Clash X Counter 2 - Belfast 16/4

Cloudpaul

Clash X Counter is back!

On the 16th April Clash X Counter will return for its second outing, hopefully we can build upon the success of last time and make this one bigger and better!

This CxC will be host to Super Street fighter 4, BlazBlue: Continuum Shift 2 and Marvel vs Capcom 3. As well as the main tournaments people are welcome and encouraged to run their own side tournaments, although we must stress for now that these have to remain strictly free.



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The timetable for CxC2 is as follows:-

Doors open: 12 noon
Super Street Fighter IV: 1pm
Marvel vs Capcom 3: 3pm
BlazBlue Continuum Shift 2: 5pm
Close: 8pm

Rules

FORMAT

All tournaments will be decided by round-robin groups into double elimination brackets. Bracket sizes will be determined by the number of entrants, dividing into either top 8 or top 16. depending on the number of groups, the players placed in the top 2 of their group will qualify for the elimination stages.

Seeding will be determined through previous CxC results, player knowledge and local tournament results. If applicable, they will also be calculated using regional separation, though this cannot be guaranteed.

All matches will be decided best out of 3 games. For the grand final of each game, the player entering from the winner's bracket must win 2 full matches (best of 3) to win, while the player entering from the loser's bracket must win 3 full matches to win.

Button Binding is permitted, Macros and Turbos are banned. Anyone caught using them will be instantly disqualified from the tournament.


TOURNAMENT RULES

Super Street Fighter 4:-
Time Limit: 99 secs
Rounds: Best of 3
Character Selection: Open

BlazBlue: Continuum Shift 2:-
Time Limit: 99 secs
Rounds: Best of 3
Character Selection: Open
No Unlimited Characters

Marvel vs Capcom 3:-
Time Limit: 99 secs
Rounds: Best of 3
Character Selection: Open


Prizes

The tournament fee for each game will be pooled together and divided toward prize vouchers for each game. The vouchers will be purchased to the value of 60% / 30% / 10% for 1st/2nd/3rd places respectively. Where possible these vouchers will be for a store of the person's choosing (Please note: Prize support is currently TBC)


Setups

For active tournament games, there will be a minimum of 2 setups per game. At all other times there will be at least 1 setup of every tournament game. Any unused/casual setup can be used for any of the Fighting games available. We have a wide selection of games and if there are any you wish to play feel free to ask a member of staff to switch a game out for you. If you wish to bring your own game(s) you are welcome to, but we cannot take responsibility if any items go missing, so please keep a close eye on any games brought. We are here to help and will try our best to accommodate any requests.


Staff Entering Tournaments

Staff members are permitted to enter tournaments under the condition they are not allowed to participate in the seeding or arrangement of groups/brackets. This is to ensure equality and that the member does not place themselves in a favourable group. Staff are allowed to assist in the administration of brackets once they are eliminated from that game and can assist in the administration of groups once their group results have been confirmed. Staff members are still required to pay entry fee for any game they enter

Doctor DooM

I should be able to come to this and be able to provide the whole recording set up.

However, not a chance of me hanging round til 8, I will prob pack up after MvC3.

Cloudpaul

Doctor DooM wrote: »

I should be able to come to this and be able to provide the whole recording set up.

However, not a chance of me hanging round til 8, I will prob pack up after MvC3.

That's fair enough man, understandable.

SirAuronDX

I'll be down with my broken valke-wait...

BlazBlue: Continuum Shift 2

Well! this will be fun!

Dreddybajs

Sounds dope, will be there.

Linoud

Wow, CS2 huh? I'll try check it out.

Dead Spike combos here I come!

Sairus

Hopefully I'll make it up for this, though it'd be on a similar time limit to DooM's.

Scavenger XIII

Sweet, will be there for sure. You guys aiming for bi-annual then?

Vyze

Don't forget guys that this is assuming that CS2 doesn't get delayed from the end-of-March release date.

Scavenger XIII

Vyze wrote: »

assuming that CS2 doesn't get delayed

Hurhurhur. :pac:

Doctor DooM

Vyze wrote: »

Don't forget guys that this is assuming that CS2 doesn't get delayed from the end-of-March release date.

SO, CS2 for Clash X counter next year then lads?

Vyze

Oh, yeah we'll be downloading from the US store obviously.

Dwydwy

Nice, can't wait to show off my Nina

EDIT: Silly fool that I am, I assumed there'd be Tekken.

