Australian fighting game event runners and community. Hosts of BAM: Battle Arena Melbourne, Australia's largest fighting game/open entry esports event.
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!
BAM Path to EVO confirms finals format will bring four top players from around ANZ to BAM11. The ultimate winner goes on to EVO World Championships.
Today, we’re announcing the finals format for the live streamed esports circuit, BAM Path To EVO, and how players can represent their region in a fight to become the best in Australia and New Zealand. Competitors in Street Fighter V, Tekken 7, and Super Smash Bros Ultimate can journey from local heroes to recognition at BAM as the best player in ANZ. Then, each champion will represent the ANZ region at EVO, the world’s biggest fighting game tournament.
Earning points at each event in BAM Path To EVO will count towards gaining top spot in each region by end of April. We’ll be bring players across the fighting game community together, from Victoria, NSW, Queensland, and New Zealand.
Just join the events and you’ll be ranked. VIC and QLD events are run by CouchWarriors, NSW events will be run by Ozhadou and NZ by Standing Fierce.
Bonus online tournaments also add to your points.
Each region’s #1 seed will receive flights and an invitation to play off at BAM11, on May 17-19, 2019, at the Melbourne Convention Centre.
Points are tallied on the shared leaderboard at www.BAMPathToEVO.com
At BAM11, there will be a Qualifying bracket to seed the four regions and a fifth player from a Last Chance Online Qualifier. These 5 will play for position on BAM Friday. Then, the top 3 seeds from this qualifier will go into a 4 player Championship bracket on BAM Sunday. Retaining the prestige of a top placing in the main BAM tournament itself, the highest ranked player from the BAM11 tournament will take top seed, completing the Championship bracket. This special finals will play out to find the best player in ANZ.
That player will once again travel to Las Vegas, USA, to participate in the EVO World Championships!
Let’s break down how it works. Here’s the infographic, followed by further detail in text below. (Click for larger version)
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 |
Recently we announced Tekken World Tour coming to Australia and covered the top players from the international scene heading to Melbourne. Now, lets look at the top Australian players thanks to our Tekken TO, Abi Adegbola.
The main threats to the international from Australian soil come in the form of newly sponsored Kanga|ChandNY and Dee-On Grey. Both have won multiple Australian majors between them. Dee-On Grey has amassed a great amount of international experience travelling to various tournaments around the world and even placing top 16 at EVO 2016.
Dee-On Grey 
Among the many international events Dee-On has attended, most recently competed in the Tekken World Tour Korea Masters.
– EVO 2016: top 16
– Battle Arena Melbourne 9: 4th
– OzHadou Nationals 14: 1st
– OzHadou Nationals 15: 7th
– EVO Japan 2018: 33rd
Kanga|ChandNY 
Keep careful note of that third place for ChandNY at BAM9. Who were 1st and 2nd? Only world champion Korean players SAINT and JDCR!
– OzHadou Nationals 13: 1st
– Battle Arena Melbourne 9: 3rd
– OzHadou Nationals 14: 5th
– OzHadou Nationals 15: 13th
Aside from them there are plenty of other high level Australian talent, some who have gain international experience as well that are vying for the top spot such as Aken, 4LCH3M15T, Cuteguy, and many more.
The Tekken community is always hyped up and full of energy at events, so look forward to an awesome gathering and spectator experience. To get a feel for the community as they practice, take a look at this trailer from Phil Boquida of PHILMS produced at the latest CouchWarriors Ranking Battle
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
Every month at the CouchWarriors Ranking Battles, the results are tallied. 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 September and October’s Ranbats.
Take a look at the Results Section for the full total.
Photos from the October ranbat are below the table.
| Smash64 | Points | Melee | Points | Sm4sh | Points | ProjectM | Points |
| Pete | 54 | Dekar | 50 | Extra | 64 | Tyler | 80 |
| Mitch | 42 | Fess | 34 | Jdizzle | 30 | Nido | 56 |
| Indefa | 42 | Saucy | 32 | Duon | 25 | Dekar | 38 |
| SF5 | Points | USF4 | Points | DOA5U | Points | GGXrd | Points |
| Somniac | 68 | Sketch | 28 | Berzerk | 66 | Feri | 72 |
| Zed | 54 | Somniac | 16 | AlexMD | 54 | Javi | 62 |
| Reepuplzorg | 44 | Repuplzorg | 14 | Robdawgg | 32 | Julian | 30 |
| Tekken7 | Points | MvC:I | Points | RoA | Points |
| Bboy Phoenix | 35 | Toxy | 20 | SNC | 78 |
| Daniel | 22 | FknBun | 8 | Neeson | 48 |
| Chandy | 20 | Burnoutfighter | 8 | Osu | 26 |
Every month at the CouchWarriors Ranking Battles, the results are tallied. 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 the July and August Ranbats.
Take a look at the Results Section for the full total.
| Smash64 | Points | Melee | Points | Sm4sh | Points | ProjectM | Points |
| Pete | 54 | Dekar | 36 | Extra | 44 | Tyler | 60 |
| Mitch | 42 | PROLIFIC | 28 | Jdizzle | 30 | Nido | 52 |
| Indefa | 36 | Fess | 26 | Eternal | 20 | Dekar | 24 |
| SF5 | Points | USF4 | Points | DOA5U | Points | GGXrd | Points | KoF | Points |
| Somniac | 58 | Sketch | 18 | Berzerk | 48 | Feri | 62 | Sketch | 36 |
| Zed | 36 | Carnage | 10 | AlexMD | 46 | Javi | 54 | Somniac | 24 |
| Reepuplzorg | 34 | Somniac | 8 | Ebabil | 30 | Julian | 30 | Toxy | 10 |
| Tekken7 | Points | VF5LR | Points | Injustice2 | Points | RoA | Points |
| Bboy Phoenix | 25 | AlexMD | 30 | googie | 18 | SNC | 60 |
| Daniel | 22 | Berzerk | 22 | hazzles | 16 | Neeson | 40 |
| Chandy | 20 | Forever 0-2 | 14 | DaBeast | 12 | Jet | 22 |
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:
Street Fighter 5
Tekken 7
Injustice 2
Super Smash Bros for WiiU
Guilty Gear Xrd Revelator
Dead or Alive 5: Last Round
Here is the schedule, read on for list of games and rules. Click here for live schedule link
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.
MATCH RESULTS: We’re excited to share the results from each game below
CouchWarriors is pleased to announced that Bandai Namco Entertainment will be supporting the Tekken 7 tournament at BAM8 with a prize pot bonus of $1000. Register now!
http://couchwarriors.org/bam8/bam8-registration/