Organizer: PSN: TitanArch / shoryuken.com: Titan Arch / forums.sirlin.net: TitanArch
Date: Thursday September 2nd 2010
Time: 11PM Eastern, 10PM Central, 9PM Mountain, 8PM Pacific.
BRACKET: PSN SSF2T HDR 9/2/2010
NOTE: It’s your responsibility to know the rules. Don’t sign up if you can’t remember them.
Format: Double elimination bracket. 8 player minimum, 16 player maximum.
Matches: Best-of-three 3-round games. Winner’s/Grand finals: best-of-five 3-round games.
Restrictions: Winner sticks to character. No Akuma. No turbo. No handicaps.
Signups: North America only, please. Specify PSN Gamertag. Closes one hour prior to start. I’ll keep track of no shows!
Reminders: I will send reminders via private message one day prior to the event.
Tournament Chat: I’ll invite you to a PSN text chat room (SRK Tourney).
Seeding: I’ll probably create four flights, A-D, and then randomly assign players within the flight.
Flight A gets seeds 1-4, B 5-8, D 9-12, and D 13-16, respectively.
Tournament Entries PSN (SRK)
- TitanArch (Titan Arch)
- RugalBernstein (Mithos)
- welcome2troyland (Sweet Poison)
- ktm0066 (ktm0066)
- GNX84 (GNX84)
- RenoMD (Reno K)
- Lord_Kakaloto (Wion)
- King-Sun (King-Sun)
- flako2nd (flako2nd)
- Cauldrath (Cauldrath)
- djreign78 (~Reign~)
- HAD0-KING (HAD0-KING)
- madpossum (mad possum)
- rice247 (rice247)
- ZKuneDo (ZKuneDo)
- TheBludgeon (Cheap_Scrub)
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Tournament Timeline
T-60 minutes: Signups close.
T-30 minutes: Initial bracket posted.
T-15 minutes: Know the match format and protocol before the tournament starts!
T-5 minutes: Join PSN Text Chat or send me a private message via PSN (not on the forum!).
T-0 minutes: Official start. I’ll review the no show line up and make minor matchup changes. I don’t want to have BYEs go to those in the bottom half of the draw, so I may shift a few players to fill that gap.
T+5 minutes: No shows are bumped to Loser’s bracket. Do 1st round matches.
T+15 minutes: 1st round matches complete. No shows are DQd. Do 1st round in Loser’s & 2nd round in Winner’s.
The rest will just flow from who wins or loses, and whatever other problems crop up.
T+90 minutes: usually done by now.
The fine print…
Tournament Time Best Practices [TTBP]
- You must be online, attentive, and ready to play from the tournament time start until you are eliminated.
- I will invite you to a PSN Text Chat room for last minute adjustments, match announcements, and reporting match results. Everything goes much more smoothly if you join.
- To minimize delays, please do not play other games (HDR or otherwise) while you are still alive in the tournament.
- For bracket play, do not complete matches prior to tournament start.
- In the absence of a specific rule or guideline, the tournament organizer will use common sense (and so should the players).
Match Making Protocol [MMP]
- Contact your opponent(s) via PSN messages or text chat and determine who will host and invite.
- If the opponent does not respond, contact tournament organizer to begin 10-minute forfeit timer.
- Create a lobby with the required number of slots (all private), and invite the opponents. Be sure to use the correct round settings!
- If an opponent cannot connect to the host, try having the problem player create the lobby and send invites.
- If players still cannot connect, they must restart their PS3 System (not just exit the game) and retry steps 3 and 4.
- If a player still cannot establish a connection, contact tournament organizer who will create a lobby and invite the players.
- If one person can join and the other cannot, the bugged user unfortunately must forfeit. If both users cannot join then both users forfeit. There will be a 10 minute timer on this process.
- Note: Using invites for match making is not required, but it usually makes the process go more quickly. If you have problem using invites to join games, then the host should start the game as a public lobby. The joining player can use the lobby search filter feature to show only lobbies with the specified number of players (typically 2).
Character Selection Protocol [CSP]
- If the tournment signup specifies a player character list, each player must select a character from that list only. Restart the match or ignore the result if an invalid character is selected (the invalid character ought to stand by and get flogged!).
- For the first game in a match, each player must pick the first character from the signup list.
- For subsequent games, the prior game winner must pick same character and the prior game loser may change characters.
Results Reporting Protocol [RRP]
- Notify tournament organizer immediately after match conclusion.
- The preferred reporting location will be via PSN Text Chat or private mesasage (see TTBP #2).
- Match reporting requirements (match result, game result, round result) may vary by tournament format. Be sure to report the correct information.
- Incomplete results reporting can result in forfeit.
- Match results will be posted on SRK forum thread, or other web document as announced by tournament organizer.
Previous Tournaments
Monday December 21st 2009
Monday October 26th 2009
Thursday September 24th 2009
Monday September 7th 2009
Thursday August 20th 2009
Monday July 27th 2009
Monday July 20th 2009
