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CEO 2012, Dreamhack Energizer Fighting Championship and Topanga B League - weekend tournament preview

Posted by SFilp
June 12, 2012 at 9:38 p.m. PDT
CEO 2012, Dreamhack Energizer Fighting Championship and Topanga B League - weekend tournament preview This weekend will have three great tournaments, there will be a ton of top players participating, so it's guaranteed we'll see some hype moments. To give some additional information and prepare readers for everything that's happening in the community, we've compiled a list of notable things for CEO 2012, Dreamhack Energizer Fighting Championship and the Topanga B League.

We lists players who are attending, some favorites that are expected to win the events, provide a breakdown of the stream schedules and more.

Hit the jump to check everything out.

CEO Gaming 2012

CEO 2012


• The run down: CEO 2012 will take place in Orlando, Florida on June 15-17. This is a Road to EVO 2012 event and is being presented by Alex Jebailey. MCZ|Daigo will be back in the United States for the first time since Evolution 2011 where he took 4th place, he be joined by MCZ|Mago, EG|Momochi and EG|Chocoblanka from Japan.

• Who's expected to show: MCZ|Daigo Umehara, MCZ|Mago, EG|Justin Wong, EG|Momochi, EG|Ricky Ortiz, AVM|GamerBee, FC|NYChrisG, AGE|Fanatiq, AG|MarlinPie, coL.cc|Filpino Champ, coL.cc|Combofiend, CVPR|PR Balrog, BT|Viscant, BT|Dieminion, EG|fLoE, DJ Huoshen, coL.cc|Mike Ross, UVG|Noel Brown, MH|RayRay, DMG|Online Tony, TS|NerdJosh, TS|Min, DMG|iPeru, Flash Metroid, CCG|Air, FC|Jago, Flocker, CoCo|OMG iTz Andre, CEO|CJ Truth, EMP|Tom Brady, IGL|Bala, vVv|CD Jr., vVv|REO, vVv|Romance and EG|Chocoblanka, among others.

•Who to look out for: MCZ|Daigo and MCZ|Mago are always threats to take top honors in any SSF4 AE v2012 tournament, but they'll have to contend with EG|Momochi, AVM|GamerBee, EG|Ricky Ortiz, EG|Justin Wong and CVPR|PR Balrog.

On the Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 end of things, AGE|Fanatiq is hot off his win at East Coast Throwdown 4, and should be the man to look out for again, but EG|Justin Wong, coL.cc|Filpino Champ, AG|MarlinPie, FC|NYChrisG, CVPR|PR Balrog, BT|Viscant, coL.cc|Combofiend are all threats to take his title away.

IGL|Bala will be participating in KoF13, and will be the obvious favorite, along with vVv|CD Jr. who's won an absolute ton of MK9 tournaments as of late.

• Streaming duties and schedule: Team Spooky, CEOgaming, SRKLive and iPlayWinner will all be handling things, so you will always have some action. A schedule of events is available here.

Dreamhack Energizer Fighting Championship

Dreamhack Energizer Fighting Championship


• The run down: Dreamhack Summer 2012 is set for June 16-19 in Jonkoping, Sweden. Dreamhack will have a ton of other games outside of fighters and the festival will be open 24/7. Super Street Fighter 4 Arcade Edition v2012 is a singles tournament, Street Fighter X Tekken is set for a 2v2 team tournament and only 64 players and 64 teams are allowed to enter.

• Who's expected to show: WW|Laugh, WW|Ryan Hart, WW|Infiltration, MBR, Skatan, among many others.

• What's at stake: For Super Street Fighter 4 a grand total of 50,000 SEK / $7,000 USD is up for grabs and in the Street Fighter X Tekken team tournament 20,000 SEK / $2,800 USD.

• Streaming duties and schedule: Armshouse and Fighting For Sweden will be streaming, there is no schedule as of yet.

Topanga B League

Topanga B League


• The run down: The second week in the four week league is once again taking place over Xbox Live. It's a Super Street Fighter 4 Arcade Edition v2012 tournament and if you missed last weeks coverage of the event you can check it out here.

• Who's playing: YHC-Mochi (Dhalsim), Eita (Akuma), Banbaban (Cammy), Dogura (Dictator), Naruo (Evil Ryu), Sasaki (Cody), Michael-tan (Ken), Pamyu (Boxer), -6 (Akuma), Yasu (Guile), Kyabetsu (C. Viper), Dashio (Seth), VER (Gouken), Ojisanboy (Abel), Juso (Sakura), Machabo (Fei Long), Juso (Sakura) and Machabo (Fei Long).

