POSTPONED Big Ol Leicester Tournament! September 2012 - Hosted by Fuzzyness

[Fuzzyness]

would you rather be the last weekend of april?

when are exams guys? (School + Uni)?


this may be confirmed next week

 

[Willz-LC]

April sounds good, cuz of Easter holiday and ting

 

[porc]

depends on work

but i'll try to go!!

 

[Fuzzyness]

I should be able to confirm a venue date within a week, but I need to go up there and find a youth hostel deal for everyone

 

[Fuzzyness]

Update!

I know someone in Leicester who has 40 t.vs I can use as long as I sponsor them by using their name on our tournament =) (at least I think so, but yeah those 40 t.vs should be usable)

Europeans better come to this! I want 100 people =)

 

[Willz-LC]

who is that guy, wouldn't mind borrowing a few tvs

 

[Fuzzyness]

brawl is at this too

Willz its the guy who runs Retroactive at the London Cons ive been hosting tourneys at

 

[Willz-LC]

ah awesome

now that Brawl is confirmed, am I going to be running it by any chance?

 

[Fuzzyness]

could do, do you have a laptop?

 

[Willz-LC]

Yep

Hopefully you or someone else will have a laptop just for Melee, that way we can have seperate laptops for both the games, and avoid the trouble of having just 1, like at OoC

 

[monty06]

u can put me as interested/confirmed

 

[Calzum!]

in regards to hotels/ housing situation, i have not been able to find a hostel anywhere in Leicester (that you can book online at least), however there is a hotel in the centre of the City called the sky plaza hotel (http://www.hostelbookers.com/property/prp/42853/arr/2012-04-21/ngt/1/?) for £16.50 a night for a twin room, which is pretty damn good to be honest

 

[Fuzzyness]

im sure there are more, ill research into it while im down next weekend

yell.com dude lol

http://www.yell.com/s/hostels-leicester.html


Calling the venue tomorrow

I'm gonna try get April 6-8th! Easter holidays for most people

 

[Global Gaming]

looks like GG is back again yay -.-

and that's a great date

 

[Fuzzyness]

well..its not good for blastzone :/ but it means we can have a long event

 

[Aniolas]

Interested, I'd love to come back to the UK.

 

[Fuzzyness]

alright im gonna be in leicester the next few days to sort this out =)

 

[Heartstring]

well..its not good for blastzone :/ but it means we can have a long event

Thanks for considering that....and then doing it anyway
Seriously man, i said i would know by the end of the week.
Either way, BZ2 is cancelled now. so im up for doing this now

 

[Fuzzyness]

"

basically next week I find out whether my plans are going forward or not, waiting for the owner to get back to me and the person who runs LAC to also get back to me because he has housing links in Leicester.

There will be a trial tournament in Leicester around April 6-8th if the plans go forward, probably being only 1/2 days because I cannot get housing for that since the student accomodation is extremely busy, hotels + youth hostels wont offer a good price and Rileys might only allow overnight for 40-60 people unless we all stay awake lol.

The proper tournament will be around September 7-9th

if plans go forward:

- Free venue fee or very damn cheap

- 40 t.vs (already 100% confirmed!)

- Housing locally in student accomodation for £20-25 a night (however, since an anime event is going on they aren't being maintenanced properly and we can shove 3/4 people in each room, meaning around £7-8 a night)

- Catering, possibly £10 a day for Breakfast + Lunch + Dinner (+ Soft Drink wtih each) and the food is really nice!

- Special Menu for food + drink, things only costing like £2-4 each, even some of the alcohol is cheap for a bar :D


So wanna know why this September tourney is hype?

- Better Venue (although the allocated space isn't as big as the SNY hall, the whole place is huge, its in an awesome Snooker + Darts club with a bar + food!

- Better Price (Travel + £10-20 Food + £10-20 Tournament + £7/8 Housing a night)

- Better Housing (Literally a flat, you get a bedroom + shower + kitchen + toilet)

- Better Tourney (I'll be running it properly)

- Better Food (SNY's food was awful haha, this time it'll be properly prepared + cooked meals by the Rileys staff! So things like grilled burgers and whatnot. British pub food is f***ing awesome)

"

 

[Baskerville]

Sexy. ***. Venue. =o

 

[Heartstring]

oh yeah, i assume this is still going down?

 

[Fuzzyness]

still need to sort out housing :/ its the only issue

 

[burrhe]

Fuzzy, can you change Fool on the interested list to Burrhe, it's my username for a lot of things, so I might as well get used to using it as my tag as well.
k, thnx :D
Definitely up for September, so hyped.
As for the April, would love to go, but I am booked holiday-wise until the 7th. if it's on the 8th at anytime maybe, but would be inconvenient for me, so maybe not. I'll have to see...

 

[Fuzzyness]

if this does happen (I'll find out within a month):

Costs will be like so

Singles - £5
Doubles - £5 each

2 Days Tournament + 1 Day Accommodation + Access to Alcon Anime Con for 1 Day (3 people a room) - £16
3 Days Tournament + 2 Days Accommodation + Access to Alcon Anime Con for 2 Days (3 people a room) - £32


If we're extremely lucky and theres a lot of accommodation rooms available costs will be like so

2 Days Tournament + 1 Day Accomodation (3 people a room) - £8.66
3 Days Tournament + 2 Days Accomodation (3 people a room) - £17.32

2-4 people will have to share a room, but there is a risk of being caught..its unlikely but there is that risk :/
the rooms cost £26 a night

split between 2 people thats £13
split between 3 people (a lil overboard and risky) thats £8.66 a night
split between 4 (definitely overboard and risky) thats £6.50 a night

Its still an amazing cost, either slightly less/more than SNY + A LOT better than SNY

 

[VA]

I'm interested. SORT OF.

 

[Fuzzyness]

I find out on the 22nd if this happens or not

 

[Fuzzyness]

12 days till I find out the situation for this tournament =P

 

[gijn]

If this is a go I'm in for the main in september and I'll probably bring my mate (loki), he hasn't signed up for the boards yet.

would do the trial as well but not in UK beginning April

we're both York/London based.

 

[sinth]

http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/meg...r-travel-across-england-1181102?dforward=true

Megabus Wednesday's, so you could do the night before, are £5 each way. It works out 10.50 total I believe, including the transaction fee.

Fuzzyness, I know it may be too early to say still but is that possibly a good deal?

Note: Nobody book your trip until things are fully confirmed.

 

[Fuzzyness]

its not a go right now :/ I might find a diff venue + location with good accomodation

take my word for it, I'll make a sick European tournament in time

 

[Heartstring]

Untill then, TO BUSHIDO!

 

[Fuzzyness]

well I've kinda found a venue already through my brother and a friend, gonna check it out cause it has a campsite right next to it :D

 

[Heartstring]

cause smashers are going to want to camp XD that would be intradesting

 

[Jolteon]

Dude that would be so fun lol

 

[burrhe]

Anymore news on this? Would be hyped to have a large tourney very close to home

 

[Fuzzyness]

not really, its been postponed currently

 

[brickyphone]

Is it too late to get involved?

 

[Heartstring]

I dont think so, But there's no set date for it yet

 

[Fuzzyness]

I might have a venue but im waiting to check it out really and find out updates :/

 

[brickyphone]

Would there be an age limit?