CCH local casuals January 30

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Chris’ Club House (CCH) is back on this Saturday at the Collingwood Library, for another friendly night of FGC casuals and chillout. For 2016 dates and more details check out the CCH page. If you want a quick video primer of the event check out Burnout’s video of it:

When: January 30 at 3PM till late

Where: Collingwood library, 11 Stanton St, Abbotsford (Next to Collingwood train station)

Sponsors and Prizes for Ranbat Final 2015

We are pleased to announce as part of our massive 2015 final Ranking Battle our sponsors and prizes.  Our top ranked players of the season will receive well deserved medals, but tournament winners and lucky attendees can win fantastic prizes.

The Ranking Battle event will be at our majors venue for BAM, CQ Functions, on December 12.  Details here, and join us on Facebook here.

Thank you to sponsors BENQ, Plantronics Gaming, Elgato Gaming and VR Distribution.

Read on for details of the prizes! Read more

[Melb] CouchWarriors December Ranbat- FINAL 2015 with all games at CQ!

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CouchWarriors is bringing home 2015 with a huge final event at the CQ hotel in the Melbourne CBD running all games on the same day!

There will be prizes for every game, and we will award our ranking battle winners for 2015!

Dates: Saturday, December 12
Time: 10am-10pm
Location: Event Room #2: CQ Functions, 123 Queen Street, Melbourne
Entry Fee: $10 Entry + Tournaments (Expected pot fee is $5 per tournament)

For the full details, check out the Facebook event page. Read more

Stuff Yo’ Couch Episode 2 – October Ranbat

Hi guys, welcome to the second episode of Stuff Yo’ Couch! It has been a busy month for CouchWarriors with ranbat action galore and a full 3-day schedule at PAX with tournaments and Learn to Play sessions at our booths.

Filmed at the CouchWarriors October ranbat we return with more action footage and flavour and with interviews of two pillars in the community: Jack Gorman aka Pudge from Smash @ Swanston and Edison Nguyen aka GooGieMonA of MKX and poker fame.

Coming up we have the CouchWarriors AGM this Saturday at CCH: https://www.facebook.com/events/1482381598738088/ 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!

And we have the Adelaide FGC major called SXC2015. https://www.facebook.com/events/922092641163432/
Run by Troy “Mooseking” Nelson and the SAFGC crew. I always have an awesome time there, so hope to see you guys there.

Hope you guys enjoy the episode!

CouchWarriors at PAX AUSTRALIA 2015!

pax_australia_logo1CouchWarriors is proud to be providing the Fighting Game Tournaments services for PAX Australia 2015 this coming weekend Oct 30- Nov 1!

In the Console Tournament area we will have a full suite of consoles set with a library of fighters to play. Join us for one of the many tournaments each day, or come by and practice. We’ll even be providing time for Learn To Play, so if you want to dip your toes into the playing fighters at their best – side by side with other people – now’s your chance.

Tournaments! We have a small set rotating roster of excellent tournament games to play, plus a range of additional games to play in casuals. With some games being played in tournaments more than once over the weekend, we’re looking forward to a Best of the Best playoff each day and Sunday.

You can also challenge your friends with our friendly Winners Stays – Limit of 3 Wins rules for all games.

Schedule:

Friday Saturday Sunday
Doors open 10:00
10:30 Dead or Alive 5: Last Round + Killer Instinct (Learn to Play) Tekken Tag Tournament 2 + Killer Instinct (Learn to Play) Super Smash Bros: Melee + Dead or Alive 5: Last Round (Learn to Play)
11:00 Dead or Alive 5: Last Round + Killer Instinct Tournament Tekken Tag Tournament 2 + Killer Instinct Tournament Super Smash Bros: Melee + Dead or Alive 5: Last Round (Learn to Play)
13:00 Super Smash Bros for WiiU (Learn to Play) Super Smash Bros for WiiU (Learn to Play) Super Smash Bros for WiiU (Learn to Play)
13:30 Super Smash Bros for WiiU Tournament Super Smash Bros for WiiU Tournament Super Smash Bros for WiiU Tournament
15:30 Guilty Gear Xrd + UMvC3 (Learn to Play) Guilty Gear Xrd + UMvC3 (Learn to Play) Ultra Street Fighter IV (Learn to Play)
16:00 Guilty Gear Xrd + UMvC3 Tournament Guilty Gear Xrd + UMvC3 Tournament Ultra Street Fighter IV Tournament
18:30 Ultra Street Fighter IV (Learn to Play) Ultra Street Fighter IV + Dead or Alive 5: Last Round  (Learn to Play) Close
19:00 Ultra Street Fighter IV Tournament Ultra Street Fighter IV + Dead or Alive 5: Last Round Tournament

Related panel: Travel the World Playing Video Games – Are You Crazy?

Featuring CouchWarriors president Daniel Chlebowczyk and BAM7 USFIV champion Xavier Nardella.

Stuff Yo’ Couch! Episode 1- August Ranbat

 

Hi guys, This is Muttons here. Welcome to the first episode of Stuff Yo’ Couch!

I originally envisioned this show to be a Couchwarriors ranbat recap, in the vein of the old X report (shoutouts to Ali and the Abdos) Where we could go over all things CouchWarriors; go over results, give you guys a peek into the action and sights to be seen at the ranbat, and maybe get a few interviews with important faces and figures in the Melbourne community.

I’m still ironing out what I want to do with the show, so I apologise for any roughness or inconsistencies – please let me know what you guys think or what to see in the future and I’ll be happy to use your feedback to smack the show more into shape.

