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**Elusory** · Mon, 4th-May-2015, 2:29 AM

LAN HYPE

Organiser: grantnicholas773
Date: 9 / 10 (?) May 2015 (Saturday)
Time: 12PM AEST
Venue: Garden Points Campus (correct me if I'm wrong)
Entry fee: $5
What it covers: Food, drinks, probably a seat + computer
Prize: $50 (for 1st?)

Sign up link: Here

More details about the event on their facebook: Here
See the event details here: Here (Ignore the bit saying 03 May, as they had to rebook it to 09 May.)
Thanks Crescendo for the info!

Starcraft 2 players of Brisbane, the QUT IT club is hosting a tournament this Saturday starting at 12pm at the Gardens Point campus. Food and drink are provided for all entrants. The club is awarding a $50 prize of this tournament, entry is $5 (covers some of the food and drink).

That's all the information I have. If you want more information, please go to the Reddit thread and question the OP! Just posting it here so more people can see.

syfInsano · Mon, 4th-May-2015, 10:15 AM

Will go and check it out

SLCN.NXZ · Mon, 4th-May-2015, 10:47 AM

The amount of information is disturbingly small. Need to know more hmm

Alive state? :O

**x5.Crescendo** · Mon, 4th-May-2015, 12:18 PM

http://www.qutguild.com/clubs/faculty/it-club

More details about the event on their facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/QUTITSA/
See the event details here: https://www.facebook.com/events/377296182457278/ (Ignore the bit saying 03 May, as they had to rebook it to 09 May.)

Cuddles · Mon, 4th-May-2015, 12:54 PM

erma gerd we have tournaments C:

Voidreaver · Mon, 4th-May-2015, 1:29 PM

Tfw i live in brisbane

asdfSchnitzel · Mon, 4th-May-2015, 3:00 PM

omg yes bris lan plsplspls

**x5_Namakaye** · Mon, 4th-May-2015, 3:02 PM

Currently schedule, SC2 is actually on SUNDAY

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Cuddles:

horrible schedule kek

Voidreaver · Mon, 4th-May-2015, 5:31 PM

Oh sunday cant go RIP

Japetto · Mon, 4th-May-2015, 5:33 PM

God awful schedule... sigh QUT sigh... Probably working anyway

**x5_Namakaye** · Mon, 4th-May-2015, 5:35 PM

I left a comment on the reddit thread asking for clarity on the day, will post the response here

**x5_Namakaye** · Mon, 4th-May-2015, 6:05 PM

[–]grantnicholas773[S] [score hidden] 9 minutes ago
Good point! Were planning on getting throw it all on Saturday while using sunday as a spill over day. So i guess the answer to your questions is it will be saturday unless circumstances force us into sunday as well

TheMightyOne · Mon, 4th-May-2015, 9:02 PM

Whats up SC2 players of Brisbane,
Figured since I was the one organizing the tournament, I should probably jump into this thread :P. This is my first time organizing a tournament, we're going to try it this weekend and hopefully make it a regular thing (provided that we can get consistent numbers). What would you guys like to see for prize pool distribution? Im open to suggestions but will have to have values finalized by Wednesday night. I assume that you guys would want a Bo3 bracket and a Bo5 finals? Your feedback is how we will make the tournament run so let me know what you want

.

Regards,
Nicholas "TheMightyOne" Grant

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	Eddie:	Welcome to sc2sea :)
	x5.Crescendo:	Awesome to see you here! Good luck with the LAN!

Swarmstika · Mon, 4th-May-2015, 9:06 PM

Bo3 bracket, bo5 semis and Bo7 finals? Or would that be too much?

Im not even going, I just want more games

**x5_Namakaye** · Mon, 4th-May-2015, 9:09 PM

Bracket length would be something to decide when you know how many people are coming. As for prize money, distributing $50 past 3rd place is tough so 30/15/5 or whatever is fine.

Have to say, $5 is super cheap for a tournament so i have to commend you on that! You did good son.

TheMightyOne · Mon, 4th-May-2015, 9:13 PM

Hmmm, probably not for the first tournament as we plan on having some other games going on (LoL, hearthstone and CS:GO) and while we have access to really high end computers, they are somewhat limited. I'd love to get to the point where we have enough numbers to do just a sc2 tournament, not sure if that will happen tho. For this one at least well do Bo3 brackets and a Bo5 finals. In the future maybe well get in that best of 7

Regards,

Nicholas "TheMightyOne" Grant

TheMightyOne · Mon, 4th-May-2015, 9:14 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by x5_Namakaye

Bracket length would be something to decide when you know how many people are coming. As for prize money, distributing $50 past 3rd place is tough so 30/15/5 or whatever is fine.

