UW Gamers

Gears 2 Planning

Planning is taking place on November 5th, 5:30-7:20pm in MC 2034.

Our Gears 2 event is next week, but before we can get to it we have to plan out a few things about the event. If you’d like to be part of the planning process, come on out. We’ll be deciding how everything will be set up, and how the event will run, including tournament information.

If you can’t take part in the meeting, you can still contribute on our forum. If you’re just interested in the event, it will take place on Wednesday November 12th from 6pm to midnight in the SLC Great Hall.

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UW Gamers at Warrior Weekends

The UW Gamers will be helping out at Warrior Weekends this week, Friday November 7th. We will be in the Great Hall or MPR (Room attached to the Great Hall) from around 4pm to 11pm.

We’ll have a variety of games available, the event will similar to our Game On events. Gears 2, Resistance 2, Little Big Planet and Smash Bros. Brawl are all planned to make an appearance (at some point, at least). If you’ve never been to a Warrior Weekends event, this would be a great time to check out what they do. For more information about Warrior Weekends, Check out their webpage, warriorweekends.uwaterloo.ca

As always, if you want to stay current with the club’s events, you can either check out our forums, join our mailing list, or subscribe to the RSS feed for these front page posts

Newsletter Correction

The Newsletter that was sent out today states that the Smash Tournament planning, Gears 2, and the Smash Tournament itself will all be taking place on the same day. For our sanity, this is incorrect.

The Gears 2 Event and the Smash Tournament Planning are taking place on the same day as stated in the email, however the Smash Tournament is taking place the week after, on November 19th. This will also be corrected in another newsletter next week closer to the Gears 2 event.

Also, here’s another reminder that we’ll be at Warrior Weekends today from 4pm until 11pm in the SLC Great Hall.

As always, if you want to stay current with the club’s events, you can either check out our forums, join our mailing list, or subscribe to the RSS feed for these front page posts

Gears 2 Event, Smash Planning – Nov 12th

Our Gears 2 event will take place on Wednesday November 12th, from 6pm to midnight in the SLC Great Hall.

This event is Microsoft sponsored. If you haven’t had a chance to play yet, this is a great chance to. Even if you have played, you can still come on down to play co-op with others, or even for some versus play. Two copies of Gears of War 2 will be given away during this event, and there will be free pizza!

Our Smash Bros. tournament planning will also take place at around 7:30 in the SLC Great Hall on the same day.

As always, if you want to stay current with the club’s events, you can either check out our forums, join our mailing list, or subscribe to the RSS feed for these front page posts

Organizational Meeting Discussion, Feb. 8/07.

Today’s agenda was as follows:

- …Anna Nicole Smith?
- Organization of tournament dates, confirmation (?) of no. of tournaments.
- Discussion with team, “vote eXperience,” about the FEDS election and FEDS improvements and assistance with UW Gamers.
- Game On! Event (Thurs. Feb. 15/07, SLC Great Hall). Equipment, consoles, TV/projector bookings, etc.
– Confirmed consoles: GC, PS2 (with GH and EyeToy), Wii.
- First tournament –Guitar Hero Tournament: Mar. 8th, SLC Great Hall, 4:30 PM to 10:00 PM.
- Second tournament — Team Melee Tournament: Mar. 14th (tentative), SLC Great Hall, 5:00 PM to 10:00.
- Idea of mini-tournaments.
- Advertisements submissions.
- Tournament TV Guards vs. Turnkey supervision.
- Anna Nicole Smith.

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Guitar Hero Tournament
Pro Face-Off, Hard/Expert only with own respectable brackets. 2-out-of-3 elimination rounds; each player chooses one of the first two songs, third at random choice.

What’s Coming Up!

Game On

Featured systems/games:
NES
N64
Super Smash Bros. (Melee and Classic!)
PlayStation 3

Thursday, June 28
SLC Multipurpose room
5:00pm – 10:00pm

Super Smash Bros. Melee Tournament

$5 optional entrance fee (if you don’t pay, you can’t win)
Top 4 win prizes (EB Games gift certificates)
1 on 1
Swiss Round Robin (Triple Elimination)
No items
Stock 5
Random level select (Levels turned off: Flat Zone, Icicle Mountain, Pokefloats, Big Blue, Brinstar )

Monday, July 16
SLC Great Hall
Registration at 5:00
Games start at 5:30

If you plan on winning, expect to be there until 11pm!

