Best kind of venue for a smashfest?

[MandL27]

If I'm looking at trying to host a small, fee-less tourney (say, 8-16 players tops), what would be a good venue choice for it?

 

[20YY SS | Saiblade]

8-16 players should be okay to run in a personal house (if you're able to). If not you can probably just run it at some school or something, maybe a library?

 

[Mikkelmann]

You can just run it in your house. Library and Game Shop.

 

[MandL27]

You can just run it in your house.

OK, but that implies that there'd only be one setup, and assuming I get 16 players, that means that it'd take 10 hours of solid gameplay. Would encouraging other players to bring their own Wii U be a good idea, and if so, how?

 

[20YY SS | Saiblade]

OK, but that implies that there'd only be one setup, and assuming I get 16 players, that means that it'd take 10 hours of solid gameplay. Would encouraging other players to bring their own Wii U be a good idea, and if so, how?

Nah, go for a venue, maybe a local video game store? Multiple Setups in your house is gonna put the electricity bill through the roof.

 

[MandL27]

Nah, go for a venue, maybe a local video game store? Multiple Setups in your house is gonna put the electricity bill through the roof.

And now we're back to the thread's secondary question: What exactly does the term "venue" constitute at this level?

 

[20YY SS | Saiblade]

And now we're back to the thread's secondary question: What exactly does the term "venue" constitute at this level?

A venue is a place to host a tournament, usually thought as a third party that's housing the tourney.

 

[MandL27]

A venue is a place to host a tournament, usually thought as a third party that's housing the tourney.

That's not quite what I meant... I meant what sort of places would be good venue ideas at this low level with multiple setups. Which is what the thread originally asked.

 

[20YY SS | Saiblade]

That's not quite what I meant... I meant what sort of places would be good venue ideas at this low level with multiple setups. Which is what the thread originally asked.

Oh lmao, well like I said, a video game store, a library, a local school or university.

 

[MandL27]

Oh lmao, well like I said, a video game store, a library, a local school or university.

Something tells me we should take this to PMs just so we don't start spamming the thread by posting faster than .
That said, would a venue fee make sense if it was waived for people who supplied Wii Us and/or TVs?

 

[20YY SS | Saiblade]

Something tells me we should take this to PMs just so we don't start spamming the thread by posting faster than .
That said, would a venue fee make sense if it was waived for people who supplied Wii Us and/or TVs?

Go for the PMs if you'd like, but yeah, that's how a lot of people do it, and that's how I recommend you do it.