Celtic Throwdown - September 5th & 6th, Ashling Hotel, Dublin

Zoomyzoom wrote: »

From my own experience of being involved in the planning, execution & documenting of events within the FGC scene in Ireland (very similar to this) and from speaking to the various organizers of HypeSpotting and WGC – a lot of work that happens behind the scenes often goes unnoticed & under-appreciated & a few have commented that it is a thankless job & that trying to maintain the whole collegial & community aspect while trying to get the tournament off the ground can often result in some dynamic negotiations

I'm always overwhelmed as the amount pre-planning that goes into these events - networking with sponsors, venue personal & communities as well as within the community itself; sponsorship and venue acquisition; identifying new avenues for funding & sponsorship; advertising, public relations & marketing as well as all the creation and distribution of materials that go with these mediums, video creation & editing; management of social media & the distribution and moderation of that media; scheduling of the games, the stream and the overall event as well as the personal physical and mental work and time given up by all those helping out.

From what I’ve seen so far, this event does seem to follow (mostly) the templates set out by the larger, European tournaments - those who are affiliated with the Capcom Pro Tournament – no? Ireland is a much small place in terms of pool of players and finance available - so you've got to give a bit of flexibility. Given that this style of tournament was only established since 2013, in terms given emphasise to personal experience & presenting of said voice / opinion / position / argument, - speaking with the organizers of these European event such as Hypespotting and WGC (who I have personally found more than accommodating) as well as the players who attend these events, would seem like a more inclusive & more informative way of exploration than just emphasizing the experience of one over the experience of others. Moving the dialogue & interaction from a personal view of how they think something should be done to a more wholistic point of view?

I suppose what I am really saying is that it is very easy to pick out the faults in someone else's work or efforts but it's not that easy to back those criticisms up with action and become a participant than just purely observer. We all want to make this event a success, so that not just Ireland gets a look in but that the FGC in Ireland (as a whole) gets the great opportunity in terms of inclusion and in terms of showing the wider scenes what we’re made of!