The fourth Happenstance FGC league has kicked off! There are three live streams per week: Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday at 9:30 pm Central Time. Be sure to tune into Happenstance FGC’s Facebook page where all the action goes down here https://www.facebook.com/Chano20XX.

The league format is round robin play where all players play one another. Matches are contested first to 5. At the end of round robin play, the Top 8 tournament will be broadcast to determine the champion.

The King of Fighters series is famous for employing a novel approach to fighting games by using the Team Battle System of 3-on-3 team based matches instead of the usual Player 1 v Player 2 format with the usual three rounds. In King of Fighters each player chooses a team of three different characters, instead of a single character. The player chooses which order the three chosen characters fight. When one character is defeated, the next member of that team enters the match and the winning character is rewarded by receiving a small portion of their health meter restored (assuming it was not a perfect round for the winning character). The dynamics of gameplay result in interesting matchups and the possibility of exciting comeback rally victories! 

Match Results for the February 9 Stream

TST|Charly (5) defeats Krysadr (3)

This was a good back and forth match as the players traded wins until the score was tied 3-3. Kudos to Charly for taking control and winning the last two points to take the victory 5-3.

Neochris (5) defeats Krysadr (3)

Neochris took a commanding 3-0 lead in this one. However, Kysadr was not going away so easy as he took the next two points to fight back to a 3-2 deficit. The players then traded the next two matches to put the score at 4-3, with Neochris taking the final point to decide this one.