SKD's BBCF Impressions from Invite-Only Location Test

Been a long while it seems (I say as I've never been on here prior to the forums re-opening)   If you're in Charlotte, there's a monthly bracket called Charlotte Showdown hosted at UNC Charlotte, and the group of fighting game players who attend the school also have meets every Friday that anyone in the area can come to as long as you can find parking nearby (you can DM me for info on the precise location of the latter and other stuff that may help if interested). This is the one I personally attend.   In Greensboro area there's Warring Triad hosted by John Mizuumi (shiburizu). I believe it's also a monthly thing, and shouldn't be too far away to attend if you live in Winston-Salem. I've only been here once, for the very first one (too long of a commute for me) but I hope to go again sometime in the future.

I don't think it's a file size thing and even it is couldn't they have used steam's game version feature to trade OSTs?

Boston Blue Beat: Beach Episode 2026 will have extracurriculars and free play on July 17th and a multitude of official and side brackets July 18th-19th.   Main game registration:  https://www.start.gg/tournament/boston-blue-beat-beach-episode-2026/details Side game registration: https://www.start.gg/tournament/community-side-games-beach-episode-2026/details   Main Lineup: 2XKO Blazblue Central Fiction Granblue Fantasy Versus: Rising Guilty Gear Strive Guilty Gear XX Accent Core Plus R Guilty Gear Xrd Rev 2 Melty Blood Actress Again Current Code Mystery Game Sailor Moon S Street Fighter 6 Tekken 8 Under Night In-Birth II Sys: Celes   Side Game Lineup (as of 4/14/26): Street Fighter III: Third Strike King of Fighters XV Virtua Fighter 5 R.E.V.O. Vampire Savior Persona 4 Arena Ultimax  

it'd probably inflate the file size of the pc version, plus arcsys was already messing with the source code so they just said fuck it why not

Something underappreciated about the +R Steam experience that I wanna take this chance to shout out is just how fast it is to start playing the game. Compared to every other fighting game I've ever played online, I can boot the game, get on Quick Match, and be hitting buttons against another person consistently much faster than in any other game I've ever played. Probably at least triple the speed of the next fastest game on average. It's incredible.