Have to say, $5 is super cheap for a tournament so i have to commend you on that! You did good son.

Thanks man! The IT club really wants to give away money to gamers, so as long as we have the numbers, we have no problem continuing these events

SLCN.NXZ · Mon, 4th-May-2015, 9:16 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TheMightyOne

Whats up SC2 players of Brisbane,
Figured since I was the one organizing the tournament, I should probably jump into this thread :P. This is my first time organizing a tournament, we're going to try it this weekend and hopefully make it a regular thing (provided that we can get consistent numbers). What would you guys like to see for prize pool distribution? Im open to suggestions but will have to have values finalized by Wednesday night. I assume that you guys would want a Bo3 bracket and a Bo5 finals? Your feedback is how we will make the tournament run so let me know what you want

.

Regards,
Nicholas "TheMightyOne" Grant

Hey! That's awesome, I for one really miss the somewhat regular competitions of the past, hopefully we can get some numbers in for this one

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For prize pool, I think lowest prize should at least cover entry. Other than that, not too big a deal. Format is right on however depending on time constraints perhaps a Swiss bracket or round robin groups into ro4 will allow for everyone to play at least a few games to make the tournament fun for everyone. However it does seem you're running on a relatively short time period so maybe the straight up single elimination is where you'll have to settle.

I'll definitely be there and am looking forward to it

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syfChadMann:

congratz on your win!! :)

TheMightyOne · Mon, 4th-May-2015, 9:18 PM

Look forward to seeing you there

SLCN.NXZ · Mon, 4th-May-2015, 9:21 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by x5_Namakaye

[–]grantnicholas773[S] [score hidden] 9 minutes ago
Good point! Were planning on getting throw it all on Saturday while using sunday as a spill over day. So i guess the answer to your questions is it will be saturday unless circumstances force us into sunday as well

Regarding this, will the games be running simultaneously or one after another?

Basically what time is the sc2 tournament, anywhere between 12 Saturday and 12 Sunday is a wide range.

TheMightyOne · Mon, 4th-May-2015, 9:25 PM

We are trying to get the sc2 tournament all done on the Saturday, so hopefully it wont take up your entire weekend. (Were working on a revised total schedule). The games will be running simultaneously if we have a high volume of games to get through, if its a more manageable number we may try and have one or two running at once so that others can watch

TheMightyOne · Tue, 5th-May-2015, 6:28 PM

We are trying to get the sc2 tournament all done on the Saturday, so hopefully it wont take up your entire weekend. (Were working on a revised total schedule). The games will be running simultaneously if we have a high volume of games to get through, if its a more manageable number we may try and have one or two running at once so that others can watch

ThatGuyDoMo · Tue, 5th-May-2015, 8:26 PM

Oof I would come and watch but I have a Tekken tournament to attend

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asdfSchnitzel:

wtf domo nice dodge

TheMightyOne · Wed, 6th-May-2015, 8:45 AM

The IT Club really wants to make this event successful, as a result, we will be offering a $50 door prize (selected by random draw) in addition to the $50 prize pool. Entry remains the same at $5. At this point, were trying to gauge numbers on how to make this event more regular, so the more people that show interest, the larger the prize pool will become and the more often we can host. Come show your support for Brisbane SC2!

#QldPassion

Regards,

Nicholas "TheMightyOne" Grant

Drinksarlot · Thu, 7th-May-2015, 12:09 PM

Sounds really cool since I'm into both Hearthstone and SC2 but I can't make this weekend unfortunately, hope to make the next one.

TheMightyOne · Thu, 7th-May-2015, 2:38 PM

No problem man, thanks for your interest

TheMightyOne · Fri, 8th-May-2015, 11:20 PM

Look forward to seeing everybody at the tournament! We will be located in level 5 of S block at the Gardens Point Campus. If your unsure of where to go, I'll swing by the food-court at 11:50 to see if there is anyone there (Ill be wearing an old LG-IM shirt so be on the lookout, I'll be very hard to miss).

Japetto · Sat, 9th-May-2015, 8:29 AM

Really hope this goes well today. Really wish I wasn't doing my 15 hour work day and look forward to coming down to an event in the future! gl hf.

**syfRize** · Sat, 9th-May-2015, 10:17 AM

It seems like quite a few people are busy this time, I hope this doesn't discourage more of these sc2 events being hosted!

