Ultimate Fighting Game Tournament 9 early results and live streams featuring ChrisG, Mike Ross, Tom Brady, KaneBlueRiver, Air, Latif and more

Updated with day 1 results: This story has been updated with early results from day one of UFGT9.

Ultimate Fight Game Tournament 9 is now streaming from Chicago, Illinois. This is a Road to EVO 2013 event and many games will be giving EVO seeding points for its top place players. There will be a ton of games played including Super Street Fighter 4 Arcade Edition v2012, Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3, Injustice: Gods Among Us, Street Fighter X Tekken v2013 and more.

Numerous top players will be attendance including AGE|NYChrisG, EMP|Tom Brady, FNEX|Kbrad, KaneBlueRiver, Perfect Legend, RZR|Latif, BT|Viscant, EG|Floe, CCG|Air and more.

Hit the jump to check out the streams and check our tournament preview for a full rundown.

East Coast Throwdown 5 full top 8 — Super Street Fighter 4 Arcade Edition featuring Justin Wong, PR Rog, Wolfkrone, Chris G, Ricky Ortiz and more

Esteban at Hold Back to Block TV delivers yet again, this time with the entirety of the Super Street Fighter 4: Arcade Edition v2012 top 8 matches from last weekend's East Coast Throwdown 5. The matches contain usual suspects like EG|Justin Wong, EG|PR Balrog, EG|Ricky Ortiz, AGE|Wolfkrone and AGE|NYChrisG but also faces not as common in Top 8, namely blast from the past TS|Sabin as well as RPD|Gridman and RPD|WierdoNeo.

The video uses an interactive menu at the beginning, which lets you choose which match you want to watch. We'll post timestamps below here, as well, if you're more the traditional kind. Hit the jump for the rest of the timestamps.

Street Fighter 4 update balance change requests from Japan, part 5 — M. Bison, Yun, El Fuerte, Vega, Blanka

A new post popped up on the Japanese Street Fighter 4 series blog today, and has also been translated by Dawgtanian over at Capcom-Unity.

This post covers the proposed changes to characters M. Bison (Dictator), Yun, El Fuerte, Vega (Claw) and Blanka. First, we have an introduction from series producer Ayano, and then his translated thoughts on the opinions they have received.

Updated: Results and stream achive Wednesday Night Fights 2013 #3.1 live stream - Injustice, SF4, SFxT, TTT2 featuring Aris, Alex Valle and more

Updated: The results and stream archive have been added into the story after the jump.

Level|Up is back tonight and will be streaming Wednesday Night Fights 2013 3.1 live from Super Arcade in Walnut, California. Tonight's stream will kick off at 9:00 p.m. PDT / 4:00 a.m. GMT. Some of the notable players that are in attendance are ATP|Aris, LU|Alex Valle, DRS|Chris and more

Tonight, they will be streaming Injustice: Gods Among Us, Street Fighter X Tekken v2013, Super Street Fighter 4 Arcade Edition v2012 and Tekken Tag Tournament 2.

Hit the jump to check out the stream

Updated: Results and stream archive Next Level Battle Circuit #20 Injustice, UMvC3, SFxT v2013, SSF4 AE v2012

Updated: The results and stream archive have been added into the story after the jump.

Tonight, Arturo "TS|Sabin" Sanchez is streaming the Next Level Battle Circuit #20 from The Next Level arcade in Brooklyn, New York. Notable players in attendance include AGE|NYChrisG, AGE|Fanatiq, EMP|CD Jr., TS|Sabin, TS|NerdJosh, MH|RayRay, EMP|Sanford Kelly, EMP|Dieminion, TS|Fooblat, MH|Flux and more

They will be streaming Injustice: Gods Among Us, Street Fighter X Tekken v2013, Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 and Super Street Fighter 4 Arcade Edition v2012 over on TwitchTV.

Brackets will be available on Next Level's Challonge.

Ultimate Fight Night Super Street Fighter 4 Arcade Edition v2012 week 16 featuring Yeb, Playing To Win, Native Impact and more

Tonight's bi-weekly Ultimate Fight Night Super Street Fighter 4 Arcade Edition v2012 week 16 is streaming once again by SolidxPanda. The sets should be starting at around 6 p.m. PDT / 9 p.m. EDT.

Hit the jump to check out the stream.

Challenge Capcom ep. 14: Combofiend and haunts discuss potential changes for Ken, Ryu, Balrog and Sakura in SF4 update

CapcomFightersTV has uploaded episode 14 of their Challenge Capcom series in which Combofiend and Haunts play Super Street Fighter 4 Arcade Edition v2012 on the PS3 against various online opponents. During the battles, Combofiend covers potential characters changes in the upcoming SF4 update for Ken, Ryu, Balrog and Sakura.

