Smashing Grounds V: The Final Frontier 5 ** Bi-Weeklies

[Fortress | Sveet]

We had ~45 (44 i think?) last summer the first time MI came. Honestly, the venue can't hold much more than that.


Oh yeah, from what i've noticed the last few times i've been to the SttF's, the college apparently removed all the chairs... There are benches and stuff we usually push around, but bringing chairs might be a good idea.

 

[Meneks]

Also, guessing by how many votes it looks like we might actually have a random partner doubles tourney?

 

[FrootLoop]

I'd like to change my vote from "random partner doubles" to "ditto-only singles"
either random ditto every game, or random ditto just for for game 1, but you ban and counterpick characters instead of stages. random stages the whole time.

 

[Fortress | Sveet]

If only it were possible to change votes on this site...

 

[Oro?!]

Mods can do it.

Most that venue ever held was a Don't Blink where I had 78 individual entrants. Some entered multiple things, but there was 45~ for Brawl and 40~ for Melee, as well as various other fighters.

 

[Zwarm]

Too bad there's no chairs anymore.

Bad news, my boss gave me an ultimatum, get this day off, or get the other day I requested off, the week before this off. The week before this is a family get together at my house for like 10 people's birthdays and I already told my mom months ago I would be there, so I can't make this now.

I'll definitely try to make it during the summer though.

 

[Fortress | Sveet]

You're forgetting option number 3, tell the boss to **** off

 

[Zwarm]

If my other manager was the one making the schedule, I would definitely do that... but the one who actually does it would fire me on the spot, lol.

 

[Fortress | Sveet]

I'm not seeing the problem

 

[Zwarm]

I like money, is the problem.

 

[Fortress | Sveet]

and thats why you're going to a video game tournament to win

 

[Zwarm]

O h

 

[Fortress | Sveet]

Infallible logic prevails again!

 

[Little England]

Here's a proposal for a side tournament.

Auction Tournament:

Using the official tier list (starting from Fox going down to Pichu) the TO will auction off characters. Players will be locked into the character they buy for the whole tournament. The limit is one character to player (that's how an auction works of course lol).

Bids start at the following values (values change due to the nature of the tournament):

1. Fox-$15
2. Falco-$15
3. Jigglypuff-$10
4. Sheik-$13
5. Marth-$10
6. Peach-$9
7. Falcon-$8
8. ICs-$6
9. Doc-$5
10. Ganon-$4
11. Samus-$4
12. Pikachu-$3
13. Mario-$2
14. Luigi-$1
15. DK-$1
16. Link-$1
17. YL-$1
18. Zelda-$1
19. Roy-$1
20. Mewtwo-$1
21. Yoshi-$0.75
22. G&W-$0.50
23. Ness-$0.50
24. Bowser-$0.25
25. Kirby- $0.25
26. Pichu-$0.25

 

[john!]

^ wouldn't people just buy their mains? that seems like a "top tier tax" more than anything, lol

ideally the payouts would go pretty low in the placings, so people could weigh the cost/benefit of using a cheap low tier character instead of an expensive high tier.

 

[Fortress | Sveet]

Is it limited to 1 player per character?

 

[Little England]

^yes .

 

[ORLY]

oh i'm in for that for sure

$1 for luigi, yes please

 

[Fortress | Sveet]

Its too late in the voting for it this time, but I plan to remove the winning side tournament. I will definitely add that in for the voting for the 2nd summer tournament


Jason are you going to be around this summer at all?

 

[Little England]

I'll be at Purdue until about mid June. Problem is I don't have a car here, so I'm not sure if I can get to these. >_<

 

[Fortress | Sveet]

Well the 2nd tourney is tentatively scheduled for 6/9. If theres a better date (other than 6/2, i dont want back to back weekends) for you/purdue to make it here, let me know.

 

[Scythe]

Interesting idea, but totally meaningless to the top players who would win money and a total slap in the face to anyone who is learning the game and happens to main fox lol

 

[FrootLoop]

oh i'm in for that for sure

$1 for luigi, yes please

I wouldn't let luigi go for $1

 

[Fortress | Sveet]

Well since it is bidding i think the numbers should be normalized a bit more. High tiers would get more bids because of their tier ranking anyways, making their cost go up. At the same time, niche low tiers would go for ultra cheap. Also, I don't feel like breaking dollars so I think it should be at least $1 per with at $1 increments on bids

 

[ORLY]

I wouldn't let luigi go for $1

lol i think it's totally fair

 

[Meneks]

Eh, 2 singles tournies?

It would be cool to have some type of doubles, or just stick to the voting system since that is what you were originally going to do

 

[Fortress | Sveet]

ummm this bidding side tournament isn't even viable for this upcoming tournament... From what it looks like, it is going to be random partners >_>

 

[viperboy_74]

I sort of vote on doing traditional singles and traditional doubles, and do a third fun tourney afterwords.

Something outside the traditional may steer some people away or everyone may not enter random partner doubles, however most people would do both (I'd love 3 tourneys at a tourney)

 

[Fortress | Sveet]

Well I'm not sure if we would have time for 3 events. The venue doesn't really "close" so we can theoretically stay until were done. I usually only hear from Tink though, saying that he wants to get shiz done early so he can leave. This could just be the case of a vocal minority; would people stay for a 3rd event (after singles)? I could manage the tournaments tightly so that all 3 could be done by midnight or 1.

As for why traditional doubles is being replaced: the relative turnout for doubles has been low and generally uncompetitive. Kels/Tink team and the R bros team but beyond that everyone else just picks random partners and does whatever. I put it up to vote whether normal teams should happen or one of the side tournaments; the majority seem to want random partner doubles (which I suppose reflects the majority's normal choice anyways).

 

[FrootLoop]

we got kicked out at 2 by the cops

 

[PseudoTurtle]

Lmao I'd be willing to pay $4 to play ganon. I'm in!

 

[Fortress | Sveet]

we got kicked out at 2 by the cops

oh yeah? good to know.


If anyone wants to stay later for a 3rd event, speak up

 

[ORLY]

i would, but typically everyone's outta there ASAP

what's your idea, sveet? reg doubles, reg singles, side event X?

 

[Scythe]

lol so much for the poll

 

[Fortress | Sveet]

Well there has been talk about a project M side tournament

 

[bertbusdriver]

I like the idea of the auction tournament idea. Still not sure if I'll be in MW for this summer, but if so, I'll be at a few of these.

 

[Meneks]

I like random partners more than the auction idea(15 STARTING bid for falco? fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu)

 

[Fortress | Sveet]

Well for the record I think Jason was just putting example numbers in there. I would make them more fair if it actually happened.

 

[HoChiMinhTrail]

I'll be at this thing. I'm tired of all you noobs inflating your SSBPD rating by playing in these scrub tournies every week. Time to get in on that action. Ill bring a TV since ORLY is a bad host and brings nothing but his johnz to the table.

 

[Fortress | Sveet]

Good thing Sveet is back in the conductor seat