Season 2 - Individual Player Events Plan and Discussion

Similar to the other thread (the team one), but for individual events. Will try to incorporate as much as possible the past feedback, but only if it does not increase my workload more than I already put in season 1.

The current plan is to have 3 events (once a month) leading to a title match set in the fourth month (3 players from the events plus the current title holder). The 3 events will be:

1. Round Robin to Single Elimination - VF Circuit/VFR Format
2. Double Elimination - Standard Fighting Game Tournament Format
3. Special - Some random format to be decided.

So it looks like for 2013 - we can fit in one title match, but if the VF Circuit still have a life, this would mean there will be 3 title matches every year onwards.

 

After Sega Cup Europe...likely September to December

 

They will be occurring in the same time period.

With the individual events - the plan is that the schedule will be set in stone by me (except for the "title matches" which will allow the winners to agree on a set time and date). The goal of Season 2 individual events is to adapt what people liked from Season 1 to the new season.

With the team events - the plan is to make it very flexible for the 2 teams that are scheduled to compete. I'm hoping to post a draft of how the teams will be competing with each other, how teams with more than 3 players will work (two teams beings fielded simultaneously or bench players within a team match). The plans I have for the team events is to try to meet some of the goals I failed to accomplish in Season 1.

A major change for the upcoming season is to completely remove Room Mode for the matches.

 

Desynchs too much of a hassle.

 

Since I have not posted a draft of how the team matches/format will play out (except posting some ideas of how it would run), I really have not posted anything that should convinced you it is less of a hassle . But since I am the main person organizing and running these events, believe me in that I will not be making it harder for me to run compared to Season 1.

I can assure you that I'm not just making things up and just hoping for the best. Things are thought out carefully even if the plans do not pan out (for example the desynch issues with PSN rooms from Season 1). I hope to have a draft of how the events will run posted soon.

But if you think rooms is the way to go, it would be more helpful to post exactly the benefits except just to say you are not convinced that it would be less of a hassle.