New Plymouth first starting out tournament need help

[baka101]

I went to the nzism facebook and see photos, are any you guys in those photos.

[baka101]

Just posting my marketing problems on entrepreneur connect, and I found a guy who has had 24 years of sales and marketing in America I believe, is working on helping me to find the secret market as its a tough one, I am still doing the research on all the areas I will need to bring up in the letter to bring change to own town's arcade if its possible they may or may not listen who knows.

So if all my attempts fail with a New Plymouth streetfighter 4 tournament/get together or changing our arcades to a better venue like those in wellington, Auckland.  Then yeh I will get my job in New Plymouth and practice streetfighter 4 in the downtime I then transfer to Auckland to join you guys, as I said before any of you featured in the nzism facebook photos or not.

Thanks

Mark aka baka101

[ABC_SMN]

yupyup....
You have added me.
Most of us have Facebook.... I guess

[baka101]

Ah cool nice to meet you, I am keeping you all updated on Facebook on my progress with this tournament and convincing the arcades to get updated.  And yeh when I get enough New Plymouth people in my organizing group I can then organize that get together/tournament so please if you know some new plymouth that are part of the SF4 community please get them to hit me up on facebook and yeh all you can come along and enter.  But mostly you will all take it out as this will be the first eva tournament in New Plymouth so no one is tournament grade and would only have online fighting experience. But in saying that they would have a level to reach and I hope they would take it upon themselves to reach that level, then we could get some New Plymouth guys in the SF4 national tournament or Auckland tournament etc.

Baka101 aka Mark

[fluxcore]

Yeah, I saw your invite, but I have a really strict policy on my facebook to only allow close friends.

Please continue posting progress here as well so I can keep up with it though

[baka101]

Ok flux I didnt know that policy, ok cool I will keep you all informed of my progress and still need that member who posted about having some new plymouth people to help out if he could contact those people to help out in my crew I am trying to get together at the moment.

Thanks

Mark aka Baka101

[geneterror]

Yeah bro keep us up to date here.

I have a facebook and I belong to the NZism group, my name is Graeme. I never use my facebook though, I might log in once a month at the most.

[baka101]

Ok yes it been awhile since I updated this thread, but here's whats been happening.  I responded to the guy who had 24yrs in sales and marketing so waiting on a response on that side, also one of the members of nzism on facebook I added came up with the idea to make a gamertag and search for New Zealand players then ask if they are from New Plymouth.  So I signed up to xbox live and got a gamertag baka101 but that is in silver membership status so for me to search for new plymouth players would mean for me to purchase a $79.95 gold membership when I don't even have a 360, I run sf4 on my pc for high res graphics and the infinite amount of custom skins,mods etc.  So I thought of posting on the new zealand general dicussion under xbox forums trying to find new plymouth players.  As many are online playing so I hope to track them down, any other suggestions on how to speak directly to the online community, how do search for new zealand players on xbox live.

After all that I don't know where I can go any further, as my community is stuck online so thats my only options I can think of. Please if theres any fresh ideas I would love to hear from you, I am going to try for my community as much as I can before I move to auckland within the cad industry I am getting cad experience in new plymouth first then once i got enough experience move to auckland and work and play there in tournaments and get togethers etc but before then I will try to find my sf4/fighting gaming community.

And we dont have a RVB here, so if I do find my community how do I go about getting the crt tv's and the xbox360 and ps3's for the tournament/get together, should I get players to bring there own equipment and they get in for free, or just rent out a large projector to play on. So how do you go about getting the equipment you guys have at the tournament/ get togethers remembering New Plymouth is far smaller than auckland in terms of amount of businesses we have and type of businesses/industries etc.

Thanks

Mark Charteris aka baka101

[zos'la]

it depends on the people you got, fi they have LCD/ consoles then ur pretty much sweet, just need a venue and the entry fee of course will be cheaper etc... If not then its best to get a venue+ equipment together but cost will have to go back into the  entry fee though in saying its useless in teh second case if you dont even get enought people to cover the cost...
not to mention prizes etc.

If you have PC SF4, you should head over to the PC section and drop ur gamer tag there so people can add you etc. I'll update it every now and then once people start posting up.

[baka101]

Yeh Zosla, I also need help on tracking down the online players in my community as mentioned in my recent reply how do I do this are my ways of finding them any good.  Cause if I can track them down then yes I can do what you mentioned man.

Thanks

Mark aka Baka101

[baka101]

Anyone have a clue on how I can search for new plymouth people on xbox live or ps3.  Or do I have to go to new zealand room and ask everyone there individually are they from New Plymouth as I have no idea please some help people.  As Johnny Cage and Long Island Joe said they where spamming xbox live for there tournament idea, so what can I do to get through to new plymouth who would be online have I got the right idea.

