KONAMI Arcade Championship
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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)
- ミライダガッキ FutureTomTom Ver.2 (2014)
- MÚSECA (2015-2017)
- ノスタルジア (since 2018)
- DANCERUSH (since 2019)
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, 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.
- Japan Semifinal Round (since The 7th KAC): The 8 top-ranked players or teams from the East and West areas compete separately.
- Semifinal Round: The 4 top-ranked players or teams from each group compete.
- Final Round: The 2 top-ranked players or teams compete to be the champion.
KAC2011
- Website: http://p.eagate.573.jp/game/kac/p/index.html
- Qualifying Round: September 29th - November 6th
- Semifinal Round: November 20th, 23rd, 26th, 27th, December 3rd
- Final Round: December 4th
Summary to be updated.
The winners of this KONAMI Arcade Championship were the following:
Participating Games | ||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
beatmania IIDX | DanceDanceRevolution | GuitarFreaks | DrumMania | jubeat | pop'n music | REFLEC BEAT |
DOLCE. | BROSONI. | APRICOT | MISTER.S | VE*K.DSN | TATSU | N.E.X.T. |
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 | ||||||||
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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) AKINA-02 & IEKEIBOT (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
- 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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