Respawn Nights/Gaming Unleashed - The Sugar Club (March 5th) SFIV/TTT2/Melee/SC2

Fergus_

Bit short notice but anyone heading out to this?

The Sugar Club
8 Lower Leeson Street, Dublin, Ireland D 2

https://www.facebook.com/events/920850167955681

€10 euros can be purchased online or at the door. - https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/respawn-nights-gaming-unleashed-tickets-15774264249

Respawn Nights brought to you by Dublin Comic Con & Official M82. Get together with your friends, grab some food & drinks, gear up for gaming tournaments, witness cool game props and win some amazing prizes.

We've partnered with The Sugar Club to bring you yet another industry leading event. Gaming Booths, Tournaments & Prizes, Food & drink and a whole lot more!

** FOR THOSE INTERESTED IN THE SFIV TOURNAMENT PLEASE BE AT THE VENUE NO LATER THAN 8PM FOR SIGNUPS**

Gaming Lineup

- Street Fighter IV (Big Screen)
- Halo (System Link)
- Perfect Dark Zero (System Link)
- Smash Bros Melee
- Tekken Tag 2
- Soul Calibur 2
- Mario Kart Wii
- House of the Dead Overkill
+More

BIG SCREEN BRAWL - Street Fighter IV
Our main tournament for the night will be Street Fighter IV on the PS3. Names in a hat, random draw for opponents, working our way down to 1 winner on the night
(running from 8pm-10:30pm roughly, before and after the big screen will be freeplay)

SYSTEM LINK SHOWDOWN - Halo & Perfect Dark Zero
Battle of the launch titles, Halo on the Xbox(original) and Perfect Dark on the 360.
Arrive with your four man team, or assemble on the night, and fight away all night against opposing teams in the venue, this tournament will be player managed, we have no rules other than one, team with the highest capture score on each platform at the end of the night wins and bags themselves some loot!
(Scores will be kept from 8pm-11pm, everything before and after that is free play)

Scavenger XIII

"Street Fighter IV on the PS3" :pac:

Risky business there.

Fergus_

Oh good eye, let me ask what version it is.

chopperbyrne

My money's on Vanilla.

Cobelcog

chopperbyrne wrote: »

My money's on Vanilla.

I'm there.

Macal

shall be showing for TTT2 and defo will try SC II with my day one Heihachi.

Nutrient

I'll be there for HaloGate

Scavenger XIII

Cobelcog wrote: »

I'm there.

Ah here, you're expecting characters to be unlocked.

Fergus_

Ok so there's only a tournament for SFIV (vanilla but they can change to ultra if we want to) and Halo/Perfect Dark Zero.

TTT2/Melee/SC2 are just booths for casual play.

Dreddybajs

Sounds fun, I'll go!

ayjayirl

FYI lads. We spoke to them about this event and offered to help out etc but it wasn't to be this time. Just a word that SF will be with wireless setups only. The main stage (projector) can only faciliiate this so sticks for SF are out.

That being said, we went last time and had a blast

Dreddybajs

Not gonna head to it if that's the case. Feck paying a tenner to have to play on a pad!

DrGreenthumb

perfect dark zero? why is that on the list did you pick up 10 copies for a euro

Constant Markievicz

So who's planning on showing up for this? Not sure yet if I want to hang around in town for 3 hours after work waiting for it to start...

Doctor DooM

Was gonna go but the SF4 situation really makes it a bad deal for me.

Nutrient

Doctor DooM wrote: »

Was gonna go but the SF4 situation really makes it a bad deal for me.

Same, maybe next time

Doyler01

Just got contacted by some auld Halo lads needing a player so Im gonna actually head in to this.

Anyone going??


And what is the actual deal with SF? Has to be played on wireless play station pad??

Doctor DooM

Doyler01 wrote: »

Just got contacted by some auld Halo lads needing a player so Im gonna actually head in to this.

Anyone going??


And what is the actual deal with SF? Has to be played on wireless play station pad??

Yes... so I'm gonna give it a miss. I was planning on going and all.

Ramza

Doyler01 wrote: »

Just got contacted by some auld Halo lads needing a player so Im gonna actually head in to this.

Anyone going??


And what is the actual deal with SF? Has to be played on wireless play station pad??

Hound, go and win plz

Macal

This was an interesting tourney. I made Top 6 with my Day One Sagat literally by luck of the draw. (Brackets were picked at random, single elimination)

GGs to Maz at TTT2. Also taught Niall how to play Bob.

"ff+2 in the open. SS+1+2 when you're near the wall."

Fergus_

Don't forget db3+4,4 !

MazManZero

B+2, 2 & B+2, 2, 4 = instant Pro Bob.

Sairus

So who won SF4?

Constant Markievicz

Vanilla SF4.

Characters were not unlocked.

Xinkai won.

Constant Markievicz

Oh, and GGs to Doyler and thanks for the advice. And thanks for the Tekken lessons, Neil.

Sairus

Jaysus. I leave the country for a few years and now Xinkai's winning tournaments. The place is going to ****, lads.

What was the turnout for the event in general?

Constant Markievicz

To be honest, there were only maybe 4 people there who even knew how to play the game- and that's if I'm being generous and including myself

Xinkai vs Doyler was really the only decent match of the night, and that wasn't even the finals, because of the 'names in a hat' way they were running the tournament. So, it was all very casual- good craic, though.

