[Tournament] [25-27/02/11] World Game Cup 2011, Cannes - France

kurama_tengu

World Game Cup 2011

4th Edition – Palais des Festivals de Cannes

February 25-27, 2011

Our Concept:

Set in the heart of "The Festival International des Jeux" (The International Games Festival), in the world renown "Palais des Festivals de Cannes", The World Game Cup is The World Championship of Fighting Games. A place where the best fighters from all five continents will face each other for three days of fierce competition.

After a 2010 Edition acclaimed by both the press and the public, the World Game Cup is back with an even more fun and spectacular program.


The Official Games in Competition in the 2011 Edition:


CONSOLE TOURNAMENTS
(Only on XBOX 360 systems)

- Super Street Fighter IV, Solo, Team 3vs3 & Master Series
- Soulcalibur IV, Solo, Team 3vs3 & Master Series
- Tekken 6, Solo & Team 2vs2
- Blazblue Continuum Shift, Solo & Team 2vs2

ARCADE TOURNAMENTS
(Only on arcade cabinets, with our partners Versus Dojo & Games Spirit)

- Street Fighter III Third Strike, Solo & Team 2vs2
- The King Of Fighters XIII Solo
- The King Of Fighters 2002 UM Solo
- Super Street Fighter 2X Solo
- Guilty Gear XX Accent Core Solo

The World Team Cup 2011:

More than an open tournament, the World Game Cup is an opportunity to witness an incredible show: The first worldwide fighting game competition with national teams!

After a 2010 Edition focusing on Soulcalibur IV (Team France won the tournament!), the World Team Cup is back with one more game:

World Team Cup Super Street Fighter IV
World Team Cup Soulcalibur IV
Note : Compettions reserved to national teams


New in the 2011 Edition:

The World Game Cup village is expanding, with a real arcade zone, a casual play section and a press section.

In the same spirit, the three stages will host various shows:

The «*Main Stage*» for the final stages of the console competitions and the World Team Cup.
The «*Round Stage*» to ensure everyone gets to see the best of the qualification phases of the console tournaments.
The «*Arcade Stage*» for the new arcade tournaments!

And last but not least, our streaming feed will mark the online first of the World Game Cup, to offer even more entertainment for the public & garner an even larger audience with those who couldn't make the trip.

The rules & regulations of the tournaments, detailed schedule, dotations and cash-prizes will be announced in early October with the opening of the registations and the second press release.

Info, Registration, Schedule:
Welcome to The World Game Cup.Com • Portal

French Language Website:
WORLD GAME CUP.FR • Portal

World Game Cup Forums:
GNOUZ FORUM ™ • Voir le forum - International Forum

Videos Archives from the Past Editions:
Welcome to The World Game Cup.Com • Portal

Press Review 2010:
GNOUZ FORUM ™ • Afficher le sujet - Revue de Presse version 1.0

Doctor DooM

You'd better post in this thread again, or I am going to delete this thread as spam, op, becuase I've seen you doing it in other forums and it's not allowed here.

kurama_tengu

No sweat man, I'll be here to answer questions if needed, that's the whole point really.

Orim

It's the week after my birthday. I wonder if I can arrange to get a trip over as a birthday present.

I enjoyed last year and it sounds bigger and better this year. Couple of questions.

Is it in the same place as last year?
Will there be consoles available for casual play? Last year there wasn't much room for sitting down at a console and playing casually, especially if you weren't signed up for a tournament.

I don't know if I'll be travelling much as I want to go to EVO next year and that's going to be very expensivo.

kurama_tengu

Orim wrote: »

Is it in the same place as last year?
Will there be consoles available for casual play? Last year there wasn't much room for sitting down at a console and playing casually, especially if you weren't signed up for a tournament.

Yes, it's in the same place (Le Palais des Festivals de Cannes) and the two same residences (hotels) will be available to book.

A casual play section has indeed been added & will be run by local players.
We also created a thread especially for casuals to help player find a fine place at night:
http://www.gnouz-corporation.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=223&t=1169

Azza

I probably be up going for this, if a few others are.

Voa

I'd...be fairly up for this, actually. Get my French up, and check out the BB scene over there at the same time.

Ramza

I'd definitely be up for this. 3s and BB sounds promising ^^

Dreddybajs

This sounds sick, honestly I probably wouldn't have gone if it was the same setup as last year, but all these additions are making me really want to.

Owwmykneecap

The only reason i wasn't at cannes was because I'd lost my passport. personally i blame mossad.
Anyway now i have one again and all other things being equal, i will be going no mistake

Voa

What was the figure for the Cannes lads last time?

