FFA -
Pr1mo
Sparkx
Smiley
4v4 -
Hands of Gold [pr1mo's team]
Hands of Diamond [suit/smooth]
TBX [blizzards team]
HOWEVER - FFA being DOUBLE ELIM - and no one telling me that was a bad idea lol - took till 5ish, and then we cut it off at semi-finals effectively, added up points to determine ffa winners, and started the 4v4, which had to be single elim as a result -_-
CompUSA - as of yesterday, was fine with us doing another. We've tentitively spoke about doing one on April 28th - barring finding anything else going on then, etc. That's of course - assuming we got the rooms set back up good enough / there wasn't anything damage wise I didn't hear about. I'll probably find out sometime tomorrow lol.
HOWEVER - there is
no way on god's green earth - I will EVER put up with what happened tonight again, and throw another tournament in that same situation. Aka - while there is no location fee, we have to KEEP THE PLACE CLEAN, and PUT THINGS BACK WHEN WE ARE DONE. This - was more of a problem than I'll deal with again with only a few people. Basically - xSteel - Pr1mo - Monster Man and the good lefty? - stayed and helped clean, and setup 2 FULL training room's worth of computers. THATS IT - with the exception of a bit of help from pr1mo's team - who he guilt tripped into it, and same for xSteel's friends I believe.
So - either we'll have to have 'tournaments end, we put up hardware and then clean up, and then give out prizes' - so the 20+ people still around before we gave prizes out - all help out and get it done in 5 minutes? Or - we have 10+ staff people guaranteed for cleanup before the tournament is set, else I personally won't take it on lol. I mean seriously - it was rediculous for 2 of the 'staff' who gain nothing directly from this tournament and were already exausted from late night tourny prep work to be doing all that cleanup work with just a few of the actual halo guys. Sykotik - Lonewolf - no, you being there or not wouldn't have swayed it - we'd have still been overwhelmed - so don't feel bad for having to check out early, you guys did a GREAT job helping on setup / etc.
It was overall a great tournament from the feedback I got. 'Next time' we can run a FFA single elim, and get to the important stuff faster - perhaps... I still worry a double elim would take forever - 4v4 wise... As we've not had alot of luck with it being quick at all with our Monthlies - and having to be out by 9pm - means time constraints. However, unless we arrive at a acceptable clean up solution, I won't take on the responsiblity for running another tournament there, it's just too much post-clean up / effort to be putting in after a full saturday of tournament madness.
EDIT -
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=compusa+halo+2 - Muahaha - I love being awesome lol.
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