Tekken Tag Tournament 2 Global Championship '13 Set for October 26th!

The Tekken Global Championship '13 event is set for the October 26th this year according to a recent update to the Tekken-NET website. For those of you who are unaware, this tournament is a major gathering of tekken talent across the globe with numerous qualifiers in different regions to select representatives to be sent to represent their country in a tournament in South Korea. The website also mentions that the total prize money for winning the tournament includes $10,000 and that CafeId is sponsoring this event and will be broadcasting it. You can find more details of this event below.

GLOBAL CHAMPIONSHIP '13

in KOREA

『Tekken Unlimited』 World Tournament

▌Details
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Source ▶ http://web.tekken-net.org/tag2/campaign/globalCS2013/top.html#1

Date: 10/26/2013 (26th Of October)

Location: Hotel Hyatt Regency Incheon, Incheon, South Korea

Tournament Sponsors: CafeId (http://www.twitch.tv/cafeid)

Player representatives: (20 total)

▼ South Korea ×3

▼ China ×2

▼ Japan ×2

▼ Australia ×2

▼ Singapore ×2

▼ Indonesia ×2

▼ Hong Kong ×1

▼ Taiwan ×1

▼ Malaysia ×1

▼ Philippines ×1

▼ Thailand ×1

▼ New Zealand ×1

▼ America ×1

Overall Victory Prize money: $10,000 (subject to tax as per South Korean law)

Tournament Rules and Regulations:

<>Basic Rules:

・Each match will be one-on-one. (One player vs. one player, no Pair Play.)

・1 round = 80 seconds, Life bar = Default, 1 game = first to 3 rounds.

・Both Tag (2 characters) and Solo (1 character) styles are allowed.

・Customized characters are allowed.

・No character changing allowed. (Neither main nor sub.)

・Stage selection rights and 1P/2P selection rights will be determined by rock-paper-scissors or by drawing lots.

・During play, if a malfunction complaint is determined to be unfounded, the player who lodged the complaint may be disqualified.

<>Preliminary Round

Round Robin

・The 20 competitors will be split into 4 groups of 5 players for the preliminary round robin qualifier.

・First to 2 games wins. The top two competitors from each group will proceed to the final round.

・If there is an in-group tie with respect to games won, the player with the least number of lost rounds will be given the higher rank. (Round won = +1 point, Round lost = -1 point. If there is a tie in points, a tie-breaker match will be held.)

*Groups and scheduling for the round robin qualifier will be determined by lots the day before the tournament during orientation.

*Players of the same nationality will not be placed in the same group.

<>Final Round

Double Elimination

・The top 8 competitors from the preliminary round robin will proceed to the Final Round.

・The Final Round will be conducted as a double elimination tournament.

・First to 2 games wins.

・For the Championship Match, first to 2 sets wins. (1 set = first to 3 games.)

*Note: The player from the winner's bracket will have a 1 set advantage. In other words, the player from the winner's bracket only has to win 1 set to claim the championship. The player from the loser's bracket must win 2.

<>Additional Terms

・Outside of the regular duties of running this event, neither the host organization nor Namco Bandai Games Inc. will assume responsibility for any loss or damages resulting from theft, injury, illness or schedule change as caused by unforeseen accident or natural disaster.

・Travel and living expenses for South Korea will be covered by the host organization.

・Any player who does not arrive on time for his/her match will be disqualified.

・Any player found guilty of libel, slander or sabotage during the tournament will be disqualified and may be asked to leave the premises.

・Namco Bandai Games Inc. reserves the right to publish player names and photos of participants in the Tekken Global Championship '13 event from both the regional qualifiers and the finals in South Korea. They may be uploaded to the tournament website, provided to video game publications, or used in other media and video.

・Finalists must use the same player name provided to the host organization prior to the finals in South Korea. The host organization reserves the right to request a player to change his/her player name.

・The above Rules, Regulations, and Additional Terms are subject to change. Any changes made will be published on this website.

Additionally, an OKWave webpage was opened for this event: http://heart.okwave.com/campaign/tekken

Comments

[AAK]

Magical Reporting Wonkey as always!

Super surprised that the whole tournament is going to be FT2 except Grand Finals.

[Dr.Bhup]

The most interesting thing here is that there is going to be character lock. Why?

And lol @ no spots for any European players. I thought France really had some decent players...

Also, can't we just give all the money to Knee and save ut the time? I called it, Knee is going to win. That man is unstoppable. His refelxes and experience level is out of this world! JDCR will be second.

I'm glad it all will be broadcasted. It will be really interesting to watch all the best of the best from around the world have a go at it!

[Hamachi]

Why in the list not present Russia?

[Xel]

A qualifier for some counties would be a better and more accurate description, and only us qualifier is on west coast.

[Reality]

Way to fuck over Europe Namco.

[skpg]

Japan has a good shot at winning the whole thing, it's unfortunate there are no European players, probably due to cost. The Philippines has lots of good players too. I don't know about the other countries.

[Innes_and_gunn]

I just, I just hate that Europe has been left out of this. Yo, nothing against New Zealand, but it gets a player of its own?! That place has more sheep than people!

Now I know that the championship is being contested via the arcade build of TTT2, and I also know that gaming arcades in Europe, at least in the UK where I live, are pretty much non-existent.

However, that doesn't mean that Europe has to be ineligible. TONNES of players in the UK play on arcade sticks hooked up to the console version. So they would easily be able to compete on an arcade machine, it just wouldn't be an issue. All they would have to do is set up a machine for the qualifier, I'm sure that wouldn't be so impossible.

Also, if you look at the US, arcades have been in decline for a long time now, the focus is really shifting to console. So if these organisers continue to fetishise arcade play over console play, it's going to end up being a tekken world split in two, with only Asia 'allowed' to compete in events like this.

That will suck in the long term. But what do I know, I'm British, according to these douchebags I don't even live on planet Earth anymore.

[Reality]

If I, as a competitive gamer, aren't allowed to compete at the highest levels in this game without moving from Europe why should I bother playing it over others? To support Namco in buying 5 dollar hats and adding vampires? Fuck Harada and his indoor glasses.

#notevenmadbro

[kor]

yall are some pissed bitches. if they dont have a qual in europe then fuck everything? im still gonna watch and enjoy if i can catch it live.

[krknight]

this is just the first tourney.

support it and it will expand. they're really going out of their way in having a tourney with a 10,000 dollar grand prize. this is a ridiculously large gamble for the koreans. if it catches on, who is to say that next year's tourney won't expand to 40 representatives including an east coast player and european players.

[krknight]

reread the article and 10,000 is the total prize money. still, that's extremely significant for a tourney for only one game. i'm just glad that this game is getting the hype that it deserves right now.

[philwang]

I heard there will be 2 filipinos participating. the other one is in singapore.

[ask111]

who are representing Korea ??? Japan ??? and America ???
cz winner will be from these three ... ;)

[Chess is the best]

I think Korea will be represented by JDCR, Hao and Saint. Knee lost in the qualifier.