Something I look forward to every year, been going to FR since the holiday inn days. This is the one event you don’t wanna miss!
The good ol days!
REMEMBER that Early Bird registration for FINAL ROUND 16 ends after NEC13 this weekend! Please goto http://www.finalround.org/register.cfm to register today!
I would like to thank everyone that used the early bird special online registration. You helped our event with signing up early so we can properly start to make the pools in advance! MORE NEWS TO COME! FR16 will be the biggest and hypest FR to date! STAY TUNED SHAWTY!
SOUND THE HORN! The call for Volunteer’s for FINAL ROUND 16 is being made and you can be apart of the TRADITION that is called FINAL ROUND. Please fill out the info in the link below. Thank you for supporting FINAL ROUND 16.
http://www.finalround.org/volunteer.cfm
Hopefully everyone will be also E.
They will homie.
No love for BlazBlue at all this year? That’s a kill joy for me. =(
I’m still planning on make it out this year, we’ve got the money saved up! Coming down for P4U and possibly SCV. It’s gonna’ be great this year!
I see that SFxT has been added. Soooo…What made you decide to add it to the main game list? Was it v. 2013/Demand/sponsor willing to drop money in the pot?
lol i’m just interested, i’m still trying to fly out, i already have a place to stay if i do since Hatesboro is going in force again this year, i might actually be able to make it, and i will be entering UMvC3 TTT2 SF4 SFxT and probably a few others as well as marvel teams…anyway i’m just going to be a pot monster and play for some community points if i do fly out…things are looking really well for me coming ^-^
This will be crazy HYPE your NOT going to want to miss FR16.
First major tournament. Can’t wait.
you should be hype, its not just any major, its FINAL ROUND !!!
also i was checking flights for the weekend, only gonna be like 1300, the likely hood of me flying 25 hours to be here, just keeps getting better
Would it be possible to run Marvel on 360, by any chance? I know you probably don’t want to add another logistical hurdle when you already know that you have enough PS3s, but it seems most of the GA/AL/FL guys I play with use and prefer 360 anyway and would be willing to donate equipment.
I expected pools to be 2 out of 3 at the very least because it’s a herculean effort to keep FR running on time as it is, but also going back to PS3 when 3/5 on 360 has been the standard at most other places for a while is kind of a drag.
this isn’t going to happen lol it would be nice, but its definitely not worth the trouble having to setup another console for just 1 game…
guess i’m going to go to the arcade and start practicing AE, i finally found a arcade with AE 2012 and ironically its right below the place i just got a job at that might be paying for this $1300 flight XD
This 16 man pool system is based on getting pools completed in a certain amount of time. Adding more rounds earlier in the pools will add more time to the event. Adding time to something is not my aim. We at FINAL ROUND will do our best to run everything in a timely manner as long as the players make sure they are in their pools on time. With this evo pool system we should run on time for each tournament. People that Emergency register at the door WILL NOT BE SEED PERIOD! They will be thrown into a pool were they can fit in without trying to seed them at all. The pre made pools will be post pools 3 days before the event.
FINAL ROUND has always been a Playstation event just like Evo has been. We would also like to thank BigE Gaming and ECT for Donating a gang of set up’s (PS3’s and asus evo monitors) for FR16. We are working with each other for the better of the East Coast scene.
If you haven’t reserved your hotel room under the FINAL ROUND group please goto the following link to secure your room during FR 16 at:
https://resweb.passkey.com/Resweb.do?mode=welcome_ei_new&eventID=9735526
The Hilton @ Atlanta Airport has a inside heated pool, a nice resturant, a full Sports bar, coffee spot, and a barbershop in the hotel for FR16. So if players want to get a nice hair cut before they step on to the top 8 stage they can get it done in the hotel! What event can you get a hair cut at inside the venue?!?!?!?!? None that i’ve heard of, but that’s one of the things you can enjoy while being at the venue for FR16 besides the event itself.
Don’t wait too late to get your rooms because they are starting to go quickly. You don’t want to have to search for a hotel last minute and have to get up earlier just to walk or ride a cab to the tournament venue because all the rooms are sold out? Of course you don’t, so get your rooms today! See you guys in 104 days! HYPE!
Hey Shinblanka,
Utah crew will be up here for third year straight. Always a lovely time. Is this the same ballroom as 2011 or did you get a bigger one? After least year, you guys are gonna need a lot of space. This is one of the best tourneys to go to folks. . .can’t wait to see who comes from Japan for Tekken, Marvel, and SF4. See ya soon.
had
Yes this is the same venue we had in 2011, but we’ll have 2 other ballrooms in that same area to equal 12,000 sqft in total tournament area space. It’s always good to have Utahs best come to the EC and compete in FR16. There’s some more news to come for FR16 in the up coming weeks so stay tuned! With last year event having 400+ in ssf4 and umvc3 we are planning for 512 in each of those games and at least 300 players in TTT2. That’s why we have to goto the keits/Evo 16 man pool system for FR16 to control the crowds and run things on time. Our goal is to complete everything on time this year, so people will have more time to enjoy the event and the city.
Online registration is the key to getting everything done in a timely manner. We urge everyone register online for their badges and games asap, so we can properly make the pools in advance and post them 3-7 days prior to the event date. If you do the emergency registration at the door you’ll only have a 4 hour window on thursday evening (7pm-11pm) and friday morning (8am-12noon) to register for tournaments during the event and you WILL NOT BE SEEDED IN ANYWAY! You’ll be placed in the 1st available spot in the pools and no effort will be used to seed you by skill level or by city/state. Door registration is one of the main reasons why any event start late IMO. I was going to eliminate at the door registration at this event, but I do understand that it’s hard out there these days and sometimes people don’t have the money to attend until the last minute.
IF that happens and your only option is to sign up at the event at least you have a chance to compete, but we will not remake/reseed the brackets/pools for anyone that signs up late. The pools will start on time. We can’t hold up the pools to reseed them for those that didn’t register online. So we at FINAL ROUND are asking everyone that seriously plan to attend FR16 to use the online registration to help us run a smooth event. It not only helps us make the pools well in advance, but it’s also cheaper to sign up online than at the door. (online reg = $40 and at the door emergency reg = $50) We hope to see everyone that came last year at FR16. Thank you guys for your continued support and i’ll see you in March!
We already have 2 players from Israel to sign up for FR 16 in SSF4 AE ver2013! I can’t wait to see who all attends FR16 and where they are from! FR is truly becoming an international event! Man march can’t get here any sooner! HYPE SON HYPE!
Would it be possible to configure the PS3s to be headset-ready before pools begin? Most of the headsets I’m familiar with use the optical audio jack, and this is disabled by default on PS3. In order to turn it on, you have to completely exit the game you’re playing, go into audio settings, turn on “audio multi-out” (or something like that), and then start the game back up. It takes a fair bit of time to do unless you get it out of the way when you first power on the system, and I always feel like an asshole when I have to stop a tournament in its tracks to do this. So I wanted to bring up the possibility of getting this out of the way right when everything starts up for the day.
I’ll look into this.