Okay, so here's basically the quick version of the tourney. Got knocked into the loser's bracket just barely by some guy named IzzyInfamous for the tourney, he was using Sonic. As usual, I keep forgetting about Dave's Stupid Rule and we had done FD twice, but this was about ten minutes after the match, so oh well. Knocked a few people around, then barely loss to G&W because I got too hasty and then lost miserably to Fox (definitely need to play those two more). I believe the player was spiritdragon. His tag was Ferdi. Teams were so-so, but I'm amazed at how much back pull I did with the partner I had (we both knew it'd be that way, friend of mine that went with). But, alas, that didn't go much better.
Full report time! In three words: The organization sucked. Let's start with registration.
We found the building (after driving around for about 20 minutes in arriving in the city) and had to wait around for registration to open. That's cool. While in line when it did open, met a few people who were pretty cool. Talked awhile, we noticed our line wasn't moving, so we decided to go to the other line. Stood there for a small sec, when a guy who was a friend of theirs came by and said, "You guys are going to be disappointed. This is the Halo line. Smash line is over there." Same line we were in, yep. That would probably mean they need to put some **** signs up. Anyway, why the line was moving so slow was because the computer had some issues, so it held up for, like, 20 minutes. If they had got a pen and paper they could've done ATD registrations no problem, but noooooo. Wait for the computer to get back up, of course.
Anyway, so it starts way late, that's fine. Fight the first match, lost, that's fine too. However, it took forever for my match to start. Why? Because they decided to break up the 61 competitors into three different brackets. I have no clue why they couldn't, you know, simply do a 64 person bracket. Maybe it was computer limitations? If so, then draw one up by hand. It's not hard folks.
Tournament proceeds slowly. I get information once in awhile, tell them a TV is free and what not. At one point there are FOUR OF SEVEN TVs FREE. I go inform the guy, and he's all, "Hold on, I'm making the next set of brackets." I'm thinking to myself, "If you actually went down the list in order rather than jump around and kept on top of things you wouldn't have to wait." Of course don't say anything. Rather not piss off the staff (though right now I'm cool with it. The only guy who knew how to run this was DancingFighterG). And they keep wondering why things are going slow. I laughed. Also, side note, around this point, I get asked a question time to time as to how the tourney is running. When a player is being asked those questions and not the staff, there is a MAJOR problem folks.
Another thing is they had also changed the rules from what was on the site (example: Yoshi's Island become Counterpickable and Port Town Aero Dive become banned). It didn't bother me that much, but there should've been note of it at least three days before the tourney started. If it was just then that it happened, it shouldn't have happened.
One last thing was they sucked with the whole "disqualification" thing. I understand they want every player to have a chance, but when it has been ten minutes and the player hasn't shown up, get rid of them, please. There's a bathroom rule we use for the DDR tourneys. If you aren't there for your match, then you get one more chance, that chance being the go through the rest of that area (Winners' matches, losers' matches, etc) and then loop back to that person so they can continue the tournament. That probably sounded more confusing.
And I believe when finals came, they took the top two from each bracket (three of them, remember?) and pitted them in another double elim bracket. Don't quote me on that though, that's my assumption from seeing the computer here and there. Though they shouldn't have done the three different brackets, seeing as they did, and did those final six or whatever, round robin would be the best way to go. But hey, that's all my assumption, so please do NOT take my word on that.
Players were pretty chill. Met some awesome people. I'm pretty sure I have the best Zelda though from the matches I had. I fought like, two or three Zeldas and won all of those. One guy had a pretty sick Zelda/Sheik combo though.
