Long Island, NY - July 1st 2007: Day Of Prophecy

<a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=castle+golf+Centereach,+NY&layer=&ie=UTF8&z=13&ll=40.867964,-73.084145&spn=0.101125,0.159645&om=1&iwloc=A" target="_blank">Castle Golf
1878 Middle Country Rd
Centereach, NY 11720</a>
(631) 471-1267

Train Info: Take the LIRR to Ronkonkoma Station. Directions from Ronkonkoma Station to Castle Golf.

July 1st @ 1pm. Casuals will be running till close. (could be as early 10pm or as late as after midnight depending on level of activity)

Fee: $10 venue + $5 for each tourney you enter. Sorry, but you must pay the venue even if you want to play casuals only.

Bringing TVs and systems cuts off $5 from your tourney fees. Sorry, but no matter how many TVs and systems you bring, you will still have to pay the $10 venue. Basically, bringing equipment gets you 1 free tourney per item you bring. (of course, it counts only if we actually use your TV/system) Please note that Castle Golf does not have a DR machine, so I am relying on people to bring PS3s.

Prize split: Depends on how big the pot is for a certain game. If it's big enough for the 70/20/10 split, there ya go. If not, winner takes all.

<ul>[*]Tourneys & casuals include, but not limited to: (feel free to suggest more)

Virtua Fighter 5
Tekken: Dark Resurrection
Soul Calibur
Soul Calibur II
Soul Calibur III
Dead Or Alive 4
Tekken 4*
Street Fighter III: Third Strike
Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo
Marvel vs Capcom 2
Capcom vs SNK 2
Melty Blood: Act Cadenza
Guilty Gear XX: Accent Core
Hokuto No Ken (Fist Of The North Star)
Super Smash Bros Melee
Street Fighter Alpha 2
Street Fighter Alpha 3
Vampire Savior
Killer Instinct
Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3
Mortal Kombat: Deception
Mortal Kombat: Armageddon

Plus: Dance Dance Revolution Extreme

*Because they actually have the T4 arcade machine. Might as well run a tourney for nostalgia. /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/laugh.gif [/list]

Pics from previous smaller Castle Golf events:

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This is Castle Golf's first major game event, so let's make it a big one. I've already got a good handful of people coming from NYC and even NJ, so let's keep it rolling with more participants. /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/grin.gif


Keep up with all the talk regarding this event:

VirtuaFighter.com - Long Island VF
VirtuaFighter.com - <<Team XLP (Xiao Long Pao)>> {NYC VF} thread.
DDRFreak.com - 7/1/07 - Castle Golf DDR EXTREME NFL & FGs Tournament
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DOATEC.com - Long Island, NY - July 1st 2007: Day Of Prophecy
DustLoop.com - Long Island, NY - July 1st 2007: Day Of Prophecy
KillerInstinctOnline.net - Long Island, NY: Weekly Tourneys & Sessions
LI3S.org - Long Island, NY - July 1st 2007: Day Of Prophecy
MeltyBread.com - Long Island, NY - July 1st 2007: Day Of Prophecy
MySpace.com - Long Island Fighting Game Tournament!!!
Shadowhaxor.net - Long Island, NY: Weekly Tourneys & Sessions
Shoryuken.com - Long Island, NY - July 1st 2007: Day Of Prophecy
SmashBoards.com - Long Island, NY - July 1st 2007: Day Of Prophecy
SoulCalibur.com - Long Island, NY 07/01/07: Day Of Prophecy
TekkenZaibatsu - Long Island, NY - July 1st 2007: Day Of Prophecy
TheSRM.net - Long Island, NY - July 1st 2007: Day Of Prophecy
UltimateMK.com - Long Island, NY - July 1st 2007: Day Of Prophecy

 

What's the usual turnout for VF in past events?

 

Can you guess the final turnout for these competitions using the information you have from your previous tournaments? I'm interested in Marvel vs Capcom2, VF5, Accent Core and 3rd strike

 

I'm looking forward to going to going to this for vf5 if the turnout is good. Sucks for me if Denkai will go though, I was aiming for 1st

 

Haven't gotten too many of the VF players to show up on the same day before. One day I'll get 4 or 5 players, and then another day I'll get 4 or 5 different players. This is the first time I'm trying a massive planned organized gathering to get everyone on the same day.

The only game in that list that may lack participation is MvC2. But on this day, I should be able to get a good enough turn out for MvC2. By the way, we will be playing the arcade version.

