Hypespotting scotland 23-25th March

chunkis

Sup guys,

I am going to head over to Glasgow for Scotlands first national tournament, Ive looked at flights and accommodation and they are really cheap.

Flights are 35 euros on ryanair including taxes and charges, flying out Friday night and returning Monday morning, i have an exam Monday so i have to be back that morning, accommodation is 161 euros for 3 nights for a triple room, that works out at about 54 euros each for the hotel based on 3 people sharing.


In total thats about 90 euros for flights and accommodation.


The games are


Street Fighter 4: AE
Street Fighter 3 Third Strike 3 on 3 Team Battle
King of Fighters
Marvel vs Capcom 3
Mavel vs Capcom 3 : 3 on 3 Team Battle
Virtua Fighter 5


Who is interested?

ladnopoka

i think for now 1 national tournament a year is enough for me... but in the future i plan to travel more.

Doyler01

Strange that there's no SFxT at this.

Am v interested in going. Just need to check that I have no important exams or labs on the Friday or Monday.

chunkis

doyler, we fly friday night and return monday morning, ive a CA monday morning, but our flight lands at 7.40am, so thats more than enough time for me to get to class, if you have college am sure you can make it as well. I don`t think this trip will effect anybody who is working or studying. Its a cheap trip away, and one that i think will be worth going on.

Also this event will be streamed and there is a good chance that the winners could be picked up by a gaming team, so i would really push for any irish players seeking sponsorship to attend and take part.

We have players good enough to win, 3rd strike, marvel and sf4, so i really think people should get together and plan to go.

Sairus

Reckons I'll give this a pass.

1man3letters

no mk

Dreddybajs

I'm interested in going to this.

stev0knev022

Dreddybajs wrote: »

I'm interested in going to this.

me too

Nutrient

3v3 sounds hype

Monkeyto

Jaysus for less than 100 quid I'd go to that!!!

Ramza

Definitely interested, 3s yallll

the 1st hardter

Count me in

Cobelcog

calling dibs on being on ramza's 3s team

Scavenger XIII

OH **** BEAST TWELVE

Nutrient

Need to have 3 beast Marvel players, whos in?

A-Trak

The poster is a brilliant take on Trainspotting



Our top tier here could do some serious damage there and rep Ireland bigstyle.

Fergus_

Yeah lads, go beat them up

Doyler01

Nutrient wrote: »

Need to have 3 beast Marvel players, whos in?

I was gonna just go solo the 3v3 with a couple of these bad boys in case I lose a match.



But if you me and a 3rd go that could work too.

the 1st hardter

Well you can borrow my glasses for free if ya like. Or maybe I can run to the bathroom and shave and cut my hair between matches for me.

But I'll be there any way if anyone needs a scrubby moronic partner

Nutrient

Doyler01 wrote: »

I was gonna just go solo the 3v3 with a couple of these bad boys in case I lose a match.



But if you me and a 3rd go that could work too.

Nah reckon I'll borrow these thanks

Owwmykneecap

I'll go.

Chunkis can you link to hotel and flights plz.

the 1st hardter

Well the only rule for Irish teams is we have to abuse out teammates as much as possible. Every time we drop a combo is a slap in the back of the head. And cheer on the opponent whenever he hits us. . . . . . . . . or is that too much???

D4RK ONION

the 1st hardter wrote: »

Well the only rule for Irish teams is we have to abuse out teammates as much as possible. Every time we drop a combo is a slap in the back of the head. And cheer on the opponent whenever he hits us. . . . . . . . . or is that too much???

Whoever came up with this clearly knows what he's doing. :pac:

the 1st hardter

D4RK ONION wrote: »

Whoever came up with this clearly knows what he's doing. :pac:

I learn *cough* copy *cough* from the best

Nutrient

the 1st hardter wrote: »

I learn *cough* copy *cough* from the best

lol

the 1st hardter

http://www.hypespotting.co.uk/

Just reading some of the rules. Group Stages into single elimination tournaments. Better be bringing our A Game.

And it will be streamed :cool:

Doyler01

Chunkis, one of the guys that runs this event was watching our stream at Dreddys. He said he would do us some deals if a few of us were to go. Should send an email maybe asking for this.


I'm up for going to this if a few are going. I'l save for a diff international if there's not much interest tho.

the 1st hardter

Well I'm up for 4 tournies anyway. Still don't see the pull of Virtua Fighter (unless I'm missing something) over something like KOF, BB, Tekken or MK. So that's 50 for the weekend for me + travel. Not bad really.

chunkis

yeah whatever deal you wanna do get on it

Yreval

the 1st hardter wrote: »

Well I'm up for 4 tournies anyway. Still don't see the pull of Virtua Fighter (unless I'm missing something) over something like KOF, BB, Tekken or MK. So that's 50 for the weekend for me + travel. Not bad really.

For what it's worth, they had a vote a while back for one of the slots and VF won: http://www.versus-scotland.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?tid=422

Ramza

I think right now I'm leaning towards going, I've been really swamped and haven't had a chance to participate in the scene as much as I would have liked, so I think this would be a good return

Chunkis and Dreddy of course we have to do the 3s 3v3, although I am out of practice and need to train up!

My younger brother said he would also love to go for extra support, he's also interested, although his knowledge of FGs is limited he would still like to go so I'll keep you updated

Dreddybajs

I dunno if I'm going to go now that I've realised there's no SFxT tournament at it. I'm gonna be bet into that for the few weeks before this tournament and I doubt I'll be playing anything else.

