Spring Fighter 2019

NYU Game Center

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<P>Join us on Saturday, May 4th for <STRONG>Spring Fighter</STRONG>, the NYU Game Center's annual celebration of fighting games. This year will be the tenth, and last, Spring Fighter.</P>
<P>In addition to tournaments in multiple fighting games, each year we host an interview with someone from the world of Street Fighter. We've had Daigo Umehara (<A HREF="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzS96auqau0" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">famous for this</A>), Justin Wong (whose perfect defense made Umehara's instantaneous, pluperfect response to it both necessary and possible). We've heard about being a transgender athlete, about lying to parents to take a bus from New York to California to play Street Fighter, and about driving a U-Haul full of arcade cabinets through the night to Las Vegas to make a tournament happen.</P>
<P>After multiple years of interviewing fighting game players at Spring Fighter,<STRONG> Seth Killian</STRONG> is now being interviewed himself. Killian is a fighting game player, designer, commentator, and community organizer, whose massive contribution to fighting games has made him the namesake for two different boss characters (Seth in <EM>Street Fighter IV</EM> &amp; S-Kill in <EM>Divekick</EM>). NYU Game Center Professor Charles Pratt will sit down with Seth to hear about his early days playing <EM>Street Fighter</EM> for cash, his time at Capcom balancing <EM>Street Fighter IV</EM>, what it's like to do commentary for history-making Evo Championship matches, and his recent work designing games at Sony Santa Monica, Radiant Entertainment, and Riot Games. Join us to hear from a legend in fighting games on what it's like turn the game that you love into a career fostering a worldwide community.</P>
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<DIV>This year we’ll be hosting tournaments in:</DIV>
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<DIV>Street Fighter V</DIV>
<DIV>Dragon Ball FighterZ</DIV>
<DIV>Tekken 7</DIV>
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<DIV>You can register for free for all the games here or register to just join us for the interview.</DIV>
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<DIV>We’d like to thank Arturo Sanchez for returning to stream and commentate our FGC games again this year. On May 4th, you can watch the Spring Fighter 2019 here: <A HREF="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__twitch.tv_teamsp00ky&d=DwMFaQ&c=slrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ&r=lPPtmI3xeQRtGaKdEutr-Q&m=yNKQb7a4qMY3HFKstCswhg5wlzMWDRBZCfMd6vIDtcc&s=Xtf8YFrlvETFY7xBxKGKMuRyJei80BtjWQhfo3qfJBQ&e=" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">twitch.tv/teamsp00ky</A></DIV>