Orim

IIRC it was about :
€150 for flights
€80 a head for hotel

Can't remember what the tournament cost was. €20 for entry and €10 a tournament seems to be about right.

Food could be dealt with cheaply enough if you wanted.

Voa

Huh, that's pretty damn good. I assume you guys were there for the whole event so?

kurama_tengu

Actually there never was an entry fee, the Festival International des Jeux (International Games Festival) is a free event. The "new" price per tournament will be in the second press release, in October: Stay Tuned ^^.

Doctor DooM

Thanks for hanging around.

I'm going to be there anyway, as I was this year.

Owwmykneecap

If you don't mind me asking, how did you find out about our forum?
Did you meet the Irish players at cannes last year?

kurama_tengu

I did meet a few Irish players, but I'm mostly just the guy who did the press review (some of you guys are even quoted in it). I've read almost everything that's been written about the WGC 2010, in four languages.

http://www.gnouz-corporation.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=223&t=1162

Owwmykneecap

Ahh very interesting. thanks.
I love choppers quote.

Xinkai

Quite enjoyed Cannes, & will defo go again. Need to Improve on 7th place in BB.

chueytoo

Would love to go^^ sounds fun

FoamyMushroom

Im defo going this time, by the sounds of it last year was amazing >.<

K.O.Kiki

Subscribed.

chopperbyrne

Best start saving for this and Evo so.

Petition to rename it the Cannes Fighting Festival starting now...

Ry

Cannes was so good I would go again if anything for the Hotel Sessions! It was pretty well run too so I'm sure they would only have improved on that from experience.

chunkis

There is a tournament in switzerland a week before the cannes event that mago and team EG are suposed to be attending, so that might be the event to go to instead of cannes. But the WGC event is looking very good so far, its going to have an international 5 vs 5 event thats definitely worth attending.

Other events to look out for are

Dreamhack 25th-28th November
Switzerland (beat by) 19th -20th February
Cannes 25th - 27th February
Stunfest march/april (sbo qualifiers sf4/3s) TBA

kurama_tengu

We're also working on our list of "worthy opponents" Chunkis, don't worry for us ^^.

More seriously, we won't get into an open guest war with Beat By Contest, obviously... Announcing people without having even bought a plane ticket would be pretty dumb, we'll get there when we're sure!

kurama_tengu

The Website has been updated with the dates & rules


Tournaments' Schedule:


Friday February the 25th


Console Zone:


Super Street Fighter IV - Team 3vs3
Soulcalibur IV - Team 3vs3
BlazBlue: Continuum Shift - Team 2vs2
Tekken 6 - Team 2vs2


Super Street Fighter IV - MASTER SERIES


Arcade Zone:


Super Street Fighter 2X
Guilty Gear XX Accent Core


Saturday February the 26th


Console Zone:


Soulcalibur IV - Solo
BlazBlue: Continuum Shift - Solo
Tekken 6 - Solo


World Team Cup of Super Street Fighter IV


Arcade Zone:


Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike - God Of FIGHT
Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike - Team 2vs2


Sunday February the 27th


Console Zone:


Super Street Fighter IV - Solo


World Team Cup of Soulcalibur IV


Arcade Zone:


The King Of Fighters 2002 UM
The King Of Fighters XIII




The detailed schedule is coming soon!

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After many heated discussions, we finally decided to follow the general opinion trend (and the public opinion through the poll).


We hesitated a lot with an "updated" version of the EVO rules, but stayed faithful to our French Tradition in the end!


The rules below only apply to the console tournaments (WORLD TEAM CUP tournaments excluded as we already stated in the corresponding sections). The rules & regulations of the arcade tournaments will be announced later this week.


SOLO CONSOLE TOURNAMENTS FORMAT:


For the solo tourneys, the qualifier phase will be played in POOLS, just like last year. It will be pools of 4 or 8 players, according to the size of the tournament:


- Tournament of 32 players: 8 pools of 4 players - 2/3 matches per set - 2 qualifiers per pool.
- Tournament of 64 players: 8 pools of 8 players - 1 match per set - 4 qualifiers per pool.
- Tournament of 128 players: 16 pools of 8 players - 1 match per set - 2 qualifiers per pool.
- Tournament of 256 players: 32 pools of 8 players - 1 match per set - 2 qualifiers per pool.


For each tournament, the exact number of pools & players will be announced at the end of January, when the final number of registered players will be known.


