BlazBlue Revolution Tournament Questions Answered
The BlazBlue Revolution tournament is getting ready to kick off with the preliminary US events already scheduled:
BlazBlue Revolution North America Preliminaries:
- Canada - 2/4/2012
- Northern California – 2/4/2012
- Southern California – 2/5/2012
- Texas – TBA (2/11/2012)
Here in the United States, a single team will be chosen to participate in the prestigious BlueRevo Finals in Japan. Aksys Games will provide full airfare and hotel accommodations to the selected players.
The US Finals, set for February 25th, is the end-all tournament for BlazBlue Revolution in America. The winner of this tournament will become the officially sponsored North American team for BlazBlue Revolution.
Arc System Works and Aksys recently answered some of the most commonly asked questions about BlazBlue Revolution as well and we�ve assembled them here.
1) Why am I not allowed to use a pad in the tournament?
The BlazBlue Revolution tournament in Japan will be run on arcade hardware, which does not feature any way to use a pad. Thus, when choosing our representatives for the BlazBlue Revolution, they must be able to perform on an arcade stick. We are not purposefully discriminating against a player’s style, it’s just the very nature of choosing a representative does not allow us otherwise.
2) My region does not seem very well represented in this tournament Is there any reason for this?
We’ve done all that we can in order to create greater regional representation, but the unfortunate truth is that most regions do not have enough qualified or eligible players based on the statistics given to us by tournament organizers. It is because of this that the number of regions represented by this tournament is limited.
3) Why is there only one week after BlazBlue: Continuum Shift EXTEND’s release before the tournament? It seems unfair.
Regardless of the game’s release date in North America, you will be on equal ground with any participant in the BlazBlue Revolution US Finals. The qualifier is only for North American participants, so regardless of the game’s release date, you will only face opponents who are in the same situation as yourself.
4) Japan seems to have an overwhelming advantage, why is there so much bias in this event?
BlazBlue Revolution was intended to be a Japan-only tournament. However, we at Aksys Games felt that our North American players deserved a shot at competing with the best, and we convinced Arc System Works to grant us one spot for the future North American team. Any bias that you perceive in this event is not intentional, it is just a product of the nature of the event; North America is the gallant dark horse trying to make waves in one of the world’s most competitive BlazBlue tournaments.
5) Why is Japan calling out North America with the “Bonus Prize”?
Japan actually has nothing to do with the Bonus Prize in any way. The Bonus Prize for the North American team is from us, Aksys Games, the North American publisher, so it would be tough to say that’s a call out from Japan. Though we’re flying out our representatives to Japan to compete, we don’t want them to take home the gold and not have anything extra to show for it, so we merely decided to up the ante for our own players.
