Melty Blood Actress Again

Melty Blood: Actress Again is one of the more interesting fighting games to be featured at the Northeast Championships. Originally developed by independent game developer French Bread, the series proved to be so popular that it was picked up for release in arcades, where it then became one of the biggest fighting games in Japan. However, the game has never seen publication outside of Japan, but that has not stopped it from turning into one of the bigger games at the Northeast Championships (and growing to the point where the game was featured at Evolution this past year).

This is the second year for Melty Blood: Actress Again, and the previous game in the series (Melty Blood: Act Cadenza) has been featured at the Northeast Championships the last three years. The Northeast Championships was the first major fighting game tournament in the United States to feature the series, now having hosted it for a half-decade.

Date: (singles): Sunday, December 6th
Starting Time (singles): 3 PM
Entry Fee: $10

Date (teams): Saturday, December 5th
Starting Time (teams): 3 PM
Entry Fee: $5 per person (two person teams)

Game-specific rules:

• The Original balance settings will be used.
• All characters are allowed except Archtype:Earth.
• Player side (1P/2P) is to be determined by a coinflip upon request.

Rules specific to the team tournament:

• Teams are to be composed of exactly two people.
• The entry fee is $5 per player (or $10 per team).
• Players are free to select any tournament-legal character and mode they wish at any time, regardless of what their partner is using.
• The format for the tournament is commonly known as “Waseda”, where each person on the team plays one person on the other team. If both players on a team win, they advance to the next round. If the teams split the games, the winners of the first two games play each other to determine the winner of the set.
• All sets out of the team tournament are only one game. This includes all finals games (of course, the team that lost a game going into the grand finals still needs to win two sets).
• If both teams can decide on initial match-ups, then they can be used. If no agreement can be made, a blind draw will be used.