Once again, thanks for coming out people. I do want feedback from people about how to make our tournaments better. Also, Bell, I took your advise to heart and will make MB not run on a crappy schedule. All in all, the tournament was successful, however I need to get some constructive feedback from the players and other -noteworthy- tournament organizers. I posted this a while back at the DL forums, but I also need feedback from the people here.
The Future of NCI
I'd say we divide people based on region. The reality is that the BB scene is big enough to hold regionals at different locations. For e.g., we can host monthly ranbats at Sac, East Bay, South Bay, and SLO Cal. The premise for doing this is this, 'Build the FG scene at the local level; not at the macro scale.' After six months, we can bring every -seeded- regional team together for a battle royale!
Since GG/MB is smaller, they can do a monthly ranbat in the same location. Doing this solves four problems:
1) Venues; smaller tournaments means smaller space to host tournaments.
2) Time Flexibility; in the event you can't make it to one tournament, you have the option to host it at another location.
3) Lots of Opportunities; you have numerous opportunities to seed yourself in any one of these regional tournaments.
4) Less Manpower; you don't need to have a lot of staff/volunteers to run this tournament.
Drawbacks:
1) Small Turnouts; enough said.
2) Lost Communication; hosting too many events in a single month gets lost in translation.
3) Loss of Commitment; it takes a lot of energy to run tournaments...let alone organize five of them in a single month.
4) No SoCal people coming up unless it's a grand event.
Here's how the tournament would look like:
- Week 1: MB/GG NCI Ranbat
Hosted by: KatanDash and Tsubasa
- Week 2: Sacramento NCI Regional Ranbat
Hosted by: Spirit Juice
- Week 3: South Bay NCI Regional Ranbat
Hosted by: Dacidbro and Aginor
- Week 4: East Bay NCI Regional Ranbat
Hosted by: DKL
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Final Regional Tournament: BLAZING NCI
Hosted by: TaoFTW
Tournament Roster:
Day 1
- Blazblue CS Singles
Hosted by: Spirit Juice
- Guilty Gear AC
Hosted by: KatanDash
- Melty Blood AA
Hosted by: Tsubasa
- KoF 2002
Hosted by: Qwerty
- Arcana Heart 3
Hosted by: LOLI
- Chaos Breaker
Hosted by: shtkn
Day 2
1) BBCS Regional Exhibitions:
- Sac Crew
- South Bay
- East Bay
- SLO Cal
- SoCal
- East Coast(?)
2) GG/MB/BB Team Tournament
3) MB/GG NorCal vs. SoCal Exhibition