**Warning: Recent events, including the organizer attempting to move the event date and the organizer making suspicious claims about other gaming events, have caused SRK to add GPX Gaming to our list of tournament venues to avoid.
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5/4/2010
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**NEW Announcements!
Tatsunoko vs Capcom: Ultimate All Stars! will now have a BONUS $1000 added to its pot! Why, because we love this game and want to bring the community to it. We know that there is plenty of time to build this community between now and June…We spoke with Seth @ the Release Party and let him know our commitment on this title and what we want to do…
So there it is, GAMME is now the first Official Major for TvC!
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**G.A.M.M.E. - Orlando, Florida - June 4-6 2010
Winter Brawl - We got through the Blizzard from the mountains to be here for Big E! We know we’re going to see you guys here too!
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When: June 4-6, 2010
Badge Pickup Thursday June 3rd 4pm
Where: 1500 Sand Lake Road, Orlando, Florida 32809
Phone: 407-859-1500 (Ask for GAMME, GPX, Gamers Paradise or GXP to get our convention room rate!)
Pre-registration to the Event is $25 for the whole convention (goes up to $30 January 1st!)
Hotel room rates: $119/per night
Entry Fee: Event Registration is LIVE!
Why: Because GPX is awesome
GAMME - Gaming, Anime, Music & Manga Expo
GPX Gaming known for hosting video game tournaments and gaming events all over the country is hosting a major gaming event in Orlando Florida June 4th - 6th, 2010.
GAMME will be held in The Florida Hotel and Conference Center
The Facility will have a 100 console Free Play and tournament room with over 40 LAN PC’s a TCG/TTG space over 2300 sq ft and a Rhythm Arcade all in their own separate spaces for your entertainment.
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GPX and GAMME are proud to present: Super Street Fighter IV’s Guaranteed Pot of $5000 paid out in the traditional 70/20/10 payout format. Furthermore, All winnings are paid out at Closing Ceremonies Sunday June 6th, 2010 in Cash awarded inside the "Trophy Cups" - To me thats why they call it a “Pot” So we give it to you in a pot!
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GPX and GAMME will also be hosting multiple tournaments with other substantial pots being issued during the same Tournament Weekend.
GAMME has Officially Invited 5 of the Top Players from Japan!
Mago, Daigo, Issei, **Nuki **and **Momochi **to compete in a 5 V 5 Match against a 5 Man Team built by Empire Arcadia! Winner take all $5000 Prize! Triforce has agreed that if the West Coast wishes to send 5 of its best to beat Empire’s Team they can have a chance at the $5000 Prize against Japan’s Best. Japanese Iron Man Rules! (those rules will be up on the GPX Gaming Site)
**Issei **is now confirmed and able to come and attend for the challenge.
*******Announcement
We want to let the gaming community know that the Above Japanese players are here for 2 gaming events, the Exhibitions and the Best in Character event.
We have built another Tournament for the Top Players at GAMME.
Super Street Fighter IV: Top Tier Challenge - 2/3 Matches - Single Elimination - Character Lock
The Top 64 placed players from our SSFIV $5000 challenge will be allowed to enter this tournament (That’s 1st through top 49th total players 64).
These players will be able to enter this tournament $20 entry (at event) which will have the Japanese players seeded at the Semi’s level. We have 7 Players coming from Japan, our 8th spot will be filled by the Grand Champion at 2010 East Coast Throwdown. This will make for a solid singles tournament with only the best from the weekend.
This also assuages those that yearned to compete against the best from Japan in a tournament setting.
While Issei and the rest have confirmed attendance for GAMME, we have also invited Nemo to come and participate. We will let you know once he has confirmed! Thanks Issei for all your help!
We have decided to add more Street Fighter IV (PS3) Tournaments:
Super Street Fighter IV: 3v3 Team Matches - Pot consisting of 100% entries - Registration live!
Super Street Fighter IV: Semi-Pro Tournament - Post consisting of 100% entries - registration at event - Our “Low Tier” SSFIV tournament will allow the players that placed 50th or below in the $5000 SSFIV Challenge. These players will be competing against each other for another chance to determine the Top Semi-Pro players.
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GAMME will be developing a “Best in World” Cup Category for Character Players - We have decided that simple mirror matches will not do as we have some of the best in Japan coming down. Ryan “Gootecks” Gutierrez will be working with GAMME to develop the format of this particular tournament. The winner will be receiving a Cup based trophy with the information engraved on the side “Best ‘Insert Character name here’ in the World” - Example: “Best Sagat in the World” followed by the name of the player (This event will take place on Saturday - Cups will be given Sunday at Closing Ceremonies). Ryan will be working with us on programming other aspects of the show as well, which is TBA until we have the right formats for each event.
We are excited to have Gootecks working with GAMME on these events. We want the West Coast to be as hype as the East Coast when it comes to our event.
We also have a “Player’s Club” in the works in collaboration with Big E of NEC and Alex Jebailey (Googlemyname) of Orlando that we will give more info for as we develop this space at the convention.
