Broken Loose
Costumed Adventurer
So, remind me again why we're announcing a calendar year tour by skipping the first half of the tour and having it abruptly end partway through the calendar year?
It's just what people wanted. I also don't think starting in one year and ending in the next is that strange. The dates match the span of both the NBA and the NHL seasons, for example (both start Oct and end in Jun).
This definitely needs to be a thing. The Capcom Pro Tour Online events had rules in place for this both for cases of poor connection speed and cases where players had unplayable connections with each other. This isn't something like Skullbats/Ronaldo's weekly tournaments where it's much more of a casual setting so anyone can participate and be matched up with whoever with games having to be played. Like Pickles said, if this tour is going to be the face of the SGC then we can't let [player known less for their skill and more for having a bad connection] place well in seven online tournaments. That would not be a good look.
I believe the online lineup consists of one JPN event, one EU event, and two BRZ events, so over half of them are outside of NA. Since it's hard to setup offline events in all of these places (though we did manage to talk with Revo), it felt like this was a fair way to include more of our players from all over. As far as how they're weighted: one offline event is worth two to three times what you get online in points.
Frosty, and there were three reasons. The first was there's no reason to make people go to Chicago twice, since we're already going to there for the big event. Similar to why we don't have both CEO and CEOtaku, even though CEO had a fair number of people entering recently. The second reason was that this year seemed pretty hectic, with over 30 games over fri-sat, so it wasn't something I wanted to tell people to go to over other events. The last reason was that it was super close to the smash.gg announcement; ontop of all the other reasons, we were only able to get this setup like 3 weeks beforehand, so I don't want to rush anyone into going that wasn't already planning on it.
Well... we already started the tour, this is just a smash.gg which gives us more structure is all. We've been talking to people and trying to build buzz since like September.-i have no issue with the tour not starting January 1st and ending December 31st or anything, but if the point of the tour is to try to drive attendance why are we starting the tour with half the offline events already completed?
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Regarding the tour starting halfway through, again I dont feel like it needs to line up with the calendar year but if we ARE supposed to value points then at this point its a bit late for anything besides CB.
Well, yeah. NA players can only play in online NA tourneys, sets with ridiculous pings will be looked at (offending player DQ'd), etc. I feel like our community is already pretty good at doing that for big events (kumites and whatnot), didn't think I needed to explicitly state it.
We haven't mentioned funding anyone. If the community wants to continue funding players to go to CB or what have you, they are under no obligation to pick from people who place well in the SGTour. If the SGTour gets to the point where we can afford to fund players (which would be nice and we are interested in) we probably would look at both region and placements to decide who we would send (if we ever could).
We can't announce anything yet, but no one is currently incapable of winning something in some fashion due to not attending events that already happened. I'd like to find a way to reward online players that can't make offline events in addition to rewarding each region and the overall Tour point leader.
I assumed that one of the reasons to have a points system was to encourage people to turn up to offline events. If you don't think that it would have encouraged even one player to attend an event that they otherwise wouldn't have gone to, then what's the point?
There was, the entire Kai blowup was a result of it. All I have to say is please put reasonable rules regarding regions and connections in online tournaments or nobody in this community will take them seriously. Regional online events is a sick thing, just give them your all and make this clear beforehand. The concern people have is "please do not rank them to the weight of offline events"
What? I didn't tell anyone? There's been no buzz at all? We've had... the open letter, three seperate threads on this topic (two were tour specific), the SRK announcement months ago, the writeups for tour events, and me mentioning it on SRK every chance I get. Where've you been?
You seriously overestimate the number of people who read/care about SRK articles in this community.
A combination of this and wanting to get started, because I have no idea how long people are willing to wait to help us get started (who knows if smash.gg/others would want to help us 8 months down the line when everyone will be focused on MVC:I).
I believe Revo was also promoted as being part of the SGT a reasonable amount of time before the tournament actually happened whereas CEOtaku was a bit last minute in that the tour only got organised just before the event started.
Hm.
Also something i forgot to mention in my previous post, but one thing to make sure to keep straight in the future is the listings of players on smash.gg possibly overlapping. In the rankings for EU players, there are quite a few players who are listed as being from the U.S. (likely due to sharing the name of a smash player), with inaccurate twitch/twitter links to go with them (my personal favorites are ATH being a speedrunner from cali and Smile being a "former semi-pro resorting to playing games for fun" from connecticut).