I haven’t been in the scene as much as I used to. But I watch you guys all the time. I’m on SWF daily, I watch live streams when you go to nationals, cheer my *** off, and sometimes come and compete with you guys.
Whobo 3 was an amazing experience for me. It had its ups and downs but overall the experience was great and showed me how alive the Texas scene still is. I see a lot of talk about the scene dying. How our regionals used to attract over 100 people. It won’t ever be like that again, and with Allan on the brink of leaving us, we’re stuck in a bad situation. No one person is going to be able to replicate what that man did for us. I didn’t always agree with all of his viewpoints, but nobody can deny he’s done an unbelievable amount for this state. We wouldn’t be half as good without him and his series.
I know I can’t recreate what he did alone. Especially with my location. But I have a few ideas that I’m going to try and get you guys to implement in order to turn this all around.
- 2010-07-16 ADHT, Nikefest 2.1
- 2010-07-17 P4 Pee Hole 2, Phase 11
- 2010-08-21 DMT 1, S.L.U.T. 2
- 2010-09-25 KoK WHG3, Phase 14, SBRoD1
- 2010-10-09 DMT 2, Hobo 28
- 2010-11-20 DMT 3, Turkey Throwdown
- 2011-01-08 DMT 4, Hobo 30
- 2011-01-22 Brawl STV4, Monster Arcade, RGV High Roller, Strokeface
This was copied straight from the Power Ranking thread. We’ve had quite a few cases of two or more tournaments in the past year. Four tournaments were ran the same day back in January. That is insane. Had we set that up right, we had a 60-80 man regional right there. Our state isn’t in the least bit dead. We’re just unorganized and won’t communicate with each other.
Now I understand not everybody can travel. Not everybody makes money going to these. And there isn’t the hype there used to be when it comes to this game. With the geographic size of our state, it’s natural for there to be small locals in different areas. But 4 different tournaments on the same day is unreal when we can garner a lot of hype at a regional and possibly even attract a few out of staters regularly. Here’s some ideas.
A. Further payouts.
I know this has been stressed before, but we need to seriously implement this in regionals that get some numbers. Money for the top 6-8 goes a long way for some people. Top 3 is usually locked down if Gnes, Razer, and I attend. Plus Trela and Espy usually cover the rest. Opening up payouts further for others increases chances for different people to get paid as well. It only takes one upset for a chance to win some singles cash for a lot of people. I wouldn’t mind a percentage cut in top 3 for more entrants. Top 3 winners would end up taking about the same anyways. We could possibly further implement this by
- A Texas Circuit. I’ve talked to Allan about the idea previously and he liked the general outline. Maybe 4-5 events over the span of 8-10 months. Circuit points are built up throughout the year for those who attend along with bonus pot for the Circuit Finals which could result in paying out top 12 or something like that. It would take a lot of organization and everybody would have to help out to get this working but it’d be really exciting.
B. TO organization.
No Texas TO (other than Zac before he quit) hosts as well as Xyro has for us these past few years. San Antonio tourneys are run decent but still not at the caliber that we need. What I recommend is that a number of hosts lined up to help out. Possibly the main hosts from each city. For instance you gather Sync, Nike, *insert Dallas TOs*, etc. together and they all run it together, assuming they attend. Everybody wants to play friendlies, tournament, etc. so having a number of TOs running events in different places around Texas together would provide us a better run tournament experience allowing us to get 3-4 events done in a single day if we organize effectively.
C. Hype Ideas
Hype has deteriorated a lot for Brawl in the past year. I see so much salt about the same winners, same characters, and same thing month after month. I might have some solutions. I thought of a couple of side events that change up the pace of things while still promoting competition among all of us.
Remember that a and b are side events. They won’t conflict with the main two events.
1. Handicapped Teams – Not only singles, but doubles are usually locked down if certain people attend. Gnes/Razer, Trela/Jerm, Zac/Whoever, Dojo/whoever, etc. Well I thought of the idea to handicap the higher level players for a side event. No two players within the top 10-20 (the number is up for debate) can team. This means that each of us will have to team with a lower leveled player for this event. This gives the top players a much harder challenge, and puts lesser players into high caliber matches, not only giving them experience, but giving them all a fair shot at the money.
2. Character Bans – I took this concept from playing League of Legends. It would work the same way. 1221 bans with neither side being able to pick any of the characters. That’s up for a lot of debate but I feel it would work. Here’s an example. ie. Dojo vs Gnes – Coin flip for port. Port chooser gets 2nd ban. I win port. Gnes bans first. Gnes bans MK. Dojo bans Diddy. Dojo bans Falco. Gnes bans*insert character*. Now neither of us may use any of those characters and may double blind pick from there. All other rules apply. This promotes character diversity for every player furthering everybody’s knowledge and understanding of the game and takes MK out of the game for those who despise him while also evening the playing field for those MK mains out there.
3. Amateur Bracket – Concept taken from Pound 5. Those who don’t make it out of pools get their own bracket separate from players who did. Top 3 get small payouts.
These are just a couple of ideas to help promote competition for everybody and keep the game fresh/new/hype.
These are just a few concepts we can implement into our scene. I’ve been putting a lot of thought into all of this. I love playing this game, and I love our scene. I love watching everybody improve and push forward. We are slowly becoming the best state and best region period and I don’t want to see that drop off.
For now I’m going to implement the Texas Tournament Calendar to organize and inform TOs what’s happening when so we don’t get conflicting schedules. And we’ll move from there if you guys are willing.
Give me your comments/feedback/questions/ideas/etc. and let me know what you think.
PS. Start sending me your tournaments names, dates, links, etc. So I can begin on the calendar. Or if somebody would like to actually to help out and make a graphic one that'd be awesome.
