Later this week, Arc System Works is hosting a Fighting Game Award tournament: an event dedicated to supporting some of their best players and communities surrounding their games. Since our initial reports on this Guilty Gear and BlazBlue tournament, Aksys Games has clarified the event with information on the English stream, as well as translated the profiles of every participant.

The cast competing in BlazBlue: Central Fiction is as following:

While Fenrich is certainly a favorite to win, Ryuusei, a Carl Clover player, is after his head. Yutta plays Jin like Fenrich, and intends to show the results of his dedication to training. Minami and Souji (Izanami and Arakune respectively) can certainly make an upset, as both those characters have incredibly strong setplay–unless the two Carls lock them down first.

This is the BlazBlue bracket to see who’s fighting whom:

In Guilty Gear Xrd -REVELATOR-, we have:

Machabo, Omito, FAB, Nage, and GZL|Koichi are some of the strongest and most well-known players on this list. T5M7 came out with a surprising win at Toushinsai, defeating the competition with his Leo Whitefang. While Machabo, who wants to dazzle us with a “flawless performance and win the tournament,” was crowned Evolution 2016 champion, Sin Kiske isn’t the same character anymore, and the game feels more even for the rest of the cast–Omito’s Johnny is in similar shoes, although he’s still incredibly strong.

And this is the Guilty Gear bracket:



Tune in this weekend on Friday, January 13th to watch the stream at 8 p.m. PST/10 p.m. CST/11 p.m. EST. Aksys Games finalized the stream link, and it’s going to happen at twitch.tv/Aksysnation. Here’s the official breakdown of the schedule:

Tune it to the event for top Guilty Gear and BlazBlue gameplay, and although there are no official hints at announcements from the company, it seems likely that we’ll hear something regarding the future of the two games. A recent interview from the producers suggests the event should be worth a watch.

Source: All-Aksys