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The netcafe-like facility named "E-sports Square" which is specialized to play E-sports titles in Japan, has moved to Akihabara from Ichikawa on 24th Jan thus they announced to have an opening party event yesterday.
opening party event will have panel discussions with famous like Fighting game legend Daigo Umehara, the show match Japanese Player vaisravana vs Korean progamer Stork.
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There are 2 parts of streamings and they can be seen in Niconico.(I'm not sure if they are able to see from foreign country )
Part1: http://live.nicovideo.jp/watch/lv165229772
Part2: http://live.nicovideo.jp/watch/lv166692105
Schedule
Part1 Friday, Jan 24 4:30am GMT (GMT+00:00)
04:30 GMT (+00:00) Opening
04:35 GMT (+00:00) Opening Greeting
04:50 GMT (+00:00) Panel discussion "What is Japan/China/Korea e-sports are aiming for"
05:20 GMT (+00:00) e-sports Japanese vs Korean Show match 『StarCraftII Heart of the Swarm』
Japan vaisravana [vs] Korea Stork
05:35 GMT (+00:00) Introduction of e-sports SQUARE AKIHABARA
Panel discussion Guests:
Moderator: 夏野 剛 (Dowango Inc. CEO)
NEO TV CEO: 林雨新 (China World Cyber Games partner)
Ongamenet program Production Team Chief Producer/Director Wi Young Kwang,Crisis Wi
Progamer: Daigo Umehara (MadCatz)
e-sports SQUARE Director : Kim Sun fan
Part2Friday, Jan 24 10:00am GMT (GMT+00:00)
10:00 GMT (+00:00) Opening
10:05 GMT (+00:00) Greeting by host
10:10 GMT (+00:00) Introducing e-sports SQUARE AKIHABARA
10:30 GMT (+00:00) e-sports Special Exhibition match
10:30 GMT (+00:00) League of Legends
11:20 GMT (+00:00) Special talk show by Daigo Umehara (MadCatz)
11:40 GMT (+00:00) Alliance of Valiant Arms
12:10 GMT (+00:00) FIFA14
12:30 GMT (+00:00) World of Tanks
12:50 GMT (+00:00) Thanks for watching
13:00 GMT (+00:00) Close
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Wow, how'd they get Stork in there haha.
Looking forward to it. It's on in 30 minutes too, so I don't have to wait much.
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Oh god this is awesome news. Really awesome.
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Nice for you to have Daigo there.
Japan is really behind in term of competitive gaming when you don't count console games.
PC are rarer than you would expect in such a high tech country.
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Vancouver14381 Posts
Looks like the first game just started.
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vaisravana is going to get bopped unfortunately :\
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Go Stork! Show them a nice set of games!
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whats the link ? i cant read jap, if anyone had success on watching pls post how to guide asap
EDIT: Looks like u just have to register/login. Im so dumb
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United States4396 Posts
it would be better if it was like this
Schedule
Part1 Jan 24 2014 13:30 JST[local]
13:30 JST Opening
13:35 JST Opening Greeting
13:50 JST Panel discussion "What is Japan/China/Korea e-sports are aiming for"
14:20 JST e-sports Japanese vs Korean Show match 『StarCraftII Heart of the Swarm』
Japan vaisravana [vs] Korea Stork
14:35 JST Introduction of e-sports SQUARE AKIHABARA
Panel discussion Guests:
Moderator: 夏野 剛 (Dowango Inc. CEO)
NEO TV CEO: 林雨新 (China World Cyber Games partner)
Ongamenet program Production Team Chief Producer/Director Wi Young Kwang,Crisis Wi
Progamer: Daigo Umehara (MadCatz)
e-sports SQUARE Director : Kim Sun fan
Part2 Jan 24 2014 19:00 JST
19:00 JST Opening
19:05 JST Special talk show by Daigo Umehara (MadCatz)
22:00 JST Close
we (I) want more daigo. seriously though this looks pretty cool.
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edit: Bah my bad, wrong thread
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Exciting! Now that it is in Akiba I can finally make it up to watch some eSports~
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Unfortunately this already happened. Once again sorry for bumping the thread.
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This is nice.. tho I don't follow HotS that much anymore
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Korea (South)11232 Posts
For LoL the winning team from the new LoL league will get one seed for the korean NLB league to help Japan evolve their skill.
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EPT
