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GooGie Wins MKX at Battle Arena Melbourne 8

After a long wait for another Australian major, Battle Arena Melbourne returned for its 8th instalment BAM8 on the 13th-15th of May 2016. The tournament was hosted by CouchWarriors and featured Australia's finest players. The Australian Mortal Kombat players made a strong appearance and were determined to put on a performance to showcase the talent and skill present in Australia to facilitate the establishment of ESL in Australia. The top 8 results as well as tournament footage are included in the article below.


BAM8 Mortal Kombat Top 3 - iFat|Gilbabz (Left), GooGie (Centre) and Wazminator (Right)


BAM8 Mortal Kombat Top 8​

STREAM ARCHIVE

Top 8 Part 1

Top 8 Part 2

Pools 1 & 2

Pools 3 & 4

TOP 8 RESULTS

1. [VIC] GooGie (Shirai Ryu Takeda)
2. [NSW] Wazminator (Swarm Queen D’Vorah)
3. [NSW] iFat|Gilbagz (Cryomancer Sub-Zero)
4. [QLD] Castiel (Piercing Mileena, Demolition Sonya Blade, A List Johnny Cage, Royal Storm Kitana)
5. [NSW] Cabjoy (Quan Chi, All Variations)
5. [NSW] Friendo (Impostor Shinnok, Shaolin Kung Jin)
7. [ACT] Ghost Police (Vicious Ferra/Torr, War God Kotal Kahn, Sektor Triborg)
7. [VIC] Pan1cMode (High Tech, Full Auto Jacqui Briggs)

POOLS & TOP 8 BRACKETS


Pools - https://smash.gg/tournament/battle-arena-melbourne-8-3/brackets/13020/34394
Top 8 - https://smash.gg/tournament/battle-arena-melbourne-8-3/brackets/13020/34691/116793

Congratulations to GooGie for becoming the third Australian to win a Mortal Kombat major here in Australia. GooGie is one of the newer players to join the NRS scene in Australia with the release of MKX last year. In the last year, he has established himself as a solid international player winning his first Australian major as well as taking out notable players overseas.

Thank you for all those who tuned in to the live stream this weekend and for all those who are supporting the Australian NRS scene. We do appreciate all the hype about the idea of bringing ESL to Australia and kindly ask for your ongoing support to make it happen! #AusmkxforESL

For more information about the Australian MKX scene, check out the facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/AusMKXtournaments/
 
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Nuovo_Cabjoy

G O R O B O Y S
Thanks for the write up @n-megabytes! Was an awesome weekend, from the Royal Rumble on Friday night right up to the end of GF! Lots of good sets in pools and top 8 this time around. And talk about chracter diversity! Even with Castiel playing half the cast, no one played the same character or variation in top 8. Awesome stuff!
 

Pan1cMode

AUS FGC represent!
I won't get bodied so hard at OHN. Was a super fun weekend. Looking forward to doing better at OHN.

Also:

1. [VIC] GooGie (Shirai Ryu Takeda)
2. [NSW] Wazminator (Swarm Queen D’Vorah)
3. [NSW] iFat|Gilbagz (Cryomancer Sub-Zero)
4. [QLD] Castiel (Piercing Mileena, Demolition Sonya Blade, A List Johnny Cage, Royal Storm Kitana)
5. [NSW] Cabjoy (Quan Chi, All Variations)
5. [NSW] Friendo (Impostor Shinnok, Shaolin Kung Jin)
7. [ACT] Ghost Police (Vicious Ferra/Torr, War God Kotal Kahn, Sektor Triborg)
7. [VIC] Pan1cMode (High Tech, Full Auto Jacqui Briggs)
 
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Good stuff! Was an awesome weekend, congratz too all the guys who made finals, and thanks too everyone who helped organize the event!

Some really hype matches in top 8 there! Met a whole lot of really cool dudes, looking forward too the next major. Will see you guys out there!

Back to recovery :p ha
 

myri

Time Warrior
Very exciting to watch, definitely makes me want to attend and compete in the future. Congratulations to everyone for an excellent showing and a really diverse top 8 as far as characters go.
 

Gilbagz

Joker here~
Rewatching this, god damn my match with Googie and Cabjoy. Hype was ridiculous in both of them.
Frauded that win against Cab, and dropped too much stuff against Googie T.T

Regardless fun as fuck tournament. Can't wait for OHN. Shout outs to all the Melb boys for running an awesome event, and congrats to Googie once again for the win.