Eirtakon 2012 - 9th - 11th November, The Helix, DCU

Konata

Woo Eirtakon!

We announced our video games section today so I thought I'd throw up a thread so yous can all keep the date free Of most interest to you guys will be the Ultimate Marvel Vs. Capcom 3, SSF4: AE 2012 and SF2:Turbo (hyperfighting) tournaments which will all take place on Saturday 10th November. There'll also be consoles available for casuals all weekend - feel free to bring whatever games you want to play.

A day ticket costs E20 and a weekend ticket is E30. Entry to the con is free on the Friday!

There will be prizes for 1st and 2nd place in all tournaments. I'll confirm the prizes closer to the time but for now a teaser...



Any questions, post them here! Hope to see you all at the con

Fergus_

Oh that should be fun to take back to the house for us to play.

Scavenger XIII

Should be there, though there's a feast of metal scattered about the UK earlier in the week, don't know what I'll get going to or how alive I'll be.

Konata

Fergus_ wrote: »

Oh that should be fun to take back to the house for us to play.

If you don't win it, we'll be kicking you out of the house so get practicing :pac:

ladnopoka

Fergus_ wrote: »

Oh that should be fun to take back to the house for us to play.

u can come to my house to play it

deathrider

That's a hell of a prize! I would give your right arm for that.

Nutrient

Better be a vanilla Marvel tourney like last year, remember guys?

Doctor DooM

Monopoly is mine lads, don't even think about it.

Nutrient

Doctor DooM wrote: »

Monopoly is mine lads, don't even think about it.

I will legitimally play the game in order to prevent that from happening

Fergus_

ladnopoka wrote: »

u can come to my house to play it

Ye thanks, I'll take it with me to your house so we can play it.

Sairus

These tournaments will be available to enter over XBox LIVE right? I have a tradition of being pasted by DooM to keep up don'tchaknow.

Doctor DooM

There's been a couple of people asking when the next SF tournament is, and as far as I know, this is it.

If people only want to make one convention for the gaming I would recommend making this one, year after year they push the boat out and make it an awesome day. I'll be there with all the gear anywho.

Interestingly enough, Eirtakon was the tournament that introduced both Fergus and Lythero to the Irish scene, so on that level it'd be good for people to go along and see who we can hook in too

UberPrinny_Baal

I am tempted.

I don't normally attend conventions, but it's been a while since I've played in a tournament.

Doctor DooM

There's been a couple of people asking when the next SF tournament is, and as far as I know, this is it.

If people only want to make one convention for the gaming I would recommend making this one, year after year they push the boat out and make it an awesome day. I'll be there with all the gear anywho.

Interestingly enough, Eirtakon was the tournament that introduced both Fergus and Lythero to the Irish scene, so on that level it'd be good for people to go along and see who we can hook in too

UberPrinny_Baal

A Doombot! :eek:

Doctor DooM

UberPrinny_Baal wrote: »

A Doombot! :eek:

You never know when you're talking to the real Doom or a doombot, I thought this was well known

Konata

Bump! Just over a week to go folks

UberPrinny_Baal

Konata wrote: »

Bump! Just over a week to go folks

It seems pretty likely at this point that I'm going to be there.

Since pre-reg closed ages ago, is there anything we can actually do in the meantime in terms of prep?

I don't like the look of those gallery pictures of the massive massive entrance queues..

Doctor DooM

Whenever I've got there I've just strolled right in.

It's not like you're going to be hitting the place early for the good toys and panels

Konata

UberPrinny_Baal wrote: »

It seems pretty likely at this point that I'm going to be there.

Since pre-reg closed ages ago, is there anything we can actually do in the meantime in terms of prep?

I don't like the look of those gallery pictures of the massive massive entrance queues..

If you arrive at 10am Saturday morning you'll have to queue. Arrive an hour later and it should be okay. So basically, don't turn up TOO early :P

Nutrient

Gonna be great craic, Retro FG tourneys are mine

ladnopoka

AE starts at 6 pm right? dont wanna be late, or come early :P

Konata

ladnopoka wrote: »

AE starts at 6 pm right? dont wanna be late, or come early :P

Sign ups start at 5.30pm and the tournament starts at 6.30 for AE

Jun_DP101

darn every game is on sat, have to work. any chance you can move ae, marvel and pokemon Black & White 6v6 Smogon WiFi Rules to sunday?

UberPrinny_Baal

Jun_DP101 wrote: »

darn every game is on sat, have to work. any chance you can move ae, marvel and pokemon Black & White 6v6 Smogon WiFi Rules to sunday?

You beast!

ladnopoka

anyone knows how to get to the helix from kevins street dit?

Jun_DP101

u can get the 17a straight from blanchardstown to dcu

ladnopoka

yes but i am in DIT on kevins street on saturday until 4pm...

Naphiel

Get a 16 from Aungiers street or Georges Street and get off near Whitehall Chruch and it's about a 10 minute walk from there.

