I would help and totally want to get into something like that, but I got no money for headsets. Just wasted some cash on a new stick, since my old one pretty much died on me after 6 years of abuse.
Also, I think its a separate tournament for PSN and 360.
This, I don’t have a way of doing tournaments for PSN directly. I COULD manage the bracket with people reporting in the results. Depends on what you guys on psn think would work best. I have 360 so I can be more proactive for the live users.
I was thinking of using IRC for reporting and chatting, you guys ok with that? Maybe like #sxtchat. I would use EFNET. For anyone with no experience with IRC, www.efnet.org is really easy to use. Just pick a user name and put the title of the room on the left hand side, you will connect to the room automatically, it is web-based.
There already is a chatroom for xT on Efnet, sure you can use it for the tournaments;
Perfect! So that takes care of communication. I guess we just need sign ups now as long as everyone is cool with the rules. I saw two players from europe want to enter as well, feel free guys. If the connections are bad though, then we will have to work something else out for you guys.
2nd post updated with tournament information and rules. I don’t know how many tournaments are in the series yet but, more stuff to figure out as we go along lol. Now I need to get up with Jibbo to see if he can record top 8 for us.
JiBbo is out of town 'till the end of August, guess you can contact Ryan Hunter if you want to get it started this weekend.
As for PSN, anyone have a way to record that?
I can record the PSN matches for you. I have my PS3 all set up to record with a capture card and I can put it out as 720p 30fps. I should also be able to start this weekend, with proper notice.
One question though, are we going to make a channel on Youtube to put these on or are we going to use someone’s existing channel.
I could make a new youtube if we need it and give the password to our main uploaders if necessary.
That would be nice. I think we need that dedicated place to show off SFxT. And, as I said, I’m up for running the PSN tournament if you want me to.
Sure, sounds good to me. Any help to get this moving is much appreciated. I suppose the best way for us to run this is to use Challonge and the IRC. Should be realitively simple. I know some people want to see top 8 games in vids, I would prefer top 3 just for speeds sake but, it may not be as big of a deal as I am thinking. Depending on the numbers it should be pretty straight forward to run all the matches we can at once to top 8 and then start recording from there. We can try it for this first tournament and if it bogs everything down, maybe we can just switch to top 3 recorded.
I can record all the matches and put up top 3 and 8 first before getting around to the rest of them. Trust me, I have about 413 hours of space left to record into and I have the time to do all the work of encoding and uploading. Since it will be recording from my PS3, it shouldn’t affect the people who are playing
Thing is that it is going to slow down the overall process because you have to be present for every match to record it.That would slow down the tournament considerably. If we are doing tournament online, might as well take care of the few advantages it has over offline with us having “unlimited” set ups to run everything concurrently allowing for the tournament to flow as fast/smooth as possible.
No, i was thinking like they only show the games at the one set up on the stream. I show all the games I can catch and make sure I’m there for top 8 and most definitively top 3
Oh, word. That is perfect then, sounds like a plan.
Do you think we should allow teams as an OPTION? It could be interesting with the right cultivation, instead of everyone scrambling to find partners.
Well, I think it should be open to people to choose, If they have been practicing as a team, that is them at their best, if someone’s been practicing alone, that is them at their best. We want all of our competition at our best, so leave it open to bother single and teams
2v1 and 2v2:
I am torn on it but, if people want to do teams I will roll with it. I have gotten scrapped by cross assault combinations that are not possible with out use of a human partner + gems and the set up was combo’ed into :(. Either way, if you guys want to leave it open, so be it.
how about we try it this week and see how it goes
I am basically rolling with the majority anyways, if that is what people want then lets do it.