The broadcast has finished.
The Gran Turismo Asian Championship 2012 is being held this weekend at Nissan’s Global Headquarters in Yokohama, Japan.
Asia’s fastest drivers in GT Academy 2012’s Round 8-5 have all been invited to the event to compete head-to-head, with players from Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, and Japan representing their respective countries.
The finalists will receive a personal tour of Polyphony Digital’s development studio along with custom, solid-glass trophies.
Both Kazunori Yamauchi and Lucas Ordoñez will be attending and speaking at the event, which will be broadcast via the Ustream player above. Daiki Kasho, composer of the “5oul on Display” song featured in Gran Turismo 5’s Spec 2.0 intro, will also be performing a concert.
The four-hour live stream kicks off Saturday at 04:00 GMT/UTC; click here to convert this to your local time zone.
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aUSTRALIA IS EVEN ON THAT MAP IN THE PIC UP THERE^^^….GGGRRRRRRRRR…THE TOSS ISNT HAPPY
Those forced fist pumps by the balding grown men in the crowd were absolutely embarrassing.
lol It was somewhat awkward at times, but that guy was into the music. At the end of the encore, you could see he was having a dandy ‘ol time.
Wow, that actually happened?
I guess now is a good time to say “Happy Birthday Kaz!”
You might have missed it. It was a belated Happy Birthday song. Kaz’s birthday was the 5th of August. He’s 45 now. He started GT1 20 years ago which is insane if you think about it. A 25 year old heading the development of a revolutionary game.
A 20 year old game and we’re all still speculating on the next one. Pretty impressive if you ask me.
45 wow impressive life time of work. You go boy…uhh Kaz.
Congratulations @RamStig reach P3 on this event
That was just too good. It’s great seeing Kaz smiling. He looked embarrassed when they sung/played happy birthday to him.
Holy crap, it’s Kaz’s birthday?
Interesting guitar… It’s got a tablet inserted in it…
Twas exciting because of the Top 3 players. I really enjoyed it.
I feel bad for the Indonesian player getting overtaken during the last seconds of at least two races. High Speed Ring was completely unfortunate losing by a few feet.
Congrats Yamada on the win and the awesome race you drove
Congratulations to Yamada. It was a close one between him and Kawajiri for overall points.
I think we may have had a small peek at one of the DLC cars. The N24 GTRs that were in the Exhibition match, they had a certain shade of blue, not to mention the car number, so their could be one car in the new DLC.
*so that could*
I’m pretty sure this was already known when “GT5: Academy Edition” was announced.
http://www.gtplanet.net/sony-announces-gran-turismo-5-academy-edition-for-europe/
I didn’t know about that. How I missed it is beyond me. Thanks for the info.
NO problem. :)
Ordonez is about to do some racing. SWEEEEET.
:D
#7 should be neutered.
I can’t believe they gave him a prize. It was just pathetic what he did.
8 laps at Deep Forest :D
Oh man, no translator. Translator-san should have had a mic to translate for us during the interview.
Grats to GTP_RAMSTIG (IDN)
The guy using the controller must be samurai_405.
or maybe one of them… there are multiple controller users apparently.
if you use the same name on gt5 i think you should head over to r34 gta news as i have just posted about you’re 1st place lap , i would like to see what you say about it
Woah!! This is awesome!!! :D
I’m liking the GT Asia Championship!
Include Australia please. We can race just as fast
That’s very biased.
/s
Oh its saturday Lol, i thouht it was today Lol
That trophy is freaking gorgeous.
I want that trophy as DLC, LOL jkjk .
Grna Turismo TV live? Thats new..
I wanna see the concert!
Will it be in English? (Or at least english subs)
I’m not sure what language(s) will be used or if subtitles will be available in the stream.
Ok, We’ll have to see then :D
Awesome!