Board Thread:Editor Board/@comment-124.244.140.2-20131009140730/@comment-6697950-20131009181916

My quote from volume 6:

"During the first tournament, we could choose American (US) or Japan (JP) servers, but there were still a few foreigners who played the Japanese version. I hadn't played GGO then, but from what I heard from Shi... Spiegel, the winner of the first BoB was a foreigner. That person seemed really strong. He managed to kill off all the Japanese with a knife and a handgun..."

"I see... what's his name?"

"I believe, Sato... Satori or something weird like that. But when I started playing, the Japanese server only allowed those in Japan to connect to it, so the players from the 2nd round and the 3rd round this time are all Japanese... or at least, living in Japan. Though that «Sterben» was written alphabetically, he should be Japanese."

-- Volume 9 quote:

“Come to think of it…… In the field of the third BoB I participated, you told me about the US player who only had a knife and a handgun but managed to win the first tournament……

——Eh, but I’m certain that since the second tournament, the server was divided into US and JP, it was no longer possible to connect from America, isn’t it?”

“It’s supposed to be like that…… Actually, there was no US entry in the second and third tournaments. But this time he somehow managed to avoid the block, or there was a connection to the management team…… Well, either way he was accepted. But you would realize the legend of «Satrizer» just by watching his fights once.”

Well, this is kind of ambiguous. No wonder I thought that it was joint in the first place too...

Anyway, the only thing we can do is to combine the two together to make both versions non-contradicting each other. So, my guess is, that by "separating servers", Reki meant "not allowing connection to non-local servers to separate the playerbase and have only locals in the tournament for ease in managing the tournaments".