Tougeki SBO 2011 - ST

Classic Fighting Games Super Street Fighter II Turbo
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17 years strong. Another year of the arcade legend. Another year of fierce competition. Another year where US players can prove their mettle.

Super Street Fighter II X Grand Master Challenge (Super Street Fighter II Turbo) is back at Tougeki -Super Battle Opera-: 闘劇2011 THE 9th ARCADIA CUP TOURNAMENT

The US qualifier has been confirmed to take place again at the Game Galaxy arcade in Nashville, TN. This year, the qualifier will coincide with the Midwest Championships major on June 25. The format will again be 3 separate tourneys to determine each of the 3 qualifying spots. The playing standard consists of arcade cabinets with Sanwa parts and US Turbo 2 speed (equivalent to JP Turbo 3). More details can be found here: http://shoryuken.com/f7/mwc-sbo-japanese-qual-super-turbo-jun-24-26-fri-sat-sun-nashville-tn-sfae-mvc3-mk9-261348/

The European qualifier has been confirmed to take place at the Japan Expo in Paris, France on July 3. This tournament is restricted to only European players, and the format will be a single 3-on-3 tournament to determine the qualifying team. The playing standard consists of arcade cabinets with Sanwa parts and JP Turbo 3 speed. More details can be found here: http://versusdojo.com/tougeki-european-qualify-2011/super-street-fighter-ii-x-3v3/english
UPDATE: The European qualifier has been rescheduled and reformatted into 3 separate pre-qualifiers at Gamespirit (Lyon), Neo Arcadia (Toulouse), VS Dojo (Paris) on July 30. These 3 teams, along with a last chance qualifier, will meet in a final tourney at VS Dojo on Aug. 6 to determine the European qualifying team. More details can be found here: http://www.neoempire.com/forum/showthread.php?t=11421

Regulations:

-3on3 teams
-1 game, 2 rounds
-Gouki is banned
-Old characters are permitted
-No duplicate characters on a team; old & new are considered different
-No changing characters
-1st players on both teams must be declared before playing
-RPS determines side before playing
-Turbo 3
-Everything else factory settings

Here is a list of all 32 qualifiers and the qualified teams as results appear:

  1. 4/29 - Gian Recital @ GAME-NEWTON Oyama / Tokyo, Kanto
    Shiki (boxer), Mute (Guile), Nuki (Chun Li)

  2. 4/30 - Takadanobaba Game Center Mikado / Tokyo, Kanto
    Keshin (Chun Li), Yoshimura (Dhalsim), YuuVega (dictator)

  3. 5/1 - Club Sega Akihabara / Tokyo, Kanto
    KKY (Dhalsim), Mattsun (Ken), Kikai (Guile)

  4. 5/3 - Fujimidai Game Park / Tokyo, Kanto
    Tama (boxer), Hakase (Dhalsim), Noguchi (claw)

  5. 5/4 - Lupin 122 / Gunma, Kanto
    Hanashi (Fei Long), Nasusim (Dhalsim), Abebin (E.Honda)

  6. 5/5 - GAME-NEWTON Shimura / Tokyo, Kanto
    Toukon (Chun Li), Milky (dictator), Muneo (o.Sagat)

  7. 5/8 - U-Factory Anjo / Aichi, Chubu
    Ando (o.Fei Long), Sagativ (o.Sagat), Ta-Tsumaki RYU (o.Ryu)

  8. 5/14 - Gifu Leisureland / Gifu, Chubu
    Otochun (Chun Li), ARG (claw), Gunze (Zangief)

  9. 5/15 - Cosmic Plaza ABC / Osaka, Kinki
    Makki (Ryu), Masao (Ken), Saito (Zangief)

  10. 5/21 - Play Hard 50 Kasugai / Aichi, Chubu
    Futachan (Ryu), HAS (Fei Long), Roku (E.Honda)

  11. 5/22 - KO-HATSU / Osaka, Kinki
    OkaFei (Fei Long), Seki (Dee Jay), Shooting D (Ryu)

  12. 5/29 - Niigata POPY / Niigata, Chubu
    Kotetsu (claw), Suzuki (Dhalsim), Nami (Zangief)

  13. 6/4 - neo amusementspace a-cho / Kyoto, Kinki
    Prince (Chun Li), Aniki (Guile), Ito (Dee Jay)

  14. 6/5 - Tsurumaki / Tochigi, Kanto
    VIPER (T.Hawk), Toutanki (o.T.Hawk), Aotsun (Chun Li)

