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PAX East Mad Catz battle royale and Red Fight District 2 - tournament previews

Posted by Keyblade
March 19, 2013 at 5:29 p.m. PDT

PAX East Mad Catz battle royale and Red Fight District 2 - tournament previews

Coming up later this week will be a couple of great tournaments, featuring some of the best fighting game players around. Mad Catz will be hosting a battle royale at the PAX East, which will feature MCZ|Daigo, MCZ|Mago, EMP|IFC Yipes, MCZ|Tokido and other notables.

Red Fight District 2, which is taking place in Amsterdam, will also be kicking off this weekend. We've complied information on both events for everyone who is interested in watching the competitions.

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 out the full details.

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Mad Catz battle royale at PAX East

The Run Down: PAX East will take place in Boston, MA on March 22-24. Mad Catz will be hosting a battle royale event between some of the most powerful players in the fighting game community, and Gootecks will be running a FGC panel as well.

Who's expected to show: MCZ|Diago,EMP|IFC Yipes, LU|Alex Valle, MCZ|Tokido, WW|Ryan Hart and MCZ|Mago.

Who to look out for: Daigo and Mago are regarded as the favorites to win their sets against Alex Valle and Ryan Hart, respectively, as both have been performing very well as of late. EMP|IFC Yipes is one of the top players in UMvC3, and is the favorite going into his bought against Tokido.

Streaming duties and schedule: The battle royale will be held at Mad Catz unveiled on March 21 from 6 p.m to 9 p.m PDT (1 a.m. to 4 a.m. GMT). Streaming will be handled by Twitch.tv.

Red District 2

The Run Down: Red Fight District 2 will take place in Amserdam on March 23-24. Tons of games will be included such as Super Street Fighter 4 v2012, Tekken Tag Tournament 2, Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3, King of Fighters 13, and more.

Who's expected to show: AGE|NYChrisG, EMP|Dieminion, DM|Xian, Nin and LLL|Malekith among others.

Who to look out for: AGE|ChrisG and EMP|Diemionion are some of the most dangerous competitors traveling over from the United States and MCZ|Xian is sure to bring in some heat as well. Nin is known as one of the legends of Tekken and will be someone to keep your eyes on.

Streaming duties and schedule: The tournament runs March 23rd and 24th at 2 a.m PDT (9 a.m GMT) on Saturday and Sunday. Streaming will be provided by Armshouse. You can check out the public schedule here.

Contributions to this story by Demonitzu.

Comments

MisterVinuto said on March 19, 2013 at 5:38 p.m.

kinda excited. my first tourney to attend. gonna get bopped first match in marvel..

SameH99 said on March 19, 2013 at 5:38 p.m.

CANT WAIT!

DaSavage said on March 19, 2013 at 5:42 p.m.

Papa Valle gonna get bopped by Daigo yet again SMH. V_V

Demonitzu said on March 19, 2013 at 5:51 p.m.

About Red Fight District (RFD), the twitter feed and facebook page of the event feature a lot of small updates about it. https://twitter.com/RedFightDist

IMO, LLL.Malekith should be mentioned too. Two weeks ago he won TTT2 on World Game Cup, overal great results in European majors, he won the first RFD, he's been dominating NL tournaments since 2008. Final between him en Nin would be most epic.

Jethuty said on March 19, 2013 at 5:56 p.m.

Scandinavia is gonna represent too, Hultman, me, and a bunch of other from sweden are coming to RFDLook out!

Catalyst said on March 19, 2013 at 5:58 p.m.

@Demonitzu

Thanks, I updated the story with those notes.

DontPlayGamesNL said on March 19, 2013 at 6:36 p.m.

To bad my team can't make this year... A wel next time we we'll represent... DPG

getsaltier said on March 19, 2013 at 6:46 p.m.

Ryan Hart vs Mago again?

Didn't he have to make a public apology the last time this happened? smh

RedEther said on March 19, 2013 at 9:31 p.m.

If Yipes can't defeat his demon Phoenix, this is free for tokido.

chosenst said on March 19, 2013 at 9:59 p.m.

Just curious, no west coast beasts going to PAX? Could use some JWong and some FChamp among others. The only reason I ask is because I assume you wouldn't list them as "other notables" lol.

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jesuslovessatan said on March 19, 2013 at 10:03 p.m.

@9 you must be on that redether talkin that mess. Yipes knows that played out mag/doom/phoenix team way too well (having stayed at champs house to train with those boys) to lose to tokido. I say its free for Yipes.

#11

BladeStunner said on March 20, 2013 at 12:27 a.m.

So it's Daigo's Mexican friend who playing against Alex Valle?

#12

fhefgher said on March 20, 2013 at 6:50 a.m.

(This user was banned.)

#13

SAMURAI said on March 20, 2013 at 9:18 a.m.

Project X, Louffy, Ferdi,.....

#14

rvnender said on March 20, 2013 at 10:25 a.m.

I am sooo pissed that I cant go to the madkats thing at pax east. Gotta freaking work.

#15

The_Big_Boss said on March 20, 2013 at 11:39 a.m.

@9 Let me get some of what you are smoking on bro lololol. You know how much anti Phoenix strategies there are out there? This isn't Vanilla Marvel and Yipes is regarded as one of the best in the world bro. I think this may be free for Yipes. Now if this was SSF4AE then I would be all in for Tokido but UMvC3 is Yipes world.

#16

MM_Lowtier said on March 20, 2013 at 11:42 a.m.

when did Yipes go back to EMP? Has he left BT aswell.. sad times.

#17

roarmonster said on March 21, 2013 at 4:53 p.m.

I can already see people crying about how Japan is relevant in marvel after Yipes looses to Tokido, when the fact will remain that Yipes is just kinda free to phoenix historically speaking, hopefully he changes that

#18