2 hours sounds pretty good if your okay with me coming that late. I get out of work at 5 (rarely ever happens)
Yeah its fine with me.
Or you could just quit your job. Jobs are for losers.
So, I live near Gainesville and want to participate in MvC3 tourneys.
What are my options?
Short answer: Just start coming to casual meet ups.
Long answer: Our scene is really small but we usually do our best to make it out to a couple local majors and whenever the tallahassee boys visit.
lol Rob, there’s no such thing as local majors. Or, at least until CEO in July.
But yeah, be on the lookout for this thread since we usually find out about the meetups here.
Patrick, I don’t think we should give up on the Lollicup idea yet, I mean, obviously we’re not taking over Wednesday Karaoke but some other day might work. Except for the monitor, it was screwing me up and I could’ve scored so much higher if there wasn’t lag.
Yeah that’s what I was referring to. That and final round. There’s no weekly ranbats or anything like that going on.
Well I’d be fine bringing my own monitor and 360 to Lollicup. Its the EVO lagless Asus monitor. Weekly ranbats? Sounds like a lollicup idea, or we could just hold small tourneys. Idk whether its better to go alone and ask or bring people with me to show I’m not some crazy guy alone trying to start this? I’m not really sure where to start haha
If you guys are going to start random battles, I suggest putting up signs around campus and Gainesville to see if there is interest. Or hell, be a loser like me and go to the public library events when Marvel shows up. :lol: Even if it’s 12 year old kids, you’d be planting the seed of the fighting game community in Gainesville. Who knows, you may get a bunch more interest than just SRK posters alone.
I’d definitely show up for Random Battles if you guys had a set date and time. As it is, casuals at like Rob’s is random and never a sure thing.
Anyway, as for “bringing people” I wouldn’t see the harm. If they have interest, bring them. They may actually be able to kill me, the shitty fighting game player, and feel good enough to go the next time. 
Wait, ranbats Rob? We should totally start a Gainesville ranbat season of Marvel and Super… not hard to keep track of points considering were at ~10 people at most.
Pat see, Petey and I could’ve done it yesterday but we kinda missed out. lol
EDIT: Tieher(sorry, I don’t remember your name…), we really could start advertising Marvel. Even if it’s to get people who are new to FGs to play. I noticed more people playing MvC2 at the Reitz (lol) and this guy setup a Marvel table at the Ubisoft event line they had on Tuesday (though the Xbox couldn’t read the disk, lol).
I would love to do ranbats, but you really can’t do it without at least 8 people. The most I’ve ever had at my place is 9. Attendance is never consistent, and I can’t even commit to hosting every weekend.
That said, I would love to do ranbats. Getting a local place to host us would be great too since it would put out some visibility.
This is obviously all Van’s fault.
I would love to do ranbats, but you really can’t do it without at least 8 people. The most I’ve ever had at my place is 9. Attendance is never consistent, and I can’t even commit to hosting every weekend.
That said, I would love to do ranbats. Getting a local place to host us would be great too since it would put out some visibility.
This is obviously all Van’s fault.
There was an Ubisoft event? googles Huh, an Ubisoft UF group. Never knew about that. I could use checking out Ass Creed’s multiplayer. shrug
Anyway, yeah, if you guys really do want to get serious about growing the scene around here print flyers and get a venue. If there’s interest, people will come, surely. I mean, it may not be as popular as Call of Duty/et. al. shooters… but if seven 10-15 year old kids showed up at the library, surely there is some college-age and adult-aged people around that would play?
Here’s the thing: venues cost money. Most places won’t let us just come in and set up shop without them getting anything in return. Usually that comes in the form of cover charges for entrants.
There was recently a great article on the srk front page here: Shoryuken - Console Combat - Creating a Local Scene
It seems like a great model to follow, but as of right now I don’t think we’re big enough for a regular venue just yet.
Unless you dudes can convince lollicup to host our dumbasses for free.
Most relevant post of the thread.
If this ever takes off we just need to settle on the type of tournament and scoring too.
EDIT: Rob, Patrick (I’m assuming) and I are already customers there. I mean, as long as we bring in some revenue for them on a middle-of-the-week night we should be ok…
EDIT 2: that’s how the smaller Orlando tournaments usually roll anyway. They tried that with Marvel at comic shops but only casuals bought the comics lol.
“12 year old kids” and “planting the seed” dont belong in the same sentence
I was going to make the same joke, but then I decided not to.
Stay classy petey!
Oh, one more thing. We could split the entry fee so a part of it goes to Lollicup or whatever venue we pick, so the owners of the place don’t have to get mad at Petey for being a loud scrub (scaring customers away) and not paying for shit (as usual). Just a possibility.
Yeah this is something that we should suggest when we talk to them. Have part of the entry fee go to the pot and part to the venue.
yeah, I’m a customer there alot. Royal Milk Tea with Boba is just too good.
But giving them some of the entry fee is a great idea. I also know that I would be buying Tea and a cookie every time we played there.
Well, that’s true. But first you need to find players that are willing to even show up first. 8-10 players probably won’t go over so well at venues that you pick given the small size/money cost for it.
… Not everyone thinks the way you do, Petey. But keep thinking of diddling little kids when someone writes about growing the community, man.