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It is with great pleasure that I can make the formal announcement regarding our Tougeki Super Battle Opera United States East Coast qualification Dates and format details.
DATES
Saturday June 9th 2007 and Sunday June 10th 2007
Street Fighter III 3rd Strike And Hyper Street Fighter II The Anniversary Edition
Saturday June 16th and Sunday June 17th 2007
Tekken 5 Dark Resurrection
East Coast Qualifiers will be held at:
"Tokyo Game Action"
5 Summer Dr.
Winchendon, Massachusetts 01475
Tom (Arlieth) will be running the West Coast Qualifiers for Street Fighter III Third Strike and Hyper Street Fighter II Anniversary Edition at Family Fun Arcade in California. FFA’S details are as follows:
Family Fun Arcade
10363 Balboa Blvd
Granada Hills, CA 91344
(818) 360-0419
For additional information please contact Tom (Arlieth) at
TOKYO GAME ACTION QUALIFICATION FORMAT
As we did last year, TGA will be retaining our unique format by holding separate, consecutive tournaments, within the above listed weekends to determine the team members for each game.
All entrants will be qualifying on their own and earning their spots on the teams individually.
With this format each person will be given a MINIMUM of 6 matches to qualify before they are eliminated.
TGA has elected to hold their tournaments last (as in after the other American qualifiers) to prevent any disruption in teams.
3 tournaments will be held for Street Fighter III 3rd Strike on Saturday June 9th, 2007 and Sunday June 10th, 2007 to determine the three Street Fighter III 3rd Strike team members. All three tournaments will be conducted during that weekend.
2 tournaments will be held for Hyper Street Fighter II the Anniversary Edition on Saturday June 9th 2007 and Sunday June 10th 2007 to determine the two team members for Hyper SFII AE. All two tournaments will be conducted during that weekend.
3 tournaments will be held for Tekken 5 to determine the three team members
on Saturday June 16th and Sunday June 17th 2007. All three tournaments will be conducted during that weekend.
All three tournaments will be best 2 out of 3, single elimination.
Each entrant will pick one character to compete with for the entire length of the first tournament. The winner of the first tournament will retain their chosen character and must use that character during the Tougeki finals in Japan.
The second tournament will follow the same format. Each entrant, minus the first winner, will enter using 1 character which must be different from the character that the first winner used.
The third tournament will follow the same format.
Example
Player A wins the first tournament using Chun Li
All players except player A, may enter again, for the second tournament, but cannot use Chun Li.
Player B wins the second tournament using Ken.
All players with the exception of players A and B can enter the final tournament, and can use any character except Chun Li and Ken.
Player C wins the thrid tournament with Ryu completing the final team of players A, B and C with Chun Li, Ken and Ryu.
-TGA’s qualifiers will be run on the Japanese versions of Street Fighter III 3rd Strike and Hypers Street Fighter II Anniversary Edition. Tekken 5 D.R. will use the American software.
All games will be played in Japanese versus style / Head to Head Cabinets, and will use Sanwa Sticks and Buttons.
Please note that Tekken 5 will be STICK ONLY, per Tougeki regulations.
General Notes:
-TGA will remain 100% impartial and use computer generated random seeding.
TGA will not adjust brackets or alter seeding in any way.
-TGA staff members will accompany the winners to SBO and provide all
relative assistance. ALL PLANE TICKETS WILL BE ROUND TRIP (more details will come as soon as we find out who qualifies).
- All TGA entries will be required to bring a completed waiver form
(available for download prior to the tournament) and government issued
identification to the tournament in order to participate.
Additional information regarding rules, regulations, entry fees…etc will be posted.
A big thank you to everyone for their continued support. We look forward to seeing everyone and we wish all teams for all locations the best of luck! More
information will follow soon, so check back often.
Respectfully,
Andrew McGuire
President
Tokyo Game Action Inc.
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EDIT:**
Hey everyone, very sorry for the delay on the updates, we’ve been very busy for the past few weekends, we really apologize for not answering your questions earlier. BUT HERE WE GO!!!
Schedule for June 9th(Saturday) and June 10th(Sunday) Qualifiers:
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Store hours: **
Friday = 2pm - 12am
Saturday = 10am - 11pm
Sunday = 11am - 12am
Tournament Scheduling:
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Saturday:**
10am - 1pm: Store Opens/Registration begins
-$50 to enter the 3s or AE qualifiers. If you enter both it'll only cost you $75 instead of $100. The fee includes: free play all day for all games, your tournament entry fee, and entrance to the building for both Saturday and Sunday.
-If you do NOT want to enter the qualifiers but want to come watch and play casuals you will only need to pay $15 for EACH day.
**1pm - 2pm: ** Bracketing (random seeding)
**2pm - 11pm: *Tournaments begin (For these tournaments, we will NOT tolerate for people coming to their matches late, if you are not at the cabinet within 2 minutes of your match you will be DQ’ed, no exceptions!)
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Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike
-1st tournament = 2pm start
-2nd tournament = 6pm start
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Hyper Street Fighter II: The Anniversary Edition**
-1st tournament = 6pm start
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Sunday:**
**11am: **Store opens/Registrations for the last tournaments begin
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12pm:** Tournaments begin
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Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike **
-3rd tournament = 12pm start
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Hyper Street Fighter II: The Anniversary Edition**
-2nd tournament = 2pm start
Award Ceremony for SFIII:3s and HSF:AE = 5pm
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Side Tournaments: **
Start time 6pm
-50% of the pot will go towards the “Send EC USA to Japan” fundraiser :lovin:
-The other 50% will go towards 1st and 2nd place 25/25% split.
*Selection of games and entry fees will be determined after the quals.
Note:
-If you show up late, for the 1st tournament and u still wanna enter the other 2, it is still $50 entry fee.
-ALL PLANE TICKETS ARE ROUND TRIP! The rest of the details on that will be determined upon the completion of the qualifiers. :tup:
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EVERYONE GET HYPED! LET’S SHOW JAPAN WE’RE UNSTOPPABLE!!! :karate:**
With loveeeeee,
TGA Staff
