Kayane, in partnership with Namco Bandai Games, will be hosting a launch event for SOULCALIBUR V in Paris, France on Saturday, January 28th, 2012. This event will consist of casual matches, a 64-man single elimination tournament which includes some very notable French players, and ending with an 8 on 8 team battle consisting of the top 16 from the singles tournament.
This event will also be streamed online by Kayane for everyone to check out beginning at 6PM Central European Time (12PM Eastern). You can find some additional details and an embed of the stream after the break.
I'm not going to pretend in this post that I'm anything more than a scrub in Soulcalibur; whether I was good at one time or another is irrelevant. This month, for the first time ever, I find myself in a leadership position in the community during the launch of a major revision to the Soulcalibur series... And of course, as with anything I do, its not without some drama.
But drama is not foreign to our community; in fact, it probably goes hand-in-hand. In addition to that, to outsiders it looks as if our community is "quick to ban". Now, Soulcalibur V is about to launch and we find ourselves already being forced to make decisions relevant to bans. So before I go into my decisions for SC5, I'm going to do my best to recall a history of banning within the Soulcalibur community. Poor recollection after the break...
Do you enjoy thankless work in return for the illusion of power? Do you like knowing you will have people nagging you to do things you may not want to do? How about dealing with a ton of noobs without losing your head? All while trolls try to fuck with you. If you answered yes to all these questions, being a SA mod could be just the right way to spend your free time.
The job itself involves fact checking, organizing information in stickies and keeping discussions on topic/free from trolling. Applicants are expected to be able to act professionally, be very active, possess some kind of background in competitive fighters and soul calibur and be able to adhere to guidelines set forth.
It has been a tumultuous week here at the Hate Speech offices, beginning with Idlemind’s abduction by an insidious cabal of communist sympathizers looking to undermine the work we’ve been doing here in the name of freedom. That’s my pet theory, at least. When last I saw him, I was lugging cases of whiskey and assorted pharmaceuticals past his desk and back to mine.
“What the hell is all that?” he asked.
“Dude, there’s the Calibur party in SF tonight. Pregame.” ...
