HELLO! The European Blaze community is gathering for a local tournament at Hessen Crash in Bad Hersfeld, Germany on October 15. It's a side event, but with the amount of top players committed to travel and compete we decided to give it a push and sponsor it! That includes a 500 pot bonus, a trophy for first place and YinYin at the event all weekend with whatever merchandise he can carry there. If you ever wanted to meet and challenge top players like JawDrop, Cherry, Neerasure and many more, this is the place to be at. The tournament will be played on PCs. That means all types of input methods should work, but two keyboard players meeting may still pose a challenge. Be ready to use a backup in that case. Matches are planned to be streamed on twitch.tv/dawn_of_revival A competitor pass is 35 until Oktober 7, spectator entry is free. And if you want to convince someone interested in a different kind of cultural event to accompany you on a trip there, the town happens to be hosting the oldest German Volksfest in the very same week.
Not in Europe? Heat Wave 5 has a North American local a month later. Watch out for the announcement with details on that!

• Up to 4 players:
  Play locally AND online with up to 4 players.
  
• Easy to pick up, hard to master gameplay:
  Start off simply hitting the ball faster and faster back and forth. Improve by learning how to use Smashes, Bunts and Special Abilities to your advantage. Then go further beyond with parries and countering with throws ending with the pure psychological goodness: taunts.
  
• Tons of unlockable extras and secrets:
  Unlock characters and their outfits as you play. New modes and stages are in there too and even the soundtrack can be unlocked to play at leisure.
  
• Play on your own:
  Step up to the plate by yourself and beat a series of opponents in the Arcade Mode to reach the beat-blasting bossfight. Then check out the event-based Story Mode that has you playing all sides of the going-downs in Shine City.
  
• Modes and options:
  Pick your preferred style of play like with HP, one-shot kill or points. And then there are game modes like Strikers, using goals, and something called Lethal Volley...
  
• Wicked Tracks:
  A Breakbeat, Hip-Hop and House soundtrack featuring the likes of Hideki Naganuma, Frank Klepacki, Pixelord, Bignic and of course Klaus Veen.

• OS: Ubuntu 14.04
• Processor: Core 2 Duo or equivalent - 2.0 GHz or higherMemory: 4 GB RAMStorage: 4 GB available space
• Memory: 4 GB RAMStorage: 4 GB available space
• Storage: 4 GB available space