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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

If New England and MD/VA don't come... you fuckin up.

No go for me Justin. Still a little sick. Even if I feel a lot better tomorrow I still won't want to take the chance of getting others sick. Thanks for the invite. Maybe I can try to netplay you guys at some point lolllll

That's the plan.

I won't be helping anyone out with a room this time around. You have been warned. As soon as that link drops you better have your plans sorted out. Also, if you can bring equipment, such as Monitors/PS3s/Games let me know. It was a huge help at Summer Jam, and I only see more people coming to NEC. We'll also have more space this time around too!

I love all of you. The Canadian invasion was too much.

Yes, the venue is bigger and we'll be getting more room. Also, you guys might want to plan on getting into Philly sometime Friday afternoon. There might be a small anime event the night before NEC...

The BB pot bonus is actually the pot bonus from last year. As Eric said: it's a typo.

I think that might be AirMaster's. I gave him one of mine to have in the meantime.

I have someone's PS3 pad USB cable. It is marked with a little piece of masking tape but it's ripped so I cannot read the name. Let me know if it's yours.

http://www.dustloop.com/forums/showthread.php?14962-Summer-Jam-6-P4U-BB-GG-Results-and-Shoutouts Shoutouts and Results Thread Thanks again guys!

P4U (~122 entrants) Top 8 1: SKD 2: Psyken 3: LordKnight 4: Lich 5: Marlinpie 5: Madscientist 7: AxisTheBeast 7: LG YuCorp Pool 1 1: MarlinPie (Qualified in Winners) 2: Lich (Qualified in Losers) 3: Alzarath 4: MLIS.Rei 5: T2A butters BB 5: Enigma 7: RK. Peanut Fever 7: Kirbster 9: Mixtape CD 9: (CI.GS) Mezza 9: OPS DigiOPS 9: Winne 13: Ex Blackman 13: Greenix 13: Rudy Was Taken 13: Ludovic 17: Bonkler 17: Sexy Bishounen Prince Ochi 17: LordPangTong 17: RK Snow 17: Kenimblack 17: Boog 17: ricetopher 17: Soupdroit 25: Nas 25: Sky furnace 25: Avery M. 25: Polish Chris 25: Mike Napalm 25: Anime Dad Pool 2 1: LordKnight (Qualified in Winners) 2: LG YuCorp (Qualified in Losers) 3: NTR Rover Rukus 4: NerdJosh 5: Kite 5: zOM-b 7: RK colpervole 7: Aru|DC 9: LG Roldy 9: Sonic Fox 5000 9: TSB|OmniSScythe 9: fADE 13: Mr. Quotes 13: OPS Jonah 13: pROTOMAN sTEVE 13: Waddle 17: Based Cosmo 17: Wyvern Lord 17: Kenny Kwok 17: FYR Natal 17: UWG. LaN 17: Torrian Drayton 17: Sogos 17: Nyte 25: J Fierce 25: OPS Mingki 25: Solo 25: Brice 25: Yan Da Man 25: Tangela 25: Chris D. Pool 3 1: UWG.Madscientist (Qualified in Winners) 2: Aru|AxistheBeast (Qualified in Losers) 3: Chris G 4: Level5-Chan 5: RK.e$ports 5: OPS Oats 7: UWG.RyunKen 7: GenericSuperhero 9: #Midnightmidnite 9: RogueYoshi 9: NTR Rayza 9: VR. Raiden 13: [CCI] Dicipline 13: TSB Achtzehn 13: Miroku276 13: DRS Shakugan 17: UWG.Deus 17: Casshern 17: XNTRIKCAT 17: Princess Circuitous 17: Tiamat 17: NTR Zerp 17: OTGeezus 17: Soundwave 25: Omenyan 25: RK. Sophomore 25: LG Magus 25: Joe Tran Pool 4 1: Psyken (Qualified in Winners) 2: SKD (Qualified in Losers) 3: UWG Bill307 4: Superscience 5: Furok 5: rokunaya 7: Eshi 7: Fecal Penance 9: Rikir 9: FNE Boyalmisy 9: pochp 9: David N 13: ewic 13: Baby Baby Rocket Punch 13: Danny Scheme 13: AEVG Shintaro Kugo 17: LG Kellfire 17: Mr. Mortified 17: Pope Temmy 17: Andylawlz 17: NTR Princess Brandino 17: Dangle 17: Ethereal 17: Renegade 25: RK. The505 25: NTR Sibladeko 25: Brandon (NJ) 25: QLVR 25: Beastoke 25: Starlight777 25: Matthew Chang 25: zeta BlazBlue CSEX (~39 Entrants) 1: LordKnight 2: Kirbster 3: Nedel 4: Brice 5: Kaeru 5: Lich 7: XNTR|Kcat 7: AZVG Shintaro Kugo 9: LG Roldy 9: Mike Napalm 9: Level5-Chan 9: South Korean Dictator 13: Starlight 13: Aru|AxistheBeast 13: UWG.LaN 13: mAc Chaos 17: Mr. Mortified 17: Air Master 17: Superscience 17: Eshi 17: DioBrando 17: Shervin 17: Death Wombat 17: Pochp 25: DannyScheme 25: Emoneybags 25: Skyfurnace 25: Joe Tran 25: boyscout11 25: Cirno 25: LG Yucorp 25: Greenix 33: LG Kellfire 33: Bibiquadium 33: Anderson 33: Jfierce NY 33: LordPangTong 33: girlscout 33: Ethereal GGAC (27 Entrants) 1: LG Yucorp 2: Shazay 3: Alzarath 4: MarlinPie 5: 4r5 5: Brice 7: Mindgame 7: VR-Raiden 9: pochp 9: LG Magus 9: LG Roldy 9: Princess Circuitous 13: NTR Princess | Brandino 13: Troll Badguy 13: DioBrando 13: DaiAnfOh 17: Sesshyru 17: 3R | rogueyoshi 17: Amadeous 17: Kaeru 17: Gun-Buri 17: Casshern 17: TSB Achtzehn 17: Mike Napalm 25: AirMaster 25: Blue Nine 25: AZVG Shintaro Kugo P4U Teams 2v2 (21 Teams) 1: #MidnightmidniteMM 2: Kaneda 3: SG is Dead 4: Yuri OTP 5: YAWANTSOME 5: Team Eye-Amp 7: Wakikoki Sunrise 7: 3rd Revelation 9: Akunamatata 9: Friends Forever 9: I Play Mitsuru 9: Team 2A 13: Exblackman & OTGeezus 13: Goddamn You Level5! 13: FNE 13: Tabarnak 17: Our DP is Ass 17: Pumas 17: Team Rokunaya 17: Whites Against the World 17: Team Anime Dads I'll edit this post as I get more information. Thanks again everyone for coming out! Jourdal will be uploading top 8 from Singles in every game within the next few days. I'll post the links here once they are ready!

