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OSI Presents: Charity Gaming III (10/22/11): $450 for charity, 68 Unique Entrants!

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Thank you everyone who made it out to the event. For this tournament, $450 dollars will be donated to children who are suffering from terminal illnesses via video games, video games consoles, books, movies, board games, and any special requests they make. Thank you to everyone who helped and donated! We have set a goal of $3,000 so that we can provide (a lot) for children who are in need! After this tournament we are about halfway there!

We hope everyone had a good time at the event. In all there were 68 unique entrants between the three events. We had over 20 TVs split between Brawl, Melee, and Smash 64. We also had a projector running which helped move things along. We also got the Coke Grant (again!), so hopefully everyone enjoyed the treat of free Coke, Sprite, Mellow Yellow, and bottled water.

Thank you to all the staff who helped make the event a success!

AiB Results Coming Soon!

***Doubles Prizes are an estimate - everything else should be accurate within a dollar***

Brawl Singles Bracket
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Singles Results (33 Entrants, $165 in Prizes - $165 to Charity)
1: Y.b.M. ($79.20) - Kirby, Zero Suit Samus, Link, Meta Knight
2: Infern ($36.30) - Snake, Mario, Meta Knight
3: Blue Rogue ($23.10) - Wario, Game & Watch
4: AlphaZealot ($13.20) - Diddy Kong, Donkey Kong
5: Links24 ($6.60) - Toon Link
5: MX ($6.60) - Yoshi, Fox
7: Davon - Lucario
7: Carlz - Fox
9: Champ - Ice Climbers, Falco
9: SneakyTako - R.O.B., King Dedede
9: JT - Sonic, Captain Falcon
9: Lou - Mr. Game & Watch
13: RedBeefBaron
13: Isaiah Howard
13: Kyle Kiester - King Dedede
13: Jiffy - Wario, Ness
---Pools Cutoff---
17: Drillbit Sammy - Luigi
17: Roman Kazachkov
17: BeanBurrito
17: Auspher - Wolf, Lucario
21: Nick McKinney
21: Sam Posa
21: Helen Pipck - Lucario
21: Juu - Pit, Mario, Kirby and Sheik
25: Christian Winterhalter
25: James Davis
25: Amifred Williams
25: Chase Ruziesea
29: Brandon Merriman
29: Hans Winterhalter
29: CouchPotato
29: Nathan Petrovic
33: Daniel Cheynes

Brawl Doubles Bracket
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Singles Results (9 Entrants, $45 in Prizes - $45 to Charity)
1: Y.b.M. & Infern (Y.b.M. & Infern) ($20.25)
2: Tom Anderson & Temmie Parson (Blue Rogue & Links24) ($13.50)
3: Chris Brown & Lou Agresk (AlphaZealot & Lou) ($11.25)
4: Marc Galvan & Ben Kazarinoff (BeanBurrito & RedBeefBaron)
5: Deshannon Gilbert & David Rohlfing (Davon & CouchPotato)
5: Dan Lance & Helen (Jiffy & Rikku)
7: Scan Reilly & John Lary (Meaty & John L)
7: Tyler Knapland & Anastasios Vidas (Tyler K & Greek)
9: Jeremy Dover & Charlie Prior (Jeremy D & CharleeP3)

Melee Singles Bracket
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Singles Results (30 Entrants, $150 in Prizes - $150 to Charity)
1: Prince Abu ($72.00) - Jigglypuff
2: Tyhiggz ($33.00) - Peach
3: Big R ($21.00) - Falco
4: MMX ($12.00) - Fox
5: Paradigm ($6.00) - Samus
5: Achilles ($6.00) - Marth
7: Ralis - Falco
7: Daniel Deuse-kerr
9: Kevin Zang
9: Kyler Curtis
9: Greg Stanley
9: John T - Marth
13: Eric Howell - Fox
13: Chris Carson
13: Max Orr
13: Jon VanBaalen
---Pools Cutoff---
17: Corey Ferris
17: Eric Thomas
17: Deep Shan
17: Matt Urbanek
21: Aesier - Pichu
21: Michael Van Baulen - Jigglypuff
21: Sam Edwards
21: Willam Ruchotzk
25: Ty Dorman
25: Anthony George
25: Joshua
25: Nathan Henneman
29: Jeff Huggins
29: Ethan Hill

