TOPANGA Asia League announced

TOPANGA has just announced that TOPANGA Asia League will be held between May 3-6. Seven players from 5 Asian countries are announced, including Daigo Umehara, and the last one will be decided on the stage of the 4 on 4 exhibition match in Chokaigi 2 on April 28.

The tournament format is offline round-robin. It is first-to-seven (games). There is deuce when 6-6. The tournament will introduce a new character switching rule. Each time after 3 games are played, the player who lost more in the 3-game period can choose new character (regardless whether he lost in the last game or not), but he can only play up to 2 characters in the whole tournament.

Example
Player A 2-1 Player B = Player B can switch character in the 4th game
Player A 2-4 Player B = Player A can switch character in the 7th game
Player A 4-5 Player B = Player B can switch character in the 10th game (Player B is leading but he lost more in the last 3 games.)

Point calculation is still the same as TOPANGA League.  Winning 7-0 means +7 GD. Losing 4-7 means -3 GD. (*Game Difference)

The tournament again will be pay-per-view and streamed by Niconico. The all 4-day ticket costs 3,000 yen while 1-day ticket costs 1,200 yen.

Players

1. Umehara
2. Sako
3. Fuudo
4. Uryo or Bon-chan (from Chokaigi 2)
5. Poongko (South Korea)
6. GamerBee (Taiwan)
7. Xian (Singapore)
8. Xiao Hai (China)

Commentators
R (Guy player)
Shiro (Abel/Makoto player)

Prizes
1st place - 1 million yen
2nd place - 300,000 yen
3rd place - 150,000 yen

Tickets
All 4-day package (3,000 yen)
Day 1 (1,200 yen)
Day 2 (1,200 yen)
Day 3 (1,200 yen)
Day 4 (1,200 yen)

Stream links
Day 1 / May 3 / Friday (18:00 JST)
Day 2 / May 4 / Saturday (18:00 JST)
Day 3 / May 5 / Sunday (18:00 JST)
Day 4 / May 6 / Monday (18:00 JST)