It's would be very much appreciated. Eric: yes we're doing some sort of teams Sunday.

Andy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N23jTK2zel0&feature=player_detailpage#t=1579s

Whatever works.

I've got your friend covered since EOD can't make it. You have LK's contact info right? When you get to the hotel just ask him where my room is. Yes, you may use PS3 pads. If you want to be godlike, remove the battery. If you want to be extra godlike, remove the battery on a Dualshock 3. Also, if I can't get enough teams for the special event I'll just just make is BB/P4U since the number for GG players that show up will definitely be the limiting factor. Remember to bring headphones people. I know someone is going to show up and complain that they can't hear the setups. I'm going to tell you to your face to hold that shit. Don't be an idiot.

If I feel like I have time to play I can team with people Sunday. I play GG.

Evereyone is probably going to Summer Jam, and then the next thing people will be going to is Justin's. There is the Rokrew tournament soon though. I think next Friday at Eight on the Break?

4 full setups. Awesome. You guys are too good. BTW, Bibi, I got a 4G hotspot with unlimited bandwidth, so you can record AND stream Friday night if you want. Add an even to the dustloop calendar.

Just a double-check, but how many setups do you guys plan on bringing?

Please let me know if you cannot bring certain equipment anymore then what I have listed for you. If you are not coming to the tournament anymore and staying in one of my rooms please let me know. Equipment List St1ckBuG (1 CRT + 1 PS2 + 1 GGAC + 1 Monitor) LordKnight (1 PS3 + 1 BBCSE + 1 P4U) Amadeous (1 CRT + 2 PS2 + 2 GGAC + 2 PS3 + 2 P4U + 1 BBCSE) Mr. Mortified (2 Monitors + 1 PS3 + P4U + BBCSE) Montreal (4 Monitors + 4 PS3 + 4 P4U + 4 BBCSE) OchiChernye (1 PS3 + 1 P4U) Darkcloud (1 Monitor) Brandino (1 CRT) CRTs: 3 PS2s: 3 GGAC: 3 Monitors: 7 PS3s: 9 P4U: 9 BBCSE: 7 Room List Myself DC + 1 Mynusdono DaiAndOh EOD TD Lich mikenapalm VashTS Komidol SKD Rokunaya Achtzehn Darkcloud + 1 Alzarath

