Aganos

Arbiter

Aria

Cinder

Eyedol

Fulgore

Gargos

Glacius

Shin Hisako

Jago

Kan-Ra

Kim Wu

Maya

Mira

Omen

Orchid

Raam

Rash

Riptor

Sabrewulf

Sadira

Shadow Jago

Spinal

Thunder

TJ Combo

Tusk

Kilgore

Hisako

Eagle

Amane

Arakune

Azrael

Bang Shishigami

Bullet

Carl Clover

Celica A. Mercury

Hades Izanami

Hakumen

Hazama

Hibiki Kohaku

Iron Tager

Izayoi

Jin Kisaragi

Kagura Mutsuki

Kokonoe

Konoe A. Mercury

Λ-No.11- [Lambda -No. 11-]

Litchi Faye Ling

Mai Natsume

Makoto Nanaya

μ-No.12- [Mu -No. 12-]

Naoto Kurogane

Noel Vermillion

ν-No.13- [Nu -No. 13-]

Platinum the Trinity

Ragna the Bloodedge

Relius Clover

Susano'o

Taokaka

Tsubaki Yayoi

Valkenhayn R. Hellsing

Yūki Terumi

Rachel Alucard

Nine the Phantom

Asuri

Azoth

Barraza

Bodvar

Brynn

Cassidy

Diana

Ember

Gnash

Hattori

Jhala

Koji

Lord Vraxx

Lucien

Orion

Queen Nai

Sir Roland

Scarlet

Sentinel

Teros

Thatch

Ulgrim

Wu Shang

Ragnir

Cross

Mirage

Mordex

Yumiko

Caspian

Artemis

Kaya

Killer Instinct

BlazBlue: Central Fiction

BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle

Brawlhalla

DNF Duel

DRAGON BALL FighterZ

Granblue Fantasy: Versus

Guilty Gear -Strive-

Guilty Gear Xrd Rev 2

The King of Fighters XV

Melty Blood: Type Lumina

Mortal Kombat 11: Ultimate

MultiVersus 1v1

Primal Rage

Rushdown Revolt

Samurai Shodown

Skullgirls: 2nd Encore

Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike

Street Fighter V: Champion Edition

Super Smash Bros. Melee

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate

Super Street Fighter II Turbo

TEKKEN 7

Them's Fightin' Herds

Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3

Under Night In-Birth Exe:Late[cl-r]

Vampire Savior

Virtua Fighter 5 Ultimate Showdown

Mystery Game Tournament

Pools

Top 24

Top 8

Top 48

Top 16

Top 192

Top 64

Top 96

Top 128

Top 32

All CB2023 passes include entry into our venue spaces and the following commemorative items:

* CB2023 badge
* Lanyard
* Arcade token
* 60-page Program Guide!

A **Competitor Pass** is required to enter one or more of the 29 official tournaments held at CB2023. Competitor Passes can only be purchased online prior to the close of competitor registration on May 5, 2023. 

A **Spectator Pass** is for  attendees not entering any official tournament at CB2023. They can be purchased online prior to May 23, 2023, or on-site during the event. Children under 13 and adults over 65 may attend CB2023 with a Spectator Pass free of charge.

Event Badge

Have your gamertag printed on a custom player badge! 

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A: Personalized CB2023 Badge

A heavyweight, cut-and-sew t-shirt showcasing artwork from AndrewCockroach! CB2023's shirt features oversized printing, contrast sleeves, a custom hem-tag, and a true-to-size fit.

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B: CB2023 Commemorative Shirt

A heavyweight, cut-and-sew hoodie showcasing artwork from AndrewCockroach! CB2023's hoodie features a tack-and-twill logo on the front, oversized printing on the back, a custom pocket tag, contrast sleeves, and a contrast hood! Fits true-to-size.

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C: CB2023 Commemorative Hoodie

Get your event pass and any pre-ordered apparel delivered to your door before the event. Skip the pick-up lines! 

Items ship the week of May 7, 2023. Option only available for US addresses.