Thanks

Mark Aka Baka101

[baka101]

Hey all,

It's been awhile for this update, trying to figure out just how to do this.  And once again its Gootecks who gave me an idea on how to even get this tournament realized in a place where there no Streetfighter 4 arcade.

It was Gootecks Streetfighter Barfights that was perfect for New Plymouth because thats what everyone does is just drink anyone cause there ain't any decent arcades here anymore.  So integrate Alcohol and Gaming together on the second floor of the Mill, this way we could instantly get to the market because plenty of Streetfighter 4 players here drink and socialise and club.  So by bringing it to them, plus being able to drink while playing Streetfighter 4 would be perfect.

Yes there would be downsides to the alcohol side of it, but I need to make aware to the masses that Streetfighter 4 is here and people in New Plymouth need to step up, so I am slowly getting my crew together, I am finding more people.  Also guys at ebgames know the woman running the Mill who happens to be a event organizer too.

But of course it ain't going to be called barfights nor will it be exactly like barfights cause out of respect to gootecks, I aint going to rip off his idea.  But it makes sense to have something like that in a town where drinking is no. 1 and gaming is underground done on xboxlive at home.  But as I mentioned the streetfighters out there moved to clubbing instead due to the arcades closing down here, so I will bring it back this way.

So tell me what you think, remembering again we dont have a streetfighter 4 arcade so its impossible to grasp the numbers, so start this event at the mill to see how it runs, yes like a test bed or catalyst and yes it will get newspaper, radio, flyers, word of mouth etc advertising of the event, also xbox forums and facebook etc, even ask around at WITT.

Thanks

Baka101 aka Mark

[fluxcore]

I'm not sure if you've talked to Gootecks at all, but tbh I think he'd be pretty fine with you calling it Barfights if you want to. If anything I reckon he'd be fairly impressed to have inspired someone in NP to copy him!

Anyway, sounds like a really good starting point. Keep us informed!

[baka101]

Hey Fluxcore

Glad you like the idea, and no I will brainstorm a different name for it with my crew.  So now everyone what are the bad things in tournaments to look out for please list ok, and if I was to do a tournament again for the first time what would i do differently kind of question.

Please give me everything you have on running a tournament in new zealand i want to know everything so I dont mess up this, cause if I mess up the one chance I dont think new plymouth will ever do it again.  So nothing can go wrong, I must have all the i's dotted for this to work. 

Because if i do this I could go on to organise other tournaments for bar vs bar like bellblock shifty's a asian bar vs the mill in town.  And start up a tournament for those under 18 years of age but I must make this happen so people recognise what I am trying to do and then I will push to make a better new plymouth where there is much more to town than drinking and drugs you can fight in tekken and streetfighter.

And get a fighting community again like in the past and bring it to the present.

So please everyone pitch in your ideas and I need your help, and thanks again Fluxcore.

Mark aka Baka101

[Lennysaurus]

Hey Fluxcore

Glad you like the idea, and no I will brainstorm a different name for it with my crew.  So now everyone what are the bad things in tournaments to look out for please list ok, and if I was to do a tournament again for the first time what would i do differently kind of question.

Please give me everything you have on running a tournament in new zealand i want to know everything so I dont mess up this, cause if I mess up the one chance I dont think new plymouth will ever do it again.  So nothing can go wrong, I must have all the i's dotted for this to work. 

Because if i do this I could go on to organise other tournaments for bar vs bar like bellblock shifty's a asian bar vs the mill in town.  And start up a tournament for those under 18 years of age but I must make this happen so people recognise what I am trying to do and then I will push to make a better new plymouth where there is much more to town than drinking and drugs you can fight in tekken and streetfighter.

And get a fighting community again like in the past and bring it to the present.

So please everyone pitch in your ideas and I need your help, and thanks again Fluxcore.

Mark aka Baka101

Sorry dude, missed this so a bit of a late post.

THe biggest thing youll notice with a tourney is that they require alot of time to run.  Particularly if you have only one setup for them.  The first tourney we ran had roughly 35 entrants and only one setup.  Took about 6 hours to run as double elim.

Another thing to look out for is people that want to use control pads.  Its a real bitch to stop and plug in controllers on both consoles and this can be very time consuming.

If you run multiple setups, it can be difficult keeping an eye on the brackets as well.  E.G.:  Two people finish a match and instead of reporting theoutcome to you, they fuck off somewhere.

You will also have endless reequests about "When am I up?", "Have I got time for a smoke?" etc etc.

Um.. all I can think of atm.  WIll post more when it hits me.