•One of the largest events in Europe – 300 competitors; 7 main games
•Headline sponsors include – CEX, Capcom, Zowie, Twitch, Warner Bros., Bandai Namco, and others
•Combined estimated prize pool in excess of £10,000
•Players featuring will include Tekken Master, Foxy Grandpa, Luffy, Imstilldadaddy, Valoraxe
As one of the largest fighting games event in the UK, Hypespotting returns to the Hilton Hotel in Glasgow on the 15th and 16th of April for its sixth installment!
Attracting fighting game player talent from across the World, Hypespotting is the jewel in the UK fighting games scene crown, and is set to once again be one of the largest tournaments of its kind taking place in Europe.
Headline sponsors for this event include Street Fighter V creators Capcom, esports equipment experts BenQ and UK retail specialists CEX, and over the course of the weekend hundreds of players – some of whom coming from as far away as Mexico and Bahrain – will compete for a share of a combined prize pot of over £10,000.
Official Website – www.hypespotting.co.uk
Ticketing and bracket website – https://smash.gg/tournament/hypespotting-6
Ticket sales end on the 7th of April 2017 at 23:59.
The Games
Featuring a main lineup of:
▪ Street Fighter V
▪ Tekken 7
▪ Super Smash Bros for WiiU
▪ The King of Fighters XIV
▪ Killer Instinct
▪ Guilty Gear Xrd: Revelator
▪ Mortal Kombat X
As well as:
▪ Super Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike
▪ Super Street Fighter II: Turbo
▪ Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3 (url) (community side event)
▪ Ultra Street Fighter IV (url) (community side event)
▪ Blazblue: Central Fiction (url) (community side event)
Online Broadcasts
Hypespotting 6 will feature 2 simultaneous broadcasts across the weekend. These will include 2 twitch.tv streams of the main stage. Additional community broadcasts may cover community tournaments, but those are outside of Versus Scotland’s management.
Main Stage 1 – twitch.tv VersusScotland*
Watch live video from VersusScotland on www.twitch.tv
Main Stage 2 – twitch.tv ResetAberdeen
Watch live video from ResetAberdeen on www.twitch.tv
•Please note that Tekken 7 top 8 to be streamed on twitch.tv Tekken as it is the launch of the Tekken 7 UK Championship
Watch live video from TEKKEN on www.twitch.tv
Below is some information about some of the main partners and features at this year’s event.
Schedule
Full schedule here.
Friday:
20:00-22:00 – Registration
Saturday:
8:00-14:00 – Registration
9:00 – Smash 4, Killer Instinct, King of Fighters XIV and Tekken 7 registration closes
9:30 – Tekken 7 Pools
10:00 – King of Fighters XIV registration closes
10:00 – Smash 4 and Killer Instinct Pools.
11:00 – Street Fighter V registration closes
12:00 – Street Fighter V Pools
14:00 – Guilty Gear Revelator and Mortal Kombat X registration closes
14:00 – Killer Instinct Finals (Top 8)
15:00 – Guilty Gear Revelator and Mortal Kombat X Pools
16:00 – Guilty Gear Revelator Pools
18:30 – Tekken 7 (Top 16->Top 8)
20:00 – Pub Quiz
Sunday:
10:00 – Street Fighter V Top 32, Smash 4 Finals (Top 8)
12:00 – Guilty Gear Revelator Finals (Top 8)
13:00 – King of Fighters XIV Finals (Top 8)
14:00 – Mortal Kombat X Finals (Top 8)
16:00 – Street Fighter V Finals (Top 8)
18:00 – Tekken 7 Finals (Top 8)