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MAIN SITE:

http://norcalregionals.com/

WHAT?

NorCal Regionals (also known as NCR) is a yearly event that brings hundreds of fighting game enthusiasts from around the world in a dazzling exhibition of skill and dedication. Players and fans unite to honor the competitive spirit in a three day open format tournament to determine a champion that will walk away with the title of NorCal’s Best Player. This is their 10th tournament.

NorCal Regionals is on the Road to EVO! NCR is one of five amazing tournaments in the country, where players have a chance to win seeding points for the EVO World Championship in Las Vegas.

For more details on the EVO World Championships, visit their site:

http://evo.shoryuken.com.


GAMES (Played on Sony Playstation 3 except for Smash Bros. obviously)

Super Smash Bros. Melee - EVO Seeding
Mortal Kombat 9 - EVO Seeding
Street Figher X Tekken 2013 - EVO Seeding
Tekken Tag Tournament 2 - EVO Seeding
Persona 4 Arena - EVO Seeding
The King of Fighters XIII - EVO Seeding
Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 - EVO Seeding
Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition v.2012 - EVO Seeding
Divekick Pre-Release
Dead or Alive 5

WHERE?

Domain Hotel 1085 East El Camino Real, Sunnyvale, CA.


Spectators
Friday/Saturday - Free.
Sunday Spectator Pass ($10) – Available for purchase on-site. Required for Sunday Grand Finals viewing.


WATCH IT HERE:


Team Spooky - http://www.twitch.tv/teamsp00ky
iPlaywinner - http://www.twitch.tv/iplaywinner
Melee - http://www.twitch.tv/meleepacwest

WHEN?

April 26th - April 28th, 2013

FULL SCHEDULE:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Al14PwaKz1a-dFdzaXFXemhYeU1Vczh6emtjVHZiY3c#gid=0

STREAM SCHEDULE:

http://iplaywinner.com/news/2013/4/28/norcal-regionals-this-weekend-stream-schedule-now-online.html


BRACKETS:

http://ncr11.challonge.com/


WHY?

Because it's HYPE!

WHO?

HOSTS

Kineda
Hella Mind Games
Team Spooky
IPW
Shoryuken


SPONSORS

Mad Catz
http://arcadeshock.com/
Eightarc
Focus Attack
Keystone 2 Productions
Capsule Entertainment
Shoryuken
The Underground Syndicate


PLAYERS

Infiltration
Filipino Champ
LXG Hypnawtik
Snake Tits
MCZ Xian
Haibing
Honzo Gonzo
AGE|Knives
CJShowstopper
EG Momochi
LLND
KaneBlueRiver
Killer Kai
Magus1234
Apologyman
JChensor
Buktooth
Y2Jay
Ranmasama
Mike Infinite
Falcomist
GAF Stersauce
EG Floe
EM Taekua
XsK Samurai
LXG Helix
EG Justin Wong
GC Yoshi
EG PR Rog
Jint
Fubarduck
Alex Valle
Neo
CrispyTacos
OmgitzAndre
MoTempest
X Ray
Manic
Nerses
UVG Noel Brown
LXG Infrit
Hi I am Nasty
CCG|ChiRithy
SexyBeast
Drew Grimey
Royal Flush
KBeast
Noah the Prodigy
AGE|FlashMetroid,
EG Ricky Ortiz
Wentinel,
AGE| ChrisG
Pedro
Quasimodo
LPN
Laugh
Crizzle
Hsien Chang
Lamerboi
CCG Air
AGE| Vangief
Mike Ross
JaycetheAce
AGE|SnakeEyes
Silent Spectre
Zhu
Axe
Falcomist
s2j
PewPewU
Scar
Hungrybox


HOW?

Norcal 2013 will be played using the official EVO 2013 ruleset:

http://evo.shoryuken.com/evo-player-guide/evo-additional-rules/

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DIVE KICK

THE MOST ELECTRIFYING AND EXCITING FIGHT GAME EVER MADE!

Watch it played competitively with full commentary at Norcal!

Main site: http://divekick.com/

For additional inquiry contact Professor Beef.

 

[Pop-O-Matic]

I didn't know you could play Smash on a PS3...

 

[Xevren]

When's Injustice?

 

[enzo_gt]

I didn't know you could play Smash on a PS3...

The port was pretty bad, and unfortunately Sony wouldn't even budge on getting Crash in as an exclusive. Bomba.

 

[darkblade77]

When's DC

I need to got a lot of stuff done this weekend, but I'll probably tune in here and there. Looking forward to seeing the Divekick finals and some Smash, haven't seen either of those in a while.

 

[brettreyu]

Stoked for this event. Should be watching a lot between yard work.

 

[Dahbomb]

I should probably add some extra stuff about Divekick.

 

[Azure J]

The port was pretty bad, and unfortunately Sony wouldn't even budge on getting Crash in as an exclusive. Bomba.

Excited to see if Chris G sweeps this one too of if some unsung west side warrior will show him up.

 

[Professor Beef]

This isn't a Blurei-sponsored thread.

 

[A Pretty Panda]

FULL SCHEDULE:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Al14PwaKz1a-dFdzaXFXemhYeU1Vczh6emtjVHZiY3c#gid=0

http://iplaywinner.com/news/2013/4/28/norcal-regionals-this-weekend-stream-schedule-now-online.html

Stream schedule. Player schedule is pretty similar but in the SRK thread if you really want to see.

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=55366996&postcount=1103

SEE

THIS IS WHY YOU WAIT FOR ME

ME

 

[SDBurton]

Will try to stealth watch this at work.

