UPDATED - "Fighting EVOLVED" EVO2K9 Prep Tourney! @ SOGO BAR Scarboro 06/20/09

THE ROAD TO EVO IS UPON US!!! WHICH OF THESE FIGHTERS WILL PROVE THEIR WORTH!!!

With a Chicago? Tourney on the 13th, Buffalo? on the 27th, and EVO less than a Month away, we will treat this is “our” EVO TRAINING 2K9!!

When: Saturday June 20th, 2009, 12:00PM SIGN UPS 2:30 START SHARP!!

Where: SoGo Bar (Over 100 Flavours of Wings!!!)
4002 Sheppard Ave. East, Unit 101 (@ intersection of Kennedy And Sheppard)
Scarborough, ON

http://www.so-go-sportsbar.com

Directions
DRIVE

  • 401 EAST to Kennedy Rd. (Just East of DVP/404)
    -Left/North ON Kennedy, on you right hand corner at NORTHEAST Corner of Kennedy and Sheppard on Sheppard. Parking Should be available all around

TTC

-85(Any) East from Don Mills Station, or 190 Express.

-43 Kennedy from Kennedy Station.

Venue Info ? This will be our first event outside of Bleecker. We are doing it at a local sport bar with a great Menu, good space, and TVs & 1 PS3 already there. The Price basically depends on Turnout and how much you guys spend. So we can keep the Tourney Fee/Venue $5/$5 IF AND ONLY IF everyone on avg spends $10-15 on food or drink, with the other $5 going to cover the leftover cost. If you don?t want to buy food/drink from here, we may be forced to do $10/$10 Tourney and Venue Fee and this may decrease numbers so for now its $5/$5. But the food is great and inexpensive. ONE HUNDRED FLAVOURS OF WINGS!!!

Tournament Info

Registation/Casual:
12PM-2:00PM SIGN UPS!!! DON?T BE LATE
Games will Start No Later 2:30!!

SC4 Singles (Directed by Russel?/Emily?)
Format Double Elimination Best of 5 Rounds, Best of 3 Matches

  • Semis/Finals Best of 5 Matches
  • Entry $5 Split 70/20/10
  • Start Time 2:30PM!!

SF4 Singles (Directed by RXS/JayWang/JS)
System PS3 (with At least 1 system dedicated to Xbox360, but not taking priority)
Format Double Elimination Best of 3 Rounds, Best of 3 Matches

  • Semis/Finals Best of 5 Matches
  • Entry $5 Split 70/20/10
  • Start Time 2:30PM!!!

SSF2T:HDR TEAMS (directed by Davero)
System Xbox 360
Format ???
??? ?? ??
?? ? ??? ?

Equipment
The beauty of this Venue is that they have plenty of TVs to use, plus one projector, plus one system already there. I still think it is in our best interest to bring at least 1-2 Setups just in case. This is what I see so far.

JayWang PS3 + LCD + SF
DjKun PS3 + SF
Sogo PS3 + SF
Dinoz PS3 + LCD + SF/SC
Jeff? PS3 SF/SC??
Amauri? PS3 SC

Davero 360 TV HDR
Flapjak 360 LCD? HDR?/SF4?

Hopefull every 3 is enough the day of. I?m not sure if we will need extension cables for some of the setups, but shouldn?t be a problem. JS is going to take pictures Tuesday and upload them. I?m going to go Thursday or Friday do go over any tidbits with the other directors (JayW/RXS/Russ).

Location is Great, Food and Venue cost is best we can ask for right now, Equipment is a definitely getting a boost. Turnout I believe will always be there.

Confirmed List
Dinoz
Jeff
Chyna
Davero
NGuman
JED07
Noodleman
YellowS4
Desicdn
Hisham
Trite
!WB!
ArcadeLegend
FightWing
JS Master
Gerjay
DjKun
Melonman
Jhonsok
JayWang
Alvin81
Dice01
Flipmasta
Bloodyclaw
RPG + 2
Flapjak
Day Ghost
Big Greek
Russel
C3
Blitzman
Zaijin
JDK
Magus704
Drekken
TofuWarrior
RXS and co.
Midnight mint
Psycho chronic
Sacojericho

Obviously not everyone here is guaranteed, some probably just posted for the hell of it. This tourney will also include
-The 5 or so Soul Cal players in SF

  • the 5-8 Buffalo players that will likely make it
    -the UofT and YorkU players whom the manager said already run tourneys there
    -word of mouth, last minute show up players.

So that?s about 40-60 Players easily. You guys know the deal. Post up NOW!!
BIG THANKS TO ERIC FOR TALKING TO THE MANAGER
FOR CHYNA FOR DECIDING FOR EVERYONE TO CHILL THERE AND TAKING THE WELL TIMED SMOKE BREAK
FOR EMILY FOR KEEPING TRACK OF THE TOURNEY STATUS AND WHOSE BROTHER SUGGESTED IT

Hey guys, Glad to see a such a great response.

