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Archives / KO//CON 2012 - November 3 & 4 - Cincinnati, OH
« on: September 13, 2012, 11:04:39 PM »


Presented by the PowerUp Committee, KO//CON is a celebration of fighting game competition and culture set to arrive at Arcade Legacy the weekend of November 3 & 4!

KO//CON aims to bring a fresh experience to the table for our guests:

We welcome brand new players and encourage them to participate in our FREE ENTRY TOURNAMENTS. (Paid entry tournaments will also be run.)

We want to partner with ARTISTS & VENDORS both local and regional. Artists will be able to compete in our ART CONTEST and vie for inclusion into the KO//CON 2012 Artbook.

New players sometimes feel lost in the sea of information that is available for comprehending a fighting game. KO//CON will host GAMEPLAY WORKSHOPS for a select variety of games to help new and/or curious players get off on the right foot!

REGISTRATION

Click here to go to Online Pre-Registration.

Pre-registration ensures that you are seeded away from others in your city, and that you do not have overlapping pools.*

To view the most up to date registration listing, please go to the KO//CON Pre-Registration Listings page.

For the most up to date KO//CON news please go to the PowerUp Facebook and Twitter pages.

Universal Event Badge Pricing
-Single Day-
$10 - PowerUp Online Store / By Phone (Call Arcade Legacy, ask for Jesse) / In-Person
-Weekend Pass-
$15 - PowerUp Online Store / By Phone (Call Arcade Legacy, ask for Jesse) / In-Person

Event Pre-Registration T-Shirt Packages
-Single Day-
$25 - PowerUp Online Store / By Phone (Call Arcade Legacy, ask for Jesse) - You will receive one t-shirt of your size choice
-Weekend Pass-
$30 - PowerUp Online Store / By Phone (Call Arcade Legacy, ask for Jesse) - You will receive one t-shirt of your size choice

*Entering 5 or more games may necessitate assignment to concurrent pools. It is the player's responsibility to check-in with bracket runners of concurrent pools so that those bracket runners can work with the player.

** In-Person Emergency Registration for paid-entry tournaments concludes as laid out in the KO//CON Event Schedule and is on a first-come, first-serve basis. After online pre-registration has ended pools will be created for every game and we will leave space for additional players. Once all spots are filled in a game's brackets we will no longer accept in-person registration for that game. Also, by utilizing emergency in-person registration you forfeit the courtesy of being seeded according to region and out of concurrent pools.

Event venue fees are refundable up until Saturday, November 3rd. Individual tournament entry fees are refundable up until the start of the pool for the game in question.

EXHIBITIONS

SATURDAY GAMES
TTT2 - $10 - PS3
UMvC3 - $10 - Xbox 360
VS - $10 - Cabinet
VF5:FS - $10 - Xbox 360

Free Entry Tournaments*
MK9 - PS3
GGAC - PS3
TTT2
UMvC3
VS
VF5:FS

SUNDAY GAMES
SSFIV:2012 - $10 - Xbox 360
SCV - $10 - PS3
KOFXIII - $10 - Xbox 360
P4U - $10 - PS3

Free Entry Tournaments
SG - PS3
ST - Cabinet
SSFIV:2012
SCV
KOFXIII
P4U

*Free Entry tournaments will be capped at 32 players per bracket. The bracket will be played Best 2/3, Single Elimination (Free Entry only). Sign-ups for Free Entry tournaments will be handled in-person only.

SPECIAL FEATURES

Arcade Legacy
Arcade Legacy will be fully open to the public during KO//CON weekend, and better yet if you have a KO//CON Event Badge, you will get in to the arcade for free the entire weekend!

Boss Fight TV
Boss Fight TV, straight out of Cincinnati, OH, is dedicated to covering all eSports events, and we are more than happy to welcome them aboard to be the KO//CON official on-site media partner.

PAYOUT & BONUS



FINAL SCHEDULE

The KO//CON final schedule will be released to the public once pre-registration closes at 12:00am on October 29, 2012.

I encourage all KO//CON participants to print a copy of the schedule for their use at the event. A compressed version of the schedule will be printed on the back of all event badges.

*Report to your pool assignment 15 minutes before its posted start time for check-in.
*If you fail to check-in we will not wait for you and you risk disqualification.
*Disqualification will not entitle you to a refund of your tournament entry fee.
*These rules also apply to semifinals and finals.

POOL ASSIGNMENTS
Click here to view the KO//CON Master Pool Assignments document once it is completed after Monday, October 29, 2012.

Don't forget that when you register online for KO//CON you will also receive an email with a personalized pool schedule that you should print and bring with you to the event. The personalized pool schedules will be sent to all online registrants after online registration closes.

QUALIFICATION SYSTEM

The KO//CON Qualification System for pool play will be announced after online pre-registration closes. Rest assured, however, that KO//CON will offer a smooth tournament experience with as little downtime between pools and finals. Each qualifying player will be designated an unmovable spot on the semifinals and finals bracket based upon where they qualify. If a tournament receives few enough entries to forgo the use of pools, then an ordinary bracket structure will be used.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION - www.ko-con.org

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Archives / PowerUp 2012 - EVO 2012 Tournament Season
« on: January 08, 2012, 08:51:13 PM »
The third annual PowerUp tournament is here! We promise improvements over last year's experience and even more good times. Save up your travel money and those sick days because from April 13 - 15 you should be no where else but at Arcade Legacy for PU2012.

