Game Universe H3F Tournaments #5 [Framingham, MA] (GoW2, H3 2v2, H3 4v4)

BIinky · 08:24 AM

ATTENTION
The Halo 3 4v4 Tournament has been rescheduled to January 3rd, 2009 due an upcoming snow storm. We apologize for any inconvenience. Please tell everyone you know. DO NOT post in this thread. Post in the new one instead. Thank you.

New thread: http://tinyurl.com/3zkpsy

Welcome to our fifth Halo 3 Forum tournament thread!
This thread contains information about three upcoming tournaments:
Gears of War 2 Wingman tournament------------------Saturday, Nov. 15th
Halo 3 2v2 seeding tournament-------Saturday, Dec. 13th
Halo 3 4v4 tournament---------------RESCHEDULED to Saturday, Jan. 3rd

WE ARE LOOKING FOR SPONSORS!
E-mail ksnewland@gmail.com for more information about advertising opportunities at our tournaments!

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About Us

Game Universe is a small video-game store, arcade, and LAN center in Framingham, Massachusetts. I, Kevin aka "BIinky", have been running competitive gaming tournaments for popular console games at Game Universe over the course of the past two years. We have grown into one of the largest competitive-gaming tournament providers on the east coast. Our most common events are Halo 3 with thousands in cash prizes, as well as Super Smash Bros. Melee/Brawl with some of the top Smash players in the world that attend every event. Please be sure to check out our Frequently Asked Questions (bottom) and post here if you have any questions.

Store Information

Game Universe
1251 Worcester Road (on Route 9 West)
Framingham, MA 01701
Phone: 508-370-GAME
www.myspace.com/gameuniverse
*Please direct all of your questions to this thread. Feel free to call us at any time, but most employees won't be able to answer anything too specific unless I'm working.

We will be using eight MLG 2008 Pro-Circuit TVs (Viewsonic 22in Widescreen) seen here for all three tournaments.

Previous Halo 3 Tournaments

2008

May Halo 3 4v4: Over $1,000 in cash prizes!
Pics: http://tinyurl.com/5zb69z

July Halo 3 4v4: Over $1,400 in cash prizes!
Pics: http://tinyurl.com/6ns8oa

August Halo 3 4v4: Over $1,100 in cash prizes!

October Halo 3 4v4: Over $1,600 in cash prizes!
20 teams attended! (80 players + coaches + spectators)
Halo 3 Forum Thread: http://tinyurl.com/6p6cb7

Saturday, November 15th

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Tournament Format

- Gametype: Wingman (2v2v2v2, or four teams of two players)
- Random Seeding
- Coaches are allowed for free. Spectating is free. Substitutions are allowed only at my discretion.
- 3 maps will be played per pool of four teams. The top 2 teams from each pool will move on. The bottom 2 teams will move into a losers pool. Place below 2nd in any two pools and you will be eliminated from the tournament.
- Official GameBattles rules will be used. Visit http://gamebattles.com/xbox360/gears...der/team/rules for more information.

Schedule and Registration

- We open at 11:00am, no exceptions. Don't show up before 11.
- Registration begins at 12:00 noon and ends at 12:45pm. The tournament will be starting 1:00pm-1:30pm. Show up early for registration to guarantee yourself a spot in the tournament. We will not delay the tournament if you are running late.
- The entrance fee is $10 per player ($20 per team of two). We are not having any form of pre-registration for this event -- just show up on time!

Legal Controllers

Wired controllers preferred. Wireless is allowed; however, do not bring your battery pack. We will provide a play-n-charge cable for you to connect your controller to our xboxes. Any player seen with a battery pack plugged into their controller will be immediately disqualified from the tournament without warning and may be removed from the store. Again, leave your battery pack at home.

Prizes

1st Place: 55% of entrance fees
2nd Place: 30% of entrance fees
3rd Place: 15% of entrance fees
-Prizes will be given in cash.
-All percentages are after a 20% house cut.

Saturday, December 13th

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Tournament Format

- 2 vs 2
- Random seeding
- Double-elimination (lose once means play harder, lose twice means go home).
- The entire tournament will be Team Slayer only (First to 25).
- Radar Off
- Coaches allowed for free. Spectating is free. Substitutions will be allowed only on my discretion.
- MLG v5 (or v6 if available) will be used with some custom changes for 2v2. We will not be using Onslaught, Amplified, or Blackout, but will be using all other MLG maps. Visit www.mlgpro.com for more information on MLG's gametypes and variants.
- Playing in this tournament will seed you for the 4v4 tournament the following week.

