Belfast tournament Saturday May 9th

Dark Man · 04-05-2015 12:47pm #1

I have been appointment as the new console rep for dragon slayers in Belfast and in order to familiarise myself with how queens want request put forward and to show that there is an interest in the FGC.
It will be ran along side the slayers 24 hour event. There will be a smash tournament ran during the day however that is not one of my events. And I will be running Ultra street fighter 4 and mortal kombat X. There will be small prize support available for both but I'm not sure what that will be u till the day. The tournaments themselves will be free to enter however there will be a door charge for the overall event. I beleave it is £8 for slayers members or £10.

Event is help in the queens university student union.
Doors open at 12 am on the 9th and is a 24 hour event.

Doctor DooM · 04-05-2015 1:37pm

Could you get us start times for the tournaments? I may be able to attend (and possibly record the tournaments too).

Dark Man · 04-05-2015 1:54pm

Times are still a bit up in the air as smash has to finish first, I think smash is due to end at 4 so SF will start at around 5 and MK quickly after

Doctor DooM · 04-05-2015 2:33pm

Dark Man wrote: »

Times are still a bit up in the air as smash has to finish first, I think smash is due to end at 4 so SF will start at around 5 and MK quickly after

I know you're probably constricted, but I'd be pushing to start as early as possible if you want people form outside Belfast to attend- I'd nearly be on the train home at five

Dark Man · 04-05-2015 2:50pm

I would like to have it start earlier but all the smash guys have the stuff booked XD I'm going to see if I can push it tomorrow

Dark Man · 04-05-2015 4:48pm

If anyone has an interest in attending could you let me know, and if there's a good sense of times and numbers it will help me get times changed.

Yreval · 04-05-2015 5:40pm

I'll be there for USF4.

Nutrient · 04-05-2015 7:01pm

I'll attempt to go, will see

Doctor DooM · 04-05-2015 9:09pm

I'm gonna try too.

Couple of suggestions: First if you're looking or numbers, you should also post here asking:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/277526462423520/

Not everyone hangs out either here or there.

Secondly, unless there's roughly 6 million people playing smash, you shouldn't need all the screens to play it by 3 or so. As a tournament wears on, you need less and less set ups (til the point at the last 3 matches that have to be played on their own as the next one relies on the result of the previous). This fact could help your argument.

Thirdly- is Jonty organising the Smash? Myself or Mike could ask him nicely to not make things awkward or so (we've all gone to Scotland together)... could also offer to record some of that too to sweeten the pot.

Dark Man · 04-05-2015 9:16pm

I know one of the guys who's running smash so in going to sort out details tomorrow. I'm going to tetanus aim to have SF kick off around 2 at the latest. Would that be a suitable time do you think? Or aim earlier?

Doctor DooM · 04-05-2015 9:19pm

Dark Man wrote: »

I know one of the guys who's running smash so in going to sort out details tomorrow. I'm going to tetanus aim to have SF kick off around 2 at the latest. Would that be a suitable time do you think? Or aim earlier?

I'd be happy with two myself!

Dark Man · 04-05-2015 9:30pm

Well I'll aim for 2 as a start for SF and hope for a fast switch over for MK once I have a proper time etc if your still interested in recording I'll FB message you to try and sort something if that's ok?

Doctor DooM · 05-05-2015 9:07am

That's cool. I should be there so

Feel free to message me.

Scavenger XIII · 05-05-2015 11:00am

Do all of Belfasts more occasional players know this is going to be on?

I have a few numbers so I can start getting the word out if it hasn't been done already. Can't have people bothering to come up from Dublin and have a crappy local turnout.

Since you have a degree of authority now as console rep definitely don't let the Smash players monopolise all the setups as the previous rep allowed them to do in the past, half the available setups should easily be enough for either game at this sort of scale.

Dark Man · 05-05-2015 9:57pm

I have got everything sorted to accommodate all we will be kicking off street fighter at 2 o'clock and upon completion we will begin running MK. And if there is any interest for other tournaments ie taken guilty gear etc I will do my best to get those on the go as well.

I will post in the EX page now and if anyone can help spread the word please do

Dark Man · 05-05-2015 10:07pm

https://www.facebook.com/events/1633769256836087/

Made an event

Scavenger XIII · 06-05-2015 8:23am

Dark Man wrote: »

ie taken guilty gear etc

Mate I am beast at Taken, that Liam Neeson technology is too OP.

