VG Shrine - The Rundown of Events for Alcon 2012

[SpatanNinja]

- All signups will be shown at the entrance to the Modern VG area over the three days.
- Most tournaments are free to enter and will give a prize.
- All tournaments allow you the option to bring your own controller if you wish.
- For tournaments which cost (This will be noted below), all cash is split in a 60-30-10 fashion for 1st-2nd-3rd.


Stakes Tournaments

Name: Super Meatboy Speed Run
Time: All Day, everyday until 4pm Sunday
Rules: To put it simply, this will be a speedrun of the first set of levels (Zone 1: Forest, including the BOSS). Times will be noted and put onto our handy Super Meatboy Scoreboard of red meatpaste and the top three places will win the pot (Divided, as described above 60-30-10). Come and have a go if you think your quick enough!
Entry Cost: £1
Additional Information: The pot will be divided up and presented to the top three placements at the Closing Ceremony.

Name: Super Mario Speed Run
Time: All Day, everyday until 4pm Sunday
Rules: To put it simply, this will be a speedrun of the first set of levels (1-1 through to 1-4, including Bowser). Times will be noted on a handy board for plumber strength and the top three places will win the pot (Divided, as described above: 60-30-10). Come and have a little fun!
Entry Cost: £1
Additional Information: The pot will be divided up and presented to the top three placements at the Closing Ceremony.


Late Night Gaming
Though I will have to confirm this with the people on high (@Ferefire ), there was a suggestion made by @Ziegsy in regards to a Haunted House type thing. I was going to host such a thing on Friday and Saturday Night from 11pm to 1am for those of you that want a little casual scare.


Free Tournaments Friday 7th September
10am Open - 10pm Close
Team Day!

Name: Geometry Wars
Time: 12 Noon - 2pm
Rules: An awesome little Indy game that a friend introduced me to... The object of the game is to remain alive while shooting at little moving targets and gaining a high score. For those of you that are aware of this game... This will be a King Of The Hill tournament. Partner with a friend to try and wipe the floor score wise of your opponents!
Additional Information: Free Entry. Prizes TBA.

Name: Forza Motorsport 4
Time: 2pm - 4pm
Rules: Time trials seem to be the king of the day for this game. Highest score over the two hours takes the prize. Think you can manage?
Additional Information: Free Entry. Prizes TBA.

Name: Guitar Hero
Time: 4pm - 6pm
Rules: Not a team game in this instance, Guitar Hero is well loved by all who play it. Take your stand as you play through songs of popular or unpopular measure and be the best you can be. Battle friends alike and come out on top!
Additional Information: Free Entry. Prizes TBA.

Name: Call of Duty: Black Ops - ZOMBIES!
Time: 6pm to 10pm
Rules: It's survive or get nommed! Teams of four are required for this action packed survival shooter. The team with the highest round number (Yes, this means it could take a while, but this is where social gaming and commentary come in), wins points for their core team (Ninja, Pirate or Vampire). That's all there is to it!
Additional Information: Free Entry. Prizes TBA.

Name: Left 4 Dead 1/2
Time: 6pm - 10pm
Rules: This isn't going to be much of a tournament and more of a, "Come and have a go if you think your hard enough". It is my hope to have two teams of four (An 8 player game, essentially). Survival is key... And don't forget the shotgun!
Additional Information: Free Entry. Prizes TBA.




Free Tournaments Saturday 8th September
10am Open - 10pm Close
Versus Day!

Name: Marvel Vs Capcom 3 (Xbox 360)
Time: 10am - Noon
Rules: One on one fighting in this knockout elimination tournament! He who dares, wins!
Additional Information: Free Entry. Prizes TBA. Bring your own controller

Name: Halo Reach - Massive Battles!
Time: 12 Noon - 2pm
Rules: The rules? There are no rules. Win the game! Frag your opponents. We are hoping to get several setups of this to make it as humanly AWESOME as possible. The more the better! Highest 3 people of frags wins the match and goes through!
Additional Information: Free Entry. Prizes TBA.

[/B]Name: Super Smash Brothers Brawl
Time: 2pm - 4pm
Rules: Following the highly successful games of SSBB that have been had over the past year, we are proud to offer another tournament!
Additional Information: Free Entry. Prizes TBA.

[/B]Name: Super Mario Kart Wii
Time: 4pm - 6pm
Rules: Mario Kart at its finest! Rules are simple... Place as high as you can in a single race elimination matchup! The final four will then go for four races (Mario GP, basically).
Additional Information: Free Entry. Prizes TBA.

