Alright gents, we're going to revive the INNsomnia tournament series. For Those who weren't active back in the olden days of memphis smash, The INNsomnia was a series of biweekly cash tournaments held at the pizza inn in west memphis, AR as well as a large tournament held once a year at the holiday inn right off of I-55.
It was an extremely krunk time to be a smasher in memphis. The biweeklies were basically the only smash action for MS, TN, and AR. Alabama came frequently too but those douchebags were next to georgia so they always got their fix.....bastards.
The large tournament held yearly was a widely respected tournamend series. It usually snagged between 70-100 people from 6 states. I remember seeing shizwiz at INN5 back when he wasn't such a beast.
Anyhoo, INNsomnia was hosted by a guy named PrinceZane and he has since moved on to this weird MMO called "IRL". It's over-rated.
That's it for the history lesson.
We're reviving the INNsomnia biweeklies and we're going to attempt to revive the large tournament as well. This thread will be a discussion thread to help us fine tune the tournaments. Feel free to contribute or make suggestions.
Here's a breakdown of what we currently have to work with, what we might end up needing, and logistics.
We currently have an adequate venue for the biweekly tournaments. It's located in southaven, MS roughly 5 miles south of downtown memphis. I'll upload some pictures tomorrow. It's actually right there when you take the southaven exit off of I-55 south.
It has plenty of space (it can fit 35 people plus setups EASILY), a bathroom, lots of outletts, and it's located right next to a wendy's.
More importantly than that, we OWN the venue so there would be absolutely no need for a venue fee. All collected money would either go in to the pot or be saved to fund the large tournament (more on this later).
What we currently lack is fold-out tables and chairs but we're going to hopefully pick up a bunch of those today. We should probably aim to have about 6-7 tables and 25ish chairs to start with.
If anyone has any or knows where we can get them cheap please hit us up.
We'd also like to have as many setups as possible. As it stands we can be reasonably sure of having about 5-6 full melee setups between me and my crewmates. If you can bring a setup, PLEASE do so. Don't slack on this.
As far as pricing goes we can do it a few ways. The main goal of the bi-weeklies is to fund the large regional tournament. Specifically we need two things for that large tournament to work. A hotel conference room (or equally suitable venue), and a sizeable starting cash pot to attract the big name players (which will in turn attract all the other players).
The bi-weekly tournament itself will probably cost either 10 or 15 dollars to enter for singles (NEED INPUT) and the funding can be done one of two ways. We can either A) take 20-30% from the pot and save it for the big tournament or we can charge a small door fee and save that instead. It will be entirely up to everyone else. INPUTINPUTINPUTINPUT.
We have yet to set a time and date. This will also be entirely up to everyone else. INPUT!
I can assume that it will probably be on a friday or a saturday afternoon/evening though since that's usually when people have the most free time.
The success or death of this will ultimately be interest. GET HYPE. please?
Off the top of my head I can come up with about 20 people who would probably attend these:
Ambix (peach)
Ihavespaceballs (samus/falco/Falcon)
Iori (Pineapple)
myzztek (falco/Sheik)
hyperdragon (luigi/Link)
Cyner (Samus/Link)
BunBun (Kirby/Falco/Sheik)
Tasty (Marth)
Wezl (Falcon)
VTS (IC's/Jiggs)
Arby (Everyone)
Shaka (no idea)
Tavarus (falco/falcon)
Forrest (Peach/Yoshi)
Toast (falco)
Kyo (Falcon)
Winnar (Marth)
VueBrawler (Fox)
Zero (Ness/Fox)
Talon (Fox)
This is just a rough throw-away list i put together off the top of my head. These are the people I've played the most frequently in the area. If I forgot any of the other memphis smashers, please PLEASE post in this thread. We need active players to make this work.
That's 20 smashers right there.
At $10 a head, that's a 200 dollar pot.
That would mean for a 60/30/10 pot split 1st place would make $130, 2nd would make $50, and 3rd would make $20.
The pot split isn't set to those percentages. Give me input and we'll tweak it.
So yeah. Spread the word.
This thread will be updated soon with pictures of the venue, the adress, directions, and any other basic information that needs to be included.
It'll also get updated with an accurate list of setups and attendence.
EDIT: Solid information so far:
The address is 963 Town & Country Dr. and it looks like Saturday from 12:00 PM onward is the currently preferred time and date.
As it stands it's looking like people prefer a door fee, so the tournament will probably be $10 for singles, $20 for doubles per team (10 per person) and the door fee will be $5.
Pot split will probably be 60/30/10
Accurate list of people who are interested so far:
Ambix
Ihavespaceballs
Wezl
tasty
G.vice
zero
sandbox
Seifersythe
Mc cloud (holy balls i haven't seen you in years)
Yoshimanssbm
BunBun
myzztek
nite
lemmons
Womp
KO
Joot
VueBrawler
moogle
cyner
Talon
Crap we need more input on:
Time and date
Pot dispersal
How much per tournament we save for funding
How we fund (take it out of the pot or charge a door fee)
People interested in attending
who can bring setups
It was an extremely krunk time to be a smasher in memphis. The biweeklies were basically the only smash action for MS, TN, and AR. Alabama came frequently too but those douchebags were next to georgia so they always got their fix.....bastards.
