Nom-Con - August 27-29

Sairus

Nom-Con is on this Friday-Sunday and is host to a decent amount of FG tournaments.
It's taking place in the D4 Hotel out at Lansdown Road. Map here.
Entry to the convention is €20 per day, or €35 for a weekend pass.
I'm not sure if there's an additional charge to enter to tournaments, but if it follows Eirtakon's set up from last year, there wont be.(Well, they had a €1 deposit for those tourneys I suppose)All tournaments are being run on PS3s, aside from Brawl obviously.

Friday:
Smash Bros. Brawl: 1600-1700

Saturday:
Tekken 6: 1000-1200
BlazBlue: 1600-1800

Sunday:
Super street Fighter 4: 1100-1300

Are many of yee planning on attending?

Voa

So...is that BBCS or BBCT?

Sairus

I asked that on the forum today and m waiting on a response. It's down as "Blaze Blue" on the time table, so I'm assuming they dont know about CS yet =D

animaX

Seems a bit expensive.

chunkis

Yeah i don`t see the point in spending 20 quid to get into this

Orim

It's not a fighting game event which naturally causes issues for those of us that would be just going for the tournaments.

It's a fair price if you're into the anime and durty, durty, underage cosplayers.

Also looking at the schedule there's only 2 hours for each tournament.

Sairus

Also looking at the schedule there's only 2 hours for each tournament.

I imagine they'll just be single game knockout toruneys so the turnover will be pretty quick. (Again, purely based on Eirtakon last year)
From what I gather these aren't run by actual FG enthusiasts, so it'll just be more of a throw a bunch of gamers in a room and let them play sort of thing.
I wouldn't go to Nom-Con purely to enter these tournaments, I severly doubt they'll be worth it. However, if you're interested in going to an anime convention and enter some tournaments while you're there, Nom-Con is for you!

chopperbyrne

Might go on Saturday.

Anyone else going?

Sairus

Full list of schedule stuff here:
Friday
Saturday
Sunday

Monkeyto

I'm defiantly going, just not for the street fighter!

I'll pop along for the SF if it doesn't clash with anything that I wanna watch

Scavenger XIII

I'm getting dragged to this anyway so I'll more than likely be hiding at the FGs all weekend.

chopperbyrne

Anyone know if the cost is cheaper for children?

bush

chopperbyrne wrote: »

Anyone know if the cost is cheaper for children?

I dont think cobelcog is going

chopperbyrne

They'd charge €20 to bring a five year old in?

GorySnake

Smash Bros! Too bad I aint going.

Scavenger XIII

chopperbyrne wrote: »

They'd charge €20 to bring a five year old in?

5 year olds probably shouldn't be allowed near anime cons at all, could cause irreparable damage. :pac:

Orim

chopperbyrne wrote: »

They'd charge €20 to bring a five year old in?

Looks like it. You have to remember that 5 yos are probably half their market :P

Here's the contact page if you want to try and get in touch with them. http://nom-con.com/page14.htm

chopperbyrne

Can't access their website in work. I did think of checking there myself first :rolleyes:

Orim

Garnet_koryu@Hotmail.com

E-mail of the person in charge of registration.

K.O.Kiki

I'll probably go on Saturday -- have some crap to sell, and want to buy too.

Sairus

K.O.Kiki wrote: »

I'll probably go on Saturday -- have some crap to sell, and want to buy too.

You have to pre-register stuff to sell. There's forms to fill out and ****.

chueytoo

i'll be going since most of my friends are going. Hope nom con is going to be good.

animaX

chueytoo wrote: »

i'll be going since most of my friends are going. Hope nom con is going to be good.

Bring your big sword!!

Monkeyto

chueytoo wrote: »

i'll be going since most of my friends are going. Hope nom con is going to be good.

It's gonna be awesome. Seems to be a bit of verything for veryone.

Even for Kiki...scary stuff.

Sairus

Just to note that all tournaments are indeed single game elimination and that it is Calamity Trigger in use.

Placebo

whats the prize pot? i might bring my pakistani cammy and destroy any guiles turtling around

Orim

I'd doubt there is a prize pot.

Placebo

thats terrible
perhaps to some, the prize would be the eye candy

Scavenger XIII

Placebo wrote: »

whats the prize pot? i might bring my pakistani cammy and destroy any guiles turtling around

:cool: - It's on, Guile shall be in the house.

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This is probably as hype as it's likely to get folks. :pac:

Scavenger XIII

Sairus wrote: »

Just to note that all tournaments are indeed single game elimination and that it is Calamity Trigger in use.

Double post, boo hiss, etc.

