What's up guys & gals of the DOA community I love so much. I bring to you another recap of the DOA tourneys that have been took place over the past couple months. Got a couple majors, couple international, and lots of local tourney results for this roundup. Enjoy.
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CEO Winterfest 2013
Altamonte Springs, Florida
January 26th 2013
Good to see that Florida hosted a DOA tourney! Unfortunately, I could not find any DOA related media from this event nor any information on who used what character. I personally don't recognize any of the competitors names but don't let that take away from the fact that they showed up to compete. Hope to see these names again in future events!
Final Results
1. Jazz Primm
2. Tysen
3. The Law
4. DR Balrog
5. Skeptic
6. Solid Neku
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Gamecenter Arcade Meet & Greet
San Mateo, California
February 9th 2013
The Northern California DOA scene has been growing in numbers slowly but surely. What started off as a local offline session quickly turned into a tournament. Click somewhere in this sentence for the brackets.
Final Results
1st - NykNyks
2nd - Shadow
3rd - Sixmsj
4th - CrimsonCJ
5th (tie) - Thrust / Aegis Ornus (Mila)
7th - Nai
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D-Town Beatdown
Plano, Texas
Febuary 9th 2013
Texas breeds monstrous Dead or Alive players. So it's no surprise that the best 3 players in the state took top 3 respectively. Props to MASTER for taking another one. The full brackets can be viewed by clicking anywhere in this sentence.
Final Results
1st - MASTER
2nd - ElectrifiedMann Kokoro, Sarah
3rd - Sweet Revenge
4th - Blackdiamond890
5th (tie) - Dallaz / Best
7th (tie ) - Dareaper214 / Project Bokuho
9th (tie ) - COPPERTONE (Mila) / TexasKreepa / KidKamikaze (Elliot) / Apocalypsedlm7
13th (tie) - Ontruesonic / PAB Yeti / Wolfsutclif
The TK Players Youtube page has a lot more match videos from the tourney should you be interested in watching.
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New Challengers X 2013
Stratford, Conneticut
February 16th 2013
The third DOA5 tournament in the New Challengers series.
Final Results
1st: Ghpguy
2nd: BboyDragon TK
3rd: Blackburry (Kokoro)
4th: McPeanuts (Mila)
5th: Chosen 1
5th: Will
7th (tie) - Mike / Ben
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Ozhadou Nationals 11
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
February 22nd 2013
DOA5 had the pleasure to be apart of Australia's longest running fighting game major. Shout out to Berzerk! for taking 1st, promoting it, and providing info for the event. Looking forward to seeing more tourneys happening in Australia! Click for brackets.
Final Results
1st - Berzerk
2nd - AlexMD (Akira)
3rd - Gab
4th - Mademan
5th (tie) - Callum / Pichy
7th (tie) - Zep / Borgie
9th (tie) - JMan / Chill / Kisou / Furious
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Winter Brawl VII
Philadelphia, Pennslyvania
February 25th 2013
An east coast major with so much hype behind it that Team Ninja threw in $500 to add to the pot. Many of the East Coast heavy hitters showed up for this one. With names like Rikuto, Black Mamba, Shin RyuJin, and NEC 13 champ Xcalibur Bladez entering the tournament, it was going to be tough as nails to win it all. At the end of day Sweet Revenge ended up victorious as the Winter Brawl VII champion. Here is the top 8 bracket. There was even a tag tourney, click this for the tag brackets.
