Official Competitive Events

This article is for ARMS competitive events and tournaments.

Niconico Chokaigi 2017
On 2017-04-29 and 2017-04-30 in Japan, four ARMS tournaments were held at Niconico Chokaigi. Each tournament included a maximum of 64 players. Spring Man, Ribbon Girl, Ninjara, Master Mummy, Min Min, Mechanica, and Helix were the available fighters.

ARMS Global Test Punch
Full article: ARMS Global Testpunch

The ARMS Global Testpunch was a free online demo of ARMS that took place 2017-05-26 through 2017-06-04. It became available to download shortly after the ARMS Direct on 2017-05-17.

ARMS Open Invitational
At Nintendo's E3 booth this year, an open invitational tournament was held on 2017-06-14. Four of the competitors in the tournament were Alex "CaliPower" Valle, Kelsy "SuperGirlKels" Medeiros, Daniel “Tafokints” Lee, and Marie-Laure “Kayane” Norindr, and the rest were four qualifying E3 attendees who visited the Nintendo booth between 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. PT on 2017-06-14. The prize was a 2017 ARMS championship belt.

The four qualifying E3 attendees were SkywardWing, SpringGuy, GamingWithMe, and Zerk. Zerk was awarded the champion belt, but was challenged to play against ARMS producer Kosuke Yabuki in an exhibition match. Mr. Yabuki won over Zerk 2-0.


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Ranked Tournament
Nintendo announced on 2017-06-05 that a special tournament would be held in early July. The tournament will be accessible to the top 12 players of Ranked Match from 2017-06-16 to 2017-06-24. The tournament will be held online, and live-streamed on YouTube Live.