(Seattle, WA) End of Summer 2012 - Sept. 22-23

Seattle VS has just announced that Capcom is also Officially a Sponsor of End of Summer 2012 ^_^

 

Confirmed sponsors, contributing to the ~$10K in prizes
(there may still be more to be announced even, I'm actually sure of it)

I will also be editing this list of sponsors when more sponsors are announced ^_^

 

While I (Chanchai) am working on figuring out a pre-paid, pre-scheduled, low-cost Food Run system for the VF players at the tournament--this excellent article from Seattle Versus should help out of towners know their options for nearby food at End of Summer ^_^

Hungry and don’t want to go too far from the Venue? Have no Fear! Food is Near!

Now everyone is probably wondering “hey where can I get food and how close is it? well you’re in luck! Since we’re practically in the heart of Downtown Seattle, Restaurants and fast food places are all over the place! So here’s a list of a couple of places around the venue that everyone can check out!

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PALOMINO’S
1420 5th Ave, Seattle WA (251 ft NE from the Venue)
Italian Restaurant - Price Range $$
Just right across the street from the venue and offers All Day Happy Hour plus one of the few place in Downtown Seattle that validates parking!
HAPPY HOUR MENUhttp://www.palomino.com/menu.php?c=seattle&id=Happy
FULL MENUhttp://www.palomino.com/menu.php?c=seattle

JIMMY JOHN’S
1420 5th Ave (192 ft NE from venue same building as Palomino’s)
Deli – Price Range $
“Subs so fast you’ll freak”
FULL MENUhttp://www.jimmyjohns.com/menu/menu.aspx

SPECIALTY’S CAFE & BAKERY1400 5th Ave (161 ft E. Just at the corner across the street from the Venue)
Deli/ Bakery – Price Range $
“Fresh baked cookies and Deli Sandwiches”
FULL MENUhttp://www.specialtys.com/2012/Menu.aspx

POTBELLY SANDWICH SHOP1429 4th Ave (299 ft W located on near the 4th Ave enterance of the Venue)
Deli – Price Range $
“Potbelly Sandwich Shop – Good vibes, great sandwiches at your neighborhood sandwich shop.”
FULL MENU
http://www.potbelly.com/Food/OurMenu.aspx?subPage=Sandwiches

THE CHEESECAKE FACTORY700 Pike Street (0.2 mi NE from the Venue across the street from Gameworks and the Convention Centre)
American Restaurant – Price Range $$
“The Cheesecake Factory offers something for everyone featuring a wide variety of over 200 menu items prepared fresh to order each day, plus over 30 legendary varieties of the Finest Cheesecake”
FULL MENU
http://www.thecheesecakefactory.com/menu/welcome/Welcome
For more locations and restaurants check out this link!
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=5th+ave+red+lion&rls=com.microsoft:en-US:IE-Address&oe=UTF-8&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&sa=N&tab=wl

Source: http://www.seattleversus.com/archives/1398

 

Some Heads Up:

• In less than 10 days, registration for End of Summer will go up.
  • Pre-Registration Site
• If you book the following hotel before August 28th, you can get an excellent deal at $89.00 (plus tax) a night for up to 4 People! This reserved block for EOS players expires on the 28th due to demand for the NFL game the weekend of EOS.
  • Sixth Ave. Inn
  • 2000 Sixth Ave. Seattle, WA 98121
  • 800-648-6440

 

Some End Of Summer Planning Reminders:
1) From Portland or Vancouver, you can take the Bolt But to Seattle for typically around $15 per way. Sometimes as low as $5, sometimes as high as $30, I've typically seen $13 from Portland. www.boltbus.com

2) Kamaiis Ookin and R_Panda are looking for roommates. The deal is insanely cheap as you'd be looking at under $30 a night and I think that's after taxes too.

3) There's some good food around the tournament. However, we are still working out an affordable, efficient, and does not mess with your schedule meal system for anyone wanting to opt-in to this. If you want in on this or you are curious, Private Message me.