Final Results (singles)
1. Sweet Revenge (Sarah)
2. XCalibur BladeZ, Alpha
3. EMP | Blackberry Mamba
4. Rikuto
5th (tie) - Shade Swifteye / Shin Ryujin
7th (tie) - Sonic Fox / Mr Kwiggles
9th (tie) - NF Coltz / NF Hoodless / Blackberry Chaos / Low Sweep
13th (tie) - Blackula / Ninja CW / TK (Adrian Miko) / Matt Ponton
17th (tie ) - Draman Kuritan / Riceman / Miss Maia / MMA Boss / IPG Katsu Hayami / BBOy Dragon TK / Immerwolf / Lithy
25th (tie) - Mc. Peanuts / GVN Heinsenberg / NinjaGuy446 / FNEX Dayasha / FNEX OniJamal / Repoman / Juicy D / Double T
33rd (tie) - El Bukis / FNEX Yari / Mi CHA / EMP Rodnutz / ISUKK / JFW Etna LP MP HP / SRM GohanSan / Mixtape CD / JFS Luigi the Bloodedge / ERGZ Sean Y / AndyLawlz / SRM Mascot of Awesome / Uriko Aoyami / Demon Kuja / Demoth / AMX
Final Results (tag)
1st - RikArmstrong
2nd -Xcalibur Riceman
3rd (tie) - Team Sandbag / Shady Kwiggles
5th (tie) - Sweet Revenge / Blackberry Maia / nFamous / Delgado Bros
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World Game Cup 2013
Cannes, France
March 1st 2013
The WGC is an international major. Pretty fucking dope that DOA got to be apart of the Festival International des Jeux which has attracted over 170,000 people. Congratulations to Gehaktbal for taking 1st place. Gehaktbal also has the Loser's and Winner's finals for WGC 2013 on his youtube page so click anywhere in the sentence to see (you'll also find some dope DOA4 tourney footage as well!). /// Click this sentence for the brackets.
Final Results
1st - Gehaktbal (formerly known as Glyx)
2nd - Alucardo
3rd - Laura
4th - RajRuss
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Texas Bar Fights Round XI
Ft. Worth, Texas
March 16th 2013
Final Results
1st - MASTER
2nd - SweetRevenge (Sarah)
3rd - Dallaz
4th - Best
5th (tie) - B2TEGods Soulja / Lethal Frostie
7th (tie) - TBG_Dizzho / WarLordKdubb
9th (tie) - Renge / TBG Kid Kamikaze / Cla the Ninja / DAREAPER214
13th (tie) - Tray 2323 / FaceBeam / EFTC MikeOHara / C0PPERT0NE /
17th (tie) - DC East / Legendary Mike
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BEST of the Battle II
San Jose, California
March 16th 2013
West Coast DOA is at it again. FSD member NykNyks (hey that's me!) put together a fighting game tourney and course, I had to make sure DOA got its shine This tournament was streamed live at twitch.tv/bestofthebattle but for some odd reason the broadcast of the stream is now nowhere to be found on the BOTB channel which completely blows because the Winner's, Loser's, and Grand Finals matches were completely fucking hype :/ Regardless, at the end of the day, Punishere, who has been absent from the DOA offline scene, emerged as the winner of BOTB 2. Click for brackets.
Final Results
1st - Punishere
2nd - NykNyks
3rd - SomewhatMental (formerly known as CrimsonCJ), Kokoro
4th - Shadow
5th (tie) - Tamisu (Pai) / Nai
7th (tie) - History / Shytzoo
9th (tie) - Aegis (Mila) / Thrust07 / Chewie
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Final Round West Coast
Sacramento, California
March 30th 2013
Another offline session turned tournament. While Final Round 16 was going on in the East Coast, the Cali DOA players decided to have their own spin off tourney. It should be noted that this was the first offline DOA tournament in the California capitol city, Sacramento. Click here for brackets.
Final Results
1st - NykNyks
2nd - Accurate
3rd - Koompbala
4th - Galen the Wise (Akira)
5th (tie) - Shadow/ SomewhatMental (formerly known as CrimsonCJ)
7th (tie) - Shytzoo/ Nai
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Final Round XVI
Atlanta, Georgia
March 29th-31st 2013
This was hands down the most hyped DOA tournament of the year thus far. So hype that Team Ninja threw down $5,000 to add the pot! The majority of the world's BEST DOA players attended this event. Congrats to the young phenom XCalibur Bladez for once again taking home the gold at a major event. Since the tournament just happened within a day from the time I made this post, I'm positive someone else will provide the media footage, match vids, interviews, full brackets and all that good stuff very soon. Here are the brackets for top 8.
Final Results (top 8 only)
1st - XCalibur Bladez, Alpha
2nd - Rikuto
3rd - Lopedo, Alpha
4th - Chosen 1
5th (tie) - MASTER / Electrified Mann & Kokoro
7th (tie) - Sweet Revenge (Sarah) / Shade Swifteye
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Now go support your local DOA scene ya bish ass, sittin at home ass, too afraid to get off the couch ass, online shit talkin ass, rage quittin ass, mountain dew code red drinkin ass muthasucka!!!
