Showdown Championships 2008 March 21-23, 2008

An Anime Festival and a Tournament……Now that’s what I call a bargain!!!!

When: March 21-23, 2008
Venue: Woodlands Waterway Marriott Hotel & Convention Center
Address: 1601 Lake Robbins Drive
The Woodlands, Texas 77380 USA

For phone reservations please call 1-281-367-9797 and reference “ANIME MATSURI” for the special convention rate!

Information about the hotel can be found at the following link, Anime Matsuri’s homepage

Registration for Anime Matsuri Convention:
$40 for pre-reg 3-Day Anime Matsuri Pass
$48 at the door

You can Register online at the following link, Register here for Anime Matsuri

Entry Fee for Tournament:
FREE with Anime Matsuri Pass!

Featured Games:
Marvel vs Capcom 2
Street Fighter III – 3rd Strike
Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo
Guilty Gear XX Accent Core
Melty Blood Act Cadenza V.B2
Tekken 6 (If available)

$5 for the following console tournaments:
Super Smash Bros Brawl (If available)
Capcom vs SNK 2
Tekken 5 Dark Resurrection

Format:
Showdown Championships Tournament Format which features all Arcade Machines

MvC2 & Super Turbo – Singles Only
Pool Play
8 Pools
Best 2/3 winners, Single game losers
Top 4 Qualify out to the Semi-Final round
Semi-Final Round
Top 32 qualifiers seeded in the bracket
Starts immediately after the conclusion of the pool play
Best 2/3 winners and losers
Best 3/5 Grand Finals

Tekken 6 (If available), GGAC, Melty Blood and Street Fighter 3: 3rd Strike – Singles and Teams
Singles Pool Play
8 Pools
Best 2/3 winners, Single game losers
Top 2 qualify out to the Semi-Final round
Semi-Final round
Best 2/3 winners and losers
Best 2/3 Grand Finals

Results from the Singles event determine your seeding in the Teams Tournament.

Team Tournaments
Melty Blood – 2 v 2
Street Fighter 3: 3rd Strike – 3 v 3
Tekken 6 (If available)– 3 v 3
Guilty Gear Accent Core – 3 v 3

Single Game, Single Elimination
King of Fighters(Knock-off) Style – Both teams send up their first player, when a player is defeated the next member of their team goes to the machine. A team wins once they have defeated all members of the opposing team.
Lower seeded team must choose their first player first.

Console Gaming:
Friday March 21st
4pm
Capcom v.s. SNK 2
Best 2/3 winners, Single game losers
Best 2/3 Grand Finals

Sunday March 23rd
11am
Tekken Dark Resurrection
Best 2/3 winners and losers
Best 3/5 Grand Finals

Smash Bros Brawl, Bleach 2nd, Naruto Ex 2, Pokemon Battle Revolution, Dragonball Z Tenkaichi 3, Mario Strikers Charged, Guitar Hero 3, and Halo 3 tournaments and events will be held in the console area, as well as letting players bring their own games to play in that room so long as there is an open station. More info can be found either on www.animematsuri.com, or at http://www.mashharder.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2720″>Mashharder.com

Schedule:
Friday March 21, 2008
Pool Play for ALL games start at 1pm
Semi Final Bracket for ALL games start at 9pm

Saturday March 22, 2008
Teams Tournament for ALL games start at 11am

Prizes:
Melty Blood, GGAC, Tekken 6 (If available) and Street Fighter 3:3rd Strike
Singles
1st $125 + Prizes*
2nd $50 + Prizes
3rd $25 + Prizes

Main Event
Marvel v.s. Capcom 2, Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo, Guilty Gear Accent Core, Tekken 6 (If available), Melty Blood, and Street Fighter 3: 3rd Strike Teams
1st $400 + Prizes
2nd $200+ Prizes
3rd $100 + Prizes

* Prizes may include games, posters, gift cards, etc, that will be determined later.

Rules:
From the Moderator
“1. No abuse of the machines. Excessive hitting of the cabinets or breaking of any tournament related equipment will result in forfeiture of the match, and possible ejection from the tournament and convention.
2. While trash talking is acceptable to a degree, verbal abuse will be monitored at the discretion of the tournament officials and judges. There will be children and their parents at this convention.
3. Game breaking glitches, ie. Ones that freeze the game, reset the game, are forbidden and will result in forfeiture of the match.
4. If you sign up online, you will be e-mailed your schedule for pool play as well as given one when you pick up your badge for the convention.
5. If you sign up at the convention, you must report to the Showdown Championships room in order to receive your schedule.
6. Each player must report to their assigned Pool Play time by the time their name is called for roll call. Roll call is conducted by the tournament official 5 minutes after the hour and will immediately start the pool once it is completed. Once the pool starts, if you miss roll call, you have until when your match is called before you are automatically forfeited to the losers bracket. No warnings will be given after roll call. If you fail to show up when your losers bracket match is called, you are DQ’ed.
7. Exceptions to being DQ’ed will be up to the discretion of the Tournament judges and officials.
8. For the Semi Final round, it will begin promptly at 9pm. Once again a roll call when be implemented and the same rules apply as pool play in regards to tardiness.
9. Teams Tournament begin promptly at 11am and will run in quadrants. The bracket as well as quadrant assignments will be available for viewing on Saturday morning before the start of the tournament.
10. The Team Tournament brackets are going to be split into 4 quadrants and each will take approximately 1.5 hours.
11. We will take a brief roll call before the start of each quadrant, we will be more lenient with forfeitures in the Teams Tournament, but will forfeit a team if it holds up the bracket.
12. If there are any equipment issues regarding malfunctioning buttons, sticks, screen, or sound, stop play immediately and inform a judge. It will be at the judge’s discretion to decide what course of action to take from there.
13. Double blind pick is available and must be called by one player or the other prior to picking your characters. Alert the judge that you want to have a double blind pick. Double blind pick is where one player whispers what character(s), groove, etc they are going to pick to a judge. Then the other player goes ahead and picks his character(s), groove, etc. Then the whispering player must stick to what character(s), groove, etc he told the judge.
14. Players must stick to one character only during the Team Tournaments. You are allowed to pick different characters for the Singles Tournaments.
15. During Singles, the winner of the game must choose the same team for the next game in a 2 out of 3 or 3 out of 5 set.”