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Columbus Bar Battles 3 - Columbus OH, 8/21 - Pot bonuses + Free drinks + A/C + UMK3!

Dandy J

i can see all the amine
Columbus Bar Battles 3 - Columbus OH, 8/21 - Special guest: JUSTIN WONG! Now at MoMos

Columbus Bar Battles 3 will be held in Columbus, OH on August 21st, 2010

Prepare yourself -- #1 Street Fighter IV player in the USA, Justin Wong will be attending the tournament! Train hard and be ready!

WE'VE GOT A VENUE CHANGE!!! CBB3 is now being held at MOMO²! Read below for details.

If you are attending this tournament, please read this post: 8/14 update

We are now requiring [free] pre-registration. You must pre-register to participate in the tournament! If someone from your crew is coming to CBB3, let them know, especially if they don't check this thread often. The pre-registration form is here: Columbus Bar Battles 3 Registration

Special message from MrBlasty (and myself) regarding the pot bonuses: The move to MOMOs has greatly affected pot bonuses. We will not know what we can give each game until the end of the night, so there is no confusion. If you are top 3 in a game you will receive bonuses unless that games has under 10 people. Games receiving them so far are I tell you we hope at least 50 a game and hopefully more depending on the turnout for said game. Any one upset by this please keep in mind a few pages back i posted it a lot as a downside to making the move and not a single person spoke up, so there was time and I don't wanna hear shit later.
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Our 3rd event is brought to you by Columbus Fighting Games, the MidWest Arc, and the Columbus fighting game community. More games, more hype!

All brackets will be run by either myself, Ailerus, Brent (MrBlasty), Tim Static, Ghaleon, or other trusted members of the community.

A live stream and commentary will again be provided by the legendary Brent Harris aka MrBlasty, along with guest commentary from various other players such as myself and anyone who belongs in the chair and on the air.

Venue information
MOMO²
2885 Olentangy River Road
Columbus, OH 43202
(614) 784-0888
Directions

The tournament will be held at the much-revered MOMO², primarily known as the home of Season's Beatings for 5 years running. If you've never been to MOMO², it is a large, comfortable venue with a laid-back atmosphere. In addition to great food, they also serve bubble tea and alcohol to those of age. If that's not your thing, there are plenty of fast food and not-so-fast food joints within walking distance, including the popular Raising Cane's. But please, respect the venue -- no outside food or drinks permitted! There is plenty of parking in front of the venue and throughout the shopping center, especially since there will be no other major events that day.

Vuvuzelas are permitted at this event. However, our tournament staff, nor the Zeno's staff, nor any attendees present are responsible for what may happen to you or your vuvuzela should you attempt to use it.

Schedule, entry fees, and payouts
Doors open at 12:00pm noon, though the bar opens at 11:00am. If you arrive before noon, you can chill at the bar or help us set up. :)

Venue fee is $10. Everything we receive after covering our costs will be split evenly across all non-SSF4 games as a pot bonuses! Just to be clear, I've marked (*) all games that will receive pot bonuses.

If you bring a TV or a console + appropriate game, you will receive $5 off the venue fee. If you bring a full setup (TV + console + cables + game), your venue fee will be waived. We don't need an unlimited number of setups so please PM myself or MrBlasty if you plan on supplying something. The final cut-off will be determined at the venue, first come first served, so PMing us early and then showing up at 3:00pm with a SSFIV setup ain't gonna cut it.

Super Street Fighter IV will start at 1:00pm sharp. Other times are rough estimates.

* Denotes a pot bonus.

1:00pm
Super Street Fighter IV (Xbox 360) - $10

2:00pm~3:00pm
*BlazBlue Continuum Shift (Xbox 360) - $5
*Melty Blood Actress Again (PS2) - $5

4:00pm~5:00pm
*Super Street Fighter II HD Remix (Xbox 360) - $10
*Tekken 6 (PS3) - $10

6:00pm~7:00pm
*Marvel vs Capcom 2 (DC) - $5 + Low Tier - $TBA
*Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 (TBA) - $5
*Virtua Fighter 5 (Xbox 360) - $5

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Random MAME Fighting Game Tournament (PC) - $2
Side tournament(s) for the top vote-in game(s) - $TBA

Tournament rules
All games will be double elimination, or round robin + finals for games with 5 or less entrants. Games will be 2/3 matches, then 3/5 for all finals (winners, losers, grand).

