KONAMI Arcade Championship

KONAMI Arcade Championship

The KONAMI Arcade Championship (KAC) is an annual competition hosted by KONAMI for some of its games series including the following BEMANI arcade series: beatmania IIDX, DanceDanceRevolution, GITADORA (GuitarFreaks & DrumMania), jubeat, pop'n music, REFLEC BEAT (2011-2017), SOUND VOLTEX (since 2012), DanceEvolution ARCADE (2012-2016), BeatStream (2014-2016), MÚSECA (2015-2017), ノスタルジア (since 2018), and DANCERUSH (since 2019). The 2014 event also included ミライダガッキ FutureTomTom Ver.2.

The KACs usually have four rounds:

1. Qualifying Round: All players with an e-amusement pass can submit their scores to any of the groups. Only players from Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, Macau, Malaysia, Taiwan, Singapore, Philippines, Australia, and New Zealand, along with the United States and Canada (for the DanceDanceRevolution series only) may participate. jubeat also has teams of up to 4 players.
2. Japan Semifinal Round (since The 7th KAC): The 8 top-ranked players or teams from the East and West areas compete separately.
3. Semifinal Round: The 4 top-ranked players or teams from each group compete.
4. Final Round: The 2 top-ranked players or teams compete to be the champion.

KAC2011

• Qualifying Round: September 29th - November 6th
• Semifinal Round: November 20th, 23rd, 26th, 27th, December 3rd
• Final Round: December 4th

2012

To be updated.

2013

To be updated.

The 4th

• Qualifying Round: December 22nd, 2014 - January 19th, 2015
• Final Round: February 14th, 2015

The 5th

To be updated.

The 6th

• Qualifying Round: November 24th, 2016 10:00 (JST)
• Semifinal Round: December 1st, 2016 - January 12th, 2017
• Final Round: February 11th - 12th, 2017

The 7th

All games EXCEPT DanceDanceRevolution A:

• Qualifying round 1st Stage: 30/11/2017 - 18/12/2017
• Qualifying round 2nd Stage: 21/12/2017 - 09/01/2018
• Semi-Final round East Japan Area: 27/01/2018
• Semi-Final round West Japan Area: 28/01/2018
• Final round: 10/02/2018 - 11/02/2018

DanceDanceRevolution A:

• Qualifying round Group A: 30/11/2017 - 09/01/2018
• Qualifying round Group B: 21/12/2017 - 09/01/2018
• Semi-Final round East Japan Area: 27/01/2018
• Semi-Final round West Japan Area: 28/01/2018
• Final round: 10/02/2018

The 8th

• Entry: 15/11/2018 - 14/12/2018
• Qualifying round (GITADORA, ノスタルジア and SOUND VOLTEX): 21/11/2018 - 17/12/2018
• Qualifying round (Other games): 29/11/2018 - 17/12/2018
• Semi-Final round East Japan Area: 12/01/2019
• Semi-Final round West Japan Area: 14/01/2019
• Final round: 26/01/2019 - 27/01/2019

The 9th

• Entry: 26/11/2019 - 06/01/2020
• Qualifying round: 27/11/2019 - 07/01/2020
• Semi-Final round East Japan Area: 19/01/2020
• Semi-Final round West Japan Area: 26/01/2020
• Final round (DrumMania, pop'n music, and DANCERUSH): 01/02/2020
• Final round (GuitarFreaks, ノスタルジア, and jubeat): 02/02/2020
• Final round (beatmania IIDX, DanceDanceRevolution and SOUND VOLTEX): 08/02/2020 (JAEPO 2020)

List of winners

Series	Winners
	KAC2011	2012	2013	The 4th	The 5th	The 6th	The 7th	The 8th	The 9th
beatmania IIDX	DOLCE.	MADOKA	DOLCE.	TOKI	DOLCE.	LICHT (SINGLE) VIENNA (DOUBLE)	U*TAKA	U*TAKA	?
BeatStream	-	-	-	PAPPUS	MIZURIN	-	-	-	-
DanceDanceRevolution	BROSONI.	GAHOU	RIN-GO!!	FEFEMZ*	FEFEMZ*	CHRS4LFE	FEFEMZ*	FEFEMZ	?
DanceEvolution	-	まろさん	aiすくりぃむ.i	レミー	AMiNa	-	-	-	-
DANCERUSH	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	NISHI	RIRI-. (Solo) ? (Pair)
GuitarFreaks	APRICOT	GIL.	ぴこ	にるなっつ	(´・ω・｀)	にるなっつ	ぎるたん	(・m・m・m・)	?
DrumMania	MISTER.S	NKN-FAL	MISTER.S	B9TRIA.A	TRAINMAN	A様	まーたんとゆっきー	NKN-FAL	鬼嫁合衆国環境大臣
MÚSECA	-	-	-	-	FALL	DDX	-	-	-
jubeat	VE*K.DSN	II-L-Y	FEFEMZ*	A.K.R-Y	CORBY.QS	A.K.R-Y (solo) Giant Chicken Family (team)	A7STA4A. (solo) ☆ゴリあーにゃ★ (team)	S&YSN-Y (solo) ☆ゴリあーにゃ★ (team)	? (solo) ? (team)
pop'n music	TATSU	TATSU	TATSU	TATSU	TATSU (male) 8322 (female)	TATSU (male) 8322 (female)	TATSU (male) 10kai (female)	TATSU (male) 8322 (female)	TATSU (male) 8322 (female)
REFLEC BEAT	N.E.X.T.	A.N.C.B	NICHAN.T	NICHAN.T	sir・o・n.	A.N.C.B.	-	-	-
SOUND VOLTEX	-	REMILIA	XD2.BOT （えつや）	XD2.BOT	1008.BOT	GGD	K.FLAT	LV.MINI	?
ミライダガッキ FutureTomTom	-	-	-	ほしケチ	-	-	-	-	-
ノスタルジア	-	-	-	-	-	-	REMILIA	REMILIA (Basic) yukitani (Recital)	? (Basic) ? (Recital)

External Links

• KAC2011 web site
• KONAMI Arcade Championship 2012 web site
• KONAMI Arcade Championship 2013 web site
• The 4th KONAMI Arcade Championship web site
• The 5th KONAMI Arcade Championship web site
• The 6th KONAMI Arcade Championship web site
• The 7th KONAMI Arcade Championship web site
• The 8th KONAMI Arcade Championship web site

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