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Hi guys, it's me, Quinzy, the other person helping run the con.
I'm mostly in charge of pen and paper RPGs but I'm also giving a hand with consoles, and I've been a big advocate this year of getting a proper tourney scene here at Dominicon.
Here is the current timetable:
Halo 4 Griffball
- XBox - 7pm on Friday
Marvel Vs. Capcom 3
- XBox - 11am until 3pm Saturday
Street Fighter IV AE
- XBox - 3pm until 6pm Saturday
Timesplitters 2
- Wii(GC Contoller) - 6pm until 7pm
Super Smash Brothers Brawl
- Wii - 7pm until 8pm
Now bear in mind, these times are open to change if you feel they should be.
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If your willing to run tekken, i can offer my console plus game, cables, power-adapters, pads (all xbx 360)
I can speak with skeering and see if he's willing to do the same. He has all the same for ps3.
So, you would have 2 set-ups for Tekken right there for you to use.
I also do believe it wouldn't take much convincing to get atleast 5ppl from the xgc casuals, which are normally held on saturdays, to go to this instead.
If you choose.
Btw, both myself and skeering live in maynooth!
Also,
I'd like to offer my services to help doom and aj, provided i'm not working this saturday.
However, I won't know till friday if I'll even be able to make this thing.
But, i will still make good on my offer of console, game etc as i can get skeering to collect it from my gaff, or failing that, my GF will drop them over.0 -
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Ok, first, things done right.
Venue is awesome, very relaxed, airy and spacious. I knew this already but others wouldn't. Perhaps a few nice images of it next year to entice people!
The staff all seemed to know who we were and what we were doing and were very helpful indeed.
They also worked with us when it came to running tournaments. I know from experience it's one thing for the con director to say this will happen, and another for it to actually turn out that way. I remember one time taking a near hyperventilating staff member aside at one and spending 10 minutes convincing her she should just let us run the FG tournaments after she shouted at people for button checking.
Lots of casual set ups. TVs were not great but that's exactly why I brought mine, you can't be expected to be lag testing screens for use. There was plenty of room for people who wanted to bust out a game while they were waiting to do so. This makes the day bang for some peoples buck.
Perhaps next year make more of a noise about the cheapness of the food and drink. Eirtakon was a bigger, probably better overall con tbh, but you paid for it getting a drink or food.
Cheapness of convention overall: A lot of conventions can be off putting for the FG crowd because of the price of entry. Yours didn't, it was entirely reasonable.
Recommendations for next year:
Perhaps try more than 2 tournaments. For this one, UMvC3 and SF probably made sense as most of the people who came played both.
But as mentioned above, you could attract way more people next year if you added games like injustice (which will probably be the hot new thing in FGs at the time) or Tekken (always popular). I think you made a mistake turning the tekken lads away this year- they could have set up their own console and ran it with minimum intereference. This will increase the number of fighting game bodies and will likely attract more people overall.
Putting us up a stairs and away in the corner is never going to entice people to play. At other cons, we get passing business from people who see all the gear, and the sticks, and just want to have a go. This benefits you and us as it's more money for you and a potential community member for us. While it was a nice spot, we'd probably have been better off on the ground floor (although I understand this might have been impossible this year).
Announcing games- I don't know if this was going on at all, but usually at cons I've been to an hour before sign ups for anything someone gets on a megaphone in the main area and says "Sign ups open for XYZ". I didn't notice this happening at all. Generally it's done 2 or 3 times including "Last chance to sign up for XYZ". In cons who do not do this, without fail, we find people showing up 20 minutes into the tournaments going "Aw man, I would have loved to play this if I knew it was happening..."
Also, you were going toe to toe with a huuuuuuuuge anime convention in the form of Eirtakon. Some people don't have the money to go to every con tournament, so if there's 2 back to back one has to go.
Final, semi serious thing- Maynooth Sci Fi is holding another, seperate, convention? Really? Why not meld the two and pool resources? That's what Eirtakon do AFAIK, there was anime and games and RPGs going on. Seems mad to have to pay for everything twice when, lets face it, the same people are likely to show for both
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I probably would have put us down the end where the food was being served, by the stairs, if it were up to me. Still a nice spot. or we could have taken over one of the TV spots down stairs.
Concurrant running of tournaments happens all the time. The only issue with it is the TO's have to accept "I can't play right now, I am already fighting in this other tournament, I will play my game ASAP" as a valid reason.
I wouldn't worry about the joint con idea. Just a joke really!
One other thing just occured to me- it's a pity we didn't know you had an arcade cab with X-Men vs Street Fighter and SF2: Hyper Fighting on it. That's a fairly big attraction to some FG players. The fact it had old school HAPP parts as well was pretty fun, man you have to hit them things hard 0 -
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I'll say this, it was much more fun and well run then expected
I never thought I'd see a con volunteer take on their role as a TO with such dedication as to actually watch the entirety of a tourney match play out.
Hope we can borrow some of your Volunteers for tourneys:P
Glad you enjoyed it, I was expecting a lot of "Okay, you need to do this, this and this, then maybe we'll be back next year." Such has been the consoles experience at Dominicon.
We make an effort to have staff attending each event at all times. That's what staff are for after all. But I guess that since we're a fairly small convention it's easy to have staff keeping an eye on everything at once.Doctor DooM wrote: »Just from a boards.ie perspective, by the way, if you want none of the trouble you had this year, pm the mods of a given forum before posting about the con in them.
This should have been blaringly obvious, I was having a "These are small, those are far away" moment. I kinda figured that if it was a rule breach I'd get a warning so I chalked it up to limited posting rights on a nearly unused account.Doctor DooM wrote: »I probably would have put us down the end where the food was being served, by the stairs, if it were up to me. Still a nice spot. or we could have taken over one of the TV spots down stairs.
Concurrant running of tournaments happens all the time. The only issue with it is the TO's have to accept "I can't play right now, I am already fighting in this other tournament, I will play my game ASAP" as a valid reason.
it's a pity we didn't know you had an arcade cab with X-Men vs Street Fighter and SF2: Hyper Fighting on it. That's a fairly big attraction to some FG players. The fact it had old school HAPP parts as well was pretty fun, man you have to hit them things hard
That stairs area should be free next year. Might not get you comfy couches, but we can get chairs and tables no problem.
Knowing we can get enough players to justify concurrent tournaments should remove any concerns. And we're too laid back to worry about people being in two things at once. On Saturday we had some Brawl guys in a card games draft at the same time, so we're fine with people doing two things at once, the worry was more that we'd have people signing up for one tourney and ignoring an other.
As for the Arcade Machine, I wasn't even sure what games were running on it apart from Metal Slug and the bog standard version of SFII.
It'll be back again next year, probably with more stuff running on it.0 -
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