KONAMI Arcade Championship: Difference between revisions

The 4th KONAMI Arcade Championship saw numerous firsts in the change of competition: naming scheme has been changed from year to ordinal as the competition ended after the year, and the competition was held on JAEPO which has been a staple in the competition since. ミライダガッキ FutureTomTom also have participated for the event, though only the highest-ranked player in the qualifier rounds was immediately declared the winner. pop'n music also introduced the one-off Ojama division which challenged players songs with applied modifier/Ojama restrictions. The ''BEMANI Master'' special category was removed. The finals for the tournament would run concurrently with another tournament, ''[[Tenkaichi otogesai|天下一音ゲ祭]]'', which would run for another four years until the final installment in 2019.

The finals introduced six final round songs for seven out of 11 divisions: [[Chrono Diver -PENDULUMs-]] for beatmania IIDX, [[EBONY & IVORY]] for BeatStream, [[Everlasting Message]] for SOUND VOLTEX, [[MODEL DD ULTIMATES]] for both DrumMania and GuitarFreaks divisions, [[RINNE|RINИE]] for pop'n music, and [[Vajra|伐折羅-vajra-]] for REFLEC BEAT. The FLOOR contest accepted 28 entries with [[Keita Miyoshi|ぺのれり]]'s Everlasting Message named as Highest Excellence.

The winner for the SOUND VOLTEX division could not be decided that day due to a technical bug that prevented the song from playing (and was subsequently replaced by [[For UltraPlayers]]). It was postponed until March 22nd, 2015 during the ''EXIT TUNES DANCE PARTY -beatnation summit 2015-''. On the same day, [[KAC 2012 ULTIMATE MEDLEY -HISTORIA SOUND VOLTEX-]] was also unveiled and made available for players immediately after the competition ended.

The 5th KAC follows similar changes from the previous tournament and added a few more qualification methods including [[CS INFINITAS|beatmania IIDX INFINITAS]] and the inclusion of the female category in pop'n music due to criticism. It is the only competition with Tokaigi 2016 to held the finals for some divisions.

Eight songs were unveiled during the final round: [[Blaze]] (GuitarFreaks), [[CHERNOBOG]] (BeatStream), [[Godspeed]] (beatmania IIDX), [[Lachryma(Re:Queen'M)|Lachryma《Re:Queen’M》]] (SOUND VOLTEX), [[Rebellio]] (REFLEC BEAT), [[Stellar Notes]] (DrumMania), [[Gekisou!! Young dump!|激走！！ヤング☆ダンプ！]] and [[Koiuta shippuu! Karuta queen Iroha|恋歌疾風！かるたクイーンいろは]] (pop'n music). For the first time in FLOOR contest, award categories are expanded into three categories of merit: Prize (awarded to five songs), Excellence (awarded to two songs) and Highest Excellence (awarded to [[Kaneko Chiharu|かねこちはる]]'s Lachryma《Re:Queen’M》). 25 other entries were also accepted, bringing the total number of qualified entries to 33.

Like the two previous installments of KAC, the competition finals was held at JAEPO and with new changes that would come in future tournaments. This competition marked the first and only time beatmania IIDX had a DOUBLE PLAY event and a new format which would later become official as ARENA Mode, whereas jubeat introduced the Team format where four players formed a team to play songs in unison. The DanceDanceRevolution also accepted players from Americas (Canada, Mexico and United States) with its own qualifying division for the first time as well. BeatStream was the only active BEMANI title not to participate this event.