Toronto SFIV 17vs17: Ideas, Discussion

I’ll play viper…

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… Im Fucking So Salty

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Kio. Whats up. Honestly just make the rounds and play some notable ppl from toronto on xbl with your vega. It’ll be easier if you hit up #gtasf on irc efnet for casuals. If you want details just PM me.

Yeah take me out of this for any character, I don’t care much about making an effort to go out to this. If anything, I’d go just to hang out as I don’t even practice this game.

I want akuma.

Fadi and Chaos for Akuma.

Fil the motherfucking Viper originator and Nameless for…Viper.

Good thing Russell was mentioned for Vega.

Methods to run it btw:

This only works if you add another character making it an 18 vs 18.

My idea is to let everyone get at least one match. And to shake it up so that it isn’t mirror matches.

So first we would have to try and even the field to 5-5 matchups.

Abel vs. Honda
Akuma vs. Gat
Balrog vs. Rufus
Blanka vs. Chun Li
Viper vs. Ken
Sim vs. Gief
Fuerte vs. Guile
Bison vs. Ryu
Vega vs. ???

To me all these matches seem fair (Fuerte vs. Guile may not be, not to sure about that), and we would need to add another character to face Vega. Gen would be a good option for that match up, I think.

Then we just run it in a huge Acho style format, where it cycles through the matchups twice and the team with the most wins in the end comes out victorious.

Are you serious my Ken was even close to that good? shit… time to go back.

Also i started playing it again recently… lol… stole Wilsons tricks.

im pretty sure its gonna be random match ups.

Each team of 17 can make their own lineup and keep it blind and then the teams can reveal the lineup when it’s time for them to face off =\

No i dont think blind pick is required, it gives it the more strategic planning when facing the next opponent for intelectual counterpicking

Led and Anant should be team captains.

i actually think blind picks should be implemented specifically to curb counter picking. That or the order is random.

Yeah I like this. If there was big money on the line I would understand but, thats just not the case.

only way to run it is either single game elimination and 2/3 or just 2/3 per match elimination

Has to be a round robin. That way, everybody, plays everybody. Although it’s the most time consuming method.

or just one tweam make a list of their order and the other make a list of their order

I’d like to see Round Robin.

Does anyone know the math behind it? The total potential matches x average time per match. If we’re using a standard Sogo 3 station setup it’d be long but I can’t imagine it’s not doable. You run the “bigger” matches on the stream and it’s a win/win for every participant to literally get the most varied comp.

round robin would take forever.

If my calcs are right, there should be 136 matches for a full round robin. assuming 5 minutes a match, that’s 680 minutes, divided by 60 gives 11hours and 20 minutes of actual match time.

Maybe we can adopted evo’s team format? the one where someone is eliminated when they lose, but they keep rotating the players. first team with all the players eliminated loses.

fuck round robin thats retarded.

i thought this whole thing was supposed to be something for fun like an exhibition. Then we can do something else, either get drunk, run another tourney, run a team tourney. I don’t want to waste a ridic amount of time on this thing. In the end does anyone really care whether a fuerte goes 10-6 or not.

We have 3 stations to work with so the raw time drops. If we divide the whole number by 3 and account for time to switch between stations/bathrooms the whole thing wouldn’t run more than say… 5 hours? That’s not a bad trade off to play 17 matches. We spend 1/3 more than that at tournies and HOPE to play 6 - 8 matches in a winning situation.