Well, it's been almost a year since I hosted my very first tourney, and we've come a hell of a long way since Rob's House 1. That tourney got a grand total of 18 entrants, didn't produce enough teams for a bracket to be made, was almost entirely ran by BigD, and I didn't even post a results thread... lol.
Fast forward to March 2011, now we're getting 64 Melee entrants with almost half of them coming from out-of-state, including Teczero, Kels, and Tink. I knew MI could be a Smash hotspot with the proper initiative and organization, but that is ridiculous, simply ridiculous. Good stuff everyone.
Pretty much everything associated with MI Melee in the past six months has been 100% hard competition, and I realized we've kinda lost touch on the fun that comes with locals and smashfests. GSS was exhausting... I'll never put that much effort again into TOing/housing/recording/including Brawl. But of course I'm still willing to host if people are still willing to attend. I'm thinking that for this summer, why not go back to our local roots and have events where we just chill and Smash and maybe even have time to do crews or a side tourney for once. We've been so caught up in the hype from the last couple epic regionals that we've forgotten how much we can still learn and improve from playing each other.
Things are flexible right now, so here a few questions for MI Melee:
1) Do people even want summer tourneys? I'm just gonna be working all summer here in Ann Arbor, so any tourneys that I host will happen here. I know most of UM won't be in town, so it looks like almost everyone will have to drive here.
2) If yes, when should the events take place and how often? I'm more interested in which weekends we should avoid rather than which ones are good. And I'm thinking maybe one event per month... yes, no, maybe?
3) What do you think of slightly downsized tourneys? Essentially I kinda want to trade super-competitive turnouts (SWEET IV, GSS) for more relaxed and fun locals (Rob's House, SWEET I) to further develop the Melee community here.
4) Is anyone else planning Melee tourneys elsewhere? I'll definitely support any other events that happen because I feel bad that people like West MI have to drive 2.5 hours every time to get to Ann Arbor. Let me know, I'm all for making things easier.
5) If you have any other feedback from the last two tourneys (Who's Got Salt and Good **** Stratford) I'd appreciate it. Whatever topic you can think of and want to discuss... venue, seeding, schedule, format, ruleset, you name it, fire away.
Looking forward to more MI Melee.
- Rob
Fast forward to March 2011, now we're getting 64 Melee entrants with almost half of them coming from out-of-state, including Teczero, Kels, and Tink. I knew MI could be a Smash hotspot with the proper initiative and organization, but that is ridiculous, simply ridiculous. Good stuff everyone.
Pretty much everything associated with MI Melee in the past six months has been 100% hard competition, and I realized we've kinda lost touch on the fun that comes with locals and smashfests. GSS was exhausting... I'll never put that much effort again into TOing/housing/recording/including Brawl. But of course I'm still willing to host if people are still willing to attend. I'm thinking that for this summer, why not go back to our local roots and have events where we just chill and Smash and maybe even have time to do crews or a side tourney for once. We've been so caught up in the hype from the last couple epic regionals that we've forgotten how much we can still learn and improve from playing each other.
Things are flexible right now, so here a few questions for MI Melee:
1) Do people even want summer tourneys? I'm just gonna be working all summer here in Ann Arbor, so any tourneys that I host will happen here. I know most of UM won't be in town, so it looks like almost everyone will have to drive here.
2) If yes, when should the events take place and how often? I'm more interested in which weekends we should avoid rather than which ones are good. And I'm thinking maybe one event per month... yes, no, maybe?
3) What do you think of slightly downsized tourneys? Essentially I kinda want to trade super-competitive turnouts (SWEET IV, GSS) for more relaxed and fun locals (Rob's House, SWEET I) to further develop the Melee community here.
4) Is anyone else planning Melee tourneys elsewhere? I'll definitely support any other events that happen because I feel bad that people like West MI have to drive 2.5 hours every time to get to Ann Arbor. Let me know, I'm all for making things easier.
5) If you have any other feedback from the last two tourneys (Who's Got Salt and Good **** Stratford) I'd appreciate it. Whatever topic you can think of and want to discuss... venue, seeding, schedule, format, ruleset, you name it, fire away.
Looking forward to more MI Melee.
- Rob