Vyze

Dwydwy wrote: »

Nice, can't wait to show off my Nina

EDIT: Silly fool that I am, I assumed there'd be Tekken.

Since it had very few players last time around it's the game that needed to be dropped from the tournament lineup to make room for something else, sadly.

Owwmykneecap

Dwydwy wrote: »

Nice, can't wait to show off my Nina

EDIT: Silly fool that I am, I assumed there'd be Tekken.

TEK 6 TOURNY THIS SAT @XGC

**** CAPS LOCK.... WRY?!?

TetraxShard

Hoping to be there for some MVC3.

Ry

Sounds good. I think I'll try make it to this.

Cloudpaul

Perhaps I'm being an idiot here but is there a lack of an edit button or am I just missing it? Want to update the OP.

EDIT: Well, I can edit this post but not any other posts.

Vyze

I think after a day or something the edit button disappears from a post.

Doctor DooM

Just PM me with what you want the OP changed to (including any formatting if necessary) and I can still change it.

Cloudpaul

Doctor DooM wrote: »

Just PM me with what you want the OP changed to (including any formatting if necessary) and I can still change it.

Cheers man, I'll PM the exact post so you can just copy-paste it.

Cloudpaul

Less then a week to go peeps!

Sairus

Doubtful I'll be able to make it to this with my current monetary situations, but hopefully I can swing up!

Orim

Can't make this now. Will have to sit in and wait for the internet to come to me.

Doctor DooM

You guys need the full recording dealio? Commentary?

Vyze

Just being staff this year instead of being the head of the thing, but I still expect to see a bunch of ya come up for it! :P

Xinkai

Got word I won't be able to get the day off work

CxC3 with AH3 plax

Vyze

Xinkai wrote: »

CxC3 with AH3 plax

The sign-up sheet will just be us borrowing the sex offenders register for the day.

K.O.Kiki

Vyze wrote: »

The sign-up sheet will just be us borrowing the sex offenders register for the day.

But some of the "lolis" are actually mature wimmin with giant funbags ...

Cloudpaul

Doctor DooM wrote: »

You guys need the full recording dealio? Commentary?

Recording equipment and possibly commentary would be great but only bring what you feel you can bring. If you want to get a taxi from the station to Queen's SU to save you carrying it all we'll reimburse you for it.

Doctor DooM

Cloudpaul wrote: »

Recording equipment and possibly commentary would be great but only bring what you feel you can bring. If you want to get a taxi from the station to Queen's SU to save you carrying it all we'll reimburse you for it.

That's mighty kind of you. Bringing the whole kit and kaboodle is not a problem.

One thing I'd point out is that promotion wise, videos with commentary get a million times more interest than those without. It's pretty glaring when looking at the stats.

CloudRunner89

Going to try to sort out money and if I can I'll be up. One thing I wanted to check was xbox/ps?

Yreval

SSF4, MvC3 - Xbox
BBCS - PS

Doctor DooM

Hey guys- I just realised I only have one VGA converter. If you're planning for me to project the fights I'll need the players to play on a component capable TV.

I think that's fine but just letting you know.

Neeknak

Money issues mean I won't be able to attend this but I'm aiming to hit up the next Inferno aswell as q-con the month afterwards. Good luck to everyone who's attending :cool:

Cloudpaul

Doctor DooM wrote: »

Hey guys- I just realised I only have one VGA converter. If you're planning for me to project the fights I'll need the players to play on a component capable TV.

I think that's fine but just letting you know.

Yeah man, I'm pretty sure the TV in that corner from last time is pretty much compatible with most inputs.

Also Yreval is correct, MvC3 and SSF4 will be run on 360, BBCS on PS3.

Scavenger XIII

Can't wait to see what the internet thinks of THE MOST PRO MARVEL TOURNAMENT EVER. :pac:

Cloudpaul

Or rather what people make of getting wrecked for taunting.

SirAuronDX

Cloudpaul wrote: »

Or rather what people make of getting wrecked for taunting.

I have a thing for characters whos taunt lasts longer than zangiefs walk from one end of the screen to the other.
Fair play to Dwyer? was that it? whoever he was he sure knew his phoenix combos.
Makes me actually want to learn magneto or something :pac:

EDIT: Can't wait to hear the commentary on how **** i am

Doctor DooM

GGs today to everyone, I felt I played well at SF and Marvel had so many funny moments.

