Hellsap, all tournament have their bad sides even if its a multi day and one day tournament, there always someone who doesnt show up in either. Now stop complaining and lets play our match. give me a time or look for me in the servers.
…so what happened. Did this tourney actually happen or what?
If i’d come earlier i wouldnt have entered since im in uk and lag would made huge impact seeing all you are in US (assuming).
But i am a frequent alhpa 3 player and have been itching to join a tourney 
I wish i was in us.
Easier to point fingers than come up with a solution. Its practically impossible to get a whole bunch of people who don’t have frequent contact to finish a tournament in one day. If you have a better idea I’d like to hear it as 1) I can’t even find my own opponent, and 2) a lot of people can’t find their opponents at all. Having immediate DQs would simply make this a 6 man tournament which would make it worthless
I don’t think he’s pointing fingers, just stating the truth. I’ve been in a couple 1-day kaillera tournies and they worked fine. All you gotta do is make sure that everyone exchanges AIM sreen names and everyone be online at a certain time. There was this one site where this guy had a pretty good system to run the tournies. give everyone 15 min. to find their partner for their match. If one doesn’t show up, DQ him. It really is not that hard.
tell everyone to show up in an irc chan the day of the tourney
Any open spots left? If so, I’m in. I’ll likely get owned hard, but I might make nice warm-up material for someone. I’ll email you in a minute.
Which emulator’s being used anyway? The best one (Kawaks) or the common one (MAME)? My vote goes to Kawaks, better interface and easier configuration.
Ok, some solutions.
- Set a hard time and date, preferably a few weeks in advance.
- Ask around, try to get people that you play to ask around and enter as well.
- Get AIM sns and create a chatroom, or have everyone meet on mIRC. You can create your own channel in IRC instantly, and you can make that the official tourney channel etc.
- Ignore people that say its a bad date for them. If they won’t make the effort to show up at a certain time, they’ll never show up anyway.
- Ignore people that say multiday tournies are better. They are not.
- Remain confident that people will actually show up, and then on the tourney date make the brackets after people get in there.
- Make an emphasis to start the tourney on time/have a cutoff time for entry. If people come in before the first round ends, you might be able to add late entries, but that decision is yours as the tourney organizer.
- Don’t bother having a hard cap for entry. If you do have one, make it a higher number than 15.
- Have an official emu and version. You’ve already done this one.
- Don’t worry too much about the turnout. Since this is the first tourney, you’re more concerned on getting the name out. You’d be surprised if you just gave it some time who might turn up. Since winter vacation is coming up, I’ll see if I can get anyone, that is, if you really are serious about running it.
And lastly, this isn’t really tourney specific, but I think A3 is unplayable online without atleast Excellent connection rating. I tried playing someone yesterday with Good, and I couldn’t DP lame jumpins that Id see coming a mile away. I have really good DP ability in the arcades and in excellent, on good I cant do anything. The guy I was playing, I beat him 2 matches and was winning the third, and then it lost connects and he claims I did it on purpose to avoid losing. Funny, he didnt win a match and was losing that one. I didn’t feel like continuing with stupid delay. I hadn’t touched kaillera for months, and only played a few matches at CTF on A3 in those months. Meanwhile I’m listening to this guy act like he’s some God. I mention this because you actually said this guy was good, but I won’t name names. Just a bit annoyed enough to rant about it though.
Kaillera really does suck though. I’m only interested in playing people I already know are ‘good’ and I don’t mean only on kaillera good. Stupid shit works online that won’t work in real life, or is way more effective. People use macros and turbo. It’s not really a problem when you play with people that play similar to how they play in real life, but when people play a kaillera style it becomes stupid because it won’t help you in real matches.
The KOF tourney will probably work because we had a decent community several years ago. Almost everyone that played back then also played heavily in arcades, and they bought this arcade style back to kaillera. Its not the same, but its certainly closer than learning on kaillera. I’m not sure if A3 really has this on kaillera. The emu sucks now and I think kaillera itself went down in quality. I kind of want to go back to the old emu and make that the standard again. I don’t see it happenning though.
if you wanna win the tourney, follow these simple rules. pick chun and hit lk or pick gief and do his body splash. game over, you win.
ps: almost forgot, you can pick sak and birdie too and do the same thing
Thank you for a well thought out response. I expected it from you though :). Anyhow, it was AENIMA who had that site that organized tourneys a while back but even he had headaches depsite having extensive planning. Also I hate giving out my AIM b/c not to sound too full of myself, but people are always asking me for tips on how to play, and frankly I can’t help them.
P.S. Gief splash X n does own most people on Kal
yeah that’s the guy, aenima. IMO he had a pretty good system. I think you should be strict about the rules. BE ON TIME. give people there 15 min. to play find their opponent. IF they don’t show up, then they get DQ’d. As for the aim thing, just make up a new screenname for the tourney.
Damn people complain way too much. All I see is people bitching about the tournament and yet they arent even putting an effort to play their matches. I bet no one even pm’d or emailed their opponents yet. Ive already had my match by private messaging my first opponent and I pm’d my next opponent as well. All you people who are still in round one, you guys need to stop crying like little babies and start looking for your opponents if you want to finish this tournament. And to the people who are still bitching, then just forfeit and thats that.
Still no said date?