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KOFXI Sawakoro Festival 2023

Version vom 15. Oktober 2023, 15:59 Uhr von AtTheGates (Diskussion | Beiträge) (→‎2023/10/06)

Tournament Report by ATG

Preface

Sawakoro Festival is the biggest annual KOFXI 3on3 tournament in the world, hosted by the famous Nagoya-based player of the same name. The German community has strong ties with the Japanese KOFXI player base since years now, with annual visits to Japan and even visits from Sawakoro to Germany. My group of players, based around the Mad Gear club in Frankfurt, finally decided to participate in the festival for the first time:
 

  • ATG: Oswald/K'/Vanessa(L)
  • SenseiEnrique: Kensou/Oswald/Gato(L)
  • Arit: Clark/Ralf/Jazu(L)
  • AD_Ryan: Iori/Kula/Ash(L)

We left for Japan in late September, and after some brawls in Tokyo (Good Day 21[1][2], Shinjuku Sportsland[3][4]) and Fukuoka (G-Stage Nanakuma[5]), we finally arrived in Nagoya on Friday, October 6th.

2023/10/06

 
We arrived at port24 in Nagoya on Friday, the arcade legendary for KOFXI in Yagoto (south-east Nagoya).


A lot of players from all over Japan and Taiwan were already present and going at it several XI-Setups. We were warmly welcomed and brought (and received) our first batch of (personal) presents with us. Sawakoro gifted me this awesome Geese that was a KOFXV random preorder bonus (hard to get):
 


...and then came a surprise delivered by Miekazu, from all the Yagoto players: each of us got a custom mug representing our teams!
    They were crafted by yusuke, who also made really cool Griffon stickers that were distributed during the after-party (more on that later).


I almost took no fotos on that evening, there was just too much excitement to play, and we went at it immediately, until closing time.
This is the tournament key art - above it you can see a custom artwork gifted to port24 by Kingcar a few years ago, the leader of the InsertGame-Dojo in Solingen, Germany, who also play KOFXI:
 


These were taken by Sawakoro:
senseienrique & atg playing / miekazu & yukito / adryan & atg
   


Here is a link to the livestream for that day, feat. players from Japan, Taiwan (Yukito) and us:
2023/10/06 KOFXI Casuals with Germany and Taiwan(TW) (KOF11 野試合 ドイツ勢 &台湾勢襲来!!)【ポート24八事】
2023/10/07 KOF11 野試合 (ドイツ勢 &台湾勢襲来!!)【ポート24八事】

2023/10/07

Saturday was the first official day of the Sawakoro Festival, with the big east vs. west team battle taking place. The vast majority of players had already arrived, and there were a full 7 versus setups for XI, with fierce casual matches between top players going down without any breaks.

We arrived around noon, and were immediately met with a big surprise - none other than legendary Vanessa player TORI has come out of retirement! I talked to Sagawa later, who also commented the Sawakoro Festival and teamed up with Tori and Yamate, and he intentionally kept it a secret!
  

I challenged him to a (semi-) mirror match of course, since we both use Vanessa leader. Every Vanessa player that was present (TORI, Toru, Yamate, miekazu & me) all have a totally unique style, so it was super fun to compare strategies and setups. TORI used a super interesting trick against me - when he had meter with Vanessa and my character was on low health, he used her leader activation while I was jumping - that gave him time to assess the situation during the super freeze and time an anti-air 2141236P!

East vs West Team Battle

Video: 2023/10/07 KOF11 東西戦 (KOFXI East-West Battle)【ポート24八事】

Eventually groups were drafted for the big East vs West team battle, with the Germans being part of the East Team:
  

We more or less volunteered to go at it first as a group. Rukkora defeated arit, AD_Ryan and SenseiEnrique, until i finally defeated him (check the vids for my approach on how to play K' vs Gato - jump up E all day and pray). I then lost against Kurocha's Adelheid by failing my (unnecessarily ballsy) 5E>623C incoming okizeme with Vanessa - i expected him to LDM on incoming, which he did, but I mistimed the guard point. The hype was insane, everybody was screaming their lungs out the whole team battle, cheering on their team mates until the end. My personal highlight was the match Sawakoro vs Yanjirou, who are among the best players right now. The way how effectively and cleanly Sawakoro played neutral with Mary against Yanjirou just left me speechless, make sure to check the match out! Another great performance was Kentucky's play - he uses Kensou/Whip, Yuri / Leader Athena and despite this seemingly weird team is so strong he can easily keep up with the top players.

