A Tournament?This Saturday (March 10th) we're going to run a free-entry, multi-character tournament in Waterloo. The address is MadScientist's and my apartment near the university -- PM us for address and cell #s (MadScientist might be a little quicker to respond so PM him first
).
We'll be open for casuals starting at noon on Saturday, and we'll aim to start the tournament (i.e. end registration) at 2:00 pm. We'll try to finish the tournament by "dinnertime".
Since it's an apartment, we'll have to keep the noise down past 11 pm, so let's say the event officially ends at that time. If there's only a handful of people left, we can generally keep playing (quietly) until 1 am or later.
What's The Venue Like?Our "venue" has:
- 2 setups for the MBAACC tournament and casuals before/after (1 of these will be a stream setup)
- 2 PS2/PS3 setups for casuals in whatever fighting games people want to play (probably BBCSE and GGAC, maybe some AH3 or 3s).
- A 3rd MBAACC laptop setup might be useful, especially if there's a lot of interest in MBAACC casuals and less interest in other game casuals.
- Extra chairs or stools would also be useful. At the moment we have 3 chairs, 3 stools, 2 office chairs, and a couch.
What Is This Multi-Character Thing?We'll aim to have a 24- to 32-man tournament with 4 small pools (format to be determined: double elim, round-robin, or swiss-style). These will seed into an 8-man bracket, with 4 players in winners and 4 players in losers.
To achieve this # of entrants, assuming we get 16 or fewer actual players, each player will enter 2 (or more) times and will be placed in separate pools -- if you meet yourself in the top-8 bracket, you choose which of your entrants wins the "match". Better players will be coerced into choosing different characters, allowing us to play different matchups and generally have more fun, but anyone has the choice of entering with 2 of the same character, or 2 different ones. Character selection is locked, but moon selection is not.
When you enter, you can choose a nickname for each character/entrant, plus a unique "sponsor tag" so we know who they belong to. For example:
Player: Bill307
Tag: BL
Entrants:
- BL DJHalfnhalf (WLen)
- BL LordPantene (VAkiha)
- BL Gnrcsprhr (Nero)
Or you can just name them by whichever character they're using -- if you don't give me nicknames then I'll default to this.
If you're interested in coming, post here and/or on the
UWGamers forum!