Capcom Vs SNK 2, Killer Instinct, and Tekken 4 will also be played on arcade machines.

 

Oy, Castle Golf has a Dance Dance Revolution Extreme machine, so I will run a tourney in that too.

 

Is there a prize for DDR as well?

 

Of course. The pricing and prize for DDR is the same as everything else.

 

At what time will each tournament take place?

 

Whenever people wanna start them. It's up to the players whether they wanna start now or wait a little longer to see if more people sign-up for a certain game. It's your money, so let me know when you all feel the current pot is enough to start a tourney.

 

Re: Long Island, NY - July 1st 2007: Day Of Prophe

I'm not planning to attend - so don't change anything for me - however, you're basically asking people to show-up, bring equipment, pay money, and wait around to see if anything happens. I wouldn't want to make any kind of travel commitment for something so undefined.

Also, it sounds like you have experience running tourneys so maybe things happen differently for you - but for me - if I'm running something and leave it up to the participating group to decide things (even when to start), the level of overall annoyance and discontent goes way up really fast for everyone involved.

Good luck, though. I hope it goes well.

 

Re: Long Island, NY - July 1st 2007: Day Of Prophe

Yea.. I think you should set the time for atleast like 2 oclock the latest if the whole thing is supposed to start at 1.

 

Re: Long Island, NY - July 1st 2007: Day Of Prophe

Hmm, I guess I thought this was kinda automatically implied, but I'll explain anyway:

This is how we've done it in all the previous events: As soon as I show up (which should actually be before anyone else gets there), we set up the TVs and consoles and start playing casuals until whenever people wanna start the tourneys. Which is typically an hour or two after the official start time of the event.

1pm start-time just means the absolute earliest I would start any tourney and is the time I'm telling people to be there. But because I know not everyone will show up around 1, we will wait to 2 or 3 before starting any tourneys.

You give me the $10 venue when you want to start playing casuals. You don't have to worry about giving me the $5 for a tourney until we actually start that tourney.

 

Re: Long Island, NY - July 1st 2007: Day Of Prophe

Fair enough I'm really thinking of showing up for this one I'm guessing I be there around 3ish or a little earlier

 

Re: Long Island, NY - July 1st 2007: Day Of Prophe

I'm also most likely going, and my brother just said he'll probably come(Oioron)

 

Re: Long Island, NY - July 1st 2007: Day Of Prophe

Well there is always my tournament the day before (Saturday) in New Jersey if you guys also want to go to that one... I'll see what I can do about showing up to this one... but we'll have to see how early I manage to wake up.

 

Re: Long Island, NY - July 1st 2007: Day Of Prophe

I can't go because I have things to stay here for on that day. But I hope it goes well. I didn't find too many VF NJers when I lived there. (Columbus)

Denkai, I'll wait till like 3 - 4 before starting the VF5 tourney then.

What games do you guys not care to play so I can try to get those tourneys finished between 1 - 3?

 

Re: Long Island, NY - July 1st 2007: Day Of Prophe

I just realized that there was a NJ tourney which I wanted to go to more... I was talking with my bro. And I just realized the prize money will be like nothing. You say there are max 11 LI players, possibly 3 NYC players might come, and that's not even something sure.5$ pot for each player. 70$ total. And for my convenience, since I don't wanna do math right now, let's say it goes up to 100$ 70%, 20%, and 10%, that's 70$ 20$ 10$. Besides the prize money, I believe the only real competition will be Denkai and Oioron who are people I play with almost every week...

NJ it is! Sorry buddy.

 

Re: Long Island, NY - July 1st 2007: Day Of Prophe

I honestly don't think the NJ tourney will have more players. I've advertised this event on over 10 different sites.

Then there's quality vs quantity. Even if NJ has more, they still don't have Long Island's legendary Joe C. who is amazing at almost all fighting games and has dominated every tourney of mine up here he has entered. As far as VF goes, has a very very brutal Kage.

I would seriously personally give like $10 out of my own wallet if somebody actually beats him in the tourney.

Although I wonder. You really wouldn't spend $25 to just come to both?

 

Re: Long Island, NY - July 1st 2007: Day Of Prophe

The guy who beat Joe in Evo East is my brother btw LOLOLOL

if Joe is your best.. then my assumptions were correct

I'd go to both if some of the other NYC's go. as of now idk if the rest of NYC is willing to go to NJ. aside from venue and tourney fees. transportation must also be taken into account. but hey, 2 days of VF is better than 1