Important Threads/Links
Pre-Registration Topic
AIB Link
If you are attending Thriller, please pre-register!
Thriller Brigade!
For all things [President of] Culture related, including the Thriller Dance rehearsals and general plans for out-of-tournament experiences!
Thriller Housing
Post here to look for people to house with or get a hotel with. Also if you are able to house please consider making yourself known!
Consider Watching:
Thriller Promo & HYPE Video
Queensland's Rebuttle: for they are Smooth Criminals
The original feature length Thriller video.
Dates
Saturday the 10th through to Sunday the 11th of April, 2010
Events
- Super Smash Bros. Melee: Singles & Doubles
- Super Smash Bros. Brawl: Singles & Doubles
- Street Fighter IV & BlazBlue run by OzHadou OFFICIAL: http://ozhadou.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=4873 for registration!: OzHadou venue fee includes Day One venue fee ($20). So cost is $10 + $5 each for singles/doubles.
...and if time permits
- Brawl and Melee Regional Crew Battles
- Screw THAT: BOWLING REGIONAL CREW BATTLES
- THE GANON CHALLENGE
- Duelist Pro
- Pokémon (4th gen) Overused Singles (or other DS funsies?)
Location / Venue
Located in Sydney's Eastern Suburbs, 10 minutes from the City and even closer to the Airport, The New Market Hotel and the Manhatten Superbowl is in an epicentre of public transport and also has free parking.
Address:
549 Gardeners Road, Mascot NSW 2020
Parking via Tramway Street (off of Botany Rd)
Google Maps Link
Mascot Train Station is a short walk from the venue. The following Bus Routes also travel to within walking distance of the venue:
400, 309, 310, 20, 343, 301, 303
There are more details in the Boost thread on all these bus routes in the First Post
Tournament Rooms
Thriller is using two venue rooms on both days. One large room that is used for regular Boost tournaments below the bowling alley, and another smaller room upstairs of the Hotel. Both will be used to adequately space out concurrent events.
However, due to the smaller room requiring access through the Hotel, use of the second room will most likely be restricted to non-minors on Saturday.
Facilities
The venue is split up with a bowling alley above us and next door to a Pub/Hotel.
The Bowling Alley is open until midnight on both Saturday and Sunday nights.
The Hotel is open until 3am on Saturday and midnight on Sunday.
Both the bowling alley and the hotel serve food, drinks and alcohol. In general, please avoid bringing in outside food or drink.
The alley upstairs of course offers bowling (with a discounted price for patrons) and has an arcade.
Feeding Us
For all patrons over the two days, included in the venue fee are two meals. These are given to you in the form of vouchers that you can redeem at any time at the Bistro in the Hotel or by ordering upstairs at the bowling alley.
Things available are
- 250g Grain fed Rump steak w/one side (chips, salad, mash or vegetables)
- Beef Burger and Chips
- Beer Battered Flathead Fillets and Chips
- Basil and Ricotta Gnocchi
- Chicken Caesar Salad
- Margarita Pizza
- Ham and Pineapple Pizza
- Lamb Wrap and Chips
These are the standard meals available. I am under the impression more meals will be available for redemption than what is normally on offer during the weekend.
Costs and Necessities
It is necessary that you have legal photo I.D. on you at all times.
As the venue is a licensed premises, it is required that minors are noted.
All attendants are expected to have their own controllers (Gamecube controllers are preferred for Smash over Wiimotes)
Venue Fee: $30 for the two days (includes two meals valued between $10-15 each)
Tournament Fee: $10 for an individual event of a game, $15 for both.
As in $10 for Brawl Doubles only, $15 for singles and doubles. Seperate fees for Brawl and Melee.
The Staff
Shaya (Jean-Paul) - Main Coordinator/Organiser. Please relay any questions specific to the event itself to me through the boards or through email (kingshaya@gmail.com). Will be active in managing brawl events throughout the weekend.
S.D (Sam) - Main man of Melee. Sam will be the main man in terms of seeding, organising and managing the melee events over the weekend.
CAOTIC (David) - The President of Culture and well-versed in all organisation. An extremely experienced Tournament Organiser who will be strongly involved in non-gaming activities throughout the period. He also will probably have some Melee responsibilities because he is cool like that.
Condog (Conor) - Brawl Coordinator. Conor is an up and coming Tournament Organiser in Melbourne and will be helping the running and managing of the brawl events at Thriller. He also happens to be awesome at graphic design, and has contributed a lot already (look at that awesome poster!)
Want to help out? Both Melee and Brawl will require people to manage and be in charge of pools. Managing the bracket and the input of results will be restricted. I probably only need one more person to help coordinate Brawl, and you are best to contact S.D or CAO if you wish to help with Melee or CULTURE. Both games will need help in running pools though, so if you are happy to help please contact me!
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Thriller will be the first competitive (prize money) Smash Major in Sydney in almost? three years. From my understanding it will be the first to ever not be run by CAOTIC. I wish for this to break all the records of previous Sydney tournaments, setting a new benchmark for our currently active players to remember and to break in the future.
I hope for Thriller to be the best it can possibly be in delivering a hyped event. As a region I consider the strongest in the country for Brawl I hope to offer the highest competitive standard possible since Rocky of last year (I could only wish to offer more, but the lack of Perth's corpsecreate makes this problematic). Melee is not to be forgotten too, as New South Wales continues to find new talent and recently respark interest in older players; and S.D recently coming second in SQUAT beating out Accelerate (3rd place @ Rocky) and it also has strong melee dominator CAOTIC showing up
Beyond the competition itself I aim to have a theatre atmosphere produced for the Sunday during the playing of the majority of final matches. I also hope to have as many fun side events as possible - and with a lot of attendees learning the Thriller Dance I know there will be wide spread enjoyment.
Also within my aspirations is the invitation to the SF4 community to join with us at this major. I have strong convictions for the growth of our scene, and that happens to include competitive gaming in general.
Thriller will be setting the trends for rivalries and anticipation for Robocop which will happen 6 months from the end date.
Of course I want everyone to have an fun and enjoyable experience, meet new people, play a lot of smash and dance a little
Best of luck to all attendants in achieving your goals. I pray that I can achieve all of mine.
