Update for MT9 and GT3

MT9

GT3

The "TEAM"

Promotion

TL:DR

MT9 will be on the 23rd and will be 1v1. (info this week)



GT3 will be on the 6th and will be 1v1. (info next week)



Creating a team to support running the tournaments to have better communication, preperation, and organization.



leading up to GT3 we will be doing events to raise money and familiarize the organizational team with the game. We need your help with that!

Hey Everyone,With the ESL tournament taking precedence over MT9 on the 17th we had to move our schedule for community tournaments back a bit. With some other tournaments moving forward in the coming weeks we are having to squeeze in these last two community tournaments of this set.MT9 will be a 1v1 tournament. Info will go up in regards to the mini tournament this week. We will be trying to drop this tournament in on the 23rd at a start time around 11am. Once again we will be using the xfire system. Additionally we are working to mix in the St. Jude Live charity event so we would definitely like your support on this. This tournament will, as mini-tournies are, limited to 16 participants. We are going to have a standby list as well. This is possibly the last tournament that we will be doing 5 stock semis and finals as apposed to best of 5. We understand that some of the players in the community despise these 5 stock games. We want to take one last good look at them to see the viability with the new play-styles. We haven't had a 1v1 with any rounds of "championship rules" since GT2 and an MT is a perfect time to test that.Usually we schedule Grand Tournaments the week after the 3rd MT in a series. With another tournament going down on the 30th we are respecting that tournament by putting a week between MT9 and GT3. Our tentative date will be the 6th of June. This will once again be a 1v1 tournament even though we had been planning for it to be a 2v2. The reasoning for this is our last 2v2 mini didn't garner the signups to warrant a GT as this point. With that being said we will be tentatively going with a double elimination, unlimited signup, ranked rules, best of 5 for semis and finals 1v1 tournament. We will be multi-casting the early rounds with an "overview" running on the main stream up until the semis where we will bring the winners bracket through the grand finals. Look forward to the information on this tournament coming up most likely in a week. I will cover our prep for this a little later on in this postLooking back on the past tournaments there are some very important things that are either lacking or practically non-existent. I've done many a tournament or league for both this game as well as other games and I want to stress thatand have committed myself to always learning. I never know everything and know that for a fact.In the next few weeks I will be putting together a team to solve a lot of the issues I have seen with the past tournaments. Some of these faces you will know such as Ninja, Slyy, and Drix. Others will be new faces from my personal past who I trust. I've found that the most reliable people have been those close friends who feel some loyalty to me. Having people like this will enhance everything we put forward to you on our production and running of these tournaments. We're going to refer to this team as "HSA and Friends"The main reason I'm doing this is to solve some of the issues that I have seen. Here are some of them.One of the biggest things that has been an issue with running these tournaments has been the communication of people running the tournament. Generally in the week leading up to the tournament the admins never really talked to each other in regards to the tournament. Everyone just kinda did their thing and then the day before everyone freaked out cause we hadn't talked. Since I am friends with pretty much everyone that will be brought into this team that should be alleviated as much as possible. There will be more vastly improved communication between the organization team both prior to the tourney and (since i'll have some of them locally with me) during the tourney.Far too many times we have been doing things for tournaments the night before. Whether this is due to busy schedules or just plain laziness (I've been at fault for both of those in the past) there will be more accountability with the preparation for these tournaments. The team being people I actually know also lends itself to a bit more "openness" when it comes to how we put out the content to you. There will be more uniformity to what we do. There will be more collaboration. There will be people in place to handle issues that may arise. Which leads us to our last part...Pretty much every tournament has had a bout of chaos at the onset since we started doing these back in December. Well... maybe MT1 went smoothly but yeah. with this team working closely together we will be able to insure that things run smoothly during the tournament. This is especially apparent in the fact that several people will be local. Another way we are going to be getting more organized is through our format. Part of that format is only possible with a more tight knit group and with more bodies locally to do somethings.Lastly I want to talk about promotion. In the weeks leading up to GT3 I will be having the team work through some exhibition style events to 1) familiarize the Team with the game 2) practice the Team for GT3 3) Hype GT3. However we can't do this without the support of the community. Additionally, since I am still in the job hunt and can not front prize money like in GT2 we are going to be doing some fundraising in the community to help support the prize pool for it. A schedule of events will be posted up alongside the GT3 info to help point you guys in the correct direction for these events.We also encourage you as a community to get on social media, connect with contacts in the gaming industry, and do whatever you can to promote GT3. We want to put on a grand showcase for you but need your help along the way as well.-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------So be ready for these tournaments and what we have in store for you in the future. My main goal has always been production value and providing the community with a good show. I've wanted to pass off the organization in the past to focus on production but organization and production can't be separated that much. While I haven't been around the community a lot recently I'm not gone... not by a long shot.Thank you for your time,Greg RT Henson (ComptonEMT)