OSI Presents: Charity Gaming II (Van pickup in Cinci and Cleveland! 32+ Setups!)

The Ohio Smash Initiative is a club for Smash players at Ohio State. The first event in OSI's Charity Gaming series took place on April 23rd, 2011, and was centered around Melee. For the second event, OSI will be focusing on running a Brawl & Melee tournament (May 21st, 2011). What makes OSI events special is the organization and planning that most other events cannot offer. The club will provide dedicated pool captions who will be responsible for making sure matches are played quickly and little time is lost. The club has the benefit of over 20 helpers for the event, and will be advertising the event to the entire Ohio State University of 50,000+ students. This means there will be a lot of casual players who will be experiencing tournament Brawl & Melee for the first time - with that in mind make sure to be polite and nice to the plethora of new players at the event.

In addition to having a large staff for the event, tons of casual players, and a great venue, OSI also offers a dedicated stream for the event and has purchased 32 CRT TV's. That means if you bring a wii/Brawl or gamecube/Melee you can get your venue fee waived (if the setup is used for pool play) and there will be 2 TVs per pool as well as several TVs for freeplay available during the entire tournament. In addition, projector screens will be used so people can keep an eye on the bracket as it is updated. Finally, food and parking (only $5 for all day) is conveniently within and right next to the venue.

Under the vision of the President of OSI, Ray Tan, these events are all about giving and less about filling the pot for the winners. Your $5 donation will be used to help children who are suffering from terminal illness. The idea is that the OSI team will visit children in local hospitals and determine what their needs are - many of these children are confined to bed and are unable to move or participate in 'normal' physical activities. This is where gaming comes in, as the OSI crew will use the money generated from your generous donations to buy things like video games consoles, video games, board games, books, movies, and any other media that will make the lives of these children more comfortable. Our hope is over time we will detail exactly what has been done with your donation and what children you have helped, so that everyone who has participated in these events can feel a special connection.

Ohio State Student Union at Ohio State University
1739 N. High Street
Columbus, OH 43210

The event will be held in the "Interfaith Prayer and Reflection Room", room number 3020C on the third floor. The room can hold upwards of 100 people and is 1,656 square feet.


Click here for parking information!

Schedule
May 21st, 2011
11:00AM: Doors open - Registration for Brawl & Melee Singles and Doubles begins
12:30PM: Brawl & Melee Doubles Begins (double elimination bracket)
3:30PM: Brawl & Melee Singles Pools Begins (8 pools per game, top 4 advance)
6:00PM: Melee Double Elimination Singles Bracket Begins
7:00PM: Brawl Double Elimination Singles Bracket Begins
10:00PM: Begin packing up

Food
Food is available in the OSU Student Union and in the surrounding area. The Student Union features the following eating choices

• Sloopy's
• Woody's
• The Union Market
• Station88
• Express-OH

Just outside the Union within 5 minutes walking distance is Chipotle, Jimmy Johns, UDF, and several pizza places.

Money
Venue Fee: $5 (waived if your wii and copy of Brawl is used for the tournament)
Mandatory Charity Donation: $5
Entrance fee for Singles (1v1): $5 per person
Entrance fee for Doubles (2v2): $5 per person

Total entry for both Singles and Doubles (either game) w/o a setup: $20
Total entry for both Singles and Doubles (either game) w/ a setup: $15

Singles Payout
1st: 48%
2nd: 22%
3rd: 14%
4th: 8%
5th: 4%
5th: 4%

Teams Payout
1st: 55%
2nd: 30%
3rd: 15%
General Gameplay Rules
Brawl Rules: We will be using the Unity Ruleset.
Melee Rules: We will be using the same rules that we used for Charity Gaming I.

•These rules are subject to change leading up to the event date. The Tournament Director (Chris Brown) and Tournament Organizer (Ray Tan) reserves the right to remove you from the venue at their discretion for any reason.

Note: The Ohio Smash Initiative and its members, the Ohio State Student Union and its affiliates, Ray Tan, Chris Brown, and any persons helping run the event may not be held liable for any lost, stolen, or damaged goods during this event. Nor will Chris Brown, the venue, its owners, affiliates, employees, members, sponsors, or volunteers be held liable or responsible for any injury or harm that may befall a person during the course of this event. By entering the venue during the posted date you are displaying your agreement with this policy.

Pools and Bracket Information
Information on teams will be posted as the schedule is developed.

Singles
Singles will be run with pools followed by a double elimination bracket.

Pool ties will be broken as follows:

• If set wins are tied between 2 (two) people, then whoever won the head to head match advances (or gets the higher seed)
• If set wins are tied between 3 (three) people and it is an A > B > C > A scenario, then whoever has the better game record continues (wins - loses), if two people are tied in their game record then head to head is used between those two players.
• If all three players are tied in sets and games then 1 stock 2 minute overtime will be played between each of the three players. Best of one. This continues until the tie is broken.

Attendence List

Setups
TV
The Ohio Smash Initiative will be providing 32 TVs for the event.
Wii

There will be Melee setups. Just like OSI 1 had all three games (64, Melee, Brawl) there will be friendly setups for all three games here. Also, there is a chance we may be running a dual Melee/Brawl tournament. Stay tuned for more details. We can't finalize anything until we determine exactly what rooms we will have and what date the event will be.

Date is set for Saturday may 21.

I'll make sure to tell some people about it. Hopefully we will know by Friday as well if we can do a Brawl/Melee event too.

Created AllisBrawl Link: click "I am attending" here: http://allisbrawl.com/ttournament.aspx?id=11983

Also as of right now I think we are going to run Melee so I'm going to change this to a Brawl/Melee event. More details to come.

Dees: You'll need to bring a Wii and copy of Brawl.

Also yes, there are discounts for setups and that means with
-Cube/Wii + Melee = $5 (IF IT IS USED! which is likely though)
-Wii + Brawl = $5 (IF IT IS USED! which is likely though)

No need to bring TVs has by the time this events comes around we should hopefully have 32+ TVs owned by the OSI club. The goal will be to have 16 tvs for each game (2 per pool, 8 pools) and some left over tvs for Smash 64/friendlies.

Awesome guys! Keep letting us know if you can bring a setup. We will be purchasing some Gamecubes/Melee disks but Wiis are a lot harder to get so please let us know if you can accommodate a wii.

Also rules for Melee will be posted this Friday. Likely will be the same as the first event.

Ray: I'll be at the meeting tonight. Also as of right now no one has voiced the need for the bus service. Most people on Smashboards do rides/carpools themselves. Shrug.

I'll start keeping a list of who says they can bring a setup for Melee/Brawl. I'll also update the schedule after our meeting tonight (so schedule + Melee rules will be up tonight).