Doctor DooM

Jun_DP101 wrote: »

darn every game is on sat, have to work. any chance you can move ae, marvel and pokemon Black & White 6v6 Smogon WiFi Rules to sunday?

Fighting game on Sunday = everyone in bed

Sad but true.

As an aside,I think I've resolved the 720p issue with the hauppage 2, it worked fine if I manually set 1080p as opposed to 720 on the xbox (even if you think you're manually setting it there's some auto features which change stuff). Eirtakon will be a good chance to test it out. However I am having some frame rate issues when using the 1080p passthrough with xsplit. That's tonights work.

I'll bring the shuttle as a back up anyway. The PVR 1 is off recording a friends clan matches in Battlefield at the moment. lol

Konata

Guys, does anyone coming have an AE disc? If you do, please please please bring it!

I also need just an ordinary SSF4 disc as Paul's one is missing but he has AE on the Xbox.

Doctor DooM

Konata wrote: »

Guys, does anyone coming have an AE disc? If you do, please please please bring it!

I also need just an ordinary SSF4 disc as Paul's one is missing but he has AE on the Xbox.

Pretty sure I can bring both.

Perhaps send me a quick text tonight to remind me?

Konata

Doctor DooM wrote: »

Pretty sure I can bring both.

Perhaps send me a quick text tonight to remind me?

Will do. You're a star

UberPrinny_Baal

I was also planning on coming, so I can bring an AE disc and a UMvC3 disc.

D4RK ONION

UberPrinny_Baal wrote: »

I was also planning on coming, so I can bring an AE disc and a UMvC3 disc.

That's fantastic, thanks Dave

Konata

D4RK ONION wrote: »

That's fantastic, thanks Dave

Aye thank you, looks like we're well sorted now! Cheers lads

final plug time! Eirtakon is gonna be awesome guys, just come if you can I've put all the Figthing Game tourneys on the one day especially for ye so I really hope ye can make it! I've got lots of games for casual play too so it's shaping up to be a great weekend.

and hello... STREET FIGHTER MONOPOLY!!

Fergus_

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?key=0AuLTRKrFzDASdF9EUUxsZ1lRWlNjdDFhYTl4ZE9MaWc&output=html

Timetable is here btw if anyone's interested.

Sairus

I wanna go too

Nutrient

Sairus wrote: »

I wanna go too

No teachers

Onion will join you shortly for salty SG casuals

Doctor DooM

Nutrient wrote: »

No teachers

Onion will join you shortly for salty SG casuals

I would have thought you were planning to teach Lythero a thing or two, judging by your youtube comments of late

Scavenger XIII

Don't suppose any Dubliners know the bus route that runs up from O'Connell St through Drumcondra Rd and Swords Rd?

I remember using it the last time I was at this but I can't find anything about it to plan times in advance.

chopperbyrne

Scavenger XIII wrote: »

Don't suppose any Dubliners know the bus route that runs up from O'Connell St through Drumcondra Rd and Swords Rd?

I remember using it the last time I was at this but I can't find anything about it to plan times in advance.

41 or 41C.

Scavenger XIII

chopperbyrne wrote: »

41 or 41C.

Cheers, I'd actually checked that one out before but I didn't notice the "fare stages" indicating that it actually stops near where I need to be. Not sure why it doesn't just list all stops.

Doctor DooM

Scavenger XIII wrote: »

Cheers, I'd actually checked that one out before but I didn't notice the "fare stages" indicating that it actually stops near where I need to be. Not sure why it doesn't just list all stops.

I can tell you why, Dublin buses website is an abomination!

Konata

Oh one last thing guys! Paul's UMvC3 copy is being a bit dodgy so if anyone coming has a copy of that, please bring it

Thank you!

D4RK ONION

BTW guys, hoping to start our yet to be named player interview series tomorrow with DooM if he finds a few spare moments.

Doctor DooM

Jesus christ, what a day.


I'm exhausted but really enjoyed it.

GGs to xinkai and ladno, and all the peeps who helped with the recording, and Dave who drove me home.

UMvC 1 Nutrient 2 Lythero
SF4 1 Ladno 2 Doom
SF2 1 Xinkai 2 Doom

Dreddybajs

gwan xinkai

UberPrinny_Baal

GGs to everyone I played (except Ladno)

Also GC (good commentaries?) to everyone I was sitting on the mike with today, especially the newer people of Torme(sp?) and Miss Cup Cakes!

Always nice to see new people participating. I would have liked to get in more 3S casuals with my fraudulent Q.

Biggest shout-outs to Konata for organising a really flawless day, sorry again I nearly broke the schedule with the world's slowest coffee

D4RK ONION

Great games to everyone today, happy enough with my play and my Godlike Dance Central moves.

TheChrisD

UberPrinny_Baal wrote: »

Biggest shout-outs to Konata for organising a really flawless day, sorry again I nearly broke the schedule with the world's slowest coffee

Not the carefully crafted over several months and totally not thrown together in a single weekend schedule!