Dipstick

For the few people that don't follow shenanigans on Facebook or LINE, Rath has posted the page for the next monthly ranbat. Hopefully people can recover enough from Thanksgiving and Black Friday to make it out. I'm thinking of running the MB side tournament a bit differently, as either a round-robin or a swiss-style event to get people playing other people more. And yes I will bring Aquapazza this time, nerds. :< (Watch as nobody actually asks to play it this time.)

Just in case anyone is looking here, there is a ranbat at UAT tomorrow for BBCPEX/UNIEL/GGXrd. I will also have a setup for MBCC/GGAC+R and will probably run a quick side tournament for MB (and probably corral someone into running one for GGAC+R). I also had a couple people ask about Aquap**ow**.

That ranbat was way more fun than I was expecting, damn. Although I'm still kind of confused as to how I ended up doing commentary for Xrd the entire tournament. When are the true AZ ranbats (MBCC and +R)? (Whenever I get off my butt and do it, I guess. Maybe for the next ranbat?) Here's the stream archive, for anyone that cares. Definitely the buss-ass play of the night. :p Although Chumaralupa and myself trying to find out who can mash Eltnum's 2B harder was right up there, as well.

The site currently lists it as a side game, and it looks like they're still looking for someone to run it. Heck, at this point I want to know what's the difference for planning purposes on their end?

I can't even be mad at Project M being there, knowing how stupidly huge the PM scene in AZ is. I think it really just comes down to someone stepping up to run stuff and to work out whatever logistical issues. How many additional setups would they need? Is there even enough space to add one or two more games? Who would create the brackets? I would be willing to help make this happen (work issues aside), but I would not be comfortable running point on this as I have never interacted with any of the TOs previously at all (or if I did, it was years ago back when the AIAB tournaments were still A Thing). When's DJ Hero?

The "nice" response would be to reach out to the organizer(s) and see what's up... although someone would have to run point on it, and that may be the issue. Is there anyone in Tucson that runs stuff for GG/UNIEL/P4A/BB/etc..? That and who would show up for it? Would anyone from SoCal or Vegas even bother coming out (never mind further-flung regions)? Hell, would there be any locals beyond who already shows up for the UAT tournaments? Can't be any worse than when the Melty community here was trying to deal with JediRobb back with Devastation 2010.

Send a LINE invite to Kumubou -- just be warned, I'm too cheap to buy real anime stickers. -_- Asking someone to go in on a game that's being released in the US in 20XX seems like a bit of a stretch! ...

Please don't bully Lilith (so she can bully you instead).

I don't think running only UNIEL and Xrd would change much, since P4AU (and presumably BBCPEX) never took too long due to how small they were. And the other issue is that you would see a repeat of what happened at the last ranbat, where everything finished on time but people were playing casuals until 10 PM, so you were left with the same food situation anyway. It's not necessarily a bad thing, unless you're not a fan of Italian beef.

I'm pretty sure there are going to be a lot of sad people who try to register on-site. The cap is 128 people and it wouldn't shock me if the bracket ended up being between 150-200 people if it was uncapped. And yet, my sad sack will be able to clog up the bracket. -_-

I thought this last event was going to be wash, but it actually went fairly well. Everything actually ran on time for once! Thanks to Bearell for actually putting this all together. Apparently I shouldn't touch people's monitors, as it leads to Big Bang Beat being played. Shoutouts to Chuma for bodying my shit in DBFC and Ryuuka for actually playing Melty Blood with me. Anti-shoutouts to Rath for trying to hype me up in UNIEL (like anyone's going to believe that nonsense anyway ). B A I T E D 2,500 retweets, though. The thirst for a new Melty is very real.

It would happen the same way MBCC and GGAC+R happen: bring setups and someone willing to run the bracket. Hell, based on the last couple of ranbats I think you guys have the setups as it is. I'm half tempted to run something small for DBFC as well, because Reasons. We ran AH3:LM at my place last weekend. H-F wouldn't stop punching my waifu in the head, the jerk.

Wait... we switched from Melty at some point? I need to get off the ranch more.

Here's what I was thinking: Run MBCC with UNIEL and GGAC+R with Xrd. I was originally concerned with there being too much crossover between the games, but it turned out to not matter either way. I do also want to run either DBFC or AH3:LM, but I'm not sure when to do that. I don't want to run a side tournament during P4AU, since a lot of people aren't there at the start of P4AU. For people that want BBCPEX, all you need is someone to step up with setups and to run a bracket. But I already live on a corner....

Thanks to everyone who came out, and especially to all of the suckers who entered the Melty side tournament. How in the hell is this game not dead? Games don't die when they are killed, games die when they randomly crash due to having no sound output. Results: 1) H-F Blade 2) Tempered 3) Ryd 4) Ray 5) Dipstick 5) Orrax 7) Chumaralupa 7) Bearell 9) Ryuuka And Mario Kart 8 results, because we somehow ended up playing that: 1) Dipstick 2) Orrax 9,001) H-F Blade Finally, a game H-F doesn't win! I nominate Tempered and Orrax to run GGAC+R at the next ranbat. I can provide a setup for it. I also want to run AH3:LM (if only to make H-F feel better) and DBFC (as I think people would enter this?) at some point. Someone also needs to step up and run BBCPEX. I don't think Gundam EXVSFB or Aquapazza ( ) are happening, though.