Hey guys, this next tournament we are gonna have an "optional venue fee". What does this mean? It means that if you don't want to pay the venue fee, you don't have to! If the reason why you come to the Break tournaments instead of others is because we don't charge a venue fee and it's cheaper for you; that's fine, nothing will change. However, if you truly want to help us expand and support the community, the willingness to pay the venue will help us out greatly.
If you go to tournaments, you know that they all have venue fees; in addition to the $10 to pay to enter the tournament, there is an extra fee that the "house" keeps in order to defer costs of the venue and equipment. The Break Weekly is the longest running tournament series in America, running for almost 20 years now; and we have NEVER charged a mandatory venue fee... this is the reason we are so reliant on players themselves to bring setups to play on. We literally can't afford the equipment costs, because we make no money running these events. (In fact, we lose money)
Think about it, with the amount of people who come to these tournaments, if everyone paid a venue fee, after just ONE week of collecting a venue fee, we would be able to purchase an entire extra setup! That would be a lag-less LCD monitor, a console, and a copy of the game. Basically, replicate the setup I bring from home for the live stream. After just a few events, we could be running with consistency where all of our setups are identical! In addition to this, when Smash Wii-U comes out, we'll be ready for it!