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  1. Would prefer to have the ranbat on Sunday...
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    Socal: Arcade Infinity! Let's Match it UP

    GGs last night guys. See you all next week. Not sure what day, though.
  3. which shirt are you even talking about? haha maybe? really depends. do you have a shirt like that that you're worried about?
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    Socal: Arcade Infinity! Let's Match it UP

    Who's going to AI on Friday? Me.
  5. Sounds awesome. I'd go. Main question is: When? EDIT: I'm dumb and didn't read closely enough. August! Got it. Looking forward to it.
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    Introducing the CopperDabbit Challenge! (CDC)

    Fine by me. I think it'd be awesome to make it an event and record a bunch of the matches. Maybe upload the ones that are the most hype.
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    Introducing the CopperDabbit Challenge! (CDC)

    If you talked to Scott from AI and made it into a beat-Dabbit-and-win-money event (like a tournament, but mostly just a really long string of money matches), then I bet he'd be willing to let you "rent" the cab. You could probably just give them $30 or $40 (which is more than they might make off the BB cab on a given Saturday or Sunday anyway - and is guaranteed), and they'd put the machine on freeplay event mode, and you can just sit on the cab all day letting people challenge you. If they win 5 times, they get $5. Bam. I'd go. (But I'm already going to whatever you decide to do anyway.)
  8. First off, I really appreciate you responding to my post. Just to make it really clear, I had a TON of fun at Warzone II, and will definitely be at the next one. I think you vastly improved the event over the last year, and Warzone II was, in my mind, an overall big success. If I sounded harsh at all, I'm partially just frustrated at the snail's-pace momentum that the BB:CS community is going right now, and that's mostly because of the lack of arcade cabs anywhere but at AI. (Side note: FUCK YOU, Family Fun and Denjin. Enjoy your AIDS/SF4.) Next year it might not even be a problem, since by that time the console version will be out. This was not necessarily a comment about BB, but a comment about what to do with ANY game that you run that gets a low turnout. I totally understand. Again, once there's more exposure via console release, there will be more people willing to spend $20 for BB. But $30/$40 with nothing in the pot is a little steep. As I said above, I think you topped last year in terms of the overall event, but it's kind of a tough call. If you don't put up any money for the pot, you rely on sign-ups for the pot money, and a low turn-out makes it not worth it. If you DO throw some money in there, you may have gotten more people to go, but you'll never know until the day of if it was actually worth it. I think this part is all trial and error. No one's suggesting you drop $500 for the pot if you can't take it. But at the VERY least guarantee that if you place in the top 3, you make back the money you spent to enter the tourney. I used to organize tours to Japan for people in the US, and the tour would hinge completely on whether or not we had the minimum number of people (usually 15-20) to operate the tour. Because of that, people would ALWAYS ask "well, how many people are signed up?", and I'd have to be like "uhh, allllmost enough to go!" so they'd feel confident that it would actually happen and help them to decide to actually go. If I told them "uhh, only