Some of the more famous fighters include Matt " Ultracombo" Kraus, Quoc Hung "AfroLegends" Hguyen, LordJimmyBones and Tomoaki "Tomo" Kuwata, a Japanese native who attends UCLA and learned about the Free Play tournament during a qualifying match that Delp attended in Los Angeles.
The tournament could attract as many as 100 competitors in a double-elimination bracket tournament.
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But the $5,000 grand prize and the promise of some of the world's top competitors take the series to "a whole other level." It's more like is it easier to beat your dad at horse or is it easier to beat Michael Jordan at horse?" - Chris Delp, Free Play Arcade tweet this Corey Hyden, the owner of the Free Play Arcade chain, says this weekend's series marks the third time the arcade has organized a tournament around the Super Turbo game. "It's easy for a new player to beat an intermediate player, but is it easy to beat a grandmaster? Probably not. That being said, there are hidden layers of depth to the game, like how fast certain moves recover and how far a move extends and what the range is, that have kept players captivated for 30 years." There's one super-meter and that's it, so it's not incredibly complex and it's easy to get into at the entry level. "The game itself is really simple," says Chris Delp, the community liaison for Free Play Arcade who has competed in Street Fighter II tournaments all over the world, including the famed Evo Championship Series in Japan. Free Play Arcade in Arlington will host its 2018 Super Turbo Spring Series this Saturday and Sunday with a $5,000 grand prize and some of the most competitive Street Fighter players in the world. The game, known among fans as Super Turbo, has developed its own unique following in the competitive gaming arena. It's as pure as a fighting game gets without putting pads on two people and getting them to start punching each other. It's one of the more complex editions of the fighting game before the developers started adding more bells and whistles such as alpha counters and ultra combos.
One of the most revered Street Fighter II games among its more competitive sect is Super Street Fighter II Turbo, the fifth game in the series released in 1994 for American and Japanese arcades. Just about every title in Capcom's video game fighter franchise is still studied by competitive players and used in some high-priced gaming tournaments. Street Fighter II still hasn't lost its competitive edge after more than 25 years of throwing uppercuts, Sonic Booms and Hadoukens.