Excelsior Games
Smash Cadet
- Joined
- Sep 2, 2014
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- 29
Hello, My name is Bobby and im the owner of Excelsior Comics and Games. We currently have 5 complete set up's for PM as well as 7 Additional TV, and room to set up 10+ more. Our max capacity is somewhere around 50. I have been running a PM tournament every Monday for about 3 months now and am noticing that we get a lot of players who are interested in play, lose their first, go to losers bracket, lose that match and are out. They do this 2-3 times, then stop coming in. This lead me to the idea of a Junior Smashers bracket. Basically something for the younger or less skilled players. That way they don't get stomped over and over again right out the event.
With doing that there will be some requirements set to be in either group. win's in events and such. Its something i need to put a bit more thought into, but i wanna be able to actually create a community, where players can grow and learn, without always getting 2 matches and then being out. Our competitive crowd has been getting healthy. but its not really conducive to creating new players. So it might grow faster then it might appear on the surface. Becides, the more people we get the more we can train and the more we can grow.
I need to figure out a good way to determine who is allowed in JS. I don't want people that expect 5th place and lower to swarm the junior bracket, Also I need to figure out how long a winner can stay in the junior league. I mean I can do something arbitrary like if you can beat me consistently, your ready for the regular league. Or something like a certain amount of wins or a few weeks in a row.
Someone suggested age as a determination, sadly, I don't think age is the way to go, I don't think there is a good number. A few of our players are just stating high school, so when do you knock them out JS? Is 18 the cut off? or is it only available to people who have finished in the bottom quarter of one of our events?
So far bottom quarter finishers forming the "JS" is the most reasonable way to go I have come up with. The problem of course being how do you scale people who are new to the stores events? Cause you don't wanna say, you have to start in regulars and lose before you can play in the event you came here for. Maybe new players need some kind of assessment?
I have done a bit of brainstorming with a few of our local players and this is what we have come up with so far. Its all a bit rough and only really takes into account the experience of a few players who where willing to sit down and talk to me about this. Now I would like to open this up to the community as a whole. I know there are a lot of great players out there and even more who don't know they can be yet. Our goal is to help the community grow as healthy as possible. With a little help from those already here, I think we can really start something great.
Let me know what you think here, or shoot me a message on Facebook and we can discuss this further. Thanks
With doing that there will be some requirements set to be in either group. win's in events and such. Its something i need to put a bit more thought into, but i wanna be able to actually create a community, where players can grow and learn, without always getting 2 matches and then being out. Our competitive crowd has been getting healthy. but its not really conducive to creating new players. So it might grow faster then it might appear on the surface. Becides, the more people we get the more we can train and the more we can grow.
I need to figure out a good way to determine who is allowed in JS. I don't want people that expect 5th place and lower to swarm the junior bracket, Also I need to figure out how long a winner can stay in the junior league. I mean I can do something arbitrary like if you can beat me consistently, your ready for the regular league. Or something like a certain amount of wins or a few weeks in a row.
Someone suggested age as a determination, sadly, I don't think age is the way to go, I don't think there is a good number. A few of our players are just stating high school, so when do you knock them out JS? Is 18 the cut off? or is it only available to people who have finished in the bottom quarter of one of our events?
So far bottom quarter finishers forming the "JS" is the most reasonable way to go I have come up with. The problem of course being how do you scale people who are new to the stores events? Cause you don't wanna say, you have to start in regulars and lose before you can play in the event you came here for. Maybe new players need some kind of assessment?
I have done a bit of brainstorming with a few of our local players and this is what we have come up with so far. Its all a bit rough and only really takes into account the experience of a few players who where willing to sit down and talk to me about this. Now I would like to open this up to the community as a whole. I know there are a lot of great players out there and even more who don't know they can be yet. Our goal is to help the community grow as healthy as possible. With a little help from those already here, I think we can really start something great.
Let me know what you think here, or shoot me a message on Facebook and we can discuss this further. Thanks
