Dakanya

randomly came across some godlike match video of Wing Zero for Shining Aquas https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNeeT4cNJAs

I'm interested in playing this Saturday but I don't know if I'll have time yet.

dakanya SF Bay Area, CA only games I'll be playing are Guilty Gear and Gundam EXVS

you'll need a time machine 'cause it already happened

Ahah, that's right, thanks for supplying that =) Yeah if the floor was set properly, we should have a lot more 2dans but it's also quite easy to derank to 1dan but people might've been able to reach 4dan otherwise as well. Sorry about that! Anyways, the ranks should stabilize themselves by the next danisen! @Kijiyama: You should bring it. Though I haven't decided if I'm gonna show or not yet

I don't have a copy of GG right now and the one that used to be at Gamecenter seems to have gone missing?

Maybe I'll swing by but I dunno if I'll have time. What time were you planning on showing up?

We have no plans to stop =)

Regarding the danisen, I made an error in capping the floor to 1dan -3, the floor should be 1dan ±0 which is the example other danisens have set. Anyone who was negative has been adjusted to the new floor. Sorry about this and thanks to James and Sean for bringing this to my attention. @ehuangsan: The "NorCal Boot Camp" kumite sounds like a great idea. June 30th weekend may be iffy for some people due to it being AX weekend. Also I'm open to weekday proposals as well, just having it on Saturday limits our options. @Chun: So no new NCI until P4U comes out? OK. Right now I have every third Saturday at Gamecenter. @Oiboi: You know what, I'll create a carpool list in the first post for any stragglers. Your location says you're in San Jose so I'm using that but let me know if it changes or if it's not actually San Jose.

Ranks are tied to your character so if you change characters, it's another entry and you have to fight at the appropriate rank. Also James has a rule in his ranbats regarding multiple characters but I haven't fully decided if I will use it or not. The next one is guaranteed to happen on the third Saturday of July but since it's a danisen I'd like to have one sooner... maybe one in the next three weeks? Need everyone's input on this. I was gonna say that I suppose the next NCI in four weeks (first Saturday of July) would be OK but that's EVO weekend so I won't be around...

Thanks for the feedback. I quickly realized that the danisen format is not good for people who just started playing, nothing can really replace long sets of casuals for beginners. I didn't mention it here but once we've settled in with the danisen and ranks have more or less stabilized, we'll also have events to run alongside the danisen which may or may not use danisen points. The big team battle is something I've definitely had in mind for a while and definitely something I want to do soon! What we really need is more sessions and things happening because I know there are players, both seasoned fighters and beginners, who want to play more often than just once or twice a month. Anyways without further ado, here are the results! Thanks to everyone for coming out and making this possible! Results for June 9 Guilty Gear danisen rankings 3dan bbz (SL) ±0 ehuangsan (KY) ±0 honnou (IN) ±0 magz (SL) ±0 2dan bbz (PO) ±0 ehuangsan (ZA) -1 PhaethonH (MA) ±0 Sims (SL) +2 tenkai (JO) ±0 1dan dakanya (JA) +2 lark (RO) ±0 Manabe (BR) ±0 Sims (RO) +1 thkthkthkthk (AX) ±0 Tsubasa (MA) ±0 YAT (CH) +2 Gundam EXVS Round Robins 1st: White Plate 16 2nd: Alex 11 3rd: Sims 10 4th: ITWSF 6 Round Robins played were: 1000s only, best of 1 2000s only, best of 1 2500s only, best of 3 3000s only, best of 3 Full brackets and results here https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ampvwz-WfrKBdFhuY3FMeDhXckRXRnhhcXBHamRkZHc

If you need a ride, you should post your info asap and see if anyone can help. There's also public transit which I'll be taking myself

When do you have work? There will be Guilty Gear all day long probably but I was going to limit the danisen to something like 4~6pm.

It's just been a busy time for everyone in general, the turnout at the first Dogfight was also rather underwhelming and even Ernest and Fred were too busy to make it. I think it's better if we keep Gundam at Dogfight but if the Guilty Gear danisen turns out to be successful and if enough people are willing to come out for it, I would not mind extending the Guilty Gear danisen to NCI as well.