Name: Mini-Game Heaven
Time: 6pm - 7pm
Rules: The object? Complete as many mini-games as you can muster. I'm going to work with my team to give you the best possible selection. Should be good fun!
Additional Information: Free Entry. Prizes TBA.

Name: Mario Party
Time: 7pm - 10pm
Rules: Mario Party! One of those types of games that's very good for its minigames and core community gaming. And yes, we will be hosting a little tournament. Top players will go through. Its really that simple.
Additional Information: Free Entry. Prizes TBA.

Name: Guitar Hero - Battles
Time: 7pm - 10pm
Rules: Do you think you have the skill to take down your opponent in a direct one-on-one Guitar Hero duel? Well, here's your chance. The highest score goes through as you attempt to keep up with your opponent. Game on!
Additional Information: Free Entry. Prizes TBA.




Free Tournaments Sunday 9th September
10am Open - 4pm Close
Everything else we can't fit in day!

Name: Indy Day
Time: 11am - 4pm
Rules: Not officially a tournament, but a theme for the day is Indy games! Now, there are some very very good Indy games on the XBox Live Marketplace like Splosion Man, Super Meat Boy, Geometry Wars and the like... And I intend to have them ALL playing. Come and play, have a bit of fun and generally be AWESOME.
Additional Information: Free Entry. No prizes involved.

Name: Pokemon Stadium (N64)
Time: 11am - 1pm
Rules: The only one of its type that is being run in the mainstream console room, Pokemon Stadium is a simple game to pick up and play. One-On-One Pokemon fights. Choose your team and smash your opponents.
Additional Information: Free Entry. Prizes TBA.

Name: Dissidia Duodecim
Time: 1pm - 3pm
Rules: Dissidia. A game that was requested for LAC5 that didn't unfortunately take off. If your wanting to participate, please bring your own copy of the game and a PSP. Fights will be played on two televisions (I have the cables necessary) so people can watch and observe! Arcade stock characters... Fight and win to progress through. Do you have what it takes to save/ruin the day? xD
Additional Information: Free Entry. Prizes TBA. Bring your own game.

[SpatanNinja]

Feel free to make requests, present ideas and so on below! I will be watching <3

[Kanada]

There needs to be a rock band tournament, and some level of shooter contest.
Basically less beat 'em ups

[SpatanNinja]

There needs to be a rock band tournament, and some level of shooter contest.
Basically less beat 'em ups

Oh, I agree xD

[The White Mage]

Ive noticed that there haven't been much racing games what if there where a time trail competition on something like mario kart?

[Kanada]

A mario time trial would be good as it can run all weekend and the in game leader board does all the work.

Though an actual none-Mario reaching game would be fun too.
Even if these different tournaments only get 5 or 6 people its still fun

[Bunny-chan]

A rockband tournie should be an obvious one. Though can I ask for the option to include keys? I was pretty annoyed it got left out at Kita. Its not like you cant play the bass/guitar parts on it too if people want to do a non-keys song...

A shooter would be fun, but choosing the game would be the biggest problem. Im going to selfishly also add on Black ops zombies to this just because I love me some goddamn zombies. See which team can get to the highest round. You would just need someone to take not of map, team and round then.

Some old stuff would be fun. Screw with peoples basic understanding of how shooters are supposed to be controlled by putting them on South Park (PS1)?

I think an xbox with some of the best indie games (or games that make you rage) would be fun. Like super meat boy or the impossible game or techno kitty adventure or ninja (fucking D8<) sneaking. Indie games need more appreciation because there really are some AMAZING ones out there.

A racing game would make a nice change. I guess the mario one isnt too bad but maybe a real one could be introduced? And maybe other sport games too? I get we're anime nerds but we like things that arent just 'spam this button to win' beat 'em up crap that the games room is usually full of.

Just a nice variety of different games with, maybe, a section that isnt for a specified game but more a cool down section with a choice of different games.

[Kanada]

Kayleigh the issue with RB keys is that to make a band set list with enough decent songs on keys means you neep copious amounts od DLC and even then there is about 2 good songs that have enough keys and other instruments parts to get points.
I say at least have the keys to play day to day.

XBLA games require an internet connection to play more than the trial vetsion (indie or otherwise)

Zombies contest sounds fun as you can do each map highest round over weekend, like mario carts time trials.

South Park on the ps1? Bring it on, I can thrash that game as you well know xp




Also , make it so rock band/guitar hero DOESN'T over power the rest of the vg room volume wise, because I want to hear my gaming both normally and in contests.
Setiously, a halo tournament where you can't hear your own gun is b/s, same for the GoW one.



