We meet every wednesday night until the 16th for ranbats. Money matches are your best bet if you’re looking for cash.
u have family ?
No. You caught me lol
I’ll money match you in marvel if you promise to use chun li, hsein ko, and viewtiful joe. No xfactor allowed. On pad. Blindfolded. CAN YOU HANDLE IT?
You niggas best come out to this.
We’ll see.
So for some reason the facebook group is being really dumb so I’ll just post here. Phil asked me what kind of things to look out for when he tries to run tournaments in Gainesville. The two main problems for this city are equipment and venue:
In regards to the issue of equipment:
- Gainesville is a…. young community you could say. Its very small and those willing to contribute to running a successful tournament (at least in the past) has been even smaller…. so getting all the necessary equipment can be a hassle. At the gator gaming tournament in august we had 35+ people for both AE and marvel and lots of people helped out in a big way. We were lucky to have 5 lagless setups (my asus & crt, pat’s asus, adam’s asus, kevin gershkoff’s asus) and matt’s monitor was better than nothing. Also shout-outs to dave for loaning his system and games.
You might remember that the marvel tournament ran slow as shit since we only had 3 discs. This could change once umvc3 drops, but you never know if people are going to sell their games once they get bored with it. While I’ll be leaving and taking my monitors/xbox/games with me… right now it seems like we’re slightly bigger now that brian, jc, george, josh, pika etc are regulars…. so you have more people to extort… i mean, ask for help. Always take an inventory of equipment before you make any big plans
In regards to venue:
- This is the bigger problem, and one that I never really addressed. You are not allowed to hold tournaments at UF with cash prizes unless you get a sponsors at your event (like gator gaming tried to) and even then I’m not sure what the official UF policy is. If you want to run a cash tournament at UF anyway… then its on you if the wrong people find out. That’s a risk you have to decide to take, and one that I didn’t want to during my last semester at this place.
My advice to you is to look for some business around town. 1982 seems like a good place since its available at late hours and open to people under 21, but that would probably exclude people like pika and some people just don’t like bars. I hear that TGI fridays sometimes hosts but they would most probably want a cut of the money and you would most likely need a venue fee for participants… which could get hairy if you don’t get people from tally and jax to come down since we’re already small time. This is getting more into Jebailey’s roosters monthlies so you might want to ask him for more of those details.
Anyway, these are the things you really need to think about if you want to run something. I’m going to try to run something the tuesday of thanksgiving week with gator gaming. Maybe you, pat and hammy should sit in on a meeting with me and the gator gaming guys sometime.
Ok so I see your point regarding equipment. And since the scene here is slowly growing we can probably do with the equipment that we have maybe.
And yes regarding the venue which I do agree is probably the main issue in regards to running a tourney here. And I guess that the best decision is to not hold a tourney at UF since it would probably be less of a hassle since I feel like a cash tourney would bring in more people from out of town.
And yeah I was thinking if maybe someone had a friend that had a connection at a bar or someplace like that could probably help. If not i wouldn’t mind going with someone to like talk to someone that could help host because I feel like preparation is important especially to set up a date like the right people would have to know in advance. And yeah the TGI thing sounds like a good option and yeah I kinda also want people from around northern/central florida to come out too. And maybe I should ask Jebailey about stuff like this.
And yeah I’m down for sitting in on the metting that you guys are having.
And also I was thinking for encouragement for more people to come like if something like this were to happen like for me personally since I’m really into Marvel I and if I had the extra money I wouldn’t mind putting in some of my personal money into the pot bonus for the marvel side at least to get more people to come out and compete.
Jax poking in to say HI.
As a fledgling TO, my advice would be to keep plugging away at it. Keep a eye on sales of the games and equipment. Eg. newegg had UMVC3 for 30 a week ago and they also had ASUS VH236H (evo monitor) for $140 after rebate. Keep everyone informed, spam each city’s thread and facebook. If you all need help with equipment and streaming tyger up in JAX is a great resource and he also carpool some people. In 2012 I will be doing the same also hauling my (and partner TO’s) 7 monitors and 5 XBOX 1 PS3 and multiple copies of games. There has been talk of creating a circuit of tournaments every 5/6 weeks (Tally, Gainesville, JAX, Daytona, Orlando and maybe even Tampa and Miami) details are still being worked out. The best way to get better is to get out there. Shoot a line to tyger or me. About the updates, as a TO I update all the games the day before, switch between my shows and the update screens 
Also with venues, take a look at lan centers, card stores, comic stores, table top game stores.
Are you more of a Marvel player or an AE player? Or some other game thats out?
Hey Guys Tallahassee Has another tournament coming up, hope to see alot of you there!
Saturday December 10th 2011
Tallahassee, FL
Games being played:
Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3
MK9
MYSTERY GAME!!!
SSFIVAE (Last hurrah before 2012)
Click the link for indepth details!
I really am sorry to spam you guys with another tourney. But wanted to get the word out there on a Ultimate and AE and maybe more touney next saturday.
