How long do you think they’d take?
What I really meant to say is that I don’t think the results will change significantly if we go one way or the other. But just for the record, I vote for sticking to one character per tournament. What is your preference?
Mandel: Personally, I think having a small payout at each tournament would be better. For example, split HALF of the entry fees for each tournament 70/20/10 on the spot, and keep the rest until the end when you’ll split it 70/20/10 among the season’s top 3
As far as 3s or ST goes, I think that people absolutely need to stick with a single character for the duration of a tournament. If nothing else, this is how most tournaments do it. Conforming to the standard will give participants better experience if the purpose of the ranbats is indeed to prepare for EVO.
For those who have never taken part (or read about) ranbats before, please know that sometimes the entry fee per event can be as low as one or two dollars. The cash pot at the end of a season is meant more as a pat on the back. The reason people participate is really just to get exposure to an environment. If the entry fee is minimal, it encourages more people to play. It would also defeat the purpose of payouts at events, since so little was put into it.
Another thing of note would be that many ranbats seasons run one (perhaps more) event a week. The benefit, again, is to provide players with practice. This also gives the weaker players the illusion that if they attend more events, that they’d have a chance of placing higher. Though the reality is that people who show up for just over half of the events and win end up taking it anyway.
ill show up for every ST ranbat there to the best of my ability…id love to do Neo Geo Battle Coliseum ranbats since thats also being played around the country, as long as people are open to it.
If these things start going by March I may as well integrate my tourney as the first ranbat of the season no? I think that would be a good idea, a big tourney + the grand opening of the WA ranbats. lol
EDIT: Oh yeah, ST would we be doing it for Anniversary Collection Uber-Broken ST, Arcade perfect Capcom classics collection ST, SNES ST, or a Arcade machine? lol
Well assuming we have any ST ranking battles (or any period) it would be on the cabinet I would hope. Why play possibly inferior versions??
how many people? we can just switch my ST board to the main/better cab
There seems to be more interest in 3S for… ranking battles… so maybe that should be on the cab instead once Zach gets his hardware. We all love ST but there’s a lot more interest in running this for Marvel and 3S.
I’m beginning to think I probably should’ve like made a poll with each respective game to see how many people would wanna enter each. So I guess I’ll put down which games I’d enter…
COUNT MANDEL IN FOR!!!
-Marvel
-3S
-ST
can we get a WoW arena ranbat?
Can we get someone to ban you?
Jeff, that’s too sick…
I’d play 3S and CVS2 (longshot but hey).
It’d be dope to do this for poker too, kind of like CardPlayer’s Player of the Year system. Except since our tournaments always pay top 3 it would be a lot less complicated… maybe we could even give points for top 5 due to the random nature of this tournament once the blinds are real high and getting that far is a feat in itself.
I’d be up for going down there for some 3S, I’d be able to bring some other players too.
I’d enter anything that’s 2D and not Melty Blood or made by SNK.
if mack and i could get rides, we’d probably be down.
I figure if we were to have these at every Zach event, these events would most likely take up the better part of the event. I suppose the real question would be…are people willing to sacrifice poker for tourneys/ranking battles?? I wonder if we can run Marvel/3S at the sametime and STILL have a poker tourney. Somethin to see I guess.
I think we can do both, we just have to start one early. It just means that people have to try to show up before 10pm now… like when we used to do 2 poker tournaments starting at 8 or 9pm.
From what i read so far! I agree with most of…let’s do some type of beta testing for the ranbat before any for sure plans are made…
if we could get a ride, i’m glad to let tajiri help pay for gas rofl.