Xie Report post Posted September 12, 2012 Greetings denizens of the Persona 4 and BlazBlue scene. I’m pleased to present you guys the opportunity to fly out to NEC this year and participate in the biggest and best East Coast tournament! We will be providing ONE plane ticket for both P4U and BBEX, which will be determined by two separate double-elimination tournaments! Regardless of whether you intend to participate in the final qualifier, I hope you will attend either this event or one of the fundraiser events to help support the event itself! Live Stream: http://twitch.tv/xiei Date: Saturday, October 20th, 2012 Time Schedule: Registration Begins: 1:00PM BlazBlue Continuum Shift EXTEND Tournament Begins: 3:00PM Persona 4 Arena Tournament Begins: 5:00PM BlazBlue Continuum Shift EXTEND Top8: 7:00PM Persona 4 Arena Top8: 8:00PM Location: Super Arcade 1211 North Grand Avenue Walnut, CA 91789 Registration All registration will be on-site before the event begins. There is no online registration or pre-registering for this event. NEC is on December 1st and 2nd, 2012, so you MUST be available at least from November 30th to December 3rd to travel! Registration Fee $5 Venue + $10 Entry Per Tournament Prize: 100% Covered Plane ticket to NEC 2012 in Philadelphia P4 Extra Prize: MadCatz Triton Headset BBEX Extra Prize: Hori BlazBlue Extend Xbox 360 Stick Airfare will be fully covered for the tournament winners. No pot split; entry fees be used entirely to cover the plane ticket. Prize Rules: - The winning player of each tournament will receive an airplane ticket courtesy of myself. You must take a round trip flight from the U.S., departing from and arriving back to one major U.S. airport of your choice. I personally will be flying from LAX, so if you wish to accompany me, that option is available. The flight will be to and from Philadelphia (PHL). This of course means, regardless of whether you are from PNW, NorCal, Arizona, or Vegas, I will buy your flight! - “Gatekeeping” or otherwise “Entering the tournament without any intention to go” IS allowed in this tournament. HOWEVER, the tournament is run with the expectation that SOMEONE will be going as the winner. In the event you cannot or are not willing to go, we will determine another winner appropriately. Meaning you are entering entirely as a dream robber but someone will still go. - A player can only win ONE ticket. In the event they are the winner of both tournaments, an alternate player will be selected for one of the events. - A “Second Chance Seed” event will be held after the main tournament has finished. This is to determine alternate placement in the event the champion cannot or is ineligible to attend. This event will be a Single Elimination tournament with high placing finishers who did not win the tournament. - James Xie cannot win a plane ticket in either event. Format: Double Elimination bracket, best 2/3 matches. 3/5 Grand Finals. In Grand Finals, the losing player must defeat the undefeated player twice. We will use challonge.com to generate a seeded bracket based on tournament performance. Seed points can be obtained at the XIEVOLUTION fundraiser events or at The Runback. - PlayStation 3s will be the console the tournament is run on, any controller or joystick can be used, so long as you do not disrupt any other matches with it (I'm looking at you, PS3 Pad Players) - You may switch character if you lose a match. Winner must keep the same character - Double Blind Character select is also possible, please notify tournament staff. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jyosua Report post Posted September 12, 2012 I'll go to this. I'm planning on going to NEC regardless, and I know I won't win this, but if it'll help someone else go, I'm all for it. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Linear04 Report post Posted September 12, 2012 poor james xie Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
shtkn Report post Posted September 12, 2012 i'm willing to throw in a couple hundred for the air fare fund if needed. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
iora Report post Posted September 12, 2012 - James Xie cannot win a plane ticket in either event. Thats just being ridiculous Cool event, props man! ^^ Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ZeroRaider Report post Posted September 12, 2012 Welp, I've gone to Norcal and Vegas to push buttons already. I guess its fitting i hit up Socal now. You're next, PNW.. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Herbal Grey Report post Posted September 24, 2012 If bb top 8 was an hour or two earlier i could make it at least for that Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
StayFree( ' 3') Report post Posted September 28, 2012 If bb top 8 was an hour or two earlier i could make it at least for that ...It seems I'm going to NEC guys Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Xie Report post Posted October 1, 2012 Time is flexible, but I don't know how fast or how many people to expect, since no one tells me if they're coming! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Alpha152 Report post Posted October 1, 2012 I'm sure most of the SoCal people will come. I heard most of PNW couldn't attend but I'm not sure about that. I would also like to know who from NorCal is coming. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
White Report post Posted October 11, 2012 Time is flexible, but I don't know how fast or how many people to expect, since no one tells me if they're coming! Im sure many that are regulars at your ranbats will show up for the Persona Arena part of Xievolution, Im expecting a good bunch to show up for Blazblue....I hope I get a chance to play against NorCal Can the winner be able to share a room with you also? If so im winning this haha Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Xie Report post Posted October 16, 2012 Of course, anyone who is going from SoCal is welcome to stay with myself or perhaps shtkn in the hotel. Also, I'll be throwing in some extra MadCatz/Hori prizes from my collection. The extra prize is awarded to the highest placing player who is NOT winning the plane ticket. So a 1st place gatekeeper would get one, or a 2nd place under normal circumstances, etc. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
glod Report post Posted October 17, 2012 I'll come donate some cash if I can. I dunno. We'll see. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Alpha152 Report post Posted October 18, 2012 My only chance of going to NEC now is winning orz. I'll do my best! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Shazam Report post Posted October 18, 2012 Again I can come but it'll be around 6pm. Good luck to everyone. Let's do this guys! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ShioriSekine Report post Posted October 19, 2012 Any possible way you guys can get xbox to ps3 converters? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
eric Report post Posted October 19, 2012 Wow thanks Xie. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
KasouM Report post Posted October 20, 2012 Aksys do something about chie's overhead! It was fun last night... See u guys tomorrow. But I won't play BB, just p4u. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
StayFree( ' 3') Report post Posted October 20, 2012 StayFree shall grace you all with his presence. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jason D. Report post Posted October 20, 2012 Oh shit, THE StayFree!? Well now I'm gonna go too! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
shtkn Report post Posted October 23, 2012 Is anyone missing a copy of p4? I seem to have an extra copy... Sent from my phone using Tapatalk Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Xie Report post Posted October 26, 2012 Tickets cost me $680. We fundraised about $500 total, between Xievolution and fundraiser tournaments, leaving me about $180 in the hole. I expected something like this to happen, so I'm cool with that, but there are a few people who want to contribute to the remainder. For those maniacs, there's this link here At any rate, you've probably seen the front page on who the winners were. For those that are going, let's train for NEC! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
shtkn Report post Posted October 26, 2012 i got it covered. thanks for running the qualifier. i hope we can do something liek this once a year so socal players can get more exposure, and hopefully other areas do it too. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites