[October 7th] Team St1ckBuG X OgreLive Japanese NEC Qualifier!!!

Team St1ckBuG x OgreLive Japanese NEC Qualifier!

Event Information:

• Official Announcement: http://ogarabu.blog.fc2.com/blog-entry-94.html
  
• Date: Sunday October 7th 2012
  
• Place: Akihabara Clark Studio
  
• Games + Times: [14:00~ P4U Winners][15:00~ BBEX Winners][16:00~ P4U Losers][17:00~ BBEX Losers]
  
• Stream URL: TBD
  
  
  Rules:
  
  • Both games (BBEX and P4U) will be played on console.
    
  • Tournament format will be double elimination.
    
  • Matches are set to one game, 2/3 rounds.
    
  • Top 2 finishers of P4U will be selected to represent Japan at NEC of this year.
    
  • The top finisher of BBEX will be selected to represent Japan at NEC of this year.
    
  • If a winner of P4U also wins BBEX, the ticket to Japan for BBEX will be defaulted to then 2nd place finisher.
    
    
    Prizes:
    
    • The top 2 finishers of P4U and the top finisher of BB will have an all expenses paid trip to Philadelphia, PA to complete against America at NEC (December 1st-2nd 2012).
      

    Background:

    [*]Early this year, @kiriyama44 reached out to me with interest in running a Japanese qualifier for NEC. How could I turn this opportunity down? With the recent release of Persona and the hype it's generated, it's time to make the air-dash community shine. It's time to set up for the hypest event ever. I have always called NEC the tournament to attend for air-dashers. In the past we've had good turnouts for Melty Blood, Guilty Gear, and BlazBlue, but not one year has really stood out above all the rest. This year I plan to change that: I want our best against Japan's best. Only a couple times have the Japanese come to specifically compete against us in Guilty Gear and BlazBlue. Just this once I want to give people the shot to really see if they have what it takes to play against the best in the world. I'm doing this for the air-dashers out there. I want you to come out and have fun at NEC, and I want you to walk away a better player because of it. Come and learn what real competition and hype are like. NEC info can be found here and here. You people wanted a hype major? You got it.

    Media

    [*]In order to hype and spread interest for this event, OgreLive has been running netplay FT10 sets of high-skilled Japanese players in P4U. These have been streamed on NicoNico, but our very own @Jourdal has uploaded these to his YouTube account for easy viewing.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeCprvUsHF8&list=PLE4D5F423CFAE5D0C&index=1&feature=plpp_video

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aY6VHOoub6M&list=PL190371F388B6888E&index=1&feature=plpp_video

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCw4RW7TVm4&list=PLAE609C54FCD5E768&index=1&feature=plpp_video

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8eG6ZBCxN8&list=PLmvZt7egaTbJrbjy7044A3-nLJHKNxNy1&index=1&feature=plpp_video