As I said in a earlier post , I’d be more than willing to bring my stuff down for a tourney, just throwing it out there. 7 lagless monitors 4 xbox 360, 1 ps3 . Pm me or add my facebook Scrubs Mcsalty.
Who: You
Where: Hammer Hall Gaming
1271 King Street
Jacksonville, FL 32204
When: Saturday 19th @ 6:00
Venue Fee : $5.00 due at the door to get your wristband good for entry the whole day and casuals all day (tournament schedule permitting)
Bring a full setup to help us run the tournament more smoothly and get $5.00 off your venue fee. Email, text or facebook me to qualify for this discount.
Pot Fee : $10.00 per game entered ( in addition to the venue fee)
Tentative Tournament Schedule (system played on)
6:00 PM
Registration Begins / Casuals Start
7:00 PM
Shotgun start of:
Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3
Mortal Kombat
Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike Online Edition
Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition
General Rules
All games with less than 8 entrants will be played in a round robin format
All Games with 9+ entrants will be played in a double elimination format
All games will be best of 3 games. Loser’s Finals Winner’s Finals and Grand Finals will be best of 5 games.
For Tekken 6 best 3 of 5 rounds = 1 game; Marvel vs Capcom 3 1 round = 1 game
Gill is banned in 3rd Strike
Kratos is banned in MK
Game breaking glitches are banned and punishable with forfeit
This tournament is BYOC, bring your own controller!
It is the winners responsibility to report result of the match to the TO (sying or birds!)
No drinking, drugs or bionic arming on the premises. Keep it classy!
Additional Prizes!
We would like to thank our new sponsor Game Over Stores. They have stores located in Fernandina and St. Mary’s GA. Co-owners Ken, Shannon and Sarah have graciously provided us with prizes to be given away by raffle. We thank Game Over for supporting our scene! Visit them at www.facebook.com/gameoverstores and in store for all your gaming needs!
Raffle Prizes :
At least 10 gaming/Marvel t-shirts
2 x $20 gift certificates to Game Over Stores
Raffle Rules:
Provide a system or monitor - 1 raffle ticket for each component (in addition to venue fee discount)
For each entry into a tournament (excluding special events) = 1 ticket @ tournament for a max of 4 (tentatively) tickets.
Payouts and Bonuses
Again spektrum and sying are proud to bring back the 10% bonus pot. For all games with at least 10+ entrants we will be adding another 10% to the pot. So enter your friends, the more people that enter the bigger the pot! Payouts will be in the standard 60%/30%/10% for 1st, 2nd and 3rd respectively.
Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3
$20 Gift Card to Game Over Stores
Mortal Kombat
Copy of Mortal Kombat Kollectors Edition for PS3
Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike Online Edition
$20 Gift Card to Game Over Stores
Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition
$20 Gift Card to Game Over Stores
Be sure to check out the Jacksonville Fighting Game Group on facebook page and SRK thread where full results will be posted
Tally dropping in to say hi too.
This would be nice to see. Right now, our respective communities are diverse enough to where we each can do our thing, and seeing as everyone is 2-3 hours away, its certainly not out of the realm of possibility. The fact that Gville has ALWAYS shown love to Tally when it comes to tournaments, and that our main TO has family in Gville (aka, a place to chill) is a definite plus for our attendance, plus you’ve got some killers who most of us want to jump on, name Philpro in Marvel and Petey in AE, while we’ve got old schoolers who can play whatever (ST, MvC2, 3S, BB, MB, GG, Tekken, etc), so there’s really no reason not to try to organize something. As long as its convenient (weekend), you really should have no problems pulling in the N. FL crowd now that we are all getting competitively connected, largely due to our TOs putting in work.
cant make it tonight due to overhaul of grad work 
Looks like I’m not going to be able to make it up again =\
Goddammit, fuck SRK for not notifying me for thread updates.
Shit like this is what I’ve been talking about! Make this happen.
Yo Gville!
I just want to let you guys know that I’m hosting a tournament up here on Dec. 3rd!!!
Details are on the facebook event page!
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=212548025482907!
There is a 150 dollar pot bonus for AE and UMvC3!
We will also have KoFXIII and MK!
Dec. 3rd!
Doors Open at 11, Sign Ups at 12, First tournament at 1 at
EPIC Comics
570 N Alafaya Trl, Building C, Suite 106!
Someone bring Hamilton’s scrubby ass Ken over here, i miss that lil’ nigga!!!
Thanks for the announcement Raf.
EDIT: oh shit KOFXIII is there. I might just HAVE TO go… and it’s in Orlando.
Just a reminder for anyone coming to Ocala Friday for my tournament, pre-register here to save $2 off your door fee or bring a set-up but run it by me first. I know Matt will be one of my guys for this.
And I plan on running a $5 tournament for AE in hopes the $5 entry will get more people to enter.
I hate finals (especially on release week of UMvC3) since I have to do so much here for grad school
sorry if anyone has been bringing or playing Tekken and me not being there (even today) cuz it’s nearing the end of the school year and crunch time is at an all time high.
Will KoFXIII be present next week? I’m holding off from buying but if anyone brings it and I like it, I might get.