Tekken 6: Bloodline Rebellion

[[NIUE] weazzyefff]

Should be allgood, just dont let those guys enter that you see there everyday, and instead put the word out on casual gamer sites and that, cos theres some no's on those sites that could be interesred. You know get them to wana practice and get good and compete an shit. Get them out there in a live gaming atmosphere, and recharge the arcade scene (lol wasted).

But me personally have been thrashing this game, but it's hard to find comp. I'm not great yet, but I would prefer to play in a tournament with the best players, best way to learn. And TBH i dont really wana be know for winning a scrubs only tourney. I'm sure heaps would agree but so far thats just my opinion.

Should make the prize a phat munch at BK, and i'll be durr.

[[NIUE] BIRRY WONG]

It's all in the advertising. New players WILL turn up, as well as your regulars. There were people at our sf4 nats who noone had ever seen before. Fuck knows how they heard about it but they did.

Posting stuff on forums like this, and other gaming sites is a great idea. I would even go a stretch further and try and get flyers put up around gaming hubs (EB, livewire etc.) it might take a bit of coaxing, but if you throw their logo on your poster it's free advertising for them. (little more complicated than this in reality, but you get the idea) I'd be tempted to throw some flyers up around high schools as well, since most of your 'new' players will be at around that age.

More publicity = more players. Old and new. Tekken is big enough to pull a decent crowd. Hell, I'd come to a tekken tourney. And I don't play it. 

[fluxcore]

I'm working at Timezone on Queen st atm, so I usually play there. Even though Yifans has better cabinets, most of the top players go to TZ, because it's a lot cheaper I guess.

A few of the really good players went overseas (back to korea) for a few months so the scene's dwindled a bit but you can still find some good comp in the arcade.

But anyway I though I'd ask for opinions. My manager wants me to try and bring in new players and devise a tournament that caters to them. Obviously there are heaps of problems trying to do something like this. I mean how do you define 'NEW PLAYERS'? You can't do it based on card rank, there are too many loopholes. Does a tournament full of little kids mashing buttons do anyone any good? NAH. But mostly, telling people they aren't allowed to enter because they are too good, that ain't fair.

Anyone got any better ideas?

LOL, I'm in the process of organising an NZism Tekken tournament right now. Knowing the tekken scene, all the 'best players' won't enter simply because it's not them with the reins in their hands, so it should be fine for me

[[NIUE] weazzyefff]

 We could work together. We can have our one first, and Neal's manger can come along and promote his tourny. And we can promote our tourny at TZ, so we can get the top players interested. Or w/e.

[stereomonkey]

I like how you say "our"

[[NIUE] weazzyefff]

I like how you say "our"

Yeah i meant me/mine lol. OR stereos, you know the guy that lives all the way over in Australia.

Ours, the community, w/e you wana call it. 

Anyways, the onlines real good in this game aye ( green bars ). I dont really notice much lag at all. Just hard finding competition. I got some NZ players on my list from GP who are pretty good. But they probably play on pad, so Arcade might be a bit of a turn off unfortunately.

[stereomonkey]

<--The guy soon to be back in NZ

On other news, I traded in my T6.  I tried getting into but I get interested in watching movies that most of the characters take their likeness from.  Weird

[[NIUE] weazzyefff]

Hey whats da best youtube channels to subscribe for. You know like sf4 lordaborigine etc. I keep finding the oldest shit aye.

[Neal]

http://www.youtube.com/user/TekkenGosu features a lot of Korean players.

http://www.youtube.com/user/Jon747 All the Tekken Crash series are here.

[[NIUE] weazzyefff]

Coolio's. Cheers bro.

[fluxcore]

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okay...

[Neal]

LOL, I'm in the process of organising an NZism Tekken tournament right now. Knowing the tekken scene, all the 'best players' won't enter simply because it's not them with the reins in their hands, so it should be fine for me

Yeah that'd be great if you organised one especially if you could motivate some new guys to get into it. I'll enter for sure provided it's in Auckland and someone can lend me a stick to play on lol. As for the other guys, like I said a few of the top players are overseas and the scene in the arcade is dwindling a bit, but I'm sure I can find a few good players who are keen.

Interestingly though a lot of Tekken players seem to be a little bit skittish when it comes to entering tournaments. Even people who play regularly. I know in the past when I've tried to convince people to sign up I hear a lot of "nah because I won't win" or "we already know who's going to win" etc etc bullshit. Entry was free to the TZ tournaments and the games are free so I don't know...

The plan for the Timezone 2v2 tournament was to delay it until March when people get back, and to give anybody that wants to travel up time to organise it.

[Lennysaurus]

Yeah I definitely noticed that from back when I was playing Tekken in the arcades.  You'll remember me Neal.  Im the big Maori guy that catches up with you from time to time in the arcade... You gave me beatdowns with your jack a few weeks ago haha.

In the past we have been really lucky with sponsors and scored spot prizes.  This encourages people to join in.  Hopefully we can get something like that again.

Most if not all of the 2D fighter players are really eager to go to any tourneys. 

Its great to see you posting here though.  Hopefully some more people will follow suit.

[[NIUE] weazzyefff]

Yeah i'd say, if they have PS3/XBOX tell dem to post up their ID for some games. Comp is dead, even on Ozhadou.

Lenny had to go and sell his fucking PS3.

[Neal]

hahaha yeah bro I remember, ggs by the way.

It's a shame that RvB tourney never happened... It could've been really cool. Sponsorship and spot prizes are a great way to draw in new people. Unfortunately Timezone are really rigid with their prize system.
1st prize for the smaller comps is usually 100$ credit on your card. It's a pretty boring prize really, and doesn't really motivate people outside Timezone to enter. I encourage people just to play for the experience and because they get a bunch of free games.

What kind of prizes have you had in the past for NZism tournies?