D: Pre-event Shipping

Tournament Events May Begin Friday, May 26, 2023 at 10am

Media Release

Code of Conduct

Health & Safety Acknowledgement

Event Rules & FAQ

Participation Waiver

Competitor Pass - Early Registration ($90 + $4.50 Village of Schaumburg tax + $2.70 Cook County tax)

Competitor Pass - Standard Registration ($105 + $5.25 Village of Schaumburg tax + $3.15 Cook County tax)

Competitor Pass - Late Registration ($120 + $6 Village of Schaumburg tax + $3.60 Cook County tax)

Spectator Pass - Early Registration ($55 + $2.75 Village of Schaumburg tax + $1.65 Cook County tax)

Spectator Pass - Standard Registration ($60 + $3 Village of Schaumburg tax + $1.80 Cook County tax)

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4X-Large

Mortal Kombat 11 Ruleset

Rushdown Revolt Standard Head to Head Ruleset

Rushdown Revolt Standard

Full Ruleset

Basic ruleset, only characters, no stages

Basic Ruleset - No Stages

Wario's Smash Down

MDVA Classic

COMBO BREAKER 2023

The legendary fighting game franchise is back with next-generation visuals, over-the-top action, a wild cast of combatants, rocking reactive music, and C-C-C-COMBO BREAKERS! Choose from amongst a wild cast of combatants each with fluid animations, unique combat tactics, and flashy special attacks. Utilize an open-ended combo system to rack up huge combos as your opponent looks for openings to break you and turn the tides of battle. Go online and test yourself against players from all over the world, or brush up on your combat skills in detailed tutorials.

BlazBlue: Central Fiction is a 2D fighting game developed by Arc System Works. It is the fourth game to the BlazBlue series, and is set after the events of BlazBlue: Chrono Phantasma. The game adds Naoto Kurogane and Hibiki Kohaku as playable characters. BlazBlue: Central Fiction marks the conclusion of the story surrounding protagonist Ragna the Bloodedge.

"THE COLLISION IS INEVITABLE! THE IMPACT WILL BE UNAVOIDABLE! 
An unrivaled clash of explosive proportions! The beloved BlazBlue franchise Crosses universes, Tags in fan favorites, and Battles it out in BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle! Created through an all-star collaboration between BlazBlue, Atlus’ Persona, French Bread’s Under Night In-Birth, and Rooster Teeth’s hugely popular RWBY web series, Cross Tag Battle celebrates the fighting genre for pros and newcomers alike! Choose your team in fast paced 2v2 team battles filled with the craziness you’ve come to love from BlazBlue, with all the tight mechanics, smooth gameplay, and gorgeous 2D graphics you expect from Arc System Works."

DNF Duel is a 2D fighting game using Dungeon Fighter Online's characters/classes as fighters. Dungeon Fighter Online currently has 16 base characters with over 60 total classes, though there is some overlap between the male and female variations.
It was revealed at the 2020 Dungeon&Fighter Universe Festival in Korea.
It is being developed by Neople, Arc System Works and Eighting.

A date was not announced but It is planned to be a multi-platform release

DRAGON BALL FighterZ is born from what makes the DRAGON BALL series so loved and famous: endless spectacular fights with its all-powerful fighters.

Embark on a new fight, O champions of the skies! Take a ringside seat for this brawltastic work! An exciting new title in the Granblue Fantasy series is finally revealed! Featuring stunning visuals, heart-pounding music, and innovative game mechanics, it’ll usher in a new era of fighting games! This fantasy game blends fighting game action and RPG-style adventure. Throw yourself into matches or enjoy powering up your characters!

Guilty Gear: Strive

Discover the Smell of the Game with Guilty Gear: Strive! Immerse yourself in new gameplay mechanics designed to be simple and welcoming for fighting game newcomers, yet deep and creative for veterans. Ride the Fire into a heavy metal inspired alternate future full of over-the-top action, style and fun!

Guilty Gear Xrd REV2

The King of Fighters XV, is the fifteenth installment of The King of Fighters series. Transcend beyond your limits with KOF XV! Classic popular characters, heroes and villains revived from the dead, new challengers, and more!

"MELTY BLOOD" is a series of 2D fighting games based on TYPE-MOON's visual romance novel "Tsukihime". Since the game's original release on PC in 2002, it has also had a number of ports for arcade, PlayStation 2, and Steam.
Now, at long last, the "MELTY BLOOD" series is making its way to PlayStation®4, Nintendo Switch™, Xbox One, and Steam on September 30, 2021 in the form of "MELTY BLOOD: TYPE LUMINA".

