I read a few pages back in Peter's amazing post, a quote that someone said about running multiple events? OK, pause.
I remember back when like 60 or more people would come to the biweeklies, and we did Draft Crews, Crews, Melee Singles, and Doubles. Crews take longer than Brawl does, I don't see any reason for anyone to be worried about time.
Brawl teams goes faster than melee teams. Brawl singles take a while, but we've always had the same 7 minute timer, time shouldn't be an issue.
I haven't read the previous thousand or so pages of this thread that's way too **** long, but I don't see the problem with having teams and singles for both games. Like other people have said, there won't be many Melee teams entries, so it will either be stupid to even have the event, or it will last an hour maybe if the TO's are on the ball. Since it's Sheridan, I have no doubt that no matter what happens, it will be run on time and on schedule 1,000,000% of the time. When Sheridan runs or helps run a tournament, it always ends swiftly, people are forgetting that.
I just don't see any problem other than time constraints. I mean, Melee has run til like, 3 am before. I've been in finals when it's run that late, and I was still having fun. The people that left early left because they didn't care, so if the people who want to leave early want melee? Melee will just run even faster.
I think a tournament will all events would be fine. Melee doubles probably wouldn't even happen, since everyone there will realize that it's kinda pointless with so few teams that will enter, especially when everyone is going to get into the brawl matches. Every tournament DBR's been to, there's been amazing matches to watch in Brawl. People who haven't been to a brawl tournament with DBR there haven't witnessed DBR getting first and top 3 in every event, and haven't witnessed the matches that are had.
Now that some of my reasoning is out of the way, here's what I think would work perfectly:
Brawl Doubles
Brawl Singles
Melee Singles
Melee Doubles (Assuming people want to do this, most of the people on the boards have already said that it's going to be small no matter what, you can decide then. Besides, Melee tourney goers are used to melee tournaments running late. I remember at TG4 when singles quarter finals haven't even started yet and it being 4 AM.)
The reason for Brawl being before Melee is simply because it's incredibly hard to transition into Brawl FROM playing Melee. However, it's a LOT easier going back to Melee after playing Brawl for a while. It's like riding a bike, seriously. Ask anyone who's played both in the past few months. This is the easiest way to go.
Again, if it's time that you're worried about, you really don't have anything to be worried about. Brawl tournaments haven't finished on time because SFSU starts late, and has a time cap of 4 PM. Come on, don't think this is all brawl tournaments.
You can run your tournament any way you see fit, but if you wanted someones opinion that isn't biased towards anyone in the community, save a select few, and isn't biased towards either game, Melee or Brawl, you now have it. I just hope you don't make any decision because "the people want it this way" or because you just don't care anymore, if that's the case.
People who don't think Brawl is fun or involving or competitive, haven't given it a chance. Melee wasn't competitive until LATE 2003, maybe even mid 2004. Thats at least 2 years after the game was released. Stop expecting this to be Melee 2.0. Melee is a better game right now, competitively, than Brawl is, but it didn't become that way in 3 months.
Death By ****. You've never seen brawl like this before.
