What? Who died and made you king?
WORD? someone died and just put up royalties for bracketology?! WHEN? Unless it's Dick Vitale from ESPN or someone close we can all inherit, let's jump in!- of course, doing brackets for March Madness would be awesome AND watch those games until the final 4 in Indianapolis this year (besdies getting paid in doing so =P ).
All jokes aside, I was getting hype b/c nobody posted about doing brackets for this event and either I'd help with them or assist in keeping an eye on things in case
you need someone's name called, etc.- the usual organizing stuff. If you feel you're cool in doing it yourself, the event's on you.
I'm planning to buy a megaphone so no one's voice cracks in the middle of the tourney (yes, it'd be embarrassing to hear someone squeak out two names or remind
people for tourney fees before anything), some extra speakers, and my laptop in case something goes wrong. I'm there to help any way possible, and still let you
do your job. Sounds fair, doesn't it?
If anyone had a problem with the brackets at NEC, this is the first I heard of it.
You'd be surprised how many people I've bumped to in a 2-day period and have told me about the woes from other tournaments during that time @ NEC: Brackets unorganized, favoritism, major time delay due to people playing in other tournaments, the works. And, trust me, even during casuals outside the Melty room I overheard tons of it, but it always falls to deaf ears, because most of the organizers-with the exception of a few- won't take the time to clean it up beforehand.
Want an example? Here's one that I couldn't understand why people would do brackets in the first place. First day @ NEC, 3s teams was under way- about an hour passed and right in the middle of the tournament, the organizer called up 2 teams. Ironic part was, due to bad organizing and bracketeering, one team from the winners had to play one team from the losers brackets without an explanation. One of the members of the winner's teams asked me if it's possible for an organizer to do that. I explained to him that there's no way how unless you get bumped TO the losers to play IN the losers bracket. Until then, I was convinced that whoever made those brackets had either a gut feeling they did something wrong, but didn't want to fix it to prevent other bumps along the way. And, there were bumps, to put it short. The result? Justin's team loses in the finals vs. Team Virginia via OVC and people were cheering for joy. How fast did they do it? IN FIVE HOURS FLAT. It took too long to set up everything, and the same organizers didn't have the time to even finish up best 8 for 3S singles until Sunday afternoon
Case in point: in the future events, including EVO WORLD, we should have a ranking system the same way some West Coast tourneys have organized it as well as the Japanese ranbats/mikados they set up so that it's bracketed as similar as the NCAA basketball tourney. If you've ever seen it, it's basically a total of 64 teams, plus a play-in game, before the major tournament to decide both the top 16 teams from the Eastern regional spots to the Western regional spots. All of them are combined, including those w/ acceptable records or buy-ins from other tournaments, and wild-card spots.
Translating that to a Melty tournament: have 16 ranked spots from both East and West Coast based on multiple results of tournaments, season starting either Winter or Fall all the way up to Melty EVO, including BOTH teams and singles with point structure (1st-10, 2nd-8,3rd-7,4th-6,5th-5,7th-3,9 to 11th-2,13 to 15th-1,etc.). Top 16 from both sides are bracketted individually with MANUAL BRACKETING. Why Manual? So there's no complaints about why people would play someone godlike first round and get bumped out of the blue, only to fight a long, uphill battle from Losers to at least top 8. Sure, it's not fair, and everybody-when I mean everybody, I mean everyone inside a specific tournament either ranked or unranked, new or veteran,
,
,or
,etc-deserves a shot. THEREFORE, after hearing ideas from NEC, this is a suggestive one that can easily clean up things without having people going and coming back to whoever started the brackets and giving them a 3rd degree (as to how lame it was done, why the formatting, :blah:etc..).
This idea came up to me from the previous BBG and some people who were playing in various tournaments brought up that idea as well so there's no lead to favoritism, no early bracket busting, etc. or any sort of action close. Also, it will also lead to some interesting bonuses along the way: pot bonuses, EC/WC showdowns, ultra-gdlke MM games to determine the best for any char, MOON MATCHES (thanks to the idea seen after the melty tournies via NEC- loser is forced to learn a specific char w/ a specific moon type after a number of sets), etc. the list goes on.
In a sense, I'd love to be a part of it so we can have something going for both East Coast and West Coast melty communities, make them just as strong as the Japanese Mikado ranbats, if not stronger in the future. Should anyone have a comment on this PM ME- I'll be away for about 2 weeks and won't be able to post until close to late Jan/early Feb.
(Also, as an aside: lay off the excessive use of bold. It makes all of your posts look glitched.)
FYI, I've been using bold for quite some time ever since I created my account here. NOBODY had a complaint about my bold fonts, not even when I posted on
the previous BBG boards, or anywhere else-let alone other people using bigger fonts, combinations of bold+italic, colored, including characters such as used in their posts. Unless someone has a sight problem seeing darker letters in a board for any reason, I'll be keeping the letters bold for the time being- nuff said.
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