Melee Doubles Bracket
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Doubles Results (5 Teams, $25 in Prizes - $25 to Charity)
1: Kevin Boddy & Byan Lintur (MMX & BbR) ($15.75)
2: Abhi Prabhu & Tyler Hontons (Prince Abu & Ty) ($10.50)
3: Dave Owens & Daniel Thaw (Achilles & Paradigm) ($8.75)
4: Danny Pearkerr & Eric Thomas (Thesenss & Eric)
5: Kevin Zang & Anamd H. (That Cobra & Did You Know)
5: Christian Winterhalter & Hans Winterhalter (Atma & Hans)
7: Deep Shah & Chris Carson (Deep & Swag)

Smash 64 Singles Bracket
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Singles Results (5 Entrants, $25 in Prizes - $25 to Charity)
1: Cory Higgins ($15.00)
2: Tyler Higgins ($10.00)
3: Andrew Krieger
4: Chris Arnsp
5: Max Tomann

Smash 64 Doubles Bracket
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Singles Results (8 Entrants, $40 in Prizes - $40 to Charity)
1: Tyler Higgins & Cory Higgins (Tyhiggz & Cormander) ($18.00)
2: Jason Wachs & Chris Amst (Darque Shadoe & Khypih 320) ($12.00)
3: Andrew Krieger & Max Tomqun (Andrew Krieger & Max Tomqun) ($10.00)
4: Eric Howell & Greg Stanly (ErikHimself & GStan)
5: Matt Chamberlain & Adam Pellegrini (Chambo & Apes of Wrath)
5: Brendan Caprio & Brian Caprio (Twin 1 & Twin 2)
7: Mason Hughes & Nick Schweer (Of Electirc Mice and Men & Purple Dinasaur)
7: Erick Dommer & Adam Studer (Erick & Adam)

If anyone wants to help me by posting peoples characters please do! I will then edit this post!
 

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Cool turnout. Sowwie I didn't make it.
Next time fo sho<33

edit: and put gamer tags beside their names lol
 

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Also I have tio files for Charity Gaming II, Charity Gaming II, and Delta Upsilon VIII all finished. I've uploaded Charity Gaming II results and they should go through. Charity Gaming III and Delta Upsilon VIII got error messages on AiB so I will have to try to upload them later.

*taking care of old business*
 

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Brawl Singles

Me = Fox
Blue Rogue = Wario & G&W
MX = Yoshi & Fox
Lou = Wario
Tako = ROB
Links24 = Toon Link?
Y. b. M = Kirby
Jeremiah Ferguson (JT?) = Sonic & Captain Falcon

That's all I got so far.
 

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SHOUTOUTS
Aesir- for giving me a ride and backing me in the tourney
Doc player in my pool- thanks for rooting for me against paradigm
Paradigm- awesome, awesome sets with you. im glad you respect me now.
Abu- Thanks for bein a chap and playin with me even tho im way worse than you. ur a cool guy.
Xyk- ur a cool guy too
Ray- for hosting this tourney. Props.
Alpha Zealot- for running away from me for the entire tournament.

Im Ralis/Peter G, by the way, and i played as falco.
Aesir/max- pichu
Abu- jiggz
tyhiggz- peach
Big R- Falco
Paradigm- Samus
Xykness- Falco
John T- Marth

thats all i remember
 

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For what it's worth, "Daniel Thaw" -> "Daniel Thau." My handwriting sucks, it's probably my fault. Doesn't matter, everyone knows me as "paradigm."

