BATTLE FOR VOLUSIA CROWNING (Deltona, FL)

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*** BATTLE FOR VOLUSIA CROWNING ***
What is it? Battle for Volusia Crowning is a small Tournament/Event presented by Battle Powered with two intentions in mind. First and foremost, Battle Powered is a community project with the purpose of creating an environment for gamers in Central Florida, eventually captivating enough fan base and revenue to open a console gaming arcade. This event has been placed as a testing ground to see a response from the Central Florida scene, while gaining a profit so we can start adding to our list of inventory, slowly building until we will have enough to open a shop in the future. Secondly, 3 months from the gaming scene has left the thrown open to competition so this will be the place to test yourself as a player and see where you truly stand. It?s a complete win/win scenario.

ATTENTION
To attend the tournament, you must reside in either Volusia County, or Seminole County. Certain exceptions apply, please contact Frankie Battle via email battlefrankie@yahoo.com or through http://www.battlepowered.com . If you live outside of the area, you are still permitted to come and play for free with a $5 donation at the door.

When is it? BATTLE FOR VOLUSIA CROWNING will be FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 19th. Doors will be open at 6pm (yes it has changed). REGISTRATION CLOSES AT 7pm.

This event will be located at the new Battle residence, better known as The Battle Station in Deltona, Florida.

152 Hummingbird Avenue Appt. 2
Deltona, FL 32725

Games included for this event will be: BlazBlue: Continuum Shift (PS3), Super Street Fighter IV (360) and Tatsunoko vs Capcom (wii)

All games will be played in a placement series, followed by a transition of pools that will later turn into the finals. This event is DOUBLE ELIMINATION, AFTER pools have been made. That being said, placement games will not count against you. Pools will be made so all players get a fair chance, and that way no one gets bracket f**ed. During pools, players will then proceed with the typical double elimination format.

BlazBlue and SSF4

Round 1 (Placement)
During placement, every player is given 2 matches. Each match is only 1 game, with Best of 5 rounds. Pools will be made by points that are earned from matches. Each match won earns 1 point.

Round 2 (Pools)
During pools, every player is given 2 matches. Each match is Best of 3 games, with Best of 3 rounds. Winners move on and are combined in the winners bracket, while losers are combined to the losers bracket.

This is Double Elimination DURING pools

Tatsunoko vs Capcom will be typical Tournament style play. Double Elimination, best of 3 games.

Door fee is a $5 Donation.
Entry is a $5 Donation per game.

1st place gets 70% of prize pot.
2nd place gets 30%

Food will be available to convenience you!

Pizza (cheese or Peperoni) $1 a slice
Chips $.50 a bag
Soda (Coke or Sprite) $.50 a can
Beer [Over 21] $1 a cup.

Please direct any questions to me personally at battlefrankie@yahoo.com or here on the site.

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Already there, sign me up for all 3.

Antonio “HuggyBear” Del Valle

SSF4 - Abel/Random
BBCS - Tager/Ragna/Bang
TvC - Ryu/Zero/Tekkaman/Chun-Li/Batsu

Also, mark me down for 4 slices of pizza, 4 beers, and a bag of chips (at least)

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Bump

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I do want to talk to you about some stuff about format later, text me sometime this week and we can go over some shit.

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I want to announce some changes to the format.
The tournaments will be two rounds, first of single round robin where players will play 3 2/3 round matches. The top 4 of the round robin round will be seeded into a 4 man playoff (2/3 rounds, 3/5 matches, single elimination) to decide the champion.

Super and BB will be played with this new format, TvC’s format will be decided on in the next few days.

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How exactly does the first round work, you worded it poorly imo. Do we play only 3, 2/3 round matches or do we play 3, 2/3 round matches with every player?

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Hey sorry for any misunderstanding. The first round will be round robin, 3 games per match/ best of 3 rounds per game.

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Not best of three, you play 3 games regardless.
Sorry all the same, I typed that up quick just to let you guys know there was a change and never fixed it.

