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Offline Matchmaking / Re: NorCal KOF!

« on: August 11, 2011, 06:29:59 PM »

Hi guys.  A few of you know me.  I was at the second XIII ranbat at Southtown.  I'll probably go to more, but in the meantime, something piqued my interest.

I'm seriously considering opening up an arcade in Cupertino.  It'd be a pay for the hour type thing with XBOX 360s and HDTVs.  I'd have all the current FGs and streaming there.  Eventually in a year or more when KoF XIV comes out I will buy the cabinet day one.  Is this sounding good to anyone??  I just wanna see overall interest.

I'm interested in this.  If you can get this off the ground, I would definitely head out there.  I live in SJ, so it'd be nice to have a place to go that's not all the way up the peninsula.

Would you be cool with hosting a few tourneys there for games that are not the hottest current FGs?  I am involved in the NorCal Melty Blood/Guilty Gear/Arcana Heart/Blazblue communities and it is possible that we might need a venue for some tourneys in the future.

As it is each setup will cost around $700 (21-23" Acer HDTV, $200 4GB XBOX 360, and two fightsticks).  I already have two consoles and fightsticks so I'd only have to add six TVs and four systems.

I know 360s are way cheaper, but I think you should probably consider picking up a PS3 or two while you're at it.  There are some games that people prefer to play on PS3 for one reason or another.  The two biggest ones I can think of are T6 and BB.  It also just makes your setups more accessible to everyone.  I know people who only have PS3 sticks.

Oh, and we need more rhythm game places, but that's not important.

I'm gonna recommend not going the music game route.  SVGL has that on lock in NorCal and they're literally 10 mins away from the proposed location.

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Archives / Re: [NORCAL] KOF XIII Ranking Battles @ Southtown Arcade | July 10th 2011

« on: July 25, 2011, 10:20:19 PM »

I guess Demoninja covered it.  To give a simple example, imagine a 4-person single elim bracket.  Mind you, this would never happen cause with 4 people, you'd probably want to round robin, but this is for the sake of an example.  In the first round of eliminations, one guy is eliminated from the top of the bracket and one guy is from the bottom half.  There is no way to determine who gets 3rd and who gets 4th, so you say that they tie for 3rd.  This kind of thing always happens in single/double elim brackets.  There are placings that are always ties: 5th, 7th, 9th, 13th, 17th, 25th, 33rd, etc.  The only time you can determine a clear 1-8 is when you have people play sets to determine ties.  This generally only happens in round robins.

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Archives / Re: [NORCAL] KOF XIII Ranking Battles @ Southtown Arcade | July 10th 2011

« on: July 25, 2011, 04:54:18 PM »

Wondering why there are 5th, 6th, 7th, & 8th place listed.  Since it's double elim, there should be ties for 5th and 7th.