Ottawa Bi-weeklies, because illegal gambling is perfectly legal

[Linkshot]

Wait, what? Doubles start first.

 

[LivewiresXe]

Yeah, I was gonna ask if things have changed in the past month and a half like that, lol.

 

[Afro Boy2000]

Afro: Singles start first so if you have to leave or get booted out of Doubles early you shouldn't have a problem going over midnight.

Alright thats good to know. What time would singles usually end at?

 

[Linkshot]

Singles only starts first if we go with the Swiss style, but I think the upcoming bi-weekly will be standard double elimination, meaning Doubles will start first.

 

[joblin]

Wait, what? Doubles start first.

Singles only starts first if we go with the Swiss style, but I think the upcoming bi-weekly will be standard double elimination, meaning Doubles will start first.

Yes my mistake. I had it confused with the Swiss style.

 

[CHAOSvsORDER]

For Afro's(sorry, I don't know how to spell your real name) sake, I think singles should start first. He is a very powerful player and if he cannot make it to singles then I think we would be missing out on some spectacular matches. Randy/Cam, if there is a biweekly this week, could we have singles before doubles?

 

[buenob]

i'm sad i won't be here... going to Niagara anyways, that is if there is still a car going down... if not, I'll be attending the bi-weekly (if there's a spot)

looking forward to some awesome matches for sure either way

 

[Fogel]

OiN got cancelled, so there will be a biweekly

Should we do double elim, or swiss?

 

[Linkshot]

I think we should do Double Elim, to get Afro into how it works, unless he's been to a tourney before.

 

[arsenic41]

Out of curiosity, who is intrested in doing a crew elimination for this bi-weekly? we could cancel one of the other events inorder to do this.

Who be intrested.

P.S registrations start tomorrow 8:00am

 

[Linkshot]

I dunno. I don't really have a crew, lawl.

 

[arsenic41]

crews are kinda on the spot. Just find 2 people and pwn it up. With certain rules of course.

 

[Linkshot]

OH RIGHT

Patrick said he wanted to come to this one :3

 

[CHAOSvsORDER]

A crew thingy should replace doubles, shouldn't it? Since it is a team effort.

 

[mosesrko24]

sign me up.

so is anybody going to niagara?

 

[Linkshot]

Niagara might be cancelled

Some people will still be visiting PNDMike, though.

 

[The_Jiggernaut]

Sign me up! It'll be nice to see everyone I didn't see last week

I'd be interested in the crew thing, btw.

 

[Count]

Sign me up! It'll be nice to see everyone I didn't see last week

I'd be interested in the crew thing, btw.

hey pal! how's the tourney scene going?

 

[CHAOSvsORDER]

I thought that sign ups start tomorrow...? Well w/e, I'll bandwagon and say sign me up.

 

[Fogel]

OiN Pi is now cancelled for sure, Niko confirmed in the thread.

Needs more votes for Swiss vs. Double Elim, so far only Alan has put in his 2 cents worth. If we do Swiss, we can do more than 4 rounds this time.

I'm ok with either crews or doubles.

 

[SoLn]

If singles is done first then I might be able to enter. Might not have time for doubles/crews though.

 

[LivewiresXe]

I'd give my thoughts on the Swiss vs Double Elim from how it sounds concept wise but....wouldn't really be fair to do that without seeing the Swiss method in action.

 

[The_Jiggernaut]

hey pal! how's the tourney scene going?

Oh, hey, how's it going? Haven't seen you in a while. It's going pretty good. I've got some decent placings in these bi-weeklies. Nothing too big, but still. How about you?


I wouldn't mind trying out the swiss style, Cam. It would ensure that everyone gets to play the same amount of times, giving the less experienced players more experience, and it would ensure that players will be pitted against others of their own skill level (in theory, anyways). Since we are changing the order of things for this week and possibly doing crew matches instead of doubles, it seems to be a week of trying new things. I say we try this too.

 

[Linkshot]

"Nothing too big?" You placed second in doubles, man!

 

[Afro Boy2000]

Im down for swiss style. Sign me up for this tournament.

