In less than a week, several of the continent's best BlazBlue players will gather and fight it out to determine which 3-person team will win a free trip to Japan as the U.S. representative for their BlazBlue Revolution national tourney in March. Hosted at Super Arcade in sunny Southern California and broadcasted by Level|Up, the qualifiers will have players not only from SoCal, but from NorCal, Pacific NorthWest, Texas, NorthEast, and Canada as well.

Entry is FREE, and there is no venue fee, so if you can scrap up a 3-man team (along with a passport for the 3v3 tourney), you too can have a shot at that trip to Japan! Competition is expected to be fierce, but don't worry; there are other events on the same day for you to play in with prizes to be distributed by Hori.

Check out the main site or info thread for the details.

Main site: http://blazbluerevolution.com/

Info thread: http://www.dustloop.com/forums/showt...nut-CA-2-25-12

The long wait is finally coming to an end, as ASW has announced that their arcade port of Guilty Gear Accent Core Plus will see a release on XBL and PSN in the future with netplay enabled! Stay tuned for more info!

Source: http://www.arcsystemworks.jp/index.cgi?eid=556

After its first North American unveiling at NorthWest Majors, Aksys Games will continue its nation-wide tour this December as they travel to Philadelphia, PA for North East Championships on December 3-4 and Irvine, CA for Southern California Regionals on December 17-18 to give us more preview play time with the console version of BlazBlue Continuum Shift: Extend before it gets released worldwide.

Not only will both majors have BBCSE playable, Aksys Games will also throw in a $1000 pot bonus money for each major's respective BBCS2 tournament, so the stakes are raised for the last CS2 majors of the year. So come out and support the tourneys if you can, or stream monster it up!

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Congratulations to Spark for winning BBCS2 at Evolution 2011! He put on a VERY impressive showing, coming all the way back from losers to take it all! Rest of the results for top 8 are below:

1st - Spark (Hakumen), PNW
2nd - Lord Knight (Litchi, Makoto), NJ
3rd - Tokido (Noel), Japan
4th - Zong_1 (Carl), SoCal
5th - Severin (Lambda), Socal / HeartNana (Makoto), Japan/Chicago
7th - Wuku (Hazama, Rachel), PNW / DSmoove (Noel), SoCal

Brackets:

Winners Semifinals

- Lord Knight sends Zong-1 to losers
- Tokido sends HeartNana to losers

Winners Final

- Lord Knight sends Tokido to losers

Losers Final 8

- Severin eliminates Wuku!
- Spark eliminates DSmoove!

Losers Quarterfinals

- Zong_1 eliminates Severin!
- Spark eliminates HeartNana!

Losers Semifnals

- Spark eliminates Zong_1!

Losers Finals

- Spark eliminates Tokido!

Grand Finals

- Spark comes back from Losers and defeats Lord Knight, 3-0, 3-0!

After a long day of grueling matches, the top 8 has been decided for Sunday, and they are:

Winners:

Tokido (Noel)
HeartNana (Makoto)
Zong_1 (Carl)
Lord Knight (Litchi)

Losers:

Wuku (Hazama)
Spark (Hakumen)
Severin (Lambda)
DSmoove12 (Noel)

Be sure to tune in to the main Evo stream on 10 AM PST to see the conclusion to this tournament!

The biggest open fighting game tournament in America kicks off tomorrow, with over thousands of participants dueling it out across five different games selected for the main events, and if you have no idea on what to expect, don't fret! I threw up a quick listing for those watching from the confines of their couches.

Evo Stream 1 (IPW X TS): http://www.ustream.tv/channel/evo-1

Low Quality Version of Evo Stream 1: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/evo-low

Evo Stream 2 (FKO X Offcast): http://www.ustream.tv/channel/evo-2

The above are the two streams that will be broadcasting the entire Evolution tournament, and each of them will be broadcasting a certain game on a certain day.

*Note: All times listed are on Pacific Standard Time.