Melee Characters:
Prince Abu = Jiggs
Tyhiggz = Peach
Big R = Falco
MMX = Fox
Paradigm = Samus
Achilles = Marth
John T = Marth
I *think* these are correct, but I could be wrong:
Eric Howell = Fox
Max Orr = Doctor Mario
Michael Van Baulen = Jiggs

Many great gg's.

Props to Abi and Tyler for bringing Arch House up to the tippy top.

Achilles: Great teamwork, we did really well. Synergzing and stuff.

The three way tie in Melee Pool 3 was epic; to much Eric for the pool to handle.

MMX: Crazy good call with that shine - I can't believe my lucky that I accidentally reversed the charge shot. You read me like a book.

The falco I played for the 5th place spot whose name I didn't catch: Extremely good set! That was soooo close! My heart was beating incredibly hard after that - I had to go get a glass of water and walk around the union for a bit before I was read for another match after that.
 

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lol @ Tyhiggs. I think that's the Brawl guy. Different person (I did not enter the Brawl tourney). I was just listed as Ty for the melee 2nd place. Can you edit and fix that?

Also, it's Tyler Hankins for doubles and not Tyler Hontons, but eh, what the hell. I know the handwriting was pretty scratchy on the bracket sheet. Close enough.

Big R: Good singles matches, props for getting about 20 up-smash kills on me in doubles.
Big R's friend: See [Big R]
Corey: Nice meeting you; was cool to learn you entered Genesis II. I would not have shared that Chipotle food with Max, so you are a better man than I am.
Dane: Your Marth is sexy. Also, teach me how to play Marth.
Daniel D: I apologize again for the Peach dittos, but at least it wasn't Puff v. Puff
Eric H: Sorry you got bracket *****. =(
Max: Nice meeting you too. Keep caping turnips back at me. It'll work.
Paradigm: Congrats on getting 5th. You had some really close matches with MMX and seemed to be on point most of the tourney.

Abhi: lol u scrub

Nice job, Archer House.
 

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Ummm I used Zero Suit Samus, Kirby, Metaknight, and Link...

Also, I'd like to add that I didn't drop a game in singles...
 

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GGs to everyone!! I played as Falco for the Melee singles.
My favorite matches would hafta be my Falco ditto matches with Greg (I don't know your alias). They were so close and my heart was beating like mad crazy during them. We must smash again sometime.
Also, it was great to finally meet you Aesir! You're a pretty awesome guy! Was pretty awesome to play against a pichu main.
Abu, you did an outstanding job with Jiggz. I think I have some ideas to hopefully get at least 2 stocks off of you next time lol
To everyone else, I had tons of fun smashing with you and you all are pretty awesome people. Didn't have a "sour" game with anyone!
 

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MMX and Bigr puttin in work in teams. Step up your floaty games though kids, **** is free.
 

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sneakytako!!!!!
There is a game on PS1 Ness vs Sonic saved on your wii where Sonic got 2 Up Bs. Just wanna let you know. Could you please not erase it?..... I mean unless it's a known glitch.
I swear Sonic is the glitchiest character in the game. A few hits in that match went through him without any sort of spin shenanigans as well.
Thanks.
 

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Hell yeah Paradigm, poke floats is always a good time! Great community and great tournament. I love you all!

no homo
 

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AZ! you misspelled my name xP

oh yea, it was pretty awesome playing all of you.

Xyk, twas fun, you're a pree cool guy, I love how you hold your controller ^^

Abu, I wish I could have played you some more, that was my first time playing a real jiggz, i love how you played aggressive with her. I respect jiggz a bit more now ^^

Paradigm, I didn't get to play you... but i want to next time :p

Sammy, luigi dittos are fun, wish we could have played some more... but you're stupid self entered the brawl tourney .-.

Greg (don't know your little name thing), you were pretty fun to play against. I really enjoyed playing your falco.

