[Season Finished!] [FG@UCI Ranbat] P4A Ranbat - Irvine, CA

[kaoticdragon]

Hello all,

I will be updating this thread for each ranbat at UCI:

The Fighting Gamers @ UCI (SCR, Fight for Relief, Curleh Mustache West Coast Edition, etc) will be hosting their FINAL of an 8 session ranbat. The official 4 games are AE2012, UMvC3, KoFXIII, and Persona 4 Arena. Because the first 2 ranbats were used to figure out the fourth official game, the season has concluded. It will be hosted in the (TBD) room in the Student Center. Maps are linked below in this post.

Doors open at (12:00pm PST) for sign-ups and casuals, and the tournament for P4U begins at 4pm PST (may be delayed if SF4 runs late). Entry fee per game is $5, and venue fee is $3. So one game is $8, two games is $13, etc. Pot distribution will be 70/30 to 1st and 2nd respectively. Official end-of-season prize TBD (more on this later in the thread). Tournament format is double elimination, and challonge.com will be used to generate brackets with seeding based on season points and overall skill level if it's your first time.

While we will be likely able to provide at least one set-up per game, it is encouraged to bring a set-up. There is also a monetary incentive to bring a set-up as your venue fee may be waived, and more information about that can be found on the FB event page.

There will be some new rules in place for the ranbat season. First, there will be early bird discounts and late fees for the venue fees. If you sign up an hour before the game is scheduled to start, venue fee will be $1. If you sign up less than an hour UP to 10 MINUTES before the scheduled start time, venue fee will be $3. If you sign up later, venue will be $5. For example, if marvel starts at 8pm, sign ups 7pm and earlier will be 1+5 for pot, 7-7:50 will be 3+5 for pot, and after 7:50 will be 5+5 for pot (and you also risk disqualification). Telling me you will be late does not void this penalty... I will only consider you signed up when your entry fee is paid (so feel free to pay for your friends). However, if our tournament is delayed for reasons beyond our control, such as SF4 running late, then we will probably waive the late penalty.

There will also be a BYOC(bring your own controller) rule. You are responsible for being prepared to play when your match is called. We will not delay your match because you forgot your stick or someone else is borrowing it for their match. If you need to borrow a stick from FG@UCI staff, it will cost $2. This isn't some fast way for them to make some cash but to penalize irresponsible players. Here's how it will wok:

When we call your match and you do not have a controller, you will be forced to immediately borrow someone else's stick or rent one for the fee above. Keep in mind if you borrow someone else's stick and their match is called, the penalty will apply to them. So don't be that guy...

In regards to the end of season prize, we unfortunately were not able to hit the 24 man mark in the first ranbat, and thus the flight to CEO will no longer be offered. However, there will still be an end-of-season prize and it has not been determined yet, so if anyone has any suggestions/preferences please let us know! So far the only suggestion has been offered by Richard Nguyen: "waifu pillows for top 3"

If you are interested in any other games, feel free to enter those as well!

Rule set for P4U:

Basically, EVO rules. http://evo.shoryuken.com/evo-player-guide/evo-tournament-rules/

Game Settings: Versus Mode, 2/3 Rounds, 2/3 Games (3/5 Games for Grand Finals ONLY)

If the players do not agree on a stage within 15 seconds, the match will be random stage select.

No bracket cap for P4U, although this may change if we suddenly get a bajillion entrants

Ranbats will be bi-weekly starting March 30th. Due to scheduling conflicts and NCR, there will be back-to-back ranbats in April, and the season finale will be played on a Sunday.

Full schedule is as follows:

Ranbat 1 - February 23rd

Ranbat 2 - March 10th

Ranbat 3 - March 30th

Ranbat 4 - April 13th

Ranbat 5 - April 20th

Ranbat 6 - May 11th - POSTPONED UNTIL MAY 19TH

Ranbat 7 - May 25th

Ranbat 8 - June 9th (cancelled due to conflicting tournaments)

Ranbat points will be distributed as follows:

1st - 8 pts

2nd - 6 pts

3rd - 4 pts

4th - 3 pts

5th - 2 pts

7th - 1 pt

Current standings:

KaoticDragon - 27 pts

Kanji West - 14 pts

Valin - 10 pts

AS|Reynald - 8 pts

InfiniteImage - 6 pts

TLoc - 6 pts

Shtkn - 4 pts

Yogse - 3 pts

Akihiro - 2 pts

4 Leaf - 1 pt

Toki - 1 pt

If there's a tie, we will probably play a tie-breaker match.

