Event Details
Registration – Rules – Exhibitions – Hotels – Food – Stream
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LOCATION
Arcade Legacy
The Cincinnati Mall – 600 Cincinnati Mills Drive, Cincinnati, Ohio 45240
513-874-8766
arcadelegacy@yahoo.com
DATE
April 13 – 15
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 PU2012 Pre-Registration Listings page.
For the most up to date PU2012 news please go to the PowerUp Facebook and Twitter pages.
Event Badge
$30 – PowerUp Online Store / By Phone (Call Arcade Legacy, ask for Jesse)
$40 – In-Person Emergency Registration
Spectator Badge
$15 – Online / In-Person / By Phone
*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 tournaments concludes as laid out in the PU2012 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.
Spectators may not enter any main tournament at PU2012.
Event venue fees are refundable up until Friday, April 13th. Individual tournament entry fees are refundable up until the start of the pool for the game in question.
GAMES
SSFIV:AE – $20
UMvC3 – $20
T6 – $20
MK9 – $10
SFxT – $10
SCV – $10
VS – $10
KOF XIII – $10
ST – $20
SPECIAL FEATURES
Arcade Legacy
We will have arcade cabinets available for free play throughout the weekend. A full list of those cabinets is forthcoming.
Evolution 2012 Tournament Season
PowerUp 2012 is proud to be a part of the EVO 2012 Tournament Season and provide official EVO seeding points to top finishers in: SSFIV, UMvC3, MK9, SFxT, SCV and KOFXIII.
Focus Fire
Focus Fire has been developing a fine reputation with the fighting game community, and PU2012 aims only to further that goal while providing the absolute best equipment we can for our attendees.
King of Anime
We haven’t forgotten about GGAC, BBCS, MBCC, AH3 and hopefully Skullgirls if it is released in time! What we’re doing is having community run tournaments for these games on Friday and Sunday so that they can make use of our ample casuals space during non-pool play. King of Anime is being organized by Pope Temmy. The King of Anime schedule is embedded in the bottom portion of the PU2012 Schedule. Registration will be on-site only.
PAYOUT & BONUS
This year we’re doing things a bit differently with our payout and bonus structures.
And for those coming in 1st Place, never fear! The PowerUp Bonus Structure is here!
At the 50-entrant level we’ll begin taking $2 out of each tournament entrant’s venue fee and putting it toward bonus money for 1st Place in that specific tournament. At and above 50, multiply the total entrants by 2 to get the bonus amount.
TENTATIVE SCHEDULE
The following schedule is subject to updates once our Exhibitions are finalized. This is only one of the improvements being made at PU2012; big thanks to Keits for his excellent scheduling example from UFGT7.
I encourage all PU2012 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 registrant nametags.
*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 PU2012 Master Pool Assignments document once it is completed after Monday, April 9th, 2012.
Don’t forget that when you register online for PU2012 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 at 12:00am, Monday April 9th, 2012.
QUALIFICATION SYSTEM
Once again we’re making improvements to PU2012 with an organized qualification systemAs you can see in our PU2012 Event Schedule, SSFIV:AE, SFxT and UMvC3 have 8 pools scheduled a piece. Top 4 in Winners and Top 4 in Losers for each pool will advance to a 64-Man Semifinals Bracket. From that Semifinals Bracket, Top 4 in Winners and Top 4 in Losers will play in Top 8 for Sunday Finals and Top 16 for Road to EVO 2012 points will be determined. Each qualifying player is designated an unmovable spot on the semifinals bracket based upon where on their pool bracket they qualified.
Visually, this looks like:
64-Man Pool with Top 8 highlighted/numbered
64-Man Semifinals Bracket with Pool Qualifiers, Top 8, and EVO Seeds highlighted/numbered
MK9 and SCV have 4 pools scheduled a piece. Top 4 in Winners and Top 4 in Losers for each pool will advance to a 32-Man Semifinals Bracket. From that Semifinals Bracket, Top 4 in Winners and Top 4 in Losers will advance to Top 8 for Sunday Finals and Top 16 for Road to EVO 2012 points will be determined.
Visually this is identical to the above, except for the Semifinals Bracket, which looks like:
32-Man Semifinals Bracket with Pool Qualifiers, Top 8, and EVO Seeds highlighted/numbered
Lastly, T6, KOFXIII, ST and VS each have 2 pools scheduled a piece. Top 4 in Winners and Top 4 in Losers for each pool will advance to a 16-Man Semifinals Bracket. From that Semifinals Bracket (KOFXIII only), Top 4 in Winners and Top 4 in Losers will advance to Top 8 for Sunday Finals and Top 16 for Road to EVO 2012 points will be determined.
Visually, this is identical to the above, except for the Semifinals Bracket, which looks like:
16-man Semifinals Bracket with Pool Qualifiers, Top 8, and EVO Seeds highlighted/numbered.
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Registration – Rules – Exhibitions – Hotels – Food – Stream
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