I won't be around for the next 6 months or so, so I won't really be able to help with the next ones. Burn's my cousin...of course I didn't find that out until a week after my original response to the post. (I was the one in the "I've got mad skills" cow jumping over the moon shirt who ended up typing in all of the stuff for the tournament. I also lost to Chibo 1st round, but I think I did fairly decent)
Rules/Stages, etc.
Hopefully Burn seriously takes your advice. It should be no problem following the rules that almost every other tournament follows. Please send/point him to a clear list of the commonly accepted rules.
Single/Double Elimination
Basically with this tournament we were forced to do single elimination. We only had the place for what was supposed to be 5 hours, but the guy was really cool about it and let us stay later than we were supposed to. Next time hopefully he can either get it for longer, or manage to get another cheaper place. Honestly, I was really worried that we weren't going to have enough time to even finish the first rounds. We had ~20 rounds, and each could have lasted around 10 mins. That was at 9PM, meaning it would've been 12 by the time we were done the initial matches, leaving a lot more left. Luckily the pro players and our group of friends took out their opponents pretty quickly and we managed with only going past the limit by an hour and a half.
The Size of the Venue
Uh, it was small. There definitely wasn't enough room for everyone that was there. Which, by the way, was 44 Singles players, and 42 Teams. I know our local VFW should be pretty cheap and is a lot bigger, so that might be a future option. It's in Franklinville, so it's about 15 minutes more of a drive from up North than Turnersville. But it's on a main road, so it's pretty easy to get to.
Units
Between the group of family and friends that were there, we can have 7 or 8 Wiis. So, that shouldn't be an issue. I believe they're going to try for 6 at the next one, as if it's in the same place, there's probably not enough room for 8. The only issue is that one of our friends who had helped with controllers had one of his Wiimotes stolen. It was kind of our fault, as we were supposed to have someone at each system at all times. But between actually being in the tournaments and the cramped room, there wasn't much chance to sit there. Please in the future tournaments, help to watch and make sure your opponents don't walk away with controllers they didn't walk up with if possible. We'll probably figure out a clear marking method for our controllers, and we might have people just designated to watch the systems who aren't in the tournament.
Registration
The main issue with the starting time was that we weren't supposed to have people in the room aside from those setting stuff up until almost 7. I'm going to suggest that next time Burn keeps a list of everyone he knows is going to be there, as well as pre-registered people. That way he can print it out and it can go faster. We actually kept the registration open till almost 8, and we placed 1 or 2 late arrivals into spots that would have been Byes.
Skill Matching
It was no offense to you guys that Burn, or really all of us didn't know who you were. We aren't really super competitive with Smash Brothers. Burn hasn't even been in the US the past 2 or 3 years. He's been in the Phillipines. As for the Inui/Cross issue. I'm sorry about that. Cross is a friend of ours, and Burn knows that he's a good player and has won quite a few of the previous tournaments that Game Crazy held. So for that issue, I ask that next time you please provide us with the fact that you're a pro player. We'll place you into the proper brackets.
Inui
There were a lot of people who really didn't like that you were going around openly remarking "I'm the (best/second best) player here" and pretty much treating everyone sucky, even other common tournament players. Most of the people there don't play tournaments that often, and it's really discouraging for first time players to be destroyed AND trash talked. If it's your friend or someone you've known for a while, we're cool with that with reasonable limits. You were a really good player, and I do hope that you come back. I'm going to try my best to get Burn to reverse his "ban".
Honestly, I think it was mostly because he was really stressed the whole night hoping the thing would work out well. You guys heard him randomly tell people they'd be DQ'd for what seemed like no reason.
Prize amounts
This...wasn't handled as well as it should have been. However, I'm just going to show you guys the figures, since I know all of the numbers. Burn may not like it, but whatever...I think it needs to be clarified. (The numbers may be off slightly, by like...$20)
Teams were $10 per team. There were 42, so that's $420. He took $6 out of each to help pay for the venue. That leaves him with $252 for that and $168 for prize money. He paid out $150 in prize money as far as I know.
Singles were $5 per person. (I know some paid $3, but not enough to bother adding it all up manually.) There were 44. That's $220 altogether, and he took $3 of each 5. Leaving him with $132 and $88 to give as prize money. He paid out $75 in prize money, possibly giving the $5 back to Cross for "3rd place", even though it's likely that he would have lost to Inui. But that was because of whatever happened where he said that stuff to Inui.
So, altogether, he got $260 from the teams, and $140 from the singles. $400. The venue cost $200. I have no idea how much all of the other stuff he got was, but I'd say probably $50. (He had a Zelda wii case set that he was supposed to give away as a prize or something, don't know if it happened) That leaves him with ~$150.
However, I'm fairly sure he's going to put that money into making the next tournament better. We'll be able to afford double the time if it's there, and we'll be able to give out bigger prizes. I know I didn't get any money out of it. No idea if anyone else who helped even did.
Oh, as for Certificates...he was probably planning on printing them out. But he was a noob and had ridiculously low ink levels in his printer. That's why I had to hand-write some of the signs pointing to the door.
That's all. Who knows if you actually read all of this. Enjoy the future tournaments...make them better. I'm in the National Guard and leave for Basic Training the 23rd, so I won't be back till September/October.
Honestly, this was just bad for everyone... Not the venue, but the ensuing arguments. This isn't what smash is about. Everyone's crossing lines, myself included. I didn't like how you acted and insulted people, and I reciprocated by doing the same thing.