PS2s are cheap anyway. Buy a used one at EB for like 70 bucks or so.
how are you gonna win if you cant beat me? LOLLERSKATES
i was just thinking about the club tournaments we have been having. what if we held a game series for smash?
winners of each tournament can not win another tournament in the series. final 8 advance into a finalists bracket at the end of the series. we can inspire more people to play, not just the hardcore gamers but also more casual players. this also eliminates the fact that people keep feeling they are getting dwarfed by previous champs, such as the twins on their winning streak.
we technically have no cause to exclude any players, especially not for constantly winning. though the streaks do push away not as serious players. at least with this, we aren’t really excluding them from the whole event, but also giving other people a chance in tournaments within the series.
even if the twins win the finalist game, each individual tournament brings in more players.
this will cover the rest of smash for the semester. I also think we should do it for other games as well, to run something along side with smash.
**about the AASHO tournament:
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apparently the AASHO people weren’t completely satisfied.
i probably already mentioned a lot of this, but i was just talking to AASHO about it and certain things were reiterated.
i think there was shoddy communication between SCFG and AASHO. neither club knew what was going on, and had different images of what was going to happen. Like chris, even you didn’t know what games we ended up playing.
we should also advertise this a lot better, especially to the right venues. like every frikking fob on campus (and there are a lot of fobs), has heard of, played, or still plays King of Fighters, or one of the King of Fighters.
why is it they don’t play with us? cuz they honestly dont care about groups that are outside of their comfort zone of other fob groups. that doesn’t mean they won’t go to a King of Fighters tournament as long as they hear about it.
why do u think steve doesn’t quite play with us all the time? he is involved with more comfortable organizations, but that doesn’t mean he won’t play if he hears about a tournament.
only thing that saved this event was the fact that there is a strong base of devote smash players that populated most of the event.
i dont remember getting any email about this. thx for the info
Regarding AASHO event:
First of all, there was not a lot of communication between groups in organizing this event, and that is something that will have to be improved upon. However, the issue of the lack of the target audience not coming to this event (asian-americans) is solely the problem of AASHO. SoComFG was not delegated the responsibility of marketing and publicity. All our responsibilities included were providing the equipment (games, ps2s), organizing the event, which I admit was done poorly, and running the tournaments. Our group even announced the event on our website. However, AASHO was the group to publicize the event.
Personally, I never got this newsletter from them saying there would be a Smash tournament. But if they want to market a Smash tournament, they had better know who they really are looking at in the audience they are attracting. I had made it clear to the organization that KOF would be the second tournament we would run, despite the fact that we did not run it that evening.
Even then, when the event came, AASHO did not deliver on its promises we had earlier planned. First, they only had prize money available for the Smash tournament. Now considering the kind of audience they were trying to attract, and the game we were to hold for them, don’t you think they should have secured the prize money for KOF, too? That makes no sense. And second of all, while we’re talking about money, the prize money itself was not as had been planned, either. From the actual plans for the event AASHO had sent to SCFG:
The prizes will be as follows for both tournaments:
First place: $100
Second place: $60
Third place: $40
Cash Value / Gift Certificates
Jason’s team got 3rd in Smash. They won $5.
All in all, I would say that despite some weak communication, SCFG delivered on their end of the bargain, and AASHO did not.
Hot damn, I’m glad I’m not president…
… not that I could do it anyway. By the way, there’s a good chance I won’t be able to play this week either. And I’m DEFINITELY not going to FRX. I’m still burned-out on tournaments in general and I don’t want to shell out the money after I paid $60 for dinner alone with Lindsay on Saturday.
dude, u can’t expect results just by doing the minimal amount of things. in most of our events, we did a good deal of publicizing to make things work.
take note, almost nobody except for you and me knew about this until the last minute.
i do agree AASHO has it’s own fill of problems, but it wasn’t like our organization did anything in particular to improve on the situation.
damnit scott, didn’t u co-found this club with me?
I think by “we” you mean “Yosh”.
Chojin got rocked by Sean’s HOS. What a scrub! :3
You fucking nub, that’s not me.
hey, i helped as much with putting out flyers. not only that, i was the one that pushed for illinites to get those flyers out, as crappy as they turned out last year.
and i meant “we” as an organization.
burn scott.
Yup. That was the point. Note how I even used the word “rocked” and 722’s emote. In the words of the great Aric, “BAITED!” 
You still suck, though. See signature. = (
burn scott.
you suck at life for quoting aric
chris u suck even more for copying me.
Awesome!
nyoro~n
with great power lies great responsibility
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Where did I get the notion that Orka will become a really dirty old man?
seriously, i do have issues
it’s in my bloodline