If your GGPO username is different from your Reddit/IRC username, please put both names so I can find who I’m supposed to be spectating easier.

It’s time for another exciting Reddit GGPO tournament, this time Alpha 3. We’re doing this shit Monday, May 14th at 8PM EST.

Standard tournament rules – 2/3 normal rounds, 3/5 for Winners, Losers and Grand Finals, double elimination, you know the drill. Since we’re going to be switching games for each tournament, we’ll be using random seed to keep things interesting and relatively fair. I’ll play if the number of entrants deems it necessary (IE to prevent a first round bye), otherwise I’ll just be running the bracket, spectating, and – if I can get my mic working – poorly casting. In the event we don’t get the necessary minimum 8 players for a proper Double Elimination tournament, we’ll run Swiss instead with a tiebreaker for the Finals if needed. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss-system_tournament

In the event of GGPO connection issues, depending on where we are in the brackets, I may elect to either switch your position on the bracket or move the bracket forward in some other – preferably humorous – way. The goal here is fun, but if GGPO is acting up I’m not going to hold the entire tournament up over one match if you can’t connect to someone. All this said, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, FORWARD YOUR GGPO PORTS!!! It may or may not help the issue, but it couldn’t hurt to eliminate one likely culprit. Also run through the GGPO FAQs if you’ve had connection issues before and see if you can sort it out.

The prize for winnar is bragging rights, and getting to pick what we play in our next GGPO tournament, assuming we aren’t all entirely consumed by Diablo 3 for the next 5 years.

If you have any questions on configuring GGPO, ask in our IRC channel (address is sidebarred in r/fighters and, afaik, in every other big fightan subreddit). We’ll help you get set up and point you to where you can find ROMs for the games.

Be in IRC at 7:30PM EST so we can test connections and stuff. I’ll leave the bracket open for signups until 8PM, then we let the salt flow.