Card News: Cardfight Vanguard Hosts TEAM LEAGUE Tournament!

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Bushiroad Announces Cardfight!! Vanguard Team League 2013

Singapore, February 15, 2013 – Bushiroad South East Asia Pte Ltd and Bushiroad USA Inc announced a new Cardfight!! Vanguard tournament series: the Team League 2013. This will be the first ever Bushiroad-sanctioned international team tournaments in Cardfight!! Vanguard.

The Cardfight!! Vanguard Team League 2013 is a three-stage, team tournament campaign running from April through July across the North American, Europe and Asia-Oceania regions.

Players of all ages may form teams, consisting of three members, to face against rival teams in a continental level championship utilizing Bushiroad’s unique three-on-three team tournament format. Participating teams will receive promotional goods unique to Team League 2013.

The tournament structure is split across three phases; open shop qualifiers from April to May, regional qualifiers in selected tournament stores from May to June, and continental finals for each region in end June to July.

Tournament shops currently registered with Bushiroad will be eligible to hold open shop qualifiers.

The open shop qualifiers will be open to all teams across all three regions. These qualifiers will be listed on the Cardfight!! Vanguard website in March 2013. The top placing teams in each shop qualifier will receive an invitation to regional qualifiers in selected tournament stores in their specific regions. Regional qualifier team champions will be awarded with invitations and travel/lodging fees to the continental finals in their region. Second placing teams will only be awarded invitations to the continental finals in each region.

The finals for the North American region will be held in Los Angeles, CA, in July, with a venue to be confirmed. An open qualifier for the Team League will take place the day before the Team League finals (venue and date TBD), for players who have missed their chance on participating in the open shop qualifiers.

The finals for the European region will be held in the United Kingdom in July, with a venue and specific date to be confirmed.

The finals for the Asia-Oceania region will be held in Singapore in end June/early July, with a venue and specific date to be announced. Similar to the North American Team League qualifiers, an open qualifier will take place the day before at the same venue.

More details will be revealed on the Cardfight!! Vanguard website and Facebook pages as the dates draws near.

Bushiroad concluded their first international tournament series: World Championship 2012, in December 2012. The World Championship 2012 focused on individual players. The World Championship 2013 will be held in the latter half of 2013.


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  That Was the official press release. According to the official CFV English website, rules for the Tag tournament is that it is 3 on 3. Each person will get a number and face off with their corresponding number on the other team. Each member of the team must have different clans and only 1 clan per deck. The ONLY EXCEPTION to the clan rule is if you are using a "Royal Paladin" deck, you may have up to 10 "Shadow Paladin" cards. That's it. 3 team members. 1 clan per deck. Different clans for each team member. Keep it locked in here as we will continue to follow the rules for the tourney and where the team league will be held.

Card News: Stand Up! Challenge Singles Tournament for Cardfight Vanguard

Bushiroad USA Inc. Announces Cardfight!! Vanguard Stand Up Challenge Cup 2013

 

Walnut, CA, February 8, 2013 – Bushiroad USA Inc. announced a new Cardfight!! Vanguard tournament for North America: the Stand Up Challenge Cup 2013.

 

The Cardfight!! Vanguard Stand Up Challenge Cup 2013 is a three-stage, one-on-one player tournament running from March to June, and is a tournament exclusive to North America. Players will participate in store qualifiers for a chance to win invitations to the regional qualifiers. With over 270 stores signed on, only the first and second place finishers at each qualified store will receive an invitation to the regional qualifiers.

 

There will be 25 regional qualifiers spread throughout the United States, with one regional qualifier for Mexico and one regional qualifier for Canada. The winner of each regional qualifier will receive an invitation to the Stand Up Challenge Cup finals along with airfare and hotel accomodations. Second place finishers from each regional will only receive invitations to the finals.

 

The Stand Up Challenge Cup finals is scheduled to take place on June 2, venue to be announced. A last minute qualifier will take place the day before on June 1 at the same venue.

 

Comic/Manga News: Shonen Jump Alpha Goes Day To Date Digital

   While comics and graphic novels are finding new ways to sell digitally ( Thrillbent.com being one of the most successful examples), Manga has been on the decline. A serious decline. Manga was down another 35% in sales for the first half of the year and this is after manga had an overall decrease of 13% in 2011. Shonen Jump ended their print version of their American counterpart earlier this year. So, what is Shonen Jump going to do? Why, they are gonna jump to day to date digital ... for both Japan & North America.

   Yes. You read that correctly. Shonen Jump Alpha began this year, giving digital versions of their manga titles such as Bleach, Naruto and more with only been two weeks behind Japan's stories. Yet, with the serious decline in Manga sales, Shonen Jump  Alpha had decided it was time to make a change. Thus, Shonen Jump Alpha, alongside various Japanese companies and with help from Square Enix, will now start distributing same day chapters of manga in both Japan & North America digitally.

   That is right. The same chapter that gets released in Japan will now also be available in English. Viz Executive Vice President of Publishing has stated that to CBR:

   "This is just the beginning of what I call 'real-time manga publishing,' where the English language versions are moving in sync with the Japanese original product," Lu said. "Toward that end, I would ask everyone to pay attention to 'Shonen Jump Alpha.' We will be moving to a simultaneous-with-Japan model very soon."

 Some of the titles that readers will see weekly include Rurouni Kenshin: Restoration & the newly popular Fairy Tail. See Shonen Jump move to same day to digital release of Japanese titles come 2013.