CHARACTER AUCTIONS A Midwest Staple Each year COMBO BREAKER hosts a unique tournament exhibitions called Auction Tournaments! These high-stakes, single elimination brackets can only be entered via a character auction held on-site at the event! Characters, teams, and sometimes only vaguely representational names (depending on game) are pulled out of a hat by an auctioneer […]
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INDIE DEVS Home Grown Games! Check out in-development games from the visiting independent developers at CB2024. Each one is looking for feedback on their works and would love to see you give their game a try! Meet the Devs! COMBO DEVILS A brand new fighting game that bridges the gap between platform fighters and traditional
VENDORS AND EXHIBITORS Expanded Vendor Village and Exhibitors Guest developers, food, peripheral brands, apparel, popcorn vendors, and more are all part of the CB2024 Vendor Village! Located inside the Renaissance Schaumburg Convention Center between the North and South staging areas, the Vendor Villages are overflowing with store fronts and exhibitors! Take your time and check
ARTIST ALLEY Artisan Creations at CB2024 Are you looking for a new fighting game print for your living room? Want to try out new games from passionate programmers in the community? Need a new handmade arcade stick? Maybe you’re looking for a brand new, fighting game themed candle? The Artist Alley at COMBO BREAKER 2023
ALL IN TOGETHER: THE COMMUNITY TOURNAMENTS RETURN! Bringing More Games to CB2024 COMBO BREAKER will host many of the incredible games from the fighting game genre at CB2024, but we can’t host them all! To help surpass this limitation, COMBO BREAKER opens up floor space for additional organizers to host tournaments for their favorite games.
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JOIN THE VOLUNTEER STAFF FOR CB2024! CB2024 Volunteer Staff Reward Program Volunteer staff are the lifeblood of COMBO BREAKER events. Without the efforts of attentive volunteers like you, the tournament could not function. Knowing this, we are offering the following rewards for volunteer staff at CB2024: Additionally, any volunteer who runs 3 or more brackets
interested in bringing your voice to the commentary desk at cb2024? GET ON-AIR! COMBO BREAKER is always looking to showcase a variety of on-air talent during our events. Whether you are a new personality or an established veteran, our broadcast is entertaining, in part, thanks to your on-air presence. As such, the team at COMBO
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WANT TO SHOWCASE YOUR ART AT CB2024? Overview COMBO BREAKER will have a limited availability Artist Alley during our 2024 event. Tables are available inside CB2024’s event ballroom and foyer. Due to table space limitations not every applicant can be accepted. We will begin accepting applicants by February 1, 2024. Applications received after February 16,
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CONTENT CREATOR APPLICATIONS Share Fighting Games With Your Community Do you create gaming or pop culture content? Do you think they’d love fighting games? COMBO BREAKER is looking to collaborate with Content Creators to create unique coverage of our 2024 festival. Selected creators will receive a 3-Day Spectator Badge so that they can share the
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MEDIA AND PRESS INFORMATION Who Qualifies CB2024 is open for press and professional media attendees. Editorial press includes writers, reporters, reviewers, producers, photographers, videographers, etc. who are attending specifically to write about CB2024 or COMBO BREAKER for a newspaper, magazine, online publication, gallery, TV, or Radio with significant reach. Media and Press applications are available
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