Hydra GP Is having an open exhibition on September 24th, 2011 in Tokyo, Japan at 10:00AM~7:00PM in the Tokyo Metropolitan Industry Trade Center (address details below). This will be the first event with free play for v1.07 of MBAACC available.
Ecole CEO and Arcadia Editor in Chief will be in attendance.
The CEO of Ecole will be announcing the complete financial report for Melty Blood, and giving a status report on Under Night In-Birth. The Arcadia Editor in Chief will give an interview and talk with the tournament winner and a discussion about the event.
You can register at the door, but the tournament limit is 64 people. It costs 500 Yen ($6.00 US) to register.
The winner receives an autographed copy of the Melty Blood 1.07 edition of Carnival Phantasm 3. In addition, they will receive a one-of-a-kind pendant.
There will be free play of 1.07 when the tournament isn't running. This tournament will have similar prestige to GO1's victory in SBO and Hare's ladder ranking victory last year, and Hydra GP/Arcadia is looking to make a new plate to enter a champion into. In short, this is going to be the biggest melty blood event of the year, so if you're going to be in town after Tougeki, this is what you want to goto.
Kiriya, Jin, Niiya, and SAT have already announced their attendance.
Source:
http://hydragp.info/archives/3295 You will need to preregister with a Hydra GP Account and follow the according link if you want to participate.
〒105-0022
東京都港区海岸1-7-8
東京都立産業貿易センター
浜松町館
It Begins.
To clear up some misconceptions:
1) About the schedule, 11AM is when registration closes and v1.07 Freeplay will be available from 10AM->11AM. Finals are expected to start at 3:30PM. The award ceremony will start at 4:30. After the award ceremony, Under Night In-Birth will debut a new character.
2) This is a 1.05 tournament, and the last major 1.05 tournament. 1.07 will be available for free play from 10AM - 11AM but they will then switch out the cabs for 1.05 cabinets. This of course means the tournament will be held on arcade cabs, and not on PC. 1.06 will not be released, it was petitioned by the MB Community to continue development into 1.07 by GO1 and a handful other of top players. Ecole listened.
3) I do not know when the v1.07 copy of Melty and Carnival Phantasm 3 will be delivered to the tournament winner. Even if they receive it on site (highly unlikely because Carnival Phantasm 2 won't be out for another month yet), I doubt that said person will be leaking v1.07 or anything of the sort. Infact, I think it's somewhat disgraceful that more than one person came to ask me the possibility. Of course, that would be detrimental for the game, the scene, and everyone would know who leaked it (since only the winning copy would be released) and that person would probably be banned from tournaments in the future. I will be at Winter Comiket when Carnival Phantasm 3 and MB1.07 is released, so if anyone wants a copy of the game from then (I will return to America shortly later), contact me and let me know. I will buy the copy for you while I'm there, assuming I've been forwarded the cost of the game.
4) I believe that there will be a Q&A time available, but I hardly think this will be a press conference for people to ask and answer questions. I know we all have things we want to ask, but I feel like this will be mostly an opportunity for the top players to mingle with the staff and get some ideas before 1.07's release. Again, I hardly think 1.07 will be released on the spot to the tournament winner. I will confirm after the event.
5) UniB will be given a status report, there will be no free play for the game available to my knowledge.