MattDotZeb
Smash Hero
Hi all,
About a month ago I announced The Melee Games. We have 10 schools, with 135 players between them, competing in a crew battle single-elimination bracket.
Utilizing the New England Melee Facebook Group I announced the circuit. Initially the idea was to include 8 schools from the Boston-area. 5 players were required for a school to qualify. I expected, at most, for the schools to reach 6-7 players. The response was greater than my predictions.
University of Connecticut was the first school to have 5 players sign up, and thus the first to qualify. 24 hours after announcing The Melee Games we had 7 schools signed up. 3 more schools had 5+ people signed up, landing us at 10 eligible schools. I decided to expand the bracket to 10 schools after some debate and my unwillingness to exclude eager participates.
3 of the schools were outside the Boston area, and FB groups were made for every school involving all members that signed up for their school.
A bracket was created and published after registration closed, and with it each school's line-up was released. Schools immediately began strategizing and practicing match-ups for their potential matches. Every school had a captain elected, and it indeed has been impressive how these captains have stepped up to their duties of organizing smashfests and determining who plays in each crew battle.
The crew battles themselves work in a manner of weekly advancement. One or Two crew battles a week. The captains of the playing schools contact one-another prior to their matches, determine the number of players each school is sending in (it must be a matching number, no less than 5 and no more than 10), and submit to me a line-up for that match. Starters were appointed, so the matches begin double-blind. Players in the line-up are character locked for that particular match. Regardless of counterpicks there is no changing characters after line-ups have been submitted. Likewise, there is no changing your school's starter.
I am quite curious to see how other regions may implement something similar, and how other TOs would improve upon the format I'm using.
An info sheet I'm using to distribute information is at www.tinyurl.com/themeleegames
We've also been featured in local media - As you'll see this article states 8 schools and was published before we determined to go with 10 schools.
Additionally, we've been recently featured on Shoryuken.
-MattDotZeb
Check out this great video from Samox about The Melee Games. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqrtWP02f0E
Round 0:
WPI vs Tufts: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHXZXfdIUks
UMA vs BC: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJOubue9k9w
Round 1:
UConn vs Tufts: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYADUzBcZCU
MIT vs Harvard: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MikMPQzTGCE
BC vs NEU: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLrEoMVo9wY
UMA vs UMB: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3-tugWdHng <---- Insane hype.
About a month ago I announced The Melee Games. We have 10 schools, with 135 players between them, competing in a crew battle single-elimination bracket.
Utilizing the New England Melee Facebook Group I announced the circuit. Initially the idea was to include 8 schools from the Boston-area. 5 players were required for a school to qualify. I expected, at most, for the schools to reach 6-7 players. The response was greater than my predictions.
University of Connecticut was the first school to have 5 players sign up, and thus the first to qualify. 24 hours after announcing The Melee Games we had 7 schools signed up. 3 more schools had 5+ people signed up, landing us at 10 eligible schools. I decided to expand the bracket to 10 schools after some debate and my unwillingness to exclude eager participates.
3 of the schools were outside the Boston area, and FB groups were made for every school involving all members that signed up for their school.
A bracket was created and published after registration closed, and with it each school's line-up was released. Schools immediately began strategizing and practicing match-ups for their potential matches. Every school had a captain elected, and it indeed has been impressive how these captains have stepped up to their duties of organizing smashfests and determining who plays in each crew battle.
The crew battles themselves work in a manner of weekly advancement. One or Two crew battles a week. The captains of the playing schools contact one-another prior to their matches, determine the number of players each school is sending in (it must be a matching number, no less than 5 and no more than 10), and submit to me a line-up for that match. Starters were appointed, so the matches begin double-blind. Players in the line-up are character locked for that particular match. Regardless of counterpicks there is no changing characters after line-ups have been submitted. Likewise, there is no changing your school's starter.
I am quite curious to see how other regions may implement something similar, and how other TOs would improve upon the format I'm using.
An info sheet I'm using to distribute information is at www.tinyurl.com/themeleegames
We've also been featured in local media - As you'll see this article states 8 schools and was published before we determined to go with 10 schools.
Additionally, we've been recently featured on Shoryuken.
-MattDotZeb
Check out this great video from Samox about The Melee Games. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqrtWP02f0E
Round 0:
WPI vs Tufts: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHXZXfdIUks
UMA vs BC: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJOubue9k9w
Round 1:
UConn vs Tufts: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYADUzBcZCU
MIT vs Harvard: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MikMPQzTGCE
BC vs NEU: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLrEoMVo9wY
UMA vs UMB: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3-tugWdHng <---- Insane hype.
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