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Ah, understood. For Saturday, HD-R ran a bit long and I didn't want to interrupt the tourney in progress for BB. Also, since there was only one setup, I didn't want to pull the setup inside the streaming area and not allow other players to crowd in and watch the matches. Also, since we hadn't had the opportunity to test the equipment that day, I didn't want to delay the tournament in the case that we needed something extra. Since next year should be on PS3, it should be a lot simpler. In terms of how I thought things went: I was much much happier with Warzone this year than last year. All the tournaments, save SF4 singles, started on time. SF4 singles was like, 45 minutes to an hour late or something like that. I think we had a room count at 700 people in attendance at one point and 220,000 viewers on the stream for the weekend. I was pleased that I hit most of my goals for this tournament, especially starting on time. The earthquake was fun. SoCal people just kind of kept watching the match on the screen and the east coast folk ran out of the building pretty damn quickly. All in all, I was very happy with how WCW2 improved over the previous year. I'm hoping only for better things come next year.

Fuck, I gotta stop giving you ammo. LoL.

I just like her from that image of her laying down with her hair down and listening to something while looking into an invisible camera looking slutty.

Fuck, I got trolled... I wanted to try picking up that gun chick once CS comes out on console. Is she any good?

Hey Dacid, Sorry if I offended you with that. It was just smack talk that I do in other commentary. I didn't say it with malicious intent in any way. You looked down at your buttons and started tapping at them hard after losing a round. I would have said it to any other player there also. But as it offended you, I'm really sorry.

Thanks for all the pointers render. I'll try and make sure I get to all of these: 1. Don't throw BB first: I threw BB first because of all the feedback last year. I recall a lot of players saying that they didn't want to wait for the other games that they didn't care about and just wanted to get their finals done. If the community wants, I can look into a later start time for BB next year. 2. Too costly: I'm not sure where to go about this one. Even at the current price I'm losing money, and the point of all of this was to get SoCal a major. When I first joined the SF4 community and guys like Gootecks and Combofiend were traveling to events like East Coast Throwdown, Sinsation Fightclub, Final Round, NEC, Season's Beatings, etc, I asked around to see why SoCal didn't have a major. No one had the money to throw one, so I thought I would dip into my pockets to host the event. Those east coast majors are generally $20 if not more for a venue fee. WCW is honestly the only tourney in SoCal right now with any claim to being a major. With the other communities in mind, I don't think I can downsize at this point. I'm really not sure what to do about that. If the price point is what's killing BB, I may have to drop it. 3. BB Bonus Pot: I think offering the incentive pot is something I can do, but clearly not until both the community and I are on the same page. I can't go offering a bonus pot for 16 players. I failed the community at Warzone I, and I thought I delivered on most of my promises for Warzone II. Maybe Warzone III is where we can all meet in the middle. Should there be ample interest, I can look into throwing together a bonus. 3.5 Telling how many people signed up: I suppose in retrospect, that was a failed idea. Point taken. I will ignore those questions from now on. 3.7 Commentary: I was hoping it would end up being Sanchez and Mike Z, but Mike wasn't there that early I think. I'll make sure to solidify this and ask the people in advance for next year. 4. At site signups: We did have at the door sign ups, but they were restricted to Friday night before the tournament. I thought that point was stated rather clearly. And the drink ticket night was there to make sure that it was still a good night to come out and have a good time while you register if you wanted to do so. We wanted to have all brackets posted a few hours before the 1pm start time. This being the case, even if I did try and leave Saturday with at the door sign ups, they would have been from 9am to maybe like 10am. Then we make the brackets, go to Kinkos to print them out on the large papers, and then drive back to post them by 11:30 or 12. Though I understand that SF4 is the big concern, even the BB tournament to start on time, along with the other brackets we have to make for the other games, we have to stick to this kind of schedule. 5. Version Selection: I agree I should have given Aksys a stricter cut off time. This was my bad. Fortunately, this shouldn't be an issue in the future with console definitely out by the next event. I totally blanked on the Calamity Trigger picture. Ugh, that was dumb of me. A thousand apologies here. 6. Easter: This was definitely not a choice I liked either. But unfortunately, this was my circumstance: It was either throw it this weekend, or wait till 2011. My work schedule has me dying right now till the end of the year. 7. Raffle: The room prizes were distributed ultra late into Sunday. Fatbear from Oregon got the ASUS monitor, some white guy got the XBox, and some asian kid got the PS3. 4 Madcatz sticks were given away. Filipinochamp from Norcal got one. I don't recall the other 3 people. They were just people. We didn't expect all the matches on Sunday to go to last round, last game, last set almost every time. This pushed us back. 8. Stream Slot: I'm not sure what you mean on this one render. BlazBlue started promptly at 3pm and the website states that BlazBlue starts at 3pm. I don't think I advertised anywhere else that the stream of BlazBlue would be at a later time. I honestly do welcome all the feedback. I hope you guys know that I do care and want to make sure that everyone gets a good tournament experience. This is going to be an iterative process. The best I can do is take all feedback and incorporate from one event to the next. Should anyone have any further questions, please let me know. Hopefully, WCW3 will be the tournament that everyone can be happy with. Also, would adding GG: AC help? I think I recall someone posting that coming for just 1 game wasn't worth it. I may be moving Marvel to PS3 so my standard def TVs would free up. Just a little food for thought. I'm not sure if I can really swing that schedule anyhow.

