I said for the 27th...
I didn't flat out reject it publicly for the 4th, for you, as we talked about.
Oh the god **** misunderstandings <3
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Let me reiterate my stance on things.
Boost is a brawl orientated tournament series.
1. Brawl singles will always be played and always be the centre attraction.
2. Brawl doubles should be generally played, and promoting it to have a pot will hopefully raise it's competitive atmosphere.
3. Other brawl events are possible;
a. Tier Tournaments
b. Brawl+
c. lolduelistprolol
Time is an important factor (yes we have the place until midnight, but I wish to aim for the 6pm finish...), and with brawl singles and doubles being close to paramount, with side tournaments taking up excessive times.
Melee is a staple of the smash series a wide array of people enjoy.
1. It brings in various extra players who wouldn't attend otherwise. However the amounts are dependant on whether like... CAO shows up. Many of the melee staples are 'retired' or outgrown smash in general. Those who I feel are in this category are Turtle, Jaz, Pat, Stuey, Tim, S.D's brothers, unreon, and maybe S.D himself.
2. The extra resources these players provide are good for the day (but I only think the hunter group does bring stuff... like 2 tvs?)
3. Having melee taking the spot of the side tournament brings some complications
a. Interest. From what I gather there are more people interested in melee taking a spot over the brawl side tournaments; I'm not kidding myself here by saying otherwise. Speculation on what the majority of attendants will enjoy when things like brawl+ have never been played in a tournament situation in our region before; and when I've mentioned 4th will most likely have melee as to keep CAO happy...
b. Resource sharing. A multitude of things can happen - in an effort to keep resources at a reasonable proficiency, simulatenous tournaments could run, but bracket issues always come up. If there are "your game" tvs set up, they stall the brackets of the opposing games. Examples of both sides ****ing this up are rampant.
c. The nature of the side tournament. If people are told melee is to be there, people expect it, demand it, preference it. Any other brawl related side tournament can be cancelled without backlash... If I say my schedule wants things ending at 6pm and it looks like the side tournament will go way over that, if melee is there, I know it will be a lot less popular to cancel it/suspend it for another time through the attendance base than not having it there in the first place.
Resources come from various people. Parties of people who bring TVs are often subjected to having to leave 'ASAP'; often the people travelling far by car bring great numbers of resources, but will not be staying until 'whenever'. Planning for a set finish (6pm) with the attitude of being able to cancel/pause side-events will hopefully keep all those who attend there until that time.
Usually the younger crowd from the wifi communities bring TVs but leave once brawl is over, this slows things down a lot for us.
Going over the past few pages to gather thoughts, I noticed something I felt I had to address.
Side tournaments that do not require televisions, i.e. anything like the Nintendo DS, I'm happy to have there. Luke's suggestion of JUMP and my reply was relating to him saying *coughsmash64cough*, rather than having JUMP being there anyway.
I've said to Ricky that If he wants to run and organise pokemanz I'm happy for him to do it. Same applies to anyone and JUMP. Same applies to anyone and BOWLING. Same applies to anyone and POOL.
As the venue is quite large, and those things do not splice resources for smash/brawl, I'd love to see people enjoying themselves by playing it.
Over all I want people to enjoy themselves, by having a ****ton of extra things available that do not distract from smash, I think the boost series at the bowling alley could be extremely popular and sustainable.
Then there comes the community group, "Sydney Smash", which I'm trying my hardest to establish. I think with this current venue, "Sydney Smash" could evolve into something similar to Melbourne's Couch Warriors; inviting other communities who are reasonably self-sufficient other than a reliable venue to run things in the abundance of space we have is something I aim for over time.
With bolstered numbers, the venue itself will become cheaper, as I can negotiate the venue fee being given back to us, in the form of the community bank (just as CW has) rather than it going straight to the venue management themselves.
n.b. People are aware I'm "anti-melee". I would like to see myself as "anti-'anti brawl'". Ted's dream of having brawl and melee together and closer, and having more respect between them is something I admire and can adhere to. My original notion was that melee would take hold on alternating tournaments, as my idea is to have these running (if sustainable) once every two weeks.
Ted's perspective differentiates from mine, who when seeing Stigma-B and the health and vibrance of the smash community having the two games seperated created, became quite set in his reasonings.
This coming 27th I would love to see the melee contigency attend, even if melee was not guaranteed. In my resources post on AIB I mentioned bringing melee. If, along with the brawl majority, and the melee players can try the brawl+ side tournament I planned with intent for 'difference', and shows it's disdain then melee will most likely take a permanent spot.
Finally though, not hopefully needing to be mentioned, BUT, yes the venue is open to midnight. And yes I plan for everything 'major' to be finishing up by 6pm - I don't want to try and force people to stay after this point for any reason. However with me bringing two televisions, and some long-stayers bringing tvs, aftertime casual [more so than 'side] events can easily happen.
If after 6pm, there is a large number of people staying, with tvs, wanting to play melee from the first tournament, I see no way for me to reject it remaining permanently within the scheme of events.