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| But the point of holding competitions is not to entice people to come - the overall veneer of TL is a gaming 'forum,' if you will, where we all get together and have a giant LAN party. The point of the competitions is a) sponsorship and b) giving away the stuffs the sponsors donate to make sure that it's a recognized event and therefore able to be in Foy and all that good stuff. I know now that Halo 2 will be played at Tigerlan. Whether or not it's played as an 'official TigerLAN competition,' well, that's up for grabs. Until tomorrow night that is. |
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Posted: Aug 11, 2006 - 01:23 PM
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Don't need sponsors for Foy. Just need to be a student club for that.
Sponsors are for prizes, prizes are for getting people in the door, competitions are to get people in the door, and while people are in the door we sneak new games into their life to expand their horizons and promote gaming in general. The benefit to the sponsors is they get to advertise in a very directed, targetted, and intimate venue which pushes their sales up. When their sales go up they do more research on new products, gamers get the benefit of these new products. The new products make new games possible, which we want to let gamers know about. It's the circle of life for the gaming community. |
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Post subject: voting on the game
Posted: Aug 15, 2006 - 06:09 PM
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| How do you vote on the game that will be played? I just moved here and I plan on coming out to the lan party on friday. |
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Post subject: RE: voting on the game
Posted: Aug 16, 2006 - 01:54 PM
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The polls are for TigerLAN and have already closed. TigerLAN is a once a semester public lan party that will be 30 Sept.
The "lan party on friday" is just the normal weekly meeting, no competitions there, usually. |
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Post subject: Re: RE: voting on the game
Posted: Aug 16, 2006 - 02:12 PM
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jokeyxero wrote:
...The "lan party on friday" is just the normal weekly meeting, no competitions there, usually.
*edited by me to try and better comply with club general policy... |
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Post subject: RE: Re: RE: voting on the game
Posted: Aug 16, 2006 - 11:43 PM
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Post subject: RE: Re: RE: voting on the game
Posted: Aug 19, 2006 - 04:59 PM
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| So will Halo 2 still be played "competitively" now that Guilty Gear was picked as the "official" game? Just curious... |
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Post subject: RE: Re: RE: voting on the game
Posted: Aug 21, 2006 - 01:59 PM
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| OK, there isn't an 'official' Xbox game at TigerLAN... it's just we'll be playing Guilty Gear as the 'official' Xbox competition for prizes. I'm sure many people will be using Xboxes to play Halo / Halo 2 competitively a good majority of the event. |
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Post subject: RE: Re: RE: voting on the game
Posted: Aug 22, 2006 - 02:22 PM
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Oh well, I got tickets to Alabama vs. Florida game in Gainesville, so I probably won't come this semester seeing as the only thing I'm good at is Halo and I suck at all other games.
Maybe I'll come next semester... |
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Post subject: RE: Re: RE: voting on the game
Posted: Aug 31, 2006 - 01:55 AM
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| I'm glad we're having DDR! And UT2004!!!! Though most of you guys are like....Masters of the DDR. Can I bring my 'soft' pad to play on, not during the tournament, but just to play whenever? I had a really hard time using those Metal pads.....or hard pads...whatever. |
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Post subject: RE: Re: RE: voting on the game
Posted: Aug 31, 2006 - 02:56 AM
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Dark_Chick: Yes, anyone may bring any form of controller or hardware they desire for free play.
Phoenix: The point of TigerLAN is to expose people to new games; i.e., Halo is not the only game in the world; other people besides you will suck at all other games; and if you don't want to hang out with us because we're not gonna play Halo competitively this time around you can say so in as many words and I promise you we won't freak. |
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Post subject: RE: Re: RE: voting on the game
Posted: Sep 02, 2006 - 12:46 AM
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| cool....thanks |
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Posted: Sep 02, 2006 - 01:00 AM
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Posted: Sep 03, 2006 - 11:43 PM
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lordbyronIII wrote:
Dark_Chick: Yes, anyone may bring any form of controller or hardware they desire for free play.
