Samsung Launches TV Community Event in Collaboration with Rocket Beans – Samsung Newsroom Germany

Samsung has launched the “Street Fighter 6 Team Tournament” in collaboration with Rocket Beans TV. In the competition, renowned gaming talents such as Etienne Gardé and Nils Bomhoff compete against each other in an action-packed martial arts game. In a multi-stage competition process, they search for community members who will support their teams in the live final at Gamescom 2024. With the NVMe™ SSD 990 PRO and 990 PRO Heatsink, Samsung provides advanced devices suitable for fast and competitive gaming.

To ease the wait for Gamescom 2024, Samsung MX Brand Memory is launching the “Street Fighter 6 Team Tournament” with Rocket Beans TV almost two months before this year’s gaming event. Until the beginning of July, martial arts enthusiasts have the opportunity to participate via channels Rocket beans To apply for the competition.

Four community members were selected from all submissions in a two-stage process.¹You can work alongside the alias Etienne Gardé. Idelife, Niels BomhoffValentinosuuN“Vian or Chiara”laughterHufnagel will compete for the winner's trophy – live on the gamescom stage on Rocket Beans TV.

Professionals and community members form four duos of street fighters.

Everyone who wanted to participate in the team tournament found what they were looking for in the streams of the four players on Twitch and YouTube: they gradually gave the go-ahead for the application phase. On the evening show “RBTV Home” on July 11, Etienne Gardé, Nils Bomhoff, suuN and Giggles chose two of the 16 pre-selected applications.

A week later, on July 19, the eight shortlisted candidates traveled to the Rocket Beans TV studio in Hamburg to participate in a community knockout tournament. There they competed against each other in Street Fighter 6. The top four moved on to the final and were allowed to decide for themselves who they wanted to support there. Daniel Marek, Product Manager of the MX brand memory at Samsung Electronics Germany, was also a surprise guest on the broadcast and played a round of Street Fighter 6 against the winner. The knockout tournament was commentated by Street Fighter experts and retro gaming enthusiasts. Denson86.

The streamer will also accompany the final rounds of the Team League at Gamescom. Rocket Bean’s gaming talent duo and community fans will compete against each other at the gaming trade show from August 22-24. They rack up points, both in the various on-site mini-games and for victories in online matches against other teams and the community.

Powerful games powered by high-speed technology: Samsung SSD 990 PRO and 990 PRO Heatsink

In order for participants and fans to experience high-speed gaming at a high level, Samsung MX Brand Memory equips all gaming devices in the competition with a high-speed gaming SSD. 990 per From your home. And it will also continue during the promotional period.² There will be frequent opportunities for viewers and the community to win 990 PRO themselves through Rocket Beans TV channels.

The SSD achieves sequential read and write speeds of up to 7450MB/s and 6900MB/s, respectively, via the PCIe® 4.0 interface. By installing the Pascal controller, special emphasis was placed on the power saving architecture, resulting in up to a 50% increase in power efficiency in write performance compared to the Samsung SSD 980 PRO.³ It does. Combined with Samsung's heat spreader and Dynamic Thermal Guard technology, this results in reliable heat management. Performance fluctuations on your gaming PC can be prevented and stable gaming performance can be achieved. The cooling module ensures extra coolness even during heated matches and heated adventures on PlayStation 5 990 Pro Heatsink.

Gamescom will be held in Cologne from August 21 to 25, 2024. The trade fair for computer and video games is the largest of its kind this year, and organizers expect hundreds of thousands of guests to attend once again.

¹ Terms and conditions for participating in the campaign are available at: https://rocketbeans.tv/blog/836/Street-Fighter-6-Team-Tournament-Der-Noob-und-der
² Promotional period runs from July 27, 2024 to August 24, 2024.
³ The 980 PRO delivers a power efficiency of 1,129/877MB/W for sequential read/write, while the 990 PRO delivers a power efficiency of 1,380/1,319MB/W for sequential read/write, based on internal test results for a 1TB model.