like 5 so far", they'd balk and decide not to sign up. Customers are fucking fickle. I personally like Xie (James), Bang Camaro, Spirit Juice, DacidBro, Sanchez, and Purrin's commentary. Just some suggestions. But yeah, definitely a good idea to have this decided in advance if possible. And Mike had other stuff to worry about with the Skullgirls stuff, so it's cool. Your hands were tied and you did what you could. No worries. I hadn't considered the conundrum that making the brackets at the last minute presents. That's a good point. Not sure how to work around that. Maybe make a bracket for those that pre-reg'd, byes and all, and then stick the late sign-ups in wherever there are holes (letting them know ahead of time that they could end up with shitty seeding as a result - their fault for not pre-reg'ing). As far as printing goes, couldn't you print out large-size brackets ahead of time and write the names onto the printout by hand? No need to have everyone's name printed out. Re: the low turn-out, even if it was only a 16-man tourney, I think the competition was pretty fierce. There were a lot of really good players repping their respective areas. I was not disappointed at all with the tournament itself - only disappointed at the BB community showing lackluster numbers, making the community look kinda bad. It's understandable that Aksys would want more time to decide, since I'm sure they were genuinely interested in helping out, since it'd be great publicity for them. Unfortunately, they don't have to give a shit about whether or not -your- event info is clear to people. Only you do. For those that frequent DL, it was well known that you would have CS. For those that come here only sparingly, it wasn't quite as clear. One suggestion might be to update the first posts in your tourney threads whenever solid updates come up (by which I mean, final decisions/changes, not "hey, more info soon - don't know yet!" updates). You may have been doing this and I just didn't notice, but others would. Regarding the logo, it's okay. No one let you know about it, and to be honest, it may not have made THAT much of a difference, but it's definitely something to keep in mind. Again, to be clear, I'm not saying at all that you failed the community for any of these issues. Just trying to give honest CC. Yeah, I remember you mentioning this when you first announced the dates, and it makes perfect sense. I don't think it made TOO much of a difference, and I think in the end you benefited more from going for it and holding the tourney than waiting all the way until 2011. More experience running it all, more exposure. Warzone is on people's minds. Aww, bummer. If I'd known when it was going down, I would've stayed longer. You should mention the raffle earlier on during the events of the last day! I meant on Saturday. Maybe I'm confused. Wasn't there a stream on Saturday. I had absolutely no problems with how the stream was handled on Sunday, and I think having us go set up on Sunday morning to make sure everything works was really smart. Struck me as really professional. I'm curious to hear YOUR opinion on how it went (not just BB, but Warzone II in general). Thoughts? Numbers? Anything that went particularly good/bad? Anything you want to do different? Share with us. :3 (if you have time, that is) My finger is no longer on the pulse of the GG community, so I can't tell you. That's definitely a game that has more cross-over with BB, though, so I think running it along with BB would mutually benefit both games.
  9. Yes, and for god's sake send me a pm if you wanna ask me a question. :D