Mortal Kombat 11

Mortal Kombat is back and better than ever in the next evolution of the iconic franchise.

The all new Custom Character Variations give you unprecedented control of your fighters to make them your own. The new graphics engine showcases every skull-shattering, eye-popping moment, bringing you so close to the fight you can feel it. Featuring a roster of new and returning Klassic Fighters, Mortal Kombat's best-in-class cinematic story mode continues the epic saga over 25 years in the making.

MultiVersus

In MultiVersus, the Multiverse is at your fingertips as you battle it out in intense 2v2 matches. Up against Batman & Shaggy? Try using Bugs Bunny & Arya Stark! This platform fighter lets you play out your fantasy matchups in a fun co-op or head-to-head fight for supremacy.

A meteor struck the Earth, and caused great chaos. Seven gods from ancient times awoke, and are now attempting to take control of the post-apocalyptic world.

Primal Rage is a one-on-one fighting game featuring dinosaurs and giant apes as the fighters. The graphics are done with digitized stop-motion animation. Gameplay is similar to Mortal Kombat in that it is viewed from a side perspective, and features deadly finishing moves at the end of the match.

SAMURAI SHODOWN

"A brand new title from SNK! A new SAMURAI SHODOWN is on the horizon!

Since its birth in 1993, the SAMURAI SHODOWN series has been known as the premier weapon based versus fighting games, and was essential in cultivating the weapon based fighting game genre. As the first new release in the series in more than 10 years, SAMURAI SHODOWN is aiming to yet again push boundaries and deliver some serious samurai action!

Developed using UNREAL ENGINE 4 and utilizing a unique brushstroke graphical style to match the Japanese roots of the series, Haohmaru, Nakoruru, Galford and a whole cast of other popular characters will battle once again for victory!"

Street Fighter III 3rd Strike: Fight for the Future is a 2D competitive fighting game produced by Capcom originally released for the arcade in 1999. It is the second follow-up to Street Fighter III, following Street Fighter III 2nd Impact. Like its predecessors, it runs on the CP System III hardware. 3rd Strike increased the character roster by adding five new characters, including Chun-Li. It also added further refinements to the previous game's play mechanics and rules. It was ported to the Dreamcast, PlayStation 2, and Xbox. A downloadable online version titled Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike Online Edition was released on PlayStation Network and Xbox Live Arcade in August 2011.

Super Smash Bros. Melee is the second installment in the Super Smash Bros. series and the follow-up to the Nintendo 64 title. It includes all playable characters from the first game, and also adds characters from franchises such as Fire Emblem, of which no games had been released outside Japan at the time. Super Smash Bros. Melee builds on the first game by adding new gameplay features and playable characters: it's major focus is the multiplayer mode, while still offering a number of single-player modes.

Legendary game worlds and fighters collide in the ultimate showdown—a new entry in the Super Smash Bros. series for the Nintendo Switch system! New fighters, like Inkling from the Splatoon series and Ridley from the Metroid series, make their Super Smash Bros. series debut alongside every Super Smash Bros. fighter in the series…EVER! Faster combat, new items, new attacks, new defensive options, and more will keep the battle raging whether you’re at home or on the go.

They're back and they're badder than ever! Faster, stronger and with all new moves, twelve of the greatest fighters from across the globe are ready to do battle! Choose your champion and get ready for the big brawl as they try to earn the right to battle M. Bison for the title. And just when you think you've mastered it all, crank it up a notch and go TURBO!

Experience the epic conclusion of the Mishima clan and unravel the reasons behind each step of their ceaseless fight. Powered by Unreal Engine 4, Tekken 7 features stunning story-driven cinematic battles and intense duels that can be enjoyed with friends and rivals alike through innovative fight mechanics.

Them's Fightin' Herds is an indie fighting game featuring a cast of adorable animals designed by acclaimed cartoon producer Lauren Faust. Beneath the cute and cuddly surface, a mechanically-deep GGPO-powered fighter awaits!

Mystery Game

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