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Tournaments EXPAND STORY TEXTSSubscribe to this tag Seasons Beating IV kicks off tomorrow in Columbus Ohio 4 The fourth annual Seasons Beating IV takes place starting tomorrow and will last until this Sunday in Columbus, Ohio. Seasons Beating is the place to be for all fighting game fanatics. This year... Seth Killian on EVO, Smash Bros. and all things Capcom 21 Before Seth Killian became the community manager at Capcom-Unity, he was merely one of the world's foremost fighting game enthusiasts and co-founder of EVO;  the most serious fighting game t... Here are your 2009 PAX Omeganauts 12 PAX has revealed the 20 randomly selected contestants for the Omegathon competition. Over the course of PAX 09, the contestants will be battling it out in six games: ROUND 1: Mario Kart ® Wii... Daigo is EVO 2009's Street Fighter IV champ 52 Japan’s Daigo “The Beast” Umehara took first place in the Street Fighter IV tournament at EVO 09 this past weekend. Daigo defeated the top-ranked US player, Justin Wong, once ag... Fight! EVO 2009 world finals start this Friday 17 The EVO Championship world finals are set to take place in just a little over two days. Players from all over the world are coming to the Rio Resort and Casino in Las Vegas this Friday to play ga... GameStop to host a Fight Night Round 4 national tournament 4 GameStop wants you to punch a dude in the face in one of their stores this weekend. On Saturday, the bastion of civilization will kick off a national tournament for EA Sports’ sleek boxing ... GameUniCon 09, New England's biggest videogame convention 14 Hey New England Dtoiders! Bored that no major videogame related event happens in your state? Will worry no more! GameUniCon, the biggest videogame convention in New England, is set to take place... WTF is this contest concludes, a new FNF tournament looms 48 Congratulations to Dtoid_Nosmo for participating in this thing and also to Adam J Who and Christina Winterburn, the final winners of our WTF Is This Sh*t contest. We're pausing the WTF contest be... Street Fighter IV US National Championship Finals details 9 Street Fighter IV US National Championship Finals are coming up, set to kick off on April 18th, 2009. Taking place at Fort Mason in San Francisco, 16 national finalists will take each other on to... SF IV pro tip: Don't celebrate until the match is over 62 Today's piece of hilarity comes from a video taken at fighting game tournament Final Round XII just last month.The footage (after the jump) was of two fighters, Kensou (C. Viper) and Liston (Saga... Showdown Championships fighting game tourney to feature 'FINAL BOSS' 10 Set to go down on Easter weekend in Houston is Showdown Championships, a massive fighting game tournament of cutting-edge Japanese arcade titles. This year marks the 8th year that this tournament... Street Fighter IV: The National Tournament 12 Are you good at Street Fighter? Are you free February 21st? Then I have something for you: the Street Fighter IV National Tournament. Capcom has teamed up with with GameStop and the EVO Champions... Ditch your girlfriend this weekend and come play 360 with us in Ft Lauderdale 29 Are you in the South Florida area this weekend? Do you usually spend your Saturdays drooling on your sofa as your pets quietly supervise your gaming activities? This weekend can change everything... Comic-Con 08: Enter the Metal Gear Online tournament, possibly win money 'n swag 3 Konami has partnered with MLG to hold a Metal Gear Online tournament at this year's Comic-Con. If that sounds like something you would like to be a part of, head on over to the Konami booth (#521... Nintendo helps you kick your dad's ass 13 I love my dad. Coolest dad ever. Everything cool I know how to do can be traced back to him, so I could never kick his ass. But, sometimes I think it would be funny to do so. You know, just to sa... I thought I was done with you: New Mario Kart Wii Tournament now live 16 Sick of Mario Kart Wii already? Today, that may change, at least a few minutes. Nintendo has just gone public with their latest online Mario Kart Wii tournament, accessible to anyone with a Wii,... First Mario Kart Wii tournament goes live 14 Mario Kart Wii has finally launched around the world, and Nintendo has announced today that they will be kicking off the first worldwide tournaments.Available via the in-game Mario Kart Channel, ... Vintage arcade-style football is back: the Game X Change Iron-Man of Gaming 19 Boy, that Ace