  10. Sunday is the 25th, man. Update first post?
  11. Thread title says "Blazblue US SBO Qualifier"...
  12. Alright, time for the feedback post. GOOD ----- The free drinks night was fun as hell. Should have done some grudge matches for the big screen or raffle giveaways or something, but otherwise I don't think this part of Warzone could've been any better. And dude, free Werther's Originals? So awesome. Free water Good shit. Smooth tournaments/well-organized Everything went smoothly. And there were absolutely no problems at all with running the tournaments. There were two TVs dedicated to BB (one of which ended up as aSkullgirls setup, which was fine since the other BB setup didn't happen), and there was no waiting around for other tournies to finish to be able to start BB. Nice venue Really nice ballroom in a nice hotel. Location was great too. Free apples at the front desk. Clean bathrooms. Good stuff. BAD ----- BB finals were not hype This is partially due to the low turnout (see below) and the fact that not many people in the other communities give a crap about BB. The first thing I would suggest is to not have BB go first. I realize that you want the tension to build higher and higher as you get to the last game, but having a game that's a little less popular than the rest go first dooms it to a low audience turnout because people will just skip it before the games they really want to see are up. BB was over pretty fast, partially because there was a lot of Bang, but also because it was just the top 4, which means you could have been run in almost any time slot. I'm not saying it should be run 2nd-to-last, when everyone will be sitting there just thinking "do SF4 already!", but running a semi-popular game like HDR or Tekken first, and then BB somewhere in the middle or really anywhere but first would help a lot. To make the finals more hype, I think it would help to have someone who knows the game, but is also going to make it palatable for the audience who doesn't give a crap. MAKE IT FUNNY OR ENTERTAINING SOMEHOW. For the love of god, help us appeal to the SF heads. When people who don't know the game commentate about how they don't know the game, and that everything is ultra anime, all the people listening are gonna nod and think "yeah, I don't get it either." Low-ass turnout for BB Now, I'm not going to place the blame for the low turnout squarely on West Coast Warzone. That's unfair. To a great extent, it's up to the community to get hype and represent their game. What I WILL do is try to highlight some factors that made it difficult for players to get very hype or to even show up. 1. The venue fee This was a really big factor. It doesn't help that the BB/GG community is poor as fuck. However, correct me if I'm wrong, but the cost of the venue is what makes the venue fee so high. Maybe you should scale it back and make it a worthwhile tournament at a smaller venue before you make a big production out of it and host it at a snazzy hotel. EVO started small, and is hosted in a big-ass hotel because it worked its way up to that point. The players don't give a SHIT about the venue, as long as you give them a place to play their games, and the hotel staff doesn't treat them like shit. Scale back on the venue - you can have a successful tourney without holding it in some fancy hotel. On the flipside - and I'm looking at you, BB community - you bums need to get jobs or something. You knew this tourney was happening MONTHS in advance. $30 or $40 is not very much money, and is totally worth the amount of experience you get playing against other people in a larger-scale tournament. Now that I think about it, though, $30+ IS a lot of money considering that... 2. There was no extra money in the pot I can't present a very strong argument here when a lot of the community didn't even enter/show up, but I think this directly correlates: When money is on the line, people get fucking hype. My $1 rock-paper-scissors money match with Dae was more hype than BB finals. WHY? BECAUSE IF I WON I WOULD GET DOUBLE WHAT I PAYED TO ENTER. Triple Threat brought players all over the place because it had a guaranteed pot of like $3000. Granted, everyone got burned because it was a poorly organized tournament run by people who had little experience, do you think anywhere near as many people would've showed up if there wasn't a significant amount of prize money on the line? BB finals at Triple Threat was fucking HYPE has HELL. I'm not saying you should drop that kind of cash in the pot. The point I'm trying to make is that majors have major CASH to be won. I can only assume you're losing money on these tournaments, and I think what you're doing for the community is great, but when the 2nd and 3rd place players LOSE money overall, then what is the incentive to place high? You are effectively costing the community money to place high in your tournament. OH RIGHT, I FORGOT THAT YOU GET TO BE ON THE STREAM AND PEOPLE ON THE INTERNETS CAN WATCH YOU WHILE ARGUING ABOUT WHY SF4 SUCKS. 