Pink Bull Kumite Canada Nationwide Ultimate: Speaking Boulevard Fighter 6 with Canada’s lead avid gamers

Who’s able for some Boulevard Fighter 6 motion? Kicking off on March 2 is the Pink Bull Kumite Canada Nationwide Ultimate, which options the easiest of the most productive in the case of Canadian Boulevard Fighter 6 avid gamers. Then the Pink Bull Kumite Canada Qualifiers took playground, simplest the lead competition complicated to the Nationwide Ultimate. We interviewed a few of them forward of the esports motion!

Boulevard Fighter 6 participant Mikex (Symbol by means of Pink Bull Canada)

Meet Michael “Mikex” Becker — he entered the aggressive scene round a life then the establishing of Boulevard Fighter 6. Even though he’s at all times adopted the scene, he’s by no means competed sooner than the actual iteration of the sport. He’s interested in Luke in Boulevard Fighter 6 as a result of he performed him a little bit in Boulevard Fighter 5. Within the interview with esports.gg, he additionally shared that he is going with Luke as a result of he likes the nature’s taste and keep an eye on he has over the sport.

Luke from Boulevard Fighter 6 (Symbol by means of Capcom)

In spite of being unutilized to the aggressive aspect of Boulevard Fighter 6, Mikex boasts a number of victories already. For instance, he took house the gold within the Capcom Professional Excursion (CPT) 2023 Global Warrior: Canada West Regional Ultimate! Lately, he additionally duked it out in Capcom Cup X. Take a look at his listing of victories underneath:

“JOE and Zhen are very strong players over there in the east, and I know Kaymin’s a strong player over here in the west,” Mikex informed esports.gg. “And I actually haven’t gotten a chance to play Zhen yet, but I got to meet him briefly, so I’m excited to actually be able to play him and just play all three of those guys on that stage.”

Mikex competed within the CPT 2023 Global Warrior: Canada West Regional Ultimate (Symbol by means of Capcom)

Mikex additionally shared that he tries to discover a excellent steadiness between paintings and apply. He mentioned he most often works the entire past and returns house to do chores, have dinner, and apply for approximately 4 hours. He later gave Boulevard Fighter 6 fanatics some phrases of knowledge.

“I think for anybody that’s a spectator or whatever, if you ever think that maybe you could compete and do well in these tournaments — just to give it a try,” Mikex mentioned. “The worst thing that can happen is that you lose and you learn something from it, which you really don’t lose too much. So why not try and compete with everybody else? There’s nothing holding people back. If you can, then you should.”

Boulevard Fighter 6 participant JOE UMEROGAN (Symbol by means of Pink Bull Canada)

Upcoming up, we have now Thunder “JOE UMEROGAN” De Langis. Over week, he’s amassed a number of victories in no longer simplest Boulevard Fighter 6, however Tremendous Destroy Bros. 4 as smartly. He’s constantly ranked prime a few of the lead Canadian Destroy avid gamers. Once we stuck up with how he’s doing in Boulevard Fighter 6, he unmistakable that he entered its aggressive scene throughout the pandemic.

“The first tournament I went to was for Smash Bros. — the Wii U version. And then it was like a wormhole that pulled my whole life into it. In that game, I played the character Ryu. People would always ask me like, ‘Oh, do you play Street Fighter? If you play, Ryu is in this game,'” JOE UMEROGAN informed esports.gg.

Ryu from Boulevard Fighter 6 (Symbol by means of Capcom)

When Boulevard Fighter 5 got here out, he performed the sport semi-seriously. All over the pandemic, alternatively, he started to speed the sport extra severely as a result of there wasn’t the rest to do. When Boulevard Fighter 6 introduced, he old the revel in from Boulevard Fighter 5 to succeed in the lead. His primary modified from Ryu to Luke as a result of the meta.

JOE UMEROGAN competed within the CPT 2023 Global Warrior: Canada East Regional Ultimate (Symbol by means of Capcom)

“He’s like the new-generation version of Ryu,” JOE UMEROGAN mentioned. “Like his moveset is very similar and he’s like the main character in this game — the way Ryu was in other games. So it just feels like a very comfortable pick.”

