Bon, retour au sujet avec ce scan du Nippon Sports qui a fait un gros article sur le Tougeki. C'est un peu comme si l'Equipe parlait du Stunfest quoi.
Sinon, différentes petites notes et anecdotes.
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※ Most of the crowd on Day 1 was there for Street Fighter IV. In fact, when the grand finals for SFIV were finished, about 50% of the audience left the venue before VF5R could even start. Basically, whoever stayed for VF also stayed for Tekken. SFIV got the most number of people by far, even compared to the final two days. In fact, there were times during Blazblue and Arcana Heart where the venue was about 50% full.
※ The VF5R finals were anti-climatic because there were a bunch of OCVs being handed out left and right. The quality of play was great, and the number of OCVs shows how talented most of the players entering were. For the winning team, the Stardust Crusaders, I don’t even remember seeing Gorgeous Eileen, the captain of the team, actually playing in the tournament. Most of the teams were defeated by either Yutenji alone or Joseph.
※ The Tekken 6 tournament was a borefest up until the best 8, where it quickly turned exciting, at least for me. I don’t care for Tekken much nowadays, but I liked the final part of the tournament, whereas for VF5R the top 8 was boring, while the prelims were exciting.
※ During the Blazblue prelims, everyone was going crazy whenever an Arakune, Rachel or v-13 lost a round or a fight. Whenever a lower tier character like Carl or Bang started gaining the advantage, the place went nuts too, so far as to ignore the highlighted match on the big screen. Hopefully Arc Systems sees how painful it is to watch the top 3 dominate the game and makes some thoughtful changes.
※ When Mago got on the mic before his semi-final match against Cabbage/Gosho, the crowd started chanting “2D God!” and yup, Mago was eating it up. Gosho and Cabbage had a funny routine going, as Gosho was constantly thanking Cabbage for carrying his ass to the finals.
※ There was some white dude walking around the venue with a “Daigo Umehara The Beast” t-shirt on. It looked like he made it himself. Sigh.
※ Didn’t stick around to see Day 2 or Arcana or Guilty Gear, but I heard that Guilty Gear had a fantastic, climatic final.
Et pour finir, le comment que ça va se passer pour les vidéos des tournois (si quelqu'un pouvait les chopper pour les filer à Ken, il serait un amour).
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Japanese online store EBTen, which is an official online distributor of Enterbrain/Arcadia products, now have preorders online for the next four issues of Arcadia magazine. The November issue, coming out on Sept. 30th, will contain Street Fighter IV and Virtua Fighter 5R, and the December issue, coming out Oct. 31st, will get 3rd Strike and Tekken 6. The first issue of 2010 will have Blazblue and Fate Unlimited, while the Feburary issue will have Guilty Gear XX A Core and Arcana Heart 2.