e-Sports Japan Championship sponsored by Razer

CrackSpider93

United States136 Posts

October 29 2010 01:58 GMT

Press Release Intro:

The first in the Japan e-Sports Championship series was held in Akihabara last year. The second event in the series is not only doubling the previous event but surpassing it all together. JEC 2011 will take place March 12th 2011 in the electronic hub of the world, Akihabara (Tokyo) at the UDX Theatre. 14 game titles will be used in JEC 2011 compared to 6 from the previous event. JEC 2011 will have an offline finals and online finals depending on the game title. Razer, leading game device manufacturer, sponsor JEC 2011 with 500,000 JPY worth of goodies. This sponsorship will be held a-long side a prize purse of 400,000 JPY cash.

JEC 2011 Game Titles:

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Call of Duty: Black Ops (PC)
Starcraft 2 (PC)
SUPER STREET FIGHTER IV (PS3 + Xbox 360)
Call of Duty: Black Ops (PS3)
Call of Duty: Black Ops (Xbox 360)
Age of Empires III (PC)
Counter-Strike 1.6 (PC)
Counter-Strike Source (PC)
League of Legends (PC)
Quake Live (PC)
PuyoPuyo (PC)
Urban Terror (PC)
Warsow (PC)
Wolfenstein:Enemy Territory (PC)

Online Events:
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Dec 1st 2010 – Dec 12th 2010: 1st Qualifier

Dec 13th 2010 – Dec 26th 2010: 2nd Qualifier

Jan 12th 2011 – Jan 31st 2011: Group Stage

March 12th 2011: Offline finals
・Call of Duty:Black Ops（4 Teams）(PC)
・Starcraft 2 (8 players) (PC)
・Super Street Fighter 4 (8 players) (PS3)

If you are in Japan or know someone in Japan that might be interested you can find more information on the event on http://www.cyac.jp/en/jec (its in Japanese) and on the press release (English): http://www.mediafire.com/file/rqez1cvwrnzq09e/JEC_2011_en.pdf

I will post more on the SC2 qualifiers and group stages on the tournament section of the forum

Licmyobelisk

Philippines3682 Posts

October 29 2010 02:11 GMT

Where is Manlyfesto and Cambium? These guys should check it out! Wow, I though that there wasn't any SC 2 posted there...

Holcan

Canada2593 Posts

October 29 2010 02:24 GMT

this is good news im happy for the expansion and the acceptance in another country

zoLo

United States5896 Posts

October 29 2010 02:34 GMT

Awesome news and great list of eSports games. If League of Legends is there, so why not DotA and HoN?

seRapH

United States9789 Posts

October 29 2010 02:34 GMT

lol starcraft2?

maybe someday they'll have sc wcg participants that aren't C level.

Zlasher

United States9129 Posts

October 29 2010 02:37 GMT

Surprised Japan of all the asian countries, is hosting a big PC event since they've always been known for their arcade games not pc games.

JSH

United States4109 Posts

October 29 2010 02:45 GMT

lol PuyoPuyo

I didn't know that they played that competitively

rabidch

United States20289 Posts

October 29 2010 02:47 GMT

On October 29 2010 11:34 zoLo wrote:
Awesome news and great list of eSports games. If League of Legends is there, so why not DotA and HoN?

if you think people didn't play SC in japan, less people probably play DotA/HoN

i also don't get AoE3 but oh well

probably going to have a lot of foreign gamers

xmShake

United States1100 Posts

October 29 2010 02:48 GMT

Only games that make sense on that list for Japan are SSFIV and PuyoPuyo. I was completely unaware that was (is?) a scene for shooters and rts in japan.

broz0rs

United States2294 Posts

October 29 2010 02:50 GMT

#10

I always find it strange that Japan, which has an amazing internet are not keen on PC games. From what I heard and read about, it's still very much an arcade and console-based games culture over there.

Garnet

Vietnam9033 Posts

October 29 2010 02:57 GMT

#11

Great news. Hope Japan joins the esports world soon, they're awesome.

EZjijy

United States1039 Posts

October 29 2010 03:05 GMT

#12

I'm surprised LoL and AoE3 is on there, let alone SC2. Didn't think rts games would ever hit Japan.

O-ops

United States4236 Posts

October 29 2010 03:06 GMT

#13

The only game that I'm sure we won't see epic failure from is Super Street Fighters. Hell, i didn't even know Japanese gamers play CSS, LoL, and CoD.

Anyone know if that C rank computer is participating in SC2?

Penetrates

Hong Kong82 Posts

October 29 2010 03:23 GMT

#14

First place gets ~$400 US dollars, that's not too shabby.

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