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LOCATION

Arcade Legacy
The Cincinnati Mall - 600 Cincinnati Mills Drive, Cincinnati, Ohio 45240
513-874-8766 (current #)
arcadelegacy@yahoo.com

DATE
April 13 - 15

REGISTRATION

Online Pre-Registration is live! It will end at 12:00am, April 9, 2012.

Pre-registration ensures that you are seeded away from others in your city, and that you do not have overlapping pools.*

For the most up to date PU2012 news please go to the PowerUp Facebook and Twitter pages.

Event Badge
$30 – PowerUp Online Store / By Phone (Call Arcade Legacy, ask for Jesse)
$40 – In-Person Emergency Registration

Spectator Badge
$15 – Online / In-Person / By Phone

To view the most up to date registration listing, please go to the PU2012 Online Registration Listings page when online registration becomes available.

GAMES
SSFIV:AE ver. 2012 - $20 - Xbox 360
UMvC3 - $20 - Xbox 360
MK9 - $10 - PS3
SFxT - $10 - Xbox 360
SCV - $10 - PS3
T6 - $20 - PS3
KOFXIII - $10 - PS3
VS - $10 - Cabinet
ST - $20 - Cabinet

PAYOUT
We are changing things up a bit with our payout scale. Big thanks to Keits for the work he did on the UFGT7 payout scale because it is the basis for the PU2012 scale.

Click Here to view the Payout Scale

And for those coming in 1st Place, never fear! The PowerUp Bonus Structure is here! At the 50-entrant level we'll begin taking $2 out of each tournament entrant's venue fee and putting it toward bonus money for 1st Place in that specific tournament. At and above 50, multiply the total entrants by 2 to get the bonus amount.

SCHEDULE
The following schedule is subject to updates once our Exhibitions are finalized. This is only one of the improvements being made at PU2012; big thanks to Keits for his excellent scheduling example from UFGT7.

I encourage all PU2012 participants to print a copy of the schedule for their use at the event. A compressed version of the schedule will be printed on the back of all registrant nametags.

PU2012 Event Schedule

For Registration Policies, Exhibition info, Pool Assignments, Special Features, Food info, Hotel info, Stream info and the Rules please go to either the PowerUp Event Details page or the PU2012 SRK Thread.

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The second annual PowerUp tournament is live! We're doing it bigger and better than last year, guaranteed.

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Download the FREE PowerUp 2011 avatar pack from the PowerUp website! Use the included PSD files to make your own avatar and represent PowerUp in your own style!

More info about the main event, the food, and all other details will be coming soon! Spread that hype!

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LOCATION
Arcade Legacy
322 W. Crescentville Rd., Cincinnati, OH 45246
513-874-8766
arcadelegacy@yahoo.com

Arcade Legacy will have more cabinets out this year for casual play, along with multiple pinball machines. There will be a list of available machines provided before the event. Any machine needed for a tournament, though, will be taken over : )

DATE
April 29 - May 1

REGISTRATION
Walkups are welcome at PU2011!

To view the most up to date registration listing, please go to the PU2011 Pre-Registration Listings page

3 Day Venue Pass In-Person - - $30
3 Day Spectator/Casuals In-Person - - $15

In-Person Registration ends for a tournament 30 minutes before that tournament is scheduled to begin.

Spectators will be wearing wristbands while tournament players will be wearing badges. You may not enter any main or side tournament at PU2011 if you are a spectator.

Tournament venue fees are NON-REFUNDABLE. Please be certain that you will attend the tournament before pre-registering. Individual game entry fees are refundable up until the start of the brackets for the game in question.

MAIN EVENT

TBA

GAMES

SSFIV (PS3) - - $10
MvC3 (PS3) - - $10
T6 (PS3) - - $10
BB:CS (PS3) - - $10
GGAC (PS2) - - $10
MK9 (PS3) - - $10
UMK3 (Cabinet) - - $10
ST (Cabinet) - - $10
PowerUp Mystery Tournament for Child's Play charity (see details below) - - $10
MvC3 3v3 - - $15 per team
GGAC 3v3 - - $15 per team

SIDE TOURNEYS

All side tournaments at PU2011 will not have priority over main games. If a side tournament does not end on time we will take steps to refund participants and/or finish the following day.

MvC2 (Dreamcast) - - $5
TvC (Wii) - - $10
MBAA (PS2) - - $5
AH3 (PS3) - - $10
3S 2v2 (PS2) - - $10 per team
Vampire Savior (Cabinet) - - $5
KOF98 (360) - - $5
KOF2k2:UM (360) - - $5

Exhibition/Special Events

PU2011 is part of the EVO 2011 Tournament Season

Starting in early January, EVO is partnering with the top grass-roots tournament organizers to form a regular season of fighting games. Our 2011 season will run from January through July, culminating in the EVO World Finals July 29-31 at the Rio Hotel and Resort, Las Vegas. At each stop of the tournament season, players will earn ranking points that will directly determine their seed in the tournament brackets at the EVO World Finals. With literally thousands of players attending the finals, you're going to want to secure that seed if you want to advance far in the brackets.

