OK, so there's 2 weeks until Operation Wolf and the hype needs to begin. For those of you who are wondering why this event is called "Operation Wolf," it is sort of an inside joke with me and
jamessmk. Last year's January tournament was called "Revolution X" which was a stand up shooter arcade game that he has some interesting history with. I decided to make it a tradition and name all YesterCades MK tournaments after old arcade games. I already have three more picked out for this year as I'll be running seasonable events there for MK and Injustice.
I'm hoping for this to be the biggest local MK event in some time, predicting between 40 and 50 players to be in attendance. I plan on giving this event a "major" treatment. I have gone over a list of trophies to be presented at the event with
9.95, including a 1st place acrylic, 2nd and 3rd place plaques, 3rd, 4th, 5th and 7th place medals, along with dog tags to give to everyone else in the tournament. There will also be the first KombatNetwork sponsorship award presented to
CRAZY DOMINICAN for his service to us over the last year.
I discussed plans with Ken from YesterCades on setup, and I have confirmed availability for at least 2 casual stations for the entire night even while the tournament is going on in the console area. Again players, we have to stick tightly to time frame as it is likely the tournament itself may no start until close to 9PM. This still gives us 3 or 4 hours to complete it which should be no problem. There will be 5 bracket/pool stations in the tournament room with speakers and headphone splitters, and the stream station will be connected to a 60" big screen over the stream area for everyone's viewing pleasure.
Also players, don't forget, you are paying $15 to be there taking up space in the venue, take advantage of the 75 arcade machines and 16 pinball machines available to you during the tournament itself. Among these games are SFII:CE (Maybe Super Turbo or at least Super by the 26th), MKII, UMK3 (soon to have supergun PS2 pad support), Tom Brady will be bringing his MK4 board as well that we can connect to the board changer in UMK3, Tekken 3, Virtua Fighter, newly purchased MvC2, a NEOGEO cabinet with KoF 98 and 2002. Other classics such as WrestleFest, Rampage, Bubble Bobble, The Simpsons, Turtles in Time, NBA Jam, and way back classics like Frogger, Dig Dug, Burger Time, Arkanoid, Millipede, Defender and many many others. Also if anyone wants to take a crack at it, Addams Family Pinball. Make sure to take lots of pictures and instagram your good time there.
I have
Tim Static working on getting us some giveaways from NRS for the event. Let's keep our fingers crossed, also possibly some free day passes from YesterCades.
The time frame for the event is roughly 7PM to 2AM but you can show up earlier than that. I will be there earlier in the day to setup up as much as possible so if you get there at 5PM for example, I will make sure you get in for the tournament day pass. Remember, the regular day pass for YesterCades is $25 + tax. That's the quarters equivalent of playing through and beating TMNT, the Simpsons and Bubble Bobble. $15 is 40% off the regular price and on top of that you're attending an event specifically catered to MK.
Cut off for sign ups will end at 8PM. You may sign up via text or over the phone if you are coming and won't get there until after 9PM and pay when you get there. Contact me for my #. I will hold off your match until it holds the tournament up itself, in which case you are DQ'd to losers, and if you're still not there by the time your match is holding up losers, you're out.
One question to players, I'm considering getting pizza for the event to attempt to prevent players from spending a great deal of time outside the venue which makes running the tournament itself more difficult. If anyone thinks this is a good idea, let me know, or if you think it would be better to just let players handle food on their own I'll leave it be. If we had more time I wouldn't be concerned. I will work on this for future MK events but the venue runs parties all the time
Right now, the relatively confirmed guest list consists of over 30 people, TOs players and guests:
Shock
Summoning
9.95
JamessMK
Tom Brady
AC1984
LI Joe
Sweet Johnny Cage
Check
Claude VonStroke
SwiftTomHanks
Zaf
Jer
Cibernetico
Nathan Frost
Scoot Magee
Gamma
Insuperable
rev0lver
Lulzlou
ChrispyCream7
Lt. Box
scarsunseen
HGTV DrFlash44
HGTV Soapboxfan
HGTV Ermacio
OZZYGUITAR
Kazi
RIN
ChainAce
OC
CD Jr
Crazy Dominican
Maxter
REO
Styroteqe
Capital
J360
Jon Loor
Hitoshura
Big Stevie N
Pat the Enforcer
MikeMetroid
7L
Sackram
xKhaoTikx
Along with over 20 other possible players. Anyone else planning to go to this event, please let me know here, or confirm on the facebook event:
http://www.facebook.com/events/499062903449938
Please spread the word and help make this event into a huge success for the MK community and YesterCades. I want there to be so many players that we run out of room and have to ask for more space/setups. Anymore questions, ask me and anyone willing to bring setups please contact me. There are going to be top TOP TOP players at this event. See you there and keep it hype.