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CEO Winterfest 2013
Altamonte Springs, Florida
January 26th 2013
Good to see that Florida hosted a DOA tourney! Unfortunately, I could not find any DOA related media from this event nor any information on who used what character. I personally don't recognize any of the competitors names but don't let that take away from the fact that they showed up to compete. Hope to see these names again in future events!
Final Results
1. Jazz Primm
2. Tysen
3. The Law
4. DR Balrog
5. Skeptic
6. Solid Neku
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Gamecenter Arcade Meet & Greet
San Mateo, California
February 9th 2013
The Northern California DOA scene has been growing in numbers slowly but surely. What started off as a local offline session quickly turned into a tournament. Click somewhere in this sentence for the brackets.
Final Results
1st - NykNyks
2nd - Shadow
3rd - Sixmsj
4th - CrimsonCJ
5th (tie) - Thrust
/ Aegis Ornus (Mila)7th - Nai
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D-Town Beatdown
Plano, Texas
Febuary 9th 2013
Texas breeds monstrous Dead or Alive players. So it's no surprise that the best 3 players in the state took top 3 respectively. Props to MASTER for taking another one. The full brackets can be viewed by clicking anywhere in this sentence.
Final Results
1st - MASTER
2nd - ElectrifiedMann
Kokoro, Sarah3rd - Sweet Revenge
4th - Blackdiamond890
5th (tie) - Dallaz
/ Best 7th (tie ) - Dareaper214
/ Project Bokuho 9th (tie ) - COPPERTONE (Mila) / TexasKreepa / KidKamikaze (Elliot) / Apocalypsedlm7
13th (tie) - Ontruesonic
/ PAB Yeti / Wolfsutclif
The TK Players Youtube page has a lot more match videos from the tourney should you be interested in watching.
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New Challengers X 2013
Stratford, Conneticut
February 16th 2013
The third DOA5 tournament in the New Challengers series.
Final Results
1st: Ghpguy
2nd: BboyDragon TK
3rd: Blackburry (Kokoro)
4th: McPeanuts (Mila)
5th: Chosen 1
5th: Will
7th (tie) - Mike
/ Ben ---
Ozhadou Nationals 11
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
February 22nd 2013
DOA5 had the pleasure to be apart of Australia's longest running fighting game major. Shout out to Berzerk! for taking 1st, promoting it, and providing info for the event. Looking forward to seeing more tourneys happening in Australia! Click for brackets.
Final Results
1st - Berzerk
2nd - AlexMD (Akira)
3rd - Gab
4th - Mademan
5th (tie) - Callum / Pichy
7th (tie) - Zep / Borgie
9th (tie) - JMan / Chill / Kisou / Furious
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Winter Brawl VII
Philadelphia, Pennslyvania
February 25th 2013
An east coast major with so much hype behind it that Team Ninja threw in $500 to add to the pot. Many of the East Coast heavy hitters showed up for this one. With names like Rikuto, Black Mamba, Shin RyuJin, and NEC 13 champ Xcalibur Bladez entering the tournament, it was going to be tough as nails to win it all. At the end of day Sweet Revenge ended up victorious as the Winter Brawl VII champion. Here is the top 8 bracket. There was even a tag tourney, click this for the tag brackets.
