So we're thinking about hosting tournaments and I thought of reviving an event that was run in Waterloo. The idea is we pick a few games, and run double elimination brackets for them regularly. I was thinking 5 games might be good, run maybe once per month? It's a really useful event to promote competition, and give people more match-up and tournament experience. I could provide a stream for this, if we decide to run it and we have a suitable venue.
The idea is this: We choose 5 games to run, and for each run a double elimination bracket. Each player can enter as many times into each tournament as they want, but the tournament is character locked and you must pick a different character for each of your entries. The idea is to get people to play alts and give people a wide variety of match-ups instead of just grinding the same thing over and over again. Hopefully people can come up with creative entry names rather than Character#1, Character#2, etc. Your characters will be be seeded away from other characters and if, for example, two of your characters meet eventually, you are allowed to arbitrarily decide which one goes on. People can enter as many times as they want, but they should try to restrict the number a little bit so we don't have to do pools or anything. Depending on how many unique people we have entering, a 32-man bracket is usually feasible.
The last time we ran this, we picked the games by having everyone just PM me their entrants/names/characters, and the top 5 most entered games are the ones that we run. I would then put together a bracket which was somewhat ambiguous because no one knew who anyone was. What do you guys think? I've participated in like 9ish of these events, and they are usually pretty successful. As an example, I will list the games I would enter + number of entries. If a game is added later that they didn't think of, they can change their entry. Don't feel like you would need to enter every game either, just leave the ones you aren't interested in.
MB - 6 entrants
BB - 5 entrants
GG - 3 entrants
Aqua Pizza - 3 entrants
FUC - 2 entrants
P4U - 2 entrants
AH3(LM?????) - 2 entrants
HnK - 2 entrants
CvS2 - 1 entrant
VSav - 1 entrant
Dark Awake - 1 entrant
Those are my tentative entrants, unless some one brings up a game I'm forgetting.
So as for a tentative date, if we wanted to get it going sooner rather than later, maybe the weekend of July 5th? If we want to wait longer we could do it near the end of July as well. Anyway, I shouldn't get ahead of myself, let me know if you guys are interested.