[Torniquet]

Would people be interested in possibly having a community tournament run? We could split it in two, Bronze Silver Gold and Platinum Diamond possibly further depend on the amount of people interested. All the other particulars we can work out later mainly just want to see if people were interested.

Would be good to just get the community involved with one another maybe meet a few new people, practice partners probably will even see some good games. Just want to get everyone involved really.

Anyways, suggestions, interest and what not below.

Thanks.

[MrNayNay]

i am interested.

[deL]

Winner gets a Liquipedia Page.

I'd also like to see Race Wars, as that's something from SC1 that hasn't carried over at all yet

[HuT]

Pretty keen!

[Torniquet]

Originally Posted by deL

Winner gets a Liquipedia Page.

I'd also like to see Race Wars, as that's something from SC1 that hasn't carried over at all yet

Dont forget Dels kind offer. So yeah looking for feedback and gauging interest. So please, do tell.

[nirvAnA]

haha race wars sounds fun

[Apth]

Community tournament sounds badass.

[Melchsee]

would need to pool in a big amount of resources. but it sounds good to have a community tournament.

[nirvAnA]

Originally Posted by Melchsee

would need to pool in a big amount of resources. but it sounds good to have a community tournament.

And thats exactly why i started this!! Well it was torniquet's idea

http://www.sc2sea.com/showthread.php?t=290

In an effort to organise more tournaments for the community, we are starting a Paypal Community Drive.

-The amount raised will go directy into the tournament fund pool, which can be seen at the top of the site.
-All payments will be handled and processed by PayPal so you need a PayPal account!
-The money will be used as Prizes for the tournaments and they could be COTH, Clan Leagues, Race Wars, KOTH, Gold and below tournaments, weekly opens, to name a few i can think off.
-We are basically helping organise tournaments for the community with your money!
-The chosen tournament will be a based on votes from a public poll created on sc2sea.
-There will be full transparency and every donator will be listed here with the donation amount.
-If you want your donation to be annoynmous just PM me
-Any big donaters will have their name specially mentioned somehwere prominent on the site for a preiod of time. (Unless you do not want this)

To get the balling rolling, i have donated $10!

Donate now!

Lets see if we can make this work! More tournaments with nice prizes are always good

[MrNayNay]

put in prize pools! haha

[Fadey]

id be up for one

[QuestionMark]

Sounds pretty fun.

[nirvAnA]

wow $30 raised already haha this is awesome, we could run a decent tourney already

guys now you need to start suggesting the tournament formats for the community tournament and ill make a poll soon maybe this weekend there can be a tourney

[deL]

I think people would still play in a community tournament for sc2sea. Rewarding the loyal members - if there was a prize all the good players who don't even use the site would just come and play in it to get the money.

[nirvAnA]

Originally Posted by deL

I think people would still play in a community tournament for sc2sea. Rewarding the loyal members - if there was a prize all the good players who don't even use the site would just come and play in it to get the money.

Great point. Yea the prizes dont have to be big for each tournament, so we can have more tournaments with something to fight for haha.

I guess since its funded by the sc2sea community, only sc2sea members should be eligible?

Ok after discussion with Torniquet this is what we are gonna do.
The first tournament will be a community tournament to gauge interest and test things out. The Prize will be your very own custom title (Mine says Admin, Torniquet's says Head Moderator, yours can say whatever like "Zerg Hero!" within limits) and your very own WHO's WHO profile page. If you already have a who's who page you can choose one for a friend of yours.

[nirvAnA]

Some tournament format ideas. All are very rough, need feedback about prize distribution and match format and need more suggestions for tournament formats. All registration open 30 mins before tournament starts, first come first serve basis.

Daily Vitamin Sea
Small max 32 man 1v1s tournaments every weekday 5 days a week. Prize Pool $10 to the winner. All games bo1, semis and finals bo3s.

Weekend 1v1 Showdown
64 man max 1v1 tournaments every weekend like Yoz's toruney. Prize $50 to the winner. All games bo1, semis bo3 and finals bo5..

Weekend 2v2 Showdown
32 team max 2v2 on a particular weekend day. $50 to the winning team. All games bo1, semis and finals bo3s.

Weekend 3v3 Showdown
32 team max 3v3 on a particular weekend day. $52 to the winning team. All games bo1, semis and finals bo3s.

