We Need to Have a Talk...
I know there may be a few of you who don't know about our tournaments This message is for the people who know what's been going on who haven't been showing up.
I have a lot of things going on in my life. I'm at work 45 hours a week, and unfortunately I can't get a regular Sunday off. I'm going to get married soon. I have a father who is going senile and his estate may disappear. I have a lot on my plate and have been stressed for a while.
However, despite these obstacles, I still managed to find a venue that were willing to host our tournaments and for a small fee, give us the opportunity to grow our scene and give us an opportunity to have our own Wednesday Night Fights or Kombat Network or Next Level Battle Circuit.
Since we have a place to play our tournaments in a safe environment (this place even has a bouncer!) we should take advantage of this opportunity assuming everyone here is serious about offline competition.
Now, I'll have to apologize to the players who have asked to give them more of a heads up with when tournaments will happen. Because I have a busy schedule, I'll need help with that from the community to help for that. Advertising, or if you have a setup for streaming, we'll need help with those things.
If Mortal Kombat is to have any chance of having a tournament scene as big as Street Fighter, and lasting as long, it'll need and active community with good organization and passionate players. It needs to be done as a community.
I want to thanks Jon and Adam for stepping up and helping me run this tournaments and casual sessions at Brewcade. They've been a huge help with making sure a tournament and casual session happens when I can't get the day off from work to run things myself. There can be a few things done differently that can help run Inge more smoothly.
I understand that because of low turnout, that having sessions at your place ( Jon and Adam) may make sense at the time. However, that decision may not have been a good one because for one, we already advertised that a tournament would happen that day. It's not a good idea to change things last minute and not expect that someone isn't going to be inconvenienced by this. As a result of not bringing setups and running the tournament like we promised, the owner at Brewcade asked me why there wasn't a tournament run and now I'm on the hot seat for it. When we setup this arrangement with the owner of Brewcade, we entered into a business agreement to have the space for our events at that time. By not living up to our agreement, we're inconveniencing the owner by not letting him use his space more effectively to generate money for his establishment. The only reason he's letting us use Brewcade is because he's hoping to generate money from our events. By not living up to our commitment to run the event as we promised, a form of fraud was committed that I'm responsible for and this tarnishes my reputation with the owner as well as any future events the gaming community as a whole may want to hold there. This sort of thing is disrespectful and now I have to deal with it.
Two, we need to improve communication, specifically letting people now what's happening in advance of events. I know I can improve in this area as well. We can't change things the last minute and expect the event to go well. Even the owner at Brewcade said this very thing to me. If someone among the staff can't make it to an event and they know of this in advance, they should notify the others as soon as possible (preferably during the week). This way, we can make adjustments and notify the owner as soon as possible so we can keep the venue space without pissing off the owner. Also, we need to do a better job of advertising the tournaments. I know we all among the staff have jobs, so maybe this is where the community can step up and help us with the Facebook page and Testyourmight. Even if you can't show up to the events in person, an alternate person who can help can still contribute.
I don't want to end this whole thing. The possibilities are endless now that we have a venue in place in the heart of San Francisco. Let's not blow this opportunity. If you know about these tournaments and you haven't shown up, then please do. I know some of you have suggested we do some things to accommodate you, but we're not going to do such things until you start showing up. If I don't get a good response from this, I will pull out from Brewcade and not continue trying to create a scene here if no one is interested. Please let me know soon.
-Jack
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