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IFGC Presents - The Irish Open

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    #62
    ayjayirl
    Registered Users Posts: 1,966 ✭✭✭ayjayirl


    Sairus wrote: »
    Hey, remember this? http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=87945984



    Would anyone be willing to get something like this organized for this event? This sounds like one of the biggest events y'all will be running and a good chance for decent footage methinks. Maybe even ask a film student one of ye happen to know to pop along and film something if you can!

    I will br bringing a HD camera. Can't vouch for film making quality on the camerman side but sure I'll give it a go :)


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    #63
    D4RK ONION
    Moderators Posts: 8,678 ✭✭✭D4RK ONION


    I'll give it a shot too


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    #64
    MrHorse
    Registered Users Posts: 72 ✭✭MrHorse


    Whereabouts is Trinity Bar at? Sorry Ive a terrible sense of direction :pac:


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    #65
    ayjayirl
    Registered Users Posts: 1,966 ✭✭✭ayjayirl


    MrHorse wrote: »
    Whereabouts is Trinity Bar at? Sorry Ive a terrible sense of direction :pac:

    https://www.google.ie/maps/place/Dublin+Citi+Hotel/@53.344381,-6.263461,17z/data=!4m6!1m3!3m2!1s0x485db12e3e6cc1e9:0x445b235859d237a0!2sDublin+Citi+Hotel!3m1!1s0x485db12e3e6cc1e9:0x445b235859d237a0?hl=en


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    #66
    The Hound
    Registered Users Posts: 800 ✭✭✭The Hound


    Is there a list of ppl outside ireland attending? All I know is Apollo Steed will be there and Problem X? Profluke just announced he was going too. Should be good, Hope everyone is practicing hardpacman.gif


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    #67
    Doctor DooM
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 25,868 Mod ✭✭✭✭Doctor DooM


    To my knowledge, Problem X (who is forever Fabdh X in my head), Pro Fluke and Justin Xavier are coming. I didn't know about Apollo :0

    Unless Xavier is Apollo, but I don't think so. That's pretty cool!


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    #68
    ayjayirl
    Registered Users Posts: 1,966 ✭✭✭ayjayirl


    Doctor DooM wrote: »
    To my knowledge, Problem X (who is forever Fabdh X in my head), Pro Fluke and Justin Xavier are coming. I didn't know about Apollo :0

    Unless Xavier is Apollo, but I don't think so. That's pretty cool!

    Let's not forgot Tom "I'm a f*ck up everyone" Systomatic

    ISDD heard hound was going to be there and chickened out


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    #69
    Doctor DooM
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 25,868 Mod ✭✭✭✭Doctor DooM


    Yeah Tom gonna rush upper loop everyone to oblivion

    Hype building. Dunno how I'm gonna get through work!


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    #70
    chopperbyrne
    Registered Users Posts: 10,977 ✭✭✭✭chopperbyrne


    So my bag is all packed and will be en-route to Tallaght this evening.

    However, I cannot find my copy of Injustice anywhere, so if anyone has a spare PS3 copy, please bring it.


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    #71
    ayjayirl
    Registered Users Posts: 1,966 ✭✭✭ayjayirl


    Just want to thank everyone involved in making today a great success. I apologise for shouting at anyone if i did. Stress levels returning to normal.

    I'll post winners tomorrow.

    Well Done to all concerned


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    #72
    Ramza
    Registered Users Posts: 3,006 ✭✭✭Ramza


    GGs to everyone I played, it was great fun, breakfastroll out


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    #73
    chopperbyrne
    Registered Users Posts: 10,977 ✭✭✭✭chopperbyrne


    MC Chopper signing off.

    GG


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    #74
    Ramza
    Registered Users Posts: 3,006 ✭✭✭Ramza


    Highlight of the day? Getting not one, but TWOO TIGERNORM SPECIALS!!!


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    #75
    The Hound
    Registered Users Posts: 800 ✭✭✭The Hound


    Ggs to all & well played to Cobelcog and Silver Steeez


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    #76
    chopperbyrne
    Registered Users Posts: 10,977 ✭✭✭✭chopperbyrne


    Quality stuff from everyone yesterday. Everything ran pretty smoothly (except Tekken) and fun seemed to be had by all.

    If we do this again next year it'll hopefully have a bit more sponsorship and a venue that has a bit more space.

    There were definitely some things we did wrong, like not assigning a letter/number to each setup, but that can be improved next time.

    Massive thanks to AJ and all involved in the organisation leading up to the event and the administration on the day.

    Finally, thanks to all the competitors.


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    #77
    Doctor DooM
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 25,868 Mod ✭✭✭✭Doctor DooM


    Well, that was a thing!

    Definitely a very stressful day too, and an exhausting one! Apologies to anyone if I was a bit terse too.

    From my perspective, yesterday was an unprecedented success. I have a kind of rule that I won't be one of these video guys who's constantly looking for LIKES COMMENTS AND SUBSCRIBES (except occasionally as a joke) but regardless of that there's only so much one person can do alone to get streams and videos etc out there. Yesterday was the first day enough people talked that the world listened and at one point the stream was up to 620+ viewers. So THANK YOU ALL for that! Hopefully more attention could lead to more good things.

    Yesterday, also to my knowledge, was the biggest SF4 tournament in Ireland (the previous largest was Q-Con AFAIK with 64 people) so obviously we weren't expecting 75 people. It's quite heartening as someone who'd show up to record tournaments some days with 7 or 8 players to see there's still that many people in Ireland who'll come out if we make it interesting enough to.