The large tournament held yearly was a widely respected tournamend series. It usually snagged between 70-100 people from 6 states. I remember seeing shizwiz at INN5 back when he wasn't such a beast.
Anyhoo, INNsomnia was hosted by a guy named PrinceZane and he has since moved on to this weird MMO called "IRL". It's over-rated.
That's it for the history lesson.
We're reviving the INNsomnia biweeklies and we're going to attempt to revive the large tournament as well. This thread will be a discussion thread to help us fine tune the tournaments. Feel free to contribute or make suggestions.
Here's a breakdown of what we currently have to work with, what we might end up needing, and logistics.
We currently have an adequate venue for the biweekly tournaments. It's located in southaven, MS roughly 5 miles south of downtown memphis. I'll upload some pictures tomorrow. It's actually right there when you take the southaven exit off of I-55 south.
It has plenty of space (it can fit 35 people plus setups EASILY), a bathroom, lots of outletts, and it's located right next to a wendy's.
More importantly than that, we OWN the venue so there would be absolutely no need for a venue fee. All collected money would either go in to the pot or be saved to fund the large tournament (more on this later).
What we currently lack is fold-out tables and chairs but we're going to hopefully pick up a bunch of those today. We should probably aim to have about 6-7 tables and 25ish chairs to start with.
If anyone has any or knows where we can get them cheap please hit us up.
We'd also like to have as many setups as possible. As it stands we can be reasonably sure of having about 5-6 full melee setups between me and my crewmates. If you can bring a setup, PLEASE do so. Don't slack on this.
As far as pricing goes we can do it a few ways. The main goal of the bi-weeklies is to fund the large regional tournament. Specifically we need two things for that large tournament to work. A hotel conference room (or equally suitable venue), and a sizeable starting cash pot to attract the big name players (which will in turn attract all the other players).
The bi-weekly tournament itself will probably cost either 10 or 15 dollars to enter for singles (NEED INPUT) and the funding can be done one of two ways. We can either A) take 20-30% from the pot and save it for the big tournament or we can charge a small door fee and save that instead. It will be entirely up to everyone else. INPUTINPUTINPUTINPUT.
We have yet to set a time and date. This will also be entirely up to everyone else. INPUT!
I can assume that it will probably be on a friday or a saturday afternoon/evening though since that's usually when people have the most free time.
The success or death of this will ultimately be interest. GET HYPE. please?
Off the top of my head I can come up with about 20 people who would probably attend these:
Ambix (peach)
Ihavespaceballs (samus/falco/Falcon)
Iori (Pineapple)
myzztek (falco/Sheik)
hyperdragon (luigi/Link)
Cyner (Samus/Link)
BunBun (Kirby/Falco/Sheik)
Tasty (Marth)
Wezl (Falcon)
VTS (IC's/Jiggs)
Arby (Everyone)
Shaka (no idea)
Tavarus (falco/falcon)
Forrest (Peach/Yoshi)
Toast (falco)
Kyo (Falcon)
Winnar (Marth)
VueBrawler (Fox)
Zero (Ness/Fox)
Talon (Fox)
This is just a rough throw-away list i put together off the top of my head. These are the people I've played the most frequently in the area. If I forgot any of the other memphis smashers, please PLEASE post in this thread. We need active players to make this work.
That's 20 smashers right there.
At $10 a head, that's a 200 dollar pot.
That would mean for a 60/30/10 pot split 1st place would make $130, 2nd would make $50, and 3rd would make $20.
The pot split isn't set to those percentages. Give me input and we'll tweak it.
So yeah. Spread the word.
This thread will be updated soon with pictures of the venue, the adress, directions, and any other basic information that needs to be included.
It'll also get updated with an accurate list of setups and attendence.
EDIT: Solid information so far:
The address is 963 Town & Country Dr. and it looks like Saturday from 12:00 PM onward is the currently preferred time and date.
As it stands it's looking like people prefer a door fee, so the tournament will probably be $10 for singles, $20 for doubles per team (10 per person) and the door fee will be $5.
Pot split will probably be 60/30/10
Accurate list of people who are interested so far:
Ambix
Ihavespaceballs
Wezl
tasty
G.vice
zero
sandbox
Seifersythe
Mc cloud (holy balls i haven't seen you in years)
Yoshimanssbm
BunBun
myzztek
nite
lemmons
Womp
KO
Joot
VueBrawler
moogle
cyner
Talon
Crap we need more input on:
Time and date
Pot dispersal
How much per tournament we save for funding
How we fund (take it out of the pot or charge a door fee)
People interested in attending
who can bring setups