All the qualifier phases of the solo tournaments will be played with double elimination rules:


- 2/3 matches per set until the finals (played in 3/5 sets)




CONSOLE TOURNAMENTS FORMAT FOR THE MASTER SERIES:


- Tournament of MAXIMUM 128 players - Single elimination with sets of 2/3 matches - Finals played in 3/5 sets.




TEAM CONSOLE TOURNAMENTS FORMAT:


All of Friday's team tourneys will follow the same rules & regulations:


Team tournaments are played with the "Team Battle Relay" rules:


- Single elimination team sets, during the whole tournament.


- Opened to all teams (teams can mix nationalities)
- 3 players per team
- Before each bout, the two captains play a game of Rock-Paper-Scissors:
>>> The LOSING captain must announce his/her first player. The WINNING captain can then choose who he/she wants to face him/her.
>>> After that the winner of the match stays, and the loser's team can choose who they want to face him/her, and so on...


PLEASE NOTE:


As all registrations will now be made Online, the tournaments will begin earlier in the morning (don't be late!).
As a result, the pools will be drawn in early February (with seeded players).
This draw will affect all the console tournaments : solo, team, master series and world team cup events.


The draw of The World Game Cup tournaments will be filmed & available as a Online Stream on the Website.


Consequently, players will be able to check their pools and competitors (& their characters) before the tournaments!


Good Luck Everyone!

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The info has been translated & implemented into the website, but is yet to be updated, please bear with us...

K.O.Kiki

3rd Strike.
On cabinets.

I MUST ATTEND!!

Voa

Team and Solo BB comps. Niiiiiiice.

Xinkai

A bit early, but are any BBCS players definatly going to W(F)GC in Feb? Anyone interested in BBCS 2v2 teams?

K.O.Kiki

Xinkai wrote: »

A bit early, but are any BBCS players definatly going to W(F)GC in Feb? Anyone interested in BBCS 2v2 teams?

I haven't trained in a while. Must do so again.

Learn Mu-12.

We can be the NO FEET!! Murakumo Brothers!

Vyze

K.O.Kiki wrote: »

3rd Strike.
On cabinets.

I MUST ATTEND!!

I might actually be able to land FP xx SAII with Makoto then! Hm, I'd be quite tempted to go. What was the BB tournament like last year - good competition?

kurama_tengu

The BB community had pretty much already jumped ship from CT to CS last year (the numbers were small, but the level quite good). It obviously won't be the same this time as BBCS2 is pretty much an update. Plus the GG veterans will probably join in as there's also an arcade tourney on Friday: BONUS!

Owwmykneecap

Can we get a provisional list of players from here who might attend?

I being one of them.

Dreddybajs

I'm a maybe as of now

Xinkai

I think a Mod should set up a 'Who's Going & Who's Interested' thread, so they can edit the list as many times as they want, & put it as a sticky, so incase in say a month, it doesn't move.

chopperbyrne

I'm very interested in going to Cannes again.

kurama_tengu

The long list of links has been updated, it might be useful (especially if you like twitter, haven't seen last year's results, press review and/or videos):

Info, Registration, Schedule:
Welcome to The World Game Cup.Com

French Language Website:
WORLD GAME CUP.FR

World Game Cup Forums:
GNOUZ FORUM - International Forum

Videos Archives from the Past Editions:
Welcome to The World Game Cup.Com

Miscellaneous Videos:
Welcome to The World Game Cup.Com

WGC 2010 Press Review:
http://www.gnouz-corporation.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=223&t=1162

WGC 2010 Complete Results:
http://console-league.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=483&t=10371

Twitter:
http://twitter.com/#WorldGameCup

Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=152547288091253

Organized by the World Game Cup Association & its partners.
http://Www.worldgamecup.fr

Contact
worldgamecup@gmail.com

Ry

I'm gonna say yeh to this. If it works out similar to last time it should be excellent.

Monkeyto

I'm going to Malaysia in April so I can't go

Ry

Monkeyto wrote: »

I'm going to Malaysia in April so I can't go

It's ok, I won't miss you.

Monkeyto

I don't mind, I think your a pretty cool guy.

Much cooler than Farz anyways.

Ry

Monkeyto wrote: »

I don't mind, I think your a pretty cool guy.

Much cooler than Farz anyways.

Who doesn't?

kurama_tengu

The Future is Now (or something like that...)

Big News from TKO our Arcade Steward (and proud owner of the VS Dojo, a parisian game center):

"The VS Dojo is proud to announce it's first OCCIDENTAL Exclusivity!!!!!!

(Yes, you guessed it, it's even bigger news than European bragging rights! lol)

KOF 13 Version 1.1 is coming. No more bugs or dirty infinites.