Phoenix: The point of TigerLAN is to expose people to new games; i.e., Halo is not the only game in the world; other people besides you will suck at all other games; and if you don't want to hang out with us because we're not gonna play Halo competitively this time around you can say so in as many words and I promise you we won't freak.
I think it should be "games other people probably don't play" games because all the games listed are pretty old.
also this poll thing is pretty bad. how many people voted? and how many people normally participate? and voting is usually done before fliers are out, so no one but board members that frequent the board get to vote. |
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| The reason older games are chosen for competitions is they normally have the bugs worked out and the game balance is normally better... |
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| Last time maybe a hundred people were there on Saturday....on Sunday, about 50 or less. It was cool.... |
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An email is sent out about the polls to all members of the site and all members of the mailing list.
If you don't care about TigerLAN enough to join the website to troll the forums or to check the website every so often, then I guess you don't care enough to participate in the voting process.
Public LAN parties are a giant series of catch 22's btw. For starters, you can't get sponsors without attendees, you can't get attendees without sponors. You can't make flyers that work without sponsors, you can't get attenedees without flyers, you can't announce games in flyers without the games being known, you can't decide on games without attendees to vote, you can't get attendees without flyers. Etc etc etc.
Like all parties, the success is based on potential (hype). If it is sold well then it should do well. Then it has to actually do well to sell well again, sorta.
You can cut these corners and get ahead of the game in a few ways:
- preflyers, announcements just about the idea, with little to nothing concrete
- decide on things without full involvement of the participates
- make promises you hope you can keep
- get investment capital or grants
- hype yourself or get others to hype you (viral marketting)
- website, internet advertising
But, back to work now... |
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kurtmax_0 wrote:
The reason older games are chosen for competitions is they normally have the bugs worked out and the game balance is normally better...
i know that. I was just saying that the phrase "expose people to new games" should be more like "expose people to games they have not played" because the games are not "new"
also, i know the intensity of getting sponsor for lan parties and tournaments. I worked for the NEGL, the AGP, and helped with advertising MLGpro, before they went corporate. I believe people need to be exposed to other games, but it would make more sence to highlight the more popular games, not only on xbox, but on the PC and PS2 as well, that's just the best thing i have found.
I also think a good idea would be to get feedback at events. you would probably get more votes just asking people at the event rather than hoping they will log on, create an account, and then read your email, get back on the forum, and then vote. even if the event isnt for a few months, you probably arent going to have a tournament game that is that new. Just an idea.
It's the same in the PC end, I don't think TFC is a good choice, it's fun, i like the game, but alot of people don't know what that is. I believe CoD or CS, or something along those lines would draw a larger crowd, and then you can introduce them to other games that they may enjoy. |
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CS was done last year, three teams signed up - this was with intense advertising, I spearheaded the web pr for the tourney personally. Thus far I know of four different TFC teams signed up already.
I believe the problem comes down to time. I mean hell if they wanted a huge group of people to come, hold a Madden tourney. Its just to have a good game you need atleast five minute quarters, which equates to atleast thirty minutes a game. So if fifty people show up, and you can run five machines at once, that still comes down to roughly three hours for the first round, estimating out to about six hours for the tourney. Same can be applied to Battlefield x, Counterstrike, or even TFC. Granted there have been tourneys of all of these atleast once at Tigerlan, sans Madden, and always TFC brings the biggest crowd. And, ironically, even though it is a tournament, those players dont care if they win or lose, because they are just having alot of fun. Its not the best team tournament FPS, but then again nobody really wants to play Quake III Harvester.
Ill leave most of the other tourney stories to xero, since I wasnt at 1-3. But I will say one last thing, it seems like this year we might actually have a quality RTS tourney. I mean even when Warcraft 3 was played back at 5 there were only about four participants, and Doug schooled them all and walked off with both standees for the upcoming Frozen Throne expansion. |
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| Um... are there PC gamers who have not heard of TFC?!!! |
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