Make sure that your goal in reducing entrants with a fee gets you to a breakpoint of powers of 2 so that it'll actually save you tournament rounds. Like right now we have confirmed 63; assuming that number is good, you would need to cut 31 players to make a difference of just one round's worth of time. Although I guess there might not be enough computers at eudo for 32 matches simultaneously so any reduction in #ofplayers would help a little on wait time. And in that case the amount you'd need to reduce #players would be below multiples of #available computers (assuming any given match takes similar time to play).

Not sure, maybe a better idea would be ladder rank to make the cut for N-player tournament? However I like the idea that BATLL is open to everyone.

Superiorwolf

United States5509 Posts

July 27 2013 22:05 GMT

#62

That's a good point, perhaps we'll just try to deal with it and hope we can be efficient and finish on time. Hopefully we can reserve the whole place, should be going in sometime this week to talk to the owner.

Abstinence

United States328 Posts

July 28 2013 21:53 GMT

#63

TWO OF MY FRIENDS WILL BE GOING

Panda & Navman

Superiorwolf

United States5509 Posts

July 29 2013 00:10 GMT

#64

Op updated with sponsors

EatThePath

United States3943 Posts

July 29 2013 02:12 GMT

#65

^ awesome!

TCCWaka

United States3 Posts

July 29 2013 18:20 GMT

#66

Sign me up! will be bringing 1 or 2 others.

Sleet

United States139 Posts

July 30 2013 09:50 GMT

#67

Confirm Anton aka the.toninator aka Sleet :D

Gwop

United States2 Posts

July 30 2013 13:11 GMT

#68

Conan check your facebook messages!

Also what do you guys think about breaking the tournament into 2 different mini tournaments?

I was thinking something along the lines of Tournament A being for Bronze/Silver/Gold/Plat league players with a 32 player limit and tournament B being for Diamond/Masters/Grand Masters with a 32 player limit.

This way we can have 64 competitors and you don't have silly things like Gold league players facing off against Grand Masters, what's the fun in that?

I'd be willing to donate to the prize pool of the lower league tournament if enough interest is there or we could just allocate like 100 or 200 of the total prize money towards the lower league tournament. It's just an idea but I am more then happy to help organize it and get everything in motion.

Also maybe some show matches should be done just for fun. Such as 1st place from Lower league and 2nd place from higher league vs 1st place from higher league and 2nd place from lower league in a 2v2 bo3 showmatch

Just brainstorming some ideas, I'm interested in becoming an event organizer eventually and I really think CA is an amazing place to do it so anyone please feel free to email me at TBDGwop@yahoo.com or message me on here.

Again, Conan I'm in Sacramento so I'm close enough to help get this in motion. Contact me please.

judytuna

United States217 Posts

July 30 2013 19:10 GMT

#69

Sign me up!

SanceZZ

Germany3 Posts

July 30 2013 19:10 GMT

#70

Awesome! First time I am actually around when such an amazing event is hosted! Please count me in.
Master Zerg
IGN: Dennizz.941

TheFlock

United States389 Posts

July 30 2013 19:38 GMT

#71

On July 30 2013 22:11 Gwop wrote:
Conan check your facebook messages!

Also what do you guys think about breaking the tournament into 2 different mini tournaments?

I was thinking something along the lines of Tournament A being for Bronze/Silver/Gold/Plat league players with a 32 player limit and tournament B being for Diamond/Masters/Grand Masters with a 32 player limit.

This way we can have 64 competitors and you don't have silly things like Gold league players facing off against Grand Masters, what's the fun in that?

I'd be willing to donate to the prize pool of the lower league tournament if enough interest is there or we could just allocate like 100 or 200 of the total prize money towards the lower league tournament. It's just an idea but I am more then happy to help organize it and get everything in motion.

Also maybe some show matches should be done just for fun. Such as 1st place from Lower league and 2nd place from higher league vs 1st place from higher league and 2nd place from lower league in a 2v2 bo3 showmatch

I am curious now, are there many lower level players (Bronze/Silver/Gold/Plat) signed up for this? I am Gold and while i would love to get destroyed by Suppy again (Happened in the first tourney I played

) i figured i would go to watch because of all the players that could most likely kill me with their workers... lol

EDIT: Also I have been wondering if maybe Ben a.k.a. EGDeMusliM might have moved to the Bay Area in time to play this. Cuz that would be awesome :D

Render

United States249 Posts

July 31 2013 02:36 GMT

#72

On July 31 2013 04:10 judytuna wrote:
Sign me up!

YES

Superiorwolf

United States5509 Posts

July 31 2013 06:27 GMT

#73

Thread graphics updated! Thanks to Promise's friend :D

Regarding a lower league tournament, I think it's a really good idea. I think we may start it after the first rounds of the normal tournament have already passed (so more computers are freed up), and we can definitely do a separate prize pool for it by donations. At the very least we will likely be able to give a gear prize for the winners of the lower league tourney

PrOmiseCAST

United States305 Posts

July 31 2013 06:32 GMT

#74

Sick graphics. Thanks to Jason <3

EatThePath

United States3943 Posts

July 31 2013 07:03 GMT

#75

On July 31 2013 11:36 Render wrote:

Show nested quote +

YES

yeah!

nice lookin op graphics

Superiorwolf

United States5509 Posts

August 02 2013 23:05 GMT

#76

Hey guys, some updates as we went into the store today to figure out some logistics.

Tournament format looks (tentatively) like this:
Ro64 Bo1 group stage, each player plays other three players, top two from each group advance. 16 groups of 4.
Ro32 Single Elimination Bo3
Ro16 Single Elimination Bo3
Ro8 Double Elimination Bo3
Ro4 Double Elimination Bo3
Ro8 Loser's Bracket Bo1
Ro4 Loser's Bracket Bo1
Ro2 Loser's Bracket Bo1
Winner's Final Bo3
Loser's Final Bo3
Final Bo3 (Winner gets a Bo3 advantage)

Once we reach the Ro8 of the main tournament, we can begin the diamond (or gold?) and below tournament, which will be a single elimination bo3 format.

Good news is that Eudemonia will be shutting down the store in order to make room for us. They will be making a spectator area with projector + seats as well. However, we may have to do a spectator fee to help recuperate some of the costs of them shutting down the store for us. Buying some of Eudo's snacks would also be a great way to support them for letting us use the whole store for a day!

Dinner will not be structured, we will simply have about a 1.5 hour break for people to go around and find food (lots of good restaurants nearby). Last time we all went to one restaurant and it took several hours for everyone to finish because the restaurant was overloaded.

In order to facilitate running things more smoothly and getting the brackets generated efficiently (it often took as super long to get the brackets up and delayed the tournament significantly), we will do a 10-11 AM check-in time and try to generate brackets by 11:30 with seeded groups.

Final thing is that although $16 pays for the all-day pass, it will not guarantee a computer for your use the whole day. We will be running MLG style for the beginning of the tournament, meaning there will be 8 stations of 4 computers for the first 8 groups to finish, then after the groups finish the next 8 groups will rotate in (so make sure you remember your SC settings!) and finish their groups. For Ro32, all competitors will move to a station again to get a computer, and so on for Ro16 and onwards. From the start of Ro16 there will begin to be open computers until the diamond and below tournament begins. So consider the $16 as simply an entrance fee, and as the night goes on you will be able to nab your own computer for the rest of the time.

Let me know if you guys have any issues with anything here and we'll try to fix it or come up with a better solution!