Yesterday, the top 8 players from the MLG Winter Championships flew out to the MLG Studio in NYC to compete in the exclusive Fighter's Arena! In a stunning upset, Hawkeye (@iltokyoli) from Chicago, who came seeded in 8th place, defeated the 1st seeded player Keev from France in an almost completely one-sided 4-1 Grand Finals!
Congratulations to Hawkeye for retaking the Soulcalibur title for America! In addition to the top 8 players, Rod "Slasher" Breslau from GameSpot.com was on hand to conduct interviews with the top two players throughout the day.
If you are like me and missed the stream earlier today from France for Soul Arena #6, you can find the results, bracket and stream archives after the break. This is also a good opportunity to see Kayane and Keev compete before they fly back to the United States to compete at the MLG Fighter Arena this Saturday.
Special thanks goes to Hazu for streaming this tournament.
MLG has shared further details on their Fighter Arena which takes place this Saturday at their studio in New York City, NY. This thread has everything that you need in regards to the portion of the broadcast devoted to Soulcalibur V which begins at 2PM Eastern.
MLG will feature a main stream that can be viewed for free in SD and in HD for $4.99 which you can click here to purchase, and featuring commentary by our own BrewtusBibulus. There will also be a second stream featuring behind the scenes access hosted by Gootecks.
Tokyo Game Night present the first Strike tournament for Soulcalibur V this Saturday from Tokyo, Japan. Strike.1 will feature a singles tournament that has 82 signups with notable players such as Oosaka, Dekopon, and Itabashi Zangief who have entered.
Strike.1 will also feature a 10 on 10 where a dream team that Toilet is a part of will face Team SC, and a Create A Soul competition. And according to Daishi, Fuudo will also be taking part of 10 on 10 competition as well, so this event will be very interesting to watch.
Soraky, a former fellow Norcal player and current Las Vegas local, was lucky enough to be in attendance at the SCV World Championship last Tuesday. When he subsequently informed me that he was interested in sharing his thoughts on the experience, I happily agreed to turn over this week's column to him.
I'll be back with my regularly-scheduled pontification next week, so don't you worry your pretty little heads about that. Also, everything that follows is solely Sora's opinion, etcetera, etcetera, so assign all praise and blame accordingly. -Hates
