Lovage
Smash Hero
for those that don't know it's january 16th, 17th and 18th (MLK monday)
[for those of you who havn't convinced themselves to go to this tournament yet, it's going to have every notable smash player you can think of, including Armada, Zgetto, and way more european smashers, 100+ TVs, an obvious bias for MELEE, and a great venue. if you think you aren't good enough to fly across the country for smash, you must know that huge out of state tournaments like this are one of the most amazing ways to level up, think of it as an investment for when you start ****** socal]
it's about time for us to buy tickets. i've been searching on bing and expedia for a few days, i'm planning to buy my ticket tomorrow. i made this thread so that we can coordinate our travel arrangements and have 4-10 socal people on one flight and get a **** hotel room together
flights: there's a looooot to choose from in terms of flights, but for the purposes of this thread i'm going to assume that smashers are a) lazy and b) cheap, so i've been looking at the cheapest, most convenient flights.
first things first, the days of our trip . this is a 3 day tournament currently split up into this schedule:
saturday day 1: melee only
sunday day 2: melee + brawl
monday day 3: brawl only
one of the biggest attractions about this tournament are plank's promises to have over 100 TVs, bought for the cheap on ebay, craigslist, plus community brought setups. and so far he has said that during the brawl only day (monday) there will be lots of setups for melee friendlies.
so i've been planning up to this point to stay for the brawl day and hang out with our favorite smashers from all over the country, playing friendlies and getting drunk/swimming at the hotel. it's like if they managed to finish genesis in one day, would you wanna drive back to socal the next day? *** that, and this goes even more so for a tournament across the country that is going to be (arguably) bigger than genesis, so as of now i'm planning my trip for
flying in 1/15/10 (friday) and flying back 1/19/10 (tuesday)
discounts/offers
the smashers from puerto rico have set up a 10% discount for all out-of-state travelers going to *POUND* 4 who are flying on AirTrans
Kasht said:
Kasht said:
because of this i've been trying to find the cheapest AirTrans ticket over any other airline, because we can tack on a reduced 10% to the price.
airports: LAX vs. SNA
LAX and SNA are the two biggest airports in the socal area, LAX is of course in los angeles, and SNA is in orange county. they are about 45-60 minutes away from each other on the 405. while SNA might be closer to some people (irvine,) the selection of flights is much smaller, being that it is a smaller airport, so orange county/irvine area smashers may not be able to find an AirTrans ticket (10% off) to Maryland for our selected days. i can't decide the travel plans of every smasher in socal, but it would be dope if our melee community could get a good group of people flying out of LAX and all going on the same flight instead of splitting up. but its up to YOU.
the best flight i've found so far:
hotels:
plank has set up a hotel discount at 89$ a night at the marriot close to the venue. this includes a free shuttle service every day bringing is there and back. 6-8 smashers in a room = hella cheap per night. btw, if you were at genesis, you know that hotels are the way to go, too much fun. so anyone who from socal who is going to *POUND* 4, let's get a few rooms together
if you want to coordinate plans or discuss travel arrangements, aim me at lingbling6
