Going To/Running My First Gathering/Tournament

[Heroic_Legacy]

If you borrow someone else's stick/pad, DON'T FUCK IT UP. Which means, no mashing gorilla hands on the buttons if you need burst or rapid canceling with your fist. If you break my stuff I'll break you.

And resist the temptation to get up and scream obscenities while calling someone cheesy, when you have less than 20% health left and you've been falling for the same damn trap/move all day.

Tips for you online warriors.

If you have a stick, and want to burst, don't go CLICKLICLICKLICLCLKICICKCLICKCLIKCLICKCLICK."CMOOO OOOOON BURST COME OUT DAMN YOU"

I'll just rapid cancel and then you lose ALL your health.

[ludwig van]

^So feel free to mash buttons and yell "BURSTALREADYDAMMIT" if your opponent doesn't have 50 heat, right?

Finding/Running a Gathering
1. Search your area! Don't reinvent the wheel
Search the Match Finder section of Dustloop

SRK also has a couple of places to check if a search here on DL comes up empty. Even though they're more SF oriented there's a pretty good chance that places w/ SF will have BB and GG running

[-Ladon-]

If you borrow someone else's stick/pad, DON'T FUCK IT UP. Which means, no mashing gorilla hands on the buttons if you need burst or rapid canceling with your fist. If you break my stuff I'll break you.

And resist the temptation to get up and scream obscenities while calling someone cheesy, when you have less than 20% health left and you've been falling for the same damn trap/move all day.

Tips for you online warriors.

If you have a stick, and want to burst, don't go CLICKLICLICKLICLCLKICICKCLICKCLIKCLICKCLICK."CMOOO OOOOON BURST COME OUT DAMN YOU"

I'll just rapid cancel and then you lose ALL your health.

Tsubame...BARRIER OVERLOAD...THIS IS GOING TO BE...YOUR END

It should be noted having a good amount of potassium in your diet stops any kind of shaky movement and can help balance you out in both mind and body

as silly as it sounds it can really help your game a lot if you're eating right

[qwerty]

in addition to showering, BRUSH YOUR FUCKING TEETH

seriously i do not want to talk to you if your breath smells like shit because guess what that means you're talking out of your ass

[ludwig van]

Something else I thought of

If you bring a stick/controller that you think many people will use (like an unmodded SF4 TE, at the tourneys I go to there's like 10 people w/ one) be sure to have some sort of marking to distinguish yours from everyone else. I almost lost my stick once, so the next tourney I went to I just put my name on the bottom of it w/ permanent marker. Works like a charm

[ril213]

Fuck, that's genius.

NY better bring some to Jersey next time ya'll show up.

What you just said bbq,

also have important ground rules that your guests will follow. which i'll take for example whenever I host

1. No smoking, unless you're in the backyard
2. Absolutely no alcohol since my parents are at home in the living room and if anything happens I get the blame.
3. Clean up as mentioned

[Digital Watches]

Cash Battle = Smash

Money Match = Every other fighting game community

Some peeps will hate on you for that...Peeps like me.

I've never heard a smash person say "Cash Battle." The others are true and weird though.

[iora]

(yo wtf cash battle, niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiice)

If you're gonna bring a friend that's interested in seeing what's up in da gear neighborhood but maybe isn't apart of this ridiculous forum community, clear it with the host. I'm sure no one will mind, but don't be that guy bringing like 4 random people no one knows. That's not a cool guy most the time.

If you are driving, and someone is only like 5 minutes out the way for you, do the friend thing and grab that shit up. A simple "HAI GUYS! I'm going to here from there, if you're in between and need a ride, PM me addy and I'll see if I can." is all you need to do in your local 'Let's talk about meeting up, but never actually do it.' thread.

If you are getting a ride from some one, offer gas moneys. For whatever reason you can't drive, and that's cool. You don't need a license and a car to be polite.

Simple enough, but if like 20 people are diggin' on a game you aren't so into, you got two options. One, suck it up, have a good time, at least make a effort to join in the festivities. Or Two, ask ****in a NOT bitchy/assholey/annoying way**** if anyone wants to grab on the game of your choice. Obviously we don't want you to hate the evening, but no one wants some guy in the corner going 'Come on guys, stop playing shitblue 4 and play random shitty fighting game with me instead!'


(Oh, and if you get random IK'd, unplug their controller... slyly... and return the favor. You got my permission.)



tl:dr - Manners people. Use 'em.

[Istillduno]

Nice thread, thanks for posting it, I've just got a few questions.

Is lending your stick to people you've never met the norm? (Going pretty far away from where I live for my first tournament (SVB) and know absolutely no-one there is person, I'd like to trust more people but I hear storys of people getting their stuff jacked and how you've got to keep an eye on it)

I see some warning signs on some packets about plugging them in to turned on consoles (cubejoybox) so does the console need rebooting every time a player using converters comes, or do you just plug it in and go?

And what do you do to set up the buttons usualy, is it done from the menu or is a round started up and paused before being restarted after the config is set?

[sG]

Lending your things out to ANYONE is entirely up to you. You aren't required to and isn't impolite to respectfully say no. There's really no right or wrong here.

Most adapters in my experience don't need any system rebooting, you SHOULD be able to just plug it in.

Buttons are usually set by starting a round and returning to character select.