 

[Fogel]

I'd like to get 3 other people to confirm that they will be bringing a Wii. infzy may want his TV back at some point soon, so we might need another TV as well.

As for the tournament format, here are the votes so far:

Swiss - 2 Double Elim - 1

We need more!

 

[Linkshot]

My Wii will be donated, of course. I'll check if Patrick will bring his.

 

[arsenic41]

I would want a swiss bi-weekly, just because things get done faster and more efficiently. Also, if singles ends fast, we stil lhave plenty of time to do a double elmination tourney or whatever afterwards.

However, we should have a double elimination bi-weekly after this one.

 

[IvanEva]

I'd prefer Swiss as I feel that that one time just wasn't enough research for me to make up my mind on which I prefer. Also, I'll be there on Friday (unless Orlando would prefer to play RE5 on Friday...).

 

[SoLn]

Nah RE5 on sat is better for me, hopefully one day is good enough or we could cut out early. As far as voting, It doesnt really matter to me but Ill go with swiss as well. Would it be possible to use the/some results of the last swiss bi-weekly so the first round isnt so random? With seeding how does the first round of swiss work anyway?

 

[Linkshot]

We draw names randomly from a hat. Honest.

 

[CHAOSvsORDER]

I'd prefer is win records were carried over from the last Swiss in order to do seeding. Start things off intensely. Also, singles definitely should go first if only to accommodate Orlando and Afro(still don't know how to spell your name).

EDIT: Forgot to mention, but I'll bring my wii.

 

[buenob]

if we're doing +min number of rounds, it really doesn't matter who you play first... if I play derek first round, it's the same as playing him 5th round...

also, confirm me for friday! i'm looking forward to playing afro

 

[Fogel]

Unless there's a huge rush of votes for double elim, I guess it will be Swiss again this week. I think we can try 6 rounds this time and see how it goes. I'm not sure how we will do seeding for first round; we could go by last week's results, but the majority seemed to be in favour of random seeding last time. We can take another vote during the biweekly itself.

 

[Linkshot]

Oh right, dur.

Sign me up, please!

 

[IvanEva]

I hope you kids are ready for me because I'll be coming into this bi-weekly armed with ancient Chinese wisdom!

Cam: despite my whining that Flow isn't that great, it's actually won me over quite a bit now. The author, while distinctly saying that nothing in the book is about anything mystical or paranormal, has a tendency of using vague language that certainly makes it seem like he's talking out of his ***. However, when he gets down to the nitty-gritty he really shows that he knows what he's talking about. I'll try to finish it up soon enough so that I can lend it to you.

On the flow note, quick survey: When was the last time any of you felt true Flow? For me it was when I played at Only in Niagara 2 against Retlaf and Pastaboy. Time slowed down (and yet went by so quickly ), there was nothing in the world other than the game, I wasn't playing as Lucas - I WAS Lucas, and I felt absolutely great. And I lost, but we'll ignore that part.

On the other hand, I can concretely say that I WASN'T in a state of flow during my two $15 money matches against Dan at my SFIV-fest. I was counting on everything falling into place and going into flow-mode against him but instead I couldn't even pull off my super basic two-hit combos consistently. Stupid flow-inhibiting fear auras...

 

[arsenic41]

if you really care, I unlock the secrets to time and space every time I'm not sandbagging. I guess that would be teaming with derek during OBscene.

On topic : where the **** are all the guys going to bi-weeklies?!? we have 7 people so far

 

[LivewiresXe]

Well, I'd assume most people have family plans for Easter this weekend, to be honest, so that might be why people haven' signed up.

 

[Divine_Haze]

I have exams, and a lot of them at that. Studying is a must for me. On a separate note, I am picking up Zelda

 

[joblin]

Flow, I call it the Zone, happens a lot when I'm playing Gears of War. I'll suddenly realize that for the past games I didn't even notice the TV in from of me or the controller in my hands. It's been happened less and less as I age though. I remember a lot of it happening when playing Nintendo and Sega Genesis back in the day.

Congrats Haze on picking up USmash, I mean Zelda! A third Zelda player might ruffle the feathers a bit.