Bracket

Anji

Chipp

Faust

Giovanna

I-No

Millia

Nagoriyuki

Potemkin

Ramlethal

Zato

Goldlewis

Jack-O

Happy Chaos

Testament

Baiken

Bridget

Asuka R♯

Johnny

Elphelt

A.B.A.

Bedman?

Slayer

Dizzy

Random

Venom

Unika

Lucy

Burstdragon1

LilGalil05

kurdlez

Chimpo383

HundoP

DMS | De1a

STxSoneromods | AoiKypher

TheBigSmell

Valiant | Suicune

MØN | Intimidaving

Carryk Bhattal

Cal M.

Josh K.

Dylan Evans

Michael T.

David McNeely

Spring 2025

Northern Illinois University

Free to enter with a competitor badge.
Pot bonus provided by Riot Games!
Players may either enter as a single player, or as a Duo team with another player.
Top 8 will take place on Sunday.
PlayStation 5.

Main Events

2XKO mixed mode (singles and duos)

Blazblue: Central Fiction

Capcom vs. SNK 2

$10 of the entry fee goes to the prize pool. There is also a $15 Mystery Tournament competitor fee paid to FF included in the entry price.
Mixed platforms. Controllers provided.

Chicago's Mystery Tournament

Dragon Ball FighterZ

PS5, The first place finisher will be awarded a spot at the upcoming SNK World Championship Finals

Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves

ARC WORLD TOUR QUALIFIER (PLATINUM EVENT). This event will be run on PS5 using the PS4 version. You can still use PS4 controllers and the game will run the same as if it were on PS4 pro.

Granblue Fantasy Versus: Rising (Arc World Tour qualifier)

ARC WORLD TOUR QUALIFIER (PLATINUM EVENT). This event will be run on PS5 using the PS4 version. You can still use PS4 controllers and the game will run the same as if it were on PS4 pro.
TOP 8 WILL TAKE PLACE ON SUNDAY!

Guilty Gear: Strive (Arc World Tour qualifier)

PS4 pro. Top 8 will be the Saturday night headliner!

Guilty Gear Xrd REV2

PC. Top 8 will be the Friday night headliner!

Guilty Gear XX Accent Core +R

Hunter x Hunter: Nen x Impact

Marvel Vs. Capcom 2

Melty Blood Actress Again Current Code

Melty Blood: Type Lumina

Mortal Kombat 1

Rivals of Aether II

Skullgirls: 2nd Encore

Street Fighter 6

Head to head Japanese arcade candy cabinets w/ USB inputs

Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike

Super Street Fighter II Turbo

Tekken 8

PS4 pro. The first place finisher will be awarded a spot at the upcoming SNK World Championship Finals.

The King of Fighters XV

Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3

ARC WORLD TOUR QUALIFIER (PLATINUM EVENT) This tournament will be run on PS5 console but using the PS4 software version. You can still use PS4 controllers and the game will run the same as if it were on PS4 pro.

Under Night In-Birth II Sys:Celes (Arc World Tour qualifier)

Vampire Savior

Virtua Fighter 5 R.E.V.O. World Stage

This special team tournament is for duos only and is separate from the main mixed mode tournament.
The team tournament will take place on Thursday, 1/29.
Entry fee is $20 per team ($10 per player). All entry fees will go directly into the prize pool.
This tournament is capped at 64 teams.
The first player who signs up the team must pay for the entire team and invite their team member. This will reserve their spot in the tournament even if the invites are still pending.
Please note that this is not a Waseda style tournament. Both players on each team will play at the same time.
The tournament will be run on Playstation 5.

Special Team Tournaments

2XKO Duos special team tournament

The team tournament will take place on Sunday, 2/1.
Entry fee is $20 per team ($10 per player). All entry fees will go directly into the prize pool.
This tournament is capped at 64 teams.
The first player who signs up the team must pay for the entire team and invite their team member. This will reserve their spot in the tournament even if the invites are still pending.
This event will be run on PS5 using the PS4 version. You can still use PS4 controllers and the game will run the same as if it were on PS4 pro.