• Who to look out for: Eita (Akuma), Pamyu (Balrog) and Naruo (Evil Ryu) have all gotten off to a strong start in the Topanga B League, but since matches take place over multiple days — it's possible for a player who once wasn't performing well to do a lot better later on.

One example is, who Ojisanboy got off to a terrible start his first day in the competition, but he came storming back with some very convincing wins against -6 and VER, and if he keeps up this level of play, he'll be a threat to finish in the top 4 and have a shot at entering the Topanga A League.

What's at stake: The top two players will be invited to the Topanga A League, and the 3rd and 4th place finishers will participate in a playoff against MCZ|Tokido (Akuma) and Bonchan (Sagat), respectively, for the other spots.

There's prize money for the 1st through 4th place finishers.
1. 100,000 yen ($1,259 USD)
2. 50,000 yen ($629 USD)
3. 30,000 yen ($377 USD)
4. 10,000 yen ($125 USD)

Where and when to watch: This is a pay-per-view tournament, and Nico Video is running the stream for people at home once again. It's 300 yen per episode, or 1,500 yen for them all.

Friday and Saturday things kick off at 21:00 JST, 5 a.m. PDT and noon GMT.
Sunday it's 20:00 JST, 4 a.m. PDT and 11 a.m. GMT.

What if I can't watch: We'll have full coverage of the Topanga B League here on EventHubs, so you can just check the story out for the latest news and updates.

Comments

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mfinnegan73 said on June 12, 2012 at 9:51 p.m.

wow CEO is stacked

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Novax99 said on June 12, 2012 at 9:57 p.m.

Really like the event descriptions, lets you know some stuff you might have missed.

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zarakisan said on June 12, 2012 at 10:15 p.m.

CEO...wow

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SnakeX said on June 12, 2012 at 10:17 p.m.

Holy crap at that list of top players attending CEO!

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Bilerot said on June 13, 2012 at 12:25 a.m.

I just wanted to thank you for those new tournament previews.

I suppose its a ton of work, but its a really cool feature for us stream monsters.
So, thank you!

And: wow, CEO looks amazing...

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WinstonChurchill said on June 13, 2012 at 12:39 a.m.

Cash money for Infiltration

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ajmc133 said on June 13, 2012 at 12:42 a.m.

it would be great if eventhubs had a countdown to the beginning of these streams, rather than the GMT, EST, PST stuff.

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Youone said on June 13, 2012 at 1:56 a.m.

Is USD writing for eventhubs too now? Just kidding, excellent post.

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handsofgod said on June 13, 2012 at 1:58 a.m.

@6 looool co-sign

ceo is gonna be sicko!!!!!

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Chrisuchiwa said on June 13, 2012 at 2:19 a.m.

Thanks you Eventhubs for this great post. CEO look sick with all these top players.

But you missed Someone also important. AGE|Knives will be attending CEO. This was confirmed sunday by AGE|Fanatiq and he will play a money match against Unknown.

Sick job.

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HolyGhost said on June 13, 2012 at 2:26 a.m.

(This user was banned.)

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dommafia said on June 13, 2012 at 2:32 a.m.

Godlike article, I hope this will become standard! A count down widget after each events write-up would be icing on the cake.

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jkuc316 said on June 13, 2012 at 6:22 a.m.

What is AGE again?

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h2kvus said on June 13, 2012 at 7:13 a.m.

CEO will be great and i agree with #7 . ceo should also do some kind of FT10 money matches between players like ECT, it creates more hype.

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Zalgo_Cometh said on June 13, 2012 at 7:19 a.m.

@#13 If memory serves it stands for After Glow Effects. Think he said it at ECT4 after he won on stream.

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BlkIce said on June 13, 2012 at 8:03 a.m.

So happy the first tournament I attend will be CEO.

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Kaizy said on June 13, 2012 at 3:55 p.m.

That's pretty slick that 2 Jusos are playing at the Topanga league.

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shin_ono said on June 13, 2012 at 5:10 p.m.

im going to attempt to watch all of these LIVE, topanga B on main pc, ceo on laptop and dream hack on ipad :D

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AG_TheWindWaker said on June 14, 2012 at 7:48 p.m.

I know you said among others, but wolfkrone is confirmed for CEO via twitter. Figured he'd get a mention.

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DATKRAZYGAMER said on June 15, 2012 at 1:37 p.m.

:) capcom games have the biggest number of entries.
AE, UMVC & SFXT! so fun is guaranteed

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