Evo2013 Side Tournament - $1000 pot bonus LET'S GO!

MittinsKittens · February 5, 2013, 8:44am

Oh awesome :D!
Can’t wait to check this out on stream. You guys better not let everyone down now after all this :)!

Dravidian · February 5, 2013, 8:52am

I doubt I’ll physically make it to evo, but I’ll definitely help people train

Teenage_Bad_Girl · February 5, 2013, 9:02am

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MARTIAN · February 5, 2013, 9:12am

GET.

HYPE.

BrandX · February 5, 2013, 9:27am

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Geese_Pants · February 5, 2013, 9:49am

I hope you guys do indeed show up this year and represent…really no excuse not to support your game this Evo season.

Dedicated stations
top 8 streamed
$1,000 pot bonus

Master_Chibi · February 5, 2013, 9:53am

I wants to be commentator please.

And now I must save up to go to Evolution~

<3

Urichinan · February 5, 2013, 9:55am

SG at EVO?

http://i.imgur.com/YZHYb.gif

YES

AerodynOmyx · February 5, 2013, 10:06am

Saw this coming a mile away.

not_so_saint_1 · February 5, 2013, 10:27am

Dr. Sub-Zero and Robo-Fortune as commentators LEEEEEHGOOOOOOOOOO!!!

On the more serious note I’d like to see Mike on the mic since he’s actually knows what’s going on and will be able to explain it to everybody. He probably will be too busy though…

guitalex2007 · February 5, 2013, 11:17am

I would be at the mic but I might be busy playing

Let the trash talk begin.

0sh · February 5, 2013, 1:06pm

This might be a terrible idea, but nobody commented on it in the other thread and it’s relevant her so I’ve quoted it:

Pot bonuses are good for getting top players hungry about the game and get more attention, so bigger is always better. We also might think about using part of the proceeds of a donation drive for exclusive giveaways for participants (buttons, shirts, key chains, or something) to induce people on the fence to enter and swell the numbers which would in turn increase the pot.

This got me thinking. Pot bonuses are really only a way of drawing top (or middling but very competitive) players that might not otherwise attend. But Skullgirls isn’t trying to attract international superstars to their tournament right now - instead we just want more players in the tournament to begin with. (EDIT: That’s not to say that the tournament is struggling to get a viable number of players, just that the goal is different)

So why not have a separate small prize (say $50-$100) for the top-placing new player (i.e. hasn’t entered any previous tournament offering the new-player prize). If a new Skullgirls player is considering entering a tournament, they won’t be expecting to wipe Mike Z and co. off of the top spot, so it doesn’t matter to them if the first prize is ten dollars or ten million. But if the new player only has to do better than the other new players then they might want to give it a shot, especially if they’re already good at a different game and want to try SG out.

It’d take a bit of organizing to get it started, but I think it could work.

Kawalorn · February 5, 2013, 1:42pm

I knew something good would come out of this whole Donation Drive even if Skullgirls didn’t win. I mean 78K for breast cancer… ever heard of karma?

Congrats for getting it to EVO after all. Too bad it will all happen around the other side of the world for me. But I’m surely gonna watch the whole stream. A thing I didn’t do before.

Mike_Z · February 5, 2013, 3:28pm

@0sh - it’s not a bad idea, but how do you figure out what constitutes a “new player”?

Sammuraiblade · February 5, 2013, 4:21pm

You mean like a “MVP” kinda thing? What if 70% of matches were all newcomers, and each one were amazing…

keninblack · February 5, 2013, 4:39pm

Mike Z and Sanchez would make a good commentating team. Ultradavid also knows a healthy dose of Skullgirls… uhhhhhhhh McPeanuts can commentate, I can be a “color” commentator but I’ma be too busy in top 8 soooo… Kiss me.

Mattavist · February 5, 2013, 4:56pm

Whoever spends the most time choosing colors for their characters.

Cellsai · February 5, 2013, 5:02pm

I gather he means that you designate each tournament from now on as having the New Player prize. Any player who enters one of those tournaments, even if they don’t win the prize, is ineligible to win the prize at any following New Player tournaments.

It’d mean keeping a rather extensive list of previous tournaments, but wouldn’t actually be too difficult to organize with some planning.

The first couple of tournaments would likely see the prize go to some ‘veterans’, but would very rapidly thin out to only new faces.

Korbidon · February 5, 2013, 5:06pm

Mike Z should win ‘new player of the year’ award.

Mr.X · February 5, 2013, 5:25pm

Going to use a different alias and say I’m new.