It is with great pleasure that I can make the formal announcement regarding our Tougeki Super Battle Opera United States East Coast qualification Dates and format details.


DATES

Saturday June 9th 2007 and Sunday June 10th 2007

Street Fighter III 3rd Strike And Hyper Street Fighter II The Anniversary Edition


Saturday June 16th and Sunday June 17th 2007

Tekken 5 Dark Resurrection

East Coast Quals. will be held at:

"Tokyo Game Action"
5 Summer Dr.
Winchendon, Massachusetts 01475


TOKYO GAME ACTION QUALIFICATION FORMAT


As we did last year, TGA will be retaining our unique format by holding separate, consecutive tournaments, within the above listed weekends to determine the team members for each game.

All entrants will be qualifying on their own and earning their spots on the teams individually.

With this format each person will be given a MINIMUM of 6 matches to qualify before they are eliminated.

TGA has elected to hold their tournaments last (as in after the other American qualifiers) to prevent any disruption in teams.


3 tournaments will be held for Street Fighter III 3rd Strike on Saturday June 9th, 2007 and Sunday June 10th, 2007 to determine the three Street Fighter III 3rd Strike team members. All three tournaments will be conducted during that weekend.

2 tournaments will be held for Hyper Street Fighter II the Anniversary Edition on Saturday June 9th 2007 and Sunday June 10th 2007 to determine the two team members for Hyper SFII AE. All two tournaments will be conducted during that weekend.

3 tournaments will be held for Tekken 5 to determine the three team members
on Saturday June 16th and Sunday June 17th 2007. All three tournaments will be conducted during that weekend.


All three tournaments will be best 2 out of 3, single elimination.

Each entrant will pick one character to compete with for the entire length of the first tournament. The winner of the first tournament will retain their chosen character and must use that character during the Tougeki finals in Japan.

The second tournament will follow the same format. Each entrant, minus the first winner, will enter using 1 character which must be different from the character that the first winner used.

The third tournament will follow the same format.

Example

Player A wins the first tournament using Chun Li

All players except player A, may enter again, for the second tournament, but cannot use Chun Li.

Player B wins the second tournament using Ken.

All players with the exception of players A and B can enter the final tournament, and can use any character except Chun Li and Ken.

Player C wins the thrid tournament with Ryu completing the final team of players A, B and C with Chun Li, Ken and Ryu.


-TGA's qualifiers will be run on the Japanese versions of Street Fighter III 3rd Strike and Hypers Street Fighter II Anniversary Edition. Tekken 5 D.R. will use the American software.

All games will be played in Japanese versus style / Head to Head Cabinets, and will use Sanwa Sticks and Buttons.

Please note that Tekken 5 will be STICK ONLY, per Tougeki regulations.

General Notes:

-TGA will remain 100% impartial and use computer generated random seeding.
TGA will not adjust brackets or alter seeding in any way.

-TGA staff members will accompany the winners to SBO and provide all
relative assistance.

- All TGA entries will be required to bring a completed waiver form
(available for download prior to the tournament) and government issued
identification to the tournament in order to participate.

Additional information regarding rules, regulations, entry fees..etc will be posted.

A big thank you to everyone for their continued support. We look forward to seeing everyone and we wish all teams for all locations the best of luck! More
information will follow soon, so check back often.

Respectfully,

Andrew McGuire
President
Tokyo Game Action Inc.