Do a Gears of War 3 wingman/brothers to the end tournament

[StrawberryMoshi]

Would it be worth having a few pairs of headphones kicking about so people can listen to the sound personally if they want the volume up.
Then if there's a tournie going on they get priority over general sound volume and the rest have to use headphones if they really need sound.
That way your halo tournie can have sound up but also the rock band tournie can have sound up when its their turn.

[Kanada]

Gaming headphones are expensive sadly, and generic ones aren't great.

They should use a bigger room or put the loud music games into thier own room and idk, put beat em ups or racing games in there too as they dont need sound up high as much, then have shooters and rest in seperate room

[StrawberryMoshi]

I'm pretty sure people could deal with using cheap headphones. It's a shared space so they have to compromise.
If it means being able to hear your music while playing guitar hero etc and without annoying others then I'm sure people would do it.

[Kanada]

I'd happidly use headphones if they were provided, I just can't see a con forking out for them

[StrawberryMoshi]

It's something for them to think about at least cause the games colliding with sound volumes is an issue that's been brought up a few times. And apart from splitting them up into different rooms like you said, I can't think of another solution.

[SpatanNinja]

Evening guys! Thanks for the responses! I'm well chuffed! Okay, let me go through the posts and respond to them as best as I can! ^.^

A mario time trial would be good as it can run all weekend and the in game leader board does all the work.

This we can certainly do, considering the ease of setting up a Wii. Its certainly something to be considered for a long weekend event (Finishing at say 3pm on Sunday with the winner potentially announced at the closing ceremony. Sounds like a good plan to me)

Though an actual none-Mario reaching game would be fun too.
Even if these different tournaments only get 5 or 6 people its still fun

Sometimes, they are. But I like to have lots of people involved. Call me old fashioned, but these things are meant to be social gaming, you know?

A rockband tournie should be an obvious one. Though can I ask for the option to include keys? I was pretty annoyed it got left out at Kita. Its not like you cant play the bass/guitar parts on it too if people want to do a non-keys song...

I'm sorry, but I do have to agree with Kanada here. Finding good songs for the KB is a pain in the butt... Not to mention that I don't actually own (Nor have I seen offered) a KB for Rockband/GH. I personally don't mind spending a little cash, but... For ease, I'd rather keep things as simple as possible. Though its certainly something to consider for the future.

A shooter would be fun, but choosing the game would be the biggest problem. Im going to selfishly also add on Black ops zombies to this just because I love me some goddamn zombies. See which team can get to the highest round. You would just need someone to take not of map, team and round then.

Yes. I'm hoping to get some LAN setups with XBox 360s for things like Zombie Call of Duty and Halo and such. Again, good idea and I'll have a natter with some super special friends (@Deathtopia ) to see how possible this is to do. Probably next week in fact, when we meet up for the pre-meet.

Some old stuff would be fun. Screw with peoples basic understanding of how shooters are supposed to be controlled by putting them on South Park (PS1)?

Well, I can confirm that there is going to be a Retro Zone specific at Alcon, hosted by Retroactive, which will contain a lot of the older consoles, games and awesomeness <3

A racing game would make a nice change. I guess the mario one isnt too bad but maybe a real one could be introduced? And maybe other sport games too? I get we're anime nerds but we like things that arent just 'spam this button to win' beat 'em up crap that the games room is usually full of.

Yes! Absolutely! Especially if we allow time trials, same car, same track, make notes of best time kinda stuff. ^.^

Would it be worth having a few pairs of headphones kicking about so people can listen to the sound personally if they want the volume up.
Then if there's a tournie going on they get priority over general sound volume and the rest have to use headphones if they really need sound.
That way your halo tournie can have sound up but also the rock band tournie can have sound up when its their turn.

Okay. This one is actually difficult. People are more than welcome to bring in their own equipment if they want to game privately... However, a convention is hardly the place to be solitude in your gaming experiences. I like to hear people chattering away about their things, which is hardly endorced if people are sitting on a console with a pair of headphones on playing away. I'm going to say, for the moment, that this just isn't the setting I'm hoping to achieve. Sorry. However, that doesn't mean that I'm not going to listen. I am hoping to keep the louder games (RB and so on), seperate from the quieter games. That's my hope, anyway... Or just put it on a TV that can't be fiddled around with volume wise, which was the main problem last year at Alcon.

For the moment, I think that covers all the questions that have already been given! If you want to ask me something directly, feel free to page me, otherwise, keep it up in here and I'll respond when I can ^.^

[Jefferus]

Oh yeah do you guys still want my hardrive and copy of RB3 (xbox360)