Author: ImageOmega
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Our Big League KO SF6 League has been a smash hit! We are well underway with our Spring '25 season (our third so far!) and the first week of matches have been nothing short of heart pounding.
This season Big League KO has expanded to include more pools (nine total to be exact!) including a Premier (invite-only) pool and a pool dedicated to our EU friends. The regular season kicked off with Week 1 (March 31st to April 6th) where players played their first two matches. BLKO will continue its regular season throughout April and culminate into playoffs right after. The Grand Finals will be streamed at a future date for one of our Urge to Fight events!
This season we are committed to really highlighting more of our community by hosting a weekly showcase. Not only will we stream full replays of matches from the past week, but we are also bringing on members to do live commentary to really kick up the hype! Episode 1 just wrapped... You can watch it below on YouTube. And below the video, we're including the BLKO Spring '25 Season Report as curated by HotSoup.
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Hey all, ImageOmega here. Ever seen an impressive collection of, well, anything? The owner of said collection is always super passionate and incredibly knowledgeable about their craft. The kind of wisdom where you can’t help, but download information just by being around them. That’s the type of well-learned collector JMro is.
Community Member, JMro, was kind enough to share his thoughts on his favorite leverless controllers of 2024. Not only is JMro’s collection of controllers impressive, but he blesses the Discord with all sorts of intricacies about parts, buttons, and switches in the #controllers-gear channel (where you’ll often see just as many photos of rice cookers next to controllers…you know, for scale).
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Hi FightRise community!
Wreck the Halls returns this year and we would love your support again this holiday season. We're teaming up with legendary commentator and veteran of the fighting game community, Ultra David himself, to support the Raiden Science Foundation, an organization researching cures for rare diseases starting with UBA5 Disorder.
UBA5 is a life-threatening genetic disease that affects the nervous system and severely raises the chance of young lives being lost in just their first few years after birth. The foundation is named after Raiden Pham, an incredible 4 year old, fighting to live a normal life with this disease and hoping that one day soon this debilitating condition can be cured.
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Bringing the best events to our FightRise community is what we are all about! Besides just wrapping up Urge to Fight 10, our One Fight Stand Double Elimination, and getting ready to unleash the Terry Scavenger Hunt... We have ONE MORE EVENT coming your way!
This October we are experimenting with our very first Street Fighter League: BIG LEAGUE KO. What makes this event special? Well, it is a month long league that will culminate into playoffs from the top contenders.
Each week every player will be responsible to play two matches against preset opponents in their pool. Oh, and the pools are all balanced by skill level, which will make the games more competitive and give players the best chance to level up.
Players have the flexibility of scheduling their own matches against their determined opponents. The top 4 from each pool will battle it out in a single elimination tournament during the final week for a prize!
The good news is that this is our very first one and, if it's a success, we'd love to do more. So far it's received a lot of hype!
The bad news is... if you weren't in the Discord the first 24 hours of this being announced, you missed your sign-up window. We filled up every slot almost immediately.
But, the other good news is, you don't have to miss out on the next one. Join the Discord and be there for when we announce the next one. Plus, you can join in for our One Fight Stand Round Robins and Terry Scavenger Hunt! See you there.
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This Sunday, September 15th @ 7:30pmEDT, FightRise is proud to present Urge to Fight 10: The War Next Door. Every stream event our main goal is to showcase our FightRise Community Members. This time we pit contenders from neighboring countries with Team USA versus Team Canada.
Making things even more special, we have a legend amongst legends of the FGC...often hailed as the greatest fighting game player of all time...Justin Wong joins the commentators to call all the action this Sunday.
Plus, kicking off the action we are bringing back our Boss Battle challenge. GreekFire will hold down a Battle Hub cabinet and stave off all challengers who would like to rob them of their King of the Hill prize.
Then we go right into our Team Battle featuring WASEDA rules. Team Canada will be represented by wkd, JMro, Mouse, MrLobo, and Schauncey. Team USA's roster will be led by Lazyboredom with Inari, NoH2O, ClemPRime13, and Duozza. Skill levels from Platinum to Master are sure to guarantee a wild night of fireworks from each country representative.
