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Seasons Beatings: Ascension and Japan's Street Fighter 25th anniversary - weekend tournament preview

Posted by SFilp
September 25, 2012 at 8:12 p.m. PDT

Seasons Beatings: Ascension and Japan's Street Fighter 25th anniversary - weekend tournament preview

Two major tournaments are taking place this weekend. Up first is Seasons Beatings which will feature a ton of top players from all over the world. Then Capcom's Street Fighter 25th anniversary Japan tournament which will have many of Japan's best players. To give some additional information and prepare readers for everything that will be happening during these events, we've compiled a list of notable things for the tournaments.

We lists players who are attending, list of games, provide a breakdown of the stream schedules and more.

Hit the jump to check everything out.

MLG Summer Fighter Arena 2012

Season’s Beatings: Ascension

• The run down: Season’s Beatings: Ascension will start on Friday, September 28th-30th in Independence, Ohio. They will have full tournaments for Super Street Fighter 4 Arcade Edition v2012, Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3, King of Fighters 13, Tekken Tag Tournament 2, Mortal Kombat 9, Soul Calibur 5, Persona 4 Arena, Dead or Alive 5 and Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo.

• Who's expected to show: WW|Infiltration, FC|NYChrisG, LU|Alex Valle, IGL|Bala, IGL|TheAnswer, TA|Frutsy, DMG|CD Jr., EG|Justin Wong, FNEX|K-Brad, coL.cc|Filipino Champ, BT|IFC Yipes, BT|Dieminion, EG|PR Balrog, BT|Viscant, CoCo|OMG Itz Andre, FGC|Infrit, EG|Ricky Ortiz, FRB|Mamespider, Combofiend, XAN|DJ Huoshen, Perfect Legend, Damdai, UVG|Noel Brown, Neo, WW|Laugh, CafeID|Lacid, CafeID|MadKOF, Romance and many more.

• Who to look out for: Infiltration has been placing consistently in Street Fighter 4 Arcade Edition v2012 lately, but he will be challenged by many other top players including Dieminion and Justin Wong.

For Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3, IFC Yipes just recently took first place at Summer Jam, but he'll also be competing against 6 players out of Evolution's top 8, Filipino Champ, Infrit, NYChrisG, Combofiend, Frutsy and Justin Wong.

In King of Fighters 13, MadKOF and Lacid are showing up all the way from Korea, but they will be met with some of the best players including Bala and Romance.

• Special five-on-five tournaments: United States vs. The World in Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 and Team Evil Geniuses v.s. The best of the rest in Super Street Fighter 4 Arcade Edition v2012.

• Streaming duties and details: You can check out the schedule here, and stream will be done by none other than Team Spooky.

25th Anniversary Street Fighter Tournament - New York City

25th Anniversary Street Fighter Tournament - Japan

• The run down: The next tournament for Capcom's 25th anniversary series of Street Fighter tournaments kicks off with qualifiers on September 29-30th and October 6th-7th, with finals on October 20th. Only Super Street Fighter 4 Arcade Edition v2012, Street Fighter X Tekken and Street Fighter 3 Third Strike will be played.

• Who's expected to show: MCZ|Daigo and many other top Japanese players.

• Streaming duties: Streaming will be done on Nico Nico, some of the tournament will be free but most will be Pay-Per-View. Check below for information on that.

— September 29th - Free
— September 30th - 500 yen (Only main channel, no sub)
— October 6-7th - 500 yen (Only main channel, no sub)
— October 20th - 2,000 yen (Only main, no sub)
— Special package - All streams above including sub channels for 3,000 yen.

Some information from Beast Note blog.

Comments

Kaizy said on September 25, 2012 at 8:16 p.m.

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GuyYouMightKnow said on September 25, 2012 at 8:23 p.m.

Justing Wong sounds like a legit pro player.

umeshoryu89 said on September 25, 2012 at 8:25 p.m.

Yooo i'm hype for Jwonggg getting back on the scene again! Stacked major for SSB!

vsDenjin said on September 25, 2012 at 8:28 p.m.

@2 It's a new verb. Get with the program.

Sonho said on September 25, 2012 at 8:31 p.m.

The Run Down:Tekken Tag Tournament 3!? Bloody hell, already a new one? XD

Aluppoj said on September 25, 2012 at 8:34 p.m.

No SFxT at SBA?

Jesus, throw another pile of dirt on the coffin I guess. C'mon, it's gotta rate higher than P4A? (No offence P4A players)

Aluppoj said on September 25, 2012 at 8:37 p.m.

Glad to hear J.Wong will be on hand to split some pots. A real gamesman:)

Eshi said on September 25, 2012 at 9:08 p.m.

