Due to the recent earthquake in Japan, the offline finals were canceled. The finals will now be online. Due to the planned blackouts in the Kanto area the finals will now take place on April 30.

A few weeks ago I posted about the e-Sports Japan Championship in this thread. Starcraft II is one of the games that will have an offline finals alongside CoD: Black Ops and Super Street Fighter IV in the UDX Theater in Akihabara, Tokyo. There will be two qualifiers in which the top 4 players will go on to the group stage. Also 8 players are hand picked from the qualifier signups and are directly invited to go to the groups stage. The group stage will have 16 players divided into 4 groups. The top 2 players from each group advances to the finals.

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Tournament Schedule:
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Qualifier 1: December 11, 2010 6:00 PM JST
Qualifier 2: December 25, 2010 8:00 PM JST
Group Stage: January 29, 2011 8:00 PM JST
Offline Final: April 30, 2011 7:00 PM JST

Format:
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Qualifiers: BO1 Single Elimination until Qualifier Finals and 3rd Place match
Group Stage: BO3 matches.
Offline Finals: BO3 until Grand Finals which is BO5.

Rules in Japanese: http://www.cyac.jp/files/downloads/jec/rulebook.pdf

Prizes:
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1st Place: 40000 yen + Razer Starcraft 2 Full Set (Spectre, Marauder, Banshee)
2nd Place: 20000 yen + Razer Starcraft 2 Full Set (Spectre, Marauder, Banshee)
3rd Place: 12000 yen + Razer Starcraft 2 Full Set (Spectre, Marauder, Banshee)
4th Place: 8000 yen
5th Place: 5000 yen
6th Pace: 5000 yen
7th Place: 5000 yen
8th Place: 5000 yen

List of Participants:
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Qualifier 1:

pixtar

seric08

Holon

Enoch

Nazomen

Covo

tenti

denchu

kurOa

Hresve1gr

autogero

MasterGODx

SorrowRush

Fird

bLix

shadowglitch

Senjutsu

rootkun

qky

HugeInJapan

はどうけん

KusaruN

ThreeO3

hirilyu

D_Ash

senkin

Kayblis

gGlHamaji

ikdsk

fpmchu

makky

gGlEduca

nanasisan

SsKyH

gGlTaichi

tm124

meitan

spark takaaki

ukapon

dobu-souji

vaisravana

Masatosi

raggio
Qualifier 2:

SiCkO

tenti

Senjutsu

はどうけん

hirilyu

ikdsk

gGlEduca

meitan

vaisravana

SynthetIc

FaNaTic

spark takaaki

gold_hunter

NoobToss

Crawkick

akawon

Skeith

raggio

ReVenge

autogero

Covo

surapop

NeRvtakashi

LexSC2

shadowglitch

SsKyH

Hresve1gr

dobu-souji

Kayblis

Adlib

pixtar

tm124

Wrath

KusaruN

Fird

K Man

Ipsen

haromi

masternate

ENZA

Nebel

Room

zorro

makky

yumir

Keii

ReSpOnSe

Haulu

Hanamichi

Vansetsu

vagitarian

fijity

clearwater

macks

Qualified for Group Stage:
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Qualifier 1:

MasterGODx

vaisravana

bLix

Holon
Qualifier 2:

Adlib

ikdsk

Kayblis

ENZA
Invite:

SorrowRush

NoobToss

D_Ash

Nazomen

kurOa

Skeith

sb_sth

nanasisan

Groups
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Group 1:

sb_sth 2-1

NoobToss 2-1

MasterGODx 2-1

bLix 0-3
Group 2:

nanasisan 0-3

Holon 1-2

kurOa 3-0

vaisravana 2-1
Group 3:

SorrowRush 3-0

Adlib 1-2

Kayblis 0-3

Skeith 2-1
Group 4:

ENZA 0-3

Nazomen 3-0

D_Ash 2-1

ikdsk 1-2

Qualified for Finals:
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NoobToss

D_Ash

sb_sth

Nazomen

SorrowRush

vaisravana

Skeith

kurOa

IRC:
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Server: irc.friend-chat.jp
Channel: #jec_SC2

Finals Page: http://cyac.jp/en/cup/6769

Stream: http://www.cyac.jp/en/tv

JEC Page: http://www.cyac.jp/en/jec

Manifesto7

Osaka27140 Posts

November 12 2010 01:09 GMT

Looks sweet. I hope you guys have a good time.

