lol true, but how do the student rooms work and how do we book them?
Well if you’re a student at a university, you’ll have to go through paperwork and approval from your Student Union. If you’re not, you should find people who are willing to be liasons to your cause. When you become a said group, your student union should tell you what kind of perks you get as a student group, one should usually be booking rooms around campus.
Good luck with what you have to do to get this thing rolling. It’s unfortunate that you’ve run into a rut this quick, but with a bit of patience and some reorganizing, you can make it work. Go Prairie Provinces!!
Yo Shiro, how many people do you have going to your Edmonton events? Is it free-play or is it pretty structured?
How did you get enough setups to your venues? Maybe my expectations are too big. Do you just bring small TVs to these kinda things?
I think the roundrobin ranking matches where a good idea eldon, every played agaisnt everyone and was ranked depending on there win/loss ration. IMO, if people don’t want a seperate then the simple solution is that the 360 pad players will need to go on the PS3 controller. Also, of anyone here is willing to host a 16 person venue with multiple set-up’s now is the time to speak up.
In the begining (about 2 years ago) I’d run games on my ps2 and my roomates ps2 in a vacant apartment sweet. It was conveaniant since the building belonged to my friends father. I ran two tournaments out of that place. Then moved to my friends basement. Which he had 3 tv’s and i brought 2 and some random shit popped up. I’d ask people to bring setups and of cores more people started coming.
I then went to a bar and hosted a tournament out of it. (It helped that i knew the fella who owned the place. He had 3 tv’s available and i had a game store lend me 4 tv’s. After that we were getting to big that me and some friends decided to run a major tournament. It was a success and quite a few people came out.
Things really started to kick off when I asked to run the “games room” at a local anime convention and i got to meet more and more people.
When we got our site up and running last year around this time (more so December), I printed as many flyers telling about our site all over the city. I put them in pawn shops game stores (even placed some in EB game sand tapped some out side of it) Future shop, (same deal) I went to flee markets around my city and put flyers in all the spots that sold ANYTHING video games.
We now run our tournaments out of a Lan gaming center and have a weekly Street fighter 4 ranking battle. We’ve ran tournaments with driven (car show) animethon (3 years with them) and a few tournaments out of The Lan gaming joint we’re at now. All these tournaments rangend in numbers for sf4 from 30-45, brawl from 40-67, blazblue from 10-20 ( and stayed at ten lol)
We have 4 setups for pc and i still bring my 360 (and my ps2 now) to our weekly gatherings. All it really takes is lots of hard work. Edmonton’s scene (though not as big or nearly as great as other Canadians cities) continues to grow.
I’d love for Your guys city to grow the same way. There is always going to be stupid upsets, but that shit just happens. Every ranking battle we have or gathering, I’m always on my cell calling people constantly, asking if there coming or w/e. Trying to see if i can help them make their way there. Hell I’ve paid for people to enter tournaments, just because i knew they wanted to be in it and had no cash.
You guys can do all this to. Its not hard. Right now in Edmonton its me jinrai jpizzle vesper and Kururo organizing events and they are succeeding. You guys have brawl players, some blazblue players and some sf4 players. If your groups are really small, then don’t bother doing tournaments, just have casual sessions.
Try to get some footage of it and youtube that shit! Most people who play video games don’t realize that there are competive scenes in their city. But the more the word gets around about your scene the more your scene will grow. It doesn’t matter if its at some guys house or if its at a venue. All that matters is that the people who give a shit about playing can play.
And for fuck sakes get your ass’s to tournaments out side your city. You’ll get to see and play people at completly different levels of skill then what you have in your city. I’d be more than willing to house some of you cats if you came down to one of our tournaments (Just ask the brawl guys who came down last time).
What I had in mind when doing round robins was that it’d be more fun and competitive to see how well we are doing compared to other players in the scene. I don’t think it’s too late to include 360 in the mix as well. I can definitely double up that round robin table and we can do catch up matches.
The problem is…I don’t know if it’d be possible to have all these match all at the same venue or at the same time. People will have conflicting schedules, so people would have to do their own matches in their own time and let me or whoever’s organizing it know the results.
