The more information you provide when filling out the profile, the more comprehensive (and prettier!) your profile will be.
BUT WAIT!!
There's all these great Central Canadian smashers that we all know and love but
don't have smasher profiles yet! What ever will we do!
Well, this is where I need the help of you folks in the other communities. I'm fine with the task of tracking down all the Calgary players but I really just don't know how to contact some of you in the other communities. We already have profile information submitted from
FalseFalco and
FastFox since they tend to have a tighter connection to the online community. But we still need from some of you tip-top Edmonton guys like Mike and Steve. Trouble is, the only people who really know how to find them are those who know them on a more personal basis.
So!
DO YOU KNOW ANY SMASHERS IN YOUR AREA!?
The answer is hopefully a ubiquitous "yes" from our faithful Central Canada Thread readers. If you do, would you do me and the community at large an itty-bitty favour and at least try and convince them to hop online and fill out a profile?
I know that there's a lot of people who aren't quite as enthusiastic about this sort of protocol as I might be which is why I'm trying to handle the brunt of the work myself. If you can't drag someone in to fill out a profile for some reason, what I at least need to know is the
NAME and
GAMER ALIASand
CITY, PROVINCEof the smasher in question. At the VERY LEAST.
Defining "Gamer Alias"...
There's always a little bit of confusion about this terminology, but when I'm asking for someone's gamer alias, I just thought it would be obvious what I meant.
Rule 1
Your GAMER ALIAS can be whatever you want.
Which means: It doesn't have to be your SmashBoards name, it doesn't have to be the same as your in-game 4-character SSBM tag, it doesn't have to be your XBox live sign-in, or your MSN handle and nor does it have to be derivative of either of those. It can be
whatever you want.
Rule 2
If you already have a GAMER ALIAS, I don't recommend changing it.
Which means: This is especially applicable for a player like
PC Chris, for example. What if he didn't like the name PC Chris but it just kinda stuck with him through the years? Well, now he's been playing smash under that tag for so long, it wouldn't exactly do him well from a public relations standpoint to change his competitive name to
GatorZilch, would it?
That said, if you
do want to change your gamer alias (preferably taking the aforementioned consideration into account), now is the time to do it by filling out a smasher profile. Whatever name you type will be used to refer back to you everywhere within the ProImpact.ca domain.
Tournaments
The Tournaments section of ProImpact.ca hosts information about upcoming CCSC tournaments and events occurring on a scale that would warrant inter-city travel for players. Additionally, completed tournaments will have their results hosted on the website, linking back to the profile's of the participants.
TASK:
Find out what tournaments are planned for the year in Central Canada!
I do a lot of poking around in other smash communities, but I really only truly know what's going on from here to Red Deer. I'll need the help of the other organized smash communities in determining what kinds of tournaments are going to be in the works for 2007 and maybe we can use this as a test run for how next year will go with Brawl.
These are the names of the people that I know I can talk to about organized smash tournaments in the regional smash scenes around the CCSC:
Alberta:
RJM (Randall) -
Calgary
FalseFalco (Carl) -
Edmonton
FastFox (Joel) -
Edmonton
LeeWanderer (Cody) -
Lethbridge
Janitor (Victor) -
Red Deer
Saskatchewan:
*tumbleweed* .......cory?....hello?? anyone??
Manitoba:
Rex - Winnipeg
nYo - Winnipeg
If there's any other significant figures in your communities that I don't know about, I would definitely like to know. As to those of you I've listed, if you guys can maybe lay out a preliminary, loose schedule of what's going to be happening Smash-wise in your territory and have a chat with me, or post here for discussion or whatever, then I think we can really start to build a worthwhile community--somethin' outta nothin'.
SmashBoards CP
Clicking on SmashBoards CP from the ProImpact.ca main menu will open your user control panel at Smash World Forums, listing recently subscribed threads in the central window of the page. This allows users to surf ProImpact.ca and SWF simultaneously. Additionally, the "Who's Online" box of ProImpact.ca will be replaced by an actively updated SWF Buddy List to monitor which contacts are on and offline at the boards.
TASK:
Bow Down!
Bow down to the new and hip way to surf SmashBoards! Via ProImpact.ca! You must all conform, viva le revolution!
Actually, I don't really care, but, this is what it looks like and if you ask me, I think it's pretty cool:
The underlying purpose of ProImpact.ca is to establish a one-stop shop for local smash information. With good advertising and easily accessible information, the competitive spirit appeals to more people and will drive interest in the "electronic sport." The biggest problem I have with SmashBoards in general is how difficult it is to find any information in such a vast community (not to mention getting berated by moderators for not using the search function after not finding anything). When I first came here looking for Calgary-related smash stuff, I couldn't find anything. Now that I've established more of a presence here, I'm finding old posts for Calgary from YEARS ago. With ProImpact.ca, hopefully that will no longer be a problem and this thread should direct most of the Central Canada traffic to the website.
I think that covers about all of it. Any questions?