Umehara x Taito Station Charity Event Battle Tour 2013 announced

As first mentioned in previous interview, the full details of Daigo Umehara's charity event is now revealed by 4Gamer.net. The event is called Umehara x Taito Station Charity Event Battle Tour 2013.

Umehara will visit 5 Taito Station game centers in 5 prefectures to play SSF4AE2012 with the participants. There will be talk show and raffle for 5 lucky participants. It is limited to 50 participants per shop. The participation fee is 500 yen. All of the fee will be donated to social welfare and charity organization. The event will be streamed at Taito Station's Ustream page where people from home can also make a donation (100 yen+) online. The donators will be presented special footage from Umehara.

Schedule
Date: January 19
Location: Taito Station Sapporo Tanuki Kouji branch

Date: February 16
Location: Taito Station Sendai Nakakechou branch

Date: March 16
Location: Taito Station Osaka Nipponbashi branch

Date: April 20
Location: Taito Station Hiroshima Hondoori branch

Date: May 18
Location: Taito Station Fukuoka Tenjin branch

All will begin from 13:00 JST.  The registration will open one week prior for each shop.

Umehara used to have an event at Taito Station a few times in the past two years as listed below.

• Pre-Evo 2012 event (June 30, 2012)
• Taito Station Shijunku Minamiguchi 20th Anniversary feauring Bon-chan (May 19, 2012)
• 50-man Kumite featuring American players, Nemo, and Kazunoko (September 19, 2011)