Brawl Tournament – Registration now open

Our Smash Bros. Brawl tournament is taking place on Wednesday November 19th from 5pm to midnight in the SLC Great Hall. (NOTE: Our article in mathNEWS says it starts at 5am, but even we are not crazy enough to start a tournament that early.) This will be a singles tournament, no teams this time. Sign ups for the tournament are now open, you can find it here: http://uwgamers.org/signup/F08Smash/

If you are going to come out to the tournament, please register as soon as possible. It makes it easier on us, which in turn makes the event run smoother so it is easier for you in the end.

The ruleset for this tournament is what we refer to as a “hardcore” ruleset. The rules are as follows:

• Mandatory $5 entry fee
• Three Stock
• Eight minute time limit for every game
• If time runs out, the winner is the one with the most stock. When the amount of stock is even, the winner is the one with the least percent. Sudden death decides matches where stock and percent are equal.
• All items are off
• First match the stage is random, the remaining matches the loser picks.
• Only stages deemed “neutral stages” can be randomly selected. A larger amount of stages can be selected as counter-picks.
• Best two out of three
• Swiss round robin (lose three times and you’re out) occurs at the beginning to reduce the number of entrants down to 16.
• Double Elimination will occur with the remaining 16 entrants.
• Bring your own controller if possible, the loaner controllers may not be the best quality.
• Glitches that have the potential to stop the match for the entire 8 minutes are not allowed (such as Metaknight’s infinite cape). If you don’t know what those glitches are, don’t worry because they’re banned!

Prizes (all values in Future Shop gift certificates):

• 1st $50
• 2nd $25
• 3rd $10
• 4th $5

Neutral Stages & counter-picks

• Check here for the list

As always, if you want to stay current with the club’s events, you can either check out our forums, join our mailing list, or subscribe to the RSS feed for these front page posts

Guitar Hero 2 Tournament Sign-up NOW! (RULES EDITED)

SLC Great Hall; March 8, 2004; 4:30 – 10:00 PM
Admission Fees: $5 UW Students, $7 Non-UW Students.

Game: Guitar Hero II
Two competing ladders: “Hard” and “Expert”
Preliminary Rounds: Round Robin with songs picked by executive team, top 8 of each ladder continues to the…
Single Elimination Rounds: Best 2-out-of-3 Matches. Seeding determined from Preliminaries. P1 gets choice of first song, P2 chooses second. On the event of a tie, the club executives choose the Tie-Breaker song by picking a “number out of a hat.”
Prizes: 1st and 2nd place in each bracket win prizes! Expert bracket wins more, so enter accordingly!

Official Tournament Tracklist (Reference List for Execs)

Stay tuned for more information or check the forums!

Click here to register!

Summer Dis-Org Meeting

A new term has arrived, and we need to figure out what to do with it!

So, there’s a meeting tomorrow!

Tuesday, May 8th
5:00 pm
SLC 2143 (The ‘glass’ room above Brubakers)

The agenda will be:
1) Elections of Exec
2) Clubs Days volunteers
3) Events for the term.

Rock Band 2 Planning, Anime North, Brawl results.

Our Rock Band 2 planning meeting is near, and it takes place on November 24th from 5:30 to 7:30pm in SLC2105B. The Rock Band 2 event is not the only thing being planned out at this meeting though! Ron Hoppe, last year’s gaming curator from Anime North, has contacted us and would like us to run something during Anime North which takes place in May. Planning for this will also take place during the meeting. If you would like to help out with the planning of either of these events, please come to our planning meeting.

Our Rock Band 2 event takes place on December 2nd, right after classes are done. All of the details are not known at this time (that’s why we’re having a planning meeting!), but they will be posted to the front page and sent out to the mailing list once they’re set.

Finally, our Smash Bros. Brawl event finished up last week, and congratulations to our winners.

• 1st: Blitz aka JR (Metaknight) – $100
• 2nd: Kiero (Lucario) – $50
• 3rd: Echo (Falco, Pit) – $20
• 4th: Razor (Olimar) – $10

Some of the matches were recorded, and are being posted to YouTube. Not all recorded matches are online. Watch our forums if you want to know when all of the matches have been uploaded. You can see some of the matches by going to the following two YouTube channels:
http://www.youtube.com/jrproductionz
http://www.youtube.com/uwgamers (no videos currently up here)

As always, if you want to stay current with the club’s events, you can either check out our forums, join our mailing list, or subscribe to the RSS feed for these front page posts