce a partnership with Royal Stacks Brunswick- a joyous burger joint less than 300m (3min walk) from our ranbat venue on 6 Davies Street.
The good folks at Royal Stacks Brunswick (800 Sydney Road) will give any of our ranbat attendees 25% off their order – simply show them the CouchWarriors ranbat event page on your smartphone-https://www.facebook.com/events/1612921805686485/ and they will apply the discount to your order!
A big thank you to Deniz and the rest of the Royal Stacks staff, we know a lot of you guys already frequent this place for your ranbat sustenance so please make use of this offer and show your appreciation to the staff over there with a thank you if you have the chance!
This weekend sees the return of OzcomicCon to Melbourne!
Among the fun of guests, panels, cosplay and stalls you will find CouchWarriors hosting fighting game casuals and tournaments in the OCC Gaming area. So come join us to enjoy some gaming at the convention.
We’ll be hosting Learn to Play along with casual matches and tournaments.
Games:
Guilty Gear Xrd Revelator Pokken Tournament Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3 Super Smash Bros for WiiU Street Fighter 5 Dead or Alive 5: Last Round Tekken Tag Tournament 2
Battle Arena Melbourne 8 stomps into the history books as the biggest fighting game event ever in Australia, breaking the record set last year with 815 attendees and hitting a peak of 14,000 concurrent viewers during the Street Fighter V finals, this was the most viewed livestream Aus FGC event ever.
Thanks to all the CouchWarriors staff, event partners, and especially players from across multiple fighting game communities that once again made this a special event.
Expressive: SANick does not hide his emotions when he plays melee. Photograph ZG/CouchWarriors
IN the shadows of BAM7, with curtains closed on the international saga, Australia’s melee super major ushered in a new storyline this year as the local crowd took centre stage.
There were no ‘gods’ in play, no MIOM top 20 stars, just Australia and New Zealand’s best battling it out for the coveted boxing glove trophy.
In eventual champion Nick ‘SANick’ Siemelink’s mind the script had already been written, all he had to do was follow it.
Forced to ad-lib through the loser’s bracket, following a shock loss to ACT Ice Climber main Wibbles, SANick ultimately arrived at the final act he’d anticipated – a clash of light versus dark – good against evil.
There was nothing coincidental about the South Australian champion’s choice of white when he sat down to Marth ditto Te-Tuhi ‘SIN | Spud’ Kelly in grand finals of BAM8.
As far as he was concerned it was a pre-ordained finale to a story arc harking back two years to when his melee journey began.
“I like my little story arcs in my life. It just felt like it was meant to be I should play the white Marth,” SANick said.
“I spent a lot of time on green and blue Marth and I actually quite like black Marth but I thought at the end of the day there’s going to be a good versus evil battle (against Spud’s black Marth) for the heart of Australia.”
There was never any doubt in his mind as to who the hero of this story was.
CouchWarriors proudly presents Battle Arena Melbourne 8, Australia’s largest fighting game tournament
When:May 13-15, 2016
Where: CQ Functions, 123 Queen St Melbourne.
BAM8 returns this weekend for an exciting weekend of top level tournament play and celebration of the fighting game community. The annual Major celebrates the Australian fighting game scene. The Melbourne community is proud to host a national platform for players across the country to come together and compete.
With international attention from global leagues Capcom Pro Tour, Dead or Alive Battle Royal, or to compete with our massive Smash Bros community, BAM8 will be one of Australia’s biggest gaming events – not just in fighting games but in all LAN or esports events.
After a record breaking 2015, where BAM7 saw 628 attendees play and spectate some incredible moments (BAM7 Results, Photos and Replays), BAM8 is on track to handily surpass it. At the close of early registration, BAM8 has 574 registered players, which will increase with on day signups and spectators.
(Note: Smash competitor signup is closed. Street Fighter V signups close Friday.)
International players are also attending, from 8 top Smash 4 players, and two Street Fighter World Champions, RZR.Xian and EG.Momochi, participating in our Street Fighter V Capcom Pro Tour event.
