Colchester gaming centre Xtreme Gaming will be hosting a new series of Street Fighter V tournaments.
The SFV Extreme Series – presented by PC gaming hardware brand ZOWIE by BenQ, and hosted by BanKs Esports – will take place over the next few months.
Four separate one-day tournaments will feature a first-place prize of £500 and a Zowie RL2460 monitor, a second-place prize of £250 and a third-place prize of £100.
Each tournament will be a 64-player one-day event, and free for anyone to enter.
All games will be played live at Xtreme Gaming and some will be streamed.
The two finalists in each event will also earn themselves an all-expenses-paid trip to the regional final, where they will battle it out for a place at the World final in Taiwan.
“This is a chance to create something beautiful for the players and community, but also brings a new style to the events from a stream and production standpoint.”
James Banks told Esports News UK: “The ZOWIE fighter series was a fantastic idea to really support the community and players around the world.
“Some of the qualifiers have already happened, and when ZOWIE – who I have had a relationship with since 2009 – got in contact with the idea I couldn’t say no!
“Despite focusing most of my esports career in games like CSGO and StarCraft, back in 2008 I actually competed and finished in Virtua Fighter 5, so it is great to get involved again.
“To me, this is a chance to create something beautiful for the players and community, but also brings a new style to the events from a stream and production standpoint.
“Since the announcement the Street Fighter community has been so supportive of the events and I really can’t wait to meet everyone!”
See full details on the Challonge event page here.
Sign ups are open for the @ZOWIEbyBenQ #SFV Extreme Series week 1, over £1000 of prizes each week, register here: https://t.co/e6EwupxzGN pic.twitter.com/QiC5xx5OWF
— James Banks (@BanKsEsports) March 10, 2017
Dom is an award-winning writer and finalist of the Esports Journalist of the Year 2023 award. He graduated from Bournemouth University with a 2:1 degree in Multi-Media Journalism in 2007.
As a long-time gamer having first picked up the NES controller in the late ’80s, he has written for a range of publications including GamesTM, Nintendo Official Magazine, industry publication MCV and others. He worked as head of content for the British Esports Federation up until February 2021, when he stepped back to work full-time on Esports News UK and offer esports consultancy and freelance services. Note: Dom still produces the British Esports newsletter on a freelance basis, so our coverage of British Esports is always kept simple – usually just covering the occasional press release – because of this conflict of interest.
