Tomorrow we shall have a gathering from 7pm-4am. Anyone and everyone is invited. The more the merrier. I’ll be going around to ask for the E fee so please have it ready when I ask. Anyone new who wishes to join us please text me at 310 344 9367.
Hope to see y’all tomorrow:)
Rules are revised. Reread them please:)
Tonight we shall have a gathering from 7pm-4am. Anyone and everyone is invited. The more the merrier. I’ll be going around to ask for the $5 E Fee so please have it ready when I ask. Anyone new who wishes to join us please text me at 310 344 9367.
Hope to see y’all tonight:)
Welcome back Don 
Tonight we shall have a gathering NEW HOURS from 8pm-3am. Anyone and everyone is invited. The more the merrier. I’ll be going around to ask for the $5 E Fee so please have it ready when I ask. Anyone new who wishes to join us please text me at 310 344 9367.
Hope to see y’all tonight:)
I miss the days when everyone was on srk. This use to be the number one place where the FGC posted. This is the place that started everything. It’s so dead now:(
General Discussion is what is populated.
There are way to many internet websites out there that cater to larger demographics. It is not surprising to see numbers dwindle down. SF4 brought in a lot of people, but I doubt we will see something similar happen again.
There’s too many social outlets to use nowadays. Forums are much clunkier to use than say twitter or facebook.
Sadly this forum is populated primarily by Tech Talk guys or General Discussion.
Sad. This is what started it all and opened the market big time. The community was closer here too.
That’s how it goes. The community and local scenes get spread further and further away from each other. Nobody wants to drive over 10-15 minutes to get to play casuals with local players, and if they do, they want to do it for free. The community seems to want everything for nothing.
They don’t realize how lucky they are to be able to have local arcades and extremely strong scenes even within an HOUR’s driving distance. The majority of players in this country would KILL for a scene even 1/4 as big as socal’s and twice as far away.
Well I would love for there to be locations closer to where I am at. South Gate is such a dead zone for me.
Doesn’t stop me from traveling, Japan Arcade and Don’s place are probably the nearest to me. But even I get a bit irked for the Super Arcade drive during Wednesday Night Fights or The Runback, especially when I have to wake up early the next day.
I’m not really disturbed by Super Arcade’s distance, because it’s only a 30 min. drive. What fucks me up is the fact that they run tournaments at 9pm (that never start at 9pm) and last til like 3am. Who has time for that type of shit? Does nobody have a job or school anymore? lol.
I would MUCH prefer that they run events on friday-sunday. Weekends are much easier for me, but then again, I’m an old man, and most of the young kids ain’t got shit else to do on weekdays. I know that’s a lot of people’s days to hang out and party, but fuck it, why can’t we hang out and party at the arcade?
It is about an hour drive for me. And I agree on the late runtime. I appreciate what Watson does for the community, but START ON TIME lol. Coming back home at 2-3am and I have to wake up at 5 the next day is not ok.
There should be a Saturday/Sunday Night Smackdowns. Friday is for Don’s Arcade
I don’t think it’s necessarily his fault. It’s mostly lazy players that cause late start times. You don’t want to start DQing people, and you want as many people to join the tournament as you can (it also helps with his profit margins). If all the players actually showed up on time, they’d be able to start early, but nobody ever does that. It takes a LOT of time to make proper brackets just for one game, but some players somehow expect to show up at 9pm and start at 9pm, and that it’s easy to start adding names randomly.
Which means showing up at 8:30pm, but nobody ever does that.
Then why not have online signups before it starts?
I don’t see why there can’t be a dual system implemented. On-site signups and online. That way, the TOs can get a head start on the bracket. People who show up last minute can still get in but that would at least alleviate some of the stress that goes with bracket set-ups.
I would rather just have a cut-off time where once a tournament starts, then that is it. Didn’t make it in on time? Well tough luck.
IMO of course.
I agree. But there are some logistical problems with that. In order to get that system to work, you’d have to get people to pay money at the registration website. The problem with this, is that it’ll be a lot more confusing when paying out the top3. Instead of handing them cash, they have to get the money paypal’d to them or something like that, not to mention the possibility of scams by reporting false paypal usages or credit card usages and having a lot of money being refunded to players on purpose. People are shady, scumy dudes, but cash-in-hand never lies.
If you can register online, but don’t have to pay until you get there, then you’ll have the problem of EVERY player putting their name in the brackets, but then they’ll never show up, which completely fucks up the brackets. Over-flooded brackets and DQs abound.
So obviously the first choice is preferable, but again, gamers are lazy and don’t want to go online to do all this stuff for a weekly event, they’d rather just show up, cough up their $10, and get high until their match starts.
There’s always the problem where you want your tournament as full as possible. People are attracted to large-group gatherings, so you want to boost up that entrant number as much as you can. Plus it puts more cash into the venue and pot prizes, which entices both the venue and top players.
I’m fairly certain 95% of all tournaments run late on a consistent basis. It’s so bad that whenever I run tournaments, I tell players to show up an hour or so ahead of the ACTUAL tournament time, in the hopes that we can get started on-time.
You know yesterday after I ate Kim Tar I stopped by Alex Arcade since I was already halfway there and a kid there had a 47 game winning streak with Ryu on AE2012. Everyone was trying to take him down and there was a crowd. Don’t get me wrong what Super is doing for AE2012 in WNF is good and all but nothing beats the old school way of learning when someone goes streaking on the machine and everyone in the building is trying to take him down. He lost to a Cammy btw.
That’s true. I think there are also costs for hosting up a website with a PayPal account. I pictured it as PayPal getting a cut of the revenue, though I could be wrong.
The 25th Anniversary tournament held online sign-ups and at-site sign-ups. But given that they had a much larger group of volunteers/staff to run the tournament, it would have been more feasible for them than Super.
Still, I got school, work and other obligations to do in the morning lol. There needs to be another way to keep things on time and more organized. I would probably be going more often if things didn’t run so late.
Not surprising at all, the level of talent at Alex’s Arcade for SF4 is pretty low in comparison to other scenes. Hell, even my friend had a solid 20 game win streak with Yun in AE, and he doesn’t even play seriously anymore, lol.
25th Anniversary was a good tourney, but yeah, they had about 20-43 dudes handling all the logistics side of it, and they were ALL busy. Even then, the tournament ran like 2-3 hours later than normal. That’s with the BEST of circumstances, and it would be a clusterfuck if this was to be done for weeklies at Super.
LevelUp crew only have 3 people doing brackets. Watson, Valle, and one other dude to call names. That’s about it.
The best situation would be to show up, play your matches as quick as you can, and then go home when you get peaced out. It’s not as glorious as sticking around hanging out with the boys and playing casuals, but you save a lot more time this way. Even then, expect a 6-hour sleep schedule at most.
I like how we talk to each other on different threads about different things through a smooth transition lol.
I disagree man. How long ago was your friend there? Alex Arcade has really good quality AE2012 players at a certain time. There was like a good Cody, Seth, Cammy, Ryu, Ken, Guy, Gen, and many other characters. They were doing all these combos and playing all sophisticated. I believed the AE 2012 gameplay there has evolved and got better. I was actually surprised. They got the hunger there.