@6 are you retarded? or are you too busy watching streams while eating cheetos at your computer to ever actually attend a tournament? because P4A is the #1 FG in japan and turnout at US tournaments rivals umvc3 and sfiv pretty much EVERYWHERE. when will you eventscrubs get it through your heads that P4A is one of the best games out right now?

deeden said on September 25, 2012 at 9:56 p.m.

Now with the new DLC characters and probably new technology, I was hoping to see sfxt in the list....

Anyway, Seasons Beatings! Get hype !

wiggaplz said on September 25, 2012 at 9:56 p.m.

Echale Frutsy

#10

ESTAKA said on September 25, 2012 at 10:02 p.m.

Sad to here that all the japanese sf4 players will be at a mostly PPV stream instead of SB, oh well it'll be interesting to see if anybody can beat infiltration. The rest of SB looks hype as well.

#11

Parahnoia said on September 25, 2012 at 10:08 p.m.

@8 that's why tokido just said p4 is dying cus of the release of BBCP and GG. you're retarded.

#12

llSilkCutll said on September 25, 2012 at 10:33 p.m.

Will be some great matches from both tournaments, hope someone uploads some quality replays from the Japan tournument.

Predictions: SB = Infiltration or Justin Wong / Japan SF 25th = Daigo or Fuddo.

#13

thegoldencat said on September 25, 2012 at 11:06 p.m.

Get hype.

#14

Izick said on September 25, 2012 at 11:14 p.m.

SBA no Sfxt go figure. At least show top 4 or something. All games should be given a time to shine.

#15

SuperStraightFighter said on September 25, 2012 at 11:28 p.m.

@12

Tokido said it's not his 'taste' therefore p4A is dying? Who is retarded again?

#16

scytheavatar said on September 26, 2012 at 12:02 a.m.

@6 apparently they'll put out a SFxT tourney on Sunday if demand is high enough for it. They are assuming that the demand wouldn't be.

@3 and 7 J Wong said on his twitter that he might not be able to make it for SB.

#17

Aluppoj said on September 26, 2012 at 12:08 a.m.

Lol, ok man. Lets see how long that beast hangs around. Flavor of the month bud.

Way to get all angry though. Pretty funny:)

#18

SFinDaejeon said on September 26, 2012 at 1:17 a.m.

Would really liked to have seen someone who actually mains SFxT (say, JiBbo or Ryan Hunter) try to knock Infiltration off his perch. Oh, well...

Hard to see who can beat him in AE.

Great to see ST in the mix tho. Let's hope it gets some stream time.

#19

MrTimtastic said on September 26, 2012 at 1:28 a.m.

Ugh! I'm going to be watching football and SBa at the same damn time.

#20

kupowns said on September 26, 2012 at 4:12 a.m.

Seasons Beatings... my favorite tournament. Always so hype! >.<

#21

SimSimIV said on September 26, 2012 at 4:18 a.m.

@17

I heard that too, but SFxT players won't bother with 9 hour travel if the game miiight be played on Sunday, so I won't bet on much demand for it either.

#22

BlakeSmith said on September 26, 2012 at 6:13 a.m.

(This user was banned.)

#23

DOC_CHAOS said on September 26, 2012 at 6:20 a.m.

wtf they put 3rd strike instead of super turbo at japan's sf anniversary tourney? Lame

#24

Temtt said on September 26, 2012 at 6:24 a.m.

@24

The only games Japan has for the tournament are the ones that were released there and those are AE2012, SFxT, and 3SO. HDR was never released in Japan so no tournament for that game :(

#25

ltzBoshyTime said on September 26, 2012 at 6:25 a.m.

Add MarlinPie to that list of attendees. He just secured a ride: Twitter.com/WeLoveKyohei
Also Justin confirmed on Twitter that he won't be making it: Twitter.com/jwonggg

#26

intehweeds said on September 26, 2012 at 7:05 a.m.

AGE Flashmetroid and GU Flocker will be making it out to rep FL with some other FL players.

Hope Flocker wins Marvel again.

#27

J said on September 26, 2012 at 7:10 a.m.

I wish I wasn't hyper busy this weekend. :C

#28

Bank said on September 26, 2012 at 7:56 a.m.

Weren't many recognizable Tekken figures on the list... maybe they want to suprise us!? Inb4 Jang Iksu shows up

#29

WinstonChurchill said on September 26, 2012 at 9:19 a.m.

Infiltration wins

#30

Kwisatz_Haderach said on September 26, 2012 at 5:01 p.m.

Sounds awesome, except for the fact that MK9 is there and SFxT is not! WTF!? MK is a joke!

#31

andyknigth said on September 27, 2012 at 5:17 a.m.

we need a world ranking system, showing the best in each country then debated best, highest tournament winners, up and coming and hidden fighters. with videos that would expand our community even further. i think that's what e need, sowe can find the next poongko,diago,justin wong,dieminion, amiyu, luffy, ryan harts, latiff(extremely good viper), etc we need a world view and scope.

Nuhu.

#32