Final Round 2020 Won't Feature the Guilty Gear Strive Demo or New Character Reveals Due to Concerns of the Coronavirus

Due to concerns involving the COVID-19 epidemic Arc System Works has pulled the Guilty Gear Strive demo from Final Round 2020

News by Grayshadow on  Mar 10, 2020

Final Round 2020 is still official but those hoping to play Guilty Gear -STRIVE- at the event will be sad to hear that Arc System Works has canceled plans for a demo.

Final Round 2020,NoobFeed,

Due to ongoing concerns with COVID-19, we’re sorry to say we won’t be at Final Round 2020 and will not be showing the #GuiltyGearStrive demo or the character reveal trailers.

However, #FR2020 is still an official #AWT2020 Gold Event with tour points up for grabs. pic.twitter.com/RE5NIkAZW1

— ArcSystemWorks (@ArcSystemWorksU) March 10, 2020

Not only will the demo not be featured but new character reveals have also been postponed. With character reveals for the upcoming game no longer being featured during the event.

Final Round 2020 will still be held on March 20th-22nd with the currently game list being the following:

BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle (ARC World Tour Gold Event) (PS4)

Dead or Alive 6 (PS4)

DRAGON BALL FighterZ (PS4)

Granblue Fantasy: Versus (ARC World Tour Gold Event) (PS4)

Mortal Kombat 11 (PS4)

SAMURAI SHODOWN (PS4)

SOULCALIBUR VI (SOULCALIBUR World Tour Critical Edge Event) (PS4)

Street Fighter V: Champion Edition (PS4)

TEKKEN 7 (PS4)

Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 (PS4)

Guilty Gear Xrd REV 2 (PS4)

Under Night In-Birth Exe:Late[cl-r] (PS4)

Power Rangers: Battle for the Grid (Battle for the Grid League Event) (PS4)

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Singles (Smash World Tour Silver Event) (Switch)

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Doubles (Switch) [$5 entry per player / $10 entry per team]

Super Street Fighter II Turbo (Arcade)

Street Fighter Alpha 2 (Arcade)

Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike (The Jazzy Circuit Auto-Qualifier Event) (Arcade)

Capcom vs. SNK 2 (Dreamcast)

Arc System Works will release the trailers as one video. To debut on the Arc System Works' YouTube channel on March 21st.

[Announcement] The #GuiltyGearStrive trailers that were originally scheduled for Final Round and Brussels Challenge will be merged into one trailer and premiered on the official Arc System Works Youtube channel on March 21st. Stay tuned for the exact time. https://t.co/9wCbdsGFdX pic.twitter.com/SQQjfMnQJf

— ArcSystemWorks (@ArcSystemWorksU) March 10, 2020

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