Get prepared for the following battles. This 12 months’s Tekken World Tour begins subsequent weekend, say organisers Twitch. It’s principally an enormous Allfather competitors encompassing a bunch of child Tekken tournaments held everywhere in the world. It lasts roughly 9 months and culminates in a grand finals tourney in Amsterdam, the place 20 fighters together with giant bears and cyborg ninjas will face off for a share of the $25,000 prize pool. This is massive cash. For instance, the prize for 1st place is $7,500, which is sufficient to purchase 150 copies of combating sport Tekken 7, or 187 of these Paul Phoenix dolls, whichever you favor.
The full schedule is here, and begins with the Final Round tourney in Georgia, USA on March 16-18. If you need to enter the battle, there can be on-line swimming pools for every area however we nonetheless don’t know after they’ll be hosted. The actual particulars “will come at a later date”. If you’re dying to review the rulebook, nevertheless, that’s available here. An odd factor in regards to the World Tour is that you could accumulate factors by travelling round and combating in a number of tournaments, like some kind of joystick-wielding ronin.
Last 12 months’s TEKKEN World Tour was successfully three excursions rolled into one. Events have been divided into three areas, and whereas gamers may enter occasions in any of the three areas, they may solely earn factors of their house area. This led to conditions at many occasions the place the most important chunks of factors went unawarded.
The 2018 TEKKEN World Tour will function one world leaderboard. Players can earn factors at each single Tour occasion on the earth. If a European participant performs nicely at an occasion within the Americas or within the Asia/Pacific area, they are going to be rewarded for it on the leaderboard.
This feels odd. Doesn’t it give a bonus to these with the money and time to criss-cross the nation, and even the world? I imply, I suppose that’s sports activities. But nonetheless, not likely in step with the spirit of the boast: “just about anyone will have an opportunity to compete.”
If you’re not conscious of the faces and voices of Tekken masters, a superb (however lengthy) introduction could be Road to the King of Iron Fist. It’s a documentary in regards to the gamers competing in North America final 12 months . It’s a bit shallow with regards to following the contenders as individuals, however as broad as an infinite azure with regards to explaining the scene.
Last 12 months, the grand remaining was fought between a wide-shouldered robotic known as Jack, whose occupation is listed as “weapon of destruction”, and Jin Kazama, a demon-possessed former crime boss who enjoys “nature therapy”. In actuality, the contestants have been a Korean man in a white turtleneck known as Qudans and his fellow countryman, Saint. The winner was Qudans, playing as the nature-loving demon.