3. Pre-registration requirement It's my understanding that the pre-reg requirement was made because you wanted to avoid having a bunch of players show up on the day of the tournament and screw up your schedule. I think it's a good idea, and I'm happy to see you trying to learn from past experience, but this unfortunately doesn't work for games that don't have an automatic 80 fucking people at each tournament (i.e. SF4). For games that don't draw people like flies to crap, requiring everyone to pre-reg and NOT take walk-in sign-ups means that all of the lazy people who don't look of tourney info beforehand but just show up are screwed. Pre-reg should not have been required for anything but SF4. Also, "If I had pre-reg'd 2 weeks ago I would've only payed $30, but it's $40 now. Fuck it, I just won't go." <-- This happens a lot. Oh, and also, if someone asks you in a forum how many people are pre-reg'd for your tournament - DON'T TELL THEM. That's bad sales sense. Letting everyone know that you've only got 10 people signed up less than 2 weeks before the actual tournament only gives people another excuse NOT to go. 4. Version confusion/indecision You need to make a final decision about this kind of thing early on. You had plenty of time (months!) to confirm with MikeZ or whoever could provide you with a setup for CS, but you were still talking to Aksys about a console version or whatever in March. This should NOT happen. You need to set a deadline for when you're going to finalize the line-up of games, and it needs to be early. If Aksys is like "well, we don't know yet - we'll get back to you", you say "too bad, suckaz" and do what you can without 'em. Look at EVO. EVO isn't until JULY, and they made sure to finalize their line-up in... when was it? Early February? You simply CANNOT afford to have confusion about what game is going to be played at your tournament if you want people to spend money on attending. If you want Warzone to be a major, treat it like one. Also, even after you decided that it would be CS, you left the CT logo on the WZ2 website. ---Other comments--- Easter is a family holiday. What happened to the room prizes? I thought there was going to be a raffle to win stuff if you stayed in a room, but no one ever mentioned anything ever. Would've been nice to have a dedicated stream slot that matched the start-time of the BB tourney. When we started more-or-less on-schedule, we found out halfway through our tournament that our stream slot was long after our tournament would be over.
  13. Hey, shtkn!! XD I really like the new forum style. I was getting pretty sick of the old one. If I may make a suggestion, you might want to try going a shade lighter on the background. Instead of pitch black (000000, I assume), maybe try 111111 and see how that looks. For the forum posts themselves, it might be worth trying a grey that's one step lighter than what it's using now. Can't really tell how good it'd look with a slightly lighter background until you actually change it, though. Anyway, just a thought. ;D
  14. Shout-out post First off, congrats to Bang Camaro for the win. Too sick. Thanks for driving me and others around over the weekend too. Norms was freaking awesome. WAY the hell better than Denny's. @DacidBro: I think I owe you a few DPs. I watched our match and I really let you jump around like a fairy the whole time. I'm gonna come back stronger and more patient (and better at not getting command thrown), so be ready. I don't give a shit if Bang's way better than Jin - this is America. Japanese tiers don't apply over here. @Zong: Yes, I'd like something from Togo's. :3 haha, that was fucking hilarious, btw. XD Let's go to AI again soon. @Sanchez: You are a gentleman. And a baller. Seriously, dude... learn a couple of bread-and-butter combos and you will be winning a lot more. You're a really solid player - you're just not netting a lot of damage when you land hits. haha, I know you really just like to troll people, though. @Mike Z: It is an honor to be your friend and your opponent. I'm more hype about Skullgirls than Marvel 3 for sure. I wanna play it more! XD Miss Fortune is my girl. @Mike Z again: <3 @CopperDabbit: You are awesome and I wish I could see you more often. I've always been afraid of your Arakune, and still am. Can't wait to fight you again. :3 @Goryus: It was great to see you! It'd be nice to visit NorCal for one of the tournies up there sometime soon. I'll see if I can make it actually happen. ^^; Also, thanks for running the tourney. @shtkn & BANGER & Sanchez: JIN IS SO AWESOME. LET'S WIN ONE OF THESE TOURNAMENTS. JIN TOP 3 LET'S GO! XD @Ike: You've improved a lot, man. Sorry I couldn't win and make you take your pants off. -__-; NO HOMO AMIRITE? @Soniti: Really good to see you, man @Biter: Thanks for all the advice, sensei! haha sorry I couldn't put all of it to use in the top 4. It really helped against my other matches, though!! @Xie: CHANTO... IE YO!! I know I'm missing a other people, but uhh.. too bad. Uhh, so where was the rest of the SoCal crew? pulsr? Purrin? Kennyon?
  15. Xie! ... Fuck the 18th! Make it the 25th!
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    Socal: Arcade Infinity! Let's Match it UP

    EVERYONE COOL IS GOING TO WARZONE TONIGHT That includes me. Also, ggs Xie, Alex, and other guys I fought last night. And Zong of course. Thanks for driving!!
  17. Mike, let me know if you're busy and need help getting the CS setup down there. I'll be taking off of work early to head down to the hotel.
  18. @ community: Stop telling yourselves you suck. You're supposed to tell the other people that THEY suck.
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    Socal: Arcade Infinity! Let's Match it UP

    @ skep: Maaaaybe next Thursday. We'll see. :3 I'm definitely going this Thursday, though. It's settled.
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    Socal: Arcade Infinity! Let's Match it UP

    What are the chances of people being at AI on Thursday night? What if I said I was going?
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