Australian fighting game event runners and community. Hosts of BAM: Battle Arena Melbourne, Australia's largest fighting game/open entry esports event.
With our first chance to play SFV at CouchWarriors Ranbat for August last weekend, many in the community had their first hands on with the game. Here are a couple of the photos from our Facebook page on the day. Read on for impressions and video!
Getting the chance to play on on one with live opponents in the gamescom build of the game was a great chance for community to get a feel for the upcoming game. The reactions have been generally very positive, and players are looking forward to the game.
CouchWarriors member and avid youtuber, Kevin “Burnout” Kim did a great job at pulling together some analysis of changes between the online beta version, which received coverage on Shoryuken.com
Check out the videos below and look for more community impressions and video from the event soon!
Get Ready to RISEUP – we will have a special preview of STREET FIGHTER V at this month’s Ranking Battle event.
There will be two stations available for players to get a hands on experience in two player offline matches. It will be the gamescom build, so try Ken and Necalli!
We will be running some house rules to move people through the preview with three matches on, then move to next players for most of the time. We will also schedule some exhibitions with top players later in the day.
Thank you to Capcom for the opportunity to showcase the new game.
Regular event info follows
Tournaments, casual games, tips and training – CouchWarriors Ranking Battles are a day long fighters festival! Newcomers are welcome as well as tournament veterans.
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 AUGUST 22 11am-10pm
Where: Brunswick Masonic Hall 6 Davies St, Brunswick North
Cost: $10 Entry + Tournaments (Expected pot fee is $5 per tournament)
11am – Doors, Casual play 11:30am – Super Smash Bros. Wii U doubles 12pm – Super Smash Bros. PM Singles 12pm onward STREET FIGHTER V PREVIEW – CASUALS, EXHIBITIONS 1pm – Super Smash Bros. Melee Doubles 3pm – Dead or Alive 5 Last Round 4pm – Guilty Gear Xrd 3pm – MORTAL KOMBAT X 3pm – Super Smash Bros. Wii U Singles 4pm – Super Smash Bros. Melee Singles 3:30pm – 6pm – Ultra Street Fighter IV
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
September Animaga – Anime and Gaming convention – Melbourne – September 5-6 http://animaga.com.au/
Ozhadou Nationals 13 – Sydney September 11-13 www.ozhadou.net
CouchWarriors Ranking Battle September 19 (Melbourne)(TBC)
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.
See how players in each game are faring – take a look at the Results Section for the latest total rankings table.
In short, our current leaders are:
Melee
Points
Smash 4
Points
Project M
Points
SD
40
Earl
44
SD
36
Redact
32
Viva
27
Redact
30
Dekar
26
Jei
19
Moxie
22
USF4
points
MKX
points
DOA5U
points
GGXrd
points
Toxy
58
Geoffbedlam
18
Ebabil
48
Scalora
38
Burnout
26
Pan1cmode
12
Berzerk
36
Javi
36
Hoppa
18
GoogiePLZ
10
Touko
28
Feri
22
Join us for our next event on August 22 for fun casuals and perhaps to add your name to the ongoing tallies!
Tournaments, casual games, tips and training – CouchWarriors Ranking Battles are a day long fighters festival! Newcomers are welcome as well as tournament veterans.
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 JUNE 20 11am-10pm
Where: Brunswick Masonic Hall 6 Davies St, Brunswick North
Cost: $10 Entry + Tournaments (Expected pot fee is $5 per tournament)
Tournaments, casual games, tips and training – CouchWarriors Ranking Battles are a day long fighters festival! Newcomers are welcome as well as tournament veterans. This is the traditional CouchWarriors event since formation in 2006!
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 last year’s Ranking Tally 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 April 18 11am-10pm
Where: Brunswick Masonic Hall 6 Davies St, Brunswick North
Cost: $10 Entry + Tournaments (Expected pot fee is $5 per tournament)
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.
Tournaments, casual games, tips and training – CouchWarriors Ranking Battles are a day long fighters festival! Newcomers are welcome as well as tournament veterans. This is the traditional CouchWarriors event since formation in 2006!
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 last year’s Ranking Tally 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 March 21 11am-10pm
Where: Brunswick Masonic Hall 6 Davies St, Brunswick North
Cost: $10 Entry + Tournaments (Expected pot fee is $5 per tournament)
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.