In this episode we interview Philip John Pretty aka Redact, who’s recently joined team Exile5 in light of his stellar work at BAM7 which turned out to be massive with 500 plus registrants- huge kudos to the Smash community for really blowing up the event with their international guests and hype. And we also have Darren Taing aka Dreadtech- the hardest worker in the Smash community right now, and a deserved winner of the Community Award at BAM7. The August Couchwarriors ranbat had a welcome guest in the form of an SFV preview build courtesy of Capcom Australia, so thanks very much to them- so we have a brief section of some quick opinions from the players. I had a pretty good section of Somniac breaking the game down from a technical perspective- but the audio was lost. Go me.

Other things to mention:
We have the CouchWarriors AGM on November 21st at CCH, so if you guys are interested in helping out with CouchWarriors and building up the Melbourne fighting game community, come down – everyone is welcome to come. https://www.facebook.com/events/1482381598738088/

Also we have the Adelaide major on November 28-29: SXC2015 (Southern Cross Championship) run by Mooseking and the SA crew. I always have a blast at SXC, the first year I went they hired the entire floor of a Thai restaurant and everybody went after the tournament and ate together and told stories, which was awesome. We tried to blatantly rip it off at BAM this year but with mixed success 😛 we’ll see how we go next year. https://www.facebook.com/events/922092641163432/

Hope you guys enjoy the episode!

 

CouchWarriors 2015 Annual General Meeting

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URGENT: Sorry guys, the Collingwood library has just let me know that there is last minute renovations at the Collingwood library so we will have to move to the Richmond Library at 415 Church Street. We will start at 3PM. Apologies for the late notice.

It’s time for the CouchWarriors AGM. Official Facebook event found here.

Since we are a non-for-profit organisation, we are required to run this every year and to give one month’s notice to board members and the public.

At the AGM we will discuss an agenda of the following:
-Review of events done this year such as BAM7, ranbats and convention activities
-Financial review
-Review of mission statement and strategies/plans moving forward
-Election of board members: President, Vice-President, Secretary, Treasurer.

Our secretary Rory Betteridge will add a detailed agenda based on last year’s AGM agenda soon.

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, we couldn’t do it without you guys.

The AGM will be held at 415 Church Street, Richmond, in the community room of the Richmond Library. (Basically it will be held at CCH:http://couchwarriors.org/wp/cch-casual-play/

Hope to see you all there!

SEPTEMBER RANKING BATTLE – Two Day Event!

Tournaments, casual games, tips and training – CouchWarriors Ranking Battles are a day long fighters festival! Newcomers are welcome as well as tournament veterans.

NOTE – THIS MONTH THIS THE RANBAT WILL BE SPLIT OVER TWO DAYS.  In response to the frankly incredible growth of our monthly events in which we are reaching between 150-200 attendees, we’re taking this step to maximise space and comfort.

We’re bowled over that the community is coming together so strongly and proud to be able to support everyone in having great events.

Day 1 – SMASH 4 tournaments and casuals (other games welcome but not official tournaments)

Day 2 – All other games: SMASH Melee, PM, All Fighters Tournaments – USF4, GGXRD, DOA5LR, MKX

View the changed schedule below

Each “Ranbat” monthly is a chance to play long sets of casual games for practice, but also earn Ranking Points for the tournament games listed below.  Look for regular updates on the ranking points here on the site.  You can view the current rankings here.

Come play or BYO your setup. Enjoy some casuals or get in your tournament practice going with our structured events.

Event Info

When: SATURDAY September 26 and SUNDAY September 27 11am-10pm

Where: Brunswick Masonic Hall 6 Davies St, Brunswick North

Cost: $10 Entry + Tournaments (Expected pot fee is $5 per tournament)

Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1625802467686607/

Current Schedule

Schedule Day 1 SATURDAY 26 SMASH 4
There will be no pre-registering for Smash 4 day

10am – Doors open
10:30am – Doubles signups close
11am – Doubles bracket begins
1pm – Singles Signups close
2pm – Wave 1 Singles Pools (Pools A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H)
4pm – Wave 2 Singles Pools (Pools I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P)
6pm – Top 32 Singles Bracket
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Schedule (Subject to change)

Schedule Day 2 SUNDAY 27 ALL FIGHTERS + MELEE + PM
10am – Doors, Casual play
11am – Melee Doubles
12pm – SIGN UPS FOR MELEE SINGLES CLOSE (Sharp)
1pm – Melee Singles Groups 1 – 8 (2 Hour Block)
2pm – Dead or Alive 5 Last Round
3pm – Guilty Gear Xrd
3pm – Melee Singles Groups 9 – 16 (2 Hour Block)
3pm – MORTAL KOMBAT X
3:30pm – 6pm – Ultra Street Fighter IV
4:30pm – PM SINGLES (Double elim)
7:00pm – Top 32 Melee Bracket

LIVE STREAM

www.twitch.tv/newgameplustv

BRING YOUR OWN CONTROLLER
There is a BYOC / Sticks policy for the event. Our friendly players will often loan a controller, but we ask you to please bring your run!  Also, while we should have enough equipment to run the tournaments, everyone will appreciate anybody who can bring setups for casuals and DIYs.

HOW TO GET THERE

The venue is a short walk from Moreland Train Station, Sydney Road Tram, and there is ample parking at the venue . It’s just off Sydney Rd, before Moreland Rd.

Upcoming Event Dates

October
Ranking Battle 17th and 18th
PAX Australia – Fighting games in the Console Tournament Area: October 30, 31, Nov 1
November
Ranking Battle TBC
Southern Cross Championships (Adelaide) Nov 28-29
December
Ranking Battle TBC
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