Schedule

- We open at 11:00am, no exceptions. Don't show up before 11.
- Registration begins at 11:15am and ends at 11:45pm. The tournament will be starting between 12:00 noon to 1:00pm.
- Show up early for registration to guarantee yourself a spot in the tournament. We will not delay the tournament if you are running late.
- The entrance fee is $25 per player/$50 per team if you pre-register, or $30 per player/$60 per team if you register the day of the tournament. Pre-registration ends on midnight the night before the tournament. You are NOT required to pre-pay to pre-register.

Pre-Registration

Pre-registration is ONLY available by posting in this thread. You can change your roster or team name at any time.

REGISTRATION FORMAT (copy and paste)
Tournament:
Team Name:
Player 1:
Player 2:

**If you have already pre-registered a team that is no longer attending, please include the previous team name after your newly registered team information.

Legal Controllers

Wired controllers preferred. Wireless is allowed, but you must keep your battery pack at home. You can either bring a play-n-charge cable, or you can borrow one from us if we have any left (not guaranteed). You will be disqualified from the tournament if we see you with a battery pack in your controller, regardless if you have batteries in it. Consider this your first warning. I will remind everyone of this before the tournament starts... but if you don't want to risk it, either leave your batter pack at home or don't bring a wireless controller.

Prizes

1st Place: 55% of entrance fees
2nd Place: 30% of entrance fees
3rd Place: 15% of entrance fees
*Prizes will be given in cash.
*All percentages are after a 20% house cut.
*All players will receive seeding points to the 4v4 tournament on Sat, Dec. 13th. The higher you place in the 2v2, the higher you will be seeded.

RESULTS

**Seeding points for the 4v4 will be announced soon

1st: $484, xx Seeding Points
Get Krank'd

2nd: $264, xx Seeding Points
Explicit Content

3rd: $132, xx Seeding Points
Love Letters

4th: xx Seeding Points
Above The Clouds

5th-6th (Round 6):xx Seeding Points
Best Kept Secret
Breakdown

7th-8th (Round 5): xx Seeding Points
CSI Miami
FRAG

9th-12th (Round 4): xx Seeding Points
That Just Happened
Pro/zac
Vengeance
Backfire

13-16th (Round 3): xx Seeding Points
Volatile
Pressure Fire
OMFG
Stomped Out

17-21st (Round 2): xx Seeding Points
Honey Bunches and Oats
CutThroat
WLM
Hungry Hungry Hobos
G5.2

22-31st (Round 1): xx Seeding Points
Byes (no teams had matches in R1 Losers)

RESCHEDULED to Jan. 3rd, 2009

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Tournament Format

- 4 vs 4
- Teams will be seeded via results from the 2v2 tournament. If you don't attend the 2v2, you will be seeded in last place along with all other teams that don't have seeding points.
- Double-elimination (lose once means play harder, lose twice means go home).
- Winners bracket will be Slayer, Objective, Slayer. Losers bracket will be all TS until Finals/Semi-Finals. Best of 5's will be used for WB Finals and LB Finals matches. Overall finals will either be a best of 9 (first to 5) with previous scores between the teams accounted for, or if the two finalists have not competed against each other at all until the finals, it will be two best of 5's (the LB Finalist team needs to beat the WB Finalist team in 2 sets of best of 5s, whereas the WB Finalist team only needs to be the LB Finalist team once due to double-eliminiation).
- Coaches allowed for free. Spectating is free. Substitutions will be allowed only on my discretion.
- MLG v5 (or v6 if available) will be used. We will not be using Onslaught, Amplified, or Blackout. Visit www.mlgpro.com for more information on MLG's gametypes and variants.

Schedule

- We open at 11:00am, no exceptions. Don't show up before 11.
- Registration begins at 11:15am and ends at 11:45pm. The tournament will be starting between 12:00 noon to 1:00pm.
- Show up early for registration to guarantee yourself a spot in the tournament. We will not delay the tournament if you are running late.
- The entrance fee is $25 per player/$100 per team if you pre-register, or $30 per player/$120 per team if you register the day of the tournament. Pre-registration ends on midnight the night before the tournament. You are NOT required to pre-pay to pre-register.

Pre-Registration

Pre-registration is ONLY available by posting in this thread. You can change your roster or team name at any time.