Titles announced so far are listed as:
Guest Announcement
$3000 - Tekken 6 (PS3) - Thread on Tekken Zaibatsu - Registration live!
Mr. Keiichi Okabe who has been part of composing Tekken 6 and multiple titles for Namco Bandai will be attending GAMME!
Keigo Hoashi - One of the Composers for Tekken 6 & Namco Bandai Games will be appearing as a guest at GAMME! Keigo-San will be participating in a variety of events and interactive games as well as signing autographs. So bring those copies of Tekken 6 for him to sign!
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$2000 - Brawl (Wii - some folks do ask - I know…lol)- Thread on SmashBoards - Registration live!
$1000 - Smash Bros. Melee (GC) - Registration live!
$2000 - Marvel vs. Capcom 2 (DreamCast) (Upgraded Bonus pot from $1000) - Registration live!
IdleMind
$2000 - Soul Calibur IV (PS3) - Thread on 8 Way Run - Registration live!
IdleMind has offered to put up $1000 of his own money to add to the Bonus pot! Why? Because he is awesome and loves the SC4 Community! IdleMind will be one of our Tournament Officials overseeing various aspects of our tournaments. Hype it up!
IdleMind
$1000 - HD Remix (PS3) - Registration live!
$1000 - 3rd Strike (TBA) - Registration live!
$1000 - Tatsunoko v Capcom: All Stars - Registration live!
that’s right 3rd Strike and Maaahvel too - we keep it OLD SKOOL, Alive and Hype!
***Pot’s TBA
Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 - Registration will go live January 30th Thread on Classic MK, Thread on MK United
King of Fighters XII (360) - Registration live!
BlazBlue (PS3) - Thread on DustLoop - Registration live!
Guilty Gear: XX / Accent Core Plus! (Japanese PS2) - Registration live!
Virtua Fighter 5 (360) - Registration live!
Super Smash Bros. (N64) - Registration live!
Finalizing Tourneys for:
Melty Blood: Actress Again
Arcana Hearts 2
Capcom vs SNK2 (working on Arcade Cabinet)
*Old School titles to be determined (if you have suggestions, for “Pot” or “bragging rights” Based tourneys please send messages and inquiries to info@gpxgaming.net
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***POT System
Most events have a standard setup - you get charged some money, they take some off the top and then put the remainder into the pot and sometimes you don’t know how much that is…That can be dirty, we don’t like dirty.
GPX does not do that. We have sponsored Guaranteed Pots - That means the amounts listed above are what your getting no matter what happens…
Example: random gaming event gets 300 Players to compete in SF4 @ $10 an entry - that means the pot is $3000 - if the event does not take anything off the top. 1st Place takes 70% = $2100, 2nd Place takes 20% = $600 and 3rd Place takes = $300. If the event takes any fees for administration that means the pot is smaller (we wont start assuming how much events take, this could take all night and I can rant for days).
GPX and GAMME will be doing the Guaranteed Pot as listed above for each tournament. AND we will also add 50% of every entry to the Pot! The remaining 50% goes to Charity ($5, broken into $1 a piece to each of these charities: Donate2life, The MS Society, Miami Children’s Hospital, St. Jude’s and Toy’s for Tots - changed from Miami Food Drive - they want cans of food, so we will do a food drive for this instead)
What does that mean?
Example - 50 people compete @ GAMME in SF4, $10 Entry fee = $500 of which 50% or $250 extra gets added to the existing $5000 Pot = $5250
Example - 300 people compete in SF4 (basing attendance numbers on some of our tournaments from Boston, Texas, Indianapolis and Florida) 300 @ $10 = $3000 50% goes to the pot. So $1500 gets added to the $5000 pot = $6500.
you guys can do the math from there:
1st Place would take 70% = $4550
2nd Place would take 20% = $1300
3rd Place would take 10% = $650
Much better for the winners.
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We are making a change to the Charitable Donations from Pot Entries - Tournaments without Bonus Pots will retain all the entries into the pot - GPX will make the donations for those tournaments. We want to make sure tourneys without bonus pots have solid payouts. We hope this makes everyone happy. The individual rules pages on the GAMMEwebsite will explain each individual ruleset and their donations if any into our charity drives.
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We decided this is the best way to show the community we want to give them a hype tournament with real money on the line.
We will be hosting other tournaments with other pots as well DDR: SuperNova and DDR: Extreme, Halo 3 / ODST, Modern Warfare 2, etc. However, we will keep the tourney info for our event pertinent to the subject matter of the SRK boards.
The www.gamm-expo.com site will be up very soon, our placeholder is up while we finalize our beta site. information will be available on www.gpxgaming.net site as well as our social networks and twitter announcements
GAMME Facebook
GPX Facebook
Capcom-Unity
GPX MySpace
GPX Twitter
GPX MeetAGamer
Rulesand Information again are available on the GPX Gaming Website - We will be constantly updating them to make sure it is as accurate and easy to understand as possible.
***For a listing of games our event will have for freeplay and Casuals please visit our constantly updated Listing
Here is a link to the Beta Site as it is in its incomplete form