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A special web broadcast called: The Eve of Pocket Monsters Omega Ruby/Alpha Sapphire's Release Day" Niconico Countdown Event @ Nico Farre (ポケットモンスター オメガルビー・アルファサファイア発売前日ニコニコ カウントダウンイベント@ニコファーレ) will air on NicoNico on Wednesday November 19th, 2014 at 19:00 JST.

A lot of content from Pokémon Omega Ruby and Pokémon Alpha Sapphire will be showcased and a special band will perform music from the games. The top two players from the Hoenn Pokémon NicoNico Match (ホウエンポケモン ニコニコマッチ) online tournament will be invited to the finals for that tournament and the battle will take place live on the show. The winner of that final will have a battle against Shigeki Morimoto from Game Freak, Inc., developers of the Pocket Monsters series!!

The live portion of the show will be hosted by Ayana Tsubaki (椿姫彩菜) and Nobuhiko Okamoto (岡本信彦) and that part of broadcast will start at 12:00 on November 20th, 2014 and end at midnight. There is going to be some sort of special event taking place before the actual countdown starts at 20:00. GAME FREAK staff members Junichi Masuda, Shigeru Ohmori and Shigeki Morimoto will all make appearances on the show.

Sources: http://live.nicovideo.jp/watch/lv199096065 and http://www.pokemon.co.jp/ex/oras_nico/countdown.html