Clan AllStar Invite Only Rumble
4 best players from the 4 best clans put into 4 different groups, with each clan mamber in a different group. Winner of each round robin group goes into semis which is bo3 and finals which is bo5. Winner takes $50.

Clan KOF Team Fight
3 Players in each team. Teams fight each other winner stays game format till no one is left. All kills possible. Maximum of 16 teams. This was the tournament GLaDe, me and Filthy played in as Team AU in the beta vs the USA teams. Although we got all killed by Idra, it was super fun and we beat teams like KoD (AxSlav, StrifeCro) and Fnatic (Fenix, KawaiiRice). Winning team gets $60

1v1 Superstar Invite FaceOff
The very best SEA superstars pitted against each other for all to watch. Ideas - RedArchon vs GLaDe. OxygeN vs GLaDe. Winner takes $50.

KOTH
Player with 8 wins gets $5, 14 wins $10, 20 wins in a row $25

SEA HwaitinG
Best game produced by challenger voted by public earns him $20

Weekend Gold and Below
64 man max to encoruage weaker players to be competitive. All games bo1, semis and finals bo3s.1st $15 2nd $10 3rd $5

[CasualPlayer]

2 thumbs up for this. WIll be joining all of them if I'm available
Another suggestion is to remove prize pools for gold n below tourney and substitute with free coaching for an hr or something.

[Melchsee]

alright you've got 100USD of funds now. Lets go community drive!

[nirvAnA]

Originally Posted by Melchsee

alright you've got 100USD of funds now. Lets go community drive!

Holy check what a generous donoation Melchsee! Prize pool looking awesome atm

[CasualPlayer]

Should be given the title "Most Generous Donator".. lol ..

[ToRXypha]

I would love community tournaments, really want to get involved in them and get more experience with them

[Torniquet]

Okay current interest from

Strat4lyfe
deL
nirvAnA
HuT
Apth
Melcheese
Fadey
QuestionMark
Fanatic
Xypha

As for format nothing really amazingly clear at the moment. So please tell me what youd like to see.

Also times, will probably have to do this weekdays since weekends are getting full. So tell me when the best time for you would be.

Thanks.

[deL]

What about if you make it no prize and sc2sea members only for 3 weeks, and then the final tournament of the month will be the top players from the other weeks invited to play for $$$ :0

[Mezza]

Community tournaments are great because no matter what happens, people will be playing sc2 games and if you throw in an incentive to play, they'd surely hop on.

Custom titles and non monetary incentives like deL's wiki page are a good idea for internal community tournaments and I'm all for having them but the problem would be the small player base.

However with a tournament prize pool coming up, we're gonna have a chance to rope in lots of people who are already not on the site to take note of us.

I'd honestly like to see some weeknight 1v1s or 2v2s coming up with small prize pools, like 10 bucks to the winner. This would be awesome because this would give casters a chance to strut their stuff broadcasting the matches

All they had to do was to throw up a splashscreen in between games advertising where the money was being funded from and i'm sure we'd have quite a few people signing up.

So that being said, on the weekday nights that i'm free, or even weekend nights whenever. I'll be pretty happy helping to organize some tournaments, usually wednesday, fridays or sundays. We should go for timings that don't already have events, especially like GSL and yoz's SEA opens. So yeah.

[Melchsee]

imo if sc2sea has a pool of casters we can look for sponsers to pool in some money. i can talk to some companies to sponser some funds not much just so that during breaks or something we can put their logo etc.

sounds commercial but it helps bring up the site, provided we have a steady traffic pool of viewers during matches and site visits.

[nirvAnA]

Originally Posted by Melchsee

imo if sc2sea has a pool of casters we can look for sponsers to pool in some money. i can talk to some companies to sponser some funds not much just so that during breaks or something we can put their logo etc.

sounds commercial but it helps bring up the site, provided we have a steady traffic pool of viewers during matches and site visits.

That will be great actually. Talked to two huge companies but the reponse has been hesistant or they offer too low end prizes. PM me your msn please! Definetly wont mind putting their logo in return for sponsorship of funds.

[Unstable]

Originally Posted by Melchsee

imo if sc2sea has a pool of casters we can look for sponsers to pool in some money. i can talk to some companies to sponser some funds not much just so that during breaks or something we can put their logo etc.

sounds commercial but it helps bring up the site, provided we have a steady traffic pool of viewers during matches and site visits.