Granblue Fantasy Versus: Rising 2v2 Waseda special team tournament

The team tournament will take place on Thursday, 1/29.
Entry fee is $20 per team ($10 per player). All entry fees will go directly into the prize pool.
This tournament is capped at 64 teams.
The first player who signs up the team must pay for the entire team and invite their team member. This will reserve their spot in the tournament even if the invites are still pending.
This event will be run on PS5 using the PS4 version. You can still use PS4 controllers and the game will run the same as if it were on PS4 pro.

Guilty Gear Strive 2v2 Waseda special team tournament

The team tournament will take place on Sunday, 2/1.
Entry fee is $20 per team ($10 per player). All entry fees will go directly into the prize pool.
This tournament is capped at 64 teams.
The first player who signs up the team must pay for the entire team and invite their team member. This will reserve their spot in the tournament even if the invites are still pending.
This event will be run on PS4 pro.

Guilty Gear Xrd REV2 2v2 Waseda special team tournament

The team tournament will take place on Sunday, 2/1.
Entry fee is $20 per team ($10 per player). All entry fees will go directly into the prize pool.
This tournament is capped at 64 teams.
The first player who signs up the team must pay for the entire team and invite their team member. This will reserve their spot in the tournament even if the invites are still pending.
This event will be run on PC.

Guilty Gear XX Accent Core +R 2v2 Waseda special team tournament

The team tournament will take place on Friday, 1/30.
Entry fee is $20 per team ($10 per player). All entry fees will go directly into the prize pool.
This tournament is capped at 64 teams.
The first player who signs up the team must pay for the entire team and invite their team member. This will reserve their spot in the tournament even if the invites are still pending.
This event will be run on PC.
This is not a Waseda tournament. Both players on each team will play at the same time.

Rivals of Aether II Doubles special team tournament

The team tournament will take place on Thursday, 1/29.
Entry fee is $20 per team ($10 per player). All entry fees will go directly into the prize pool.
This tournament is capped at 64 teams.
The first player who signs up the team must pay for the entire team and invite their team member. This will reserve their spot in the tournament even if the invites are still pending.
This event will be run on PS5.

Street Fighter 6 2v2 Waseda special team tournament

The team tournament will take place on Sunday, 2/1.
Entry fee is $20 per team ($10 per player). All entry fees will go directly into the prize pool.
This tournament is capped at 64 teams.
The first player who signs up the team must pay for the entire team and invite their team member. This will reserve their spot in the tournament even if the invites are still pending.
This event will be run on PS5.

Tekken 8 2v2 Waseda special team tournament

Under Night In-Birth II Sys:Celes 2v2 Waseda special team tournament

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate singles tournament (all day Sunday only)! 
Free to enter with competitor badge! 
$1,000 prize pool provided by Unrivaled Tournaments and UGS! 
All blocks of the tournament to be streamed on Unrivaled Tournaments!

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (singles)

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate 2v2 DOUBLES Tournament! 
$5 per player ($10 per team). Please pay on-site to tournament organizer (PAC DIESEL) upon check-in. CASH ONLY! 
Saturday, start time: 7:00 pm Central.

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Doubles

Top 96

Top 24

Top 8

Top 48

Top 32

Top 192

Top 12

Top 6

Experimental Ruleset

Basic ruleset, only characters, no stages

Basic Ruleset - No Stages

Wario's Smash Down

MDVA Classic

Frosty Faustings XVIII 2026

2XKO

2XKO is Riot Games' upcoming 2v2 tag-based Fighting Game with League of Legends Champions.

BlazBlue: Central Fiction

BlazBlue: Central Fiction is a 2D fighting game developed by Arc System Works. It is the fourth game to the BlazBlue series, and is set after the events of BlazBlue: Chrono Phantasma. The game adds Naoto Kurogane and Hibiki Kohaku as playable characters. BlazBlue: Central Fiction marks the conclusion of the story surrounding protagonist Ragna the Bloodedge.

Capcom vs. SNK 2: Mark of the Millennium 2001 (Millionaire Fighting 2001 in Japan) is the sequel to the fighting game Capcom vs SNK, and the sixth game in the Capcom's VS. Series. This game was released on Sega NAOMI hardware in the arcade. It was later released for the Sega Dreamcast (Japan only) PlayStation 2 and Playstation 3 (as a Playstation 2 Classics title in the PlayStation Network), with the GameCube and Xbox receiving an updated version called Capcom vs. SNK 2 EO.

