Hi, I was the one guy who ran the guilty gear XX #Reload tourney.
Next year there should be several new games out...
Id love to be able to get another #reload tourney up, cause that game doesnt get enough coverage in the portland area, and it should do well at an anime con cause its all freakin' hand drawn!
Anyway, there should be some more clear schedules for when the tournaments are being hosted, and also have them not conflict w/ the other events.
Rules are pretty simple, as well... for fighting games (and most games in general), double elimination tournaments are the way to go...
SSBM doesnt really do that in tournament mode, or at least AFAIK. Also, theres always a debate on this... 1v1 vs 4 FFA. Thats something usually you gotta decide on, because as a tournament game, they usually only do 1v1, but as a general 'fun' game, its 4p ffa. Either way you handle it, whatever.
Soul Calibur 2 - I went to the big tournament in california, Evolution, and they played that... Theyre not going to have it next year... I even went to PAX, where one of the better SC2 players in the area ran it... it sucked...
That game degenerates into either scrubby mashing, or doing the same move over and over while dodging and getting in throws. Even as a "high level" of play. Next year Tekken 5 should be out, so I think that should be the flashy Namco 3d game of choice.
For the racing game, I think DD will still be the favorite of the majority, theres nothing being planned yet.
Anyway, whats the current room going to look like? Hopefully if we got a big enough room we could try for some of the really fun events... like 16 player Double Dash tourney, if that gets out... I had a blast hooking that up and playing at PAX.
Other than that everything looks pretty good. This next year will be better, for sure. OH, need any volunteers or anything? I'd love to help on this, concidering this year I just sorta barged my way in and ran stuff anyway.