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Not gonna lie…this sounded really gay when I first read it. lol.

[media=youtube]IEugtOiasB4"[/media] You beat me to it! lol.

Adam: I have the [media=youtube]piDJcqPr-EY"]trailer assignment up. (You should see [URL=“http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_VyJmzidLw&feature=related”[/media]). I’ll be upload those sound projects as well, after I finish these papers.

Good Luck this weekend Dayton!

Oh and…co-op Tekken Force FTW = Win :slight_smile: ::EDIT:: I should seriously play Lei after seeing [media=youtube]Cjzw50Sd5VU"[/media]

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Well, that sucked for me. I was under the impression we would be allowed to bring a setup to Arcade legends just to find out it wouldn’t be allowed. I drove two hours to play casuals in HNK and 3s but got to do neither. That’s the last time I do that. I should have just stayed home and played on 2df.

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All thanks to that one person , whos decided to be an idiot… and not listen to what I say. I missed the venture to AL , thanks alot dick. : )

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Adam buy "No More Heros"
Quintin buy my SF4 for xbox.

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Saw a pretty bad car wreck on the way home from the arcade just off the 275 exit ramp.

Hope it was none of us.

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Well we could have but, they were running the tourney. Just wait on that 3s cab, and next time I’ll be sure to grab my TV from the house. Sorry it didn’t work out today :sad:

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Thanks for all who came out tonight and all who let us use their systems and sticks. I hope everyone had a good time. The tournament went pretty quickly with the 32 people single elim, so we will definitely do double elim next time and start a little earlier. We needed to feel it out first and see how it ran. Hopefully we have 3S for the next tourney and can run both games. Any feedback would be appreciated, good or bad.

Sorry to those hoping to set up consoles. Like Adam said, normally I’m all for that but every nook of the house was filled with something due to the tournament. Any other day you guys want to do that is fine with me. We will supply the table and the electricity. If you give us a heads up we can even have it ready for you.

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Yeah dude the roads were crazy when I left.

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AL Ranbats: Rough Draft

Okay, so I’ve been trying to figure out a fun and fair way to have the AL ranbats. I’ve come up with something interesting, but I need feedback.

The Big Picture

Using the 8 most popular fighting games in the area the ranbat season will last 3 months. Each game will have 3 tournaments.

You can enter any of the 3 tournaments for any game and your name/score will be kept track of for each game during the season.

Once all 3 tournaments for a single game are complete, the top 3 scoring players will receive some sort of AL specific prize. Free passes, drinks, or food, I’m not sure; I’ll have to go over this with the owners.

There will be a tournament every week (total of 12 weeks) and each tournament will host two different games.
Example:
Week 1 = SFIV and BB
Week 2 = 3s and KOFXII
Week 3 = MvC2 and HDR
Week 4 = SSBB and GGAC (or TvC, or SCIV, whatever is popular)
Repeat cycle for months 2 and 3. *Note that the above games are subject to change based on your guys’ recommendations. *

The Tournament Day Specifics

**The top 3 players in each tournament receive a cash prize paying out at 70/20/10. The prize money for each tournament comes from a discount on entry to the arcade. **

Each tournament is double elimination, best 2/3.

All players who participated receive season points, but the top 8 players receive: 9 for first, 8 for second . . . 2 for eighth. All other players receive 1 point.

There is a good chance the ranbats would be held on Sundays, since this is the cheapest daily rate at $8. There’s also a chance that the owners will let us have the place to ourselves after normal closing time if the tournament isn’t finished. I’m also hoping that the AL owners would agree to allow ranbat participants to pay $5 arcade fee. Then the cost of each tournament would be $3.

Drumroll Please

**Okay everyone, let me know what tweaks you would make to this plan. I would especially like some guidance in the choice of games.
**
In my defense for picking so many games; I didn’t want to alienate people for three months of tournaments just because they don’t happen to play whatever game is being focused on.

In my defense for deciding on a 3 month season; I feel it’s just long enough to keep people’s interest in some sort of final prize (which I’d still like some suggestions on). Each tournament can also stand alone, so a person can commit to all 3 tourneys for a single game or just a couple different ones.

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Over 120 bucks over 12 weeks will be impossible to me unless I get a job by then, I may be able to enter for one or two games.

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Problem the 1st: Participant availability.
-I don’t feel this needs much explanation.

Problem the 2nd: Console choices for games.
-What console will the games be played on and why?

Problem the 3rd: Paying to play AND paying to Play.
-What’s the point in owning these games and paying to play them somewhere? I don’t know where the rest of you come from, but where I’m from that’s called retardation. Why even buy the game if you’re going to foolishly pay someone else to play their copy? I’m all for arcades, but it seems like paying $0.50 or even $1.00/match would be a better deal if you’re only basically playing 3 or 4 matches. We all own (or will shortly) these games. I seriously feel stupid every time I pay to play SF4 on a console in the arcade. And I don’t know about the rest of you, but it’s a 45 minute drive there for me. Not worth it for the substantially small amount of money I’d win. Either increase the cost/game or eliminate the arcade cost and charge per game played.

Problem the 4th: Accuracy
-Due to the fact that everyone will not be able to make it to every session, be it not getting a ride (you poor, lazy bastards, buy a car) and the fact that people WILL inevitably be working, what’s making this accurate at all?

That’s all I have for now.

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Participant availability could be a problem potentially. It might have to just be a single popular game like SSBB or SFIV, perhaps 3s if the Dayton folk were to come down. Lowering the variety of games would be good if not many people would show for things like KOF or Marvel.

As far as what consoles to play on, the AL owners would like people to play on their stand-up machines when possible, so I suppose it’d be a mixture of what’s available. For example, 3s could run on arcade and PS2 at the same time, with players going back and forth to each setup.

Everything new would probably go on PS3. I don’t have anything against the 360, but with EVO going PS3 for SFIV and SCIV, I think that may be becoming the standard system. Then again, there are many tournaments run on 360. It’d probably be safest to have a setup for both when possible. It’s not a perfect solution.

I suggested a fee to play because these would be miniature tournaments. Some people enjoy the extra something added to a tournament when cash is on the line. This specific fee would also be deducted from the normal arcade entry, so you’re really paying the same amount of money to get into the arcade for the chance to win back a lot. In the end, though, having people pay to participate in ranking battles isn’t necessary, like otter suggested earlier.

As for accuracy. Well, it’s accurate for who shows up. On the ranking records the top players will be the top who have shown up and played, just like players right now have the best so-and-so in their neighborhood. If you don’t show up, that doesn’t mean the top player in the ranbat is better than you, it just means you didn’t come. The line for scheduling has to be drawn somewhere, and if someone can’t make it, them’s the breaks.

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Who won the SF4 tournament?

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Participant availibiblty is why there should be less games. Everybody wants their game in so they can win, but sf4 and 3s are what will make a (almost) decent tourny.

I like brawl, but I’m not gonna cause drama so they’ll set up a ranbat for me to play by myself. I don’t know if anything but 4 will bring in people, but god forbit people try to learn it before complaining and quitting.

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A guy named Steven Hartshorn. A young dude from right up the street. All Balrog, all the time. Final match was against John Golden from Cleveland.

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Word nobody worth it won the SF4 tournament?

LOL…

Adam was the comp any good at all? Please tell me the truth.

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That Rog was good. Consistant ex upper loops. 2nd place guy was meh…

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Wait what?

So people went down there…and then lost to people who were “meh”?

Was it just because it was single elim? No time to warm up? Cream rises and all that…but really guys?

Where all did anyone else place in this?

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ppl worth mentioning…well i got third haha

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Ok, well that’s SOMETHING…

Anyone else?