Now that we have an active scene of around 20 mixed between MK9 and Injustice I think it's time we start discussing structure. What I mean by this is organizing periods of competitive tournament play and off-season time where we can play lighter and enjoy casual level up play.
In the past running only casual play lead to lack of interest and people slowly dropped off. However, this summer introducing ranbats sparked the competitiveness in all of us and the scene experienced a re-birth and along with the write ups and press from TYM a growth in the player base.
Competition is good but we can't over look casual play, both are important. Showing up week after week to get bodied is hard on the mind as well and sometimes players need some time to focus on a game plan, work a tactic or strategy and come back stronger. This is difficult to do when everyone is going in guns blazing with no downtime in-between to work a game plan and see how it holds up.
Although S1 had a great run of 12 weeks (2 of which are not counted in the S1 ranbats) I find it's a very long stretch of mandatory attendance. Not everyone can make it out every Sunday over a period of 3 months and the penalty is points for the end of Season ranking.
Here's an idea that offers flexibility, encourages casual play and promotes competition for the scene to level up, get better and create some hype as fuck matches. Gathering the full roster every Sunday is hard to do and it was great to see it all come together at the end of S1. The end of S1 turned out well because if there was one tournament to attend it was that one, so everyone showed. This is the kind of setting I'd like to see more frequently than once every 3 months season but not make it so that people feel obliged to go every Sunday or else the scene fails. So here's a possible structure we could follow.
Every month we could run the scene like this:
Week 1: casual level up
Week 2: round robin
Week 3: casual level up
Week 4: double elimination tournament setting
Week 5: on months with a 5th week we can just run casual
The casual weeks are there to go level up and work on your game. The second week is a round robin which is a type of bracket system that is more flexible in nature so you don't "have" to show up at 7pm sharp to participate in the tournament. You run your matches vs all entrants as you get the chance and the points are added up at the end. The 4th week is time to put your game face on because it's the big tournament. The idea here is once a month if there was one week end to attend it would be the last one of the month, or 4th week if the month has 5 weeks.
In a nutshell the casual weeks wouldn't be mandatory and there's no point penalty for leaving early or skipping one of the casual sessions and you know if you want games there's a good chance a bunch of people will be there just maybe not the whole scene. The mid-month round robin offers a more competitve oriented meet where there's a good chance more than the usual head count will be present. The end of month tournament is the end all be all tournament to wrap up the month so just about everyone would hopefully plan for it and attend. We could run seasons by actual seasons summer, fall, winter, spring and add up the points accumulated throughout.
If you have any comments, questions or queries please respond because we've reached the numbers where building the foundation now will allow us to support a potentially much greater scene by the time MKX comes out. Remember everything we're doing now will be with us in MKX and the scene will be fully united by then. From the stream setup to how we are organised as a scene is important for the future of Montreal Mayhem. Now is the time to iron this kind of shit out =)
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