The following link contains the campus map for your convenience. It is color coded to show you where we will be located as well as where you are able to park.

http://img838.imageshack.us/img838/4308/ucicampus.jpg

The following link contains the Student Center map.

http://www.studentcenter.uci.edu/files/Directory-letter.pdf

For more information, you can check out the following links:

Find Fighting Gamers @ UCI

Facebook Group: tinyurl.com/ucifg

UCI SRK Thread: http://bit.ly/fightinggamersuci

Stream for official games will be done by Offcast: twitch.tv/offcast , youtube.com/offcasts

If you have any questions feel free to use the resources above, post on this thread, or msg me on twitter/facebook (kaoticdragon). If I can't answer a question I will direct you to someone who can.

Edited May 30, 2013 by kaoticdragon

[TlocCPU]

I'm going to come to this. Would you like me to stream it since we aren't an "official game" ?

[superarcade]

hmmmm so you guys wanna run this starting on the 23rd and i guess we are ending the bi-weekly stuff here for air dashers at super? let me know whats up so i can arrange to run other things if this is the direction you want to go in guys. obviously not trying to step on toes but if UCI crew wants to handle it then np. just gimme a heads up so i can run other things and make plans. pz.

watson

[Valin]

Hi Watson,

This event has no affiliation with the Saturday sessions that run at super on Saturdays. We're trying to gather people to make P4 an official game at UCI, but aside from that, the people who run the Saturday events at super don't even know about this event. We're not trying to take over anything. Sorry for the confusion!

[superarcade]

If Persona makes it, ranking battles will be bi-weekly on Saturdays... meaning the first official session of the P4A season will be March 23rd. This time it was on Sunday due to venue booking issues (stupid college frats). Doors open at 1:00pm PST for sign-ups and casuals, and the tournament begins at 2:30pm PST (not TST). Entry fee per game (in case you are interested in any of the main games or want to be a scumbag and support other side games besides P4A) is $5, and venue fee is $3. So one game is $8, two games is $13, etc. Pot distribution will be 70/30 to 1st and 2nd respectively. Official end-of-season prize TBD. Tournament format is double elimination, and challonge.com will be used to generate brackets.

as is in bold it states first date for your ranbats would be on March 23rd, which happens to fall on our bi-weekly event........ just saying man. i support UCI and i like the crew that ive met from there so theres obv no beef. i just want to be clear where people want to go and dont want any split in the community especially for a game that already has a smaller group. no harm, no foul, just trying to plan things accordingly. gl with your events!

[kaoticdragon]

Hey Watson,

This is pretty much poor planning on our part, since we didn't have a set 4th game due to this popularity contest. If P4U wins out on Sunday and secures a spot for the rest of the ranbat, then yeah obviously it will be up to the community on where to go. I myself and I'm sure all the FG@UCI leaders who have met you respect you and everything Super Arcade has done, so we don't want to step on anyone's toes either. If the regulars at Super Arcade want to go to Super Arcade, that just means smaller tournament at UCI, not a problem (and honestly I'd probably default to Super Arcade if I was in their position). We'll still run P4U as normal. Again, this is all assuming P4U is the 4th game after Sunday anyways.

Full schedule is as follows:

Ranbat 1 - February 23rd

Ranbat 2 - March 10th

Ranbat 3 - March 23rd

Ranbat 4 - April 6th

Ranbat 5 - April 20th

Ranbat 6 - May 4th

Ranbat 7 - May 18th

Ranbat 8 - June 1st

Sorry for the inconvenience =(

Let me know if you need anything else to help make this situation easier for you or the community.

[Jyosua]

We will continue to hold the air-dasher events at Super biweekly until Watson decides he's sick of us. :P But I'll show up to the Sunday event and we'll give it a shoutout at Super on Saturday. But, I feel it's unfair to you guys for you to be judging the community based on this one Sunday event when I'm certain that most people will continue to show up to Super for the events that have been running there for a long time now... then again I could be wrong and they could decide to say "Fuck you guys" once James leaves, but I like to think that we're all friends.