I'd say there was maybe 30 or 40 people there overall? I didn't really get a good idea of the turnout, because it was divided between two rooms, and I stayed in the room where the FGs were.

D4RK ONION

Sairus wrote: »

Jaysus. I leave the country for a few years and now Xinkai's winning tournaments. The place is going to ****, lads.

What was the turnout for the event in general?

No characters unlocked, pad only, Xinkai's zone :P

Doyler01

Possibly the worst run gaming event I've ever seen.
2 of my friends paid in and left within 25 mins.

Great venue, booze, 2 lovely ladies in gameboy dresses helping out...

Buuut.. The actual running of everything was a joke.

The rules of Halo were awful. Wont even get into it.
My team won Halo and waited for our prizes to find out that they had been given away.

They expected double the attendees.

SF4.... oh my god..
Laggiest projector of all time. Need to do aa dp at the start of opponents jump or eat a CH. 2 absolutely clueless lads on commentary (who wouldnt let anyone else on) talking absolute rubbish thru the loudest speakers in the club. "Fun fact! Did you know Bisons psycho crusher is the only move that beats electricity?".. *Ryu jumps 8 times in a row "Very defensive play here from Ryu" "Ryu needs to use his superior agility in this match against Chun Li"
I could go on.
The game had no sound. Wireless PS3 pads. No chars unlocked.
Names drawn out of a hat at every stage of the bracket. Single elim. Grand finals had 3 players.. the list goes on.

Interestingly enough they have funding and plans to hold a tournament first week of every month til November. So I had a little chat with the top dawg to see if collaboration was possible. He mentioned absolutely no streaming is allowed as they are planning / hoping to televise the later events or something.

Dreddybajs

Post of the year Doyler.

chopperbyrne

Doyler01 wrote: »

Grand finals had 3 players..

DooM?

Constant Markievicz

Doyler01 wrote: »

They expected double the attendees.

Wow, I'm really surprised to hear that. They weren't prepared for that- would have been absolute chaos. SF was an hour behind schedule as it was, I think.

Doyler01

Constant Markievicz wrote: »

Wow, I'm really surprised to hear that. They weren't prepared for that- would have been absolute chaos. SF was an hour behind schedule as it was, I think.

They would have just gone vanilla ranked beast mode, 30 seconds 1 round.

Dreddybajs

Doyler01 wrote: »

They would have just gone vanilla ranked beast mode, 30 seconds 1 round.

Knowing that psycho crusher beats electricity would've been the tip of the night then :pac:

Jun_DP101

sounded like fun

Doctor DooM

I think "no streaming because we want to do television" betrays a fundamental lack of understanding of how people enjoy gaming content these days...

Sairus

Doctor DooM wrote: »

I think "no streaming because we want to do television" betrays a fundamental lack of understanding of how people enjoy gaming content these days...

I think "everything Doyler posted" betrays a fundamental lack of understanding on anything to do with gaming content in general.

It always amazes me to see how TOs find new and exciting ways to create nonsense ways of running brackets. I know Losers brackets can be a little confusing the first couple of times you use them, but that's what Challonge or whatever is for.

Also, real talk, I learned Vega specifically so I would have a character to play in Vanilla SF4 with no unlocks. Y'all so lucky.

Dreddybajs

Every line of Doyler's post is better than the last, you couldn't make it up.

ayjayirl

Sairus wrote: »

that's what Challonge is for

This

Macal

ayjayirl wrote: »

This

Respawn TOs; "Challonge? I think you've spelt Challenge wrong"

Also, there was also no prize pot for the SFIV tourney, which is probably better than having one considering there was no brackets and it was single elimination.

Ramza

Dreddybajs wrote: »

Post of the year Doyler.

2nd to this masterpiece tbh

Nutrient

Doyler01 wrote: »

Possibly the worst run gaming event I've ever seen.
2 of my friends paid in and left within 25 mins.

Great venue, booze, 2 lovely ladies in gameboy dresses helping out...

Buuut.. The actual running of everything was a joke.

The rules of Halo were awful. Wont even get into it.
My team won Halo and waited for our prizes to find out that they had been given away.

They expected double the attendees.

SF4.... oh my god..
Laggiest projector of all time. Need to do aa dp at the start of opponents jump or eat a CH. 2 absolutely clueless lads on commentary (who wouldnt let anyone else on) talking absolute rubbish thru the loudest speakers in the club. "Fun fact! Did you know Bisons psycho crusher is the only move that beats electricity?".. *Ryu jumps 8 times in a row "Very defensive play here from Ryu" "Ryu needs to use his superior agility in this match against Chun Li"
I could go on.
The game had no sound. Wireless PS3 pads. No chars unlocked.
Names drawn out of a hat at every stage of the bracket. Single elim. Grand finals had 3 players.. the list goes on.

Interestingly enough they have funding and plans to hold a tournament first week of every month til November. So I had a little chat with the top dawg to see if collaboration was possible. He mentioned absolutely no streaming is allowed as they are planning / hoping to televise the later events or something.

Doyler Exposing the underbelly of E-sports.

Glad I didn't attend, hope to see it improved.