Moscow Fighting Arena 2013

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Moscow Fighting Arena 2013 is a major Russian fighting championship. It will take place on August 24-25 in a big Moscow electronics mall "Gorbushkin Dvor". Moscow Fighting Arena 2013 is the tenth annual championship of Moscow Fighting Arena series, run by Fighting.ru team since 2004.

MFA 2013 teaser: http://youtu.be/7Nk32khzzdg

MFA 2013 page at Fighting.ru: http://www.fighting.ru/mfa?lang=en

MFA 2013 topic at Fighting.ru forums (international section): http://www.fighting.ru/forum/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=7590

MFA 2013 schedule, Saturday, August 24th

10:00 - venue opens
11:00 - Tekken Tag Tournament 2 1v1
14:00 - Street Fighter x Tekken 1v1
16:00 - Tekken Tag Tournament 2 3v3, Super Street Fighter IV Arcare Edition v 2012 1v1
18:00 - Tekken Tag Tournament 2 1v1 female (IeSF Russian quals)
20:00 - Day 1 awards ceremony
21:00 - venue closes

MFA 2013 schedule, Sunday, August 25th

10:00 - venue opens
11:00 - Injustice: Gods Among Us 1v1
14:00 - BlazBlue: Continuum Shift Extend 1v1
16:00 - Mortal Kombat 1v1, SoulCalibur V 1v1
18:00 - Guilty Gear XX Accent Core +R 1v1
20:00 - Day 2 awards ceremony
21:00 - venue closes

All times are Moscow Standard Time, UTC+4

Registration for each tournament closes 15 minutes prior tournament start.

All schedule timings are indicative and are subject to change.

In case of Guilty Gear XX Accent Core +R being not available on PS3 in time, we will have Guilty Gear XX AC Plus tourney instead.

Prize pool and fees

Injustice: Gods Among Us 1v1

• 1 place - certificate for PlayStation 4 (PS4 to be received after Russian launch) + TRITTON 720+ 7.1 Surround Headset
• 2 place - TRITTON AX 180 Stereo Gaming Headset + video capture device AVerMedia Live Gamer Portable
• 3 place - PlayStation Vita 3G/Wi-Fi + TRITTON Kunai

Tekken Tag Tournament 2 1v1, SoulCalibur V 1v1, Super Street Fighter IV Arcade Edition v2012 1v1

• 1 place - PlayStation 3 SuperSlim + TRITTON 720+ 7.1 Surround Headset
• 2 place - TRITTON AX 180 Stereo Gaming Headset + video capture device AVerMedia Live Gamer Portable
• 3 place - PlayStation Vita 3G + TRITTON Kunai

Street Fighter x Tekken 1v1, BlazBlue: Continuum Shift Extend 1v1, Guilty Gear XX Accent Core +R 1v1

• 1 place - PlayStation Vita 3G/Wi-Fi
• 2 place - video caprute device AVerMedia Live Gamer Portable
• 3 place - WD My Passport 1TB

Tekken Tag Tournament 2 3v3

• 1 place - Tt eSPORTS THERON gaming mouse x3 + WD Black 2TB x3
• 2 place - gaming keyboard Tt eSPORTS Challenger 3 x3
• 3 place - mousepad Tt eSPORTS Dasher 3 x3

Tekken Tag Tournament 2 1v1 female

• 1 place - PlayStation Vita 3G + invitation to IeSF 2013 finals (IeSF invitation only available to Russian citizens)
• 2 place - TRITTON AX 180 Stereo Gaming Headset
• 3 place - TRITTON Kunai

Mortal Kombat 1v1

• 1 place - video capture device AVerMedia Live Gamer Portable + computer case Thermaltake Urban S31
• 2 place - Tt eSPORTS Battle Dragon Bag + WD My Passport 1TB
• 3 place - gaming mouse Tt eSPORTS THERON Blazing Red

In addition to all those prizes, top-3 of each tourney will get cool trophies.

Participation fee for main tourneys (TTT2 1v1, Injustice 1v1, SSF4 1v1, SCV 1v1) - 300 RUR (~7 EUR) for pre-registered players, 350 RUR (~8 EUR) for players.

Participation fee for other tourneys - 200 RUR (~5 EUR) for pre-registered players, 250 RUR (~6 EUR) for players.

Pre-registration starts from July 1st at Fighting.ru - stay tuned.

Rules and regulations:

All Moscow Fighting Arena 2013 tourneys are to comply with Fighting.ru general rules. While those rules are not available in English at the moment, they are pretty obvious and universal. One thing should be mentioned, however - all players choices are double-blind (unless players agreee otherwise), and there is no limitation on character swaps during a 1v1 tourney - any player may change their character before any fight, regardless of their brackets position and previous fight results.

