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Spring Fighter

 

The NYU Game Center’s Fighting Game Tournament

Spring Fighter is the NYU Game Center’s fighting game tournament. The day-long celebration of fighting games features tournaments in a number of fighting games and a conversation between Seth Killian and a veteran player of the fighting game community. In the past we’ve hosted such greats as Daigo Umehara, Alex Valle, Ricki Ortiz, and LI Joe, and Justin Wong. Tournament games always include the latest edition of Street Fighter alongside a selection of the most popular fighting games of the year including Marvel vs Capcom, Tekken, BlazBlue, Guilty Gear, and Super Smash Bros. games.

The Game Center’s close relationship with the fighting game community led to the development of the Evo Scholarship, which provides funding for a student interested in designing the future of fighting games here at NYU. More information on the scholarship here.




The Spring Fighter Hall of Fame 1st Place Winners in Street Fighter:

2010 – Jack Chang
2011 – Arturo ‘TS Sabin’ Sanchez
2012 – Arturo ‘TS Sabin’ Sanchez
2013 – Kevin ‘Dieminion’ Landon
2014 – Emmanuel ‘Manny Fuerte’ Tapia
2015 – Chris ‘Kreymore’ Landon
2016 – Patrick ‘DaFeetLee’ Lee
2017 – Kevin ‘Dieminion’ Landon
2018 – Sean ‘Shine’ Simpson
2019 – Arturo ‘TS Sabin’ Sanchez

Videos of Past Spring Fighter Conversations with Seth Killian

Diego Umehara  | Alex Valle | John Choi | Ricki Ortiz | LI Joe | Justin Wong | Seth Killian

Photos of of Past Spring Fighters

2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2014 | 2015 | 2017 

Streams of Past Spring Fighter Tournaments

2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018

Highlight Videos of the 2012 & 2013 Spring Fighters:

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