Mystery Game

DRAGON BALL FighterZ

DRAGON BALL FighterZ is born from what makes the DRAGON BALL series so loved and famous: endless spectacular fights with its all-powerful fighters.

Granblue Fantasy Versus: Rising

Guilty Gear: Strive

Discover the Smell of the Game with Guilty Gear: Strive! Immerse yourself in new gameplay mechanics designed to be simple and welcoming for fighting game newcomers, yet deep and creative for veterans. Ride the Fire into a heavy metal inspired alternate future full of over-the-top action, style and fun!

Guilty Gear XX Accent Core Plus R

Hunter x Hunter: Nen x Impact is an upcoming Hunter x Hunter fighting game, developed by Eighting and published by Bushiroad Games.

Marvel vs. Capcom 2: New Age of Heroes is a fighting game, developed and published by Capcom. It is the fourth game in the Marvel vs. Capcom series of fighting games. With the fourth installment of this series, Capcom simplified the player controls to make the gameplay more accessible to the wider audience of casual players. The button configuration was trimmed down to 4 main buttons and 2 assist buttons. The game also features a different air-combo system and 3 on 3 tag, compared to the 2 on 2 tag from previous games in the series.

"MELTY BLOOD" is a series of 2D fighting games based on TYPE-MOON's visual romance novel "Tsukihime". Since the game's original release on PC in 2002, it has also had a number of ports for arcade, PlayStation 2, and Steam.
Now, at long last, the "MELTY BLOOD" series is making its way to PlayStation®4, Nintendo Switch™, Xbox One, and Steam on September 30, 2021 in the form of "MELTY BLOOD: TYPE LUMINA".

Rivals 2 is the sequel to the hit indie fighting game, Rivals of Aether. Play as both new and returning elemental fighters in the next generation of platform fighters.

On February 20, 2022, Capcom announced that Street Fighter 6 is in development.

Street Fighter III 3rd Strike: Fight for the Future is a 2D competitive fighting game produced by Capcom originally released for the arcade in 1999. It is the second follow-up to Street Fighter III, following Street Fighter III 2nd Impact. Like its predecessors, it runs on the CP System III hardware. 3rd Strike increased the character roster by adding five new characters, including Chun-Li. It also added further refinements to the previous game's play mechanics and rules. It was ported to the Dreamcast, PlayStation 2, and Xbox. A downloadable online version titled Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike Online Edition was released on PlayStation Network and Xbox Live Arcade in August 2011.

Super Street Fighter II Turbo / X

They're back and they're badder than ever! Faster, stronger and with all new moves, twelve of the greatest fighters from across the globe are ready to do battle! Choose your champion and get ready for the big brawl as they try to earn the right to battle M. Bison for the title. And just when you think you've mastered it all, crank it up a notch and go TURBO!

TEKKEN 8

The Tekken series is breaking into a new era! The longest-running story in a video game franchise is coming back with state-of-the-art graphics and powerful new rivalries. Stay tuned for Tekken 8!

The King of Fighters XV, is the fifteenth installment of The King of Fighters series. Transcend beyond your limits with KOF XV! Classic popular characters, heroes and villains revived from the dead, new challengers, and more!

Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3

Under Night In-Birth II Sys:Celes

The first in the series to include rollback netcode, prepare for blistering online matches.
New moves and new battle systems have been added to further evolve the battle.
Experience high-octane battles with ultra high definition pixel graphics.

The tale of the Hollow Night is about to reach its climax...!

Vampire Savior: The Lord of Vampire

Virtua Fighter 5 R.E.V.O.

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate

Legendary game worlds and fighters collide in the ultimate showdown—a new entry in the Super Smash Bros. series for the Nintendo Switch system! New fighters, like Inkling from the Splatoon series and Ridley from the Metroid series, make their Super Smash Bros. series debut alongside every Super Smash Bros. fighter in the series…EVER! Faster combat, new items, new attacks, new defensive options, and more will keep the battle raging whether you’re at home or on the go.