This is already the case, unfortunatly all the different casters use different streaming services and different quality streams which makes it inconsistant. This deters alot of sponsors for doing something.

The best way to fix this would be to put all the casters under one banner, but a few months ago i tried this but it fell through.

What sponsors care about is exposure, i know i havent been casting lately in the past few weeks but its been because I have been updating my streaming system to accomodate things that sponsors want!

for EG. the FXopen tournament next weekend i am doing. ($1000 first place prize)
- Video Intro for FXopen before each match.
- Audio interviews with players during intermission of matches
- Video overlay during games to promote FXopen
- VOD's up within 24 hours on youtube.

but MOST IMPORTANT OF ALL, is the proffesionalism of the cast itself. eg, silly jokes, talking shit etc, while some gamers prefer the laid back attitude i can guarantee you big sponsors done. Trust me i have spoken to a few.

They also want stats tracking. EG from Ustream for a couple of my casts

There is NO WAY i would have secured $1000 without that kind of support/exposure for them.


Now This unfortunatly to give the sponsors isnt possible with your basic tools given to you by the Ustream/livestream free service i have spent months figuring out the best way to do it all but it does look alot better now! Only thing i have left to do is update my PC so i can finally do 720 P casts (i am about 10% CPU power off )

That being said if any up and coming casters would like some help with the extra software ETC i am more than willing to help since i simply cant cover every event in the next 2 weeks i have about 8 events im covering lol.

[Torniquet]

Yeah for sure. I dont think we would have any problems getting casters. Thankfully we have quite a lot of good casters in SEA that we can use. Would be something to consider for sure.

Probably not for the community tournament thing just because we just want it to remain in the community for fun and to intermingle. Dont want people showing up once a week to try and win money then never show up again. But for running other tournaments sure.

[kellyMILKIES]

Most awesome caster = me. LOL

[Fadey]

the 32 man 1v1 every weekday sounds fun, could maybe alternate theme nights like plat below , all one race or something.

[Mezza]

i'd play weeknight 1v1s too, and it'll be good to have non diamond 1v1s or opens, and then restricted nights too, or once interest drums up, we could have them going concurrently even. personally i'd play in a weeknight 1v1 if it happens too

[Darkblade]

Sign me up too =D

[Torniquet]

I need to know when to have them would be best for you guys as well. So if youve already posted and left that out, please reply again.

Also what format youd like to use.

Thanks.

[Mezza]

unstable, setting up casting under a common banner would be awesome, want to talk about it or discuss it? there's plans for people in singapore to do that but just for singapore alone might be too small a slice of the pie, if you're willing to put up some plans and have people on board perhaps i could get some guys to sit in and get some proper discussion going. and hell who knows, we could do nation wars coverage seriously and grab some sponsorship while we're at it

[Melchsee]

@ nirvAnA : haven't used my msn in years.. hope its still alive seravh@gmail.com

@ Unstable : yep traffic stats, is a base for the sponsers to really know if their money is put to good use where it counts. if we can hit 10k or more im sure there would be people interested.

[Torniquet]

Please continue to sign up and show interest would like to get the first event out.

[FlashDrakE]

Wouldn't mind participating in one of these.

[OxygeN]

clan kof would be a blast.

[Benji]

@ Unstable

'That being said if any up and coming casters would like some help with the extra software ETC i am more than willing to help since i simply cant cover every event in the next 2 weeks i have about 8 events im covering lol.'

I am interested in what you have got setup, software/hardware requirements and also advantages to this setup. MSN/Skype or Forums?

[Usul]

I'd be interested in participating in Bronze/Silver/Gold tournament as well as watching a live stream of the Plat/Diamond members duking it out!
Weekly tournaments with small prize pools (or even just rewards as suggested by deL) would be a nice way to strengthen the community while less regular tournies with bigger prize pool would help in attracting new members.

[Brultze]

I am very interested an will want to join whenever I can

[Melchsee]

I've got some sponsors interested as what I've spoken to nirvana things are looking good at the moment from their response I hope that everything will pull through and ultimately we got a major tournament coming~

[AZKsmoke]

just donated 20$

[dragonnaus]

bit late as this post was from 2010.. but its still good.

[nirvAnA]

haha alot has changed since here. We had sponsors for 3 big tournaments and we have small weekly COs every week.

Thank you AZKSmoke for your donation to the community tournament fund, received and added

[MooZfY]

Wow sounds cool and fun