Join us on Twitch this Sunday (the 15th) @ 7:30pmEDT: https://www.twitch.tv/fightrisefgc
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One person... that's all we had in the Discord just over a year ago. Today, FightRise is over 500 members strong and has achieved some wild milestones for a brand new Street Fighter 6 community.
From building fighters up from Rookie ranks to Masters, colliding two nations against each other in an Urge to Fight brawl, hosting over twenty One Fight Stand community events that boosted skill and morale, to having some of the greatest legends in the FGC grace our Auditorium... we've been fortunate to serve our FightRise community.
And, is barely a drop in the bucket of all the milestones and community events we really put in the less than a year that Street Fighter 6 has been released. That's why this next milestone is so special.
Not only did this milestone start as mere fleeting conversation, but it all happened faster than we could have imagined. And much of that is thanks to our amazing FightRise community. All of you FightRisers make every day being a part of this community so phenomenal. And, I am so glad we get to share this next one with you...
This week, FightRise is proud to officially announce, we have signed and our sponsoring our first competitive fighter who is set to compete at CEO 2024... He was a man with a simple dream as he has visions of being one of the finalists to walk out for Top 8 at CEO.
And, if you have seen his Marisa (or have been on the other side of the fighting stage), you understand why we believe in him and are excited to cheer him on every step of the way...
So, how did all this come to be? Well, let me highlight a few things for you if you'd be so kind to stay while and listen.
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One of the questions we get a lot is... "Are these One Fight Stands good for me to join?" The answer is an easy "YES!" Our One Fight Stand events are bi-weekly round robins that have been responsible from helping take some of our community members from the Rookie ranks all the way to Master.
That's why celebrating 21 One Fight Stand events so far is such a fantastic milestone. And the FightRise Community has been fortunate to celebrate so many milestones in the less than a year that Street Fighter 6 has been released.
So, of course, this twenty first One Fight Stand event was a fantastic one with just about 40 in attendance on a Tuesday night! Not bad...
In this post I want to do a few things: 1) acknowledge our winners, 2) mention briefly another exciting milestone, and 3) break down the round robins themselves.
If you're a regular at One Fight Stand, this may be a fantastic post to share with those who want to know more about what they're getting into! And take a look at all you fantastic regulars here posing like the fantastic peoples you are in front of Rathian:
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We got winners! One Fight Stand #19 just wrapped up and, with 48 players competing, this was a special one...
Every quarter we like to organize a Double Elimination Bracket and an 0-2 Bracket to replace the ol' Round Robin night.
From the player perspective, they get some great practice in a tournament format and we dish out some prizes. Plus, on the Tournament Organizer side, we test our efficiency in making sure our members have a smooth, speedy event. I mean... keeping the event to about an hour and a half on a Tuesday night? Yes...please...
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If you're looking to level up in Street Fighter, I can't stress enough how important and helpful it is to have a community at your side.
That's why FightRise is an all-inclusive community where newer players are welcomed and our master rank players are always willing to share, help, train, and play!
These One Fight Stand events alone have taken some of our players who have never touched a fighting game into developing their game plan and climbing to Master rank.
Plus they're fun as you can see they're run seamlessly with an automated system in Battle Hub (so come dressed to impressed!).
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Urge to Fight 5 is just mere days away. And, it's aptly titled: Legends Never Die.
That's because for the first time in Urge to Fight history we are throwing audience participation to the Battle Hub Streets. We have Legend Ranked, Marisa Player, Lazyboredom ready to defend the hill his kingdom was built on from all would be conquerors.
That's right... you have a chance to dethrone Lazyboredom during Urge to Fight 5 in a first-to-1 match. All you have to do is be ready when Urge to Fight 5: Legends Never Die airs this Sunday, March 10th, @ 8pmEST.
To celebrate such a fun event, I sat down with Lazyboredom to get his origin story and have him share some wise words for any of you looking to aspire up the ranks as he has.
While you listen to his knowledge dripping, take a gander at some of his notable victories in this highlight reel that'd bring a tear to any Marisa player's eye. Like Marisa would say... "That was a beautiful fight!"