New Plymouth first starting out tournament need help

[[NIUE] weazzyefff]

Yeah we get it bro, it's hard with no Arcade.

You need to start putting up posters and shit like that in shopping areas,malls,and gaming shops and pc cafe's. Thats how i used to find Tekken tournies in West Auckland.

Our gaming shops like Central Park (RIP) and Gamesman threw tournies out here.

I bet heaps of people will see the fliers/posters and be like ''Yeah, I own at that game''. Then tell their friends '' We need to train for this tourny bro''. Thats what happened to me back then before i found this site.

And if prometed right there will be a massive community in NP, and heaps of you's will be on this forum.

So yeah promote this properly where people would actually SEE it. Like starting off with general/casual gamers. You do have Game shops right? And I bet they have sold a ton of SF4 and Tekken 6 copies.

I'm still a general gamer I don just play fighting games. And I bet theres heaps of people like me in NP. Dont just go for the fighting game enthusiasts as they might be limited due to no Arcade.

[HoneyBadger]

Our gaming shops like Central Park (RIP)

A moment of silence for this fine establishment...

[[NIUE] weazzyefff]

Our gaming shops like Central Park (RIP)

A moment of silence for this fine establishment...

*poors out a little liquor*

[[NIUE] BIRRY WONG]

Our gaming shops like Central Park (RIP)

A moment of silence for this fine establishment...

*poors out a little liquor*

Shit guys, weazzy is bleeding!!

[[NIUE] weazzyefff]

Our gaming shops like Central Park (RIP)

A moment of silence for this fine establishment...

*poors out a little liquor*

Shit guys, weazzy is bleeding!!

Nobody touch it! It's mine *glug glug*.

[baka101]

You are my new friend Weazzyefff, you the only one to understand how difficult it is not having a arcade with SF4 and Tekken 5,5DR,6 etc.  And having to find a player base due to everyone at home playing online, I managed to find 7 people through friends and its slowly increasing from there.  For this fun tourney in december that many of you cant attend due to your own tourney, it will be through friends and people I trust i will find local players.

But yeh will do the flyer thing with the barfights most definately, and have help hopefully from the owner of the mill as she is a event organiser and knows her stuff.  And unfortunately ebgames in newplymouth doesnt allow the promoting of things that aint ebgames even though sf4 and t6 was bought from there and would mean they would get more sales which I explained.  EBgames is our only gaming store after that it is The Warehouse, Bond and Bond, Noel Leemings, Harvey Norman and they are the same in regards to flyers, but I will sought out the flyers in december after my exams in november.

I feel you pain with Central Park its like when our last decent arcade closed down Laserforce then all the players stop coming into town and all went underground to play online.

Because there is no arcade here with the games I mentioned everyone gives up on playing the fighting games and just plays what ever has come out at the time whether its dj hero, cod4 etc because they say what is the point in playing them if there is only people online to play against and I want to play against real people which is the arcade,  hence the reason for my first mock tourney and future ones to come to feel that empty void and get gamers to socialise and up there skills, get hype and keep the egos huge.

I just got to get as many tourneys out there, even if it is only new plymouth people attending at this stage, because the real one will be the barfights and that one is the one you will want to attend if you dont attend the others due to conflicting dates with own tourneys.

Thanks

[samurai black]

Our gaming shops like Central Park (RIP)

A moment of silence for this fine establishment...

i think i still got my membership card for that place floating around.

[[NIUE] weazzyefff]

Our gaming shops like Central Park (RIP)

A moment of silence for this fine establishment...

i think i still got my membership card for that place floating around.

LOL, yeah i pretty much won every tourny they had. It was always me and 19 other Asians in the final 20, no matter what game it was.

[CrazyMobius]

For this fun tourney in december that many of you cant attend due to your own tourney, it will be through friends and people I trust i will find local players.

... because the real one will be the barfights and that one is the one you will want to attend if you dont attend the others due to conflicting dates with own tourneys.

Thanks

There are peeps in this community from all over N.Z, not just Auckland. Hamilton, Wellington, Munta in Christchurch. It's not that hard to become part of the community. You just make contact pretty much.

[[NIUE] weazzyefff]

Heres a tip bro. Find someone with a pool, and call it pool fights. Invite heaps of chicks, tell guys to bring their lil sisters and tell them the weazzy is rocking up.

Then i'll show you's a fish outta water cancel into staple with the ol budgy smugglers.

And there's your hype. Now you cant say the weazzy never helped with shit.

[zos'la]

Heres a tip bro. Find someone with a pool, and call it pool fights. Invite heaps of chicks, tell guys to bring their lil sisters and tell them the weazzy is rocking up.

Then i'll show you's a fish outta water cancel into staple with the ol budgy smugglers.

And there's your hype. Now you cant say the weazzy never helped with shit.

er, the pool with teh party and chicks sounds great there bro, but you pulling a fish and erm. hmm yeah well keep teh snake in teh closet aye

[baka101]

*Spoiler alert*

Morry my mate has been talking to Grumpy Mole owners Ayden and Hayden in New Plymouth, it seems the venue is confirmed to be at Grumpy Mole.  So I am giving you all months in advance, its either January or February its happening, at the moment I am doing a feasibility study for grumpy mole and will soon give them a DVD outlining what is about to happen there and how it should look its based on the style of Gootecks barfights.

How to design Grumpy Mole to get that streetfighter 4 & tekken 6 barfights is going to be chore, as in my mind I always thought of the Mill 2nd floor to be the perfect venue, but Morry has contacts in Grumpy Mole and being I am a poor student I cant be picky.  So whether we have it all up on the 2nd level of Grumpy Mole or we have the stuff before top 8 upstairs and then top 8 downstairs on there projector I can decide.  I have 2 more players to add to my team from that last mock tourney.

So at the moment I cant give you a date I can only give you a estimate January and February as I have said a million times and will say again this is New Plymouth's first ever fighting game tournament YES the first ever fighting game tournament so I am still finding more players from the underground who play at home online, thanks to my mates I am slowly finding more. So being this is a major tournament for New Plymouth because this will be the first and it will be public so no room for error cause this chance could change New Plymouth back to the golden era of arcade gaming experience and chance to change both Bowlarama and Toptown arcades with hopefully a upgrade etc, and also give people a reason to leave online at home and come challenge real people in the physical sense.

So what I need to know from you guys a estimate of numbers who could come down for some exhibition matches etc during the barfights, even though I haven't confirmed a date only months it could be happening in.

So tell me what you are thinking, in March I am moving to Wellington with my sister so before that happens I am organising New Plymouth fighting community as a last task before I leave and pass the task onto someone who may might want to run with it.

Thanks

Baka101