Also, if you remember, can you please post a bracket for the sc2 tournament here mightyone? ^^

syfChase · Sat, 9th-May-2015, 4:20 PM

DID LINDSAY WIN?

asdf

asdfSchnitzel · Sun, 10th-May-2015, 8:30 AM

Is there any way you could could access the replays from the event?

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SLCN.NXZ:

Wow look its the mighty 3rd place finisher

TheMightyOne · Sun, 10th-May-2015, 2:25 PM

Unfortunately the Uni computers wipe anything that a user has put on them when they are logged off (this sadly includes the replay files). I'd like to give a huge thank you to all of those that came out and played, I know that aspects that we can improve on and I would love to hear your feedback! The next step is going to be getting more players involved as well as streaming the games live. Thoughts, comments and suggestions are welcomed, what can we do better?!?!?

Regards
Nicholas "TheMightyOne" Grant

**syfChadMann** · Sun, 10th-May-2015, 2:26 PM

Brackets? Results? top 3?

I'll try and come next time ^_^

Swarmstika · Sun, 10th-May-2015, 2:44 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TheMightyOne

what can we do better?!?!?

brackets pls

asdfSchnitzel · Sun, 10th-May-2015, 2:47 PM

http://challonge.com/QUTIT/groups
Groups are filled out but bracket's aren't, here are final results

Azure

(Craig) 2-0

Schnitzel (Mikael)

+ Show +

NXZ

(Ryan) 2-1

Namakaye (Andrew)

+ Show +

NXZ

(Ryan) 3-0

Azure (Craig)

+ Show +

Schnitzel

(Mikael) 2-1

Namakaye (Andrew)

+ Show +

TheMightyOne · Sun, 10th-May-2015, 3:13 PM

You beat me to it

thank you for posting tho! Anything else you guys want to see? We plan on live streaming the next event as well for those that can't be there

asdfSchnitzel · Sun, 10th-May-2015, 3:38 PM

I'll try and add to this as I think of more

+ [1) Give us more notice] +

+ [2) Decide on format prior to the day and make sure sets are being played] +

Otherwise good job! Hope to see these more often

TheMightyOne · Sun, 10th-May-2015, 4:16 PM

The more notice part is easily fixed, the executive of the club sort of just went "hey we need a tournament this weekend, hey you play Starcraft, you should make a tournament for this weekend"

Mad props for all of you that came out and with more notice we should easily get more participants. The format is another question entirely, this tournament being more of a trial event, we toyed with a few ideas and decided on a round robin the day of. The next tournament WILL be a Double elimination (Bo3 brackets, Bo5 finals), at least thats my intention at this point, as we'll be under much more of a time constraint with more players. Regarding the next tournament as well, it will probably span two days (depending on the number of players) and have online entrants. We still plan on making the lab that we used this weekend open for all those that want a LAN experience because lets face it, there is nothing like 980Mbps internet :P

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syfInsano:

can i run a fiber cable to my house from the lab? :P

asdfSchnitzel · Sun, 10th-May-2015, 4:58 PM

In regards to making it a two day event - I would advise against that, as for many people taking a single day for a lan is a stretch sometimes, let alone two days. Also the second day will always have significantly less people than the first, as people who have been knocked out on the first day have nearly no reason to come to the second day apart from to talk more to people. So I would advise trying to fit it into a single day if possible

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TheMightyOne:

Hmmm good point, I'll take that into consideration

**x5_Namakaye** · Sun, 10th-May-2015, 7:46 PM

That internet was BEAUTIFUL. With more people we wont have the liberty of playing micro tounrey for like 1.5hrs so keep that in mind :P

Japetto · Sat, 16th-May-2015, 7:47 AM

A big thing that stopped me coming was the notice bit, can't stress that enough. With that comes hand in hand just making sure you guys get the prep down and communicating it effectively. ie "Here is what you bring, this is the time, this is the place and here is how many people we are expecting for this". Some of the online tournament posts here are quite good templates. I know the expected participants bit can be quite a challenge and if you hold more of these in the future I'm sure you will get better at running them. Really look forward to seeing another one of these soon. Gives some of us baddies a chance to get a game against some of the top SEA players which is a really cool experience (ps USB for the replays). I would hope the more of these you hold the more participants you will get and the better prize pool you can offer making it potentially a little bit more worthwhile for a few extra people to make the trip down to Brisbane for a weekend.
Sorry for the delayed post, thank you, hope to see some more events from you guys soon.