March 14th Chubu vs. Kansai Preview

This Sunday there are going to be two Super Turbo contests at Kasugai Five-oh: a random 2on2 at 2pm (Japan*) and a Chubu vs. Kansai showdown at 5pm. Live stream here.

* If you're in the US, don't forget daylight savings time.

The regional fight will be a full-roster showdown. A popular format for Guilty Gear and, lately, Street Fighter 4, this means each character on the selection screen is represented. Here they couldn't quite rope in enough people to cover the roster, but they got close and then added a few more to make it a 17on17. Star kindly posted the line-up at T.Akiba's joint.

Chubu	Char.	Kansai
Futachan	Ryu	ShootingD
Noguchan	Ken
Roku	E.Honda	Kusumond
Prince	Chun-Li	Otochun
Nakamu	Blanka	Nero
ZTT	Zangief	Gunze
Aniki	Guile	Suzuyan
	Dhalsim	Danjiri
Ito	DeeJay	Seki
HAS	Fei-Long
Tasaka	Cammy	Gan
	T.Hawk
The SuperStar	Boxer	Tsuji
ARG	Claw	Kachu
Guts	Sagat
Pechi	Dictator	YuuVega
Oh!!J (DJ)	Extra	Saitou (ZA)
Gotoh (RY)		Marubozu (EH)
MAO (CL)		Murasaki (DI)
		Yabu (CA)
		Teppei (GU)

Elsewhere: new Versus danisen video here. Kita, AFO, Kawamata, Yuzuru.

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Semifinals, 3rd place and final.

CHUWAN (O.Honda) vs. VIPER (T.Hawk)

Numa (Boxer) vs. Yuzuru (DeeJay)

VIPER (T.Hawk) vs. Numa (Boxer)

CHUWAN (O.Honda) vs. Yuzuru (DeeJay)

Danisen Rankings

Here are the standings after Sunday's contest. Source

10th Dan: Nuki (Chun), Gian (Dhalsim), Kawamata (Ryu)

9th Dan: nobody

8th Dan: Yuzuru (DJ), Numa (Boxer), Souzou (Fei), AFO (Blanka)

7th Dan: KKY (Dhalsim), Kurahashi (Ryu), Kita (Chun)

6th Dan: The SuperStar (Boxer), Kakky (Zangief), Sashishi (Ryu), Toukon (Chun), Fujinuma (Chun), Nakamura (Cammy), Gakuzan (Zangief), tomo (Ryu), Kotaka Shoten (Guile), Yoshio (Guile)

5th Dan: Taoki (Boxer), Shiro (Ryu), Abebin (Honda)

4th Dan: nobody

3rd Dan: nobody

2nd Dan: Shin (Hawk), Oji (Ryu), VIPER (Hawk), Yomiaido (Ryu)

Shodan: Akashachi Kancho (Blanka), Takitate Barusan (Ryu), N Oah (Boxer), Chika@8Doors (Honda), Cello Tape (Zangief), PECO (O.Ken), Tori-ore (Ryu), VERZA (Dictator), Akatsuka Ryu, Ponkotsu (Boxer), Gi (Hawk), Talbain (Chun)

Some other notes:

- There will be sixteen teams at SBO. They had previously said eight.

- The Chubu vs. Kansai event next week should be really interesting. I hope to get a preview post up in a little bit.

- 3/6 Yokohama Vision results:
17 teams
1 Gian (Dhalsim) & Kurahashi (Ryu)
2 Sashishi (Ryu) & baby nine (Honda)
3 MOR (Guile) & PECO (O.Ken)

- 3/7 Ikebukuro Vegas HSF results:
As part of the "Extra Cup" series, the only rule at this event was that teammates had to choose different versions.
8 teams
1 Nakamura (ST Cammy) & PECO (S Ken)
2 NONAME (ST Akuma) & Yoga Byoinrijicho (WW Dhalsim)
3 Ryokucha (ST Ken) & Kondo (CE Dictator)
Strange results. Still, good weekend for Peco.

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Nikaiten and Gian did the commentary.