[kaoticdragon]

While I don't post on DL like.... ever... I am familiar with some of the Rebel Up guys and I won't judge anyone for anything. Quite honestly I'm more concerned about this one Sunday event than FG@UCI's master plan with the ranbat season. If P4U is streamed on Sunday (either on Offcast's stream or TLoc's stream), I would be totally OK with a shoutout to the biweeklies at Super and probably would encourage it if anything. There are only a few goals I have:

- Get P4U at FG@UCI

- Continue growing P4U exposure

- Help everyone level up for EVO

I do not believe any of the 3 goals above require an ultimatum of "everyone in SoCal DL must go to one venue or the other". We've had a few regulars at the UCI sessions and various other smaller tournaments playing P4U so if it continues like that, that's fine. I just figured to post here because P4U is competing in a popularity contest, so hey grab bodies where I can. And I'm sure there are a few people on the forums who don't attend Super regularly and a regular tournament in Irvine would be convenient/ideal for them. Grabbing those people instead of grabbing regulars from Rebel Up is infinitely more preferable imo.

And if the FG@UCI heads go "hey, this is pretty dumb that a bunch of people showed up on Sunday and aren't coming regularly anymore" well then, that's their call. I'm not the type of person to make anyone feel guilty or responsible or whatever the hell. In fact I just told one of them about the fact that there will be bodies on Sunday who won't show up regularly afterwards if they wanted to take that into consideration, and he said any entrant will be a count towards the popularity vote so as long as we have more, we are good to go.

So for everyone planning on continuing to attend Super biweeklies on Saturdays, at the very least there will be a tournament with pot prizes this Sunday at UCI that, if you are available and have no conflicts in your schedule, I encourage you to be at =)

Edited March 8, 2013 by kaoticdragon

[TlocCPU]

As I mentioned already, I'm only coming to this because this particular one DOESN'T conflict with the super arcade event. For all other collisions, me and mostly everyone else are always going to pick super arcade.

[Valin]

And that's 100% fine, lol. We don't want to take over rebel up, the thought hadn't even crossed my mind until it was brought up D:. I just want P4U at my school

[kaoticdragon]

I will be heading out to UCI soon, so any last minute questions please post on the FB event page linked in the OP. There will be someone monitoring it

In the mean time I did one last update to include links to maps of the neighborhood and the Student Center itself, as well as which room we will be playing in.

Edited March 10, 2013 by kaoticdragon

[kaoticdragon]

stream provided courtesy of TLoc - twitch.tv/counterassaulttv

[glod]

Stream starts in about 5 minutes.

[kaoticdragon]

Thanks everyone for coming out and congratulations to Tloc for first.

So basically due to scheduling conflicts with the school, we will be able to do something awesome (I hope) for the P4U community. P4U is now the official 4th game of the UCI Ranbats, and the first official ranbat will begin soon.

It seems that all rooms on campus were booked on the 23rd of March, which if I am correct, would've been the next time Super Arcade was going to host a Saturday session. Instead, FG@UCI decided to start running the next 6 ranbats of the season on the 30th of March (the saturday after), and continue the bi-weekly schedule. I believe this means that we will never clash with your events at Super Arcade!

Also, the end of the season prize is still up in the air. However, I was told that if I am able to consistently get 24-32 man brackets for P4U, the prize will be a free flight and *probably* free entry to CEO 2013. Right now SSF4AE2012 and UMvC3 also share these prizes, so Jebailey is well aware of the situation (we'll have to probably re-ask him for P4U entry though).

If there are any problems please let me know, but I will continue updating this thread for each ranbat as the events are created on FB. I'll be late for the one on the 30th since I'll be in Japan until the 29th, but feel free to join the FG@UCI facebook group to keep up to date with all our events. Let me know if you guys have any questions!

For those that have played in the first 2 side tournaments in P4U, you do not get any ranking points for your performance, but the results will be used to seed the tournament on the 30th.

[TlocCPU]

Very cool! I'm glad you were able to get the alternated weeks switched, that rocks!

