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Unfortunately no official KOF98, but if you have it on XBLA then you can bring your system in and try to convince people to give it a shot!

Hopefully DandyJ will be there and I'm sure he'd play some rounds : )

[FREE ENTRY TOURNAMENTS]

Presented by the PowerUp Committee, KO//CON is a celebration of fighting game competition and culture set to arrive at Arcade Legacy the weekend of November 3 & 4!

KO//CON aims to bring a fresh experience to the table for our guests:

We welcome brand new players and encourage them to participate in our FREE ENTRY TOURNAMENTS. (Paid entry tournaments will also be run.)

We want to partner with ARTISTS & VENDORS both local and regional. Artists will be able to compete in our ART CONTEST and vie for inclusion into the KO//CON 2012 Artbook.

New players sometimes feel lost in the sea of information that is available for comprehending a fighting game. KO//CON will host GAMEPLAY WORKSHOPS for a select variety of games to help new and/or curious players get off on the right foot!

REGISTRATION
Click here to go to Online Pre-Registration.

Pre-registration ensures that you are seeded away from others in your city, and that you do not have overlapping pools.*

To view the most up to date registration listing, please go to the KO//CON Pre-Registration Listings page.

For the most up to date KO//CON news please go to the PowerUp Facebook and Twitter pages.

Universal Event Badge Pricing
-Single Day-
$10 - PowerUp Online Store / By Phone (Call Arcade Legacy, ask for Jesse) / In-Person
-Weekend Pass-
$15 - PowerUp Online Store / By Phone (Call Arcade Legacy, ask for Jesse) / In-Person

Event Pre-Registration T-Shirt Packages
-Single Day-
$25 - PowerUp Online Store / By Phone (Call Arcade Legacy, ask for Jesse) - You will receive one t-shirt of your size choice
-Weekend Pass-
$30 - PowerUp Online Store / By Phone (Call Arcade Legacy, ask for Jesse) - You will receive one t-shirt of your size choice

*Entering 5 or more games may necessitate assignment to concurrent pools. It is the player's responsibility to check-in with bracket runners of concurrent pools so that those bracket runners can work with the player.

** In-Person Emergency Registration for paid-entry tournaments concludes as laid out in the KO//CON Event Schedule and is on a first-come, first-serve basis. After online pre-registration has ended pools will be created for every game and we will leave space for additional players. Once all spots are filled in a game's brackets we will no longer accept in-person registration for that game. Also, by utilizing emergency in-person registration you forfeit the courtesy of being seeded according to region and out of concurrent pools.

Event venue fees are refundable up until Saturday, November 3rd. Individual tournament entry fees are refundable up until the start of the pool for the game in question.

EXHIBITIONS

SATURDAY GAMES
TTT2 - $10 - PS3
UMvC3 - $10 - Xbox 360
VS - $10 - Cabinet
VF5:FS - $10 - Xbox 360

Free Entry Tournaments*
MK9 - PS3
GGAC - PS3
TTT2
UMvC3
VS
VF5:FS

SUNDAY GAMES
SSFIV:2012 - $10 - Xbox 360
SCV - $10 - PS3
KOFXIII - $10 - Xbox 360
P4U - $10 - PS3

Free Entry Tournaments
SG - PS3
ST - Cabinet
SSFIV:2012
SCV
KOFXIII
P4U

*Free Entry tournaments will be capped at 32 players per bracket. The bracket will be played Best 2/3, Single Elimination (Free Entry only). Sign-ups for Free Entry tournaments will be handled in-person only.

SPECIAL FEATURES

Arcade Legacy
Arcade Legacy will be fully open to the public during KO//CON weekend, and better yet if you have a KO//CON Event Badge, you will get in to the arcade for free the entire weekend!

Boss Fight TV
Boss Fight TV, straight out of Cincinnati, OH, is dedicated to covering all eSports events, and we are more than happy to welcome them aboard to be the KO//CON official on-site media partner.

PAYOUT & BONUS



FINAL SCHEDULE
The KO//CON final schedule will be released to the public once pre-registration closes at 12:00am on October 29, 2012.

I encourage all KO//CON participants to print a copy of the schedule for their use at the event. A compressed version of the schedule will be printed on the back of all event badges.

*Report to your pool assignment 15 minutes before its posted start time for check-in.
*If you fail to check-in we will not wait for you and you risk disqualification.
*Disqualification will not entitle you to a refund of your tournament entry fee.
*These rules also apply to semifinals and finals.

POOL ASSIGNMENTS
Click here to view the KO//CON Master Pool Assignments document once it is completed after Monday, October 29, 2012.

Don't forget that when you register online for KO//CON you will also receive an email with a personalized pool schedule that you should print and bring with you to the event. The personalized pool schedules will be sent to all online registrants after online registration closes.

QUALIFICATION SYSTEM
The KO//CON Qualification System for pool play will be announced after online pre-registration closes. Rest assured, however, that KO//CON will offer a smooth tournament experience with as little downtime between pools and finals. Each qualifying player will be designated an unmovable spot on the semifinals and finals bracket based upon where they qualify. If a tournament receives few enough entries to forgo the use of pools, then an ordinary bracket structure will be used.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION - www.ko-con.org

Pool Assignments for pre-registered players have been released!

PU2012 Pool Assignments

Pre-Registration has closed, but you can still utilize Emergency Registration in-person from 9am, Friday, April 13th until 9:30am, Saturday, April 14th.