And what's more, I can say for certain that it will be the next KOF at the Tougeki.

All that for the crazy price of €50cents/credit (at the VS Dojo Arcade Center, it will be free at the WGC)

Training Time: 7mn (Again VS Dojo rules, It probably will be a bit shorter due to the obvious line...)

Available right now, everyday, on an HD cabinet at the VS Dojo! Go for it!

PS:
For those of you who can't make it during the week, be advised that the
game will also be available every weekend at our colleagues arcade: The Mythik, with
freeplay settings!"

Original announcement (in French) available here: http://console-league.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=497&t=10588

And for those of you who can't wait for the WGC, TKO & the Versus Dojo are throwing a first tourney in the mix:
http://console-league.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=497&t=10604

kurama_tengu

We've got Extra Huge News for this third news release!


You might have noticed we're distilling the information more slowly this year, but it's just because a little bit of anticipation builds the HYPE more effectively. We've got a lot more extra goodies hidden all around the place, but for now, here's a big 6 part announcement:




1/ The Casual Play Area will be built around 8 to 16 screens. It will be co-run by the SWGA and Games Culture Associations. There, you'll be able to play all the games in competition in the Console Tournaments & some of the games played in the Arcade Tournaments (if a XBOX 360 version exists at the time of the event, like KOF2002 UM, for instance). But you will also find a few neat surprises in the consoles hard drives like MOTW or SSF2 HD REMIX (and more...).
Casual tournaments will be organized throughout the day. These Casual (free) tournaments will spice up your days.


Please don't hesitate to come & visit the Casual Area!


Expect more details with the next website update!


We'd like to thank the SWGA and Games Culture Associations for their support on this year's edition.


2/ basgrospoing.fr, the famous fighting games news website will be our partner for the WGC2011. Thanks to them, you'll have access to a continuous flow of fresh news (results, reports, etc.).
What's more, the BGP Team will hug the mike on the stream, spilling a moist flow of fresh editorial nuggets and atmospheric comments, LIVE from the WGC grounds.
And don't forget, the Stream will run non-stop during the three days of competition thanks to the fine people of the GNOUZ CORP!


3/ Marvel vs Capcom 3 will be an official tournament game at the World Game Cup 2011*


The competition will take place on Saturday February 26. It will be a Solo tourney.


It will be the first big European tournament for the game. And as MvC3 won't have been out for long, the whole lot of you will have a chance to win it ^^.


So please don't hesitate to register: It's Marvel 3 Baby!


As expected, this will cause some minor changes to the schedule, which will be announced soon. Don't panic, it won't be that different and no tournament will be canceled.


The website will be updated within two weeks with all the details of this new tournament.




4/ The KOF XIII tournament is indeed confirmed. The cabinet will be available in the Arcade Area. It will be the version B (1.1) of the game.


Here's an excerpt of TKO of the Versus Dojo to build up the HYPE:


“Ladies & Gentlemen,




The VS Dojo is proud to announce it's first OCCIDENTAL Exclusivity!!!!!!
Yes, you guessed it, it's even bigger news than European bragging rights!


KOF 13 Version 1.1 is COMING


No more bugs or dirty infinites.
And what's more, I can say for certain that it will be the next KOF at the Tougeki.”


Available everyday, on an HD cabinet, at the WGC thanks to the VS Dojo!


Go for it!


5/ A huge, HUGE announcement is coming for a certain Capcom game. Stay tuned, it's for late December, and you'll appreciate it for sure! (It's our Christmas present ^^)


6/ Online registration will open in about 10 days, but Online payment won't be operational until early December. (We're gonna rush it!)
In the meantime, please visit our Website & our Facebook and Twitter pages


Here you go, updates coming soon... Stay Tuned!




* (subject to the release of the game on February the 8th)

Xinkai

Yo Kurama I'd just like to say thanks for keeping us posted and keep those updates coming to our small forum ^^

Ry

"5/ A huge, HUGE announcement is coming for a certain Capcom game. Stay tuned, it's for late December, and you'll appreciate it for sure! (It's our Christmas present ^^)"

Right presuming it's Super since nothing else was mentioned about super there, huge huge announcement? What could even be classed as huge huge other than Playable AE Edition cabs or something?

Sagat06

price structure or some crap... bloody capcom and their hype building abilities

Dreddybajs

Could be SFxT :pac:

K.O.Kiki

Possibilities:

- New info on SSFIV AE on console
- Release date/build of SF3.3 OE
- Info/build of SFxT

Owwmykneecap

CvS3

/farz