  15. 6/11 - Space Shuttle Shiogama-guchi / Aichi, Chubu
    The SuperStar (boxer), Gotoh (Ryu), Tani (Guile)

  16. 6/12 - Gcom Wajiro / Fukuoka, Kyushu-Okinawa
    Kumadhal (Dhalsim), Chai (Chun Li), Aiderun (Guile)

  17. 6/18 - Play Spot Big 1 / Saitama, Kanto
    AFO (Blanka), Sasori (Ryu), Oonishi (dictator)

  18. 6/19 - Poros Omagari / Akita, Hokkaido-Tohoku
    Mushi (Ryu), Gorilla Kagesuke (o.Sagat), Ginaiyouhei (dictator)

  19. 6/25 - Autobahn / Osaka, Kinki
    Kusumond (E.Honda), Yabu (Cammy), Aniken (Ken)

  20. 6/25 - Game Galaxy / Nashville, Tennessee (US)
    Damdai (o.T.Hawk), Immortal (claw), Riz0ne (dictator)

  21. 6/26 - G3 Poros Akita / Akita, Hokkaido-Tohoku
    Fukahire Kamen (Zangief), KAIJI (Dhalsim), Katsuo Gocho (Chun Li)

  22. 7/2 - Taito Station Mizunokuchi / Kanagawa, Kanto
    Hammer (o.Ken), Hiroyan (T.Hawk), M-B* (boxer)

  23. 7/3 - Nishi-Nippori Game Spot Versus / Tokyo, Kanto
    Akabla (Blanka), Shiro (Ryu), Shinzui Nidaime (Guile)

  24. 7/9 - Club Sega Akihabara Shinkan / Tokyo, Kanto
    Yuuzuru (Dee Jay), Naoki (boxer), Shuu (Ken)

  25. 7/10 - GAME41 / Hokkaido, Hokkaido-Tohoku
    Kiken (Ken), Alabama (boxer), San (Ryu)

  26. 7/16 - High Tech Land Sega AViON / Osaka, Kinki
    Tsuji (boxer), MAO (claw), Kurahashi (Ryu)

  27. 7/17 - PLAYLAND F1R / Miyagi, Hokkaido-Tohoku
    Yoshiwo (Guile), Numa (boxer), baby nine (E.Honda)

  28. 7/23 - Amusement azpress / Toyama, Chubu
    Parunii (Dhalsim), MurasakiVega (dictator), OreRyu (Ryu)

  29. 7/24 - Game Chariot Goi / Chiba, Kanto
    Fujinuma (Chun Li), tomo (Ryu), Gakuzan (Zangief)

  30. 7/31 - GAME-NEWTON Oyama / Tokyo, Kanto
    yaya (Sagat), Taira (dictator), Sashishi (Ryu)

  31. 8/6 - VS Dojo / Paris, France (Europe)
    eLivePro.Ken Bogard (o.T.Hawk), WDM.CCL (Chun Li), eLivePro.Kenpachi (Ryu)

  32. 9/17 - Last chance qualifier @ Tokyo Game Show / Tokyo, Kanto
    Urusa (Chun Li), Gucchi (Ryu), Shinshin (boxer)

9/17 - Final @ Tokyo Game Show / Tokyo, Kanto

  1. OkaFei (Fei Long), Seki (Dee Jay), Shooting D (Ryu)
  2. Otochun (Chun Li), ARG (claw), Gunze (Zangief)
  3. Keshin (Chun Li), Yoshimura (Dhalsim), YuuVega (dictator)
  4. KKY (Dhalsim), Mattsun (Ken), Kikai (Guile)

Character distribution:

Ryu - 14

Chun Li - 11

boxer - 9

Dhalsim - 8

Guile - 7
dictator - 7

Ken - 5
Zangief - 5
claw - 5

E.Honda - 4

Fei Long - 3
Dee Jay - 3
o.T.Hawk - 3
o.Sagat - 3

Blanka - 2
T.Hawk - 2

Cammy - 1
Sagat - 1
o.Ryu - 1
o.Ken - 1
o.Fei Long - 1

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I guess ill be seeing you again ganelon =]

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The game is still alive.
Tears of joy.

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Man, I fucking love this game. I’m glad that it’s back. :bgrin:

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Crossing all my fingers and toes.

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fuck yes.

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Hell yeah ST !!! Glad to hear this news. Tougeki remains supreme of all fighting game tournaments !

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I’m so happy to read this. ST forever.

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Time to practice up for the qualifier again! I hope its held again by DreamTR in Tenn.

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Good shit! What are the odds of two teams going this year since last year’s did well? Yes I know we’re lucky to even get one team but I can dream!

