[Misc] Version update for PAD Challenge App, for the upcoming PAD Challenge Cup 2018! | GungHo Festival 2018 Announced!

Download link for PAD Challenge App (iOS/Android/Kindle, at bottom of page)

The PAD Challenge App, which is the official spinoff PAD app for practicing, is updated with a new dungeon! The dungeon is fixed team (Raijin), who requires matching crosses and color combos. Both time and combos are key!

The dungeon is the first option in the dungeon list. Score screen lists clear time (points in yellow), highest combo,  total turns, and total score (in red).

Now what is this for? It’s for the upcoming GungHo Festival!

[IRL Event] PAD Challenge Cup 2018, at GungHo Festival 2018!

This is a real PAD competition in real life! Japan players from various regions compete, and 1 representative of each region compete in the finale, for PAD Pro certification!!

Unfortunately this is Japan residence only, player must be able to read and speak Japanese.

Now so far, there are two categories: Score Attack (PAD Challenge App) and Versus Battles (PADR). 2 winners from each region for the Score Attack to compete at the finals. Only 1 person from each region will enter finals for PADR side.

Prizes for the competition (besides PAD Pro Gamer Certification) are not announced yet. Stay tuned!

What’s GungHo Festival?

This is GungHo’s annual event! Every year GungHo holds these fests packed with events, free goodies, and shop (with GungHo game goods). The event is 6-7 hours long and held in selected malls on weekend/holidays, for 1 day in 7 cities across Japan. Free admission.

Official webpage is here!

GungHo Fest Locations
This is where the regional competitions are held.

4/8 (Sun) – Aeon Mall Fukuoka (Kyushu)
4/15 (Sun) – Sapporo Factory (Hokkaido)
4/22 (Sun) – Aeon LakeTown kaze (way up north from Tokyo)
4/30 (Mon) – Aeon Mall Kyoto Katsuragawa (Kyoto)
5/3 (Thu) – Aeon Mall Natori (Tohoku area)
5/6 (Sun) – Aeon Mall Tokuname (Nagoya)

Finals
The PAD Open Cup! PAD Pro Gamer finale is held here.

5/27 (Sun) – Marukari Masse (Chiba)

If you’re in those cities on those days somehow, you should check them out! (I’ll most likely be at one of them as well, if I’m free!)

My GungHo Festival photos, from last year

I was at one GungHo Festival last year (quite a travel just to go to one)… but the experience was nice! Below are pics I took.

Goods sold at the festival! There was Myr and Radra folders as well.

Some of the many goods sold at GungHo Fest! These were just the new ones, there were more.

Yomi Tamazo plastic bag!

Treasures found at the event. Diara, Whaledor, and free Snow Globe Rush dungeons, only at event!

Never thought I’d see the cute Kosuke in person!

Namco in the Aeon Mall had some Tamadra Infestation… So I brought one home!

Freebie for attending GungHo Festival 2017. It’s nicely made, I use it to store my PAD goodies now.