EURO STRIKE – European Fantasy Strike Online Tournament – Sat Oct 12th

I'm going to run Euro Strike - an online tournament for European players of Fantasy Strike on Saturday 12th October at 7pm UK time / 20:00 CEST). World Time Buddy link This event is only open to European players to keep everyone on low ping times and good connections. Please ensure you're able to play …

A European Fantasy Strike Showdown… aka: How to deal with Norwegians

I said that the UK had the strongest fighting game scene, and got smack talk from a rude Norwegian! So we had a big showdown match to see who'd win the argument, for now...

European Fantasy Strike Early Access Tournament #2: 7pm UTC Thur Nov 29th 2018

After the last event was successful I'm going to run another online event for European players of Fantasy Strike on Thursday 29th November at 7pm UTC (so 7pm UK time, 8pm CET). It is only open to European players to keep everyone to decent ping times and connections. Please ensure you're able to play Fantasy …

European Fantasy Strike Early Access Tournament #1: 7pm UTC Thur Nov 8th 2018

Enough folks seemed interested to make this work, so here we go. I'm going to run the first online event for European players of Fantasy Strike on Thursday 8th November at 7pm UTC (so 7pm UK time once we move back to UTC next week). It is only open to European players to keep everyone …

Running European Fantasy Strike Casual Online Tournaments?

Ok I just posted a bit in the Fantasy Strike discord about this, but here's a post to discuss here as well. I'm considering running some Europe-only online tournaments for Fantasy Strike. Long time followers of Agoners will know I used to do this for SF2 HDR. It wouldn't be anything serious or with prizes …

Gfinity Street Fighter V Challenger Series – Friday 30th June 2017

I entered another one of these online events this week, and sadly it turned out to be a bit of a wash out, as there were many no shows due to the event being rescheduled from Tuesday - when it couldn't go ahead thanks to Capcom's ridiculously awful server management. Because of this, I got …

Gfinity Street Fighter V Challenger Series

I've decided to try and enter at least a few of the tournaments in this series: Gfinity Street Fighter V Challenger Series. It's not super high-level stuff, but it's fun and open to everyone (I think EU/UK focused though), and most importantly for me, they are on weekdays when I am actually likely to be …

Street Fighter V Season 2 – The Best Bipson Months?

Street Fighter V got it's big season 2 patch and whilst things are still terribly disappointing in the overall shape of the game as an application (or 'service' if you prefer), the actual decent gameplay has improved even further for my personal taste. Whilst the neutering of invincible reversals was a bit of an odd …

The most important game at E3 2015…

Just wanted to put a note up here about how intrigued I am about news for Montana 16 from this years E3. There's so many rumours and ridiculous conjecture about this game that I don't want to get into. But the very possibility of a quality American Football game for the first time since All-Pro …

Competitive Gaming Round-Up

A few interesting tidbits have been around lately of interest to agoners. The biggest one is the excellent competitive card game Yomi finally coming to Steam on May 8th. Whilst I've played this game tons already in it's web version and it's physical form, this is still a huge deal as it will have much …