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:
- 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, and America (DanceDanceRevolution A only) may participate.
- Japan Semifinal Round (since The 7th KAC): The 8 top-ranked players from the East and West areas compete separately.
- Semifinal Round: The 4 top-ranked players from each group compete.
- 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
The 8th
To be updated.
List of winners
| Series | Winners | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KAC2011 | 2012 | 2013 | The 4th | The 5th | The 6th | The 7th | The 8th | |
| beatmania IIDX | DOLCE. | MADOKA | DOLCE. | TOKI | DOLCE. | LICHT (SINGLE) VIENNA (DOUBLE) |
U*TAKA | ? |
| 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 | - | - | - |
| DANCERUSH | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | ? |
| 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) |
? (solo) ? (team) |
| pop'n music | TATSU | TATSU | TATSU | TATSU | TATSU (male) 8322 (female) |
TATSU (male) 8322 (female) |
TATSU (male) 10kai (female) |
? (male) ? (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 | ? |
| ミライダガッキ FutureTomTom | - | - | - | ほしケチ | - | - | - | - |
| ノスタルジア | - | - | - | - | - | - | REMILIA | ? (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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