Me and a friend of mine would like to do some ranbats in our local area but we actually don’t know how Ranbats work! Can someone give a general tutorial for setting up a ranbat, how it works, and maybe general suggestions, accepted practices, tips for keeping track of info, and etc?
Thanks in advance!
Edit: Also can someone explain the 3S Ranbat looking thing that I see a lot on youtube where certain players are like -2, +0, +2 and etc? We might do something like that since it seems pretty interesting.
The Japan ranbats are played in ranks. Let’s say for now the ranks are 10th through 1st dan. For every new rank you will start at 0. The games will be done in a round robin format. You can only play people with the same rank. A loss gives you -1, and a win gives you +1. If you are 3 up in the rank, you will be promoted. If you are three down in the rank, you will be demoted. One entry is character-locked, but you are allowed multiple entries. If you have played Tekken the ranking system is vaguely similar to this.
It is rare to see this system outside Japanese arcade tournaments.
Divide up the entry fees dedicated towards venue, pot prize, and season prize. From the outset, define how long a 'season 'is for you. A ranbat is a series of tournaments, held in whatever style you’d like, that award points to the the top finishers. I.e., you give 1st place 10 points, 2nd place 5 points, 3rd place 2 points, etc etc. You divide the ‘pot prize’ amongst the winners. The points you accumulate it over the course of several tournaments, however long you decide to make it. At the end, the top finishers get the ‘season’ prize that you’ve accumulated throughout the course of the series, and divide it however you’d like. It’s usually nice to throw in an additional prize, like gift cards, or arcade parts, or something.
Not much tips for tracking info, just keep a simple database somewhere on your computer, and maybe a physical copy as well, and constantly update it after each tourney.