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ST has announed the Dengeki champion and time and location for the Dengeki Representitive Punishment Game! As earlier announced Kain using Ohgun came out as the champion of the Dengeki Cup beating Casey G-7 who was also using Ohgun. Famitsu champion Ring using Hyzes was beaten in the very first round by Toumi using Sil'fer.

The punishment game for Akiyama will take place on Friday March 12 - Saturday March 13. It will start at 9pm on Friday and will go on until 7 am on Saturday on ships 65-67. It will be an endurance style as well. Game rules will be:
- Team game
- Game time : 30 minutes
- Phase time : 30 seconds
- Card kind : all
- MAP : Secret.
- When either one of the two falls, game ends.

Here are some pics of the match between Akiyama and YK3.

The following quest are now available for you to play! "Rappy's Holiday", "Gallon's Treachery", "Towards the Future". In addition, beween March, 9th 2004 - March, 16th 2004 only, you can enjoy the limited time quests below. The visual lobby has also been decorated for White Day! 'White Day', 'The Principal's Gift' (a 2 player game) Have fun!

ST posted announcing that the server maintenance ended and the new online VR 1 player JP only quest, "Memory of the Green Star" for GC Ep 1 & 2 is now up. This quest is takes place in VR Temple and will have 3 parts/stages to the quest: Rush, Labyrinth and Darkness. You will also have to defeat Barba Ray and Gol Dragon if you get 3 A ranks. You are timed in this quest and you will be ranked accordingly. In addition to that, depending on how you complete this quest you will get a key item. With this key item, you will then be able to download "Anticipation of the Future," or "Bullet of Future Assassin, " both are 1 player offline quests for Ep 3. Check our earlier news post for storyline. LeRoy_G reports that in the Ep 3 download quest, "Anticipation of the Future," you fight Break and Orland and you have to kill both opponents. Upon victory, you will get the Richie card. If you play the Ep 3 download quest "Bullet of Future Assassin," you will fight Kireek and upon victory, you will get the Cipher card. Discuss this in our forums. Here's a further guide for Memory of the Green Star.

ST posted today announcing that both Akiyama of Sonic Team and YK3 of Dengeki achieved their target of collecting 200 cards each from players. They faced off in the Sega VS Dengeki game with a deck built from the cards collected and Akiyama won. YK3, being the loser, will now have to be in a punishment style exhibition game. The time and date of this exhibition game will soon be announced on ST's site. Congrats Akiyama! Now we are all looking forward to the upcoming quest in which we will be able the Gi Gue (only with ST achieving 200 cards exchanged) and Right Heavy Punch (only with Dengeki achieving 200 ccards exchanged) cards!

As some of you might know by now, there was a little problem or issue today with PSO's game clock because of the leap year, changing from February 29 to March 1st. This affects both your online and offline game modes for Ep 1 & 2, Ep 1 & 2 Plus, Ep 1 & 2 v1.1. and Ep 3. You might have been affected if you were playing online during or before the date change or if you were playing offline during the date change. There was however a server maintenance/down time for all GC servers in the US to help avoid this issue and further complications. For those of you who do need to fix your time display read the following ST news posting or do these simple steps:

1. Set your game clock/time and date to 28 February, 2006, 23:55
2. Start the game in offline mode. Select character with problem. Wait in Pioneer 2 on Ep 1 & 2 or the morgue in Ep 3
3. When it turns to March 1st, 2006, your game time display will turn to normal time
4. Verify that the time display is now normal and save the game and end your session
5. Go back and change the game clock/time and date back to the present actual time

Please keep in mind that you have to change your game clock back to the proper time and date or you will not be able to connect to the servers for online play. Also keep in mind to do this only once and only with the character that experiences the problem.

If you need instructions on how to change the clock, please refer to your manual.

Good luck and be careful!"

SOA now has a new dedicated Episode 3 website. Everyone should check it out, it's got some good information and really nice graphics. You can also listen to the soundtrack and download a 15 page preview of the prima manual in PDF format. Discuss it in the forums.

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ST announced the 16 finalists for Dengeki Cup. ST also apologized for rank indication errors experienced during the preliminary round of the endurance cup. This however did not affect the points calculations. All participants are automatically registered for the final tournament.

The final tournament entry process will be held on Sunday, February 29th starting from 8:30pm until 8:50pm (JP time) on ship: DENGEKI/FINAL. The final tournament itself will be held right after, on Sunday, February 29th starting from 9pm on the same ship: DENGEKI/FINAL. Discuss this news in our forums.

The champion will receive a certificate of merit, special Dengeki goods, 3000 cyclotomic WebMoney and an original Episode 3 Quo card. The runner up will receive a certificate of merit, Dengeki Goods, 1500 cyclotomic WebMoney and an original Episode 3 Quo card.

Over the night, Dengeki Representative, YK3, collected 55 more cards and reached their goal total of exchanging 200 cards with players at roughly 11:40 JP time. Check their daily journal to see what was exchanged. This means that we'll get more quests on the way! Akiyama apologizes for not being able to promptly log in at the card exchange time. Akiyama of ST, however, did not reach his goal of 200. This should make for an interesting match between the two representatives. Discuss this news in our forums.

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