Alpha zealot, for running away when ralis challenged you to a MM saying you were hella busy... then playing friendlies with BigR for like 20 minutes.

everyone else, i'm sorry but I forgot your names :(, you were all fun to play against though.
I also realized what I need to work on, so hopefully I'll be better by the next tourney. I won't stop until i can make it out of pools as pichu xP
 

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Regarding running away: at that point Melee pools were suppose to start. Then they decided to have a 3-way tie in one of the pools, so I just sat and did some friendlies.
 

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great games everyone. even though i didn't make it out of pools this time, all of my matches were pretty damn close. so, i feel that with a little more practice i would do a lot better, instead of how it's usually where i pretty much decide i suck. i also learned i should be a little bit more stingy on stage picking, because in such close matches the stage apparently matters quite a bit.

glad to see that a jiggs won though
 

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Worst tournament I have ever been to.

- I brought my setup to the tournament since it seemed like they needed a lot of setups, but my venue fee didn’t get waived since they didn’t need it. I’m not too worried about that, just annoying that I walked with my setup to campus with the intention of them needing setups badly and then not using it for the entire tournament.

- Entry fee was $5 venue fee, $5 mandatory charity donation, $5 for singles, and $5 for teams. At least the ruleset said that. It was somewhat annoying that the “cover fee” was the same as the entry fee. If I’m paying $10 for the cover fee, I would expect the tournament to be of high quality and, subsequently, have high payouts.

- BigR and I win teams. Ray (the tournament organizer) is announcing the winners over the microphone and says, “In first place in Melee doubles, BigR and his teammate!” Everyone was laughing, and I have a good sense of humor, so I thought it was pretty funny, too. Everybody knows BigR is good/nobody really knows who I am, so it makes sense. Plus people were saying that throughout the tournament: “Yeah, we lost to BigR.” I honestly don’t mind that at all because I’m pretty unknown, at least in the Columbus community. However, Ray did not even say something along the lines of, “Yeah, I’m joking, good job” or something to dismiss his previous statement. He seemed pretty genuine in his statement, and for a tournament organizer to say that? That’s a very amateur thing to do in his “professional” setting, not to mention that statement being false. I think anybody that watched our matches could tell you that I am a pretty competent doubles partner (singles: totally different story).

- A lot of that stuff was just pet peeve stuff, but this is where it starts to get shaky. After BigR and I win teams, we receive our first place envelope. Doing the math in my head, there were 7 teams, so $70 in the pot. I assumed that $42 was going to be in the envelope (assuming they did 60/30/10, which ended up not being the split, as it was like 55/30/15 or something along the lines of that). When we opened the envelope, we revealed $14. We’re like, okay, something has to be wrong here. We talk to Ray and he informs us that half of the doubles money went to charity as well . . . what? If you recall, it was $5 for charity, $5 for singles, and $5 for teams. However, Ray insists that money from both singles AND doubles are going to charity. I bring up the ruleset on a laptop, and I show Ray the ruleset that he posted on there. He’s like, oh, well I mean it’s only $2.50 more per person. Really? You’re calling yourself a professional with that kind of a statement? You have to be kidding me. That’s completely unacceptable. I tell him that he should follow the ruleset, and he just completely ignores me like I’m not saying anything. Great tournament organizer. Very professional.