4) You can still register at the early registration price if you use the following coupon code by the end of this weekend: LATEREG10

5) END OF SUMMER IS GOING TO BE AWESOME FOR ALL GAMES!
For Virtua Fighter alone, we have players from Canada, Washington, Idaho, Oregon, and yes--California coming! Furthermore, we are planning to have a lot of awesome casual sessions and just a lot of great times!

 

An important message from the man running the event:

Chanchai's Tip:
Try out the promo code: LATEREG10

Also, it is important to understand that if you were going to be seeding (and I am running the brackets), it will be set in stone based on the players registering before the 18th. Therefore, people doing the registration on the emergency badge could be facing a tougher than otherwise bracket, since the seeding will be built around the early registrations.

 

The Virtua Fighter 5: Final Showdown tournament @ END OF SUMMER 2012 is planned for Sunday morning!

After a lot of consideration, I have asked Shandor to have the VF5FS Tournament on Sunday morning. There are pros and cons to this and I will go over why I felt this was the best decision. This does not represent Shandor's reasoning (it could, but you'd have to ask him) but it represents mine ^_^

First the cons:
1) Not being on Saturday, and more specifically not being in the evening (and Saturday evening was possible) we give up potential exposure and audience.

2) In the past, players have tried to not play casuals with potential opponents before a tournament. I URGE ALL VF PLAYERS NOT TO DO THIS. The reason is, a big part of this is the experience of meeting up regionally to play VF offline with people you do not play with regularly. Also, my experience GREATLY SUGGESTS that the players who play best in a tournament are those who practiced in casuals, even against potential opponents, even against stronger opponents. Denying yourself the practice and sharpening process that happens with serious casual matches on tournament weekend, at least for VF, has more often than not provided unsatisfactory results.

3) Players will have to wake up early and get to the tournament on time. End of Summer is expected to be run as a serious tournament, as if the players were professionals (not to be confused with celebrities). Being one of the first tournaments of any day, the burden falls on that event to run on time and to run smoothly to avoid the cascading effects of an overextending tournament day.

THE PROS:
1) Being a one-day tournament (which the VF tournament was likely to be unless it hit a ridiculously high amount of registered players) really eases the scheduling. The reason I am posting this now is because I want people to get a better sense of the schedule and we can start planning Saturdays and even Fridays.

2) A lot of people are obligated on Saturdays, now that I can tell people "it's on Sunday," there's a chance some more people can make it to this! Spread the word!

3) This is easier to manage for the tournament organizer and Sunday is a far smoother day than Saturday. We could have fought a big mess on Satuday with tons of overlapping tournaments and we could have even had starving gamers on Saturday night. My guess is, when I asked for Sunday, Shandor looked at the schedule and felt this was probably a load off of his back for scheduling!

4) We can now have awesome, awesome regional VF events on Friday and Saturday. We can even talk about team tournaments now!

5) I do not know what the last second tournament jumping policies at EOS are. But if players from say, Tekken Tag 2, decide they want to play in another tournament, this might give them a shot to add Sunday's VF tournament to their ticket--again, I don't know if this is allowed. But it's a possible upside. Not counting on it too much though.

6) Sunday morning makes it easier for people who have to leave Sunday late afternoon and also makes it easier for people coming into town on Saturday and not Friday!

7) This is going to give everyone the chance to get stronger in offline play before the tournament. Overall, this has a tournament strengthening effect for all players! This is especially true for people not used to playing VF offline.

8) This totally opens up Friday and Saturday for awesome VF related events! This also lets people enjoy their Saturday more if they're not playing in the other tournaments, and if they are playing in other tournaments, it frees up their constraints more!

Anyways, there are many more reasons... And this post was crazy long as usual, but I wanted to let you all know this. IT IS POSSIBLE the schedule changes, but I doubt it, I think we're locked in for Sunday, and I think it's a great thing. And I think Saturday casuals are going to be more awesome because of this too.

Also, Shandor has something to add!

 

I am really happy to confirm that MasaRED will be coming to End of Summer 2012!

Masa has been a fixture in North American Online VF, since VF5 on 360. He is consistently around the top of the rankings (and in legit fashion), he is one of the stronger players in North America, and on top of that he is an incredibly nice guy!

It is my pleasure and honor that he will be at End of Summer and I am excited to hang out, play casuals, and compete with him at End of Summer!