I don’t know if this is what people want for the community or if they would just prefer straight up casuals at every session. Personally I like how there’s ranking and stuff like that so that it makes people play their best in every match. So I think I will run the round robin regardless, but Xbox people are welcome to join.
Evo, would you contact the Xbox people and see if they’re down, or if they want to do something else.
Thanks for the info Shiro, and yes it does sound like a lot of work. Evo if you down for making it happen, I’ll see what I can do to help.
You could do both, run round robbins for those who want to do them and let the people who just want to play do so.
That’s exactly what I had in mind. But people took it as the SF community was getting torn in half.
Blame Rick for that, he said it like that.
Do pad-users actually care if they have to use a stick or another pad in a friendly bracket?
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I don’t…
Some people who are too use to one type of controller (ps3 or 360) make a fuss about it…
You guys should all learn stick, then there will be a little less of a problem
I’ve been up for this for a very long time, I’m trying to make it work so I have 1 final suggestion to accomodate everyone:
The only other solution is that everyon convert to the PS3, the PS3 pad is easiar to adapt to and I’m sure there are pleanty of PS3 stick users who can share there equipment with the 360 stick users. We can adopt the roundrobin ranking system we did on saturday, and from my count we have the combined total of 16 players.
Let them play on what ever they want to play on…
Its more about finding out who plays this game and where they are right now
Well, with my 360’s DVD drive on the fritz (it reads discs maybe 1/10 tries), I’m out for a while unless I play at someone’s place.
On the other side of things, I just finished doing early Christmas with my girlfriend (yeah, you read that right lol) to which I got her a PS3 and Little Big Planet. Maybe down the line I can get SF4 for it and play/practice on there, but that’s a long shot away. That or trying to find an old PS3 that isn’t limited to HD only (as the new ones cannot do component).
And by my ‘adapt’ comment earlier, I meant that everyone should be willing to compromise and play cross-platform. Yes, you may not be at your best, but 1 round on one console, 1 on the other, and a coin toss or agreeance for the 3rd round would be helpful. If PS3 truly is superior for pad players, then it’ll be the clear choice for the 3rd round.
In addition, I played Nate on the PS3 on Saturday because we both were pad and that was what was available. No complains–it was pretty close and pretty fun. I’ve used a PS3 a lot at my old job so it doesn’t matter to me overall; it’s just not FAIR to have the expectation for a player who only has a 360 to practice on to still be able to perform as well on a PS3 without owning one (and it’s not always a viable option to buy one, either).
Well I think order for use to keep our numbers high, we will just have to compromise confort and go with what is “fair”. It might hinder certain people but it’s the only real way to go about this, right now I am working on getting a game room at the university so everyone plz be sure to call me every friday to let me know if you can make it or not to our gatherings.
use one console. splitting up the community is a silly idea
The reason this “split” started is because certain people refuse to play on another platform for one reason another. Be it controller use (D-Pad or Joystick) or just general feel and familiarity, those lay the foundation for why whomever it is does not want to play on any other platform than their own. However, a valid point on this is the lack of time to practice and thus become familiar with the other platform depending on whether or not you have it available. Only thing that has the potential to remain roughly the same between both platforms are fight sticks, and only because of their general design (6 buttons and a real joystick).
As the last paragraph outlines, it’s simply not fair to condense everyone to a single platform; whomever had to convert to whichever side will have a learning curve and may never play as well as they do on their own. Especially when you take into consideration that the majority of practice is done at home, perhaps not with the platform of conversion.
Your scene isn’t big enough to split in half
but hey, do as you wish…
I’ll just watch and see how you guys do:smokin:
I know, I’ve been pointing that out for a while. Ask Rick. 
From my point of view splitting the group in half is silly. If these people really wanted to be competitive and play they would take the time and switch to the selected format. Our group here had the same kind of decision. We decided on ps3 cause we a good amount of us had sticks for ps2 already so we went with that. The people who didn’t have ps3 equipment adapted ps3 stuff. Cause they wanted to play. For me thats the important thing. If people don’t want to play on a different console cause they arn’t “comfortable” just shows they are lazy and don’t actually want to be competitive.
Just my 2 cents.