Gran Turismo Asian Championship 2012, Live Stream with Kazunori Yamauchi and Lucas Ordoñez
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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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August 11th, 2012 at 4:21 am - #DJBLITZKRIEG
Those forced fist pumps by the balding grown men in the crowd were absolutely embarrassing.
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August 11th, 2012 at 4:20 am - #Quakebass
I guess now is a good time to say “Happy Birthday Kaz!”
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August 11th, 2012 at 4:32 am - #another_jakhole
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.
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August 11th, 2012 at 6:30 am - #m8h3r
A 20 year old game and we’re all still speculating on the next one. Pretty impressive if you ask me.
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August 11th, 2012 at 9:52 am - #Pit Crew
45 wow impressive life time of work. You go boy…uhh Kaz.
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August 11th, 2012 at 4:16 am - #diptob79
Congratulations @RamStig reach P3 on this event
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August 11th, 2012 at 4:14 am - #another_jakhole
That was just too good. It’s great seeing Kaz smiling. He looked embarrassed when they sung/played happy birthday to him.
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August 11th, 2012 at 4:12 am - #stupidstormy36
Holy crap, it’s Kaz’s birthday?
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August 11th, 2012 at 4:01 am - #Quakebass
Interesting guitar… It’s got a tablet inserted in it…
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August 11th, 2012 at 3:34 am - #another_jakhole
Twas exciting because of the Top 3 players. I really enjoyed it.
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August 11th, 2012 at 3:36 am - #another_jakhole
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.
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August 11th, 2012 at 3:32 am - #tsupra1822
Congrats Yamada on the win and the awesome race you drove
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August 11th, 2012 at 3:16 am - #stupidstormy36
Congratulations to Yamada. It was a close one between him and Kawajiri for overall points.
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August 11th, 2012 at 1:51 am - #stupidstormy36
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.
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August 11th, 2012 at 1:55 am - #stupidstormy36
*so that could*
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August 11th, 2012 at 1:56 am - #another_jakhole
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/
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August 11th, 2012 at 2:07 am - #stupidstormy36
I didn’t know about that. How I missed it is beyond me. Thanks for the info.
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August 11th, 2012 at 2:33 am - #another_jakhole
NO problem. :)
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August 11th, 2012 at 1:38 am - #another_jakhole
Ordonez is about to do some racing. SWEEEEET.
:D
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August 11th, 2012 at 1:33 am - #another_jakhole
Oh man, no translator. Translator-san should have had a mic to translate for us during the interview.
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August 11th, 2012 at 1:04 am - #Hwangm
Grats to GTP_RAMSTIG (IDN)
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August 11th, 2012 at 12:44 am - #doodlemonoply
The guy using the controller must be samurai_405.
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August 11th, 2012 at 12:52 am - #doodlemonoply
or maybe one of them… there are multiple controller users apparently.
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August 11th, 2012 at 3:36 am - #w115ter
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
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August 11th, 2012 at 12:35 am - #VspecZR1GT2RS89
Woah!! This is awesome!!! :D
I’m liking the GT Asia Championship!
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August 10th, 2012 at 10:39 pm - #grasso89
Include Australia please. We can race just as fast
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August 11th, 2012 at 1:39 am - #another_jakhole
That’s very biased.
/s
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August 10th, 2012 at 10:20 pm - #TheKitten
Oh its saturday Lol, i thouht it was today Lol
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August 10th, 2012 at 6:29 pm - #Mac K
That trophy is freaking gorgeous.
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August 11th, 2012 at 1:11 pm - #Pit Crew
I want that trophy as DLC, LOL jkjk .
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August 10th, 2012 at 6:28 pm - #Mac K
Grna Turismo TV live? Thats new..
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aUSTRALIA IS EVEN ON THAT MAP IN THE PIC UP THERE^^^….GGGRRRRRRRRR…THE TOSS ISNT HAPPY