And hopefully... he will be participating in at least one of the team battles we are planning!

I am looking forward to announcing more confirmations later. We have a great field coming to End of Summer, I think everyone going to EOS and anyone watching the stream will find it very entertaining!

 

We are only days away from End of Summer 2012 and the VF activities are starting to shape up. The Final Showdown Tournament is scheduled for Sunday morning (10am, DO NOT BE LATE) and we are planning to have awesome VF events Friday & Saturday! Here is a basic sketch of what the schedule will be like, we may be filling it in more as we go along:

FRIDAY
* 7:00pm - Closing: There is an official EOS Meet & Greet at Sega Gameworks which is only 2 blocks away from the tournament! As a bonus, players at EOS can get 3 hour game cards for only $15! I believe this deal is valid all through the weekend

* Casual Sessions & Team Battles: EOS won't be open until Saturday, but we are currently looking at possible options for VF sessions. We also intend to have a team battle event going on for both Friday and Saturday. One of the more likely options right now is for everyone to get together and setup at Kamaiis Ookin & R_Panda's hotel room, which they have generously offered for Friday Night Virtua Fights. More info coming, but we could use more setups including monitors!

SATURDAY
* Noon - 1am: Casuals/Money Matches/Team Battles/Training @ the BYOC Area. This will probably be the hub of all VF activity at EOS, with plenty of fun stuff happening and a lot of training going on. Special Note: Only registered players may bring a console for the BYOC area.

* Group Dinner: This isn't fully planned yet, but I'm putting it up there that we can all head out to dinner as a group and that could be pretty fun. I'll let others chime in on their thoughts about this. Lots of good places around.

SUNDAY
* 10am - Finished: The Virtua Fighter 5: Final Showdown Tournament is scheduled to happen first thing Sunday morning. Do not be late, we have a tight schedule to run and late players will probably be defaulted swiftly.

* After the Tournament: More BYOC action with casuals, money matches, and whatever the group wants to propose we do!

* Raffles: The prizes at EOS are going to be insane. A ton of raffle prizes are up there and they cover the fighters and the PC gamers. Check out the sponsor list and start imagining some of the donated prizes ^_^

END OF SUMMER IS GOING TO BE AWESOME! This schedule is only a sketch of what we will probably do. Seattle is also a great place and a big part of going to this event is enjoying what's all around it!

We're going to end the Summer of 2012 with a bang!

 

sounds like fun! wish i could go!

lol $45 venue fee doe? XD

 

Man, really wish you could go too, Flash!

Yeah, this tournament is being held in a big space at the Red Lion in downtown Seattle. The last registration count (for the whole event) I heard was 300+ also. A portion of the fee is also going to charity as well.

That said, VF probably won't have a gigantic field, but it's going to have a damn competitive one. And we will be having money matches and team battles on the side. I wish I could announce some more of the players but for various reasons I cannot (or at least for trust's sake I should not). I will say that SOME (as in, not just one) of the roster did pretty darn well at Evo.

 

Looking forward too it.

 

I am happy to announce that AyuFanb0y (from Victoria, Canada) is also confirmed for End of Summer 2012!

AyuFanb0y had a stellar performance at Evo 2012 (including knocking Goat Cheese Blues into the loser's bracket before losing to Itazan and then losing to Goat Cheese Blues in that bracket's loser's finals) and is known as a strong player in online VF5FS. Furthermore, he is knowledgeable and capable of playing a large roster of characters including Akira, El Blaze, Kage, and Jeffry. Not to be taken lightly, he is definitely a top contender at EOS 2012!

 

Something I should clarify: VF at End of Summer is a tournament, but it is also a gathering!

We have a tournament with the arguable top player(s) from NorCal, BC, Seattle, Portland, and Idaho. It's a true regional in the competitive sense.

However, we also have a lot of open time on Friday and Saturday for the planned Team Battles, Money Matches, Training Matches, Competitive Sets, group dinners, etc! Heck, we might even have workshops for players interested in VF but are at EOS for other games!

Gathering Culture has always been a huge part of the VF experience in North America and I intend to replicate that at End of Summer 2012!