Main events (TTT2 1v1, SSF4AE12 1v1, Injustice: GAU 1v1, SCV 1v1) are group stage into Full Double Elimination, all games are best of 3. Groups are of 5-6 players Round Robin, top-2 advances to FDE. In case of a tie we check the result of the match between tied players, after that win-loss battle ratio. If that does not break the tie, we play a tiebreaker match bo1. There is no regional seeding for group stage, but there will be seeding based on Fighting.ru ratings. Players who won a regional qualifier (run during July in multiple Russian cities) advance to FDE directly skipping group stage entirely.

All other 1v1 tournaments are Full Double Elimination, bo3.

TTT2 3v3 is Full Double Elimination, King of the Hill. Individual players play bo3, teams play bo1.

Everything is subject to change, although we would do our best to avoid any changes at this point =)

Travel and accommodation
Travelling to Russia is not as complicated as it is rumoured by many. Visa submission can be somewhat bothersome if you are accustomed to travelling within EU only, but it should be easy as long as you don't procrastinate till the last possible moment. Flying to Russia starts from 150 Euro for closer countries (Nordic or Western Europe); from France you can get good tickets for 250 Euro, etc., etc. You can make it even cheaper using discounters if you wish to. Whichever way you'd prefer, please don't hesitate to contact us for any kind of advice, we will gladly help.

Food is not a problem at the venue - nice and relatively inexpensive (10 Euro for a 3 course dinner) restaurant is located right next to the venue (yes, you can eat and watch games on the big screen), and you can have basically any kind of fast food in 5 minutes walk range.

Venue is closed after 9pm, so sleeping / staying at venue is impossible. However, we would gladly help to find you a cheap inn or a hostel with fellow fighters or a Russian person willing to host you.

Overall, we are really looking towards seeing you at Moscow Fighting Arena, and we will do our best to ensure your comfort and to give you the best Russian hospitality possible =)

What to expect?

• A friendly, yet smoothly-run event
• ~30 PS3 stations available from 10AM to 9PM
• 40-100 players per tourney, ~250 fighters overall
• Nice weather (average Moscow temperature for August is +17 C) and good sightseeing (you can easily get to Kremlin from the venue in 20-25 minutes (Google Maps) - unless you prefer to have more of friendly button-mashing and salty money-matches =)

MFA 2012
For your convenience, here is some footage from the last year:

• Tournament videos (youtube, 9 playlists)
• Short version of video coverage (with English subs) (youtube, 4 minutes)
• Photos (facebook)

If you have any questions, please contact me at biologin [at] fighting.ru or at facebook.com/igor.bugaenko or just post here. Cheers =)

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First post updated with schedule and prize pool!

Let's Rock =)

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By the way, is there going to be a list of participants?

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Demonitzu
Not yet - we are about to open registration next Monday, on July 1st (as mentioned in the first post).

Although I must admit that we have some big annoucement prepared about that... so stay tuned =)

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Alright, looking forward to that announcement ^^

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Two Tekken superstars, Korean players JDCR and Saint, will attend Moscow Fighting Arena 2013.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNNuGiSJJAU

Korean player Kim Hyunjin, known to all Tekken fans as JDCR, is currently one of the strongest Tekken players in the world. During last three years he claimed over ten victories in major tournaments all over the world - in Korea, Japan, Malaysia, USA, Germany, France and Finland. The second invitee - Choi Jinwoo a.k.a Saint - also has claimed multiple prizes in many major tournament and is widely recognized as one of the best Ganryu players in the world.

Fighting.ru is glad to welcome these players to Moscow Fighting Arena 2013 and gives major props to our partner Western Digital company, who made all this possible.

Moscow Fighting Arena 2013 is major fighting event held on August 24th-25th in Moscow, Russia. Please find more details about MFA2013 at our website.

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Sup everyone

Whoever plans on going (and have tickets and visa under way or already arranged), please kindly let me know:
- your nickname (and state/country you are from)
- which tournaments you want to participate in
- if you need any assistance with hostel / lodging

Not only providing this information will give you registration fee discount, but also it will help us plan our event better =)

Please feel free to contact me here or at biologin [at] fighting.ru or at facebook.com/igor.bugaenko, whichever suits you best.

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Don't miss our stream on Twitch.tv!