[kaoticdragon]

I have updated the OP with information and will continue doing that for each ranbat. For this particular upcoming one on the 30th, I will be super last minute on getting out specific information such as start time and room location as I will be in Japan from the 14th-29th. So I highly encourage those interested to join the FG@UCI Facebook group (instructions can be found on the SRK thread as it is invite-only), since each tournament will have its own Facebook event.

[CEO Jebailey]

If you guys can hit the requirement for a free flight to CEO for Persona, I'll hook the winner up with free badge and game entry for P4A at CEO 2013. Good luck.

[kaoticdragon]

Thank you Jebailey! I hope we will be able to take advantage of your generosity =O

[kaoticdragon]

Due to UCI screwing us again and to better coincide with NCR, season schedule has a slight change. There will be back to back ranbats on April 13th and 20th, then the biweekly schedule will continue starting May 11th. Sorry for the inconvenience to those with scheduling conflicts

There are a few more updates as well, but they aren't terribly important (show up on time and byoc incentives) and I'm not in the mood to type it all out on my iPhone so just check back the night of the 29th

Edited March 17, 2013 by kaoticdragon

[evilragnarok]

Popping in to check out the thread. Sorry for the whack schedule. You can direct questions and suggestions to me if you'd like, since Jeff is in Japan.

Will you guys be providing your own stream?

[kaoticdragon]

Hello everyone. An update about the ranbat on Saturday:

First, doors open at 12pm pst for all games and casuals.

It will be held in the Newport Beach A room in the student center. Please refer to the original post for maps.

Second, there will be some new rules in place for the ranbat season. First, there will be early bird discounts and late fees for the venue fees. If you sign up an hour before the game is scheduled to start, venue fee will be $1. If you sign up less than an hour UP to 10 MINUTES before the scheduled start time, venue fee will be $3. If you sign up later, venue will be $5. For example, if marvel starts at 8pm, sign ups 7pm and earlier will be 1+5 for pot, 7-7:50 will be 3+5 for pot, and after 7:50 will be 5+5 for pot (and you also risk disqualification). Telling me you will be late does not void this penalty... I will only consider you signed up when your entry fee is paid (so feel free to pay for your friends).

There will also be a BYOC(bring your own controller) rule. You are responsible for being prepared to play when your match is called. We will not delay your match because you forgot your stick or someone else is borrowing it for their match. If you need to borrow a stick from FG@UCI staff, it will cost $2. This isn't some fast way for them to make some cash but to penalize irresponsible players. Here's how it will wok:

When we call your match and you do not have a controller, you will be forced to immediately borrow someone else's stick or rent one for the fee above. Keep in mind if you borrow someone else's stick and their match is called, the penalty will apply to them. So don't be that guy...

I saved the most important for last. It seems scheduling is very open for P4U, so I will leave it up to you guys to decide when you want this thing to start. I was very lenient with delaying start times last time, but since we are an official game now it will start on time, so please think carefully. We can start anytime after 1pm PST as long as we can finish before 11pm. Please let me know by the 29th 7pm PST so I can tell the FG@UCI heads. If no time is chosen I will decide one and update you here by that time. I will probably default to 5pm PST. As an FYI SSF4 starts at 2, KoF starts at 5, and Marvel starts at 8pm.

See you all Saturday!

[kaoticdragon]

Hello, last update before tomorrow:

Tournament start time is 4PM PST. Which means if you sign up at 3PM or before, your venue fee is $1. Also, as a reminder, any chance of getting a free flight/entry to CEO2013 is dependent on turnouts. If we do not meet the requirement another prize will be determined at a future date.

[kaoticdragon]

sorry for like the quadruple post, but OP has been updated with the FB event and start times/room location for the tournament this saturday: https://www.facebook.com/events/502226603175698/?ref=3

Also, as I now work on Saturdays, Valin will be running the tournament so sign-ups will be done through him or evilragnarok (I'll still be entering though, just won't be there early). I'll still be happy to answer any questions or concerns though. Hope to see you guys there!

[evilragnarok]

UPDATE!!! PLEASE READ!!!

This saturday's ranbat (5/11/13) has been postponed to sunday (5/19/13). That ranbat will begin at 4pm and end at 11pm. Be on the look out for the event for a detailed schedule of games and their time slots.

PS. Has anyone come up with any ideas on a prize for the season?