Do you guys ever put on your own tournaments?

Web_22 · Post by **Web_22** » Thu Aug 21, 2003 9:21 am

Being a newbie to this site, I hope I'm not posting in the wrong place. Anyway, are most of you from Kansas or the Lawrence/Topeka/Overland Park/KC area?

The creator of our site in NM has his connections to get us venues for one day tournaments. Most of us are fighting game fans so the tournaments have featured SC2, TTT, T4, and CvS2. We busted out Halo at our second tournament just for fun and there was a lot of interest, so we have Halo as a part of our lineup now.

I go to Lawrence a few times a year because I have friends there and I'm always looking for people to play in SC2 or Halo. So I was just wondering if you guys do tournaments or just the site or go to other peoples tournaments or what?

RurouniQ · Post by **RurouniQ** » Thu Aug 21, 2003 10:30 am

NVGL in Olathe has tournaments that some of us go to, but they're pretty much Xbox-only tournaments. Other than that, we haven't really had any, which kind of blows, now that I think about it. We definitely need to have some Breakmanx.com-sponsored events.
My suggestions for games would be: SC2, Timesplitters2 (except no one plays the damn game so we might as well do Halo instead

), SSMB, NBA Street 2, and maybe even DDR (rumor has it Lawrence is getting a machine soon).

Web_22 · Post by **Web_22** » Thu Aug 21, 2003 10:51 am

Yeah, y'all should sponsor some tournies. We just post flyers all over and get people to log on to our site or they just show up and we have them hooked. They keep getting bigger, and some of our players are actually hardcore tournament scene guys for TTT and T4. Two of our members went out to California for the world fighting game tournament Evo. Don't know how many of you know about that tourney or not, but the best in the nation and the world were there, well, most of them were. The top two SC2 players in the nation weren't there as far as I know.

It'd be great if I could coordinate my visits with a tournament or two.

RurouniQ · Post by **RurouniQ** » Thu Aug 21, 2003 11:51 am

Tekken is the greatest game ever made, and also happens to be my favorite game. I love Tekken more than DDR and Macs combined.

Web_22 · Post by **Web_22** » Thu Aug 21, 2003 2:19 pm

Don't worry, I share your sentiments about Tekken as well. I'm strictly a SC2 guy myself when it comes to fighters, although I'm going to see what all the fuss is about VF4 Evo.

Jack Burton · Post by **Jack Burton** » Thu Aug 21, 2003 7:57 pm

VF Evo is really tight. I picked up my copy last week. $20! how can you go wrong? It's like they took all the crap out of VF4 and made it a better game! Seriously, though. It's pretty tight. I love the quest mode. You should check it out if you get the chance, web.

-Jack

edit: And yes, we should put on some tourneys, but first we need to pick up some listeners....or some advertising...otherwise it'll just be the breakmanx guys plus 1 or 2....

Post by **BreakmanX** » Thu Aug 21, 2003 9:23 pm

We really need to start advertising and getting the word out. Anyone out there who can help, please do.

RurouniQ · Post by **RurouniQ** » Fri Aug 22, 2003 3:08 am

?????!!!!!!!
WHO FUCKING CHANGED MY POST???
DON'T DO THAT SHIT, THAT'S NOT COOL AT ALL AND NOT FUCKING FUNNY!!

Realm · Post by **Realm** » Fri Aug 22, 2003 7:06 am

not fucking cool. that's crossing the line.

Web_22 · Post by **Web_22** » Fri Aug 22, 2003 8:52 am

I'll be checking out VF4 evo soon enough. As for tournaments, we just put up flyers all over, mostly at places where we expect gamers to hang out. Hastings and the gamestores. Do you do any shameless plugs at EB or are you not allowed to? KU has all kinds of bulletin boards and a ton of gamers for sure. Post at the dorms, a flyer with the little tear offs with your site on them, like those apartment advertisements. Laundrymats as well. Sure it'll take some legwork, but I bet you could get some new people in.

We have 68 people signed up at our site, I came in at 31, but a lot of them don't even check the site anymore. I'd say we have about 10-15 active members out of that 68. When it comes to tournaments, we get a respectable 30-35 now, and we expect to get a lot more once we get a steady venue.

But for advertising, have someone put together a decent looking flyer and just hang them up all over lawrence and the surrounding area. I haven't checked out the radio show portion of your site yet, but I will, and I'll have some people from our site check it out as well.

I think a SC2 tournament in Lawrence could get pretty big tho.

Realm · Post by **Realm** » Fri Aug 22, 2003 10:10 am

maybe doing some advertising in topeka, manhatten, and salina would bring some ppl in too. hehe, we might even get a KU gamers vs K-state gamers rivalry going.

Web_22 · Post by **Web_22** » Fri Aug 22, 2003 5:29 pm

Definitely advertising in other towns could get you some cross town or cross state rivalries. I don't know how familiar you guys are with the New Mexico area, but since I'm the lone Santa Fe warrior, I've been assimilated into the Albuquerque collective. Down south about 4 hours is the Las Cruces crew, followed close behind by the El Paso crew in TX. We also have a Colorado Springs crew that comes down, so we get a lot of people from the surrounding area at our tournaments.

I could see it really happening in those surrounding communities where you get people to check this out as a central hub, and then each little town or crew can host a tournament once a month or something you know? You gotta advertise tho. For real, if I was living in Lawrence, I'd be all over that advertising for you guys. I'd probably plaster Overland park as well. It's up to you guys tho. If you get out there and make it happen, I see breakmanX taking off.

There's supposed to be some sort of midwestgamers.com or something along those lines too. There's a guy from Overland Park on a board I visit and he goes to that board as well. I'll get the address for you guys and maybe you could do some plugs for this place.

Post by **Richie** » Fri Aug 22, 2003 6:23 pm

RurouniTrelane wrote:?????!!!!!!!
WHO FUCKING CHANGED MY POST???
DON'T DO THAT SHIT, THAT'S NOT COOL AT ALL AND NOT FUCKING FUNNY!!

Wasn't me. I don't get it, what got changed?

Jack Burton · Post by **Jack Burton** » Fri Aug 22, 2003 6:52 pm

^^^^^^

Q originally said that tekken was basically shit.

Break changed it so it sounded like he loved it.

Personally, I thought it to be hilarious.

-Jack

Zukin · Post by **Zukin** » Fri Aug 22, 2003 7:47 pm

Tournaments would rock - I remember that there was a Halo tournament in Lawrence at the beginning of last year and Def Jam Vendetta & NCAA Basketball tourneys on campus, so it's definitely possible.

...And my soul burns for some SC2 action!