Stream schedule for Saturday 24th:
11 am (11:00) - Tekken Tag Tournament 2 pools
2 pm (14:00) - Street Fighter x Tekken
3 pm (15:00) - Tekken Tag Tournament 2 playoff
4pm (16:00) - Super Street Fighter IV Arcade Edition Ver. 2012 pools
5 pm (17:00) - Super Street Fighter IV Arcade Edition Ver. 2012 playoff
6 pm (18:00) - Tekken Tag Tournament 2 3v3, Tekken Tag Tournament 2 Female (IeSF qualifiers)
8:30 pm (20:30) - day 1 awards ceremony

Stream schedule for Sunday 25th:
11am (11:00) - injustice: Gods Among Us pools
2 pm (14:00) - BlazBlue: Continuum Shift Extend
3 pm (15:00) - Injustice: Gods Among Us playoff
4 pm (16:00) - SoulCalibur V pools
5 pm (17:00) - SoulCalibur V playoff
6 pm (18:00) - Mortal Kombat 9, Guilty Gear XX Accent Core +R
8:30 pm (20:30) - day 2 awards ceremony

All times are Moscow Standard Time (UTC+4). For time conversion you may use any online service (like this one).

Stay tuned =)

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Hi everyone )

So MFA 2013 was mostly successful (barring stream problems on day 1, for this we apologize sincerely), with more than 250 players attending, HYPE flowing, money-matches unleasing, JDCR and Saint trashing local Tekken players (or did they?) and so on.

For those of you who haven't made it to the event:

Stream archive is here: http://www.twitch.tv/fightingru/profile/pastBroadcasts (again - we are really sorry for technical problems that occurred on day 1)

And most of videos from stream are available separately at this youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...1OV-dmP0CKeRwx

JDCR and Saint at MFA: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FdIt7Gc5Eo and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKbDV...TlT5npWLz5-N9w

Photos: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?...81023565254084

Brackets: http://www.fighting.ru/?sect=events&event=863

Discussion topic at Fighting.ru forums: http://www.fighting.ru/forum/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=7590

MFA 2013 results

Tekken Tag Tournament 2
1. Saint (Seoul, Korea)
2. JDCR (Seoul, Korea)
3. Morton (Norilsk, Russia)
4. Klient (Moscow, Russia)

Street Fighter x Tekken
1. Gr1ngo (Samara, Russia)
2. k-Ok (Moscow, Russia)
3. ArHiMonD (Moscow, Russia)
4. FLCL (Yekaterinburg, Russia)

Super Street Fighter IV Arcade Edition Ver. 2012
1. Keho (Moscow, Russia)
2. Kewdzo (Yekaterinburg, Russia)
3. Smile_Fan (Minsk, Belarus)
4. Gr1ngo (Samara, Russia)

Tekken Tag Tournament 2 3v3
1. Korean Express: Saint (Seoul, Korea), JDCR (Seoul, Korea), Pulsar (Moscow, Russia)
2. Buttons: Sol (Minsk, Belarus), Omega Z (Minsk, Belarus), Eisig (Moscow, Russia)
3. Vanilniy Navalniy: SIM (Tver, Russia), GreenLeo (Moscow, Russia), Klient (Moscow, Russia)
4. 3 frames: Astaroth (Cherepovets, Russia), Real (St. Petersburg, Russia), Sonic (St. Petersburg, Russia)

Tekken Tag Tournament 2 Female
1. GreenLeo (Moscow, Russia)
2. xenka (Moscow, Russia)
3. NeyStorm (Moscow, Russia)
4. Anchi (Moscow, Russia)

Injustice: Gods Among Us
1. Kingusha (Moscow, Russia)
2. Belial (Moscow, Russia)
3. CheapEddie (Novorossiysk, Russia)
4. GreedRu (Moscow, Russia)

BlazBlue: Continuum Shift Extend
1. Prower (Moscow, Russia)
2. Fidoskin (Moscow, Russia)
3. TsubasaKnight (Perm, Russia)
4. Rancour (Yekaterinburg, Russia)

SoulCalibur V
1. Belial (Moscow, Russia)
2. Rufus (Moscow, Russia)
3. Edge (Moscow, Russia)
4. Keep (Moscow, Russia)

Mortal Kombat 9
1. CheapEddie (Novorossiysk, Russia)
2. AnXes (Nizhniy Novgorod, Russia)
3. Docent (Moscow, Russia)
4. FLET (St. Petersburg, Russia)

Guilty Gear XX Accent Core +R
1. Krotto (Moscow, Russia)
2. VMChaz (Nizhniy Novgorod, Russia)
3. Goga (St. Petersburg, Russia)
4. Raven (St. Petersburg, Russia)