SETUP

  • There are at least 3 Wall Mounted LCD TVs we can use for the tourney. We are not using the entire Venue, only half.
  • I’m not sure the technical aspect of the TVs (ie Refresh rate .25-.5 frames), as well the proper way to set up the Systems (Cords should be long enough, sticks should reach, you just have to tilt ur head up a bit, pretty much like Orbit setup) but I will look into it probably Tuesday or Thursday.
  • There is a projector which we can possibly hook up to their PS3, and use for all the main matches.
  • There should be at least one-two “corner” areas where we can run HDR and SCIV on regular TVs without disrupting the main tourney as well as not disrupting normal service.

FEE
IF we are there from 12-8pm, or 1-10pm or whatever, we are basically expected to pull that much weight in terms of purchasing food/drink. IF each hour FIVE people spend $20, in we are there for 8-9 Hours, thats basically 40-50 People, and roughly 800-1000 in purchases. This is basically our Venue “Cap Fee”…

**SO IF YOU COME TO THE TOURNAMENT AND YOU ARE PLANNING TO SPEND 20+ YOU WILL HAVE YOUR VENUE FEE WAIVED!!!

I’ll Repeat

SPEND MORE THAN 20 AT THE VENUE AND YOUR VENUE FEE IS WAIVED!!**

We will do this by You paying the $5 first, then show me your bill (yours and not you and your buddies) and I will refund for $5. This way, those who leave early, or only buy a drink, will not mess with the “numbers” expected by the Manager. This should also help increase numbers.

SIGN UPS - Since this isn’t our usual venue, and we don’t want to over stay the welcome, we’ll have the directors (Eric/JayWang/RXS/Nagatz/Russel) Arrive at about 12pm to make sure all venue stuff is taken care of. Then from 12-2PM we do signups and try to start both games AT THE LASTEST 3!! Time is Money people!! And I wont be there to try to enforce time constraints.

I’ll talk more about these topics in the days to come.

JayWang - I have the managers Name and Number which I will PM to directors, and the Store number which I will make available.

BACK AND BETTER THAN EVER!!!

definitely will be there

i was also wondering dino/russell if I brought my own tv, 360, laptop for brackets, if i can run a 2 man team tourny for HDR. Or singles. I don’t want to see this game die in toronto already lol. i’ll run it completely on my own i’d just need a spot for the tv?

That shouldn’t be too much of a Problem. The only factor is that you will need FOUR players per match during singles. This will slightly interfere with speed of the brackets, but shouldn’t be too hard to work around. We will gauge interest as it gets closer.

Also Davero big thanks for taking those pics, and now SRK has recognized our hardcore community and our dedication to this game. WE ON THE FRONT PAGE!!! SRK ain’t ready for us.

Also, the DJ should be back, and we may also have BROWNIES TOO…be there…

oh for real free food? that sounds… very suspicious.

Whoa whoa an HDR team tourney!?!?!

If you start at around say 6ish-7ish I can make it.

Unfortunately I can’t promise anything better than that as I’m coming all the way from Brantford after I finish work at 3, then I gotta contend with rushhour traffic fml.

Dino don’t be late this time :slight_smile:

UFC tournament obviously.

Sthd team tourney lets make it happen.

omg omg omg omg omg omg omg omg omg

Yeah just give priority to SF4. I’m sure all 4 members of the team don’t have to be watching at the same time. If one tournament needs to be put on hold, just hold HDR.

Will Team Shoto (Bluenka/Dic/Dee Jay) be showing up?

I’m in for SF4 and HD teams (Me/Anant/Kin again imo).

i wasnt aware these 3 played HD wtf

Well I play ST. I’ve played HD like… once. It just takes a few games to get used to the timing of the different shit.

I’m going to try and take this day off and get to this.

Will Arcade Legend, Flight Wing, and JS Master be seated 1 2 3 respectively in SF4?

No chance, but I can’t make it. I have an exam the week after. Good luck guys.

I thought it was seeded not seated

for HDR I can bring all materials like i said I’d just need a ride down there.

My house is located at bloor/ossington which is right along the way if you follow bloor to sherbourne.

I’d love to run the HD team tourny, for rounds what would you guys want? best of 5 or 3? We’d also be doing same rules as last team tourny, no duplicate characters blah blah.

We could also do 3v3 for HD. Up to you guys

Yes.

If you make entry for HD lower…like a loonie per entrant, a 3v3 tourney might get off the ground. Even people who don’t play the game might be into it.

I’ll do my best to get this day off. An ST thing would increase my interest in coming.