Australian fighting game event runners and community. Hosts of BAM: Battle Arena Melbourne, Australia's largest fighting game/open entry esports event.
For archival purposes, CouchWarriors QLD presents the top placings from our September 2019 Ranbats. View a full listing of entrants and results from each bracket on Smash.gg here.
Results for SFV, MK11, Tekken 7, and Smash U count towards the standings for the BAM Path To EVO series for that game, which can be viewed here.
Another huge weekend has marked the 11th annual Battle Arena Melbourne! BAM11 saw Australia’s biggest fighting game event step into its second decade, and third year at the Melbourne Convention Centre. The CouchWarriors team, a group of community volunteer organisers is incredibly proud of the event blown away by the response of the community.
Among other achievements, BAM11 had 1,020 unique fighting game competitors! Add to that nearly 500 spectators, PC LAN and Splatoon 2 competitors, and our total attendance by footfall was 4,412! This is by far the biggest open entry esports competition in Australia and New Zealand. Thank you all for another record breaking year!
Of course, the real story of BAM11 every year is the incredible feats in each tournament. With 42 events over 3 days, there were multiple national championships and hundreds of stories of small rivalries to legendary finals including many with international superstars.
We saw the first Mortal Kombat 11 major, the biggest tournament ever for Smash Ultimate and global points on the line in Tekken World Tour and Capcom Pro Tour. In fact, tournament attendances rose across the board. All this, and we crowned ANZ champions in the BAM PATH TO EVO finals for SFV, Tekken and Smash Ultimate, meaning three players are going to EVO World Championships with flight and accom expenses paid.
Hit up the Twitch replays for each game by following the guide in this post
Photos:
Videos:
TWT Recap video
CPT Recap video
Read on for more results and info! (Full results at bottom of post)
Over 500 attendees participated in the inaugural CouchWarriors Crossup esports event, combining our traditional end of year community ranking battle across a wide range of fighting games, and special events. For the first time, we were pleased to host a Saga event for the Dragon Ball FighterZ World Tour with international pro talent, and a surge of new players for Super Smash Bros Ultimate, alongside free events for Splatoon 2 and preview of Dead or Alive 6.
Results
Dragon Ball FighterZ (78 entrants): Japanese Champion Kazunoko takes his 4th Saga event title. Top Australian results – Falco (Adelaide) 9th, Baxter (Brisbane) 13th, Dailo (Sydney) 13th, and MajinBeng (Melbourne) 13th.
The final match was a heartbreaker for 2nd place Tachikawa (JP) who came so close, and the anguish of the loss is evident in the series of shots shown here.
Super Smash Bros Ultimate (154 entrants): Long running Smash 4 champion DS Extra has on of the closest grand finals he’s faced, with Melbourne regular Ignis making his first grand final and pushing hard with a bracket reset and just going down 3-2.
Full results as reported internationally on Shoryuken and detailed on our Smash.gg listing
Facebook gallery Saturday 15th December
Facebook gallery Sunday 16th December
www.twitch.tv/dragonballfighterz – Dragon Ball FighterZ
www.twitch.tv/couchwarriors – Street Fighter V, Tekken 7
www.twitch.tv/couchwarriorssmash – Super Smash Bros Ultimate
www.twitch.tv/melbournemelee – Super Smash Bros Melee
www.twitch.tv/oceaninksquids – Splatoon 2
| Attendees | 557 |
| Unique Competitors | 349 |
| Spectators | 208 |
| International players | 18 |
| Social and video reach | 1,933,897 |
| Max Concurrent views | 13,963 |
| Hours Watched | 77,104 |
| Media reach | 50,064,000 (50 million) |
Event Hubs / Two / Three
Thank you to our event partners:
Bandai Namco AU | GG EZ Bar | LG Australia
Madman and Dragon Ball Super Movie: Broly
Thanks everyone for coming!
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
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/
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)
| SF5 | Points | Tekken 7 | Points | DOA5LR | Points | GGXrd | Points |
| Somniac | 38 | Chand NY | 40 | Berzerk | 32 | Ashzu | 48 |
| Rupps | 24 | Lee Min Ho | 32 | AlexMD | 32 | Javi | 36 |
| syo | 22 | Aken | 24 | Ebabil | 20 | Feri | 20 |
| Burnoutfighter & Cadzow_ | 18 | Bboy Phoenix | 20 | ROBDAWGG619 | 14 | Rindows & popo | 12 |
| DBFZ | Points | Sm4sh | Points | Melee | Points | Project M | Points |
| DaBeast | 20 | Extra | 58 | Dekar | 46 | Tyler | 52 |
| Zed | 16 | Duon | 28 | Fess | 34 | Microsoft J | 32 |
| MajinBeng | 14 | Ignis | 21 | DonB | 22 | Dekar | 23 |
| TANA93 | 14 | Ghost | 20 | Sora | 16 | Bubby | 23 |
| UNIST | Points | Injustice 2 | Points | ROA | Points | Pokken DX | Points |
| Haiku | 54 | Zprime | 28 | OSU | 32 | AntWerp | 48 |
| Tomo009 | 36 | Hazzles | 25 | SNC | 26 | Dan Dandy | 28 |
| Spoony | 28 | 95leo | 20 | MAST | 18 | Sir Banana | 24 |
| Julian | 19 | GooGie | 18 | Neeson & Stutter | 14 | Techless | 24 |
BAM10 was a huge event, so the infographic with just a few of the key stats is very tall.
