SCV UK Launch Event By Namco Bandai & Gamespot

For Soulcalibur fans in the United Kingdom, to celebrate the launch of Soulcalibur V, Namco Bandai is teaming up with Gamespot for a launch event as they search for the top players in the UK.

This launch event will takes place on Saturday, February 4th, 2012 at The Chapel Bar in Islington from 12PM – 6PM GMT, and will be streamed live on Twitch TV. Mad Catz will also be in attendance showing off their latest Soulcalibur V Soul Edition Arcade sticks. Ryan Hart and Kayane will also be attendance providing tips and partaking in matches.

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Namco Bandai team up with Gamespot to bring UK fans a SOULCALIBUR V launch event

January 13, 2012


Want to be on the Stage of History? Namco Bandai Begins the Search for the UK’s Top SoulCalibur V Player


To celebrate the launch of SoulCalibur V next month, Namco Bandai and Gamespot are teaming up to start the search for the UK’s top SoulCalibur Vplayer. Gamers will be given the opportunity attend the SoulCalibur Vlaunch event at The Chapel Bar in Islington from 12-6pm on Saturday 4tH February where some of the UK’s best fighting game players will be in attendance. There will be a limited free bar and entrance will be permitted on a first come first serve basis for up to 200 people. Selected matches will be streamed online at www.twitch.tv/namcobandaiuk

Madcatz will be showing off their SoulCalibur V Soul Edition arcade sticks and bringing top UK and French players Ryan Hart (Prodigal Son) and Marie-Laure Norindr (Kayane), who will be on hand to give some useful tips and partake in some thrilling exhibition matches.

This event will kickstart a nationwide search to find the best SoulCalibur V players to take part in the UK finals on Friday March 16th at a so far secret location with a whole host of exciting prizes up for grabs. We will be announcing further details of the registration process soon. The winner of this tournament will go on to take part in the EU finals in London.

Welcome to the Stage of History fighting game fans.

SoulCalibur V goes on general release for Xbox 360 and PS3 on February 3rd 2012. For more information log on to http://soulcalibur.com/ and follow @NamcoBandaiUK on Twitter

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My 2KB will be there to greet you. :P

Relic

Nah, it'll be cool to meet you and the other UK peeps. I just hope I can get the day off work.

 

Dates feel so 'early' for me. Feb 4th, assuming I was coming, I'll be having less than 24 hrs practice.

It feels exciting but at the same time the dates really turn me off. '...the search for UK's top SCV player'...ok we'll see what happens in 2 years time...

fml...

p.s. working on saturday...

AZ

 

Sounds nice, have fun. I'll try to watch the stream, but I don't think I will really follow it since I'm gonna play the game myself then. :P

 

I'll be having less than 24 hrs practice.

That's the point of a release day event, lol.

'...the search for UK's top SCV player'...ok we'll see what happens in 2 years time...

Have to start somewhere.

 

I wish it was in Manchester.. I'd be able to go.. Have fun anyway, anyone who is going..​

 

Manchester to london is £25 on the train. That's not an excuse

 

The good thing for me is that i can practice for several hours on release day. I'm still gonna get my arse kicked on the Saturday though. :p

 

I'm gonna pick up SCV, practice all day, do an all-nighter, then sleep on the train to London, lol.

 

Thank you Malice for the topic!

I'm very happy to come for the UK Soul Calibur V launch event, and I can't wait to play with English players!
The UK Namco Bandai new community manager Hollie is working hard to make events and hype around SC and Tekken. So coming at this event and joining the community is s a nice way to cheer Namco's intentions to be close to its community and to have more events around our favourite game.

I will myself organize events in Paris every month, so does the Gnouz Corporation with french tournaments.
I hope every country will be hyped for SC !

See you there in London the 4th February !

 

I'm gonna pick up SCV, practice all day, do an all-nighter, then sleep on the train to London, lol.

No need... 3B!

BTW, JUKEing ain't gonna work on me son! :P

 

Whoever said I'd be using Siegfried?

 

Whoever said I'd be using Siegfried?

Asian intuition... :P

 

Your new meme is wrong then =).
There's a couple of characters I plan on using if I'm happy they're good enough, but neither are Siegfried.

 

I'm going to come along to this for sure.

On the Ryan point I don't see him going beyond SF4 or Tekken, but if he does give SCV a go then great. Don't forget he is sponsored by Madcatz who will also be there I beleive. He is also the best known fighting game player in the UK, so having him associated with a game won't hurt. Maybe his sponsors want him to rinse the game and win the UK championships!

 

I could probably go...
I don't think I'll be winning with viola in a day though heh...

He is also the best known fighting game player in the UK,

I've never heard of him >.> not even a vague memory of any connection between fighting games and the name "Ryan"...

edit: on second thought, its gonna cost me over £60 to get down there. As much as I'd love to meet some UK players, there's just as much chance, if not more, that I'd not get on with them, like every person I've ever met via fighting games. (for some reason, people from fighting game communities really tend to not like me, I have no idea why >.>) such risk is not worth that much money and hassle, and I think I'd prefer to just stay hone and play some online or something.

 

on second thought, its gonna cost me over £60 to get down there. As much as I'd love to meet some UK players, there's just as much chance, if not more, that I'd not get on with them, like every person I've ever met via fighting games. (for some reason, people from fighting game communities really tend to not like me, I have no idea why >.>) such risk is not worth that much money and hassle, and I think I'd prefer to just stay hone and play some online or something.

Yep, good idea...

 

Yep, good idea...

what's that supposed to mean!? :/
also, home*

 

Its supposed to mean that you are the kind of player that caused the UK scene to die in the first place.
I'm paying close to £100 to be here + money matches + the £55 I owe AoT.

This is the most important British Soul Calibur event in years and you see £60 as TOO MUCH?! Are you taking the piss?!

Get some dedication or don't associate yourself with the community.

 

Facebook event page for this: https://www.facebook.com/events/176204052481242/
Also you can keep up with all things SCV UK on Twitter @SoulCalibur_uk

My 2kb will be there to greet you. :P

It's old 2kb too, which kills SC4's imo... and Relic :P

Dates feel so 'early' for me. Feb 4th, assuming I was coming, I'll be having less than 24 hrs practice.

If you order from shopto.net you will get it early. I've gotten all my orders from them 2 days earlier.

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Fair enough, try and make the next one though. Dunno why Synraii's being so hard on you? But if you don't make events don't expect to be taken seriously on here.

 

Fair enough, try and make the next one though. Dunno why Synraii's being so hard on you? But if you don't make events don't expect to be taken seriously on here.

Yeah, traits of an online ditherer I'll say...