P.S. I'm tempted to run a workshop station with signage in the BYOC area on Saturday to encourage new players to learn VF directly.

Also, tempted to encourage R_Panda and Kamaiis Ookin to setup a "booth" where people not on a NWVF player list (the known competitive VF players in the regions represented) can pay $1.00 (maybe $2.00) to challenge either of the two players in a single game. If the challenger loses, well that's the $1.00 (maybe $2.00) to that player for their time. If the challenger wins, it's $5.00 to the challenger lol. But to troll on both those players, we'll just call it the VF Kissing (Kicking?) Booth.

 

any link for stream? and when it starts?

 

Hi All,

I've been having a great time here at End of Summer 2012, so a BIG THANKS to Shandor Collins of Gamebreakerz and SeattleVS for putting this wonderful event together!

HERE IS THE STREAM INFO:

The stream will be handled by Man of The Leaf: http://www.twitch.tv/manoftheleaf

The tournament is targeted to begin sometime between 11:30am and Noon on Sunday morning. This is Pacific Standard time (so sometime between 2:30am and 3pm Eastern Standard time).

About Man of the Leaf:

Chanchai's list of players to look out for (to be honest, this field is pretty competitive overall, but the players I list here should really be looked out for--also, I don't like putting myself on lists that I create):

• MasaRED (Seattle, WA)
• AyuFanb0y (Victoria, BC, Canada)
• Renzo (San Francisco, CA)
• Kamais Ookin (Victoria, BC, Canada)
• Buktooth (Seattle, WA)
• R_Panda (Portland, OR)

Again, in all honesty, there is an exciting field of players (and characters) at End of Summer and quite a few late-registrations. I find pretty much everyone I know of that is playing in this tournament entertaining to fight against and watch.
There is so much to say about all of the players here, but I'll write a quick blurb about some of the ones I have not mentioned yet.
I am very curious to see Afro-Cole in this tournament following some great action (and almost taking out Cid kid) at Summer Jam in Philly! I personally enjoy watching the VF growth of Duncan T, despite a suspect lack of training in VF lately it seems, but he has been on my personal watch list since FS came out (same as Buktooth who I still haven't seen play). Seattle has two El Blaze players that are very much worth watching and should not be underestimated in Mike B (aka Femto) and Shouta. Both are very entertaining and they favor different options from one another with El Blaze's games, both are always a threat. It's also pretty sweet seeing Goatrix show the love of VF from Idaho, coming all the way out to this tournament as well. Zass' Wolf is constantly improving and his mastery of the Hit Box improves--he is also highlighting the next trend in gamer gear--finger tape works really well with the Hit Box. Sorias' Aoi is much stronger offline and he represents Aoi well in this event! OMNE's been putting in the Vanessa training and is ready to take on all comers!

Frankly, I don't have high hopes for my placement in this tournament, but I AM VERY EXCITED TO SEE HOW IT PLAYS OUT!
Cheers!

 

Buktooth plays VF? And lives in Seattle now?

Looking forward to see the action today.

 

Hope we're talking about the same guy, Campbell Tran. Actually, I thought this one spelled it with just the K, this one is "Bucktooth" and he Top 8'd AE at Devastation in 2010. He plays VF, but he doesn't mention it much and he's kind of a mystery on VF (he's like a mystery in general actually) except that the people he does play with tell me he's like the strongest in that group. A lot of the regular Seattle VF players actually didn't know he plays VF until this week lol. I'm really looking forward to seeing (and hopefully fighting in either tournament or casuals) his Pai. I believe his main VF experience is VF4 Evo, but he's been playing FS this year, but mostly just within a small group of players in Seattle. I've heard to expect him to play generally very solid exchanges, good mixups, but probably not so much max damage or crazy wall damage.

 

Yeah, it's Campbell. To see him at a local is a very rare event, but he makes it out for regionals like today. He plays a lot with Duncan. He took our last monthly before EVO, losing to Cole, but then running it back and beating Duncan in grand finals from losers. MasaRED was not in attendance for this event and many players in the area have made great improvements since then. I'm excited to see how it turns out!

 

I didnt know he moved to Seattle.