I dont understand why people would be hesitant to join, its free…I’ve only played a handful of SRK folks & they definitely have skills…Hopefully my Gief will level up w/ this tournament experience…Im still kicking myself not going to Northwest Majors…
You tell 'em! And while you’re at it, don’t forget to tell everyone else! The thing we could use the most of is more entries! Cut off is Wednesday at midnight PST. I’ll announce pools probably Thursday afternoon along with a complete schedule for the weekend.
Pools saturday night beginning at 8p.m. EST or PST depending on which pool you’re in and tournament sunday night starting at 5 PST (8 EST) is what I’m thinking, I will have the pools calculated and the tournament brackets posted with very clear directions for everyone Saturday night. I’ll post the full results for everyone on Monday and then hopefully everyone will be shouting at the top of their lungs for me to do this again… and again… and again…
I’m in!
gamertag: DJ Mike Haggar
Pacific Standard Time
ANNOUNCEMENT: For any European (GMT) player who has signed up, I’ve had a couple people drop and I’m not sure we’ll be able to field a complete European pool, if you’re interested in playing in the EST pool let me know. If more European players sign up then we’ll put back in the Euro Pool
gamertag: damdai
EST
So I just want to show what pools might look like if registration closed today. We’d run 2 10 man pools, one eastern, one pacific, probably take the top 4 in each pool for final 8 tourney. This is the kind of lineup we already have, you want in on this you have to sign up soon! Big thank you to everyone who has already signed up!
EST
TheloTheGreat
DJI SRK
PFW91
GoldenArch88
De Mavrick
SattaMasagana
TruffleShuflin
Alex6x6x6
Sweet Poison
Damdai
PST
Zass30
rightupuralley
G3PWood
St1ffPeter
BlueTallCans
Smooth4200
Evoanon
CWheezy22
BaklaKiller
DJ Mike Haggar
Well damn… I don’t know if I can do it then. I work nights, typically until 9-10 (EST).
Work nights on weekends? Saturdays and Sundays or just Saturdays? Hmm… We’ll see if anyone else has that problem.
I don’t know about anyone else, but I’m more likely to be home on a weeknight than a weekend.
Yeah, lets get some feedback on this. If more people are available, I’m certainly flexbile. Maybe we can run stuff Monday and Tuesday night?
Would it be better if we ran pool play on Monday nights, say starting at 8:00 EST and 8:00 PST and then tourney play we could do on Tuesday nights maybe 9:30 EST and 6:30 PST? I mean I don’t think being up too late would be a problem for most people on this forum, I want to make sure if its during the week that PSTers have time to get home and settled from work.
According to my estimates I can run an 8 man double elimination tournament in an hour and a half if I have everyone’s gamertag, and I would since I’d have to seed and post the tourney brackets Tuesday Morning (or whatever morning) so I hope a later tourney start during the week wouldn’t be a deciding factor against, I think we could get it done pretty quickly.
Also: After each event we’ll obviously have our event champion and what not, but I’m also going to keep a talley of how people perform, keeping a separate point sheet for how people finish towards a seasonal championship, like in auto racing. So many points for tourney placements, how you finish in your pool, and we’ll do something special for the top players at the end of each season.
I’m really sorry Silver Rain, but I can’t do the times you specified either. I’m leaving for my first year of college this weekend and I wouldn’t want to miss the festivities/be anti social on opening weekend. Hope you understand. But I’d definatly be down for the next season if you have another.
Oh we’ll do this multiple times. Don’t worry about that. Enjoy move in and come back in a couple weeks!
Uhh, I can’t Monday. I go back to university next week so it’d be kinda tricky for me to fit a tourney into my schedule. I am, however, open to the weekend.
Yeah, same here. I’d prefer playing matches on weeknights, provided that they start at a reasonable time so I can get to bed around 10:30 or 11:00
What I’m hearing is that this particular week and weekend has problems, so lets do this. I’d love to get some more feedback but my initial response is to say that we’ll start this not this weekend, but the next week after people are settled.
I’m thinking we could start pool play on Monday September 7th and Tourney on Tuesday September 8th. I think our time requirements might be a little past 11:00 EST on Tuesdays but not by much, maybe 11:30 tops, and that’s if you make it to finals, or you want to watch the finals. We’ll either run pools weekly or bi-weekly depending on interest. (Of course not everyone would be required to do every event either, but I’d like to have a strong showing for our first event, if we have enough people to run events every week, we’ll run one, if there’s enough interest and a group of people want to do Wednesday / Thursday events, or there’s a group that wants to do weekend events, as long as the people are there, I’ll schedule and organize it)
So if we do that, then we could run events that way, maybe once a week through December 16th and maybe have one grand tournament that week, which we’ll seed by previous results, give out extra season points to the top 8 and announce our award winners here on SRK.
Of course this means since we’re pushing back our start date we’ll give people until Wednesday September 2nd to sign up.
To Recap: Starting September 7th, Eastern Pool Play begins at 8:00 EST (Should take 2 hours if pools are between 8 and 10 by my schedule), Pacific Pool Play begins at 8:00 PST (should take 2 hours if pools are between 8 and 10 by my schedule), if more people join and we have more pools we’ll take the top 2 in each pool and run tourneys on Tuesday nights starting at 9:30 EST. So we’ll have some late (but not ridiculously so) nights, but it’ll be a good time.
Oh and lets schedule it now, for all league participants, our blow out grand finale (completely open) tournament will be run December 21st, which is a Saturday, it’ll probably begin early and might take all day depending on numbers, and people are free to join our league at any time.
**Addition 08/26/09 5:00 P.M.: Signups for league play will close on Wednesday September 2, 2009 at Midnight PST. We’ve pushed our start back a week to accomodate some of our players who are going back to school and we want as many people as we can have for our first event which will start with pool play Monday the 7th and the tournament finals on the 8th with an event every week or every other week there after until December where we will have a large open tournament. After that we will announce our total results from season 1 complete with awards like most surprising player, most consistent player, and of course the coveted prize of World Warriors League Champion. Thanks to everyone who’s signed up so far and if you haven’t, what are you waiting for? JUMP ON BOARD ALREADY!!! **
I would argue that more players are available at night Mon-Thurs, then Fri-Sun. Several of the players signed up for this tournament have their play times listed here http://forums.shoryuken.com/showthread.php?t=203025 and they are mostly weekday evenings.
I did some back of the envelope for the amount of time pool play will take with the assumptions that you play 2.5 games/player, 2.5 rounds/game and 30 sec/round.
10 person pool
Playing time for your 9 opponents will be a little over 28 minutes.
8 person pool
It will take about 22 minutes to play the other 7 players.
Add 30 minutes for match setup, character selection, trash talking and other formalities. You can do the pools in less than an hour in this case. For a bad case, where there are double KOs, 4th game tie breakers and hunts for missing players, you can still be done in less than two hours.
Is this reasonable for the players? Is my math way off?
- Pete
I’m setting about 12 mins per match and I’ll have detailed schedules ready every week, and we’re moving to Monday pools and tuesday tourney
GT: NGE KrazyTiger
EST
I’m interested but I have such a screwed up and busy schedule I don’t know if it would work. I work nights during the week and on weekend evenings I usually have stuff going on with the family. Weekend early afternoons would be best for me but I’m sure I’m in the minoirity. If it doesn’t work, no big deal, I run into most of you guys when I’m on HDR anyway, LOL.
Even though I suck might as well try it out since the first season is free of charge.
Time Zone is EST and GT is ThatKidPoret