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What next for Inferno?
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I can vouch from the sign-ups at the DoCs that most people who sign up for teams are only doing so cause they're there for other tournys and want to enter everything. We could easily give out the SFteams spot to KoF or the like and it'd save a lot of time. We might actually get it back to a six hour day!
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The last 2 inferno's have had low attendance. I can see why people are questioning its viability for a tournament on its own but is that not something that always happens when a new release is coming out? Either way I think it may be premature to make a decision on changing the format for inferno just before the release of the new game with no concern for what effect that might have on the tourney. This is just a word of caution and not a stance in opposition to the idea. SF at its height attracts most player per tourney (average over the last year) so what happens to inferno if say there is a large turn out. Does this mean that (like DoC) the event will run until 9pm? Or start earlier? (Is this always possible for booking?). I know details like this can be worked out but consider that for large and successful events we have people coming from Belfast, Cork, Limerick, Galway and other areas outside Dublin. Considerations for these people have to be included imo. Inferno was the defacto standard for events and was in itself a ranking event for SF and changing a favoured tourney a week before release of a new iteration of SF seems fool-hearty. Does anyone have the info on attendance pre christmas last year? I can't see it being a record turn out and that was with a better game.
This is just my opinion and I am trying to take an objective view on the situation. I like SF, I don't like Marvel. That being said my points above stand. Its not about the game but the tourney and the community.
An idea might be to alternate the games each month. One month 2012, one month Marvel. That way you keep both going and you have enough time between tourneys for each of the games to get maximum attendance. If numbers for one of the games dwindles at least then you have a better picture as to why and can act accordingly. I would propose that inferno stay SF and we start a new ranking Marvel tourney called "insert some elemental name here". Having two ranking tourneys in the country for the 2 best games* would the best outcome? This could allow for side 'team' tourneys in the relevant game to be played on the day for that event if desired.
*Marvel is not a real game
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I haven't touched AE since the Inferno I was at last (2 infernos ago) I've been busy plus been playing marvel and also losing interest until 2012
I don't mind and will definitely come to Infernos anyway, it's just this time I could not as I had other plans but I had fully intended to so I am impartial to how inferno is run as long as there is still a tourney of course I am happy
I agree with Ayjay and maybe this is just a hiccup since people are waiting for AE 2012? Play it by ear for now I think anyway
Out of interest if Inferno becomes SF4 + UMvC3 tourney day (which I would like since I doubt I'd get to enter any other marvel tournaments since inferno is pretty much the only time i can get to show up offline now these days, and they are the only two games I play properly as of now too), if someone enters both tourneys how will that go? Will they be run seperately?0 -
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Haichopperbyrne wrote: »Yeah, someone can do up a seeds list table like the one we have for SFIV and update it with the DOC results.
It's be very handy to have one of those done up for every game.
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If you want to talk nitty gritty for a DoC please start a new thread, I'm trying to keep this one focused on Inferno (obviously this isn't a dig at Voa chiming in or anything, just I think this topic needs to be discussed plainly).
This is what I've heard so far.
1) People are stuck in college, and will be for a while. Nothing can be done about it, but good to know there's willing peeps who just can't come right now as opposed to not wanting to.
2) Tournament fatigue (including money). We should probably try and keep the number of tournaments streamlined.
3) AE is poo, and at this point with 2012 knocking on the door no one wants to play it. It may be an idea to run a tournament in early 2012 to gauge interest, perhaps on it's own. Someone is gonna have to man up and do that if so, Chopper doesn't want to which is fair enough, its R and R time for a lot of people.
4) The weather/ time of year doesn't help. No it doesn't
From talk to people off line I've heard another couple of points:
We should announce tournament dates as soon as we get them. There were people wondering if this inferno was happening.
We should probably be a bit more active in promoting tournaments on facebook et al. It's sooo easy to get lax about these things, and I think we have been.
A weird corrolory- the videos for the smallest ever Inferno have been the most successful ever, and over all have given me my biggest day yet second only to the Evo qualifier. Sods law.0 -
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