- I talk with the other teams, and the payout was $14, $11, and $10, to 1st, 2nd, and 3rd, respectively. Okay, now I’m completely confused cause that is nowhere near 55/30/15. I talk with another person working the event (since Ray doesn’t want to listen to my “logic” anymore) and he informs me that there is a statement on the ruleset that says, “(Prize amount subject to change if there are less than 8 teams).” Okay, I can see the prize amount changing . . . but to split the money THAT way? 40/32/28? I would assume (logistically, that is) that “subject to change” means that you are eliminating 3rd place, cause realistically, why would 3rd place get any money in a 7-team event? He informs me that this payout structure is “more likely to keep people around,” that “if they get their money back, they are more likely to come back because they feel successful.” Or something along the lines of that. First of all, I’ve dealt with a multitude of various tournament structures (poker/smash/other video games), and money-back should NEVER exist. You’re not winning anything! You either win or lose in an event. You should not be able to “draw,” per se. If 1st place profits $2 each and 2nd profits $0.50, the tournament organizers are essentially just taking money from everybody. If you could quantify that into a statement, it would be, “The top 3 teams are breaking even, and we are taking all of the money from 4th-7th place.” That is beyond bad for a tournament. I tell him that if that is your logic, that breaking even will make people happy, then I guess you’re keeping them around but you’re clearly not keeping me around.

- I overheard Ray and another person talking about the charity and about how much money was raised from this event. He said that $450 was raised for charity, and I was pretty impressed with that. The girl said to him, “What, so you just donate all this to a foundation or something?” Ray replied with, “Oh, well we don’t donate the money to a foundation. We don’t donate it to something like the Make-a-Wish foundation because they have employees working for that foundation. Well, why would we donate to this charity? We’re essentially paying the employees with our donating, and we don’t believe in that. Our organization is holding onto the money, and we are going to keep growing as we get more and more money. The more money we get, the bigger and better we become, and then the more money we can donate to charity.” I can’t believe I didn’t say anything in person to Ray about this, but I’m sure he would not have listened to me anyway. You’re not donating to a charity because they pay their employees? That’s a completely ridiculous argument. I’m sorry, but businesses rely on their employees to get the job done. The money still goes to a great foundation. I’m sorry you think it’s ludicrous that you’re paying employees. To comment even further, where is this money going? After hearing the conversation that you had, I cannot believe I didn’t ask for my money back. You’re just going to hold onto the money until you do bigger and better things? I don’t think you can call this event “donating to charity” unless you actually do it. Cause you know, that’s probably not legal. What if these Smash events never happen again? What if you never raise another dollar for these “supposed” charities again? Where is this money going to? I’m sorry, but the fact that you’re basically keeping the money “until further notice” makes me very uneasy. How the hell am I supposed to know if you are donating to a charity in the future? That is completely unacceptable, and I am definitely not donating another dollar to your “charity” ever again.



Tl;dr: this tournament was a complete joke. Not following the ruleset whatsoever and being incredibly shady regarding the charity aspect are the two main reasons why I’m never going to be at another one of these tournaments again. If this is the “saving grace” of the Melee community in Columbus, then I’m pretty sure I just lost all motivation I have had recently in continuing to play this game. So thanks for that.

I will say this, however, not to rain on everybody’s parade. If you are looking for experience in a tournament and don’t really care about losing $20 or whatever for the tourney, then by all means come to these. It’s a great way to gain experience and meet new people and play a variety of characters. Tournaments are a great way to get better at the game, and these will suffice in terms of that. I would also suggest going to Momo on Wednesday nights (like TheKiest has posted above me), as these are very similar to tournaments (gaining experience, meeting new people, getting better at the game, etc.), but without the competition and without paying money. Momo is an awesome venue for these Smashfests! I would highly suggest taking advantage of these.

Shoutouts:

BigR: Way to do all the work and carry me in teams. =P
Paradigm: You’re cool as hell; I’m glad I got to meet you. We had some great matches in both teams and singles. Reverse charge-blasts are too good, haha.
Tyler H: Great matches in singles and teams. Peach is definitely a weak point in my game, and you showed me why in singles. You also were very humble and had great sportsmanship. Good showing!
Abu: Great teams matches, they were really close. Wish I got to play your Puff in singles, as I was testing the Sheik/Puff matchup a lot, but oh well. I still have troubles with floaties at the end of the day, so I’m sure you still would’ve beaten me anyway, haha. Good job winning singles!
 
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