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When: August 15th, 2009 from 1:00pm onwards into the early morning!
Where: Ramada Minneapolis. We'll have a ballroom and a separate room for hospitality. Website: http://www.ramadaplazampls.com/index.html
Who: Neo-Geo guys, SRK guys, anybody you want to invite!
Entry Fee for the event: $10 Flat fee for all entrants
What: The best gathering of Minnesotan gamers. A bunch of free play of whatever the masses would like to bring and share with people, as well as tournaments. There's no limit on the games you bring, but make sure it's something interesting, amusing, or fun. Tournaments will be held for a $5 entry each, with a 60%/30%/10% split of the money going as prize cash to the top 3 of the tournament. Tournaments are designed, scheduled, and run with the uber help of Shogun17 (see page 3 for equipment list information):
It's long past time to start planning for the MN Summer Meltdown! I've spent the last couple days in contact with a few people about the planning stages of the gathering, and I'm ready to get this show rolling, but I want your support in making sure this is an event you will go to and will ENJOY going to. Get ready for some text, but make sure to read through because your involvement is what makes this happen.
My goals for the event:
1) To make this an event that can be cross-run by the Neo-Geo guys and others so that it maintains a level of integrity that you don't really find with a bunch of next-gen street fighter fans.
2) To ensure that the event is not EVO - it will contain tournaments but will be based on the fact that we MN people tend to like seeing each other and playing games together.
3) To build up good enough organization credit with you guys so that we can make a formidable Neo-Geo gathering in the winter which will be neo-centric.
Here's my proposal that I've talked about with Bobak and djdelly. At the end we can start discussion and whatever, because this is about what WE all want to do, so everything can be subject to change:
Gathering will be held at the Ramada in the place where the last summer gathering was (it was a Sheraton before), with a date possibly at the beginning of September or end of August if we're lucky, beginning with opening ceremonies at 2pm which would encourage people to come for the whole event, and likely continuing until 4am. We can also rent out a room for quiet time and refreshments, but that would probably be the sole purpose of the room - see below.
Entry fees will be based on whether or not people bring televisions, video games, and/or video game systems. Equipment lists will be organized between SRK and NG, with hopefully more things than actually will be needed. Main issue will of course be enough televisions to ensure tournaments move smoothly and quickly. There will be a desk at the front to sign in and pay money. I think it would be pretty sweet to get "Minnesota Meltdown VG Gathering - Summer 2009" lanyards with badges for names. We could batch order a hundred of those things for a decent price that could be made up in entry fees. That way we'd know if someone paid, and it also is a nice souvenir for going. If we get sponsorship, then it would be even easier to get the money to reserve the room and get this stuff.
Tournaments will be available for registry beforehand - I'd have to figure out a system - and at the site, likely at the same "desk" as the sign-in. The tournaments themselves will have classes by likelihood of participation:
Class S would be SFIII and IV, $10 entry. These would likely be held during prime time, somewhere around 8 or 10pm, but spaced out enough to let participants in both cool down. Class S tournaments will have a free play period for practice in the 15 minutes before the tournament.
Class A would be for $5. Games that are sure to be desired at the time, but this list could still be narrowed:
Samurai Showdown 2
King of Fighters 98
Garou: Mark of the Wolves
Guilty Gear XX: Accent Core
Capcom vs. SNK 2
Marvel vs. Capcom 2
Super Street Fighter II Turbo
Super Smash Bros. Brawl?
Class B would also be for $5 but these are more the side tournaments that depend on whether or not there are enough people. I don't expect many of these to make the final cut, but could be at the event for assorted playtime:
Magical Drop 3
Twinkle Star Sprites
Last Blade 2
Metal Slug X (Hi-Score Run)
Soul Calibur 4
Tekken 5: Dark Resurrection
Virtua Fighter 5
BlazBlue (could be in Class A, time will tell)
King of Fighters XII (same as BlazBlue)
Street Fighter Alpha 2 or 3
Puzzle Fighter
After that, the area would be carefully packed with other games to be played simultaneously so people can chill out and have that closeness that they like when meeting people. Non-tournament games could include games people brought from home, rock band, Magician's DS stuff, shooters, etc. Nothing too next-gen-ish, but the normal fun stuff. From the pictures of the Ramada, it looks like we could fit quite a lot of stuff in that one room, so I wouldn't imagine it would be that difficult. That's why the extra room would be for quiet. People will be allowed to bring food for that room, but must wash hands before returning to gaming.
Sometime around the SFIV tournament, because it will be prime time, we can get a group picture of pretty much everybody. With estimated attendance anywhere from 30-75 for the course of the day and night, that will probably be the height of the crowd.
On to the questions for the community
1) Does this sound appealing?
Subquestions: Does the tournament setup make sense? What games would you want to play? Is one day the better idea for the event? Would lanyards and badges be cool to have? Should we do food planning?
2) What dates would work?
I'm ready to start getting stuff planned, reserved, etc. and figured the NG guys would be the first to get asked. Once we have a set plan, we can coordinate with the SRK guys and figure that out as well.
I think this year could be effing awesome.
