Hey DKL, are you going to the anime game night? I’ll be there with MaNoel tonight.
I was tied for last place at the BBCS tourney, but at least I was the first mentioned :tup:
Hopefully I do better at the TvC tourney, at least I have a bit more experience with that game.
Does anyone have any experience with tournaments? Any tips in general of how to prepare for them?
That said, I’ve never actually been in a tourney, so I wouldn’t know what to say except for CALM DOWN; I notice that, when I’m under a certain kind of pressure, I start screwing up combos…
Nice job with the sticks. A friend of mine modded his SE by adding fishing weights to it, now it’s heavier than a TE (Kinda feels better too)!
I’ve been to a couple tourneys, hopefully you can learn from my noob errors.
Before Tourney day:
*Stick with what you know! practice BnB combos, punishers, and any other tactics you plan to bring. avoid working on anything experimental that’s overly flashy or difficult to pull off under pressure
*Study and train on matchups against popular characters teams
*work on the bad matchups for your character/team
*in most TvC tourneys, the giant/boss type characters are legal, be ready for them!
*mentally prepare for popular playstyles and mixups
*test any sticks you plan to bring
*pack everything you need the day before
Tourney day
*Eat a good meal/breakfast
*Arrive early
*Play plenty of casuals prior to start of tourney to get used to the setups and to make sure you’re on point.
*Chill out and find your mental center. Some people listen to iPods, some mingle, and others may talk smack to get ready for their matches.
Time to fight!
*If one of the setups feels weird to you (you found this out after casuals or word of mouth), DON’T PLAY YOUR MATCHES ON IT. Politely ask your opponent and organizer to move to another setup or wait until a better one is available.
*If someone else is using your stick (people will constantly want to borrow stuff) at the time your match is up. Again, notify the opponent and organizer that you’re not yet ready!
*Check your button layout before the start of the match. If you’re planning to change the button layout using in-game menu, notify your opponent prior to the match starting.
*Be prepared for the jitters. In your first match, you’ll miss combos, make silly mistakes, and may not play your best. Often times, your opponent will be in the same predicament. So don’t mentally scold yourself too harshly, stay focused on the match and keep things sweet and simple.
*Learn to adapt quickly. You’ll see a myriad of playstyles and skill levels that will range from intimidating to bizarre. Take the early rounds slow and formulate a winning game plan once you get a feel of your opponents tendencies!
*At the end of the match, win or lose, be sure to shake the hand of your opponent. You don’t have to say anything, but if you wish to exchange words, keep it short and simple since some players have tender egos after hard-fought bouts
*Make sure to properly shutdown/disconnect your controller/stick from the console
*Promptly report the result of the match to whoever is in charge of the brackets
*[tekken announcer]Get ready for the next battle!
Oh shit, thanks for the ride ZAKU; next week won’t be a problem since I won’t have that big fucking bag with me for GAME NIGHT (as I’ll just be bringing my PS3 instead… in hindsight, bringing the X-Box was a terrible idea).
THAT BEING SAID, I’ve now come up with a schedule that will let me effectively practice both BBCS and SUPER…
I’m pretty sure I’ve put more thought into that than my LSAT classes; lolololol.
Yeah…
That’s not gonna go well.
OH COLORS.
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That being said, someone on another board I go to talked about FRUITY PEBBLE krispy treats…
I want one so badly, even though I’m kinda under the impression that they might suck.
I’m actually writing a article on how to run tournaments and building community hype. The basic premise is this, ‘If you have two people who play, and one person watching, you can build hype.’
In -every- tournament I’ve hosted n’ attended, this is the most important tip - stay calm. Freezing up and not knowing what to do is your worst enemy. Also drink lots of water.
We’ve been doing 2 logins per X-Box, so usually not everyone has to pay (and not everyone needs to do the $16 day pass… it’s only useful if you’re there for more than 6-7 hours, like I am)… we try to do rotation duty on the setups, so just contribute whatever you can in order to get us the setups…
Anyway, our target is really 2 people logged in per X-Box…
This is assuming that the shop doesn’t change its stance towards us in the near future.
Once again, thanks for coming out people. *I do want feedback from people about how to make our tournaments better. *All in all, the NCI tournament was successful, however I need to get some constructive feedback from the players and other -noteworthy- tournament organizers. *I posted this a while back at the DL forums, but I also need feedback from the people here.
How would you guys like to host Monthly Regional BBCS tournaments here at EUdemonia? If you’re interested, then shoot me a message.
The Future of NCI
I’d say we divide people based on region. The reality is that the BB scene is big enough to hold regionals at different locations. For e.g., we can host monthly ranbats at Sac, East Bay, South Bay, and SLO Cal. The premise for doing this is this, ‘Build the FG scene at the local level; not at the macro scale.’ After six months, we can bring every -seeded- regional team together for a battle royale!
Since GG/MB is smaller, they can do a monthly ranbat in the same location. Doing this solves four problems:
Venues; smaller tournaments means smaller space to host tournaments.
Time Flexibility; in the event you can’t make it to one tournament, you have the option to host it at another location.
Lots of Opportunities; you have numerous opportunities to seed yourself in any one of these regional tournaments.
Less Manpower; you don’t need to have a lot of staff/volunteers to run this tournament.
Drawbacks:
Small Turnouts; enough said.
Lost Communication; hosting too many events in a single month gets lost in translation.
Loss of Commitment; it takes a lot of energy to run tournaments…let alone organize five of them in a single month.
No SoCal people coming up unless it’s a grand event.
Here’s how the tournament would look like:
Week 1: MB/GG NCI Ranbat
Hosted by: KatanDash and Tsubasa
Week 2: Sacramento NCI Regional Ranbat
Hosted by: Spirit Juice
Week 3: South Bay NCI Regional Ranbat
Hosted by: Dacidbro and Aginor
Week 4: East Bay NCI Regional Ranbat
Hosted by: DKL
Final Regional Tournament: BLAZING NCI
Hosted by: TaoFTW
Tournament Roster:
I’d like to help out with this, but I’m trying to get into law school (and failing), so a lot of my time is eaten up (I wasn’t even able to play at INSTALL because of my class)… the best I can really do is show up regularly for weekly meets, but having to coordinate things beyond telling people to be at a certain place at a certain time might be a little too much, especially given that I don’t actually have experience.
Actually, Arifureta and crew from over at DUSTLOOP (they’re UC Berkeley students) might be pretty viable choices and I’ll ask them about it when I go to pick up a copy of BBCS for the PS3 tomorrow…
But they’re full-time students too, so I’m not sure how that would work out.
In any event, yeah, I would like Ranbats to be held out here, but I’m not sure how it would all work…
I guess what I’m saying is that I don’t have a realistic picture of what the workload is like; the weekly EU meets wasn’t too much trouble since the shop has setups and all I really did was tell people to be at a certain place at a certain time…
I’m not sure what organizing something that’s somewhat larger than what we regularly do would entail.