REGISTRATION FORMAT (copy and paste)
Tournament:
Team Name:
Player 1:
Player 2:
Player 3:
Player 4:

**If you have already pre-registered a team that is no longer attending, please include the previous team name after your newly registered team information.

Beyond Your CalibuR
iTz AmNeSiA
iTz Flavvless
iTz Talentz
I Killsvvitch I

CutThroat
Ix Rewind xI
Phenom
Fs FourShot
MLG R4mpage

paradox
weakness
zuck
droc
sledge

We Rike Pancakes
Benkinz
Trippyy
The Retical
Kryme

Volatile
iTz Mania
iTz AmNeSiA
iTz Wild
iTz Flavvless

All Business
ab shady
ab gex
ab flight
ab frozen

Hayabusas Ridin Dirty
Tedums the Noob
Thug iZ RAW
BBQ MY HOUSE
boy745698213054

Legal Controllers

Wired controllers preferred. Wireless is allowed, but you must keep your battery pack at home. You can either bring a play-n-charge cable, or you can borrow one from us if we have any left (not guaranteed). You will be disqualified from the tournament if we see you with a battery pack in your controller, regardless if you have batteries in it. Consider this your first warning. I will remind everyone of this before the tournament starts... but if you don't want to risk it, either leave your batter pack at home or don't bring a wireless controller.

Prizes

1st Place: 55% of entrance fees
2nd Place: 30% of entrance fees
3rd Place: 15% of entrance fees
*Prizes will be given in cash.
*All percentages are after a 20% house cut.

Frequently Asked Questions

Q: How many teams are you expecting?
A: You can always ask in this thread for an update of pre-registered teams. I can't predict how many teams there will be for GoW2 considering the game will have just come out. For Halo 3 4v4 tournaments, we had 10 teams at our May tournament, 16 teams at our July tournament, 12 at our August tournament, and 20 at our October tournament. Unfortunately, there are no guaranteed prizes -- it completely depends no how many teams attend.

Q: How long will the tournament last?
A: We try to run our tournaments in the most time-efficient way possible; however, with only 8 TVs, double-elimination and a minimum of best of 3 maps, you can hopefully understand why this may prove to be difficult. Our Halo 3 tournaments last the ENTIRE day, sometimes ending as late as midnight or even later. Unless you're expecting to get knocked out first round, try to plan ahead for a full day of gaming!

Q: What type of parental supervision is there?
A: Although we have never had any problems with this in the past, we are unable to keep track of every single minor that attends our tournaments with 60+ people all walking around and coming in and out.

Q: What can we do while we wait?
A: We MAY have a TV setup with a game for people to play depending on how busy we are. There's a McDonalds, Chinese restaurant, and a Quiznos all right next to us. For parents, there is a mall and movie theater about 10 minutes away on Route 9. Unfortunately, you may find yourself waiting to play for long periods of time during the early rounds until some of the teams are knocked out (literally hours between matches). Again, we will try to speed things up as fast as possible.

Q: Can we talk trash and start fights during your tournament?
A: Although some trash talk while you are playing is unavoidable, any problems outside of a Halo match will be dealt with accordingly. Keep in mind that Technicals will be given out (warning + loss of host for your next map) for excessive taunting during a match. Vulgarity directed towards any individual in the store will result in an automatic Technical. Please act like adults or you will be asked to leave.

Q: What if I have a question that is not listed above?
A: Feel free to post here. The more bumps this thread gets, the more players will see the tournament!

own-dizzle · #2 11-06-2008

sounds pretty professional; just not a lotta people here may go, but hey, good luck

BIinky · 07:22 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by own-dizzle

sounds pretty professional; just not a lotta people here may go, but hey, good luck

Actually, our tournaments posted here have been doing well for months! This is our fifth tournament posted here and we always have great success. You can even check out our last thread: http://tinyurl.com/6p6cb7

BIinky · #4 11-07-2008

Bump .

MudVayne · #5 11-08-2008

nice, sounds sick

BIinky · #6 11-08-2008

Date changes... 2v2 changed to Dec 13th and 4v4 changed to Dec 20th. Hopefully there won't be any scheduling conflicts with it so close to Christmas, but we have too many other events -- it's either these days or nothing til mid January.

BIinky · #7 11-08-2008

People at the last tournament were talking about how they found out about it via the MLG forums. Some people even said there was a section for local tournaments... but from what I can tell, there's no such section and posting of local tournaments gets you banned. Any ideas for how to post over there or get permission to link to this thread?