I’d still prefer round robin no matter what… The regular jap style team tourney limits playing opportunities to a lot of people. Keith mentioned Will and Tony and both will most likely not participate in the battle, which negates Keith’s example. Due to less number of top players like Will, Tony, Choi (he’s always iffy), it means the teams may well be one-sided. So if Keith happens to play a school first and happens to take out everyone, then whippy Me, LB, Eric pretty much didn’t even participate in that battle.
I think other schools feels the same way. I don’t know who’d like the idea of losing once and not being able to play again until they play another school. Sure it’s faster and possible to have more people involved but it also means each person will play 1-2 games. If that’s the case, then it’s probably better to complete UB and let them play casual to get more games in.
As for the Ricky example, I don’t mind if he plays for whatever school. But I think some people may have a problem with him playing for UCB for obvious reasons.
Fine fine…
It was just a suggestion.
I guess using Ricky was a bad example as a person to add onto a team in this new format. I shoulda said "R4 k-Sagat Guy."
But yeah, I can understand how having gauntlet team-tourney AND allowing non-students to play can be a little unfair depending on which school you go to.
Oh well. It was worth a shot. I guess what I really want is some kinda normal 3 on 3 team tourney.
ps
I never said anything about Wil or Ant not being able to make it this sem. Stop lying Tae DAMNIT! Where’s hyori?
The date sounds okay to me, but I’d personally prefer it to be later if possible. October 16th gives Davis about 16 days to get a team, and that’s assuming we get it together by the date of the tournament.
Tradition speaks for itself, but if we do end up doing some kind of brackets for something may I suggest hella floating in the brackets? Who cares if it’s not supposed to be done in tournaments, let’s set up some good matches.
I noticed SSV is in the Bearcade. Let’s do that too!
zakk & wai really really need to get the internet hooked up & running in their new apartment. without AIM, there is like no communication between any of us, tournament-wise, anyways…
For this semester’s University Battle, I’ve decided to whittle down the number of games to just Third Strike and CVS2. It’s not so much that I want to cut out GGXX and MVC2, I just want to give 3S and CVS2 more time/resources this semester. Perhaps we’ll bring back MVC2 and Guilty Gear (#Reload?) next semester.
With that said, the number of participants for each team is still set at four. I’m asking every school to come up with a list of players and participating games and email it to me no later than Tuesday, October 5th.
Check the first post for my contact info. Let me know if you have any questions.