Iāve never been to a major tournament before, period; this is why Iām still thinking up ātheory tourney,ā Iām constantly measuring how much turn-out a game would get, how much time it would take to get finished, possible delays, etcā¦ I understand that the first impression lasts a long time, this is why I have to be at my best with thisā¦ people are going to spread rumors around, even if it isnāt true, it is my job to make the players happy. 3 games is a little low in my opinion, especially since some of these games wonāt get a huge turn out. Iāll explain what Iām going to do at the bottom.
Iāve already posted in the NEC and Final Round thread, I canāt make a topic of my own for the tournament (it will get closed, just like Dark Geeseās did;) I have to deal with the information that I posted being cramped in the topic, where very little will glance at it. For Final Round, Iām not allowed to host my side tournaments, unless it is in the hotel room, which puts a huge blow on thisā¦ hopefully, this doesnāt happen with the other tournaments, but I fear that with the constant posts about time constraints, something is going to go down.
Iād rather have just one or two EX games, EX2+ and EX3 are the best games in the series.
Tournament Plan: Iām going to get in contact with the tournament organizer well before the tournament starts, to assure that I will be able to host my tournaments. I plan on having the games near the major tournament games are, so people have an easier time to run back and forward to the major games and side games (unless there is a designated BYOC area, which I have no choice but to use that area.) What should be available is at least one TV, some converters, the respective systems to play each game on (as well as a Computer for the doujin games, as well as some of the games that can be emulated, to make resources easier.) There will be a decent-sized marker board near the games being played where I will constantly write down what games are going to be played, when the tournament for a specific game will start (people can have warm-ups to familiarize themselves with the system,) and when the games are being played, what stage the tournament is at (winners finals, rgand finals, etcā¦)
I will try to get some sort of contact info with the player (but this is going to be hard, so I might have to just run to them, and tell them they are up to play, or yell at them. By the way, I guarantee there will be people who just outright quit, so that will make the tournaments run faster. I will make sure all the hardware is labeled, so that people donāt lose their things and blame isnāt passed on.
The tournaments are going to be ran as double elimination, 2/3 matches, 3/5 for grand finals (it will be 2/3 grand finals if a certain game takes too long to play.) I will try and be strict (although accommodating) with the tournaments; people are going to be playing at the major tournaments, so I will skip on to the next competitors. I will try to track how long it takes for their game to get done, and if they are standing around after they finished their game while it is their turn up, and they arenāt playing a major game at that moment (or already did,) then they will be sent to losers, or be DQed (thatās how it will be, if you were in winners, you will be sent to losers, and if you were in losers, you will be DQed.) I will accommodate bathroom breaks and food breaks, but they will be timedā¦ bathroom breaks are 5-10 minutes, and for food breaks, it will be 10-15 minutes, but it is expected that you should have been eating or bought a snack before then. I will tell players when their next match should be up, so they know how much time they have before they play. After the end of the grand finals of each game, I will give about 5-10 minutes to start the next game; as I said before, this time could be used by familiarizing themselves with the game.
All of this is great, but letās say I canāt host my tournaments in the main room, and only the hotel room, well, this puts a small stop in the road, but we can compromise. Just before the main room closes for the night, I will have a sign (marker board) that says that if you would like to play these games, you can go to this hotel room, then when people pass the exit (everyone is going to be passing it,) some might be interested in playing some of the games at the hotel rooms, and since there is virtually less constraints, there will be less hassle about time.
Edit: Iām going to post up a Q & A about the UFGL, so people have an easier time reading that, rather than a bunch of paragraph text.