 

[Stabby McSter]

The only info I have for Divekick is that it starts at 2PM on Saturday! And then they stream finals whenever that tentative schedule says so.

 

[Anth0ny]

who's confirmed for smash?

 

[A Pretty Panda]

who's confirmed for smash?

Northern California

Mango

 

[Professor Beef]

who's confirmed for smash?

Not me.

 

[transience]

Smash starts and finishes on Friday? So much for the FGC accepting it if true.

edit: I guess that's true of mk9 as well. I take it back.

 

[A Pretty Panda]

I was going to have a ZTS tribute section in my thread

 

[Malice215]

Northern Capcom Regionals?

 

[Pop-O-Matic]

Smash starts and finishes on Friday? So much for the FGC accepting it if true.

edit: I guess that's true of mk9 as well. I take it back.

According to the stream schedule, the Smash finals are on Saturday at 8.

 

[Kikujiro]

Where's Daigo?

 

[Xpliskin]

The weather will suck tomorrow, I will be watching this closely


I hope for a UMVC3 FChamp vs Chris G runback

 

[Professor Beef]

Where's Daigo?

Ducking me in Smash Brothers. Now that we all know he's not going, I have no reason to go.

 

[Anth0ny]

Northern California

Mango

LOL I was gonna say besides Mango in my post

Looks like Silent Spectre, Zhu, Axe, Falcomist, s2j, PewPewU, Scar, Hungrybox... not a bad turn out but it could be better.

 

[Parallax Scroll]

When's Injustice

 

[Dahbomb]

Will Chris Galactus claim Norcal as well?

Also will we finally see the HEEL TURN?

 

[Mokubba]

Can this be topped?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eC6HmGHhYfM

 

[CurlyW]

Just my luck this had to be posted while I was writing something in the other thread on the NCR schedule. If you want to see my wall o' text, it's here.

And regarding the Divekick schedule:

Kineda ‏@kineda 3h
For all those waiting for your @DivekickGame NCR pool, they'll be available from @KeitsSRK soon! Divekick is on Fri 3-10pm. #NCR11

 

[Passive Assassin]

Gl norcal

 

[Azure J]

Can this be topped?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eC6HmGHhYfM

I swear every year that we don't get something on par with this is a year my inner child dies a little.

 

[Dereck]

No Kane, Rip, or Runitblack?

 

[Revven]

LOL I was gonna say besides Mango in my post

Looks like Silent Spectre, Zhu, Axe, Falcomist, s2j, PewPewU, Scar, Hungrybox... not a bad turn out but it could be better.

Might be more that come and register at the door. But 68 entrants for online pre-reg is pretty good, IMO.

You can see the pools here:

Pool 1
Pool 2
Pool 3
Pool 4

Smash starts and finishes on Friday? So much for the FGC accepting it if true.

edit: I guess that's true of mk9 as well. I take it back.

It's not going to be finished on Friday. Also, it sounds like there will be a dedicated stream for SSBM on Friday but I don't know who's doing it yet (I imagine we won't know until tomorrow hits I guess). Top 8 will be streamed on IPW Saturday night though if that's all you care about.

 

[Dahbomb]

No Kane, Rip, or Runitblack?

KaneBlueRiver is there. Those other 2 guys might be there too but I don't know who they are so they weren't listed.

 

[A Pretty Panda]

KaneBlueRiver is there. Those other 2 guys might be there too but I don't know who they are so they weren't listed.

I think he meant Kane the Tekken player

 

[toddhunter]

No Kane, Rip, or Runitblack?

Tekken players are boycotting the event because of the lack of tekken players planning to go.

 

[Dereck]

Tekken players are boycotting the event because of the lack of tekken players planning to go.

Is this a serious post?

Not trying to be a buzzkill just wondering.

 

[toddhunter]

Is this a serious post?

Not trying to be a buzzkill just wondering.

More or less serious, just also happens to have amazing comedic timing.

http://m.neogaf.com/showpost.php?p=55487580

 

[KingItachi]

Northern Capcom Regionals?

Good one Malice.

 

[Grecco]

Im kind of reminded of Final Round regarding tekken

 

[Venfayth]

Friday:

TeamSp00ky
10 a.m.–4 p.m. Street Fighter 4 Pools

Kreygasm

Work is gonna be fun tomorrow

Keep an eye out for my MN boy Boeken! Rockin dat Abel.

 

[Bob White]

Holy shit. Just looked at the brackets to see what all this Tekken talk is about. 24 people? Not a good look.

 

[MrDaravon]

That's a lot of Smash Bros!

As an adult with a job, I'm going to miss just about everything on Friday :/

 

[Pop-O-Matic]

Is anyone going to be streaming all the Smash on Friday?

 

[Revven]

Is anyone going to be streaming all the Smash on Friday?

Yes, but I don't know who yet, I guess I should ask around or something.

 

[CountBlack]

No Injustice

 

[jbug617]

Big weekend for streams with NCR, Stunfest and KVO. Stunfest has some Japanese players (Eita, Kindevu, Kyabetsu and Mizoteru) going according to USD

 

[Heel]

Drew Grimey will shock da world.

 

[Dahbomb]

Drew Grimey will shock da world.

He's one of the golden boys of Norcal. Hopefully he doesn't let his tournament nerves get to him.

 

[partyphone]

Oh shit that's this weekend. Really can't wait for Divekick.

 

[jbug617]

Is this a serious post?

Not trying to be a buzzkill just wondering.

Tekken players were upset about the scheduling (starting on Friday and finishing early Saturday)

 

[CurlyW]

He got put into a death pool though.

Who else is in that pool apart from RoyalFlush and Frankie G? I didn't recognize any other names.