Dark Man · 06-05-2015 10:15am

Well I got autocorekt

blag · 07-05-2015 9:27am

I'll be there but unsure if I'll be able to enter. I know there's a few others planning to attend too.

Doctor DooM · 07-05-2015 9:43am

blag wrote: »

I'll be there but unsure if I'll be able to enter. I know there's a few others planning to attend too.

Deadly, it'll be good to see you!

Jun_DP101 · 07-05-2015 9:53am

blag wrote: »

I'll be there but unsure if I'll be able to enter. I know there's a few others planning to attend too.

Anybody confitmed

blag · 07-05-2015 10:43am

Jun_DP101 wrote: »

Anybody confitmed

Cog is a maybe (but I'm sure he'll be there...) and Mike and Simon are going so there'll be decent casuals at the very least.

LiamNeeson · 07-05-2015 6:14pm

Scavenger XIII wrote: »

Mate I am beast at Taken, that Liam Neeson technology is too OP.

Awk how ya doin? what about ye?

D4RK ONION · 07-05-2015 8:41pm

How are Dublin lads getting up? I'm interested

Doctor DooM · 08-05-2015 9:09am

D4RK ONION wrote: »

How are Dublin lads getting up? I'm interested

I'm getting a train, booking tonight if you want in.

Doctor DooM · 08-05-2015 1:23pm

Gonna book at 7. If someone wants in they have to let me know by then (obviously ye can just sort yourselves out, either).

D4RK ONION · 08-05-2015 4:59pm

Doctor DooM wrote: »

Gonna book at 7. If someone wants in they have to let me know by then (obviously ye can just sort yourselves out, either).

How much is it, out of interest? I should be in.

Doctor DooM · 08-05-2015 5:27pm

D4RK ONION wrote: »

How much is it, out of interest? I should be in.

Roughly 40 euro return.

Macal · 08-05-2015 8:41pm

Probably too late for me to say this, but you can get the Aircoach from O'Connell Street every half hour.

Cheaper AND quicker than the train, would you believe.

Scavenger XIII · 08-05-2015 9:30pm

Macal wrote: »

Probably too late for me to say this, but you can get the Aircoach from O'Connell Street every half hour.

Cheaper AND quicker than the train, would you believe.

Yep that's sure how I get to Dublin when I'm going.

K.O.Kiki · 09-05-2015 5:16pm

Sorry lads, I went on a bender and only woke up at 3pm.

Don't let Cog win this one plz.

blag · 09-05-2015 7:51pm

K.O.Kiki wrote: »

Sorry lads, I went on a bender and only woke up at 3pm.

Don't let Cog win this one plz.

He won...

GigasBreaker · 09-05-2015 8:49pm

Awk crap, well i 2-0ed him...Mwhahaha.

Yreval · 09-05-2015 11:52pm

The tournament didn't get off to the best of starts from an organisational standpoint, but there was a buzz about the place that there hasn't been in quite a while in the Belfast scene. Plenty of returning players.

Doctor DooM · 10-05-2015 12:02am

Had a fun day. Especially good to see all the old heads. Felt like 2010 again...

EDIT: I am the Irish Fluxx champ.

Naphiel · 10-05-2015 12:24am

Results?

Doctor DooM · 10-05-2015 1:00am

URRRGH. Something wrong with some of the SF videos. Had a look in xsplit, frame rate was set to 55?! Pretty sure I never (and wouldn't) do that.

Saw some errors today as well. Hopefully people can tolerate the frame skips. Only seems to be SF...

Nutrient · 10-05-2015 1:28am

Naphiel wrote: »

Results?

Only results that mattered

D4RK ONION · 10-05-2015 8:58am

SF4:
1. Cobel "Broken Character" cog
2. D4RK "Extremely Fair Elena" ONION
3. Fake "I haven't played in months" Roogle

MKX:
1. Nutrient - "This was free"
2,3 etc. Free People

SM4SH:
1. Grand Finals went on for about 3 hours. Nobody wins

Scavenger XIII · 10-05-2015 10:18am

Had to head on before the conclusion but it was good to finally have a tournament on northern soil again and see lot of people that hadn't been seen in a long time.

Hopefully nobody is too turned off by the bracket bugger ups to make the trip again. This was supposed to be more of a dry run than a serious tournament just to see how things would go, so that by the time we give it a name and hype it up this sort of crap won't happen.

Next time I'll definitely make sure I have a challonge account and a tablet on hand to take charge of brackets if need be.