Just though I'd add that if anyone coming has CS I think we'd get away with running casuals.

I'd certainly welcome any CS practice I can get(bonus points for a Mu save).

Monkeyto

Don't forget all the Pre-teens at the J-Pop disco!

Hype?

animaX

Monkeyto wrote: »

Don't forget all the Pre-teens at the J-Pop disco!

Hype?

Is there any way of banning this guy from life?

K.O.Kiki

>> Pre-teens
>> J-pop disco

K.O.Kiki

*edit*

removed -- come to Nom-con if you want my figs!

Monkeyto

animaX wrote: »

Is there any way of banning this guy from life?

So much hate Dr...so much hate.

chueytoo

Scavenger XIII wrote: »

Double post, boo hiss, etc.

Just though I'd add that if anyone coming has CS I think we'd get away with running casuals.

I'd certainly welcome any CS practice I can get(bonus points for a Mu save).

i'll bring Cs for sat, just to mess about. there won't be mu or makoto since it's not my ps3. I'll also bring my ssf4 as well.

animaX

Monkeyto wrote: »

So much hate Dr...so much hate.

Aww, you took it seriously?! You know i love you bro

Xinkai

Guess who won.

3 way finals ftw.

*EDIT*

Nu FTW.

Fixed my post :pac:

Sairus

Guess who managed to win a game in the Blazblue tourney! I'm ****ing awesome.

Xinkai

No you didn't :pac:

Monkeyto

Good craic and the Fighting Games Forum owned BlazBlue. Tekken...well not so much. Lag on the TV was insane too...

...

Or so Kiki says.

(it really was)

Sairus

Xinkai wrote: »

No you didn't :pac:

...wait, that was just a casual afterwards wasn't it? Ah, sure those are basically the same things.

chueytoo

Sairus wrote: »

...wait, that was just a casual afterwards wasn't it? Ah, sure those are basically the same things.

yeah it was, nicely done you beat a girl who never played it before.

Sairus

chueytoo wrote: »

yeah it was, nicely done you beat a girl who never played it before.

She didn't even win a round! It was glorious.

Also, highlight of the day: Doing two consecutive throws in SSFIV and having my opponent and the group watching all start booing and hissing at me.

Doctor DooM

Two tournaments won in one weekend in 2 different counties.

I'm happy with that.

animaX

Doctor DooM wrote: »

Two tournaments won in one weekend in 2 different counties.

I'm happy with that.

Wait till farz gets his hands on this quote

Good stuff!

Doctor DooM

animaX wrote: »

Wait till farz gets his hands on this quote

Good stuff!

I'm sure he'll stock a few up for the next time he manages to beat me.

Dunjohn

Sairus wrote: »

She didn't even win a round! It was glorious.

Also, highlight of the day: Doing two consecutive throws in SSFIV and having my opponent and the group watching all start booing and hissing at me.

Tell me you attempted a third but he dodged, and I'll thank the post.

Scavenger XIII

It's official - I am the undisputed master of ****ty draws (for SSF4 at least). :pac:

Q-con - 1st match: Guile mirror vs Doom (who finishes 2nd)

Dramatic Battle - 1st match: Guile mirror vs The Truth (who finishes 1st)

Nomcon - 1st match: Guile mirror vs Doom (who finishes 1st)

I might keep entering stuff (and picking Guile) though, it'll be funny to see how long I can keep this up.

Had some decent BB matches and t'was nice to meet a couple more boardsies in person. Missed the signups for Tekken, but everyone appeared to be button mashing anyway (the lag on the TV might have had a hand in that though).

Don't recall seeing Kiki around on Sunday - He didn't get arrested after the J-pop disco or anything did he?

Sairus

Doctor DooM wrote: »

Two tournaments won in one weekend in 2 different counties.
I'm happy with that.

Feckin random players showing up out of nowhere and leaving minutes after the tournament stealing my titles. We put your prize into Kiki's bag of stuff, so get that off him!

I guess the important thing is that I maintained my tradition of knocking Xinkai out of the SF tournament.

Dunjohn wrote: »

Tell me you attempted a third but he dodged, and I'll thank the post.

He didn't quite dodge the third. Or the fourth.

K.O.Kiki

Scavenger XIII wrote:

Don't recall seeing Kiki around on Sunday - He didn't get arrested after the J-pop disco or anything did he?

Tell me the truth -- you would've come to my jail cell to congratulate me, right?

Also, I'm pretty sure I would've won Tekken (bunch a scrubs), except I couldn't block worth sh*t due to the MASSIVE input lag (I'd say at least 1 second...)