    As Chopper says, lots to learn from this event, but I'd like to think more positives than negatives.

    Genuinely, thanks to everyone who came, and special thanks to:

    AJ, playing a blinder, as always.
    Rachel, for keeping me alive just about with frequent drink top ups and help.
    Voa, Onion and especially Aileen (also whoever else got dragged into recording while I stretched my legs- an 8 hour stream in that heat was a test).
    Sh4rin, Lythero and all the guys who pushed us out on social media.
    Chopper, Jimmy Onion et al for getting through the absolute nightmarish task of keeping the games going.
    All the people doing stuff I just didn't see from the room of doom.

    And everyone really :)


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    #78
    Ixayek_usurper
    Registered Users Posts: 215 ✭✭Ixayek_usurper


    Great event lads. Well done.

    Also, just wanted to also post here, as I did in the lost and found thread:
    Left a black hoodie with a colour spiral in the centre at The Open yesterday, if anyone picked it up please give me a shout.

    -EDIT-
    Cheers gussy! :)


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    #79
    Sh4rin
    Registered Users Posts: 15 ✭Sh4rin


    Hi guys!

    It has been a while since I went to a SF tournament and this one didn´t dissapoint :) Special thanks to all the staff who made this possible and GGs to everyone who I played. This event really makes me want to get back into the game and come stronger the next time!

    As something to improve I would say it would have been really cool to have a TV on the bar area with the match being played on stream so people could watch from there while having a drink and not crowding the player area.

    It´s also very nice to know the irish fgc a bit more, you guys rock :D


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    #80
    ayjayirl
    Registered Users Posts: 1,966 ✭✭✭ayjayirl


    Yes. Lots to learn for next time. The venue was not perfect but the crew pulled it through remarkably well. We did have the promise of a projector but the dam thing would not switch to vga input. Had that worked there would have been alot more viewing area. That made the layout of the space doubly worse imo.

    Stream was great success.


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    #81
    GorySnake
    Registered Users Posts: 955 ✭✭✭GorySnake


    Great tournament lads, GGs to everyone I played and a big thanks to everyone who had a part in helping run things as smoothly as possible. Amazing to see such a huge turnout and 620+ viewers on stream.


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    #82
    ladnopoka
    Registered Users Posts: 547 ✭✭✭ladnopoka


    Lost to 2 Bisons in 1 tournament... I thought it was one of my best match ups... Will practice more so this won't happen again. :D

    GGs to everyone... Shoutouts to all the organizers, great event!


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    #83
    Fergus_
    Registered Users Posts: 2,888 ✭✭✭Fergus_


    GGs to everyone I played, thanks to everyone that came for Tekken, hopefully we'll have more time at the next one for casuals.

    Thanks to AJ, Doom and Co. for running the whole thing, was pretty fun.


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    #84
    Apollo_steed
    Registered Users Posts: 1 ✭Apollo_steed


    Great event guys, this was actually the first event i have been to outside of the UK, and after all this time was great to put some names to faces. Will definately be back next year


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    #85
    Cobelcog
    Registered Users Posts: 238 ✭✭Cobelcog


    GGs everyone.

    Great event, thanks to all of the staff and the players for making it happen.

    Was great to see so many people travelling out to make it.

    Except apollo.


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    #86
    Azza
    Moderators Posts: 5,554 ✭✭✭Azza


    Hats off to Silver Steeez the true Irish Bison!

    Shoutouts to coaching by players who went 0-2 :pac:


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    #87
    animaX
    Registered Users Posts: 2,985 ✭✭✭animaX


    Well done all, was great to see such a lively tourny and great to catch up with old and new faces.

    Good job by all involved with organizing, that could not have been easy!

    By the way, are the results/bracket up somewhere?


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    #88
    ayjayirl
    Registered Users Posts: 1,966 ✭✭✭ayjayirl


    animaX wrote: »
    By the way, are the results/bracket up somewhere?

    Tournament maker so I can see about getting the breakdowns


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    #89
    RasTa
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,116 ✭✭✭✭RasTa


    Terrible venue choice tbh. It's a tourist pub and anyone living in Dublin should have known that. I'd seen lads getting refused tap water by the barman


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    #90
    Doctor DooM
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 25,868 Mod ✭✭✭✭Doctor DooM


    Thank you for your feedback.

    As a lifelong resident of Dublin, I considered the fact they were willing to give us a room free with wired internet for a stream and 50 chairs for the entire day asking nothing of the people attending except for the one, single fact of accepting they are a pub and require people to pay for the food and drink consumed on the venue (people were still free to go outside and drink/ eat where ever they liked within the city) to be an extremely reasonable compromise. This meant that the prizes for the top players were larger and more money went back to the community.


    If you can find a venue for the future that can provide a better offer for a group of 100 people I am sure that the tournament organiser would be extremely thankful for your help in finding one, as it is a difficult task in Dublin, where space is at a premium and he did so on his own.


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    #91
    Deskmenu
    Registered Users Posts: 9 ✭Deskmenu


    Great tournament dudes, had a good time despite getting ridiculously salty over losing my very first game. Gonna have to step my game up, can never seem to preform at tournaments like I do in casuals. The tournament was great and the international players made it feel like a huge event too, it really was a lot of fun.

    Regarding the venue, I thought it was fine apart from the space. Playing on the set-ups was a battle in and of itself sometimes, with monitors being knocked over, people asking you to move in the middle of a match and constant jostling from people moving around. Besides that I thought the venue was grand, and it was handy having the Rugby on too haha.

    I hope this becomes a yearly event, because I know I'll definitely come every year.


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