Safe travels to all, and see you at the event!

Only 2 days left to pre-register online for PowerUp 2012!

Pre-registration ends at 12:00am, April 9th.

If you choose to wait and register in-person, please understand the following:

Emergency In-Person Registration runs from 9am, Friday, April 13th until 9:30am, Saturday, April 14th. Check the PU2012 schedule for more information.

Emergency In-Person Registration will cost $40 Venue Fee, and you will not be seeded by region or by skill in any games that you choose to enter. Absolutely no exceptions.

Register now!

Remember that you can also register by calling Arcade Legacy: 513-874-8766

Details for the PU2012 Raffle have been revealed! Learn more by reading the official announcement.

I am proud to announce that Autumn Games, publisher of Skullgirls, will be providing cash bonuses to Top 3 and a custom FoeHammer arcade stick to 1st Place for the Skullgirls tournament at PU2012!

Check out the pictures of FoeHammer's excellent work by going to the PowerUp website.

Only 5 days left to pre-register online for PowerUp 2012!

Pre-registration ends at 12:00am, April 9th.

If you choose to wait and register in-person, please understand the following:

Emergency In-Person Registration runs from 9am, Friday, April 13th until 9:30am, Saturday, April 14th. Check the PU2012 schedule for more information.

Emergency In-Person Registration will cost $40 Venue Fee, and you will not be seeded by region or by skill in any games that you choose to enter. Absolutely no exceptions.

Register now!

Remember that you can also register by calling Arcade Legacy: 513-874-8766

Team Cancel will have to work hard, Desmond! Some of the best players in Ohio are going to be on Team PowerUp; it's going to be a close fight : )

@konkrete: That's great to hear! Make sure the Chicago crew pre-registers soon!

Also,

Have questions about PowerUp 2012? Well, chances are that they will be answered in this special edition podcast.

PU2012 And You!

By now you know that the 7pm exhibition slot on Friday, April 13th is being filled by KOFXIII. What you don’t know is the format. Well, you didn’t know until just now! Dream Cancel presents -



Concept
A 5v5 where each team member is locked to only one character from the KOFXIII roster. No duplicates allowed on a team.

The goal is to win five FT3 matches, but the catch is that each game within the FT3 is a fresh 1v1. This is similar to regular 3v3 KOFXIII, but instead of one player controlling the entire team, the entire team is controlled by three individual team members.

Rules

   -Each 1v1 game is Best 2/3 rounds.
   -Each player sets his character to Handicap +1. This helps anchor-type characters remain viable by providing some initial meter.
   -Teams blind pick a player order from their 5 members. The first 3 team members in each order play the initial FT3. After the initial FT3, any player who lost a match is shuffled out to let the next ordered team member join the FT3, starting from the anchor position and moving upward.
   -After each 1v1, next upcoming players are to restart the previous game and do button checks and controller swap if necessary. Then begin the next game by returning to character select
   -Team PowerUp uses PowerUp custom colors. Team Dream Cancel uses Dream Cancel custom colors.

For an explanation of the turn order structure, follow this hypothetical example:

FT3 #1

A / B / C
vs
1 / 2 / 3

A (win) vs 1 (lose)
A (lose) vs 2 (win)
B (lose) vs 2 (win)
C (win) vs 2 (lose)
C (lose) vs 3 (win)

Team Numbers Wins

FT3 #2

D / E / A
vs
3 / 4 / 5

D (lose) vs 3 (win)
E (win) vs 3 (lose)
E (win) vs 4 (lose)
E (win) vs 5 (lose)

Team Alphabet Wins

FT3 #3

E / A / B
vs
1 / 2 / 3

And so on, depending on which players lose in each FT3.

Don't forget to check out our other exhibition events at the PowerUp website.

The PowerUp hotel group rate has expired, but if you are still in the market to get a hotel for the event, please check out this link: Hotel Guide for the Cincinnati Mills Mall

Thanks for posting up about the 5v5, Phil! It's gonna be hype : )

Only 5 days left until the PowerUp 2012 group rate at the Hampton Inn Cincinnati/Northwest expires! Hop on those room reservations asap by learning the details at this link.

Also, PU2012 is less than 28 days away! Online registration with the discounted $30 Venue Fee will expire midnight April 9th. Don't get caught paying $40 Venue Fee at the door and lose seeding privileges; register online now!

If you pay at the door for your Venue Fee and Game Entries then you will be placed into the first available spot in the pools. We will try to accommodate for region and skill, but if you don't register online you leave us in a bind time-wise, and we will be forced to place you more haphazardly into the bracket so that we can get the event started on time. Do not wait; register online now!

Check out the PowerUp 2012 Official Event Trailer!

Big thanks to Kameron Davis for his work on the trailer.

Thanks for posting Jason! And thanks for picking it up, Desmond! : )

Things almost never seem to stop getting better for PowerUp 2012, as we will now be shifting the event to the vacant store next door to Arcade Legacy within the Cincinnati Mall.

What does this mean? Well for one we're going to have a huge amount of additional space, and now Arcade Legacy will be fully open to all PU2012 tournament players and spectators for the entire weekend!

As long as you show the Arcade Legacy staff your PU2012 Lanyard, both tournament players and spectators will be able to have fun in Arcade Legacy for free the entire weekend, Friday - Sunday! For free I say!