Fighting Game Forum Heads to Cannes for World Game Cup!

Jim

On the 4th of March 14 Irish players from the Fighting Game Forum and the Irish Fighting Game Community will head over to Cannes, France to participate in the World Game Cup, arguably the largest Fighting Game tournament in Europe.

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The World Game Cup's goal is to bring together the best fighting game players in the world for 5 days of intense competition.
It is held in the world renowned Palais des Festivals in Cannes, during the "Festival International des Jeux" (The International Games Festival).
This international event will feature solo tournaments, team tournaments, and exhibition matches.
As it is also intended to be a public event, all the tournaments will be open - for free - to the festival's general audience.

Fight Your Way Up in MANY Tournaments:
BlazBlue, Capcom vs SNK 2, Guilty Gear XX Accent Core +, Hokuto no Ken, The King Of Fighters '98: Ultimate Match, The King Of Fighters 2002: Unlimited Match, The King Of Fighters XI, The King Of Fighters XII, Soulcalibur IV, Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix, Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike, Street Fighter IV, Tekken 6

See our website for more details: http://www.worldgamecup.com

Our players will mostly be competing in the Street Fighter IV Solo & 2v2 category's but we also have players who will be fighting in Street Fighter III : Third Strike and Blazblue. Competition at the tournment will be extremely high with some of the best players from Europe, America and even Japan coming to fight, including the famous Diago "The Beast" Umehara (Jpn) and Justin Wong (US).

Despite the tough competition we have some very high level fighters heading over so we should be able to cause some trouble for even these well established international players, with what is (to our knowledge) the first significant Irish presence at an international fighting game tournament. Here are our fighters;

• Blag (M Bison)
• Coblecog (Cammy)
• Chopperbyrne (Honda / El Furete)
• Chunkis (Ryu / Sagat)
• Doctor Doom (Guile)
• Dreddy (Zangief)
• Fake Roogle (Balrog)
• Jimeatsmenu (Cammy)
• Liquidsword (Fei Long)
• New Type (Ryu)
• Orim (Chun Li)
• Ry (Ryu / C Viper)
• V Deck (Rufus)
• Xinkai (Sakura / Ryu)

Blag (Bison) V New Type (Ryu)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrZNyQTyWvk

Coblecog (Cammy) V Bush (Chun Li)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6tSoreau3I

Fake Roogle (Balrog) V Doctor Doom (Guile)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dljGCy426rE

Chunkis (Sagat / Ryu) V Dreddy (Zangief)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROSaMBmqqo4

If anyone has any interest in fighting games head on over to the Fighting Game Forum. We have casual meetups once or twice a week in XGC, Liffey St, Dublin and there are regular tournaments in the form of Inferno Ranbats (Dublin) and Dragonslayers (Belfast). Keep an eye on the forum for info on all these events. There's no skill discrimination here so feel free to post and come to any of the events if you think you're the best or are a brand new player looking for some friendly games or advice!

Jim

Going to keep this thread updated with all our news and progress while we're over in Cannes

Only 4 days to go!

Dreddybajs

Good idea Jim, I heartily approve.

Yreval

Good luck guys, get that hype train rolling!

Ken B

I have high hopes for you guys....I'm totally gutted not to be going.

Doctor DooM

This thread has me so hyped right now.

Xinkai

I feel the stress already :pac:

Speed Boat

All the best guys!

I expect some top notch anecdotes upon your return.

bonne chance! (see what i did there...!)

Ramza

Good luck lads, have a great time

Sisko

Pity that Cunny-Funt guy aint going over, I hear he's a beast.

Ramza

Sisko wrote: »

Pity that Cunny-Funt guy aint going over, I hear he's a gay.

People and their typos :pac:

Sisko

Ah jaysus highlighted in bold and everything.. What, did he beast you too Ramza? :eek:





Good luck lads, I'll be watching this thread like the envious hawk that I'll be over the up coming week. Kick some arse!

Sagat06

Itd be amazing if they could get some streaming going!

FoamyMushroom

good luck all of ya! Pity, I'd live to join you all...

Please do get recordings!

Sairus

Arr, wish I was going over, if only to weigh your teams down in the averages so you get easier opponents =D
Good luck dudes! Grab me a lock of Daigos hair!

DarkTalant

G'luck with your adventures in french land lads. We'll be expecting videos of ye beating at least one of the japanese players each .