For anyone who doesn't know, DOGFIGHT is this weekend and it is the beginning of a new danisen series for Guilty Gear. If anyone has any interest in Guilty Gear, they should come out because the danisen is free to enter and you'll play lots of games! If you don't know what a danisen is, I've crossposted what I wrote from the DOGFIGHT thread here: What is a danisen? A danisen is a system where you play for points and ranking and it's been done in Japan for quite some time now. It's a competitive event that happens on a more frequent basis (like weekly or biweekly) and everyone loves a ranking system. Since Guilty Gear is coming out for PS3/360 soon, the time is ripe! So how do points and ranks work? Whenever you win a match, you win a point and when you lose a match, you lose a point. Typically whenever you get +3 points you rank up and whenever you are at -3 points you rank down. When you rank up or down, your points will reset to zero. However there is a bottom and you cannot derank further than the lowest rank. You can only fight players within one rank of yourself. So if you are rank 2, you can fight rank 1 and 3 players but you can't fight a rank 4 player. Your rank is also locked to your character so if you decide to change characters, you have to play at the appropriate rank.

Bring it, the more the merrier. We'll definitely need at least 3 stations and maybe more for danisen. I'm posting the schedule now but I should've decided it earlier, my apologies. I want to start Gundam EXVS around 2pm and Guilty Gear danisen around 4pm. If you show up early you can play casuals and warm up for the events.

Wasn't sure if I wanted to try to get 2 full setups going again but I wouldn't mind bringing my PS3 either if people wanted to do this. It'll still be at Gamecenter and it's going to be a full Dogfight but I'll be running the danisen to get data/experience

Awesome! I've updated the first post with your information. Looking forward to seeing you there =)

Sorry about the wait guys, but we are locked in for June 9th now so mark your calendars =] What we'll do on June 9th is yet to be decided but thanks to some inspiration from tenkai, I'm excited to propose a danisen event for Guilty Gear! Since Xie has already done most of the groundwork and ran a season for quite some time, I'll be basing the event off of his experience. What is a danisen? A danisen is a ystem where you play for points and ranking and it's been done in Japan for quite some time now. It's a competitive event that happens on a more frequent basis (like weekly or biweekly) and everyone loves a ranking system. Since Guilty Gear is coming out for PS3/360 soon, the time is ripe! So how do points and ranks work? Whenever you win a match, you win a point and when you lose a match, you lose a point. Typically whenever you get +3 points you rank up and whenever you are at -3 points you rank down. When you rank up or down, your points will reset to zero. However there is a bottom and you cannot derank further than the lowest rank. You can only fight players within one rank of yourself. So if you are rank 2, you can fight rank 1 and 3 players but you can't fight a rank 4 player. Your rank is also locked to your character so if you decide to change characters, you have to play at the appropriate rank. What does a danisen mean for us? Given the competitive nature of a danisen, it would be silly to only have it every month. Danisens should really be weekly or biweekly so this is more of a commitment. Of course you don't have to come to every danisen but to the community and playerbase as a whole, it's a commitment. If we were to get behind this danisen event in full force, having a biweekly strictly on Saturdays would probably be difficult so we could have a special event on a monthly basis (e.g. a giant team battle, a single or double elim tourny, a kumite, etc) which is what Xie would do just to mix things up. Of course it would be based on danisen rankings and would affect your rank as well =) Concluding words Danisens are awesome but it kind of requires a commitment from the playerbase. If enough people want to get behind this, I say we should make it biweekly and have a mini-dogfight and a regular full-blown dogfight. The regular dogfight will be every third Saturday of the month, will feature another GGAC event in addition to the regular danisen, and will also feature a Gundam EXVS tournament. The off-event or mini-dogfight can be a day everyone agrees on and it doesn't have to be on a Saturday. Let me know what you guys think!

*shrug* GG was there because people showed up for it but was it streamed? Although alleviating the load at NCI is one of the points I brought up in my proposal, I think you are overlooking some of the other points... i.e., being able to run experimental events instead of just double elim and being able to stream everything. It's possible.

Hey for the next event, how does June 2nd or the 9th sound? And does anyone have any suggestions or opinions on the format for Guilty Gear? Also depending on feedback, I'm thinking of sliding down the schedule further down the day, maybe even into the night as well.

Awesome, you guys should come up with a team name as well =]

The more setups the merrier! It'd be pretty awesome if we could get 2 full games going (8 setups) and maaaayyyybeeee a station or two for newcomers I'm also planning on getting something to explain basic controls and inputs, how to play etc to newcomers... something like what PNW had at Sakuracon http://img715.imageshack.us/img715/1979/dsc03263y.jpg

For anyone who wants to come support GUNDAM at EVO... http://www.dustloop.com/forums/showthread.php?14154-Gundam-EXVS-side-tournament-at-EVO2k12

sorry about the double post but... we are now recruiting all pilots to come fight at EVO =] http://www.dustloop.com/forums/showthread.php?14154-Gundam-EXVS-side-tournament-at-EVO2k12