None of this is concrete as of now, but I just wanted to throw out the idea of trying to hold a Midwest console only tournament in the near future. The goal of this is to try and attract the attention of the Chicago, St. Louis, Indiana, Kentucky, etc to try and get something going.
I am with some fellow players at UIUC (Champaign Urbana, IL), and feel as if somewhere in Central, IL would be a good buffer zone for all the different areas to commute to. Locations could either be Champaign/Urbana, Bloomington/Normal, or possibly even somewhere like Peoria.
I feel as if us Midwesterner’s need to try and all get together to see who is really the best of the best. To many times now at like major nickles tournaments have players not shown up and or the amount of people been small. Lets try and change that.
Im just aiming for comments and reactions as of now. If there is a lot of positive feedback for this, i believe we should try and really push for something like this to happen.
Set the time and the place, Ill come to clean up =). J/k but Id like to play in a midwest wide tourney and claim my spot as best of the midwest. Tis a great idea, make it so numba 1.
We already have two Chicago tourneys a year right, but OK. I guess see how much support you can get – a tourney between Evo and NEC would be nice. I don’t think it’s really a secret by now who the big players of the region are though, results will prob be mostly the same as MWC
Krush and Ghaleon, I know exactly what you mean. It just it seems the past few Nickles tournaments have been very underwhelming. Most of all is how many people complain about shitty controls. Also its true as to who we know the top players already are.
Derek and Grego, im glad you guys support something like this. I just wanna see something like this happen someday.
Yea, how many midwesterners actually show at a nickels regional? Yea that’s right. Barely none of yas. So don’t give me this “We already have 2 majors at Nickel City” Boshit.
Its not like we’re saying chicago is a bad city (which it isnt at all GO BEARS) its just the real shitty turnout we have had recently. I feel Bloomington/Normal, IL would be great just because its insanely simple to get to. I have lived there for a looong time and its real easy to get around and has shit loads of food/hotels. Lets face it guys, although Nickles is one of the last great arcades around here, its going the way of the shitter.
Im just a small fish in a big pond here, and im gonna need some support if we wanna do this in the future. Spread the word people.
Also im wondering, how many of you think Central, IL would be a good location and or thinks the drive is too long, far, etc. Lemme know. Basically what i mean is would you come if we were to get this ball rolling?
Yeah…lets do this. I was kinda thinkin about having a tournament console only at The Mizzou University sometime soon, but if you guys get this going, it may not be necessary. I’ve always been all about tournaments and keepin this fighting game shit alive.
I try to go to tournys whenever I can, and I’ve tried to hold em, but sometimes, I feel like there just isn’t much interest…
Big props to Humbag for [COLOR=“SeaGreen”]KEEPIN THE SCENE ALIVE!!![/COLOR]
Keep in mind that Thanksgiving break is coming up in about one month. That’s ideal time for a tourney. My break is November 16th - 26th, and I’d assume it’s something like that for most colleges.
I would love to meet up with all my MidWest homies sometime over that break, preferably for a tournament. I can help run stuff too, but first we gotta see who’s free when.
Weekend of November 18th/19th would work for me, so what’s good?
Well probably the games of choice would be 3s, t5, and gg/ of course.
Others could possibly be like CvS2, SC3, Meltyblood, or some SNK game if there is enough people.
More than likely we would shoot for those 3 main games and maybe one more. I did not mention MvC2 simply due to the lack of Dreamcasts. If people wanna play it you would have to bring it.
Now here is the thing, as well as i would love to have this during Thanksgiving/early November, i just dont think it can happen that early (who knows though). Its just that if we wanna do something like this ill need quite a bit of planning time.
Now, one of the places ive been thinking about is a place in Bloomington, IL called the Interstate Center. Its a huge place and ive been there many a time and im sure they would allow something like this to happen. There are many different sized rooms and are differnet prices for the day. Now they arnt cheap (go figure) so due to that this would be a one day thing.
As soon as i go back to my hometown (Bloomington/Normal) this next weekend im gonna be doing some research on the Interstate Center.
Thanks for the support so far. As a youngin just steppin into the scene only a couple years ago, ill do my best to keep our midwest scene alive.
