it’s unofficial st. patrick’s day this friday.
and my only class got canceled so hmm… murphy’s at 9? mebbe. who wants to hit it? 
orrr i could stay in, watch anime, lose more friends and save money (which will be used to buy more anime).
So I wuz just thinking, in light of having another club sponsored game tournament.
I remember scott saying we should have a tournament to celebrate slash coming out, so since that is in april. I figure why not make it big? Why not plan this tournament waaay ahead of time, so that we can have lots and lots of sign-ups and time for advertisements?
What do you people say eh?
gah, slash is still more than a month away.
i think we should have a tag team game tourney… gg and something else.
if you want the best team name (and maybe win? oooooooo), tag with me.
if you want it big… do it at mckinley foundation. i dont think it costs that much to rent it out
edit: i dont know what “big” is btw… =P
i’ve been playin a bit of quest mode but disgaea is taking up a lot of my free time. i did my first evade throw escape guard tho a few days ago. i was so proud of myself lol. i hate my stick tho; i wish it had an octagonal gate. i should get one of those VF sticks.
i dun think a GGXX tourny will get any bigger than the one at illinites. and even then there weren’t really any new players who were good if i’m not mistakened. thus i think we don’t need to try to make it even bigger cuz i doubt ppl will show.
school girls?
Well, there is that off campus group that apparently goes to ebgames to swap out their pads every month for guilty gear. They have been doing it for like 1/2 a year.
I’m thinking there are more people out there, it is just that it isn’t well advertised. I met a lot of random people along the way, that just popped out of no where. There is a guy on my floor who use to play, but he isn’t that good. I actually didn’t find him until like a week ago.
As much as I would like to rent out McKinley… we have absolutely no money. Nothing flows in and nothing flows out in terms of cash.
Our past tournaments have been a trade deal. We provided ebgames with publicity and also the pot in gift cards, and with illnites… well it is all for student activities, so that is their benefit. So we don’t get anything.
Besides, it won’t just be a gg tourney. I say we add another game along with it just like all our other tournaments.
people think we are jackasses
they are correct in a sense
yeah seriously, what kind of noob wants to lose their money to me in 10 seconds or less?
who thinks we are jackasses?
no one plays seriously besides you all from where I am right now (Heartland Community College) all the way to Chambana… face it.
we are land of scrubs!
ah there are a lotta people who play pseudo-serious, and amongst those pseudo-serious people, I mean, I am sure you can find some people who would be willing to play seriously.
Like, the reason why there are so many smash players who take smash so seriously is because there is a bigger resource for learning to play the game seriously.
Guilty Gear isn’t as well publicized, and people just don’t know how to seriously play some of the more popular games like tekken.
everyone who doesn’t play GG…lool
what i find with ppl who play pseudo-seriously is that while they enjoy playing and beating ppl who are not as good as they are, they are unwilling to put up with being beat by people who are better than they themselves are. :wonder: if you play seriously you find that you end up losing a lot lololol. i think most ppl are too lazy to lose to get better so they just don’t play. it’s pretty easy to lose at more complex games like GG and VF for example which is why less ppl overall play :cybot:
we have a history of alienating others, then wondering why we have so few participants. i’m not pointing fingers, but in my personal opinion the way club operated first semester was disastrous.
last tournament was a good indicator of how we should be handling things. we should be trying to reach out to the casual gamers out there and gather more interest instead of specificly looking for ‘competitive fighters’ or whatever and spit in their face when they don’t match the supposed criteria.
ps - dan, school girls!
i miss old uiuc marvel days
i miss you too
hey, last semester wasn’t that horrible. so i went off on 2 people. the videogame alliance dude deserved it, and the other guy who talked down to me deserved it too. I do not tolerate that crap.
school girls!!
if u want more ppl to play u will have to put up with more crap
scientifically proven.
The important part to remember is that you guys have more players than most places in the midwest, except maybe Chicago, and it looks like all of you are on your way up. (except yosh and stephane, who are just terrible)
What happened with the people you “alienated”, anyway? None of you seem elitist at all. Initially, if they can’t handle losing a lot there’s really not much you can do – letting them win or playing down to them might work for a while, but it’s not going to make them forget where they stand in the pecking order. You can try to point them in the right direction with information and such, as well, but if they think you’re going too far they’ll read it as a slight, or just get discouraged with the complexity of the game. I think y’all would be better off looking at it as a way of making new friends or acquaintances or whatever. As Dan said, it’s not for everybody. “The Society for Competetive Fighting games” just sounds absurd, over-serious, and intimidating on the surface, even if you guys are anything but. Why can’t you just be a group of friends getting together to play some games?