Topanga League revealed - Ultimate showdown!

Super Street Fighter IV: AE v2012 elite league is coming! The TOPANGA LEAGUE (live on Nico Nico) will begin on this Friday night (Jan 20), and last in the end of February. This is the league of the strongest players that you never seen!

Invited players are:
- Daigo Umehara (Ryu)
- Mago (Fei Long)
- Tokido (Akuma/Gouki)
- Fuudo (Fei Long)
- Sako (Ibuki)
- Momochi (Cody)
- Kazunoko (Seth)
- Kindevu (Cammy)
- RF (Sagat)
- Haitani (Makoto)
- Bonchan (Sagat)
- Uryo (Sakura)


The league will stream every Friday-Sunday night, all time below is based on JST/Japan Standard Time (+9 GMT), convert to PST/Pacific Standard Time (GMT -8) will be -17 hours from the time below. The league schedule dated as:

Online matches (R1-R6) === Fixture & result ===
- Jan 20 - Round 1 (10:00 PM)
- Jan 21 - Round 2 (10:00 PM)
- Jan 22 - Round 3 (09:00 PM)
- Jan 27 - Round 4 (10:00 PM)
- Jan 28 - Round 5 (10:00 PM)
- Jan 29 - Round 6 (09:00 PM)

Offline matches (R7-FINAL) === Fixture & result ===
- Feb 11 - Round 7 (10:00 PM)
- Feb 12 - Round 8 (09:00 PM)
- Feb 21 - Round 9 (09:00 PM)
- Feb 24 - Round 10 (10:00 PM)
- Feb 25 - Round 11 (10:00 PM)
- Feb 26 - FINAL (09:00 PM)

**Check here for all the stream links.

Winning rules:
PART 1: From Round 1 to Round 6 (online)
- 2/3 rounds to win a match
- 3/5 matches to win a set
- 2/3 sets to win a game
- If players won the same amount of game, the player with higher "Game Differential" (# of Set won - # of set lost).

PART 2: From Round 7 to FINAL (offline)
- 2/3 rounds to win a match
- First to 6 matches to win a set (duece when 5-5)
- 2/3 sets to win a game
- Whoever lose in the part will be eliminated. Players have to defeat/eliminate the player with rank above him to stay in the league, unable to do so himself will be eliminated. So the higher ranking players take lesser challenge. Means this will begin from the player at the lowest rank. The highest rank player only have to defeat the player below him (or whoever beat the player below him) to win the competition. **see the pic below (right)



Nico Nico Live is pay per view video website, you may purchase the ticket with 500 yen per episode/Round or 3,500 yen for all 12 episodes/Rounds. More details about the league can be found HERE

Some players are going to World Game Cup 2012 so on week of Feb 17 is left empty.