Okay, finally back from the dead. Thank you everyone who showed up to support the event. I was quite happy with how BlazBlue turned out as I was unsure how the arcade setup was going to affect us. I apologize for not being able to make that 2nd input box. I know deci said he worked all night on it. Hopefully it won't be a problem at the next event with console. Mike Z - Thanks for the use of your setup Mike. Skull Girls looks awesome. 200,000 people watched the stream over the weekend. That's a lot of folk who potentially saw your game. Crossing fingers =] render - Thank you for being such a cool guy and helping set up everything. deci - Thanks for the drive up from SD to look into the input box. Sorry we missed the JAMMA cable. =/ Goryus - Sorry you had to tote that box down from norcal only to have the input box not work. Hope you had a good time. Bang - Good stuff winning the tourney =D I hope I made due on all the promises for this year. The BB community was one of my major focuses because of all the groups last year, I felt like I failed you the most. If all is good, I will be happy to throw BB on console next year. Thanks everyone =]

Hey Mike, Just wanted to drop a line for the extra input board. Just a reminder~~ =D

People can win as many as they can, while supplies last. I dropped 5 bills in drink tickets. It came out to a few under 80 drink tickets I think. I'll probably be around buying shots so look for me =]

Hey Mike, If you could make it out on Friday night, that would be great. There is no formal play, but if BB: CS is setup, then I would extend the lounge night idea to the game. Play on it like it was an arcade, and if someone wins for 5 games straight, you get a drink ticket. Nice way for casuals to go down and people to get some free booze. Let me know what you think. If you could swing by at 7 with the setup (I'll provide the TV), we can get it setup by the time the doors open at 8.

Hey guys, Yeah, as mentioned, we have the parts to make the shoebox that I too saw at Mike Z's this past weekend. We are getting the same lagless adapters from laugh shipped from Korea. We forgot to take the input board from Mike's place but I was told it wouldn't take long at all to put it all together. We have everything but a shoe box. Does someone have a shoebox?

Hey Junja, There is no spectator fee. Feel free to come out and have a good time on Friday night =]

As an update, we will be using the arcade version. The console version is unfortunately not ready for use.

It's currently at like 10 players. I think BB had about 60 players last year. Most of our pre-reg last year came the last 2 days of online sign ups. I think even SF4 last year had about 30 people registered, then spiked up to 170 on the last 2 days of online pre-reg. So it's difficult to tell.

Just a reminder that today is the last day to book your rooms with full benefits like a drink ticket and free wired internet for your stay. Registration for the tournament also goes up in price tomorrow.

He told me a while ago that he was. Maybe his situation has changed. =/

I will probably have someone reputable in the community like Tushar seed the tournament.

I wish I had a better answer for you. Basically, it's not completely out of the question as I had once thought. What's the community consensus on Mu-12?

Hey guys, Just wanted to drop a line that Friday is the last day to get the deal on the hotel with free internet and drink ticket. It's also the last day to register at the current price. Just in case you missed it, we will be running on Continuum Shift on either arcade board or console. If it is on console, there may be a chance it will be on XBox360. But we will be able to run on an ASUS monitor so it shouldn't have any weird stuff. If you have any questions, please let me know. warzonetournament.com

Hey guys, I know it's been a while with updates, but here's the scoop: I've worked things out with Aksys and they will be an official presence at the event. We will absolutely have Continuum Shift be it console or arcade. If you have any questions, please let me know!

Thanks for the input guys. If I can't get CS console, I'll definitely run it on arcade cabs. Now I gotta talk to Scott to see if I can procure Arcade Infinity's setup. Anyone know if Denjin has CS?

Though we're still going to be looking into it, in the off chance that we do not get BB:CS console, what options would be best received from this community? 1. BB: CS arcade - Potential for no stream time pending on outputs from the cabs, location, etc. Sunday's finals would have to be better planned out. 2. Run BB: CT (bleh, even from me) 3. Put in another game? GG:AC, Melty, etc? This is not to say BB: CS console is off the table, I'm still looking into it, but I wanted to get the opinions early of what to do should it not happen.

Point taken Orion. I'll see how the scene grows over the next month or so, but I'm fairly sure we won't be adding a 7th game. I'll see if I can set aside space for a BYOConsole area or something so players can get their TvC on.

The possibility of us adding a 7th game to the roster is pretty slim at this point unfortunately. There was also a recent TvC tournament at FFA in Los Angeles recently and I think only like 12 players showed up. That's not much support for the title. If the game picks up and I can free up some time in the schedule, then we may add it. But my primary focus is to make sure all the issues from last year are addressed and working smoothly before I add more to my plate.

We will be contacting Aksys for this very soon. We're just trying to line up a few other things this week. I certainly hope they provide us the goods Saturday is the day of main tournament play, and Sunday would be top 8. Top 8 for BlazBlue won't start till 3pm, so you may still be able to make your Easter service and be back in time if you're local.