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Capcom has decided to sue Koei-Tecmo over patent infringement for 50 titles for about 9.43 million. However, this patent started back in 2002, before games like Dead or Alive: Ultimate were even released. So I wonder what this will do to Team Ninja, and how they are involved.

Another patent was mentioned that KT copied a controller vibrating feature for invite notifications that has "greatly contributed" to Tecmo's game sales. I'm sorry... to those that are blind and deaf at the same time!?

Capcom is looking for 5-10% in licensing fees. They're also demanding that several Koei Tecmo games are suspended in sales.

This Tuesday, Master plans to teach more hidden techniques on his Twitch, but would like to see participation from the community during this live event. If you want to know what it takes to be a DOA master, you might want to stop by Twitch tomorrow and be prepared to learn.

Link: http://www.twitch.tv/omastero/profile

Last week he educated the community on unholdables... but deleted the video. Since these classes will not be archived, it's important to try and watch it live.

Pwnit! has announced that they will be sponsoring the winners of both Cali Crush (September 13, 2014 in Los Angeles, CA) and GUTS3 (September 19-21, 2014 in CT) in partnership with the Road to The Fall Classic and Team NINJA. First place winners from both events will have travel and hotel for TFC (September 10-12, 2014 in Raleigh, NC) taken care of by our friends at Pwnit! making the Road to TFC a coast-to-coast effort to ensure the best players in the country attend the tournament. The first qualifier has already taken place in Dallas with DiD10, but there are now three remaining chances to earn your way to TFC!

Please see below for the full press release and also check out Pwnit! for the most recent ladder for DoA.

Press Release said:

PWNIT.COM PARTNERS WITH TEAM NINJA’S “THE ROAD TO TFC”

Pwnit! To Sponsor Winners From New England and West Coast Regional Tournaments
For The Road to The Fall Classic Fighting...

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If the recent Summer Jam 8 news wasn't enough, this might be: another free entry tournament... complements of our good friend @Vandy. K.I.T 15 not only has DOA5U, but the entry... is... free (with $500 guaranteed). Let's start taking advantage of these opportunities we are being given.

KIT is a great event. 2014's showing wasn't the highest for numbers, but the quality of the matches and player skill was through the roof. Great talent, and in my opinion the best DOA tournament so far this year.

You also have to consider how great of a deal the free entry really is. The tournament is not for another half a year, and you already know. Let's go for higher numbers this time around, and let's give @Vandy a big thank you.

Get all the info you need in our KIT thread, and let's make next years KIT the...

If you're looking for more useless, but "fun" dlc you're going to have a field day tomorrow! Why look like a bad ass ninja when you can look like someone that cleans houses? I don't know, but if you are feeling the need for something new (kinda), check out the new trailer for the maid outfits the latest fetish trend brought to you by Team NINJA!

BigE made a Summer Jam 8 announcement earlier today that 94 people have registered (which is free) for DOA5U, now beating out games like Soul Calibur V and Tekken Tag 2 in attendance. Big E sweetens the deal further by announcing that if the game caps at 128 -- free pizza for all players even allowing registration at the door.

Not only this, but the prize pot is $1,000 -- with the winner getting a free trip to TFC. If you haven't gotten registered for god's sake make it a priority! Take a look at Big E's easy to use website, and get your way into Summer Jam 8! Summer Jam 8 is a great chance at making a name for yourself, and all competitive players should at least consider it with its promising numbers and massive perks.

As we patiently wait for upcoming tournaments and the release of Nyo-Tengu, you might be wondering what you can do now to keep from getting bored. There are lots of ways to play DOA, and if you're not improving your skills by just playing, there are other ways to learn new things. Twitch is a great tool for this, and this post will highlight some of these channels.

UGS Live manned by none other than @Gill Hustle. He's the most active Dead or Alive streamer to my knowledge, and his stream is packed with all sorts of content from PSN matches, to free training to combo challenge. Expect to see Gill on Twitch often.

Master's Twitch is great tool for all aspiring Hayabusa players. If you want to learn more about the complex character, you can get tips and feedback from @MASTER live. Not to mention the bad ass matches he competes in.

Rikuto, Lopedo...

We get a relatively large amount of high quality content from our members, but this is the first combo video I've seen in quite some time that was not only educational, but highly entertaining as well. @NinjaMonkey employs some clever editing to open and close the video and the combos throughout range from highly circumstantial to incredibly practical. There are even a few force tech setups and unholdable setups. Check the video out below and head to the Hayabusa Character Forum to discuss!

Fighters, we are coming down to the wire on pre-registration for the final Road to TFC event. Currently sitting at nearly 90 entrants and rising, pre-registration closes down on Friday, August 22nd. Registering before that date grants a lower entry fee than at the door, $40 instead of $50, and gets your name on the list for the Summer Jam 8 DoA5U tournament provided you select DoA5U during the process. As a free-to-enter tournament with a guaranteed cash payout, not to mention the free flight, hotel, and entry to TFC that placing top two provides, the remaining spots will fill up.

There is no guarantee that registering at the event will allow you to enter the tournament as it is capped at 128 entrants! This cap has been in place since June and may not go any higher.

Taking place August 29th through August 31st in Philadelphia, PA, Summer Jam 8 is the latest in a long line of East Coast majors that feature the Dead or Alive...

For more information pertaining to this tournament, crush this link with your cursor!

Here's some great news for those of us without access to the Japanese arcade version of Dead Or Alive 5 Ultimate. Team NINJA has just announced the release date for Nyotengu's console debut.

PlayStation 3 and XBox 360 players in North America will be able to get her on September 2, 2014. Meanwhile, PlayStation 3 players in Europe will get her the day after - September 3.