Scavenger XIII

Cobelcog spamming footdives was just pure gold.

Dreddybajs

GGs everyone, a few organisational slipups imo (SSF4 bracket was screwed up, and I didn't get to play through the Marvel bracket unfortunately - think that one was partly due to all the commentary and recording stuff etc. though).

IMO you guys shouldn't be running tiny groups that have the strong possibility of drawing over and over again, especially when there are less than 16 people in the tournament in the first place - a top 16 bracket with byes would've taken far less time to run and meant all the tournaments would be done a lot quicker.

Anyway was a fun event, always good to go up to Belfast and play with you guys.

Cloudpaul

Dreddybajs wrote: »

GGs everyone, a few organisational slipups imo (SSF4 bracket was screwed up, and I didn't get to play through the Marvel bracket unfortunately - think that one was partly due to all the commentary and recording stuff etc. though).

IMO you guys shouldn't be running tiny groups that have the strong possibility of drawing over and over again, especially when there are less than 16 people in the tournament in the first place - a top 16 bracket with byes would've taken far less time to run and meant all the tournaments would be done a lot quicker.

Anyway was a fun event, always good to go up to Belfast and play with you guys.

You have a few good points there, but I have to say in my defence I checked the SSF4 brackets a few times and I did mess up the order of where the losers of the winner's semis get placed but otherwise (despite some complaints) the initial bracket was properly laid out. I take the blame there for the semi-final placements. but at least it was easily rectifiable.

As for the groups, I'll definitely take that on board for next time, playoffs are a pain in the arse for everyone involved and eats time.

Dwydwy

GGs to anyone I played. Was good craic ;]

Yreval

Cloudpaul wrote: »

As for the groups, I'll definitely take that on board for next time, playoffs are a pain in the arse for everyone involved and eats time.

Here's how my MvC3 group went; Doom beat me, Scavenger XIII beats Doom, I beat Scavenger XIII. We repeat the group, and the same result occurs. Then we decide to do a random draw, the winner of which goes through automatically. The other two play each other to advance. Doom wins the draw, so I play Scavenger XIII for the other place. Having beaten him twice before today, of course I lose to him in the deciding match.

That said, GGs everyone.

Doctor DooM

Hype pro level play

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzfNtA17o2Y

Orim

I've been waiting so long for this match. It's everything I thought it would be. Happy days.

Why Voa so salty?

Doctor DooM

Orim wrote: »

I've been waiting so long for this match. It's everything I thought it would be. Happy days.

Why Voa so salty?

"Top 8 in Europe" covers it.

Vyze

Dreddybajs wrote: »

IMO you guys shouldn't be running tiny groups that have the strong possibility of drawing over and over again, especially when there are less than 16 people in the tournament in the first place - a top 16 bracket with byes would've taken far less time to run and meant all the tournaments would be done a lot quicker.

BB went that way due to only having 8 sign-ups. We've had other people claiming that running a group of 16 players into a 16 person double elimination is a better format because the groups are used entirely for seeding. Others claiming that single elimination the whole way through would be better than the "extra life" rule used in the finals.

No matter what format is used, someone is going to wish it was run another way. We'll definitely be looking into some way to get past constant 3-way ties in the group stages, though.

Part of the reason for running groups, though, is so that people at least get a few matches for their money even if they get knocked out early.

Dreddybajs

Vyze wrote: »

BB went that way due to only having 8 sign-ups. We've had other people claiming that running a group of 16 players into a 16 person double elimination is a better format because the groups are used entirely for seeding. Others claiming that single elimination the whole way through would be better than the "extra life" rule used in the finals.

No matter what format is used, someone is going to wish it was run another way. We'll definitely be looking into some way to get past constant 3-way ties in the group stages, though.

Part of the reason for running groups, though, is so that people at least get a few matches for their money even if they get knocked out early.

There's plenty of data available from tournaments all over Ireland for seeding - I get the giving people people their money's worth thing though, I've run groups in tournaments before for that reason. IMO though it's better to run larger groups than a larger number of smaller groups in that case.

Just to reiterate, it's not that big a gripe, and again I enjoyed the event a lot.

ayjayirl

Wanted to thank all involved in yesterdays sodium flavoured hype-fest. GGS to Blag, Dreddy, Yreval and Bourke.

Cog - congrats. A victory well earned. Down to losers like a mere mortal but machined it back to the top.

Commentary was hilarious at times.