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“To attend the tournament, you must reside in either Volusia County, or Seminole County. Certain exceptions apply, please contact Frankie Battle via email battlefrankie@yahoo.com or through Battle Powered . If you live outside of the area, you are still permitted to come and play for free with a $5 donation at the door.”

So how do you expect to open up a successful arcade or run tournaments if people not in the area are allowed to enter. Your tournament does not apply to “Central Florida” if it’s just those 2 counties seeing as Orlando/Orange County makes up about 70% of the “Scene.”

Just my 2 cents, you might want to just take that out all together to have this open to everyone in Central Florida.

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Battle For Volusia Crowning is a TEST Run to see how how running gaming events from my house will do. If this goes well (20 or so entrants) than I will learn how to accommodate a small group. I will be running beta tests for the arcade from my house if the turnout is what I’m looking for. These beta tests will include all the updated equipment as we get it. Remember, if you read the purpose of Battle For Volusia Crowning, you will see this:

What is it? Battle for Volusia Crowning is a small Tournament/Event presented by Battle Powered with two intentions in mind. First and foremost, Battle Powered is a community project with the purpose of creating an environment for gamers in Central Florida, eventually captivating enough fan base and revenue to open a console gaming arcade. This event has been placed as a testing ground to see a response from the Central Florida scene, while gaining a profit so we can start adding to our list of inventory, slowly building until we will have enough to open a shop in the future. Secondly, 3 months from the gaming scene has left the thrown open to competition so this will be the place to test yourself as a player and see where you truly stand. It?s a complete win/win scenario.

Yes I am not including a big chunk of Central Florida, but this is also a TEST. The next event we host will only consist of 1 game(possibly 2). And it will be open to any challengers. I’m not looking to go all out right off rip, be under prepared for a large group and look like a terrible TO.

And Alex, you’re free anyways :wink: <3 <3

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Didn’t know it was at your house, so now I totally understand you don’t want strangers from out of town to show up. I mean last thing we need is someone free like me showing up and making you quit the game again.

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I KNO RIGHT! Well, 3rd times a charm my friend :slight_smile:

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Good Shit For Being Such A Good Scam-Artist

Now… I know most of the people that went wouldn’t consider it a scam but your thinly veiled lies seem to be able to captivate many players. Good shit to Curaga and Canadian, but the actual matches aren’t the important part of why this tournament was not only badly ran but also ill conceived. Frankie Battle did not do this for the community. Which was his first mistake. It was obvious why the tournament was ran. TO MAKE MONEY. Which isn’t good for something he created and paraded as “For the community”.

The unprofessional atmosphere was ghastly. Not only are paper brackets unprofessional but I know that you called my round robin scores wrong, I made a whopping 15 points. Where did those last 5 points go dawg. The rest was also garbage, lets take a 20 minute intermission, for an hour. The only fun I gained from this tournament are the tales of how bad it was.

Not only that but you pulled a fucking [media=youtube]JsgRnBazeSY"[/media], be a fucking man and admit your fucking losses.

The added background noise of your dog and your child made this the worst venue I’ve ever been to. To add onto the venue part, YOU DON’T MAKE SPECTATORS PAY FOR A DOOR FEE, that doesn’t make any sense. The door fee in general doesn’t make any sense, seeing as the tournament was in your house. You will not get me to anymore of these garbage tournaments and I hope to God no one else will go to these ghetto tournaments.

BTW save me a copy of Forza 3, and maybe some pizza.

P.S. Please, learn to type correctly. The plethora of typos on your website make me scared for the English language.