Results

Results
First Place Rock, Sawakoro, U-rasia
Finalists Zakuroman, Tobidogu-San, Yanjirou
3rd place Kyuntakuya, Yukito, Uguu / Kodzuka, Kentucky, Shou

Videos

2023/10/08 KOFXI 3on3 Tournament Sawakoro Festival RE （Aブロック） 【ポート24八事】 <-A-Block & Play-offs
2023/10/08 KOFXI 3on3 Tournament Sawakoro Festival RE （Bブロック） 【ポート24八事】 B-Block & Losers' Tournament

Character usage

Overall Character usage

 

Leader usage

 

List of all Teams & Characters

19 teams, 57 players

Mount Everest

Everest

  • Oswald
  • Kula
  • K'(L)

Shingo

  • Kula
  • Ryo
  • Gato(L)

Gian

  • Kula
  • Ryo
  • Gato(L)

砂町リベンジャーズ

Yanjirou

  • Kula
  • K'
  • Gato(L)

Zakuroman

  • Ryo
  • Kula
  • Gato(L)

Tobidogusan

  • King
  • Kensou
  • Jazu(L)

∞Shadow

千国/Sengoku

  • Silber
  • Ryo
  • K'(L)

わかほう/Wakahou

  • Ralf
  • Kula
  • Gato(L)

ヤスダのダチ/Yasuda no dachi

  • Duolon
  • K'(L)
  • Duck
  • Kensou

おれも

Makotsu

  • Eiji
  • Oswald
  • Ash(L)
  • Gato(L)

Nori

  • Ralf
  • Kula
  • Gato(L)

Miekazu

  • K'
  • Kula
  • Duck
  • Oswald(L)

シン石間幕府

Ryotsu

  • Ryo
  • Jazu
  • Kula
  • Gato(L)

Tetsu

  • Gai
  • Gato
  • Ryo(L)

GRID

  • Maxima
  • Ryo
  • Gato(L)

殺法

Ryumi

  • Terry
  • Yuri
  • Ryo(L)

Tennkawa

  • Shen
  • Oswald
  • Ash(L)

Zorbon

  • Kula
  • Iori
  • Kyo
  • K'(L)

パチンコ

Rukkora

  • Kula
  • Ryo
  • Gato(L)

Aoi

  • Kula
  • K'
  • Gato(L)

MAVEN

  • Terry
  • Duck
  • Malin(L)

Random Team 3

TSR

  • Maxima
  • Kula
  • Gato(L)

Yakimeshi

  • Kula
  • Ryo
  • Gato(L)

Seikindorobo

  • Gato
  • Maxima
  • Adelheid(L)

ブレイキングダウン１１

Kyuntakuya

  • Eiji
  • Oswald
  • Kula
  • Kim
  • Gato(L)

Yukito

  • Iori
  • Griffon
  • Duck
  • Kyo(L)

Uguu

  • Ralf
  • Gato
  • Malin(L)

遊びにきた

Tacchi

  • Momoko
  • King
  • Malin(L)

Operaza

  • Whip
  • Adelheid
  • Elizabeth(L)

Ayuri

  • Kula
  • Ryo
  • Gato(L)

MAD GEAR

ATG

  • Oswald
  • K'
  • Vanessa(L)

AD_Ryan

  • Iori
  • Kula
  • Ash(L)

SenseiEnrique

  • Kensou
  • Oswald
  • Gato(L)

RATE'S

Kani

  • Kula
  • Oswald
  • Adelheid(L)

Gori

  • Kula
  • Gato
  • Ryo(L)

TORU

  • Gato
  • Kula
  • Oswald
  • Vanessa(L)

幽✩遊✩白書 炎（テリー）の絆

Kodzuka

  • Eiji
  • Oswald
  • Terry
  • K'(L)

Kentucky

  • Whip
  • Kensou
  • Yuri
  • Athena(L)

Shou

  • King
  • Gai
  • Gato
  • Oswald(L)

ちっすジャーさんです。

SPOOKIE

  • Ryo
  • Kensou
  • Gato(L)

Ozuma

  • Oswald
  • Gai
  • Gato(L)

Roger

  • Maxima
  • Kyo
  • Ryo(L)

Random Team 4

Arit

  • Clark
  • Ralf
  • Jazu(L)

Kingcar

  • Maxima
  • Oswald
  • Adelheid(L)

Zone

  • Kim
  • Ryo
  • K'(L)

Random Team 1

Hokuto

  • Kula
  • Kim
  • Gato(L)

Kenoh

  • Ralf
  • Oswald
  • Ryo(L)

Saginomiya

  • Iori
  • Kula
  • Ryo(L)

サワコロック大陸

Sawakoro

  • Griffon
  • Mary
  • Silber(L)

Rock

  • Ralf
  • Ryo
  • Gato(L)

U-rasia

  • Oswald
  • Whip
  • Kula
  • K'(L)

Random Team 2

Sana

  • Kula
  • Oswald
  • Gato(L)

Arata

  • Kula
  • Gato
  • Ryo(L)

Kurocha

  • Duck
  • Kula
  • Adelheid(L)

生交代推進委員会

Sagawa

  • Kula
  • K'
  • Gato(L)

Yamate

  • Vanessa
  • Oswald
  • K'(L)

TORI

  • Kula
  • Oswald
  • Vanessa(L)

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