More Arc Revolution Cup videos have popped up recently, thanks mostly to the official Youtube channel. Unfortunately, the majority are captured by shaky cam and not direct feed, but the quality is still watchable for the most part. The current list of qualified players for all 3 games can be found here. The rows that have a gold bar on it indicate that it was an Area Final, so players there are set to compete in the finals in May.
Since there are a ton of videos embedded in this post, I’ve put them after the break here! continue reading…
I’m a bit late on reporting this, as the Arc Revolution Cup qualifiers have already begun! They started on the 16th of this month, and surprisingly some of the footage is up already! The grand finals of the qualifiers on the 16th at Square One Musashikoyama is up on Arcsys’ official Youtube channel(in shakycam form lol), and a decent amount of direct feed footage from the qualifiers on the 23rd at Koiwa Leisureland are up on ripumira’s Youtube account.
The guys over at Hitconfirm have been putting out some great material recently! Nikki traveled in Japan for 2 weeks and wrote about his experiences with the Japanese Guilty Gear scene, which can be read here. He even managed to get recorded in the January 24th Mikado singles tournament! The writeup is in Portuguese, but Google Translate is surprisingly good with PT->EN, so most everything can be understood. The points he makes about the importance of the basics as the primary difference between the Japanese players and the non-Japanese ones are very insightful.
Nikki and landstalker were also able to get their hands on the February 2013 issue of Arcadia, and have been gracious enough to provide an English translation of its Guilty Gear section! Even though the article pertains to Ver 1.01(as 1.10 was not out by the time of the magazine’s publication), it contains a lot of interesting info as well as some fun interviews. The GG article is written by H.H and Koichi, featuring matchup notes against 1.01′s top characters as well as an interview with Inoue and Jonio.
More details have finally emerged concerning the Arc Revolution Cup, which was originally announced in November. The official site has been unveiled here. The tournament, which will feature the three main ArcSys arcade fighting games GGXX AC+R, BBCP, and P4U, is actually part of a special event commemorating their 25th anniversary called the Arc System Works Festival. Qualifiers for the tournament will be taking place in various arcades from February 16th to April 21st, and the qualifying players will then be able to participate in the finals on May 19th. The official site has a listing of every arcade that will be hosting a qualifier event. The format of every tournament will be 1v1 single elimination. As you can expect, many players are not happy with this decision, as big national tournaments there tend to be team format(like my personal favorite, 3on3).
In other news, a-cho commentator and Axl player Kakyuu streamed an introductory Guilty Gear lecture a week ago. He also posted his lecture notes on the a-cho homepage, for people having trouble following the presentation. It’s also a lot more organized than his actual lecture. For people who can understand Japanese, this is an excellent resource on Guilty Gear. It’s also doubly interesting since it’s from the perspective of a very old school player(Kakyuu has been playing since GGXX, and even got top 4 in Tougeki 2003). My friend Brett has expressed interest in doing a complete English translation of the notes, so if he gets that done I will make an update about that here.
Just one day after the tournament, a-cho already has the complete footage of the Chonari Cup 3on3 up on their Youtube account! Many top players came out for this, so there are tons of great matches across almost 3 hours of footage. I have went ahead and added player names and characters used with timecodes in the Youtube comments, which I’ve also reproduced below.