When: August 15th, 2009 from 1:00pm onwards into the early morning!
Where: Ramada Minneapolis. We'll have a ballroom and a separate room for hospitality. Website: http://www.ramadaplazampls.com/index.html
Who: Neo-Geo guys, SRK guys, anybody you want to invite!
Entry Fee for the event: $10 Flat fee for all entrants
What: The best gathering of Minnesotan gamers. A bunch of free play of whatever the masses would like to bring and share with people, as well as tournaments. There's no limit on the games you bring, but make sure it's something interesting, amusing, or fun. Tournaments will be held for a $5 entry each, with a 60%/30%/10% split of the money going as prize cash to the top 3 of the tournament. Tournaments are designed, scheduled, and run with the uber help of Shogun17 (see page 3 for equipment list information):
It's long past time to start planning for the MN Summer Meltdown! I've spent the last couple days in contact with a few people about the planning stages of the gathering, and I'm ready to get this show rolling, but I want your support in making sure this is an event you will go to and will ENJOY going to. Get ready for some text, but make sure to read through because your involvement is what makes this happen.
My goals for the event:
1) To make this an event that can be cross-run by the Neo-Geo guys and others so that it maintains a level of integrity that you don't really find with a bunch of next-gen street fighter fans.
2) To ensure that the event is not EVO - it will contain tournaments but will be based on the fact that we MN people tend to like seeing each other and playing games together.
3) To build up good enough organization credit with you guys so that we can make a formidable Neo-Geo gathering in the winter which will be neo-centric.
Here's my proposal that I've talked about with Bobak and djdelly. At the end we can start discussion and whatever, because this is about what WE all want to do, so everything can be subject to change:
Gathering will be held at the Ramada in the place where the last summer gathering was (it was a Sheraton before), with a date possibly at the beginning of September or end of August if we're lucky, beginning with opening ceremonies at 2pm which would encourage people to come for the whole event, and likely continuing until 4am. We can also rent out a room for quiet time and refreshments, but that would probably be the sole purpose of the room - see below.
Entry fees will be based on whether or not people bring televisions, video games, and/or video game systems. Equipment lists will be organized between SRK and NG, with hopefully more things than actually will be needed. Main issue will of course be enough televisions to ensure tournaments move smoothly and quickly. There will be a desk at the front to sign in and pay money. I think it would be pretty sweet to get "Minnesota Meltdown VG Gathering - Summer 2009" lanyards with badges for names. We could batch order a hundred of those things for a decent price that could be made up in entry fees. That way we'd know if someone paid, and it also is a nice souvenir for going. If we get sponsorship, then it would be even easier to get the money to reserve the room and get this stuff.
Tournaments will be available for registry beforehand - I'd have to figure out a system - and at the site, likely at the same "desk" as the sign-in. The tournaments themselves will have classes by likelihood of participation:
Class S would be SFIII and IV, $10 entry. These would likely be held during prime time, somewhere around 8 or 10pm, but spaced out enough to let participants in both cool down. Class S tournaments will have a free play period for practice in the 15 minutes before the tournament.
Class A would be for $5. Games that are sure to be desired at the time, but this list could still be narrowed:
Samurai Showdown 2
King of Fighters 98
Garou: Mark of the Wolves
Guilty Gear XX: Accent Core
Capcom vs. SNK 2
Marvel vs. Capcom 2
Super Street Fighter II Turbo
Super Smash Bros. Brawl?
Class B would also be for $5 but these are more the side tournaments that depend on whether or not there are enough people. I don't expect many of these to make the final cut, but could be at the event for assorted playtime:
Magical Drop 3
Twinkle Star Sprites
Last Blade 2
Metal Slug X (Hi-Score Run)
Soul Calibur 4
Tekken 5: Dark Resurrection
Virtua Fighter 5
BlazBlue (could be in Class A, time will tell)
King of Fighters XII (same as BlazBlue)
Street Fighter Alpha 2 or 3
Puzzle Fighter
After that, the area would be carefully packed with other games to be played simultaneously so people can chill out and have that closeness that they like when meeting people. Non-tournament games could include games people brought from home, rock band, Magician's DS stuff, shooters, etc. Nothing too next-gen-ish, but the normal fun stuff. From the pictures of the Ramada, it looks like we could fit quite a lot of stuff in that one room, so I wouldn't imagine it would be that difficult. That's why the extra room would be for quiet. People will be allowed to bring food for that room, but must wash hands before returning to gaming.
Sometime around the SFIV tournament, because it will be prime time, we can get a group picture of pretty much everybody. With estimated attendance anywhere from 30-75 for the course of the day and night, that will probably be the height of the crowd.
On to the questions for the community
1) Does this sound appealing?
Subquestions: Does the tournament setup make sense? What games would you want to play? Is one day the better idea for the event? Would lanyards and badges be cool to have? Should we do food planning?
2) What dates would work?
I'm ready to start getting stuff planned, reserved, etc. and figured the NG guys would be the first to get asked. Once we have a set plan, we can coordinate with the SRK guys and figure that out as well.
I think this year could be effing awesome.
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) you gots to have a tourney's for the games most people are going to enter. 
