NorCal INSTALL! v.2 Results

[Zaelar]

GG all.  It was fun trying to troll people with 2A -> walk up -> 2A -> walkup etc.

Mixing that in with grab is my favorite mixup in every game.

[AARP|ZTB]

Good shit, WC and IPW staff. Run this back most definitely.

[Lenftw]

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

[mizuki]

2002 vanilla or UM? Who plays kof in Norcal? I know 707 played XI, but in reality that's not kof. How many people do you actually think plays up here? And who is LOLI running AH3?

[Lenftw]

2002 vanilla or UM? Who plays kof in Norcal? I know 707 played XI, but in reality that's not kof. How many people do you actually think plays up here? And who is LOLI running AH3?

Iono, I just put in random names to run things; nothing is set in stone.  KoF is still TBA

[mizuki]

Alright.

[ehrik]

I heard people are giving you shit about NCI taoftw, HATERS GONNA HATE

I hope you keep running these kinds of events because I personally appreciate it a LOT that you're working to keep Cali scene alive.

The ranbat idea sounds great so far, but yeah, SoCal prob won't be able to make it to small ranbats like you said. (CALI TOO BIG). And I'm not sure it'll work with MBAA though because the scene is so spread out + is small in Cali in general.

[F9|Chibi]

If anyone has contact information for YAT or Qaenyin please let me know ASAP!

[DJcream]

The ranbat idea sounds great so far, but yeah, SoCal prob won't be able to make it to small ranbats like you said. (CALI TOO BIG). And I'm not sure it'll work with MBAA though because the scene is so spread out + is small in Cali in general.

At worst, the number of entries for MBAA over the previous season was around 8 12 players (tsubasa can correct me on this). It's going to be pretty hard getting people now a lot of fools have relocated due to school and other obligations.

Shoutouts to Alex for the quick ass correction.

[dakanya]

maybe 12 to 16 at the worst. definitely never under 12.

[Tone]

if there's more than 4-5 genuine KOF players in norcal, I will be in shock. 

[Sarsapari]

if you count XI people then there's like 20.  BUT IS IT ACTUALLY KOF

[mizuki]

KoF XI isn't KoF.

[Qaenyin]

KoF XI isn't KoF.

 

[Tsubasa☆]

At worst, the number of entries for MBAA over the previous season was around 8 12 players (tsubasa can correct me on this). It's going to be pretty hard getting people now a lot of fools have relocated due to school and other obligations.

maybe 12 to 16 at the worst. definitely never under 12.

Our lowest turnout was 10.  That was in Feb.  But that was our first ranbat and after that, we got 11-17 reliably.

KoF XI isn't KoF.

It may not be, but it sure is fun.

[Tone]

i vote kofxi for nci monthlies and what not 

[mizuki]

KoF XI isn't KoF.

It may not be, but it sure is fun.

It's really fun, not denying that. If there's interest in KoF 13 up here, I recommend people playing KoF 2k2um, since it's probably what's going to be closest to it.