Pre-regs give me no idea how many people are going to enter. The only time it gives you a good number is when it's pre-reg ONLY. BTW, since you have to drive to get any kind of food in the morning, the AG breakfast is FUCKING GODLIKE. You don't have to leave the hotel and it's only a couple bucks (compared to the expensive hotel food). Bring a toy for charity and be extra godlike. !!!ANNOUNCEMENT ANNOUNCEMENT ANNOUNCEMENT!!! JUST TO REMIND EVERYONE, IF YOU WANT TO BE ABLE TO HEAR THE SETUPS AT SUMMER JAM: BRING HEADPHONES. !!!ANNOUNCEMENT ANNOUNCEMENT ANNOUNCEMENT!!! JUST TO REMIND EVERYONE, IF YOU WANT TO BE ABLE TO HEAR THE SETUPS AT SUMMER JAM: BRING HEADPHONES. !!!ANNOUNCEMENT ANNOUNCEMENT ANNOUNCEMENT!!! JUST TO REMIND EVERYONE, IF YOU WANT TO BE ABLE TO HEAR THE SETUPS AT SUMMER JAM: BRING HEADPHONES. !!!ANNOUNCEMENT ANNOUNCEMENT ANNOUNCEMENT!!! JUST TO REMIND EVERYONE, IF YOU WANT TO BE ABLE TO HEAR THE SETUPS AT SUMMER JAM: BRING HEADPHONES. The stream setup will have audible speakers, but most likely you won't be playing all of your matches on it. Any type of headphones with a 3.5mm jack works. Please plan ahead!

I'm not sure If I'll even need that many setups. I feel like BB is going to get very few entrants. There wasn't even a tournament for it at TSB? That's a shame. I asked Eric to hook me up with a couple monitors. We'll see what happens. P4U will be $10 like everything else.

On Saturday, please show up before 12. I have no idea how many people will be entering P4U, so I want to get started ASAP.

I was spoiled since I never had to pay a ridiculous price for a place to stay, but I'll give you a general idea. The flight will run you anywhere from 1100-1400 round trip depending on the time of year and day you plan to leave and come back. Hostels are cheap and run anywhere from $20-$80 (in Tokyo), but they probably average around $40 a night for a bed. You'd be better off asking someone else about this cost of the trip since I always stayed in someone's apartment the whole time, so I didn't have to pay much (if anything at all) per night. For transportation, if you plan on traveling to a couple major cities I would suggest getting a rail-pass. This lets you use the Shinkansen (bullet trains) and slower and smaller commuter trains an unlimited amount of times to (almost) any destination you'd want to go to for an overall set price. The price changes depending on how long you want to stay in Japan for. I stayed for two weeks and it was somewhere around $480 for a rail-pass. You have to order your rail-pass before going to Japan, and you exchange the voucher they send you for the physical pass you will use at the stations. For example, LK and I bought our rail-passes and a few weeks later we landed in Japan. We went to the office in the airport to exchange them and got on the NEXT train to Tokyo, which was covered by the rail-pass. While we were in Tokyo all we had to do was walk through the manned gate and show them our pass and they let us through. We never had to pay anymore fare to ride the trains that were on the JR-lines. It was very convenient. We wanted to visit Jiyuna in Nagoya, so we got Shinkansen tickets to Nagoya (which were also covered by the pass). Shinkansen tickets aren't very cheap. 1-way fares, depending on where you're going and range anywhere from $80-$150 bucks one-way. So if you wanted to visit Tokyo > Nagoya > Kyoto > Osaka > Hiroshima, or something like that, you're looking at a ton of money. With a rail-pass you're only paying a couple hundred and saving yourself lots of hassle and money in the process. If you decide to not get a rail pass, the NEXT train from Narita Airport to Tokyo costs about $40 one way. There are a couple other trains that run to Narita as well but the price is comparable (~$25). The trains around Tokyo will cost you a couple bucks each time you get on, and the price changes depending on where you get off, IIRC. Food prices are about the same as here: less than 10 bucks for fast food and there are convenience stores everywhere. If you wanted to get something better than cheap food you're going to have to pay for it of course, but I found beef bowls, ramen, and curry more than enough. I went out to eat at special places occasionally but I had a Japanese assist, so ordering was never a problem. Total you're looking anywhere between $2000 - $3000+ depending on how much spending cash you want to bring and how expensive your hostel is. My advice: save ~3K+ and get a rail-pass, this will give you tons of spending cash and cushion for yourself in-case anything unexpected happens. Stay in Tokyo for a bit but then visit the other majors cities (Kyoto, Naogya, Osaka) as well. Give yourself 2 weeks. I might go again in the spring, but I'm not too sure yet.