Zeroes

United States1102 Posts

November 12 2010 01:13 GMT

40000 yen is about 400 dollars
20000 yen is about 200 dollars

storm44

1293 Posts

November 12 2010 01:19 GMT

Wouldn't the plane ticket to get to japan cost more than 1st place prize?

CrackSpider93

United States136 Posts

November 12 2010 01:33 GMT

On November 12 2010 10:19 storm44 wrote:
Wouldn't the plane ticket to get to japan cost more than 1st place prize?

Honestly, it would so I don't recommend going to Japan solely for the tournament. This is aimed more for those who live in Japan or are staying there for an extended period of time.

Zeroes

United States1102 Posts

November 12 2010 01:35 GMT

On November 12 2010 10:19 storm44 wrote:
Wouldn't the plane ticket to get to japan cost more than 1st place prize?

if you were planning to go to japan anyway it would be nice to pick up prize money and tour around

Yoshi Kirishima

United States10325 Posts

November 12 2010 02:02 GMT

Wow nice prizes! GL HF

Hurray for more esports expansion and activity :D

grobo

Japan6199 Posts

November 12 2010 02:07 GMT

Cool to see the SC-scene growing in Japan.

Retsukage

United States1002 Posts

November 12 2010 02:09 GMT

I really hope sc2 grows in japan. Those guys are some crazy gamers, want to see the fighting circut there fall into the sc2 circut!

Strategos

Canada132 Posts

November 12 2010 02:20 GMT

#10

On November 12 2010 10:35 Zeroes wrote:

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if you were planning to go to japan anyway it would be nice to pick up prize money and tour around

you make it sound like there will be no one else to contest your claim to the prize money, im sure there are plenty of good starcraft players in japan

b_unnies

3579 Posts

November 12 2010 03:13 GMT

#11

i thought sc2 wasnt sold in japan ?

Blitzmarine

39 Posts

November 12 2010 03:19 GMT

#12

So, ThreeO is not participating. Maybe he is not in Japan currently? It would be great see a good Zerg player from Korea playing with gamers from Taiwan, US, and Japan(nearly global as GSL,isn't it?) so it is somewhat disappointing. Still, it is really good to see Japanese SC2-scene is actually growing.

Maybe we can see some Japaness players paticipating in GSL and other big Leagues in near future, which will be really cool.

threehundred

Canada911 Posts

November 12 2010 03:32 GMT

#13

DAIGO UMEHARA FIGHTING!

Blitzmarine

39 Posts

November 12 2010 03:44 GMT

#14

On November 12 2010 12:13 b_unnies wrote:
i thought sc2 wasnt sold in japan ?

Yes, they have to purchase US version through Amazon(or something like that).

Since SC:BW scene was so small in Japan disregarding Blizzard's huge effort in localization, it is somewhat reasonable that they don't even bother about Japan this time.

Psychatog

Philippines71 Posts

November 13 2010 12:56 GMT

#15

Wow I didn't know there is a SC2 scene in Japan.

CrackSpider93

United States136 Posts

December 05 2010 07:55 GMT

#16

On November 12 2010 12:19 Blitzmarine wrote:
So, ThreeO is not participating. Maybe he is not in Japan currently? It would be great see a good Zerg player from Korea playing with gamers from Taiwan, US, and Japan(nearly global as GSL,isn't it?) so it is somewhat disappointing. Still, it is really good to see Japanese SC2-scene is actually growing.

Maybe we can see some Japaness players paticipating in GSL and other big Leagues in near future, which will be really cool.

ThreeO signed up a few weeks ago. I just updated the roster list in the OP yesterday.

If anyone wants to cast some of the games I'll ask the guys at CyAC if it would be alright. I also might ask if I can get some of the replays.

The non-SC2 tournaments are being streamed live at Nico Nico Douga so I think it would be the same for SC2. Apparently, you need a premium account if you want to see VODs of live shows
and a regular account to watch it live (someone correct me if I'm wrong).