BattleGrounds CT Every Friday, Now with Youtube!

[Fraga]

I was talking to Pang about that actually. I would love to do it, but we need more people. I'd say 15 at least. Last tournament we had 9-10, and Pang won't be back till Summer. If we can get the people I'd gladly run a Ranbat-esque thing for MBAA. I was talking to Gonz about doing it for SF4 as well.

[The Lazy One]

I'd love to be able to make this, I've been dying to meet people who play Melty Blood face-to-face.  It sucks being the only one around...
I'll try to make it if I can, my car died and I haven't had the money to purchase another.  We'll see!
I also suck hardcore at AA but Imma learning.  Too much time spent on the keyboard and upgrading to a PS2 controller is difficult for me. XD

[kona]

I kinda know the feeling. But instead of PS2 controller, it's stick for me.

[Fraga]

I think we can all say close-to none of us actually have real life experience, so we'd all be in the same boat. We can learn together!

[The Lazy One]

I like your line of thinking! I live a couple towns over from Vernon, and I was curious if I could get some details, like, what time it starts, what to bring, and all that.

[Fraga]

I like your line of thinking! I live a couple towns over from Vernon, and I was curious if I could get some details, like, what time it starts, what to bring, and all that.

Gladly! We do need more setups, we have about 2-3 now, and another TV would be swell. It starts at 5:00pm but people usually show up around 8-9pm. It ends usually around 1-5am. Venue fee is $5, tournaments are $1 ($2 for teams, $1 per person). We'll start a ranbat-esque points system when we have around 15-20 people.

Gentlemen, we're finally building a Melty Scene!

[LordPangTong]

Tournament fees should be increased, imo. $2 or $3 would be much more satisfactory.

[Fraga]

I can increase the entry fee, the problem is the newer people. They'll either:

A) Play MBAA for $2-3 for a game not well known yet
or
B) Play SF4/T6/SC4 for $1 and they're commonly played

Seeing how they'll normally go for B, I decided to start low. Because sooner or later I will increase admission once we get more people into the game and it becomes more familiar to our participants. Feel free to post suggestions on Entry fee. More input the better

[LordPangTong]

That being the case, why not just increase all tournament entrance fees? More money on the line may attract more players.

[Fraga]

The problem is then I'd have to talk about it with the other tournament hosts and see if they'll agree to it. I can try however

[king dooky]

Is anybody interested in having ranking battles?

[Fraga]

Yeah we would be, I posted some stuff up on Dustloop on my thoughts so I'll copy it here;

"Me and Gonz were talking about this last Friday, we'd love to start doing a Ranbat-esque system of points.

I suggest we wait until we have about 15-20 people for Melty, since we probably have enough for SF4"

[The Lazy One]

Now, I'm curious, will there be time for casual matches and the like? Surely the tournaments don't take up the entire time, right?
Also, I'd help with bringing my modded PS2, but as of late it's decided to stop reading the Swap Magick disks, so it's useless. >.< And my television weighs too much to carry around  (old school tv's ftl). 

[TalesofDawn]

At least I'm not the only one with no actual matchup experience...

[Fraga]

We normally do casuals up until the tournament, SF4 runs first then MBAA (Though we're discussing tournament timing on Dustloop) so we have a long time for casuals. Unless some freak accident happens with the brackets or with a tournament casuals take up most of the time. Last Friday being one of those exceptions

[Fraga]

Sorry for double post, but this Friday we'll also be running Hokuto no Ken as well. Same time as MBAA

[The Lazy One]

Holy shit, Hokuto no Ken! That's awesome! I gotta grab my buddy and make him bring me, since he's back from Peru!

[Fraga]

Good time guys! We had a shortage of MBAA players this time so we have to improve that! Bring your friends if possible!

Results for 1/22/10:

Justo has SF4 and Karnov's Revenge so I'll get it from him

MBAA:
1 Nuclear Cheese (F-Sakiha/C-Aoko)
2 Ph33r (H-Kohaku)
3 Tales (F-Roa)
4 Kona (H-Ciel)

GGAC:
1 Nuclear Cheese (Sol)
2 blueNINE (May)
3 Gonzalez (Dizzy)
4 Justo (Slayer)
5 Tales (ABA)
5 Kona (Bridget)
7 Mike S. (Faust)

HnK
1 Zorin (Mr. Heart)
2 Justo (Jagi)
3 Hippie (Rei)
4 Fraga (Shin)
5 Kona (Thouther)
5 Scalli (Rei/Raoh)
7 The Lazy One (Thouther)

[The Lazy One]

Yeah, Friday was a blast! I'm definitely gonna be more prepared for next week, since I really had no idea what I was in for.  I'll bring in BB, FUC, or whatever I have that I wanna play XD.  Since there's so many 360's lying around there, would I only need to bring my 360 harddrive and games/controllers? Or would it be better to bring the whole thing?

[Fraga]

You can just bring your controllers and Hard drive and you're set.

[king dooky]

Would anybody be interested in helping me with a youtube page for BG fight nights?

[kona]

I'd say whoever's down with the idea and will actually take video recordings should get PM'd the account name and password. Just don't post it on the forums to avoid getting hacked and shit. I like the idea, I just don't have a camera.

[kona]

I swear to god, I'll practice this game now. I need all the practice I can get. I can't have Cheese winning this shit all the time. Furok did pretty well too. All the Masschusetts Melty peeps need to get together and level up! If only I had a car...

[The Lazy One]

I'm just glad I got a round off of Cheese, hehehe.  Thought I did infinitely times better than I thought I would, I didn't expect to win any of my matches. >.>;

[Fraga]

Good time last night! The very first RANBAT for MBAA was last night! I thought we were doing all Ranbats separately but we decided to do them all at once. We also had some fun Fate/Unlimited Codes matches beforehand, hopefully we can get some more casuals next time! I proved not to screw with Berserker!

Now let me explain how the Points work. The Winner gets 10 Points, 2nd Place receives 7 Points, 3rd gets 5 Points, 4th gets 3 Points, and 5th each get 1 point. Until we create a date where we'll have a Major ranking battle every point counts.

SF4 (GO FOR BROKE!):
1 Asian Tom (Gen)
2 Rich (Dictator, Boxer, Sagat)
3 blueNINE (Abel, C.Viper)
4 Lucky D (Dhalsim)
5 Will (Sagat)
5 Wednesday's Dagger (Ryu/Gouken)
7 Gonzalez (Dictator)
7 Kona
9 Bonj (Gen)
9 Jim (Ryu/Akuma)
9 Shizu
9 Shimetsu
13 Tales
13 LBChaos (Abel/Ken/Akuma)


GGAC (MAD HYPE):
1 Mindgam3 (Slayer)
2 Nuclear Cheese (Sol)
3 blueNINE (May)
4 Furok (Ky)
5 Kona (Bridget)
5 Tales (ABA)
7 Shizu


MBAA (Finally getting there):
1 Nuclear Cheese (F-Sakiha/C-Aoko)
2 Furok (F-Sakiha)
3 Ph33r (H-Kohaku)
4 The Lazy One (C-Nanaya)
5 Kona (H-Ciel)
5 Mindgam3 (C-M.Hisui)
7 Tales (F-Roa)


HnK (MiA):
1 Fraga (Shin)
2 Kona (Thouther)
3 Furok (Kenshiro)
4 Ph33r (Kenshiro)
5 The Lazy One (Shin)