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The ELEAGUE Street Fighter V Invitational Celebrity Showdown is back and so are Shaq and Eva Marie.

June 28, 2018 5:30 AM

With the ELEAGUE Street Fighter V Invitational taking a week off before the bracket stage, what's next for Turner's big fighting game tournament? It's time to bring back the celebrity players, of course, as a foursome of celebrities enter the Turner studios to face off in Street Fighter V: Arcade Edition.

Last year's ELEAGUE Street Fighter V Invitational Celebrity Showdown ended with Natalie Eva Marie, the former WWE Diva, getting the better of NBA legend and Inside the NBA jester Shaquille O'Neal. This year, both of them are back and ELEAGUE is heavily promoting their inevitable rematch. They'll be joined by former NBA veteran Baron Davis and former World Series champion Jimmy Rollins.

The four celebrities will compete in a single-elimination tournament, with their prize money going towards charities of their choice. Big Shaq is playing for the Odessa Chambliss Quality of Life Fund, Eva Marie is playing for A21, Rollins is playing for The Jimmy Rollins Family Foundation, and Davis is playing for The Drew League.

The ELEAGUE Street Fighter V Invitational 2018 Celebrity Showdown will take place Friday, June 29 at 8PM PT live on TBS.

Ozzie Mejia

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Ozzie has been playing video games since picking up his first NES controller at age 5. He has been into games ever since, only briefly stepping away during his college years. But he was pulled back in after spending years in QA circles for both THQ and Activision, mostly spending time helping to push forward the Guitar Hero series at its peak. Ozzie has become a big fan of platformers, puzzle games, shooters, and RPGs, just to name a few genres, but he’s also a huge sucker for anything with a good, compelling narrative behind it. Because what are video games if you can't enjoy a good story with a fresh Cherry Coke?

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