LordPangTong Posted May 22, 2013 Posted May 22, 2013 (edited) Hey all, GUTS, the New England major is having its second tournament in just a few short weeks in Boston, Massachusetts. Information below about the event was directly taken from the FaceBook page here -> http://www.facebook.com/events/571786106179023/ Boston's 3 Day Fighting Game Major! June 14th-16th 2013 www.game-underground.com Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sXmdSNPdY0 Massachusetts Institute of Technology: MIT 77 Massachusetts Ave Cambridge, MA 02139 Featuring a Stadium seating for 500 for Main Events!! Stadium Seating for 300 for Smash!! As well as several classrooms to break out pools and free play! Pricing and On Sale Now!!! Tournaments include: Super Street Fighter IV AE $500 Pot Bonus VXG Seeding Point Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3 $500 Pot Bonus VXG Seeding Point Tekken Tag Tournament 2 $500 Pot Bonus Super Smash Bros Melee Singles $500 Pot Bonus Super Smash Bros Brawl Singles $500 Pot Bonus Melee and Brawl Doubles Mortal Kombat 9 VXG Seeding Point Street Fighter X Tekken Super Street Fighter II Turbo HDR Classic Mode KOF XIII Injustice Gods Among Us DOA 5 Skullgirls Persona 4 Arena Blazblue Continuum Shift (NEW!) Guilty Gear: Accent Core+ (NEW!) WWE 13 more games may be added! SRK Thread: http://forums.shoryuken.com/discussion/177225/june-14-16-2013-guts-2-turbo-game-underground-tournament-spectacular-2-boston-ma TZ Thread: http://www.tekkenzaibatsu.com/forums/showthread.php?s&threadid=127269 TYM Thread: http://www.testyourmight.com/threads/jun-15-2013-game-underground-tournament-spectacular-2-guts-2-turbo-cambridge-ma.28980/ Smashboards: http://smashboards.com/threads/guts-2-turbo-melee-and-brawl-500-pot-bonus-each-umvc3-ae-ttt2-june-14th-2013-cambridge-ma.335286/ Some tournaments will be qualifiers for The Fall Classic! East Coast Event in September!!! Details TBA Hours: Friday June 14th 5pm-Midnight (There will be no pools this day if you can't make it to day 1 you will be fine to play in any of the Pot Bonus Games) Saturday June 15th 10am-Midnight Sunday June 16th 10am-Midnight Hotel Discounts: HOTEL DISCOUNT LINK!!! We managed to save over $100 per room! Click below! https://resweb.passkey.com/go/e7fb0084 Hyatt Regency Cambridge 575 Memorial Dr Cambridge, MA 02139 (617) 492-1234 http://www.cambridge.hyatt.com/ 2013 Schedule Friday 7pm Project M Doubles 8pm (as soon as doubles ends) Project M Singles (if this goes past midnight it will be continued Sat) 8pm Super Street Fighter II 9pm WWE 13 Extreme Rules Saturday 11am DOA 5 11am Skullgirls 12pm King of Fighters XIII 12pm Melee Doubles 2pm Super Street Fighter IV AE 3pm Tekken Tag Tournament 2 3pm Melee Singles 5pm UMVC 3 Sunday 11am Persona 4 Arena 11am Mortal Kombat 12pm Brawl Doubles 12pm Street Fighter X Tekken 1pm Injustice 3pm Brawl Singles SUNDAY TOP 8 Main Stage 4pm Injustice 6pm Super Street Fighter IV 8pm Ultimate MvC3 *All times are subject to change *We intend to play through all tournaments in full at their scheduled times with the exception of the Top 8 games listed. We are still deciding if we will add Tekken top 8 to Sunday. Streaming by Team Spooky Game Underground WWW Smash Presented by Ultimate Gaming Spot Brainbox Replay'd BYOC - Bring your own controller for all events. XBOX 360: SSFAE, UMVC3, DOA5, P4A, WWE13, SFXT, KOF XIII PS3: TTT2, MK9, Injustice, Skullgirls Smash: Wii/Gamecube There will be a free play room for old school and other fun party games. There will be free play for all tournament games as well. The only exception to this will be during the first few rounds of that game's tournament where most setups will be being used. All fighting game tournaments will take place on ASUS monitors. All Smash will be played on CRT TVs. BB and GG are newly added! Post up if you plan on coming or need information on travelling from out of state! Edited June 5, 2013 by LordPangTong
Colpevole Posted May 22, 2013 Posted May 22, 2013 Hmm... this is like, only 4 hours away. I might be able to go to this!