Vyze

Xinkai wrote: »

I feel the stress already :pac:

Don't you dare represent Irish BlazBlue badly, you gotta kick some foreign ass! :P

animaX

Good luck men! Give us some payback for Henry

Sabre0001

Great post Jim! Best of luck to all heading over..Will keep the fingers crossed for some good results to post

Creature

G'luck guys

Owwmykneecap

If only i had my passport....
good luck to y'all.

Remember to take a metric ton of photos and hours of film, and not just of the games.

I'm gonna repost the op (with credit) in a few spots.

Xinkai

Vyze wrote: »

Don't you dare represent Irish BlazBlue badly, you gotta kick some foreign ass! :P

How good can the French be at a game that hasn't even been released... Oh hold on i forgot about Tin :P Don't forget Vyze I'm #1 in the REPUBLIC of Ireland! xD

Jim

Xinkai wrote: »

How good can the French be at a game that hasn't even been released... Oh hold on i forgot about Tin :P Don't forget Vyze I'm #1 in the REPUBLIC of Ireland! xD

I bet chopper has been secretly playing Blazblue for the past few months in the hopes he can do better than you :pac:

chopperbyrne

Jim wrote: »

I bet chopper has been secretly playing Blazblue for the past few months in the hopes he can do better than you :pac:

Not a chance.

Although I could possibly beat Xinkai by just mashing with this guy:

Xinkai

That's grand i need a warmup!!! See you wednesday!!! haha

Retr0gamer

Do us proud!

BanjoB

Best of luck lads. I wish I was goin !!

Jim

Woke up this morning with the flu. First time I've been sick since swine flu last summer. I reckon the French fear us so much they sent Tin over to infect me before the tourny :pac:

Xinkai

Vicks & Berrocca man, best duo ever. Were not gonna lose the Jimster 2 days before the tourney are we!?

STAY TUNED!

Micky Dolenz

Wow, how exciting. Must be great to be involved. It reminds me of this

Go team USA Boardsie's.


Best of luck Lads

Orim

That song makes me think that we need a good montage for the trip.

chopperbyrne

I believe this is our song of choice:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fWvub_WBho

Micky Dolenz

The 80's rocked :pac:

bush

So what teams have we got for this?

chopperbyrne

Dreddy & Chunkis
Me & HMUYA

Nobody else signed up for 2s.

bush

chopperbyrne wrote: »

Dreddy & Chunkis
Me & HMUYA

Nobody else signed up for 2s.

Everyone must want the glory for themselves :pac:

Dreddybajs

Cobelcog + Newtype also

chopperbyrne

That's a very strong team.

Have they fully registered?

EDIT: Doesn't look like they have. They'd want to do that first thing when they get there so that they don't miss out.

Dreddybajs

No clue, blag was just telling me they were teaming up.

Cobelcog

Signed up and sent the money off before the deadline but nothing came of it. Did the address ever change after that second time? Anyway, still 11 spots left. Here's hoping that pre-register order doesn't matter and we can rush in and claim a spot!

chopperbyrne

Send an email to this guy: m.f_doom@gnouz-corporation.com

He's the treasurer/secretary for gnouz. The same thing happened to me and he sorted it in less than a day.

Cobelcog

Alright, thanks. I'll try and get that sorted out then.

bush

Its a real pity they dont have a stream for this. If a tournament this big was in America they would have a stream for sure.

Xinkai

So has anybody gone and booked BOTH hotel rooms for the RoIreland lads? Roogle said the Norn Iron Contingency are sorted.

Also 2 more things, im still interested in entering the 2v2 if anyone else is.

Depending on 1. Whos staying in the room i am, & 2. if anyone has spare room in thier check in or carry on, i have a spare 360 id be happy to bring over, but wires would have to be split up among bags, power source etc.

K.O.Kiki

Have a good one lads. I'm too poor right now, and anyway I'm sick of air travel for a bit.

Sabre0001

Good luck over lads! Hope ye have a great time, good competition and take in the whole thing...ah to be able to travel to events full time. That is the dream

Doctor DooM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1ecll0iSrI

Doctor DooM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZKpByV5764

Doctor DooM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8xHjC27YvM

ARE WE READY, GENTLEMEN?!

chopperbyrne

Doctor DooM wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8xHjC27YvM

ARE WE READY, GENTLEMEN?!

That's it, I'm going to run to the top of the Wicklow mountains and shout "DAIGO, DAIGOOO, DAIGOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

A-Trak

Good luck lads,

I'm not at all bitter.

You arseholes.