Someone tagged me. Viewed the thread quickly. Here's what I can tell you.
Folsom Street Foundry's tournaments are run by Showdown entertainment group. They have two separate nights dedicated to Smash 4 and Smash Melee. Street Fighter is on Thursday nights. They haven't streamed games like Killer Instinct, BlazBlue or GGXrd but they have considered allocating space for players to bring their own setups. No one has taken them up on this from what I have seen. However, if big community faces and representatives can bring the numbers and show regular interest - maybe something can be worked out.
Smash tournaments are regularly capped and Street Fighter tournaments are reaching into the 60-70 man brackets weekly, so organization from you guys needs to be on point. It might be good to collaborate with interested parties in other local communities. This won't be easy and will take work, but Folsom Street Foundry is an amazing location and if people really want to foster a community - Foundry would be the place to do it.
There's rumors of South Town Arcade making a return - which is something we will find out more about in an announcement after NCR. Spooky or Art has mentioned in passing the possibility of sponsoring something big out here. This is big for the anime, old school, and Street Fighter community. This could also be potentially amazing for the MKX community - if you guys can show up in force and dominate the venue they open on a weekly basis, it could easily become accepted by their management and TOs.
Also, Round 1 will be opening in August with Capsule Entertainment's "CPSIV Joe" as the manager of Round 1's entertainment all things arcade side. CPSIV Joe has been responsible for the many, many years of weekly tournaments at Milpitas Golfland that have become a staple of the Street Fighter, and now the Smash community in the South Bay. Joe has had to cap Smash 4 entries out at MGL almost every week. Despite the fact that Milpitas Golfland had regularly been host to the South Bay's Street Fighter community - the stream time was allocated to the community with the most entrants. Smash rapidly took all stream time from the South Bay street fighter community's weekly. Think this can't be done with MKX? Don't sell yourselves short. Show up and support your scene and others will take note.
With all the hype that MKX will be bringing to the casual market - it's a prime opportunity to draw them into the competitive scene. Especially at an establishment like Round 1. Joe is in SoCal for training, but when he comes back - if you guys get hold of him and show some enthusiasm, I'm sure he'll work with you guys.
Venues are opening up all over the bay area and the Street Fighter community is rapidly expanding with things like PandoraHouse's Fight Club League and Showdown hosting very high profile tournaments weekly. If the MKX/NRS community can come together with a positive attitude, show up, and support their local scenes - these tournaments can be run side by side like they are in other places of the country.
I'm not going to be playing MKX with any level of seriousness for the forseeable future. I'm going to fool around with the title on launch day at Michaelangelo's place but I don't have the time to learn a new game right now. That said, I definitely don't have the time to be running around and coordinating things with TOs from other communities. It seems like MKX has a promising future. If you guys want to develop a strong scene you guys need to have a plan and come out swinging - otherwise the Bay Area will just continue to be the home of Marvel/SF4. To support you guys, I'll enter MKX if it's at an event I'm attending for USF4, but I'm not going to go out of my way for it like I did for Injustice.
I've met a lot of guys like myself who have been breaking into the street fighter community and leveling up out here who have told me that they played Injustice but they quit because there was nothing happening locally. Ultimately, this is going to come down to voting with your wallet. You'll have to cough up entry fees, venue fees, and the expenses associated with attending a weekly. This scares a lot of people away in my experience. Pick a venue and go HAM. Fuck it. Make your gas money back in money matches. Best of luck to you guys.
TL;DR show up and support your community, hope to see you guys out there! Also I don't fuck with TYM for anything more than a quick reference to KI streams so if you have any questions just DM me on twitter.