SuperJ Posted May 22, 2013 Posted May 22, 2013 I'd probably be better off posting this on fb given the relatively short timeframe remaining, if impromptu efforts are actually being made I'd be more than happy to help, financially or otherwise I might also be willing to house a couple of players if hotel prices are prohibitive (disclaimer: I live 10-15 min from the venue by foot). this is assuming GG will be a thing; I don't play BB -_- pm me etc etc
Elochai Posted May 22, 2013 Posted May 22, 2013 I'm really interested in going to this, but the 7 hour travel time kind of dissuades me. Why're there no majors in NYC ?
skd Posted May 22, 2013 Posted May 22, 2013 I'm really interested in going to this, but the 7 hour travel time kind of dissuades me. Why're there no majors in NYC ? venue fee would be insane. that said, boston is only about 4/5 hours away! (take a bus, super cheap + easy)
LordPangTong Posted May 22, 2013 Author Posted May 22, 2013 Yeah what SKD said about transportation, Elochai. I used to take a bus from South Station -> NYC for BBG tournaments back when those were a thing, and it was only like ~$30 round trip. Bus ride is about 3-4 hours depending on when you go. If anyone from out of state takes a bus, public transportation is super cheap and easy to maneuver around the city once you get there! It would be awesome to see some NJ/NY heads at this. Regarding GG/BB, I'll get clarification and post up here as soon as I hear something definite
SuperJ Posted May 26, 2013 Posted May 26, 2013 so the TO is planning to (privately?) discuss side tournament prospects sometime this week. how relevant; let's talk interest and the checking thereof I figure most of you tourney-goers will be attending UMAD, which is a week before GUTS. is this you? burn out, short notice, and poutine expenses imply you probably won't be going to GUTS. furthermore if you still have the choice between the two you should definitely go to UMAD with that out of the way, assume for now that BB/GG will also be run. who is interested in going? in particular, does one of these sentences describe you: - already plan to be there for P4/capcom/whatever - want to go to UMAD but couldn't because your passport expired reasons - would be interested in going to both UMAD and GUTS - would go provided there are incentives (if I personally provide any 'incentives' I would tentatively split them equally between P4/BB/GG) get at me! last year's GUTS was a blast and exceedingly well-done and organized for a first major. if enough people come to justify running BB/GG I'll deal with the logistics. (the first item on that checklist would be anime room location)
blueNINE Posted May 28, 2013 Posted May 28, 2013 SuperJ, I'll be going to GUTS for sure, and I'm trying to make it to UMAD. If there will be a GG tournament at GUTS, I'll definitely enter! For anyone considering going to GUTS; they ran an excellent event last year, and I recommend making the trip out to this one!
Elochai Posted May 29, 2013 Posted May 29, 2013 P4U is finishing as well as starting on Sunday, yes? I may just be able to get this to work.
SuperJ Posted May 29, 2013 Posted May 29, 2013 alex, good to hear elochai: I'd guess you'd take the 6:30am in? hopefully you can get enough sleep! the schedule was likely made with the assumption that people would be there all 2/3 days, and that all setups would be provided in-house /shrug to you and everyone else: would it be preferable to run anime on saturday? or is sunday fine? do chime in if you've already bought bus tix or otherwise made sunday arrangements, though! regardless, I'll try convincing the TO to start anime later. if tekken can get their way with a couple of facebook comments...
GameUnderground Posted May 29, 2013 Posted May 29, 2013 alex, good to hear elochai: I'd guess you'd take the 6:30am in? hopefully you can get enough sleep! the schedule was likely made with the assumption that people would be there all 2/3 days, and that all setups would be provided in-house /shrug to you and everyone else: would it be preferable to run anime on saturday? or is sunday fine? do chime in if you've already bought bus tix or otherwise made sunday arrangements, though! regardless, I'll try convincing the TO to start anime later. if tekken can get their way with a couple of facebook comments... Ok guys I really wouldnt mind if bb or gg were at our event. I just cant handle all of it and the planning. if someone can bring a setup and discs for this I would add it to the schedule if one of you guys want to help by TOing it. Let me know on ghe fb event page. its already a ton of games to run! I am not surd where to fit these exactly maybe sat night around 9?
