I would like to plant a 4v4 capture the flag tournament, in mid/late October before the release of the second one. I am not talking about a little kiddie one with a few friends and there buddies, here is a brief/overview of what I am thinking and would love any postive/negative comments.
32 teams, single elimination, each match would be best of 3, each team selects a map (from a list) and it goes to 3rd map then that is random. Each match would have a cap of oh.....I dunno 1.5 hours?
There would be a preliminary round based on 4v4 Team Slayer against several teams to determine your seed, sort of like the NCAA March Madness.
I am thinkng $75-$100 per team of 4 as entry team, half of the money would go to winners/covering costs (which I will go into later) and other half going to charity. (Yes I am making this a charity event)
I think this would be a great success, so many people play Halo, and just based on a tournament in the dorms last year, I feel I should be able to get enough teams, I go to a college town (UC Davis) and halo ranks up there as quality male bonding time next to drinking.
Several minor details I am concerned with.
I would largely be running the show, advertising/marketing/etc etc etc. That is a lot of work and I already have a ton of stuff to do. I am more then likely going to run this through my frat (We have a really bad image and one of the many many reasons I am doing this is to show people we are not that....bad.) So I might be able to con a few of them into helping me but hmm we'll see.
Location, recently our school just built a new gym/student memorial union, arc.ucdavis.edu and is quite a nice place actually, anyways it is pretty big and also includes several ball rooms and I feel this would be the most suitable place due to central location and discount since I will be considered a student group. However it is a tad bit pricey, still gotta get the exact prices, but from an estimate I received $200-400 a day if the event is less then 6 hours. That has to be the biggest concern, not sure if I can have the even in that given time.
I would like some sponsors such as some various stores to give out prizes to include for the winners, maybe a raffle, how likely would this occur? Again this is for a charitable cause.
Details of the game would be another huge concern, are there any cheats out? Do I need referees everyone for possible disputes. Settings? Other then No radar, no death bonus and that such I am up for anything.
Equipment, no way in hell do I think I can get 18 or so TV's of the exact size and Xboxes and controllers. My plan was to have people bring there own, but limiting TV's to X inches. However again the possibility of modded x boxes with cheats is a concern.
Just a few things that I came up with, again I would LOVE your input, if you think can pull this whole shindig off or...say f it.
32 teams, single elimination, each match would be best of 3, each team selects a map (from a list) and it goes to 3rd map then that is random. Each match would have a cap of oh.....I dunno 1.5 hours?
There would be a preliminary round based on 4v4 Team Slayer against several teams to determine your seed, sort of like the NCAA March Madness.
I am thinkng $75-$100 per team of 4 as entry team, half of the money would go to winners/covering costs (which I will go into later) and other half going to charity. (Yes I am making this a charity event)
I think this would be a great success, so many people play Halo, and just based on a tournament in the dorms last year, I feel I should be able to get enough teams, I go to a college town (UC Davis) and halo ranks up there as quality male bonding time next to drinking.
Several minor details I am concerned with.
I would largely be running the show, advertising/marketing/etc etc etc. That is a lot of work and I already have a ton of stuff to do. I am more then likely going to run this through my frat (We have a really bad image and one of the many many reasons I am doing this is to show people we are not that....bad.) So I might be able to con a few of them into helping me but hmm we'll see.
Location, recently our school just built a new gym/student memorial union, arc.ucdavis.edu and is quite a nice place actually, anyways it is pretty big and also includes several ball rooms and I feel this would be the most suitable place due to central location and discount since I will be considered a student group. However it is a tad bit pricey, still gotta get the exact prices, but from an estimate I received $200-400 a day if the event is less then 6 hours. That has to be the biggest concern, not sure if I can have the even in that given time.
I would like some sponsors such as some various stores to give out prizes to include for the winners, maybe a raffle, how likely would this occur? Again this is for a charitable cause.
Details of the game would be another huge concern, are there any cheats out? Do I need referees everyone for possible disputes. Settings? Other then No radar, no death bonus and that such I am up for anything.
Equipment, no way in hell do I think I can get 18 or so TV's of the exact size and Xboxes and controllers. My plan was to have people bring there own, but limiting TV's to X inches. However again the possibility of modded x boxes with cheats is a concern.
Just a few things that I came up with, again I would LOVE your input, if you think can pull this whole shindig off or...say f it.
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