Yeah, I was exaggerating. It's just the up arrow that's a little sketch.

Ok, so I'm going to make a quick draft of how the difficulty will progress for the losers and winners bracket. The way I see it, the losers bracket will progress a little slower in terms of difficulty, but the payoff for playing harder songs in the winners bracket is you have to win less songs in the final round. (This is sort of like what D2SSR was like for Godai v.s. JJK, as was NAT'05 for LilQ v.s. Damien)

So:

Qualifier: L'Amour et Liberte (determines where the eight players are ranked from top to bottom, #1 v.s. #2, #3 v.s. #4 etc.)
Round 1: Best out of three, 6-7 footers. Four move to winner's bracket, four move to loser's bracket.
Round 2:
Losers- Best out of three again, 7 footers. Two players will be eliminated.
Winners- Best out of three, 7-8 footers. Two players will move to losers bracket.
Loser's Round:
Losers- Both losers from the winners bracket square off. 8 footers. One will be eliminated.
Both winners from the losers bracket will square off. 7-8 footers. One will be eliminated.
Semi-Finals:
Losers- Best out of five, 8-9 footers. One player will be eliminated.
Winners- Best out of five, 8-9 footers. One player will be eliminated. (Now one winner v.s. one loser)
FINALS: Best out of five, anything goes. Winner's bracket winner only has to win twice in order to claim victory, whlie the loser's winner must get three out of five.

I'll print this and bring it, it can be tweaked obviously. For one thing I could see the result of the qualifier being 1 v.s. 5, 2 v.s. 6, etc. That's how it was IIRC at that SN/ITG2 tournament at Tukwila.

THIS'LL BE SOOOO FUN

Left side isn't that bad. Up arrow is a little sketchy.

right side is fine, left side does not have its vial of gypsy tears to protect it from AIDS.

At GK?

brb cutting

P.S. What's wrong with you crazy kids, staying up into the wee hours of the morning? ;P

I played there today and I'm pretty sure both sides sucked

I'll be wearing my skirt and a nice tight shirt.

Fair enough.

Now I'm just debating whether or not to come in my dress.

Well, I think it's the only song that Noah and Steven can pass that everybody else (myself excluded) won't all AAA or low SDG.

I think the qualifier will just determine placing unless we get more than 8 people.

And, I dunno, I'd prefer something other than L'amour. But it's pretty much your tournament.

WHAT DO YOU THINK I AM A FUCKING BAG OF MONEY.
$1 to play qualifier, $2 for those who qualify.
It would be pretty lame to pay $2 and not even play beyond the qualifier.

Double elimination sounds coo'.

Qualifier:
Shining Polaris (Beginner)
AAAA it on Extreme to qualify. ;P

The real qualifier:
Lawnmower Ate Library (Heavy) ['cause it will highlight everyone's bad timing, but I don't think any of us will humiliate ourselves on it]
For those who don't know, l'amour et liberte.

you need to pick a qualifier, do it.

also I move we make the tourney double-elimination. longer play that way. maybe bump the fee to $2.

I should pull a rocket launcher out of my ass and kick all your silly little white asses. >D

Fuck yeah I'm coming to the get-togethers.
And just 'cause I don't have my computer doesn't mean I don't have access to the interwebs, it just means I can't be on for 26 hours a day. ;P

if it happens...I will be there. Sorry to ruin your chances.

well wtfever Jason you never said you were going.

Hi.

Yeah. I'll let him know when stuff is going down.

But you're still coming to the get-togethers, right?

Hey guys.

My mom's taking my computer away because I've apparently "betrayed her trust" by having a myspace account.  Allegedly it's dangerous, despite the fact that my profile's private and my friendslist is limited only to people I know well IRL. :/ (and as of yesterday, the only public picture of me there is a bitmap image of a pixel character)

So, I won't be here in a while.
Find someone else to organise the get-togethers.
When you do, that person should IM Matt (zeppy) to get my phone number, and let me know when any get-togethers are planned or I'll gladly help you with organisation.

Sorry guys. :/
I'm probably far more pissed off by this than any of you are.

right, so 100% to winner. we're all only pitching in a dollar anyway, so that's like 8 bucks. whoo.

I approve of WTA.  If we did something else, I'd magically get matched up against people I could beat and pull off second place and somehow manage to make money. ;P

and to watch discovolante rake in da money$$$$$$$$$

Yeah, I like this idea.

I expect to rank at or near the bottom this time around, and the next two-three times around as well at least, saying that not because I am pessimistic, but because I'm realistic that I'm not a seasoned player as most the rest of you are (not to mention have barely ever set foot on a pad other than a soft pad, at least so far). But that isn't really the point here, and that I'm excited about this weekend because it's all about social capital; sharing our appreciation of the game in good company, and learning from one another by watching as well.

Sincerely,
Noah Eaton

well actually, if there's three rounds (8 -> 4 -> 2), then we'd have to start at 7 to 8 so we can then have 8 to 9 and then 9 to 10 for the finals.

Oh, and is it a winner-takes-all pot?

I guess that would work.  The tourney at K-con was plenty fun for everyone, even the ones that got eliminated first round, so I think that even without a fighting chance we'll still have fun.

OH YEAH I KNOW IT TOTALLY SUCKS DICK

I haven't seen any of my friends in LA for like four years dude And I get to stop in Ashland and see plays, and stop in Fresno and see bullshit, and stop in Frisco and see awesome.

As for protecting you guys from getting eliminated, I think we can just have an easy starter bracket and start with a cap of 6-7 feet.