Elochai Posted May 29, 2013 Posted May 29, 2013 elochai: I'd guess you'd take the 6:30am in? hopefully you can get enough sleep! the schedule was likely made with the assumption that people would be there all 2/3 days, and that all setups would be provided in-house /shrug Yeah, in truth, I can't afford to stay at a hotel. My income is horribly limited (maybe I shouldn't be trying to travel then, lol) so overnight stay is not an option. I dunno which bus companies are good, but Peter Pan seems super affordable. I'd leave home early, get to the venue like 10:30ish, and get home by midnight, granted P4U ended at like, 8-9pm. I can come either day, so for me, it doesn't matter which day anime is on. I really only play P4U anyway.
SuperJ Posted May 30, 2013 Posted May 30, 2013 organizing concerns and thoughts before I post on fb... - I will see to gg/bb being run. undecided if they should be $5 or $10. - p4a is currently listed as running on xbox, whereas practically every major i've been to ran anime on ps3. consistency is desirable; as such, would you guys prefer ps3, or is xbox a-ok? I might advocate ps3 regardless - corollary: I think bothering the locals will be sufficient for setups, but if you're able and willing to lug capital goods, do post up! - it wouldn't hurt to run anime all on the same day. it seems that setups and manpower, not real estate, are the primary constraints so I'm going to push for running p4a/gg/bb either all saturday or all sunday; I'm leaning on saturday for now.
blueNINE Posted May 30, 2013 Posted May 30, 2013 I am fine with either day for GG, but would prefer whichever day will afford us the best turnout, or Sunday, if it doesn't really matter. I can bring a 360 or PS3 for sure, and might be willing to bring a TV or monitor if needed.
SuperJ Posted June 2, 2013 Posted June 2, 2013 (edited) alright. the head TO is onboard with running p4a, bb and gg sequentially. most likely it will be in that order. on the other hand, the TO is reluctant to change the day/time p4a is running for the following reasons: 1. people enter multiple games, and both saturday and sunday have 'big' games going on, i.e. capcom on saturday and injustice on sunday. the TO would prefer to minimize schedule overlap. this is why p4a/kof are running earlier than ae/injustice 2. staffing given my experience at various majors, I don't see a problem with #1. side tournaments running independently of and parallel to day-long pools have been the norm for some time. the onus has always been on the player to inform the appropriate TOs. proximity certainly isn't it, either: the main stage is in the south part of building 26, whereas side games are happening in 16 and 56. #2 can obviously be alleviated. the biggest concession I've gotten is that the TO can accept pushing p4a back an hour or two. what do you guys think though? should I lobby harder for saturday? I think starting at 12 or 1pm is reasonable though, whether you're going one day or staying the weekend. I think the TO doesn't mind, and neither will you, if everything is run on ps3 instead of xbox. any objections? p4a is currently listed as 70/20/10 split. would 60/30/10 be preferable? p4a is $10 if you didn't know already. also, gg and bb will be $10. I hope that won't be an insurmountable barrier to entry. I hope to finish negotiating and set these details in stone tomorrow. - alluding to previously mentioned incentives: I will throw in $100 each for p4a, gg, and bb. I'll throw in an extra $100 for each game that garners 32 or more entrants. allegedly it's always the same people winning anime majors year after year, so to make life interesting, if the 1st place winners of p4a, gg, and bb at UMAD whimsically decide to show up, I'll throw in a $50 bounty for anyone who puts said winner into the losers bracket in his respective game, and another $50 for anyone who eliminates said winner. any remaining bounties will go to the aforementioned winners. this last bonus is provided iff they attend and enter their respective games, of course! - one last topic. according to this joint, vh238h == vh236h. can anyone confirm? I will definitely be appealing for setups once the console is determined. faq and OP hijack tbd. spread the word if you're coming! Edited June 2, 2013 by SuperJ
LordPangTong Posted June 3, 2013 Author Posted June 3, 2013 Thanks for talking to the TO, SuperJ! Just a bit of my personal input regarding a few things you mentioned: -system should be PS3 since the majority of our P4U players play on that system -70/20/10 it standard most places so I think we should split the pot accordingly -I would personally prefer Saturday over Sunday to run P4U, seeing as I'm pretty much travelling to GUTS exclusively for anime games and it would be nice to have more than just casuals on Friday/Saturday -If you need help TO'ing anime tournaments at all, talk to me and MindGam3 And a quick question: can we stream?
