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Sorry Brent!
been absent.
I checked my PM’s. Hit me up when you get this?
So I think the timeline needs to look a little something like this if we want it to all go off smoothly. It’s not set in stone, but this would generally make the whole tournament easier to plan and a lot better.
I am going to try to put this on a calendar or something. With dates and junk. Yeah, I’m tired. ~_~
Timeline for Northwest Majors
Things that need to happen within the next two-three weeks.
-*** Get a Logo Designed***- This needs to happen within three weeks and two would be best. We need a logo to put on the website, flyers, posters and other things, so it is important to get done soon so we can start advertising. I am working with someone on this.
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Set-up Website with Possible Pre-Registration- Can someone do this? Needs to happen within three weeks or so, and within at least a week of when we start to advertise so that we can put the website on flyers and actually have it up.
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Finalize Games- We should decide on the number of games we should have (6 or 7), and if 6, which game we are leaving out. This will help because then we can advertise for sure which games are going to be in and out. And there is really no reason why we shouldn’t be able to decide soon anyway.
Stuff that gets done over the next three months
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Advertise- Needs to start at least 2 months before the event happens.
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Raise Funds- This needs to start right away and is going to take the help of everyone working together. Lots of ways to go about this.
Stuff to start on a month before the tourney date
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Figure Out What Equipment is Needed- A month will give us enough time to find everything, figure out what we will have more trouble getting, and order anything special we need. We should collect and label it all the day before the event instead of relying on people to bring it just to be safe.
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Decide on Payout for Tournament Winners- Not a huge issue, unless we decide to take a small percentage (5% maybe) to help pay for the room.
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Decide on Tourney Brackets- Anyone want to work on this? Good to do ahead of time. Also good to figure out how people will know when their turn is coming up. We could project the brackets on a screen… or something. Tired.
Sorry, I type a lot when I get tired. I can’t think in short sentences anymore.
I think the main tourney for ST could go into a big pot for the room, and after 2 more mikados, we can give Preppy a sweet $100 or so and then the Mikados can go to the room as well.
If we get 20 entrants for ST main, and say, 15 for the Mikado, that would be $35 every two weeks, $70 a month until tournament time right there.
Though I REALLY liked getting a net profit of 60 cents last time for winning third place, I’m willing to be the bigger man and donate to the major. :tup:
I still advocate using software for this, as that way, it’s easy to set up, easy to run, and can be both seeded and geographically separated fairly easily as well.
That would be awesome and would help out a ton. If no one minds, that would go a long way towards helping pay for the room.
There is a humungus screen in the center of the room that we could project the brakets onto where everyone could see from anywhere in the room. Is there some kind of software or program that makes that really easy. I have seen someone use it before.
I could do this, are we going to force advance payment through paypal or something?
I’m sure we could set up advance payment, but I’d suggest leaving both options open. And bring a lock-box, people.
If I can get enough sticks made in time, is it alright if I sell customs there? I can give a percentage of profit to help pay for the venue.
That would be awesome. Thanks Axel.
I don’t know about force, but giving people the option, and maybe some kind of incentive, would definetly help us. And their are all the other benefits of having a website, like just having a place for general info.
I don’t know anything about paypal or how hard it is to set it up, so I don’t know how we should handle that.
That all depends on UW rules for reserving the room. If we get funding from the school to pay for it, I don’t think they would allow an outside vendor to come in and sell at a Student Funded event.
But if we just pay the whole 600-700 ourselves, then I think we have a lot more freedom to do whatever we want. Whether or not we can get the school to pay for it should be figured out within a week or two.
Maybe we could offer a discount for advance payments?
Let me know the details once you know them, I’ll get the framework going in the next few days
That brings up a good question. How much do you guys think we should charge for entry into each games tourney? Charging too much could discourage people from entering more then one game, but charging too little could cause people to enter too many tourneys that they aren’t serious about, and we could end up running extremely long.
I am hoping for an attendance of 100 to 150 people ideally, so we should keep those numbers in mind when deciding, but there is no telling how many we will actually get. 200 could possibly cause some problems.
$10 per game, save Smash. If Smash is included, make them pay $15 or $20. If attendance for Smash is expected to eclipse all other games, that group should be expected to foot more of the bill. Since that event would most likely burn up far more of the event’s time, it’s only fair that the cost of running the event fall more on their shoulders.
You don’t necessarily need to give discounts for pre-registration. Many fighting game tournaments in the past have simply featured a fixed cap on the number of attendees (some power of 2 to fill whatever bracket is being used) per event. Pre-registering AND paying would simply ensure that your spot in the bracket is reserved. Just an idea.
Fuck smash, but yes $10 a game should be good.
Problem with that is… if we DO cap it, that’s throwing away attendance, which means money for pot/venue.
Maybe just seed people who don’t pre-reg randomly or low. That way there’s incentive (at least for the good players) to register.
you should make smash the headliner and post this shit on some MLG website or whatever and take a cut of smash pot and give it to st pot haha!
Fixed that for ya.
just because your older brother is a shitty guile clone doesn’t mean the pot goes to guilty gear
:lovin:
Now I’m really confused…
I am reserving the room for sure tommorow (supposed to be today but I wanted to write this). After that we are locked in, and the event is happening no matter what. I didn’t get a lot of feedback when I asked last time, so I wanted to ask again one last time to be sure.
Is there anything I am missing or overlooking that makes this day a bad day to hold the tournament? The day is a Saturday. It isn’t the weekend after Zach’s so no one should be tired? It is after midterms for UW and and 2 weeks before finals. It probably going to be good weather since it is in May, and that is just a bonus. There are no national holidays on or around it. Anyone taking the day off to commemorate Bob Dylan’s birthday and thinks others will do the same?
I think this is a good date and we should go with it, but if anyone knows any glaring reason why it won’t work, post up. The only other date that would work would be in late June, but that may conflict with Evo qualifiers and the PDX tourney, (although that is looking eerily quiet).
If I don’t hear anything, I am going to reserve tommorow and the date is on. :woot:
like I said. If you guys do one we probably won’t. To give people a break on entry fees and such. It’ll be good for your tournament to have all the thunder.