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), and ノスタルジア (since 2018). The 2014 event also included ミライダガッキ FutureTomTom Ver.2.

The KACs usually have three rounds:

1. Qualifying Round: All players with an eAMUSEMENT pass can submit their scores to any of the groups. Only players from Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, Macau, Malaysia, Taiwan, Singapore, Philippines, and America (DanceDanceRevolution A only) may participate.
2. Semifinal Round: The 4 top-ranked players from each group compete.
3. Final Round: The 2 top-ranked players 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

List of winners

Series	Winners
	KAC2011	2012	2013	The 4th	The 5th	The 6th	The 7th
beatmania IIDX	DOLCE.	MADOKA	DOLCE.	TOKI	DOLCE.	LICHT (SINGLE) VIENNA (DOUBLE)	TBD
BeatStream	-	-	-	PAPPUS	MIZURIN	-	-
DanceDanceRevolution	BROSONI.	GAHOU	RIN-GO!!	FEFEMZ*	FEFEMZ*	CHRS4LFE	FEFEMZ*
DanceEvolution	-	まろさん	aiすくりぃむ.i	レミー	AMiNa	-	-
GuitarFreaks	APRICOT	GIL.	ぴこ	にるなっつ	(´・ω・｀)	にるなっつ	ぎるたん
DrumMania	MISTER.S	NKN-FAL	MISTER.S	B9TRIA.A	TRAINMAN	A様	まーたんとゆっきー
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)
pop'n music	TATSU	TATSU	TATSU	TATSU	TATSU (male) 8322 (female)	TATSU (male) 8322 (female)	TBD (male) 10kai (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	TBD
ミライダガッキ FutureTomTom	-	-	-	ほしケチ	-	-	-
ノスタルジア	-	-	-	-	-	-	REMILIA

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

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