Final Results (singles)
1. Sweet Revenge
(Sarah)2. XCalibur BladeZ
, Alpha3. EMP | Blackberry Mamba
4. Rikuto
5th (tie) - Shade Swifteye
/ Shin Ryujin 7th (tie) - Sonic Fox / Mr Kwiggles
9th (tie) - NF Coltz / NF Hoodless / Blackberry Chaos / Low Sweep
13th (tie) - Blackula / Ninja CW / TK (Adrian Miko) / Matt Ponton
17th (tie ) - Draman Kuritan / Riceman / Miss Maia / MMA Boss / IPG Katsu Hayami / BBOy Dragon TK / Immerwolf / Lithy
25th (tie) - Mc. Peanuts / GVN Heinsenberg / NinjaGuy446 / FNEX Dayasha / FNEX OniJamal / Repoman / Juicy D / Double T
33rd (tie) - El Bukis / FNEX Yari / Mi CHA / EMP Rodnutz / ISUKK / JFW Etna LP MP HP / SRM GohanSan / Mixtape CD / JFS Luigi the Bloodedge / ERGZ Sean Y / AndyLawlz / SRM Mascot of Awesome / Uriko Aoyami / Demon Kuja / Demoth / AMX
Final Results (tag)
1st - RikArmstrong
2nd -Xcalibur Riceman
3rd (tie) - Team Sandbag / Shady Kwiggles
5th (tie) - Sweet Revenge / Blackberry Maia / nFamous / Delgado Bros
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World Game Cup 2013
Cannes, France
March 1st 2013
The WGC is an international major. Pretty fucking dope that DOA got to be apart of the Festival International des Jeux which has attracted over 170,000 people. Congratulations to Gehaktbal for taking 1st place. Gehaktbal also has the Loser's and Winner's finals for WGC 2013 on his youtube page so click anywhere in the sentence to see (you'll also find some dope DOA4 tourney footage as well!). /// Click this sentence for the brackets.
Final Results
1st - Gehaktbal (formerly known as Glyx)
2nd - Alucardo
3rd - Laura
4th - RajRuss
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Texas Bar Fights Round XI
Ft. Worth, Texas
March 16th 2013
Final Results
1st - MASTER
2nd - SweetRevenge (Sarah)
3rd - Dallaz
4th - Best
5th (tie) - B2TEGods Soulja / Lethal Frostie
7th (tie) - TBG_Dizzho / WarLordKdubb
9th (tie) - Renge / TBG Kid Kamikaze / Cla the Ninja / DAREAPER214
13th (tie) - Tray 2323 / FaceBeam / EFTC MikeOHara / C0PPERT0NE /
17th (tie) - DC East / Legendary Mike
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BEST of the Battle II
San Jose, California
March 16th 2013
West Coast DOA is at it again. FSD member NykNyks (hey that's me!) put together a fighting game tourney and course, I had to make sure DOA got its shine
This tournament was streamed live at twitch.tv/bestofthebattle but for some odd reason the broadcast of the stream is now nowhere to be found on the BOTB channel which completely blows because the Winner's, Loser's, and Grand Finals matches were completely fucking hype :/ Regardless, at the end of the day, Punishere, who has been absent from the DOA offline scene, emerged as the winner of BOTB 2. Click for brackets.Final Results
1st - Punishere
2nd - NykNyks
3rd - SomewhatMental (formerly known as CrimsonCJ)
, Kokoro4th - Shadow
5th (tie) - Tamisu (Pai) / Nai
7th (tie) - History
/ Shytzoo 9th (tie) - Aegis (Mila) / Thrust07
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Final Round West Coast
Sacramento, California
March 30th 2013
Another offline session turned tournament. While Final Round 16 was going on in the East Coast, the Cali DOA players decided to have their own spin off tourney. It should be noted that this was the first offline DOA tournament in the California capitol city, Sacramento. Click here for brackets.
Final Results
1st - NykNyks
2nd - Accurate
3rd - Koompbala
4th - Galen the Wise (Akira)
5th (tie) - Shadow
/ SomewhatMental (formerly known as CrimsonCJ) 7th (tie) - Shytzoo
/ Nai ---
Final Round XVI
Atlanta, Georgia
March 29th-31st 2013
This was hands down the most hyped DOA tournament of the year thus far. So hype that Team Ninja threw down $5,000 to add the pot! The majority of the world's BEST DOA players attended this event. Congrats to the young phenom XCalibur Bladez for once again taking home the gold at a major event. Since the tournament just happened within a day from the time I made this post, I'm positive someone else will provide the media footage, match vids, interviews, full brackets and all that good stuff very soon. Here are the brackets for top 8.
Final Results (top 8 only)
1st - XCalibur Bladez
, Alpha2nd - Rikuto
3rd - Lopedo
, Alpha4th - Chosen 1
5th (tie) - MASTER
/ Electrified Mann & Kokoro7th (tie) - Sweet Revenge (Sarah)
/ Shade Swifteye ---
Now go support your local DOA scene ya bish ass, sittin at home ass, too afraid to get off the couch ass, online shit talkin ass, rage quittin ass, mountain dew code red drinkin ass muthasucka!!!