More info on EVO2k.com


PU2011 is VGF Sanctioned

The VGF (Video Gaming Federation) is a new rating system founded by Xiang from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, a long time member of the community and avid Tekken player. Players at PowerUp 2011 will be invited to join the VGF and be acquire a rating for SSFIV, T6, and/or MvC3 that they can follow on the VGF website. For more details than I want to post here, check out the VGF website and PowerUp Podcast Episode #45 with Xiang himself.

Mystery Tournament for Charity

The PowerUp 2011 Mystery Game Tournament will see half of the players' entry fee go directly to Child's Play ($5 to the pot, $5 to the chairty). Child's Play is a game industry charity dedicated to improving the lives of children with toys and games in their network of over 60 hospitals worldwide, and it is one of my favorite charities. So get ready to play some wacky games and feel extra warm and fuzzy because you've given to a great cause spearheaded by fellow gamers.

The Mystery Game Tournament will still be part of the PowerUp Bonus Structure. I will also be able to provide a receipt to prove the donation has occurred after PU2011 has concluded.


VOLUNTEER INCENTIVES

Anyone who is asked, and agrees, to any particular job at PU2011 (including help with registration or running brackets, for example) will receive at least the following:

*$10 flat entry for the whole event
*A FREE PowerUp 2011 staff shirt (the shirt will be different from last year!)

PAYOUT & BONUS

This year we're doing things a bit differently with our payout and bonus structures.

8 - 9 entrants, payout is Winner Take All

10 - 31 entrants, payout is to Top 3 at 70/20/10

32 - 95 entrants, payout is to Top 5 at 55/20/10/5/5 x2 (accounting for ties)

96 - 159 entrants, payout is to Top 8 at 45/20/10/5/5 x2/5 x2

160 - 319 entrants, payout is to Top 16 at 35/20/10/5/5 x2/5 x2/1.5 x4/1 x4


And for those coming in 1st Place, never fear! The PowerUp Bonus Structure is here!

Starting at the 32-entrant level we'll begin taking $2 out of each tournament entrant's venue fee and putting it toward bonus money for 1st Place in that specific tournament. Just multiply the number of entrants in a tournament by 2 and you'll get the bonus amount!

TENTATIVE SCHEDULE


*You have 5 minutes to report for a match after your name has been called. Failure to arrive will result in disqualification.

For a breakdown of the schedule, please go to the PowerUp 2011 Event Details page

FOOD
Pulled Pork
Pulled Chicken
Baked Beans
Corn
Homemade Mac n Cheese
Cornbread

Pricing

Single sandwich – $3.00 (Sandwich can be plain or with your choice of sweet or spicy BBQ sauce)
Large sides – $2.00
Cornbread – 50 cents

Combo #1 – One sandwich, 2 medium sides and cornbread – $5
Combo #2 – Two sandwhiches, 2 medium sides and cornbread – $7

Drinks

All flavors of Jones Soda
Monster
Bottled Water
Gatorade
Character Energy Drinks (Sonic, Mario, Ghostbusters, Street Fighter, Gears of War, Resident Evil, Pac-Man, Dragon Ball)

Among other various soft drinks, energy drinks, and juices.

HOTELS
The La Quinta is literally three minutes down the street from Arcade Legacy, so it's a very convenient place to stay for the weekend.

La Quinta Inn
Cincinnati North
12150 Springfield Pike
Springdale, OH 45246
Phone: 1-513-671-2300

Some Amenities & Services

    * Free Bright Side Breakfast
    * Free High-Speed Internet Access
    * Free Local Calls
    * Free Parking

The TVs in the room do not accept outside input. So bring your own TV if you want to have games in your room.

STREAM
Team Sp00ky

Team Sp00ky on Justin.tv

Team Spooky X iPlayWinner

Team Sp00ky on YouTube

Spooky, NerdJosh, Arturo Sanchez, and supermin are all coming down to help us out! Get hype!!!

Also, your handle on the stream/bracket will be identical to the handle you write on your PU2011 Sign-in Sheet at the registration desk or the one you entered during pre-reg.

RULES

Official PU2011 Rules

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Meet & Greet / Hi, DC
« on: November 16, 2010, 06:25:32 AM »
My name's Nathan. I got into the tournament scene for fighting games when SFIV released in '09. Played KOF on the side for fun, but would like to learn more about 98:UM and 2k2:UM, and of course I can't wait to try KOFXIII. I run PowerUp, a site dedicated to the Midwest fighting game community with podcasts and an annual event in Cincinnati, Ohio at Arcade Legacy.

I usually hang out on SRK forums, but their KOF section is not very good XD

Came across Dream Cancel awhile back, and will be doing a podcast with nilcam in early December about all things Dream Cancel. Figured I'd better get my account created!

PSN: Osirun

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