Hi, I am new here and pretty new to MK9 as I'm an Australian and was scared to import it for so long. Anyway, I only found this site recently and have been hanging on TRMK and we have been talking about trying to organize an event for Australian Online players.
The idea is that we are a smallish community of players, as we have to get around the ban here, we are split between consoles AND there are, at least on the ps3 I know little of the 360, connection issues between the US, UK and HK versions of the game, these seam to be the 3 version people tend to have.
The idea of this comp is to try and build some community with these players. Instead of sitting for hours in the Aussie chat room and playing the one guy a 1000 times, try and make new friends and see where we can go from there.
The 1st thing we need to do is try and work out what consoles people are on and what version of the game they have and work up.
Here is my original post....
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Hi
There has been some talk in the Australian Banning thread about trying to organize an online tournament for Aussie TRMK Players as a way for the small Australian community to meet up and get on each others friends lists and the like. I have some experience running online comps though GameReplays.org with rts games... so I thought I would give it a go. If we can get a decent turn out maybe we can orginse some live events, and that would be awesome.... still if we can not get people on a online event then there is little luck of a live event getting organized.
For starters lets run down how I plan to organize this thing...
1) I will be using BINARYBEAST. This is a very cool website I have been using for events for a while now, and it is mainly designed for the RTS scene but it works with everyone. It will handle the brackets, the advancement and auto create the losser brackets. There is even functions for players to enter their wins and losses themselves, though unless the event is huge I prefer to have a admin run the event.
Here is an example of the website system. -
http://binarybeast.com/xDoW21107100/full
2) Get a list of players that are interested and there consoles AND the region of there game version. This is the big problem... if there isn't enough people interersted then we can not do this, and as far as i know, the game only really performs well with same region games on the ps3... I have no knowledge of the 360.
3) A basic rule list. The rules will be simple. Each game is best of 3, finals best of 5 and grand final best of 7. All characters including dlc are permitted. Also, MK3 costumes MUST be used by PLAYER 2 if possible, as many of the outfits are near impossible for spectators to see who is who... I'll go though the roster latter and find teh exact matchups that are impossible to tell the difference between the toons.. like reptile for example.
4) A Goal Event. The way we do events at GR is that we award points based on placement, these points are for the end of year invitation event, all winners of each smaller event get a invite. The idea is that at the end there is a "goal event" witch should consolidate the best players of the year... again, this is all subject to how many people are interested. And I agree it is to early to plan the invitational, but we may as well start collecting points from the start.
5) Broadcasting. As many of you know.. streaming in Australia is extremely hard. I can stream fine but at a lower resolution, nothing like the 720p that we expect but it will still look pretty good. That way we can all sit in chat watch the games and make a day out of it, at the same time I'll be high res recording it and post it on YouTube. Of course I can only do this for ps3 games.. and possibly only hong kong versions few the game. Any games that i can not cast will need to be reported to a event admin though a PM, a PM from each player. If there is a conflict then the judges will step in and make a ruling. If anyone with a 360 that can do this let me know.
The idea of this event is to unify the Australian online community. By making the event a live irc play in turn event rather than play when you can and fill the form, it will force many players to all hang out at the same time and with luck get them to be friends and see what is what... While this is a TMK event, I would like to post the event on TYM and Shyro and any other MK sites people think might have an Australian base.
1st things first...
Who is interested? Do we have enough, should we run events 360 and Ps3... if so eventually we might be able to organize a 360 vs ps3 players somehow...
Please state your FORUM NAME, LOCATION, the REGION VERSION of your game and your PLATFORM. If this is something you would like to try out. Remember the idea is to get numbers and build the Australian scene a little... so even if you suck, still enter, and join in the fun.
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Ok lets see the Ps3 Kombatants (in no order) - 9 Total
Jynks - HK (Sydney)
Nudge - US (Sydney)
-M- - UK - (Queensland)
Gilbangz - US (Sydney)
Tomo009 - US (Undisclosed)
Beyond_Death - US - (Sydney)
PHNmnl - UK - (Sydney)
NoMad - HK - (Sydney)
Jinko - US - (Sydney)
Ok lets see the 360 Kombatants (in no order) - 8 Total
CabJoy - UK - Woolongong
Ultras - US - Brisbane
AllHail Lelouch - US - Melbourne
chrisisnice - Asian (HK?JAP?) - Melbourne
PapZY - US - Melbourne
TheOtherGuy - UK - (NSW - Can we get a city?)
Mathman - US - Sydney
OG Frost Haze - UK - Adelaide
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--== Rules ==--
Each Match = Best of 3 Games, @ Best of 3 rounds.
Each Finals Match = Best of 5 Games, @ Best of 3 rounds.
Each Grand Final = Best of 7 Games, @ Best of 3 rounds.
1) Winner can not change fighter, only looser can change fighters.
2) The following Stages are BANNED: Subway, Street, Kratos' Stage
3) Player 1 must always use costume 1, Player 2 must use MK3 costume if there is a problem in telling toons apart (I'll ge tthat list to you soon)
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