Australian fighting game event runners and community. Hosts of BAM: Battle Arena Melbourne, Australia's largest fighting game/open entry esports event.
We’re pleased to have the support of POWERA who have a massive range of controllers, cases and accessories. This year PowerA is pumping up the prize pool for our Nintendo Switch titles, Super Smash Bros Ultimate and Splatoon 3.
We are proud to announce SteelSeries is the Official Headset partner for BAM 2024!
The Arctis Nova Pro will provide crisp audio on main stages for FGC, including Street Fighter 6, TEKKEN 8, Guilty Gear Strive, Granblue Fantasy VS Rising & Super Smash Bros Ultimate
We’ll have fantastic PRIZES to give away, with the Nova Pro & new Nova 5 for Platinum & Gold Games, Door prize, and Bounties!
Halfway through another year – can you believe it?? If you’re still planning to make your mark on the 2022 CouchWarriors League, here are the dates and sign-up links for all July’s CWL events – both online and offline.
You can also send us your highlights, photos and stream links on Discord, Facebook or Twitter – help us share your favourite tournament moments with the rest of the AUS FGC!
We all compete for different reasons, for fun, for improvement, and to enjoy the challenge of facing our friends and rivals – for the glory!
Trophies and Medals apply down the game list, and we also love to recognise players achievements with Prizes. Thanks to our amazing partners ASTROand MWAVEwe have something across all tournaments
Plus all games have a split of the entry cash pool, and a cash pot bonus for the four feature CouchWarriors League titles!
Major Titles Prizes:
Street Fighter V, Smash Bros Ultimate, Tekken 7, Guilty Gear Strive, Smash Bros Melee, Dragon Ball FighterZ all receive prizes 1st through 3rd as below.
Top 3 each receive a top notch ASTRO headset:
A40TR+Mixamp for 1st
A20 for 2nd
A10 for 3rd.
Mwave voucher for Top 3:
1st $150
2nd $100
3rd $50
We also have $50 from MWAVE for every 1st place singles Medal tournament!
ASTRO:
MWAVE:
TROPHIES AND MEDALS:
Each of the Trophy titles at BAM will have the famous boxing glove trophy, plus recognition for 2nd place with a Silver medal and 3rd with Bronze.
Each other title will receive a Gold medal for its 1st place Winner!
POT BONUSES
As Part of CouchWarriors League, our ongoing feature titles have a $500 Pot Bonus. These have a monthly online tournament – making for a weekly CWLeague event – on top of the monthly Ranbat Locals in Melbourne, Adelaide and Brisbane.
BAM BOUNTIES
Can you topple the best? If you can, an ASTRO A10 Gen 2 and $50 from Mwave can be yours! You must defeat the BAM Bounty in the game they placed top of ladder in. Good luck!
We are proud to announce Mwave is supporting CouchWarriors League, which incliudes BAM, as PC Retail Partner!
Mwave have long been a fantastic supporter of the scene, providing digital prize vouchers and the latest awesome tech for our online tournaments in 2020. Building on that tradition, Mwave is officially supporting the league through 2021
To celebrate, MAY IS MWAVE MONTH and we have prizes for May online & offline events across the country.
Each online tournament has Mwave vouchers, $100 1st and $50 2nd.
10 Tournaments at Melb, Bris and Adelaide offline Ranbats in May will receive $50 1st and $20 2nd. (Allocation to be announced)
Social Media prize draw for everyone to enter (coming soon)
Prize Support across BAM tournaments and Door Prizes to be announced soon!
Make sure you show your appreciation by visiting MWave anytime you need PC parts, accessories and tech at www.mwave.com.au
Most anticipated fighting game of 2019, Mortal Kombat™11, announced as Platinum Sponsor for BAM11, Australia’s major fighting game championships.
Thursday May 18, 2019 – In anticipation of this year’s biggest fighting game release, CouchWarriors today announced MORTAL KOMBAT™ 11 as the presenting partner for BAM11 – Australia’s largest open esports event and fighting game championships.
Leading the many prizes on offer, this major BAM11 Mortal Kombat™ 11 tournament will feature a $2,000 AUD cash prize bonus, while every participant will receive exclusive Mortal Kombat™ 11 merch for entering.
BAM11, or Battle Arena Melbourne 11, presented by Mortal Kombat™ 11, will welcome spectators, new players and pro players alike on May 17-19, 2019 at Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre.
The show floor will feature a dedicated Mortal Kombat™ 11 space where players will compete for the title of first MK11 national champion.
Register for the BAM 11 Mortal Kombat™ 11 tournament here: www.smash.gg/bam11
Entering the Realm: Community Launch tournaments in April
To kickstart the return of the famed series to Earthrealm, Mortal Kombat™ 11 will support four tournaments the week of launch packed with prizes. These events will be the first opportunity after the game releases for players to learn new tricks and show off their skills.
Melbourne, Saturday April 27 – CouchWarriors @ Bayview On The Park | Register | Facebook event
Brisbane, Sunday April 28 – CouchWarriors @ QUT Gardens Point Campus | Register | Facebook event
Mortal Kombat™ 11 is the latest instalment in the critically-acclaimed franchise, developed by award-winning NetherRealm Studios, and is scheduled for release beginning April 23 for PlayStation®4 computer entertainment system, PlayStation®4 Pro computer entertainment system, the Xbox One family of devices including Xbox One X, Nintendo Switch™ system and PC.
As part of the Aus FGC’s collective effort to raise awareness for the scene through BAM Path To EVO, we’re working together to produce live streams of monthly ranbats and majors. These are great things to support and now, we have another reason to get behind it.
Prizes for subscribers every month! From digital codes from SAVEMI for video game giveaways with, Animelab subscriptions thanks to Madman, and more to be announced, just being a subscriber each month means you can win.
We’ll also have specials and discounts from our supporters to share with the community for watching and subscribing!
Make sure you are subscribed to one or more of these four channels. EVERY channel gets one of the prizes each month!:
Remember, every subscription, and bits spend cheering in channels, helps send ANZ players to the world stage! So please get behind our players and help us bring them to BAM, and then send them to EVO!
Giveaways: It works like this.
Every month we check the subs list and draw lucky winners, 1 of each type of prize for the channel
If you’re already subbed, you’re eligible! As we’re just announcing prizes, we’ll do a special subs drive giveaway week until April 19th and announce on the 20th.
Then there will be a regular round up of prizes for the full month of April!
Ordered by game, here are the prizes you can win by playing at or in some cases watching on stream, the action at CouchWarriors Crossup!
Each of the 10 Tournaments below will have an Unlucky Lucky winner, if you play and go out 0-2, you could win a Dragon Ball Super Movie Buy One Get One Free Pass!
Dragon Ball FighterZ
Aside from the $5,000 prize pool, 7th Dragon Ball as a trophy and trip to World Finals? Ok – sure, here are some more!
1st to 8th: Special Dragon Ball Australia gift package
Top 2 from ANZ will receive a Dragon Ball Super Movie: Broly Admit 2 Ticket
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!