P.P.S. Again good job to Curaga and Canadian you beat the scrub masses (including me for the night wtf at my performance lol)

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Thanks to everyone that came out! It was a great learning experience! Shout out to Canadian and Curaga for showing how it’s done. Oh Raioh, sorry that you didn’t enjoy yourself. Yes, the tournament was ran through my house, but I also have my own family to support, I’m not still in school with mom and dad to support me and pay for my house or my lights. :slight_smile: This is real life bro. The fact that my dog and son were there was a fluke, they were both planned to be elsewhere until last minute, so sorry about that. Also, I stated in the first post I ever made that I was trying to raise money for the arcade that I plan to open. Please explain to me where I lied exactly? I even went to state that there were a few reasons for this event:

To raise money for the arcade.
To test how running tournaments goes from my house.
To see where players stand.

Also, you don’t need to insult me because I was upset and threw my controller, in my house, on my floor, at my tournament. It’s quite amusing actually… That fact you tell me to be a man, yet you do not tell me any criticism to my face, but yet go on to talk trash to and about me on the internet. Do you feel safe now?

Thanks to all those that stuck around and gave me some insight on what I need to work on, I’ve learned a lot from this. Oh, one more thing. If this event WAS to just make some quick loot and rip off the community, then why the hell did I go in the negatives?

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Raioh, ggs to you too man, you know we’re going to have to run that back sometime soon.

As for all that went down Friday night. Eric, Frank and myself all went over shit.
I’m not saying anything anybody hasn’t heard before.

Frank, you did screw up, by not advertising money was coming out of the pot, you’re fucking with people’s payday. By not refunding door fees to the BB guys after cancelling their tournament, you ensure no BB player will ever come to one of your events again. And the lack of compensation for the people bringing setups was pretty uncool as well.

As for the bracket situation. I was co-T.O. at least as far as running brackets were concerned, so I may have lost your points, and for that I’m sorry. I know its too little too late, but I am honestly sorry Raioh.

The positives here, is Frankie knows he fucked up, and his next event should be free of these huge errors. Call me nieve (despite the fact I can’t spell the word) but I don’t want to believe he fucked us deliberately. This was his first event and he didn’t know what he could and couldn’t deliver on.
I completely understand if people don’t want to come back, of the 4 people I spoke to, I’m the only one willing to give his next event a chance. He has to earn everybody’s trust back. If he dropps the ball on the next one as well he’ll basically be done as a TO, but I want to give the dude the benefit of the doubt.

For everybody that didn’t have a good tournament experience, the BB guys especially, I’m really sorry shit went down the way it did, even with a limited role managing brackets, I feel bad that people walked away from an event I worked feeling like this.

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this shit makes my head hurt…

nothing talked about in here sounds like a good idea…

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I did my best to make this decent. Of course the initial idea behind this event was to raise money, however after a talk about the best players in the area I saw this as a perfect opportunity for all of us. My problem was I was too anxious. I was sticking my hand out for support and I expected great things, but everything fell short. I do apologize for the cool people that were understanding for the mistakes I made. A huge mistake I made was to not tell anyone that I was taking money from the pot. I however, never ran a tournament, so I thought it was common knowledge being that a high percentage of T.O.s do this. Now that I know it isn’t, I’m not going to put these people on blast.

Mistakes I’ve made at this event, will not be repeated. I’ve tasted great defeat at B4VC, but I’m actually glad I did. This way I won’t do the same things that failed on epic proportions. I have a great grasp on what works, what doesn’t, and what I can do to make things better. For the next event, if you choose to come, I will prove it to you. I will go into detail of all the specifics and I’ll make sure I’ll be able to explain things so I will not come off as me being dishonest. My apologies VGOD, HuggyBear, Curaga, Canadian, Hsien-Jo, DarkLordDessel, Blakers, NapStar, Fabiio, and anyone else that was upset or disappointed.

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Never once in my history of tourneys have I ever taken anything out of the prize money or pot. I know you’re not bringing me up indirectly but a high percentage of the TOs that take money out of a pot have never throw tournaments again :). That’s the absolute worst thing any TO can ever do. Learn from that mistake.

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You may be right, some T.O.'s may take a cut from the pot. But those that do won’t (read: shouldn’t) charge a venue fee. Do one or the other, not both. And make sure that every player knows how it’s going down well in advance