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EVO, 2000 man tourney for SFIV (referring to the series as a whole), done all in one night with the exception of Top 8 which is done on Sunday. Is it done in one big *** bracket? No. They have double elimination pools of 16 players max, however many pools they need to cover all the entrants. 2 players advance, one from winner's and one from loser's, to the next set of pools to get to Top 32 then to Top 8. Mind you those who advanced from loser's are still in loser's so you really have to play on point. GamerBee lost 1st round of the Super in 2010 and made it all the way to Top 8 so it's not impossible. You just got to be good and have resolve and poise to overcome such an obstacle.My 1st post I see where your coming from... but if thats the case then we might as well just have 1 big *** bracket right?
It's not really my idea. I'm just referring to the model of the biggest and most competitive fighting game tourney series of all time.my 2nd post I was merely agreeing that for major tourneys your idea would be better and less time consuming.
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Please don't. Unless I'm posting an obvious troll post, I'm posting an honest post of my feelings most likely to improve something or right a wrong. It's only because I care.
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I'd figure you'd much prefer south beach over pools
All pools are free pools to me
You feel that way because you don't go 0-2 in tournament and have either forgotten or never learned what it feels like to drive 3 hours, only to play for 30 minutes and have to spend the rest of the time watching other people play. It's not conducive to growth. That you think that the existence of "Free Pools" is a bad thing is telling.
No, I feel that way because of my experience with pools and brackets. I've driven 3 hours for plenty of tournys. The worst one was probaly winterfest that we drove from naples to Orlando awhile back where my pool was hrnut and dphat and only top 2 made it out with 5 ppl in that pool. Considering it was a tourney with OOS, it was annoying to have the toughest pool there, and not being able to play ppl like ally or gnes in bracket. iirc gmoney didnt make it out either because his pool i think was really tough too and that was around the time he was in his prime. I've had a similiar experience too in melee 05'ish and only tend to have such unpleasant events during pools it seems. On the other spectrum, the last tourney I went to with most of fl was the tommy_g tourney where my pool was me,tommyg,dtorr and 2 other ppl. That tourney didnt end up well as you probably remember due it taking too long but also because of the power outage. Both sides of the spectrum suck since its not fair for the other people in different pools.
Okay Xaltis.DewDaDash said:
lol wut?
Opinion is 1 thing, when your argument is "ive had bad experiences in pools"...you aren't explaining anything.
this is true
Well thought out discussions is what I does so if you're in need of that, you know where to look.
xD lol im so washed up. Imma bring the heat myself this weekend though
