I've been contacted by a town and it's my first time working with this kind of organism. Where a bar's interest might lie in my attendees consuming their food, a mayor's interest lies in how much people of his town will enjoy the event.
This means that instead of putting the priority to top players and doing that whole starification thing where I try to get people to stay for the grand finals like a spectator sport, I'll have to focus the majority of my efforts on the beginners instead.
They're doing all the communication in their city so it will bring a bunch of new faces, I'm in charge of bringing the setups and top players, and make it worth their while.
So how do I do this exactly ? Do you have tips, or ideas that you'd like me to know about ? The town is okay with me running double elim but besides that ?
Here are the things I've thought about so far :
-doing grand finals as early as I can, so that people can play with the top players after it's ended. This might have the opposite effect : make people leave early. This would also mean I'd have to reduce the player cap, which means less people will get to play the game.
-doing pools in order to increase the amount of sets everyone is going to play : I don't even need to DQ anybody after pools, just make them play the game more. The hurdle I have to overcome here is that this would greatly increase the amount of time I'd need.
-bring more setups than are needed so that I can have more people freeplaying. I don't see a counterpoint to it besides the obvious "will I be able to do it ?" I can usually have people bring 10 setups which is way more than I need since most of my events have a 32 player caps, so this is looking good.
-tell my player base not to hold setups for too long when freeplaying and hope for the best.
This is especially difficult because it's going to be a PM event : they'll literally learn about the game when they're here.
So, yeah, here I am, brainstorming. Any help is appreciated :V
This means that instead of putting the priority to top players and doing that whole starification thing where I try to get people to stay for the grand finals like a spectator sport, I'll have to focus the majority of my efforts on the beginners instead.
They're doing all the communication in their city so it will bring a bunch of new faces, I'm in charge of bringing the setups and top players, and make it worth their while.
So how do I do this exactly ? Do you have tips, or ideas that you'd like me to know about ? The town is okay with me running double elim but besides that ?
Here are the things I've thought about so far :
-doing grand finals as early as I can, so that people can play with the top players after it's ended. This might have the opposite effect : make people leave early. This would also mean I'd have to reduce the player cap, which means less people will get to play the game.
-doing pools in order to increase the amount of sets everyone is going to play : I don't even need to DQ anybody after pools, just make them play the game more. The hurdle I have to overcome here is that this would greatly increase the amount of time I'd need.
-bring more setups than are needed so that I can have more people freeplaying. I don't see a counterpoint to it besides the obvious "will I be able to do it ?" I can usually have people bring 10 setups which is way more than I need since most of my events have a 32 player caps, so this is looking good.
-tell my player base not to hold setups for too long when freeplaying and hope for the best.
This is especially difficult because it's going to be a PM event : they'll literally learn about the game when they're here.
So, yeah, here I am, brainstorming. Any help is appreciated :V