Note: The changes mentioned by Combofiend are not guaranteed to be included in the game, however, these are tweaks that Capcom U.S. has sent over to Japan for further consideration.

Combofiend and Haunts begin talking about character changes at around 40:00 in the video after the jump.

Dead Space's Isaac Clarke, Lien Neville from Maximum Impact and Shadow Company Cammy - SSF4 AE v2012 PC mods

Video Games Best Mods is back again with footage of a few great Super Street Fighter 4 Arcade Edition v2012 PC mods. Today we have Dead Space and PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale's Isaac Clarke (Cody), King of Fighters Maximum Impact's Lien Neville (Juri) and Shadow Company Cammy from Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2.

Hit the jump to see the rest.

East Coast Throwdown 5 results, stream archives and more featuring ChrisG, Justin Wong, Dieminion, PR Balrog, Filipino Champ, Ricky Ortiz

Updated with final results: This story has been updated with the final results from East Coast Throwdown 5.

East Coast Throwdown 5 is about to get going, with the pools being shown on stream from 12 P.M., live from Morristown, New Jersey. The tournament will take place during May 18th-19th, and features Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3, Super Street Fighter 4 Arcade Edition v2012, Street Fighter X Tekken v2013, Injustice: Gods Among Us, Tekken Tag Tournament 2 and more on the main stage, with lots of side tournaments going on as well. For a full rundown of the titles being competed in, hit up our tournament preview.

Hit the jump to check out the streams, with main streaming duties being handled by TeamSp00ky. Secondary streams will be held by Deadly Bison Entertainment, KombatNetwork and Bibiquadium.

Capcom expects to announce balance changes to Street Fighter 4 around the time of EVO 2013 - Ono wants online edition of CvS2 on XBL

Capcom expects to announce the balance changes for the next version of Street Fighter 4 around the time of this year's EVO, which is taking place from July 12-14, 2013.

Ono doesn't say specifically that they'll be announcing the changes at EVO, just around that time.

Yoshinori had a few other interesting Tweets, which weren't in Japanese, that have been included below, most notably that he'd like to see an online edition of Capcom vs. SNK 2.

Source: Yoshinori Ono's Twitter. Contributions to this story by MajinTenshinhan.

Mago, PR Balrog, WeirdoNeo, Gamerbee, Wolfkrone, T SRAI, JaycetheAce, Kurokiba and more - SSF4 AE v2012 online replays

JR "PikachuAkuma" Rodriguez put together multiple compilation videos that feature a metric ton of high level Super Street Fighter 4 Arcade Edition v2012 players. These matches showcase the skills of such players as MCZ|Mago, EG|PR Balrog, AVM|Gamerbee, AGE|Wolfkrone, WeirdoNeo, T SRAI, MMS|Kurokiba, Brolylegs and plenty more.

Hit the jump for more.

Capcom considering equipping El Fuerte with better tools to promote thoughtful play, may buff Quesadilla Bomb in Street Fighter 4 series update

Capcom UK employee David "Dawgtanian" Hinds posted a couple of brief statements on Twitter yesterday regarding some potential changes to El Fuerte in the upcoming Street Fighter 4 series update. Dawgtanian mentioned that Capcom is considering making Fuerte's Quesadilla Bomb more effective and equipping him with other tools that will promote thoughtful play.

Although they are looking to improve Fuerte, Capcom is trying to make sure they do not over buff him due to his ability of using his run / stop to string normal attacks together.

Dawgtanian noted that these changes are not a complete certainty right now but are definitely being considered. As a Fuerte player himself, Hinds mentions that he is pleased with the direction the character is headed.

Poongko's Seth vs. Gannoon's Sakura - Super Street Fighter 4 Arcade Edition v2012

Ganoon uploaded a set of matches between himself and CafeId's own Poongko from a CafeId tournament that took place in Dubai. Poonkgo sticks with his trademark Seth and Gannoon chooses his excellent Sakura and the two square off in an exciting set of matches.

Be sure to check out the footage below.

Tip by sarif2soon.

Why the fighting game community hates the word "eSports"

A few days ago, an article was published on The Penny Arcade Report regarding eSports and why the fighting game community seems to hate the term so much.

In this article, there's a lot of history about what's gone down between the fighting game community and the eSports scene in the past, as well as quotes from people such as Tom Cannon, the organizer of EVO.

Here's a snippet from Tom Cannon to start you off.

Hit the jump to read more about the relationship between eSports and fighting games.

Street Fighter 4 questionnaire requests per character, suggested changes for Dudley, Juri, Cody, Sagat and Fei Long

Combofiend is back with a new blog from Ayano-san where he goes over highly requested changes to Street Fighter 4.

After the jump you can check out how many requests there were for each character and the system changes. It might come to a surprise to some that Yang had the most requests out of the entire cast.

Please note that these are the numbers are from the Japanese requests only.

Hit the jump to check it all out.

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