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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).
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.
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.
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