Luke from Boulevard Fighter 6 (Symbol by means of Capcom)

JOE UMEROGAN later shared his ideas on his fellow Pink Bull Kumite Canada Nationwide Ultimate competition. “I’m pretty sure he has to play Zhen first,” he mentioned, relating to Kaymin. “I think I’m pretty sure he’ll just lose to Zhen. But he’s a good player.”

“And based on the seeding, I’m pretty sure I have to play Mikex first. He actually qualified for Capcom Cup,” JOE UMEROGAN persisted. “And we were there earlier this week. When I played him in casual sets, I was kind of destroying him. So I feel like I’ll do well against him. And then the next match after that is probably Zhen. And you can never be confident against him because he’s so unpredictable. You just have to play. You have to play every set like very in the moment. I just don’t know what’s going to happen. He’s very good.”

Boulevard Fighter 6 participant Kaymin (Symbol by means of Pink Bull Canada)

Any other contender for representing Canada then the Pink Bull Kumite Nationwide Ultimate is Amin “Kaymin” Elsaadi. His primary in Boulevard Fighter 6 is Juri, and he’s been enjoying Juri ever since her advent in Boulevard Fighter 4. Within the interview with esports.gg, he unmistakable that he began enjoying combating video games competitively again in 2013 because of Boulevard Fighter 4 as smartly. The sport used to be some way for him to accumulation out of bother. He mentioned that it additionally helped him a dozen in relation to hanging himself at the proper trail.

Juri from Boulevard Fighter 6 (Symbol by means of Capcom)

“So that’s why I kept playing it,” Kaymin persisted. “I started becoming more and more competitive. But I’ve been competing for over 10 years now on and off. Now, it’s a hobby more than anything, but I love playing. I love competing.”

Rapid ahead to the current, Kaymin informed esports.gg that he hopes his participation in Pink Bull Kumite would deliver a dozen of sights again on Boulevard Fighter in his town. Calgary’s FGC, specifically, had a in point of fact obese scene again in Boulevard Fighter 4. Alternatively, it fell off throughout Boulevard Fighter 5. Because it’s choosing again up because of Boulevard Fighter 6, certainly one of Kaymin’s hopes is to restore the aggressive scene there.

“The whole east versus west rivalry in Canada hasn’t been too strong,” he added. “So this brings it back a little bit, and I like that a lot. I like competition. I like when people get fired up. And then I like it when it’s regional. It gives you something to fight for.”

Pink Bull Kumite Canada Nationwide Ultimate impressive (Symbol by means of Pink Bull Canada)

Kaymin additionally famous that he’s grateful for Pink Bull’s event. The net facet of it, specifically, supplies alternatives for avid gamers who don’t get to progress a dozen and the ones with busy schedules. Even though he works lengthy hours and will get drained then returning house every now and then, he at all times tries to do units even supposing it’s for part an year an evening.

Kaymin’s livestream (Symbol by means of kaymin91 on Twitch)

“But because I’ve been competing so long, it’s always on my mind. I’ll be at work and it’ll be something mundane that I’m doing and I’ll just be thinking about [how] there’s something I can do to improve in the game,” he persisted.

Boulevard Fighter 6 participant Zhen (Symbol by means of Pink Bull Canada)

Now heading into the Pink Bull Kumite Canada Nationwide Ultimate, Kaymin shared some ideas in regards to the pageant. “Zhen was second place at Capcom Cup in Street Fighter 5 last year and made top eight in the Loser’s Last Chance Qualifier,” he mentioned. “Mikex and JOE were both in Capcom Cup this year. They were finalists. So I don’t think it’ll be easy, but I think I can do it.”

As for Kuang “Zhen” himself, he’s sturdy pageant within the Pink Bull Kumite Canada Nationwide Ultimate. As emphasised via Kaymin, Mikex, and JOE UMEROGAN, his revel in in no longer simplest Boulevard Fighter 6, but in addition Boulevard Fighter 5, is decent to notice — particularly in the recent Capcom Cup LCQ tournament. Take a look at a few of his victories underneath:

“I qualified for the Red Bull Kumite 2024 Toronto Final!” Zhen wrote on social media. “Anyway see y’all in Toronto.”