Thank you to all the attendees, spectators, players, viewers, and event partners for making this the biggest open entry esports event in Australia!
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.
| SF5 | Points | Tekken7 | Points | DOA5LR | Points | GGXrd | Points |
| Somniac | 28 | Chand NY | 40 | Berserk | 32 | Ashzu | 42 |
| Rupps | 24 | Lee Min Ho | 24 | AlexMD | 32 | Javi | 34 |
| syo | 22 | Brownman | 17 | Ebabil | 20 | Rindows | 12 |
| Burnoutfighter | 18 | DaBeast & Bboy Phoenix | 16 | ROBDAWGG619 | 14 | popo | 12 |
| Melee | Points | Sm4sh | Points | Dragon Ball FighterZ | Points | UNIST | Points |
| Dekar | 36 | Extra | 50 | DaBeast | 20 | Haiku | 44 |
| Fess | 30 | Duon | 24 | Zed | 16 | Tomo009 | 28 |
| DonB | 14 | Ghost | 20 | Tomo009 | 12 | Spoony | 24 |
| Microsoft J | 14 | Ignis | 15 | King & Issei & MajinBeng & Sketch | 10 | Julian | 18 |
| ROA | Points | Injustice2 | Points | Pokken DX | Points | ProjectM | Points |
| OSU | 24 | Zprime | 28 | Antwerp | 38 | Tyler | 44 |
| SNC | 16 | Hazzles | 19 | DanDandy | 28 | Microsoft J | 22 |
| Neeson | 14 | GooGie | 18 | Sir Banana | 24 | Dekar | 19 |
| MAST & Stutter | 12 | Ctay | 16 | Techless | 16 | Bubby | 17 |
What a huge weekend it was at the Melbourne Convention Centre for Battle Arena Melbourne 10! The CouchWarriors team is incredibly proud of the event and pleased to see so many people had a great time. With over 2,000 attendees including tons of international star players and commentators, Tekken World Tour, Capcom Pro Tour, the biggest Smash tournaments in the southern hemisphere and the first Dragon Ball FighterZ major in the region among many Spectator friendly activities and preview games, it was an awesome event.
Not to mention, the special prize for three players who now are heading to EVO! From the community buzz and smiling faces at the afterparty, it looks like everyone had a great time, which is the number one thing for us.
Photography, replays and more are to come, but for now, here are the top results across each tournament as found in Smash.GG/BAM10
Hit up the Twitch replays for each game by following the guide in this post
Photos:
Videos:
Full tournament results list below
February’s ranbats are in the books. 183 fighters competed across a variety of games who all competed to see who could be the best. The main event for this month was our first tournament for Bandai Namco and Arc System Works’ much hyped new title “Dragon Ball FighterZ”.
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.
| SF5 | Points | Tekken7 | Points | DOA5LR | Points | GGXrd | Points |
| Syo | 14 | GoBack Brownman | 16 | CWBerzerk | 18 | Javi | 20 |
| Burnout | 10 | DaBeast | 12 | AlexMD | 14 | Ashxu | 16 |
| Rupps | 10 | Chandny | 10 | Ebabil | 10 | Tomo009 | 10 |
| Zed | 10 | Bboy Phoenix | 8 | Robdawg & Borgieman | 6 | Julian | 6 |
| Melee | Points | Sm4sh | Points | Dragon Ball FighterZ | Points | UNIST | Points |
| LGCDonB | 12 | VS.DS Extra | 20 | Tomo | 10 | Tomo9 | 16 |
| Dekar | 10 | MASH Duon | 8 | Burnout | 8 | Julian | 10 |
| Skeleduck | 10 | EBS DD | 8 | DaBeast | 6 | Haiku | 10 |
| Wibbless | 8 | Ignis | 8 | Tana93 | 4 | Spoony | 10 |
| Injustice2 | Points | ProjectM | Points | ||||
| Razaprime | 10 | Tyler | 18 | ||||
| Tana93 | 8 | Dekar | 12 | ||||
| Kdeee-10 | 6 | Bubby | 10 | ||||
| TungSucc | 4 | Fess & Microsoft J | 10 |
2017 is over and the results are in!
Here are the Top 4 in each game – Congratulations to all our winners!
Take a look at the Results Section for the full total.
Photos from the December ranbat can be found on our Facebook page via the link below
December Ranbat 2017 – 10 Year anniversary
Ranbat 2017 ranking point winners
Melee players
FGC area and crowd