Tournaments, casual games, tips and training – CouchWarriors Ranking Battles are a day long fighters festival! Newcomers are welcome as well as tournament veterans. This is the traditional CouchWarriors event since formation in 2006!
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 last year’s Ranking Tally here
Come play or BYO your setup. Enjoy some casuals or get in your tournament practice going with our structured events.
Launch Tournament – Dead Or Alive 5 Last Round
Thanks to Team Ninja and Mindscape Games we are hosting a launch tournament for DOA5LR, with prize support to be announced shortly
Event Info
When: SATURDAY February 21 11am-10pm
Where: Brunswick Masonic Hall 6 Davies St, Brunswick North
Cost: $10 Entry + Tournaments (Expected pot fee is $5 per tournament)
11:30am – Smash Melee Doubles 12pm – Smash Wii U Doubles 12:30PM – Smash Project M Singles 2pm – 4pm – Dead or Alive 5 Ultimate (stream NGP) 2pm – 4pm – Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3 3pm – 4pm – Guilty Gear Xrd (stream NGP) 3:30pm – 6pm – Ultra Street Fighter IV (Stream NGP) 3:30pm – Smash WiiU Singles 4pm – 7pm – SkullGirls 4:30pm – Smash Melee Singles 6pm – 8pm – Virtua Fighter 5: Final Showdown
Also available for play on request or if community BYO added setups:
Killer Instinct Tekken Tag Tournament 2 Injustice Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3 King of Fighters XIIII Persona 4A Ultimax
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.
The December Ranking Battle results are in! We had an amazing turnout of 115 attendees. The Ranking results are added below. We will update soon with the Smash Bros results.
Ranking season medals were awarded to the top points getters in Smash 4, Smash Melee, Ultra Street Fighter 4, Dead Or Alive 5 Ultimate and Virtua Fighter 5 Final Showdown
That’s right, you’ll be able to play the new version of Dead or Alive 5 on PS4 ahead of its release in 2015! Make sure you head to the December Ranking Battle Finals this Sunday 14th and you can be among the first to play the next generation edition of the 3D fighter.
Featuring two new characters, new stages and environment effects, this looks to build on the solid work put in on DOA5 Ultimate.
Prizes
Plus, Mindscape Games are giving away copies of Dead or Alive 5 Ultimate, the DOA soundtrack, and Kasumi mousepads. There’s been a good run of tournaments for DOA5U this year at Ranking Battles, with a Ranking Season Medal Winner to be decided this Sunday.
Dead or Alive 5 Last Round is out on all platforms including Xbox One, PS4 and Steam PC on February 20th 2015. Check out the latest character reveal trailer of brutal boss character, Raidou:
Tournaments, casual games, tips and training – CouchWarriors Ranking Battles are a day long fighters festival! Newcomers are welcome as well as tournament veterans. This is the traditional CouchWarriors event since formation in 2006!
This month we’ve got the first Super Smash Bros WiiU open tournament plus we find out who will finish at the top of the table in all of the ranked fighting games for this year!
Come play or BYO your setup. Enjoy some casuals or get in your tournament practice going with our structured events.
Medals
There will be Ranking Battle Medals for the top of table of Ultra Street Fighter 4, Virtua Fighter 5 Final Showdown, Dead or Alive 5 Ultimate, Smash Bros Melee and Smash 4 (3DS and WiiU Rankings combined), See the current Rankings Table
BenQ will be providing THREE Gaming Monitors as giveaway prizes, plus we will have BENQ monitors available for the Smash Community to plug their WiiU’s into at the event.
Five Star Games on behalf of SEGA have provided a 360 and PS3 copy each of PERSONA 4 ULTIMAX!
Special Preview – Dead Or Alive 5 Last Round (PS4) Playable at Ranbat!
That’s right, you’ll be able to play the new version of Dead or Alive 5 on PS4 ahead of its release in 2015! Plus, Mindscape Games are giving away copies of Dead or Alive 5 Ultimate, the DOA soundtrack, and Kasumi mousepads. More details in the announcement post.
Event Info
When: SUNDAY – December 14th : 12pm-10pm
Where: Brunswick Masonic Hall 6 Davies St, Brunswick North
Cost: $10 Entry + Tournaments (Expected pot fee is $5 per tournament)
Also available for play if community BYO added setups:
Killer Instinct BBCP Tekken Tag Tournament 2 Injustice Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3 King of Fighters XIIII Guilty Gear XRD
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.
