I'm back from vacation
Smashfest is on this Friday for now, but there's an important meeting I have to go to which will be on an unknown day this week. If it ends up being on Friday I will have to cancel the Smashfest again.
Sorry to pull this back to Starcraft, it'll be the last post on it, I promise
What gateway do you guys play on? I'm ThatGuy[uF] on USEast but I'm willing to switch over to West if you want. I'll be using the same account name.
I'm Fogel on USEast (currently maining Terran, if you care). Personally I think the Starcraft posts are all right, it's not like they are cluttering the thread that much!
Hey guys, I'm going to (when I get the time) try organizing a Brawl tournament at Algonquin College soon. What kind of information should I know before hand? Like, how much to charge, prizes, how many people, how many TVs/projectors/etc., how long they usually take, etc.
I've only ever been to one tournament before and it was pretty ghetto so I'm kind of in the dark.
Prizes are usually a split of the tourney cash pot, 60/30/10 or 65/25/10 for the top 3 placers is pretty standard. As for the number of people; for comparison, I ran all of the SWF Ottawa Melee tourneys and usually got low-mid 30s as far as attendance. However, Brawl is a completely new game and there are a lot of newcomers, so if more than that showed I wouldn't be surprised.
For TVs, most tourneys ask people to bring their own. Canadian tourneys (especially a 'small' city like Ottawa) don't have enough people for organizers to afford renting all of the TVs they need. At my tourneys we usually had 10-12 TVs, which was pretty good for the size. You usually need about a 3:1 ratio of people to TVs, any more than that and there will be a lot of people waiting around to get games in.
To get started, I'd suggest heading to the tournament listings forum, read some tourney threads and see what they're doing as far as rulesets. Those should give you some ideas for what kind of things you'd like for your own.
Just a heads-up, Montreal and Toronto smashers may be interested in this and if they show up, they could want overnight housing. You should check if people you know are willing to house any of them first.
Feel free to post in here if you want any other advice, a bunch of people who read this thread know what they're doing.
By the way, out of curiosity (for the Brawl players), who's everybody's mains and secondaries and such? I main Lucas with Samus, Bowser, and Ike as my current secondaries (after my brother beats my Lucas too many times... with Donkey Kong.
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To be honest I'm still not sure; there are a lot of characters I like. However, when I really want to win, I find I'm Marth or Fox usually.