Australian fighting game event runners and community. Hosts of BAM: Battle Arena Melbourne, Australia's largest fighting game/open entry esports event.
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.
Due to GGXrd’s rising popularity, today we are adding it to our rankings including the results from June.
Here are the Top 3 in each game after July’s Ranbat. Take a look at the Results Section for the full total.
Melee
Points
Smash 4
Points
Project M
Points
S.D
54
Earl
45
Tyler
64
DonB
32
Ghost
34
Corspecreate
30
Splice
22
BIGBOSS
32
Splice
24
SF5
Points
MKX
Points
DOA5U
Points
GGXrd
Points
Toxy
40
GooGie
26
Ebabil
30
Julian
14
Somniac
29
Kdeee-10
26
Isaac
24
Feri
14
ZG
20
Pan1cmode
20
Bezerk
20
Javi
12
Join us for our next Traditional Fighters + Melee day on September 17th and Smash 4 day on September 24th for fun casuals and perhaps to add your name to the ongoing tallies!
Guest article by Anthony Albert Schweitzer Ducusin aka “Tones”
Hello everyone. Tones here, I’m out in Chicago lining some things up for myself.
The other day I was walking through the Harold Washington Library when I noticed in the people in the teens’ chillax area playing smash.
Top floor of the Harold Washington Library. Such a beautiful building
Talked with the staff there and when they tell me about this Hugo guy, a local teen that has been organizing regular competitions and how “he’s extremely passionate and outgoing, we let him run and lead things.” So I talked about how the scene is back in Melbourne Australia, about how I’ve part of this group called Couch Warriors and how we’ve been doing events since 2007.
They invite me to the “Library of Smash” tournament where Hugo will be doing his thing.
Here is his story…
Like a lot of us Hugo has always enjoyed playing video games, he got involved with the offline Smash scene. Found it fun, awesome and hype and all that cool stuff but was put off by how salty rude it can get.
So what does he do?
At the age of 16 he goes out and creates his own scene with the culture he thinks the scene deserves – a positive and friendly competitive environment.
Library of Smash 6. Events have been going for about a year now
Now they are frequenting 50 a tournament, he has single handedly TOed a 74 man tournament all the way through despite a fire break out in the middle of it. Sounds pretty serious yeah? Well, he calls it semi competitive.
What it is though is just super hype and friendly. He understands the importance of building community.
Hugo: “My main objective for my tournaments is to show people that a video game tournament isn’t all about winning. It is about having a good time with others. ”
Taylor works at the Library and is Hugo’s right hand girl for tournament duties.
This is his final year at this location because he’s finishing his senior high school year, so he’s looking to duplicate – to create a self-sustaining system while he moves off to further himself, leaving his mark with the scene no matter where he goes. As for what he wants people to take away from his work:
Hugo: “I wanted people to see that if you have the passion and effort, you can do so much for the things you enjoy, no matter what it is”.
Be sure to send him some love if you’re in the area. Hugo is a positive ball of energy doing good things for the e-sports scene on the ground level. Was a pleasure to meet him in the area of Chicago at Library of Smash and to send him some love.
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.
Here are the Top 3 in each game after July’s Ranbat. Take a look at the Results Section for the full total.
Melee
Points
Smash 4
Points
Project M
Points
S.D
44
Earl
35
Tyler
54
DonB
24
Ghost
34
Corspecreate
30
Splice
22
BIGBOSS
24
Splice
24
SF5
Points
MKX
Points
DOA5U
Points
Toxy
32
GooGie
26
Ebabil
30
ZG
20
Kdeee-10
26
Isaac
24
Somniac
19
Pan1cmode
20
Bezerk
20
Join us for our next Traditional Fighters + Melee day on August 20th and Smash 4 day on August 27th for fun casuals and perhaps to add your name to the ongoing tallies!
CouchWarriors ranbats are back in August – the traditional fighters + Melee ranbat will be on the 20th of August. And we have the Smash 4 + Rivals of Aether July Ranbat on the 27th of August.
Be sure to check which weekend coincides with the games that you play:
Dates: Saturday 20th and 27th of August Time: 10:00am – late Location: 6 Davies St, Brunswick North, VIC 3056 Entry Fee: $10 plus tournaments
Official Facebook event pages and pre-registration:
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!
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!
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.
The last CouchWarriors ranbats before BAM8 are back in April! We have traditional fighters and Melee: USF4, GGXRD, DOA5LR, MKX, Smash Melee and Project M on Saturday the 16th of April and Smash 4 and Rivals of Aether on the 23rd of April.
Be sure to check which weekend coincides with the games that you play, and hope to see you guys there!
Dates: Saturday 16th and 23rd of April Time: 10:00am – late Location: 6 Davies St, Brunswick North, VIC 3056 Entry Fee: $10 plus tournaments
For full details check out the official Facebook event pages for the April 16 (preregister here) and April 23 (preregister here) events.
Or hit the jump to see the full schedule for both days!
