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[baka4moé]

evan you should come dude. i havent seen u in a few weeks lol. despite the flat screens, i guess it could be good practice for pound 5? tao and me are going, so maybe we could hang out afterward, or something.

 

[Rob_West]

This warrants an appearance. Hope to see some old faces there.

 

[MoP]

Yeah I'm in. I'll sign up at the store sometime tomorrow or Today. (Probably tomorrow, I have a cold.)

Who do I have to talk to for sign ups?

 

[TheRealBobMan]

I'll make a list of people who have confirmed since my post and just count you as coming for the sake of saving your spot and knowing if we need to push for Sat/Sun or not.


And I'll let you guys know by the end of work today (so by 9:00PM) if we need to push for 2 days or not. Hopefully that wont inconvenience anyone if we have to do it. At least you'll have all day Sat/Sun still available to do stuff since we'll be getting things over with early in the day, and we're going to run as much of the elimination bracket as possible to try and keep people from having to come back if we go ahead and make it both days.

 

[J.Shadows]

i might go

 

[WHA?]

i might go

can i ride with u????

 

[J.Shadows]

if i go im bussin it

 

[WestBallz]

im not going anymore i gotta babysit

 

[JTB]

im not going anymore i gotta babysit

sounds like JOHNS

 

[baka4moé]

can i also sign up a spot for one of my friends?

=[ wes. on the bright side, that leaves less ppl i have to worry about =]

 

[WHA?]

if i go im bussin it

is it 1 bus from ur place????
u live by nes???

 

[TheRealBobMan]

IMPORTANT UPDATE!!!!111oneone 2-10-11

With the number of entrants saying they're attending, we're going to have to split the tournament and run from about 10:00AM to 2:00PM Saturday and Sunday. If for whatever reason only about 32 people show up Saturday morning, we'll go ahead and finish on Satrday. Otherwise, we're going to split the tournament over the 2 days. We'll run as much of the elimination bracket as possible on Saturday so people that have lost a match wont have to come back the following day.

We are sorry for any inconvenience. If you have signed up and paid, but now cannot enter, we can give you a refund on your entry fee, or credit it toward the Black Ops tournament next month.

 

[baka4moé]

why can't you do it all on saturday? don't you guys close way after 2pm? just wondering..

 

[JTB]

It is not that time-consuming to run a <64 man bracket in one day. I guarantee that you can finish before 4 p.m if you are constantly running matches.

A full 64 man bracket = 126 matches (if my math is correct). Given an average of 15 minutes per match (5 minutes per game if every game is played), divided by 5 setups, you have a little over 6 hours of time devoted to matches. Since the majority of matches will involved someone getting ***** in a matter of minutes, the tournament will go even faster.

It just comes down to calling matches in a timely fashion.

 

[TheRealBobMan]

This is the way my boss wants it. Yeah, we could run it all day, but the longer it runs, the longer it interferes with the store's usual business. We've run enough tournaments to know that while the tournament is going on, most shoppers wont come inside because it's crowded. We already have really poor sales, and the only days we really make any money are the weekends, so we can't afford to tie up the store all day long. We have to be finishing things up by 2:00PM, so it needs to run into both days. : (

Also, it'd help out if people could make it a little earlier than 10:00. I'm going to send messages to the AiB and Facebook people to try to get there at 9:30 if they can, and my co-worker is going to call the people that signed up in the store. We'll likely start just after 10AM considering how long it takes to sign up... I think the cutoff will be 10:15AM unless there's still a line of people that are still paying their entries or something.

And if we get lucky and we only have around 32 show up, we can try to just run it on Saturday and not have the problem, but it looks like we're going to get more, so I have to announce it this way. Sorry guys.


One more thing, I'm taking care of 3 of the set ups, but the store's set up is being rented out (damn my boss's timing). I can't guarantee that I'll use a specific person's set-up (Wii + Melee), but I need 2 more all of a sudden (I was having someone else bring one, but it looks like he dropped out). -_-;

 

[baka4moé]

!!! so people can bring crt setups?? lol

oh nvm i just read the post again, all you need are wii/games i think?

 

[a rookie]

You have to sign up online for this? You can't sign up at the tourney?

 

[TheRealBobMan]

So, with all the people that had signed up online, we have 22 here the day of, and we're running late since a friend of mine isn't here yet and I don't want to start it without him (especially if only this many showed up).


*Repeated Facepalm*

So, I'll start in 5 minutes, and if you can make it in time to get in on a bye since the bracket isn't full, good for you.


*Update*
24 entrants total starting 30 minutes late. We're just about finished now. Waiting on Loser's Finals and Grand Finals.

 

[J.Shadows]

who won lol

 

[TheRealBobMan]

Daniel Blado. I think I remember him playing Peach? *Shakes fist*

Anyway, he was pretty good.

 

[metalreflectslime]

Daniel Blado = Baka4moe from Pasadena?

 

[J.Shadows]

LOL who's that

 

[baka4moé]

uhhhh as far as I can remember the results were:

1. baka4moe
2. beef
3. shadow-kun
4. dan

so as you can see, no one particularly notable went =p

tournament was fun though, got to meet some new people and i can finally go to e3 for once

EDIT: IMPORTANT! So it turns out I don't think I can make it to E3 this year =/ Would anyone like to buy my pass from me with a massive discount? Ask your friends too please, I wouldn't want such a valuable thing to go to waste...omg wow just when I finally managed to get a pass too...

 

[!Peligro!]

Damn, I knew it was too early for ranked players to go! I should have given you a run for your money.

 

[MacD]

i'm mad i had to go home this weekend

 

[Deleted member]

Not cool. Not cool.

 

[JDM]

You need legit documents that proves your in the gaming industry anyways to even enter E3 so I doubt you could have gone anyways unless the TO got you some paperwork signed and stuff.

 

[baka4moé]

essentially thats what the to did. when they (as in the employees/employer of the gaming store) sign up to get their passes, i'll be included in that. or, if i let them know before the end of march (hence the selling of the pass), they can give someone else's info so they can get my pass.

lol i don't get why none of the pr went.

 

[JDM]

Haha ok cool. My dad is putting me and my brother on Arc Systems Works payroll so we can go to E3 too. Hope you can sell it to somebody awesome.

 

[heyReflexareyouaFAAGorwhat]

Resident fun killer.

 

[WhiteOblv]

none of the pr went cuz its too early for them lol xD

and me an jeff had to work so we couldnt go either