Source: Team NINJA via Shoryuken

http://www.twitch.tv/nycfurby

Sorry this is up so late, but we have a tournament up on stream via sp00ky... right now!

Just in case you haven’t noticed as of lately, FSD member and top Akira player, @Sly Bass, has been contributing some pretty cool stuff for the DOA community to check out.

Over the last few weeks, Sly has been chipping away at a DOA Player Location Map, encouraging players to add their locations, along with gamertags and PSN IDs to help build a stronger offline scene amongst players. It has been such a success so far that Team Ninja proudly retweets it every now and then on their twitter page. As a matter of fact, they even did so earlier today. Did you see?

Along with always sharing extensive Akira tips and...

I don't know how you feel about the DOA5U soundtrack, but I feel it lacks in tracks. Even with the added music library, we still have a lot of great missing tracks. My favorite tracks come from this game, and @Awesmic has made it a priority to bring the OST to you with tracks extended to 30 minutes.

DOA1 Playlist

Listen to them on Youtube, play them while you play DOA5, convert them to MP3s. What is your favorite soundtrack from DOA?

@BigE Gaming announced today that today is the last day for the $35 pre-registration cost of The Fall Classic 2014. After tonight, the pre-registration cost will be increased by $5 making the new pre-registration cost $40.

The Fall Classic 2014 will be occurring on October 10th to the 12th in Raleigh, North Carolina. The event also concludes Team NINJA's "Road to the Fall Classic", where @MASTER, @SweetRevenge117, and the first and second place winners of August's Summer Jam 8 will have their flights, hotel rooms, and tournament entry booked complimentary by Team NINJA. The Top 6 of the Dead or Alive 5 Ultimate Singles Tournament will have at least an $8,000 pot prize provided by Team NINJA. The pot prize will rise based on any other pot prize...

Most of the winning designs are stuff that you would expect, but there are a few surprises in the "top 10." I thought every character was going to automatically place, but I'm not sure how the DLC will actually be released since another player's pajama outfit was recently released from the last contest.

Results

Today, Big E was one of the first to mention that Gehaktbal has been successfully registered to the DOA5U TFC 2014 tournament! The Lord of the Netherlands will compete in the biggest DOA5 tournament known to mankind, and this is your chance to play him. Now is the time to register for TFC. Do not miss out on this epic International event!

"Thanks to a very supportive community Gehaktbal's campaign for TFC was a success! I will get with him to discuss everything! We will now most likely have USAs best Japan's best and Europe's best at the FALL CLASSIC!"

Also remember to keep Hajin Shinobi in your sights as he is a West Coast player hoping to be sponsored by the community as well.

Can't wait to see what other surprises will emerge before, and during TFC. Congrats once again, community!

Hajin is a player that has earned his stripes within this community by not only learning the ropes of one of the game’s most technical characters and sharing all of his findings, but he has been building a great offline scene with some other great players in California (West coast needs this).

You can give back to this informative player by helping Hajin get to TFC. In this interview he speaks up on what he intends to do at TFC, talks about the growing offline scene, and of course he offers some advice concerning Ayane.

DOAN: How do you feel about DOA5 in its offline state?

Hajin: I think the offline tournament scene is actually pretty good. We've had a lot of tournaments in DOA5U that have been pretty successful (a few hit or misses but it happens). Including tournament locals we've had often before here in California.

The offline scene as itself, is getting better a bit. I’ve been noticing more players have been...

This upcoming Saturday the world's most prestigious fighting game tournament, the Evolution championship series, is taking place once again in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. Evolution (EVO for short) is the largest fighting game tournament in the world. The event brings thousands of fans & competitors together for the sole purpose of enjoying the fighting game genre.

This is where DOA steps in and the community steps up. For the first time in nearly a decade, a tournament for Dead or Alive will be taking place at EVO. Although DOA is not apart of the main EVO lineup, there is a side-tournament being held inside EVO's tournament hall in the 'Bring Your Own Console' area. The purpose of this event is to make our presence as DOA players known at the biggest event of the year for the fighting game community (FGC). The underlying purpose of this event is to make a...

Gehaktbal is known for winning, he’s known for being the best in Europe, and he’s also known for his incredible Jann Lee and taking Sweet Revenge to his limits. How would he fare at the biggest DOA event of the year, TFC? Me and the decorated European player talk tournaments, love, and his current thoughts on DOA5 Ultimate.

International play is now inevitable to this year’s TFC with the news of Tomoyuki Inui in attendance, and you can help Gehaktbal live his dream by donating to the cause of international play. #SendGehaktbaltoAmerica

DOAN: So getting right into it, the big question most of us have is probably… how are you so good, and who do you train with offline?


Gehaktbal: Since DOA4 was my first doa, it's safe to assume I did all my ''doa-homework'' in this version. And yes, I did. I started out as a scrub, but I liked the game very much. Online...

The next big European tournament is Stun Academy 2, and @K4rma has a few announcements pertaining to this big tournament:

"As the next Republic of Fighters will take place in the next several months, the french tournament organizers decided to implement a new DoA-only tournament to support the offline scene: The Stun Academy # 2."

"The concept is very simple: one full day of competition among European players in the center of Paris, with a solo tournament, a team tournament, but also lots of show matches and freeplay. The tournament will be played in Bo5, with round robin pools in Bo3. We’re expecting the best french (@Ky Dragon, @Alucardo…) and European players (@Gehaktbal should be here to defend his title). I hope we’ll see more players from Italy, Germany and UK this time."

Where?
64 Rue Orfila 75020 Paris

When?
August 30th, 2014

Registration
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