One Desk in Port Said, Tracking the Global Fighting Game Scene
We're a small crew of fighting game obsessives logging matchups, ranking movements, and arcade history from the Egyptian coast for anyone who cares about the craft.
Read Our StoryWhat Drives This Desk
Not a newsroom, not an agency — just people who watch every set twice
We rewatch grand finals and check patch notes before publishing a ranking update, because a lazy write-up embarrasses the whole scene.
No affiliate clutter, no sponsored rankings — just honest coverage of players, tournaments, and circuits we'd follow anyway.
We track underdogs from regional arcades as closely as top seeds, because rankings only mean something when the full bracket gets attention.
Every match breakdown and circuit recap is written from our own notes and footage review, not recycled from other outlets.
Readers on the Record
I've been following their circuit recaps since the desk started covering the North African qualifiers. The ranking updates after each regional actually match what I saw on stream, which is rarer than people think.
Their player rankings piece on the mid-tier grapplers changed how I watch matches now. Most sites just repeat the top 8 story, these guys actually explain why a rank shift happened.
Found this blog through a friend during a circuit weekend and stayed for the arcade history pieces. The write-up on Port Said's old cabinet scene brought back memories I'd forgotten I had.