In double elimination tournaments, the player coming from losers into grand finals will have to take 2 sets of 3/5 to win. After each match, loser can switch character, winner cannot. In grand finals, if the player coming from losers resets the score, both players can change character in the 1st match of the 2nd set. All games played on 2/3 rounds unless specified.

Pot split will be 70% / 20% / 10% for 1st / 2nd / 3rd, respectively in all games.

In SSFIV or MBAA, if a player pauses the game during a tournament match, the other player can choose to get a free match, play the match over, or unpause keep playing. In BBCS, HDR, T6, UMK3, and VF5, the match will be replayed from the appropriate round, since in those games, meters either don't exist, reset, or are easy to reset (# of bursts in BBCS). In MvC2 just let it rock cause DC blue screens are a way of life.

Game-specific rules
Super Street Fighter IV: Winner can switch ultra.
BlazBlue Continuum Shift: All characters allowed. Makoto and Mu will be available.
Super Street Fighter II HD Remix: Akuma is banned.
Melty Blood Actress Again: Archetype Earth is banned.
Tekken 6: 3/5 rounds, 60 seconds, random stage.
Marvel vs. Capcom 2: Game-breaking bugs banned, you know what they are.
Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3: Gameplay-altering kodes are banned. Throwing is encouraged. :)
Virtua Fighter 5: 3/5 rounds, 45 seconds, random stage.

See you there!
 

AC1984

Kaballin!
Sounds great man, i hope to see some good videos and a good number of players, I wish i could come and play but I'll save the funds for Season's Beatings 5. Good luck to everyone tho.
 
I'll be there. Let's get some people here for this, it's gonna be cool.

Those of you who want to play on stick, I'm gonna have an arcade panel built and set up to play on.
 

Tim Static

Adminerator
I'll be there. Let's get some people here for this, it's gonna be cool.

Those of you who want to play on stick, I'm gonna have an arcade panel built and set up to play on.
good shit, Nick. Thanks for signing up too! :D

Another MK guy i know put up a MK4 control panel on eBay but its starting @ $150, plus S&H from OK City, Oklahoma. but it has MK3 set up too. I wish i was rich! :(
 

Dandy J

i can see all the amine
Attention!! Attention!! Attention!!

In light of the possible over-attendance at this event, we've decided to do require [free] pre-registration. You must pre-register to participate in the tournament! If someone from your crew is coming to CBB3, let them know, especially if they don't check this thread often.

The registration form is here: Columbus Bar Battles 3 Registration
 
The custom setup that we'll be using for UMK3 will be ready in a couple of days.

I'll post pics and info when it's done.

For those of you that need the official arcade layout to play, you'll be covered, as well as those who want to play on pad (ps2 pads).
 

ngh91

Noob
i want to place a 2v2 tournament on xbox live for 2 nights this weekend just for fun...let me know and we could do it tommorow.
 
Well, now it looks like Bar Battles will have another surprise guest...Summer Jam champion MRIGOTBASS a.k.a. Ghetto Kabal!
 
Well, I did place 2nd on Lake Erie Summer Jam, I wonder if I can place on this too?
Yeah, you did really well in that tourney.

We've got a few real good guys.

Also, there are gonna be at least a few new guys that have been getting good at the game here in CBus that nobody has ever seen before, so it should be a fun tourney.

The bracket is posted in the 58th page (I think) at the original Shoryuken thread, go take a look.

For those coming to play on the arcade layout, here's the setup we will be running it on, as well as PS2 ports for pads and custom stick players:

http://img405.imageshack.us/img405/7274/photoin.jpg

We have a few spots left open in the bracket, if you haven't registered you're welcome to walk in and register on site, so don't let that keep you away.