Bricka is a regular Vince Lombardi, isn’t he?As Destructoid’s resident sports gamer, I see tons of comments on my posts along the lines of “I only care about sport... Seven days to Smash Bros Brawl: Hands on coverage of the WPI Brawl Tournament 81 Yesterday, I was lucky enough to attend the Massuchsetts leg of Nintendo and Best Buy's National Super Smash Bros. Brawl tournament. With over 500 people in attendance and 256 competitors in al... The FIFA Interactive World Cup: a sedentary soccer player's dream 12 Over the weekend, we reported on a 2K Sports-Pontiac collaboration, the Pontiac Virtual NCAA Final Four Tournament. Here’s another step in our continued efforts to provide you, our loyal re... Play College Hoops 2K8 online tourney, win stuff 5 Everyone likes prizes, right? Well, if you’d be interested in free tickets to the 2008 NCAA Final Four and/or a free car, then boy, do I have some news for you. 2K Sports has joined with Po... Nintendo hosting Super Smash Bros. Brawl tournaments in select cities 37 Smash fanatics in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Boston and New York area will have a chance to play Super Smash Bros. Brawl before the release of the game. 256 people in each city will square off w... Bomberman LIVE tournament headed our way for the new year 24 In the before time, the long-long ago, there existed an Xbox Live that did not have Halo 3 or Call of Duty 4 on it. Yes, I know I speak heresy but it is true, I remember it! You remember it to, i... Get pumped: THQ, GameStop holding Smackdown vs. Raw tournament 18 If you think you have what it takes to oil up your virtual superstar and step into the squared-circle with other oiled up virtual superstars, you're in for a treat. THQ has announced that a GameS... E For All: PlayNTrade is hosting tournaments with next-gen systems as prizes 17 For those attending the E For All show this week, you might want to think about setting some time to play some videogames. No, I don't mean the videogames that will be all over the place, I mean ... Microsoft dominates the competitive gaming scene 23 Microsoft quietly came in and rounded up all of competitive gaming, leaving no room for the PlayStation 3 or Nintendo Wii to play along.Between the Xbox 360 and Windows PCs, Microsoft exclusively... Destructoid to own Massive in their own game, World in Conflict 19 We here at Destructoid can't back down from a challenge ... even if it means humiliation. So when we were approached (read: threatened) by Massive Entertainment, and asked if we wanted to play a ... PAX 2007: Holy Halos Batmeng! Final game of Omegathon was Halo 3 38 I did everything there was to do at PAX. I visited various panels, walked the show floor, hung out with the community, witnessed a poor hobo get solicited for sex (no joke) and hit up a few parti... Iron-Man of Gaming tournament: 100% Halo free! 33 The Cyberathlete Professional League is hosting a new gaming tournament that will hopefully show that video games aren't all first-person shooters, and that a real gamer should be skillful at all... Play Forza 2 to win a (real!) new Nissan 3 Japanese car maker Nissan and Xbox LIVE are teaming up to kick off a Nissan Sentra SE-R Tournament on Xbox LIVE for Forza 2 Motorsport, and the winner of this competition will win a new, real Nis... Nintendo adds a little more 'Wii' to the Summer months 33 Straight from the official Nintendo press release comes news that the Wii is pulling an all out assault on Summer itself -- by way of theme parks, cruise ships, and their own street team.George ... Wiimbledon...is a Wii Tennis tournament 15 That's a tagline you can stand behind. It's concise, speaks directly to the point, and leaves nothing to be desired...except beer. The boys behind the first ever Wii Tennis tournament, W... Linde's day at Hudson: games, heatstroke, and an epic Bomberman tournament 19 Having already gotten to the big story behind my trip to Hudson, I thought I'd give you guys a little bit more info as to the goings-on of this epic day and how it all went down. Photos, ane... Don't junk that PS3 just yet: Tekken 5 DR to receive online play (update) 45 Squeee! Tekken 5 (and especially Dark Resurrection) has some of the best-looking graphics in a fighting game as well as its renowned super-tight gameplay that surely has Tomonobu Itagaki (pictur...		Save cash!   See "Black Friday" video game deals New on Destructoid.TV play all videos Loading Destructoid Videos Win this! 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