Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Pangya World Championship 2011 Preview

The time is near as we see a total of 16 players around the world divided into 4 groups: Japan, Korea, Thailand, and Global players to battle it out in the biggest Pangya tournament in history. It'll take place in Tokyo, Japan at Akiba Square. The Final round from these 16 players will be teaming up to play on Saturday, January 22nd Japan time. The grand prize of $15,500 is on the line. Which server will win? Which GMs will triumph? Represent your country!

South Korea Players | West Wiz | Deep Inferno | Total
]F.P[뽕샘(악마) | -34 | -37 | -71
[if]땜에(새침) | -39 | -31 | -70
]F.P[피스(메롱) |- 35 | -32 | -67
요쏘라네~ | -35 | -32 | -67

Thailand Players | Blue Lagoon | Deep Inferno | Total
toozero | -41 | -33 | -74
shortycool | -40 | -33 | -73
raktaka | -39 | -34 | -73
beyonceuk1 | -39 | -32 | -71

Japan Players | West Wiz | Deep Inferno | Total
いがりさん | -38 | -36 | - 74
blanz | -40 | -33 | -73
せりえー | -39 | -32 | -71
Brunel | -36 | -34 | -70

Global Players | White Wiz | Deep Inferno | Total
xKr(e40)Karti | -34 | -27 | -61
Da(e44)Sandman | -28 | -29 | -57
emersonesf4 | -17* | -31 | -48
xKr(e40)Xeno - Invited

*Scores does not entirely represent their skill level due to issues that occurred. Read below for details.



Pangya Korea

There are two ]F.P[ (Fort Pangya) players that will be heading to PWC. Fort Pangya are known to have very strong Pangya players in the guild. There's even a lady in that guild that helped us get our Pangya Portable packages from Korea back on SLGaming. Remember that? The other two remaining players, I've seen them before and they are no pushovers either. [if] guild has strong players and I've seen some of their records that are quite good. Pangya KR is known to be a force to be reckon with. We'll see how they will fare.


The 3rd Place winner displays an superb pose that won't be forgotten in the history of the Pangya Korea Cup.



Pangya Japan

Japanese players loves their competition, and what better place to test it out against other Pangya players around the world. If you remember from my old Pangya League videos, they did face against the top 5 Korean players a long time ago. It took place outside in a golf course under the scorching sun. Even though Japan triumph at that time, we'll see how much has changed during their last encounter.





Pangya Thailand

Other people assume Thailand players are not competitive because not many of them know what they are capable of. Well, they should probably take a good look at how their server handles first before jumping the gun. It's very popular up there, and there are so many non-stop special promotions for their game. They have done numerous offline tournaments before so they are well-aware the competitive environment.


These top 4 players will definitely be there in high spirits. Remember their faces well.



Pangya Global

On Pangya Global, only a selected few were able to go. 3 players out of the top 16 players from the PIC Tournament. But they will need one more player or they will be disqualified from the World Championship. Down through their list, they managed to summon one of the past tournament winner, xKr(e40)Xeno to become their fourth player to represent Pangya Global.


There are a few drawbacks that may become tough for these players. One, this was done in an online event where they are in a comfortable environment with any available notes or calculator. Secondly and I may be wrong on this, but there were no semi-PWC restrictions used during the PIC tournament that the other servers did. I'm talking about a possibility of these players using more than one silent winds, having equippable cards, and more. And lastly, the top highest score from those players will not be competing.

Things are looking tough, but it's too early to feel discouraged. Besides, there are still time for improvements and those scores up there doesn't represent their skills entirely either. *Especially when connection issues arose from emersonesf4 that made his White Wiz score tallied up from whatever finished holes he achieved so far.

Nevertheless, we should be proud of these 4 players for taking a stand to travel all the way to Japan to represent your server.



Tokyo Time
1-22 1:00 PM ~ 1-22 6:30 PM
Eastern Time
1/21 11:00 PM ~ 1/22 4:30 AM
Central Time
1/21 10:00 PM ~ 1/22 3:30 AM
Mountain Time
1/21 9:00 PM ~ 1/22 2:30 AM
Pacific Time
1/21 8:00 PM ~ 1/22 1:30 AM

Lets wish these players save travels and good luck.

The broadcast station will be held on http://www.ustream.tv/channel/okomebroadcastingstation. However, I believe the chat box will be filled with many different languages that you won't be able to have a decent conversation with anyone. I had an idea of casting this live performance on my Justin.TV channel as a way of gathering English speaking people to talk with during the event. My channel will also record and save it to my archives to re-watch at anytime that I'll be sure to have that secure.

Depending on your feedback whether I want to go through casting this or not is entirely what I'll see or feel from you readers.

I don't know if I'll be able to stay up around 4:30 AM to the end, but I can leave the channel running during the event and place some kind of way to automatically shut down the feed when the Championship is over while I'm in bed.

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