So one reason to have a tournament in Tulsa - was that if we are to become a regional location for Nationals [which yes, I'm going to go ahead and pull for, and I appreciate everyone's help getting the word out - there will be dl'able flyers soon and such.] - a tournament offers practice / the opportunity to see what "tourny nerves" are all about, how strong your competition is, so on so forth. Also - it gives us as a region the ability to strength ourselves up - all of us...

...because Texas WILL becoming after our 2 spots - I can just about guarantee.

So - with the Regionals needing to happen / to be scheduled sometime between late feb and early April, I figure we can have at least 2 tournaments here....

The tournament on January the 7th at Funhouse, flyer and post with the specifics to come shortly. [already up, see front page.]

[ there is a tourny in OKC the 14th as well, but yea, that's if you can drive / get a ride I guess ]

AND - the new idea is to use the Jan 7th tourny as ranking information to have a round robin tournament - sometime between the 7th, and regionals.

Why?

Well alot of it is spelled out here - in a discussion to switch the large E series of tournament/event held in Iowa over to that format - http://www.tekkenzaibatsu.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=87527

But the gist? People new to the scene or concerned about not getting their money's worth / experience? Get somewhere between 4 to 9 matches before 'knocked out' or eliminated from the tournament - just depending on their pool size. A RR you play everyone in a certain pool - so if your pool is 10 people large, you get at least 9 games - and a strong knowledge of where you stand against the competition. Also - this gives more bang for the buck, but once again, strengthens opponents by having more time in the game.

[edit - once again, Round Robin format for the Feb 18th tournament is dependant on total systems / setups available vs how many people we have. If we get over 30 signups, it may become a normal tournament.]

This vastly differs from the standard double elim. format of the average tourny, where if you lose once, your in losers bracket, lose again, your out.

So - unless someone has a better idea, the results from the tournament on the 7th will be used to determine some seeding info [info used to 'seed' or place people properly in the pools; separate the skill levels so it's more even in each pool] and then applied to a tournament - maybe we'll have early or mid February.

Concerned about getting the word to people that don't have LJ or wouldn't remember a long url to get them here? [or because it's a community and this post will be at the bottom of the page in a week lol]

url: www.okgamers.com - I've set up a 'soul calibur trail' of links off that first page - just have people go there, and all this info will be there waiting. [url changed to okgamers.com]

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