Venue for hosting computer game tournaments in Cork City?

Sairus

Greetings,

I'll be heading down to Cork for the Summer and I'm hoping to run some computer game tournaments while I'm there. Does anyone know of any community halls, or rentable spaces that I could set up a bunch of consoles and TVs in?
All I'd be looking for is an area to hold twenty people that would have a supply of tables and chairs, access to power outlets and ideally not cost me an arm and a leg to rent

Any suggestions would be appreciated!

curly from cork

try garryduff sports centre in rochestown. just off the link about 5 /6 mins by car from douglas and on a bus route.
021 4891978

rebel girl 15

What part of Cork??

Sairus

Cheers, Curly. I gave them an email, so hopefully they get back to me with prices.

I'm ideally looking for somewhere roughly around the city centre.

Blitzkrieger

Depending on how much space you need and for how long, you might find some pub in the city centre. You might be able to get the back room in the LV, upstairs in Fred's, Cypress Avenue or something similar if there isn't a gig on.

murphym7

The YMCA is in the city centre - its a religous arganisation if that makes any difference. Also Douglas & Ballinlough have community centres which are a good bit closer to the city than Garryduff.

Sairus

All I need is a room where I can set up a couple of TVs and consoles with enough room to fit 10-20 people for 4-5 hours. I'm not particularly looking for a Community Hall, par say, but I figured I'd just start with those and move onto function rooms and gig spaces once I had a decent price check idea. I changed the thread title to reflect this more accurately.
Any suggestions on places that fit that bill are extremely welcome - regardless if they're pubs, sport centres or YMCA halls!

Sairus

Blitzkrieger wrote: »

Depending on how much space you need and for how long, you might find some pub in the city centre. You might be able to get the back room in the LV, upstairs in Fred's, Cypress Avenue or something similar if there isn't a gig on.

I was onto the LV earlier and they seemed interested in the idea and gave me a great price! I'm sending one of my Cork-bound friends around to see if it will suit our needs for setting up consoles, cheers for the suggestion!
Again, if anyone has any other ideas, I'd love to hear them. The more possible places I have to run these the better.

rebel.ranter

Is there any particular time of day that you need it? I wonder with the Pavillion Bar be available to you upstairs if the event was during the daytime? Might be worth giving them a ring.

The various hotels around town like the Metropole or Imperial have conference rooms but I would imagine that they would be looking for more money than a place like the LV.

Sairus

Cheers. Yar, I'll probably be hosting these on weekends during the day if possible. I'll give the pavillion a shout now!

themonboys

Sairus wrote: »

Cheers. Yar, I'll probably be hosting these on weekends during the day if possible. I'll give the pavillion a shout now!

On the big screen in the Pav would be cool

Sairus

Sairus wrote: »

Cheers. Yar, I'll probably be hosting these on weekends during the day if possible. I'll give the pavillion a shout now!

I emailed the Pavillion and unfortunately their upstairs is in use constantly on weekends it seems. Tis a darn shame.
The search continues!

serjical_strike

id be interested in playing in this tournament..!! what games ye gonna have there?? MW2? HALO 3? and please please say super street fighter 4... on the 360 of course!

are people to bring their own consoles?

Sairus

I'm aiming for Street Fighter tournaments as I'm quite the fighting game junky.
If anyone is willing to bring their own consoles that'd be fantastic, but I'm still looking for a venue so I wont set anything in stone till then.

serjical_strike

Sairus wrote: »

I'm aiming for Street Fighter tournaments as I'm quite the fighting game junky.
If anyone is willing to bring their own consoles that'd be fantastic, but I'm still looking for a venue so I wont set anything in stone till then.

im sure people wudnt mind bringing their own consoles to a tournament like this once the tvs are supplied id say!! if i spot anythin in cork city (i live there) ill let ya know!!

Webmonkey

This is quite interesting. Subscribing...

Kold

UCC/CIT would be a good shout. If you have Smash Bros Melee, I'll be there.

Sairus

If any of yee have Gamertags send me an invite sure - mine is Sairus Illumina. I'll be moving to Cork on Tuesday so I'll be trying to set up fighting game tourneys after that.
I tried contacting the Computer Society in UCC but got no response. I had totally forgotten about CIT though - I'll give them a shout now. Cheers!

Webmonkey

Plenty room in CIT over the summer now. I will be out there so can investigate if any options.

Sairus

Webmonkey wrote: »

Plenty room in CIT over the summer now. I will be out there so can investigate if any options.

That'd be great man! Let me know if you find anything!