**The Summoning is Complete.
MBAACC FRXV: AMERICA v JAPAN**
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Japanese players Garu (H-Kohaku/H-Tohno/H-Arc) and Chelsea (C-Arc) will be attending Final Round XV. Their plane arrives on the 2nd of March, at 3PM. Garu has won several Japanese tournaments, most famous for his performance in MBAA and Aqua Pazza. You may also remember him as the EVO2010 champion of MBAA PS2.
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In accordance with what Larry (ShinBlanka) said, you will need to pre-register online in order to participate at the venue for any tournament (short of an early Friday morning at-door registration).
Tournament entries are 10$ each in addition to your online venue of 35$.
Friday night, March 2nd, will be MBAACC Teams. This tournament begins at 7PM. Obviously you should expect to arrive in Atlanta by 3pm if you want to participate and you’re coming via plane.
MBAACC Singles will begin at 11AM on Saturday, the morning of March 3rd.
MBAACC Top 8 will take place on Sunday, March 4th, at 9AM. After other game’s Top 8 finish we will probably run a large Red vs White, perhaps a 50v50, dodge-ball style.
Please plan accordingly.
Hare, KoreanCL, and GO1 have respectfully declined the attendance partially due to work, despite wanting to attend. There are also many other players who considered it, unfortunately they couldn’t justify taking off work, spending the money, and going the distance for the event. Needless to say, these players who expressed interest in going to America for this event will look to FRXV as a symbol to judge if it’s worth going in the future.
Japan is looking with wide eyes at this event, and if we want them to come in the future (to NEC or otherwise), I would strongly hope we can produce a registrant list exceeding 128 participants. A registrant list falling short of 96 participants would be atrocious for the public image of the community. If you really love this game, you need to attend Final Round for it’s future. For those of you short on money, I extend my regrets - however, tax season is this month and if you file now you may get the few hundred dollars you need to get out here and play, especially if you’re in a lower tax bracket. If you’re under the age of 24 and in college, and file as a dependent, your parents will get a large stipend. Larry did his best to schedule this event during many school’s spring breaks for the younger community. This community is very helpful and you can carpool, or network with hotels in this thread. Just know that you have only just over a week to pre-register for Final Round unless you plan on paying Friday morning, and just under a month to make all your preparations. Everyone who financially and physically can go to this event, goes. There shouldn’t be any question here.
I would like to thank everyone who is making this a possibility both for the event and internationally. SilentShinobi will also be organizing the tournament on the ground as he always has for Final Round to make sure it is run smoothly, and we trust him to do so per his great handling of organizing the Team Tournament at EVO2010, and Pool 3 of Singles that year (with our founder Arlieth). He has purchased a large monitor to display matches and the brackets every so often so everyone knows where they need to be during the event. Brandino has done a good job promoting this event with DonJon. Kamina did excellent work with the videos. Zar has done good work with posting Melty Blood media in both Japanese and English. KoreanCL helped us in social networks we could not access and promoted enthusiasm for the event and kept us informed. LK and TeamSt1ckbug have come to Japan and promoted the game more times than I can count. Many thanks to Rayza and MD/VA for offering to make sure this event is recorded, and streamed properly. Even further, more than one Japanese speaker, regardless of level of Japanese, gave us presence within the Japanese community (Dakanya, Curbeh, Yuji, and Kamina just to name a few). And one last thanks to everyone who posted and helped in the international threads and voiced their opinions, or even gave out a simple tweet out on twitter.
This is the first major for MBAACC, make it hype. We want to build a strong foundation for this game’s lifespan. A failure here would be detrimental to the development of the game in America. We have to be louder than a few thousand capcom players. I think everyone of our members can outnumber ten of theirs, so - let’s create the first 256-man Melty Bracket ever and show, Ecole, EVO Staff, TeamSp00ky, and whoever else that this is a major game in America. That means that every single person who netplayed for MBAC, Tsukihime, or wherever they come from needs a reason to goto this event. Make videos. Post everyday on Twitter. Talk to your local fighting game scenes. Make physical advertisements and flyers at your locals. A lot of new faces to tournament organization stepped up and strained their resources to get this far.
This tournament now has everything that a major needs to be successful, run well, and be fun. It has huge monitors for information, competent staff, a dedicated space, completely stable streaming and recording, and is getting an official supported live-stream slot on Sunday morning. But this is just a gateway. It starts with everyone who has ever supported this game buying their plane ticket, registering, and only gets underway when every single one of those people guarantees one person who didn’t go to EVO goes to their event - and good or bad - every melty community around the globe, Korean, Japanese, Chinese, Russian, European, Brazilian, American, or otherwise is going to see the results.
tl;dr Don’t “f” this up and be there.