Part One

Part Two

Kyo wa Misoji ni Narimashita "Entered my thirties today" [Fujinuma] (Chun), Noguchi (Sagat), Jenety (O.Chun), Nakamura (Cammy), Kaoru (Guile), Sasori (Ryu), Nikaiten (Boxer), Chika@8doors (Honda), Toukon (Chun)
vs.
Peco (O.Ken), KKY (Dhalsim), Yuzuru (DJ), Aoki Cyclone (Zangief), Musashi Kosugi (Ken), Shin (Hawk), VIPER (Hawk), Shigoto-chu Honda "Honda at work", Gian (Dhalsim)

Elsewhere…
The guys on the SIDE 1 BBS have been posting fanart wishing Chun-Li a happy birthday. (42 years old as of March 1st?)
http://maniya-web.hp.infoseek.co.jp/cgi-bin/bbsnote.cgi

EDIT: the live stream for the GVision 2on tomorrow has been canceled. Videos will be posted later on.

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These three videos feature Gian, KKY, Nuki and Star duking it out. I explained the format a bit in the previous post. Nice way to match people up by skill level.

六, 七, 八, 九段
6, 7, 8, 9-dan

Part One
Part Two
Part Three

EDIT: here are the current standings. Good to see Kakky in there. Source

9th Dan: Nuki (Chun)

8th Dan: Gian (Dhalsim)

7th Dan: KKY (Dhalsim), Kurahashi (Ryu)

6th Dan: The SuperStar (Boxer), Kakky (Zangief), Sashishi (Ryu), Kawamata (Ryu)

5th Dan: Numa (Boxer), Shiro (Ryu)

4th Dan: Gakuzan (Zangief), Toukon (Chun), Taoki (Boxer), Yuzuru (DJ), Yoshio (Guile), Fujinuma (Chun), AFO (Blanka)

3rd Dan: Nakamura (Cammy), Kotaka Shoten (Guile)

2nd Dan: Shin (Hawk), Oji (Ryu), VIPER (Hawk)

Shodan: Akashachi Kancho (Blanka), Takitate Barusan (Ryu), N Oah (Boxer), Chika @ 8Doors (Honda), Cello Tape (Zangief), Peco (O.Ken), Yomiaido (Ryu), Tori-ore (Ryu)

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By the way, the winning team at the Gian Recital will win a spot for SBO. They'll have to sort out which three of the five team members move on.

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Yoshio on the mic.



Peco (O.Ken), Chika (Honda), Nikaiten (Boxer), Toukon (Chun), Sasori (Ryu), Fujinuma (Chun), Yoshio (Guile)
vs.
Pony (Zangief), VIPER (Hawk), Pyonkichi (Zangief), Noguchi (Fei), KKY (Dhalsim), Shin (Hawk), Nakamura (Cammy)

Some miscellaneous items. Thanks to Aka Zangief for the ST scoop.

- The Gian Recital site has been updated with a teaser for this year's event. '09 DVDs on sale at Versus and Ooyama Newton.

- Each month leading up to X-Mania 11 there's going to be an "X-Mania Archives" tournament at Baba Mikado. Format to-be-determined.

- Although most of the X-Mania 10 footage is gone, Mattsun seems to have conjured up the video for X-Mania 9 and X-Mania 8. Stay tuned…

- Danisen events have started up at Versus. Twice a month, players have a chance to fight for higher titles. It goes like this:

• Fight a similarly-ranked opponent
• Get one point for winning, give up a point for losing
• At +3 points your rank goes up, at -3 your rank goes down

A few arcades have been running this type of event on Third Strike for a little while. The Haitani vids I mentioned the other day are danisen fights.

Thirty people showed up this past sunday. Current top rankers: Nuki Chun (9th Dan), Gian Sim (8th Dan), KKY Sim (7th Dan)

- Nakano TRF — Hokuto hotspot and SF4 streaming pioneer — has been setting up SSF2X twice a week. Not sure if they plan to have tourneys and/or a stream.

- There will be only eight teams at SBO. Rumored (2ch chatter) Muteki, Shiki & Nuki team-up.

Super Turbo News Bits

Update: added a couple upcoming live broadcasts.

- New Game Spot Versus ST team battle over here. KKY, Nuki and Noguchi were on the same team.

- Mattsun accidentally erased most of the X-Mania 10 footage. Even if someone had captured the stream that was only one station of many it looks like those videos are lost to history.

- This year's Gian Recital 5on5 has been scheduled for May 2nd. Not sure if there are going to be any preliminary contests.

- The second GVision Ranking Battle is March 6th at 8pm (Japan.) Live stream.

- On March 14th there are going to be two events at Kasugai 50: random 2on2 at 2pm (Japan) then Chubu vs. Kansai 16 vs. 16 at 5pm. Live stream.