gamepad is the store where they have been having the battlefield arcadia tournaments.
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Another lingering problem imo is that a tournament site needs to be easily accessible. The fewer steps involved with reaching a final location, the better. While the process of getting to a venue might not be an issue for New Yorkers, people outside of the five boroughs don’t share the same mentality.
The rest of the world can deal with “take highway XX to exit Y then make a few lefts and rights”, not “take one train, then change into another, then after that change to the downtown N/R then walk west three blocks”. It doesn’t sound much different, but it intimidates the fuck out of some people.
So you don’t want it in nyc because you have a bad sense of direction? What?
a few of us thought about doing this back in 04 i think it was. Possible places were Stony Brook, since they have Icon why not a fg tourney, plus the LIRR stops right on the campus so it’s easy access, the only problem is it’s a long train ride. Another site we thought about was somewhere in the city, but we figured it’d cost too much so that was out of the question. The biggest problem seems to be cost, and no one wants to put up the capital, or at the time no one really did. Props if you get something going Andy.
yea a major though will need enough room for like 200 ppl
i agree with you and thats sad honestly. thank you for your input btw
naw i think that he is just pointing out something that we may not realize being that we are from nyc
why not in jersey just outside the city? probably cheaper there
I’m not talking about me. I used to play at Broadway Arcade (between 50th and 51st) back in the day, as in 1992. I started running local tournaments in Jersey in '95, and started ECC two years later. I tried exploring a New York venue back then, only to find that the main complaint from players outside of New York was the overall confusion non-NY natives have with commuting in - well, that and significantly higher costs for venues etc.
The only way I can see a big New York venue become any possible sense of a reality would be if there were many smaller HEALTHY tournaments running concurrently in the five boroughs. Many smaller tournaments could then culminate into larger regionals within the city. If those regionals can net the larger exposure, then a national level tournament would become feasible. You gotta build in steps dawg.
I hate to be the storm cloud in this conversation, but this is a path that has already been discussed, and unfortunately has never moved beyond wishful thinking.
You know I said the same thing to him on IRC
So did I, ten years ago lol. 
I told you the same thing in a diner after a break tourney 5 years ago