SuperJ Posted June 4, 2013 Posted June 4, 2013 (edited) here's the news: - GG and BB are now official tournaments - P4A, BB, and GG will start on sunday at 12pm, 2pm, and 4pm, respectively. couldn't budge the day. maybe next time! - all of these games will be run on ps3. - all of these games will be $10 entry and 70/20/10. subject to change if we get too few entrants, of course. - preregs for both games have been added. go here: http://www.e-junkie.com/gameunderground - you can also sign up any time fri-sun at the venue until each tournament starts - you will need to pay venue fee if you want to enter any of those games. $30 if you prereg, and $40 at the door. see the link above. - stream is a go if you want to bring one. - if it isn't obvious, I can personally vouch for mit's internet. the wifi is probably good enough lol LPT, can you update the OP? I'll bother you and mindgam3 about the actual TO'ing later since the details are settled now, let me know if you can bring a setup! I would much rather provide the monitors than the consoles, fyi. Edited June 4, 2013 by SuperJ
SuperJ Posted June 9, 2013 Posted June 9, 2013 (edited) 7 days... online pre-reg ends wednesday, fyi regarding setups: I'll have my own. gonna confirm two others soon. I expect to have two extra evo monitors on top of those. if poverty is real, bring a ps3+games and let me know in advance edit 2: should be good on setups. check the main page on facebook if you're driving down. if you're taking the bus: you'll most likely end up in south station. mit is at kendall: 4 stops outbound on the red line. the venue should be another 5-7 min walk from kendall. ask if you're unsure how to get to the venue from the T stop. I intend to wrap up GG by 6-6:30pm: hopefully enough buffer time for the return trip if you're staying for all three games. if you're coming from ny specifically, lucky star is no more (looooool). boltbus or megabus are probably your best bets. again, I don't mind housing people if it makes things easier or cheaper. the only disclaimer is I don't drive edit: fully booked :/ but if you still need a place for the weekend I might be able to pull some strings. I may also have floor space for 1 more. pm me Edited June 13, 2013 by SuperJ
sinder Posted June 13, 2013 Posted June 13, 2013 (edited) Will definitely go if BB has more than 5 entrants... Alright I just paid for my entry Does somebody have a converter that will let me use my 360 controller on ps3? I was going to bring my 360 with BB and Guilty Gear, but they moved it to ps3 only... Edited June 13, 2013 by sinder
SuperJ Posted June 17, 2013 Posted June 17, 2013 (edited) p4a and bb brackets are here and here. 10 and 6 entrants, and one of the p4a players no-showed. gg was a grand total of me and bluenine so nothing to see there lol congrats to lk, lpt, and vergil for winning/placing in both games (there was a tiebreaker for 3rd place in bb)! considerably over-prepared in some areas (mit is noted for its low player student to setup faculty ratio) and severely under-prepared in others. I also might need to take over pre-reg duties next time (bless the TOs). it's all good though it's likely there will be a guts 3 in the... fall or winter? I won't make the mistake of organizing tournaments less than three weeks beforehand again. look forward to it! or make snarky comments about what constitutes a major or not on twitter, apparently that works too I'm not big on shoutouts, so as briefly as possible: gs to everyone I housed, and gs to anyone I didn't house that showed up for anime ^_^ mindgam3, thanks for streaming. hope you guys enjoyed the accommodations. until next time! play more gg. Edited June 17, 2013 by SuperJ
Airk Posted June 18, 2013 Posted June 18, 2013 I am such a failure. I literally did not know about this until Sunday night, and I could have gone. =/
sinder Posted June 18, 2013 Posted June 18, 2013 I am such a failure. I literally did not know about this until Sunday night, and I could have gone. =/ lol, no I'm the failure:( I paid for my fee but couldn't go, and I just called paypal to dispute the charge since I informed whoever was in charge of GUTS that something came up that wouldn't allow me to go to this At least BB got 6 entrants instead of 5 ... lmao gg just makes me sad, 2 entrants is tear inducing
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