Request

[Spife]

I hope this isn't out of line, or taken in any wrong light, or in the wrong section, but I have a request for the tournament listing forum, and oh what a request it is. I apologize if this has been brought up.

This sparks from browsing the Tourny Listings and how jumbled it is. I am not going to go cite threads right now, but I have, on numerous occasions, been confused as to what a thread is hosting based on the title. There are a few solutions, and in writing this sounds like a small problem but I think it would make things much easier and organization is always fun fun.

The two (narrow sighted, I know) solutions I've thought of are:

1) Designating some form of key for the beginning of threads.
i.e. a thread could look like:

M, MA, 7/27/08, Event Name Here.

Where M would stand for Melee, MA would stand for the state (Mass) and the numbers and dashes could represent a code, maybe something to convey when. The M is easilly substituted for the B for a mix up (B standing for Brawl, of course). Then we could go crazy and do M/B. Woah. Gnarly.
I was thinking about throwing another letter in (T for Tourny) but it seems unnecessary.

2) Basically having seperate(sp) forums for melee and brawl tournaments. NOT TO DIVI THE TWO GAMES!! Maybe we could have a third for bi-tournies. It just seems nice to be able to go a forum and only view the tournies that interests you.

None of this is necessary, but just imagine KNOWING how many tournaments interest you at a quick glance. I can't be the only one who views the disorganization as a problem (no matter how big nor small).

Discuss >.>
I see the second option being harder to implement then the first, the first being a simple change in the way people post their tournaments.

 

[dudutsai]

Plan 1 sounds like a good idea. All we gotta do is have TO's start following this new style

 

[Vyse]

There's no need to separate the two games into different tournament sub-forums.
If smashboards wanted to adopt a standard tournament naming scheme, I'd gladly fall in line.

Although, I don't think its necessary to go this far (Jumbled as the tourney listings may look). If a person wants to go to a tournament, and a tournament appears in their area, there's no reason for people to not look inside the thread anyway to check what is being played.

On the other side of the equation, people who want to run a tournament and list it in the listings, are going to put the location name (Or some variation of it at least) in the thread title. At least, I'd hope they do.

 

[Spife]

There's no need to separate the two games into different tournament sub-forums.
If smashboards wanted to adopt a standard tournament naming scheme, I'd gladly fall in line.

Although, I don't think its necessary to go this far (Jumbled as the tourney listings may look). If a person wants to go to a tournament, and a tournament appears in their area, there's no reason for people to not look inside the thread anyway to check what is being played.

On the other side of the equation, people who want to run a tournament and list it in the listings, are going to put the location name (Or some variation of it at least) in the thread title. At least, I'd hope they do.

Sub forums was taking it a little far. I've just been wanting to adress this for a while now and that's 50% of what I've come up with.

The location is just about there all the time. The events not so much. Maybe instead of instigating something we could come up with a system as to how to represent the data. That also feels silly once written, and maybe this was the thing I was trying to adress in the first place.
Go look at the tourny listings, tl:dl? I'll summerize
In the names we have:
States/dates trading places between posts
Events, rare but they're there (again trading places depending on the poster)

WEll I guess that's about it. I don't mean to seem like a neat freak but I think IF we did something like I suggested (read: "1)") then it would be so so so SOOOOooosoOosoososo muche easier to navigate.

 

[MdrnDayMercutio]

Excellent point Spife, actually.

I think there's already supposed to be a specific title scheme but adding in B/M/64 would be an excellent idea. Excellent.

 

[Spife]

at that rate I feel we should include the date and the state too in a specific order but adding just a B/M/64 is good enough.

 

[AlphaZealot]

Actually, there is a mandatory thread listing structure, I just only update noncompliant threads like once a month. I'll go in there and do that now and let me know how it looks. I haven't decided how to separate Melee/Brawl tournaments. Using two forums would probably upset the Melee players because they would have less traffic/attention to their tournaments.

 

[Spife]

Actually, there is a mandatory thread listing structure, I just only update noncompliant threads like once a month. I'll go in there and do that now and let me know how it looks. I haven't decided how to separate Melee/Brawl tournaments. Using two forums would probably upset the Melee players because they would have less traffic/attention to their tournaments.

I am unable to find where you are posting/updating Could we get a link?

 

[#HBC | Mac]

i think he means in the tournament listings room theres a specific way the thread titles have to be displayed.

i.e.

Castle Golf Smashfest - Long Island, New York - September 13th - 9/13/08
Memphis Isn't Cool - Lowell, MA - Aug 24, 08
Gamers' World Presents: Fight for your Friends Tournament – Montreal, QC – Aug 23, 08
Reinhardt Crowd Favorite – Waleska, GA – October 11

it pretty much looks like it goes; Name of tourney - City/Region, State - Date

i think it would be good if AZ added another element at the end stating whether its Brawl, Melee or both.