Hasegawa(Sol), Murishinjuu(Johnny), Menso(Kliff)
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Kabegiwa no DC(Johnny), Koro-chan(Sol), Kedako(May)
9:44 MasatoP(Axl), Nezu(Robo), Takuan(May)
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Anchan(Bridget), DONchan(Potemkin), Mokkun(Jam)
15:20 DONchan(Potemkin), Anchan(Bridget), Mokkun(Jam)
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Izumi(Sol), Kabegiwa no DC(Johnny), Kedako(May)
24:17 Dogura(Robo), N-O(Venom), Efute(May)
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Kuni(Baiken), Kuro(Zappa), Hiroto Frog(Kliff)
35:01 Rokka(I-No), Sabamiso(Bridget), Izu(May)
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Tsujikawa(Justice), Rozu(Ky), Ruu(Bridget)
43:30 RIN5(Millia), Biba(Faust), Makoto(HOS)
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Woshige(Millia), Ruki(Dizzy), Chonari(Zappa)
48:35 Nabe(Millia), Mirai(Anji), Yuuki(Eddie)
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Shun(Baiken), Asa(Anji), Mirukii(HOS)
1:01:20 Honda(Testament), MGA(Potemkin), Makki(Dizzy)
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Hama(HOS), Etanaru(Slayer), Matsuura(Sol)
1:11:15 Omoto(Kliff), Chuugen(Chipp), Udon(Sol)
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Omito(Johnny), eki-chan(Zappa), Defure(Faust)
1:20:09 Honda(Testament), Makki(Dizzy), MGA(Potemkin)
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DKJ(Johnny), KN(Faust), Deruji(May)
1:29:43 Hiiro(Johnny), Kesuke(Testament), BLUE(Axl)
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Kiyo(Millia), Takuchi(Kliff), KJK(Slayer)
1:36:50 Yuuki(Eddie), Nabe(Millia), Mirai(Anji)
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TSUTIYA(HOS), masato(Ky), Tenkasu(Anji)
1:43:28 Asa(Anji), Mirukii(HOS), Shun(Baiken)
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TSUTIYA(HOS), masato(Ky), Tenkasu(Anji)
TOP 8
Tsujikawa(Justice), Ruu(Bridget), Rozu(Ky)
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Kabegiwa no DC(Johnny), Kedako(May), Izumi(Sol)
11:00 Hiroto Frog(Kliff), Kuni(Baiken), Kuro(Zappa)
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Woshige(Millia), Ruki(Dizzy), Chonari(Zappa)
20:10 eki-chan(Zappa), Omito(Johnny), Defure(Faust)
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KJK(Slayer), Takuchi(Kliff), Kiyo(Millia)
27:40 Yuuki(Eddie), Mirai(Anji), Nabe(Millia)
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Deruji(May), KN(Faust), DKJ(Johnny)
TOP 4
40:42 Tsujikawa(Justice), Ruu(Bridget), Rozu(Ky)
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Ruki(Dizzy), Woshige(Millia), Chonari(Zappa)
53:24 Mirai(Anji), Yuuki(Eddie), Nabe(Millia)
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Omito(Johnny), eki-chan(Zappa), Defure(Faust)
Battle for 3rd place
1:02:50 Mirai(Anji), Nabe(Millia), Yuuki(Eddie)
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Ruki(Dizzy), Woshige(Millia), Chonari(Zappa)
Grand finals
1:11:41 eki-chan(Zappa), Omito(Johnny), Defure(Faust)
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Rozu(Ky), Ruu(Bridget), Tsujikawa(Justice)
For people interested in print media of GGXX Accent Core Plus R, I’ve compiled the articles that Arcadia has run on +R for 2012. It was featured in the last five issues of the year, from August to December. The September issue has an interview with Daisuke Ishiwatari, as well as the players Kenchan(Millia), Ogawa(Eddie), Dogura(Robo), Koichi(I-No), and Inoue(Order Sol). The November issue is the one that has the hilariously early tier list with less than half the cast represented. Credit goes to Ramtieger on Underground Gamer for purchasing and scanning all the magazines. Arcadia #147 August 2012 Arcadia #148 September 2012 Arcadia #149 October 2012 Arcadia #150 November 2012 Arcadia #151 December 2012
Now that the New Year has started, I have updated the 2012 Videos page with the rest of last year’s videos. As you can also see on the top sidebar, I’ve also started the 2013 Videos page which doesn’t really have much at the moment.
Tonight, a-cho will be holding their first GGXX AC+R 3on3 tournament! It has a subtitle of the Chonari Cup, so maybe he’ll enter in a team by himself. a-cho usually streams special events on their ustream channel, so check that or their Twitter account throughout the night to see if they’re live.