Friday, July 29th

Tournament Schedule

8:00 AM – 6:00 PM: Pool Play, SSF4:AE (Evo Stream 1), Mortal Kombat (Evo Stream 2)
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM: Quarterfinals, SSF4:AE (Evo Stream 1), Mortal Kombat (Evo Stream 2)
8:00 PM – 11:00 PM: Semifinals, SSF4:AE (Evo Stream 1), Mortal Kombat (Evo Stream 2)

Saturday, July 30th

Tournament Schedule

8:00 AM – 6:00 PM: Pool Play, MvC3 (Evo Stream 1), Tekken & Blazblue (Evo Stream 2)
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM: Quarterfinals, MvC3 (Evo Stream 1)
8:00 PM – 11:00 PM: Semifinals, MvC3 (Evo Stream 1)
12:00 AM: MvC3 EC vs. WC 5 on 5 Exhibition (Evo Stream 1)

Sunday, July 31

All times are approximate! We will also have some surprises in store throughout the day.

* All games will be broadcasted on Evo Stream 1 on Sunday.

10:00 AM: Blazblue Finals
12:00 AM: Tekken 6 Finals
2:00 PM: Mortal Kombat 9 Finals
3:30 PM: SF3 Third Strike Exhibition
5:00 PM: Marvel Vs Capcom 3 Finals
6:30 PM: Screening, Balrog: Behind the Glory.
7:00 PM: SSF4:AE Finals
9:00 PM: Closing Ceremonies

Tourney results for the relevant games (i.e. main games, side tourneys for BB/GG) will be displayed in the Evolution 2011 Results thread.

For those of you who are participating in Revelations this weekend or are going to tune in to their stream broadcast, an updated schedule of the event has been released here. Chances are almost everything will be streamed on their Level|Up stream and their Offcast stream, so tune in when the tourney kicks off this Friday!

*Note: All times are for Pacific Time Zone.

Friday Schedule:

BlazBlue Continuum Shift 2 Teams (Side Tourney) - 12:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Super Street Fighter 4: Arcade Edition Teams - 11:00 AM - End
Marvel vs Capcom 3 Teams - 6:00 PM - End
BlazBlue Continuum Shift 1 Singles (Side Tourney) - 4:00 PM - End
Arcana Heart 3 Singles - 7:00 PM - End

Saturday Schedule:

Super Street Fighter 4: Arcade Edition Singles - 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Tekken 6 Singles - 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM
BlazBlue Continuum Shift 2 Singles - 10:00 AM - End
Mortal Kombat 9 - 3:00 PM - End
Guilty Gear Accent Core Singles (Side Tournament) - 6:00 PM - End
Marvel vs Capcom 3 Singles - 5:00 PM - End

Sunday Schedule:

Arcana Heart 3 (Top 4) - 10:00 AM to 10:45 AM
Tekken 6 (Top 4) - 11:00 AM to 11:45 PM
Lunch Break - 11:45 PM to 1:15 PM
BlazBlue CS2 (Top 8) - 1:15 PM to 2:00 PM
Mortal Kombat 9 (Top 8) - 2:15 PM to 3:00 PM
Intermission - 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM
Marvel vs. Capcom 3 (Top 8) - 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Super Street Fighter 4: Arcade Edition (Top 8) - 5:30 PM to Closing

All times are still subject to changes.

For those of you who don't know yet, Toshimitchi Mori will be at Revelations to check out the festivities and sign autographs. Mori is the lead producer of the BlazBlue series over at ArcSys Works, which should give you some hints on other projects he may have been involved with.

Luckily for us, thanks to our not-so-secret connections, we will be able to interview Mori sometime during the event just for you guys here at Dustloop. While we may have some questions of our own, we feel that the community itself should have the chance to call some shots as well, so we're asking you guys to submit some questions for Mori in this thread between now and Revelations. The interview will of course be posted up on Dustloop sometime after Revelations.