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Seconded. This year I’m just going to watch, though, assuming SBO qualifiers are held in Nashville again.

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The Tougeki SBO 2011 ST qualifying schedule is up: ??? | ??2011 THE 9th ARCADIA CUP TOURNAMENT

Since ST is one of the 4 premier titles in Tougeki 2011 that have been announced at the beginning, there are 28 qualifiers in Japan this year (up from 15 last year). With the 3-on-3 team format, that’s 84 players, meaning pretty much every JP player that’s really good will make it to the final event day.

And since the quantity of teams in any Tougeki game is usually a power of 2 to complete the bracket, having 28 JP qualifiers seems to imply that there will be 4 international qualifiers. I’ve heard rumors of multiple US qualifiers already but we’ll have to see those come to light in the upcoming weeks or months.

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Great news! How does this work? Do they contact arcade owners, or is it up to the people interested to contact Tougeki organization and pledge for a spot?

Edit: some Google translate stuff: Rules, Schedule (Ganelon has already translated, but w/e…).

From rules, I did not understand “Statutory system a second round game” and “? Characters Super Character and normal in the team can not handle the different character.” I suppose “Takeshi demon unavailable” means “Akuma (Gouki) is banned.” Anyway, would you please post a more adequate translation, when possible?

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One thing I forgot to mention is there was also a Gian Recital qualifier last year and I believe that may have taken up one of the unlisted spots. And there’s also the last chance qualifier on the day of the finals. So that may mean only 2 international spots if the same will occur this year. FYI, Gian Recital 2011 is scheduled for 4/29 (ahead of the Tougeki qualifiers just like last year) and the link is at: ?W???C?A???T?C?^???Q?O?P?P

oldschool_BR: Tougeki sends out qualifier requests to arcades around Japan and interested arcades reply back. I’m not certain about international arcades but petitioning them for a spot works as I recall reading last year.

The regulations are really self-explanatory but for the purposes of completion, I can list them:

-3on3 teams
-1 game, 2 rounds
-Gouki is banned
-Old characters are permitted
-No duplicate characters on a team; old & new are considered different
-No changing characters
-1st players on both teams must be declared before playing
-RPS determines side before playing
-Turbo 3
-Everything else factory settings

These are the same regulations every year pretty much. The only part I’m confused about is that the rules always say that only the 1st player must be selected before playing and the US ST team was operating under that assumption last year, but we had to fill out a form with the complete 3-player order before we played.

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Probably one US and one EUR spot. Still, consideration for a spot is great!

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Gian Recital is now a confirmed qualifier for Tougeki this year. So as predicted, that leaves 3 unanswered spots remaining with 1 almost certainly reserved for last chance qualifiers.

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A list of Gian Recital teams that have already officially registered can be found here: [?W???C?A???T?C?^???@?X?[?p?[?X?g???[?g?t?@?C?^??QX???@??T?C?g

Some tidbits about the teams so far:

-1st team is comprised entirely of character aliases from AC Japan ads
-4th team is comprised of 4 of the 5 Ouja (highest rank so far) and 1 of Mosa (2nd highest rank) in the danisen battles. The Japanese ST equivalent of the Yankees would be a fair analogy
-6th team has a “Mysterious Partner” o.Honda. It’s the only o.Honda on the list so far, hmm…
-Interesting “themed” teams with all Dee Jay, all Zangief, and all Hawk (N and O)

For those who weren’t around last year, the winning Gian Recital team gets to select 3 of its 5 members to become a qualifying Tougeki Super Battle Opera team.

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I was thinking about that (but I don’t know shit about Japanese, I have used Google’s translator after having checked NH2’s blog). Tsuji’s and the char themed teams will have to drop one of the repeated characters, or pick the old one (which seems a risk for DJ, Claw and Gief). Even then, the themed teams will need another character. Has anything been said about this?

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Nope, the Gian Recital rules don’t mention the Tougeki SBO selection process in any detail so it’s not clear what’ll happen if a themed team wins.

But speaking of the qualifier, one of the ironies last year was that Abebin made it further in Tougeki than his Gian Recital qualifying teammates despite not being selected to the qualifying team (the other was Shogatsu’s o.Honda, who didn’t participate at all).

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Pony (Zangief), Atomic Boy [Toutanki] (Zangief), Kakky (Zangief), Aoki Cyclone (Zangief), Gunze (Zangief)

VIPER (T.Hawk), Yakitori (O.Hawk), Muro (O.Hawk), Shin (T.Hawk)

Im SOOOOOOOO looking forward to this