I still think we should try to get a provincial tournament going, and have everyone from Edmonton, Calgary, Lethbridge, Red Deer, Coaldale....everyone from everywhere to come! If we get something huge in Calgary with all 3 games and tons of people, we can also probably get OoP players, and perhaps some US to come up too. It'd be really beneficial to Alberta as a whole and it'd be so ****ing fun. Alberta tournaments have had Kage, Silent Wolf, MudraMoe, BC, and we can get many more too, and I know a ton of Melee/Brawl players would love to meet some of the pros.
There are so many people, we should get at least a legit 32-man bracket in all 3 games, plus I'm sure that Calgary's 64 players would love to play Superboom, all the southern Brawl players want to see how they fare vs Edmonton and vice versa, and most of everyone plays Melee, and I know a ton of people are dying to see how they fare against Sleak and this Roy god, and of course everyone from different cities that never play together. It would really build the community up instead of all these splits based on city, game preference, etc.
If everyone were to pitch in $10 or so, bring in setups, etc, we could have a legit venue. It might be tricky organizing everything and housing everyone, but we have a ton of good TOs like After Dawn, Alphicans, Bread, Shiro; I'd be willing to help out too (I run a community, I think I can handle a tournament). In Calgary too, there are so many players so I'm sure everyone from Edmonton, and elsewhere can all stay somewhere.
We have everything we'd need and it's all positives if we get a massive Alberta tournament going. Rivalries, hype, crew battles, meeting tons of new people, having ****loads of fun. Early January works really well too since everyone is on break and it'd be after New Years' hangovers and before going back to school. We have to step our **** up and get this going!