When it comes to fighting games like Street Fighter IV, Australia has a great, burgeoning competitive scene and the announcement of Shadowloo Showdown is testament to this fact. Taking place this weekend, top Japanese players Mago (2D God) and Tokido (Murderface) will join Gamerbee from Taiwan in facing off against the best that Australia has to offer.
Taking place on December 11 and 12 at the Rydges Hotel on Exhibition Street, Melbourne, Shadowloo Showdown will be streamed live to thousands and feature the most competitive players in the country.
In addition to the 1v1 tournaments, there will also be a Sydney vs Melbourne competition, which should be interesting! And by interesting I mean I hope no-one gets killed, or maimed. Or has their eyeballs gouged out.
Street Fighter IV, Tekken 6: BR, Virtua Fighter 5, Street Fighter III: Third Strike and newcomer BlazBlue Continuum Shift will all feature at some point. If you are a fan of any of these games we recommend going along to check out the best that Australia has to offer.
Head to the Shadowloo facebook page for more info.
Joe Mama
Wednesday, December 8, 2010 at 10:09 AMEverything is at Melbourne! D:
Liam Marcon
Wednesday, December 8, 2010 at 10:21 AMThese guys run some awesome tournies, should be fun!
Steven Bogos
Wednesday, December 8, 2010 at 11:35 AMToo bad this is on the same weekend as respawn :(
Carlos Varney
Wednesday, December 8, 2010 at 11:59 AMTekken scene’s better, although both scenes have their fair share of total wankers.
EXC355UM
Wednesday, December 8, 2010 at 12:50 PMHey Mark, appreciate the feature. It’s not easy to get great gaming sites to feature anything about competitive gaming.
Hopefully we get a lot of people to come down and check out how hype these events are.
@Steve: Yeah, really sucks that Respawn was on this weekend. Sadly it was the only weekend we can get.
@Liam: Cheers mate. =]
Ali.