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The Japanese Playstation blog has finally revealed the main players who will be participating in Toshin Gekitotsu! First up, be sure to watch the very funny promotional video that contains interviews with most of the participating players. The lineups are now
Guilty Gear Kings Army: FAB(Potemkin), Nage(Faust), Susumu(Chipp), Ogawa(Zato), Takehara(Ramlethal), Taka(Slayer), Koichi(I-No), Kiisha(Faust)
Progamer Allied Forces: Daigo Umehara(Sol), Machaboo(Ky), Kazunoko(Sol), sako(Zato), Nakamura(Millia), LOX(Bedman), Roi(Sol), Mugen(Sol)

As this is a 10on10, there are still four more spots left to fill. Guilty Gear Kings Army will have an ArcRevo 2015 representative, and Progamer Allied Forces will have an EVO 2015 representative. Since Ogawa and Nage are already set in place, there is a good chance that Woshige will be chosen as the EVO player. There is also one more online qualifier that will be happening on August 9th.

In addition, the site has revealed that this 10on10 exhibition will not be played Pokemon style, as the main players already have their matches set! They are
Battle 0: Arc Revo 2015 representative vs EVO 2015 representative
Battle 1: Susumu vs Machaboo
Battle 2: Nage vs Kazunoko
Battle 3: FAB vs sako
Battle 4: Ogawa vs Daigo Umehara

No announcement has been made about the format for the online qualified players, though. It is interesting to see Machaboo pick Ky for this event, and I have a feeling it is for the purpose of adding diversity because his team already has 4 Sol players. The finals will be dual streamed on Nico and Youtube on August 22nd.

Here is a list of gaming publications that are running articles on this event:
Dengeki
Gamer
Famitsu

In a surprise announcement by ASW, the final Guilty Gear Xrd Revelator location test will be happening this weekend! While there aren’t that many balance changes this time around, there are quite a few cosmetic ones. If you look at the new Player’s Guild database, you will notice that every character’s mugshot has been revamped. It is mostly a combination of different shaders and facial expressions, but Elphelt’s is dramatically different. In fact, her entire portrait and sprite have been altered to reflect the events of Xrd’s story mode. It is slightly spoilerific, so I won’t post it here and will just link it instead. Some players have humorously pointed out how similar she looks to Kantai Collection’s Abyssal Fleet vessels. There have also been a number of voice changes. Jack-O’ and Johnny finally have voices, and because Slayer’s previous voice actor Iemasa Kayumi passed away recently, he is now voiced by Takaya Hashi. Many people will remember him for his role as Toki in Hokuto no Ken. You can read more details on the location test changes translated into English on greatfernman’s Evernote here.

Kurushii has done some rips from the new Revelator Player’s Guild website, and you can see them below.
Johnny shop palettes 1-11
Jack-O’ shop palettes 1-11
Ramlethal shop palettes 1-11
Elphelt shop palettes 1-11

Media coverage of Xrd’s final location test has been surprisingly light. I have not seen any articles and videos whatsoever, and only a few pictures and tweets. Regardless, if there are articles published I will post them here throughout the week.

Toshin Gekitotsu’s 4th online qualifier has concluded! Like the last time it was dual streamed on Nico and Youtube, and after a bit of a delay the archives are finally available on ASW’s official Youtube channel. You can watch the videos below:

2015/7/31 Toshin Gekitotsu 4th online qualifier with FAB commentary
Progamer Allied Forces
13:28 Yuusukechin(Chipp) vs Gazou(Faust)
16:14 Dogura(Sin) vs Gagakigo(Millia)
19:31 Kabegiwa no DC(Sin) vs Mugen(Sol)
24:43 Dogura(Sin) vs Gazou(Faust)
30:22 Dogura(Sin) vs Mugen(Sol)
35:44 Gazou(Faust) vs Mugen(Sol)

Guilty Gear Kings Army
56:04 OGYUI(Sol) vs Kiisha(Faust)
1:00:02 GAKU(Sin) vs Kaze no Biri(Sol)
1:02:32 Samitto(Chipp) vs Konsome(Potemkin)
1:06:02 NOB(Sol) vs JUN(Millia)
1:10:11 GAKU(Sin) vs Kiisha(Faust)
1:15:00 Samitto(Chipp) vs NOB(Sol)
1:23:11 Samitto(Chipp) vs Kiisha(Faust)

There will be one more online qualifier happening on 8/9. The current lineups are now:
Guilty Gear Kings Army: FAB(Potemkin), Nage(Faust), Takehara(Ramlethal), Taka(Slayer), Koichi(I-No), Kiisha(Faust)
Progamer Allied Forces: Daigo Umehara(Sol), Nakamura(Millia), LOX(Bedman), Roi(Sol), Mugen(Sol)

You might notice that I removed Ogawa from Daigo’s team. The Toshin Gekitotsu website states that the EVO winner should have a spot on Daigo’s team, but he is still not listed on there so it is possible that they meant one of the top8 finalists instead. Anyway, I will update the lineups when the official announcement is made.