KONAMI Arcade Championship 2011 (Japan)

lol'ed at jubeat round 2.

The rules stated that in case of a tie game, winners will be decided on a FCFS basis.
And as some of you might know, jubeat is arguably the easiest game in BEMANI series to get a full credit (EXC).

So the round 2 qualifiers of jubeat have turned into some kind of "get EXC on all designated songs as fast as you can" race
(the qualifier will come to an end when the number of players who EXC'd on all designated songs reaches 8).
Here are the current results:

Hokkaido: ended in 4 h, 40 min and 41 sec; II-L (one of the 2 players who EXC'd all charts in jubeat 1st) finished in 3rd.
Kanto: ended in 30 min and 40 sec (just look at this, a round 2 competition was over in only half an hour );
Y.S-Y (the first player to EXC all charts in ripples) couldn't manage to get EXC fast enough (13th), and was eliminated from the tournament.
Central: ended in 6 h, 5 min and 40 sec; LAV1S. (another famous jubeat player in Japan) finished in 1st.
Shikoku: ended in 8 h, 20 min and 13 sec; HO4.KT-Y, the 1st player in this region, is also the only player outside Kanto who managed to get EXC in Kanto's 0:30:40 time limit.
Kyushu: the only region where players "still" have a chance to enter the next round, but there's only 1 slot left.

Many players from Kanto are now criticizing Konami for starting round 2 at a time which most players have to work (as one of the winners stated that he got his slot by heading to the arcade instead of school), and for applying the FCFS rule on a game like jubeat. Oh well.

On my end I'm currently rank #1 in my region but with only 2 days of qualifying I doubt I'll stay there long. Gotta improve it soon to secure a spot.

I'm not sure what I'm going to try to do. I wonder if I tell them I can't enter the Japanese tournament they'll let the #5 person in my region enter it. If so, it's make me feel a little better. As of right now, it seems unlikely I'll even make it to the event in Japan but only time will tell.

It also looks like I wont be in the Asia tournament either since I don't have a Chinese ID nor an official Chinese name. Bummer.

Does anybody know about when the DDR will start?

Well I was going to bed, but not now.

DDR finals are starting.