Ramza

Dreddybajs wrote: »

I dunno if I'm going to go now that I've realised there's no SFxT tournament at it. I'm gonna be bet into that for the few weeks before this tournament and I doubt I'll be playing anything else.

Are ya serious!? If there is no SFxT just focus on AE and 3s no? Ah it'll be bad to lose a good 3s player if ya don't go

Dreddybajs

There's no way I'm focusing on AE and 3s for the first few weeks of a new fighting game coming out. :pac:

Doyler01

Dreddybajs wrote: »

I dunno if I'm going to go now that I've realised there's no SFxT tournament at it. I'm gonna be bet into that for the few weeks before this tournament and I doubt I'll be playing anything else.

I feel the exact same. Was mad hype for this but now idk.

the 1st hardter

Doyler01 wrote: »

I feel the exact same. Was mad hype for this but now idk.

Same, after watching Cross Assault I am mad hype for SfxT and the first "major" I can go to won't have it. I say they would have gotten loads more to go if they had it. Still confused about VF really. I did not even know they still made those games

Azza

I was speaking to Miligano one of the organisers and he was saying the reason for no SFxT was that its tournamet viability with Gems/DLC was abit of an unknown at the moment and they didn't want to commit to as its the first major fighting game tournament they are hosting up there and they want things to go as smooth as possible.

Asked him about VF5 at it and he said there was a community vote on tournaments and VF5 was one of the games that got voted in. Apparantly they have 1 really good VF5 player over there but a few good international players where expected to attend.

Also looking at getting 80-100 players at the event and build from there.

Anyways I don't think I be interested in going for just 1 game, if SFxT was at it as well, I'd be more up for it.

the 1st hardter

Suppose it like us and Blazblue I guess. They must have a good VF following there.

From what I can see at Cross Assault (which is using the retail version) the gems take less than a minute to set up, if you know what your looking for, which is the same amount of time I spend making sure my team was color coordinated in vanilla Marvel.

Just don't know why people just say "all DLC gems are banned until they are commercially available/unlocked"

*Edit*

I still want to go but if I can find another tourney in the UK that I like the look of more I would go to that instead

bush

They could have went with a ban on dlc and gems that could have been subject to change.

the 1st hardter

Meh similar things happened before Marvels launch. I remember such talk of banning people from using X-Factor and such. Give it a month or two and rules should be "normallised"

K.O.Kiki

Virtua Fighter 5 ver.C, while old, is still a deeper game than any 3D fighter you care to mention.

chopperbyrne

K.O.Kiki wrote: »

Virtua Fighter 5 ver.C, while old, is still a deeper game than any 3D fighter you care to mention.

How?

K.O.Kiki

chopperbyrne wrote: »

How?

Mindgames. :cool:

chunkis

I don`t get why you guys are not interested in going, this is the cheapest international tournament your going to be able to able to attend. Its got most of the games we currently play and its the first instalment of scotlands national tournament, its definitely a tournament you guys should consider going to.

if you guys want to create exposure for the irish scene part of that is to travel and represent where your from, also if you want to get better and improve travelling to tournaments is definitely the best way to do that.

Also if you guys ever want to be sponsored you have to travel and win events, this is a perfect opportunity for our best players to show what the can do.

Also these trips are not just about the games, its about the craic you have when your away, anybody who has ever been to an international event knows that its great craic and you really miss out when you don`t attend.

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UberPrinny_Baal

I would definitely go for the craic Chunkis, I thought Cannes was great fun.

And even though this is dirt cheap, I don't think I can spare a whole weekend so soon after the last international tournament.

So it's not lack of interest on my part, but lack of spare time.

Doctor DooM

I'm in the same situation as Dave, don't think I can afford 2 long weekends 2 months in a row.

If I could I'd be there in a heartbeat.

Owwmykneecap

Chunkis link the ****ing flights man and I'll see.

It's right there in the first line of my xbox bio; I love red-heads. I'm up for this.

Nutrient

chunkis wrote: »

I don`t get why you guys are not interested in going, this is the cheapest international tournament your going to be able to able to attend. Its got most of the games we currently play and its the first instalment of scotlands national tournament, its definitely a tournament you guys should consider going to.

if you guys want to create exposure for the irish scene part of that is to travel and represent where your from, also if you want to get better and improve travelling to tournaments is definitely the best way to do that.

Also if you guys ever want to be sponsored you have to travel and win events, this is a perfect opportunity for our best players to show what the can do.

Also these trips are not just about the games, its about the craic you have when your away, anybody who has ever been to an international event knows that its great craic and you really miss out when you don`t attend.

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It's not as easy as just getting stuff together and heading out

• Can I afford it?
• Can I get time off work?
• Who's going?
• Will I fall behind? [College]
• Is 1 game worth attending?
• Do I have a shot at winning? [Top 16 even]

All these things and more have to be considered before heading to any foreign event, however, if the people pondering this are the types that say "Theres not enough tourneys, I don't like xy and z" Heres your chance, quit ******** about not heading to these events and fecking go.


Get off your arse and make us look good!


I'm heading in with or without Gem fighter being at the event, heck I'm even entering 2 extra tourneys for the craic

Jun_DP101

This sounds fun, get your 3v card ready nutrient

Cobelcog

but gems

Placebo

Gem no Gems, famous cobelcog can beat em all

im going to pakistan, otherwise i may consider it.