I just wanted to introduce myself , I am Paul CEO of Big City tourneys in Ohio I hold monthly tournaments for Madden, SF4, ROCKBAND, 2K9.
I’ve been doing this about 2 yrs (mostly Madden) I am named the number 4th place in the Nation in hold tourneys in Ohio.
I am a big SF fan and play if often,I am holding my very first SF4 tourney this Sunday April 19th at 12:30 at our sponsors facility Rush creek Sports bar & grill which is open to all.
I know most of you are thinking “oh whos this guy some joker thinking he can runs tourneys” and I totally respect that b/c I am new to your scene.But all I ask is you come check us out one time before you judge.Let me show you guys (SF community)
That I know what I am doing and I’m very willing to take suggestions to make it better for YOU!
I have setup the rules to my tourney on this link :http://www.bigcitytourney.com/strf.html along with the address to Rush creek
Players can use their custom joysticks or controllers.
There will be a 10$ entry fee
Double elimination
4/5 rounds (so double your chances double your time)
Guys can you use same char vs same char
You can choose a new character once you have lost , you MUST use same char if you win.
99 second rounds
No handicap
Winner gets 60% of the pot
2nd get 30%
10% goes to venue
I hope to meet all of you SF legends!
Please give me your feedback we are more then willing to change things around to try to please the majority of you lol
personally I’d rather have it 2 out of 3 games 2/3 rounds instead of single games 4/5 rounds but I’m fine with how it is. $10 is a good price since it was $25 before?
Me and some friends are thinking about going. Though, we all play on PS3’s and don’t really have the cash to drop on 360 sticks so… not sure how we’ll manage yet.
4/5 rounds will take foreeeeeeeeever double elim, and nobody plays like that anyway, I’d advise just keeping 2/3 too.
Also tourneys usually just do a venue fee and let the players split the pot 70/20/10. I can’t think of any places that take a venue fee + part of the pot.
Sorry to offer the nitpicks first – it’s very good for the scene to have new people involve willing to run stuff, glad you posted, and your other rules are fair and dead on. SFIV is pretty big so this is a good idea to do, hope it works out for you and the staff. Hopefully this kind of thing will attract new people too, since it’s focused solely on SFIV and not a bunch of other games the average person doesn’t know about
I think he meant best 3/5 now that I think about it.
I reread the rules. So it’s single game and you have to keep the same character throughout the bracket? So you can only change character if you got sent to losers bracket? Usually you’re only force to keep the same character if it’s 2/3 games per match. It’s to avoid any double counter character matchups.
Sup Ed! this is henry lol. i’ll be there with few of my buddies. it’s gonna be pretty decent tourney. hopefully there will be a large turnout, even if the notice is kinda short.
u guys crack me up , lol did u checkout the website man? the website says its at RUSHCREEK lol not hooters , we use to hold them at Hooters but we out grew them so we had to move to a much bigger place.
Come judge the food for yourself man see you sunday i hope
EDIT: So the tournament was today. 12 people showed up. It was pretty fun, and the comp was pretty good for the area.
Some suggestions, though;
-Use standard TVs. The projection screens made it difficult to play, both due to delay and the fact that the screen was so far away.
-Unmute the game. It was hard to play without sound.
-Rock Band 2. It was frustrating having to hear a 12 year old’s rendition of “All The Small Things” blaring in my ear as I was playing my match.
Besides that it was a pretty fun event. A lot of us intend to continue supporting the tournament, so keep them coming and we’ll do our best to spread the word.
Definitely agree with the projector lag. Other than that, it was a fun event. If you can figure out some dual video output thing so we have a tv for the players to play on w/o lag and then the projector for the audience, that would be ideal. If you can only have one or the other, it’t probably be best to go with the TV.
