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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.