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[IMPORTANT] Go to NCR!!!
- Thread starter King Funk
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choknater
Smash Obsessed
registered 
hope to see you all there
hope to see you all there
Revven
FrankerZ
Oh, what do you know, this thread was in Melee Discussion already... it was just buried.
I was going to create my own thread for visibility purposes but seeing as this is here and it was bumped by choknater (thanks btw) I'm going to post it here instead.
Going to NCR or any Road to EVO event that has Melee is practically necessary if you want to get seeded appropriately at EVO. You won't get seeded by skill level or anything at all if you don't win any seeding points at the tournaments offering them for Melee. Which inhibits your chances of making top 8; even if you think you're amazing you literally only have 2 chances in the entire tournament.
EVO is not doing normal pools where it's fighting every player in the pool to get a compiled score. They're doing bracket pools and you know what that means? That means if you lose, you're automatically in loser's for the entirety of the tournament. Yes, that even means all the way to Top 8 you would be in loser's, assuming you don't lose again.
It's also a good look on the Smash community to support our game at the Road to EVO tournaments so it doesn't look like we don't care and just wanted to "buy" our way into EVO. Winter Brawl 7 was met with disappointment because of lack of attendance. I don't want to see that happening for NCR or any other possible Road to EVO tournament that is hosting Melee (I think there's going to be one in Toronto in May... but nothing's been posted yet officially). It also hurts us exponentially if nobody shows up at these tournaments. Hurts our chances at future NCRs, future ANY tournament where other fighting games are at.
I thought we wanted to bridge the gap between Smash and other FGs? If we want to do that, we need to go to these tournaments. Simply just attending EVO isn't enough; if barely anyone shows up for NCR or any other Road to EVO for Melee tournament players of other communities will be less likely to take us seriously as well as their prominent TOs. That's bad. EVO won't be able to repair that image. Yes, the game's image will potentially be repaired but not the community (unless we seriously got like 1,000 players there or something ridiculous).
I understand money is tight and most would rather save up for EVO but realize that you have until July to get money set aside for it. NCR is in April, you would do the community a good thing by attending. And what's even better is, NCR is being ran by our own TOs, Hyuga and Boback; so you wouldn't even have to worry about anything being wonky on that side of things. It would be just as good as any Smash only tournament AND Melee would be on the main stage/stream for NCR!
So the point is, we need to back up the $94k we raised in January by not just attending EVO, but by attending any Road to EVO events that have Melee. And chances are, it's only two events; so if you can make one of them that's good enough.
I... think that's all? I don't think I missed anything.
So tl;dr: plan to go to these ****ing tournaments
I was going to create my own thread for visibility purposes but seeing as this is here and it was bumped by choknater (thanks btw) I'm going to post it here instead.
Going to NCR or any Road to EVO event that has Melee is practically necessary if you want to get seeded appropriately at EVO. You won't get seeded by skill level or anything at all if you don't win any seeding points at the tournaments offering them for Melee. Which inhibits your chances of making top 8; even if you think you're amazing you literally only have 2 chances in the entire tournament.
EVO is not doing normal pools where it's fighting every player in the pool to get a compiled score. They're doing bracket pools and you know what that means? That means if you lose, you're automatically in loser's for the entirety of the tournament. Yes, that even means all the way to Top 8 you would be in loser's, assuming you don't lose again.
It's also a good look on the Smash community to support our game at the Road to EVO tournaments so it doesn't look like we don't care and just wanted to "buy" our way into EVO. Winter Brawl 7 was met with disappointment because of lack of attendance. I don't want to see that happening for NCR or any other possible Road to EVO tournament that is hosting Melee (I think there's going to be one in Toronto in May... but nothing's been posted yet officially). It also hurts us exponentially if nobody shows up at these tournaments. Hurts our chances at future NCRs, future ANY tournament where other fighting games are at.
I thought we wanted to bridge the gap between Smash and other FGs? If we want to do that, we need to go to these tournaments. Simply just attending EVO isn't enough; if barely anyone shows up for NCR or any other Road to EVO for Melee tournament players of other communities will be less likely to take us seriously as well as their prominent TOs. That's bad. EVO won't be able to repair that image. Yes, the game's image will potentially be repaired but not the community (unless we seriously got like 1,000 players there or something ridiculous).
I understand money is tight and most would rather save up for EVO but realize that you have until July to get money set aside for it. NCR is in April, you would do the community a good thing by attending. And what's even better is, NCR is being ran by our own TOs, Hyuga and Boback; so you wouldn't even have to worry about anything being wonky on that side of things. It would be just as good as any Smash only tournament AND Melee would be on the main stage/stream for NCR!
So the point is, we need to back up the $94k we raised in January by not just attending EVO, but by attending any Road to EVO events that have Melee. And chances are, it's only two events; so if you can make one of them that's good enough.
I... think that's all? I don't think I missed anything.
So tl;dr: plan to go to these ****ing tournaments
KrIsP!
Smash Champion
The two tournaments will garnish a good turn out. There's no need to worry considering cali and toronto are both very big regions with more than a few decent players and aren't too bad for traveling since there are other decent regions in their surrounding areas. Toryuken will be posted, everyone in toronto is already looking forward to it and it's still 3 months off. I'm less worried now about these two tournaments getting turnouts and more worried about hbox. He's gunna have to get on his knees and do some begging if he doesn't want to leave his state. MM jebailey for some points.
http://torontotoptiers.com/meleeprereg/ registry just went up a couple days ago anyways.
http://torontotoptiers.com/meleeprereg/ registry just went up a couple days ago anyways.
choknater
Smash Obsessed
the level of competition at NCR is going to be extremely high. i can feel it. i have never placed outside of top 16 in my region in a long time, and i never had much trouble. but everyone is so fired up for evo that it is going to be really really hard. this will be great for the community hehe, even in just the aspect that everybody is fired up to improve.
Bones0
Smash Legend
What is this about Hbox? Why would he NOT want to leave his state?
KrIsP!
Smash Champion
He has a road to evo event in his state (I believe it's in his state) but it isn't holding a melee tournament. He's gunna have 0 points if h doesn't fly out to another one.
MountainGoat
Smash Journeyman
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Most of cali and Northwest should be at NCR. Not sure how much beyond that
rjgbadger
Banned via Warnings
i'll try to make it out to this, really want to go to a road to evo event before actually going to evo lol
choknater
Smash Obsessed
yea as far as i know CEO Jebailey doesn't want to deal with a smash tournament hehe.
it would be hype to see some EC fly out to norcal regionals. would be happy to see AZ come up as well
it would be hype to see some EC fly out to norcal regionals. would be happy to see AZ come up as well
Revven
FrankerZ
Bumping this up, only a few more days until the prices go up; hurry up and register NOW if you don't want to pay more.
Tourney thread
Facebook Event
Hungrybox is going, so should you!
Tourney thread
Facebook Event
Hungrybox is going, so should you!
choknater
Smash Obsessed
ooooo i want to play hbox. i've never played him