Namco Bandai Announces $10K World Wide Finals!

Some of you may have heard over the grapevine: Namco Bandai will be holding a Worldwide Finals for Soulcalibur V on April 10 at the Cosmopolitan Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada! Namco Bandai is Working with community Tournament Organizers from around the world to bring forth a legitimate tournament with the best players from around the world to compete for $10,000!

Anyone can attend the tournament as a spectator, but only 8 players will be able to compete. Namco Bandai has yet to announce the invitees, but they will be tournament winners from all around the world including Final Round, NorCal Regionals and MLG Winter Championships. In addition to the $10,000 pot, the event will have both MadCatz and Hori sponsoring additional unannounced prizes at the event itself.

Namco Bandai will also be providing transportation for fans in the Los Angeles area up to the Soulcalibur V Worldwide Finals the morning of April 10, 2012 and returning that night. The Soulcalibur V Worldwide Finals Bus will be stopping at various locations around Los Angeles to be announced at a later date. You must be at least 21 years old with a valid driver’s license to attend the Soulcalibur V Worldwide Finals.

Please follow Namco Bandai Games Community Manager Rich “filthierich” Bantegui at www.twitter.com/filthierich/ or www.facebook.com/soulcalibur/ for any updates regarding the Soulcalibur V March title update and the Soulcalibur V Worldwide Finals in Las Vegas.

 

thugish_pond tryna get that dough?

 

I think we're lookin at Hyrul, Omega, Akire, the winner of MLG, and maybe Linkrkc so far. That leaves 2 random beasts from Japan, and 1 or 2 more slots, depending if Linkrkc already made the cut. I think 1 slot should go to either Thugish or RTD just cause of their many years of calibur dominance.

Don't forget the winner of NCR.

We should have:
Akire
Hyrul
Winner of Winter Brawl: Linkrkc
Winner of Final Round: Omega
Winner of NCR
Winner of MLG
Japanese player
Japanese player

 

So this is where their marketing money went. Good shit...brilliant idea.

 

Good luck, you.

Thanks!

 

This will be streamed of course, right?

 

So the driver's license thing is a must have in order to compete? Dang it. Hopefully i can get it before april 10th. Or if there is some kind of way around it that would be good. Like seriously why is a driver's license required when there are many other forms of identification you could bring?

 

Don't forget the winner of NCR.

We should have:
Akire
Hyrul
Winner of Winter Brawl: Linkrkc
Winner of Final Round: Omega
Winner of NCR
Winner of MLG
Japanese player
Japanese player

Why Akire? just a question.

 

It seems im going, lets see how can i do this.

 

Don't forget the winner of NCR.

We should have:
Akire
Hyrul
Winner of Winter Brawl: Linkrkc
Winner of Final Round: Omega
Winner of NCR
Winner of MLG
Japanese player
Japanese player

Also, the winner from Mexico, Namco had an official tournament here... I hope they invite me.

 

It seems im going, lets see how can i do this.

Don't bother. They ruined Nightmare forever.

 

Don't bother. They ruined Nightmare forever.

LOL dont worry man, ill use edgemaster, he has a hidden moves that is unblockable that cant be block you know.

 

Japanese winners-
Arutenight (Sig) from Osaka and best known for bein in the SCII SBO
Plazma (Sig) from Tokyo

They won but not sure if they are the ones that are gonna be able to travel to the finals.

 

Don't bother. They ruined Nightmare forever.

I want to OPEN my eyes and wake up from that Nightmare... but the UKEMI is just tricky... I guess I have to wait for an available reincarnated Black Man to save us from this eternal bad AZURE dream... when I'm not having NIGHTMARES I dream about OMEGA becoming WORLD CHAMPION...

 

Why Akire? just a question.

There were 2 spots up for grabs in the EU finals and Akire came second. I also heard that there was only one spot for Japan and the other going to Korea. Namco have been pretty vague with info.

 

As far as I know they didn't have a comp in Korea (but they should cuz there are good playas there).

They had comps in Taiwan, Singapore and Australia (those winners went to the Europe comp).

 

They had comps in Taiwan, Singapore and Australia (those winners went to the Europe comp).

Which was a tad strange really, as it made far more sense if they had the Asian/Australasian event in Tokyo.

 

Yep, Namco paid to send all the winners to Europe.