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Dead or Alive 6 World Championship Detailed by Koei Tecmo

Dead or Alive 6

Following the announcement back in February, today Koei Tecmo provided more details about the Dead or Alive 6 World Championship.

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The championship will kick off on April 20 in Lyon, France, during THE MIXUP tournament, and will continue through the year to offer sixteen spots at the grand finals.

Below you can read the official details directly from the press release.

“By competing in the DOA6WC, players will earn ranking points based on their tournament performance, allowing them to be ranked on the official DOA6WC leaderboard. The more ranking points a player accumulates, the higher on the leaderboard they will climb.

At the end of the tournament circuit, 16 fighters will advance to the finals. There will be 11 placements from the three regional leaderboards; with the top five from the U.S., top three from Asia, and top three from Europe advancing to the finals.

Of the five remaining qualifying spots, three will be granted to the winners of offline Fatal Match events, while the final two spots will be up for grabs at the DOA6WC Last Chance Qualifier – hosted at the DEAD OR ALIVE Festival 2019.”

Further qualifiers for the grand finals will be hosted at the CEO 2019 Fighting Game Championships in Florida (June 28-30, 2019), Summer Jam 13 in Philadelphia (August 30 through September 1, 2019), Kumite in Texas 2019 (September 13-15, 2019), and The East Coast Throwdown in New Jersey (October 18-20, 2019).

If you want to learn more about Dead or Alive 6, you can read our review of the game and check out our recent interview with Director Yohei Shimbori.

We also recently heard that online lobbies have been delayed to April, and provided a look at the recently-released Happy Wedding Volume 1 DLC, which is part of the first season pass.

Dead or Alive 6  recently released on March 1 for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC. If you picked it up, you can take a look at our extensive guides to help you get started.

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Giuseppe Nelva

Proud weeb hailing from sunny (not as much as people think) Italy and long-standing gamer since the age of Mattel Intellivision and Sinclair ZX Spectrum. Definitely a multi-platform gamer, he still holds the old dear PC nearest to his heart, while not disregarding any console on the market. RPGs (of any nationality), MMORPGs, and visual novels are his daily bread, but he enjoys almost every other genre, prominently racing simulators, action and sandbox games. He is also one of the few surviving fans on Earth of the flight simulator genre.

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