Sketchiest Tournament Stories?

snex00 · 6時間前

I'm gonna go with the first "semi-major" Midwest tournament, run by myself.

The first tournament I hosted, "Snexus of the Universe," was in my parents' basement and only had people from nearby. But as traveling was starting to become viable for people, I wanted to host something bigger. There was this table top gaming store I used to frequent, and I set up a date with the owner. Once everything was set up, I posted my tournament on Smashboards and started to get confirmed travelers. Canada Mike and Jarrod from the Punch Crew were in. Some guys from Ohio. Finally, Isai and Recipherus (the reigning champ) confirmed. This was set to be the ultimate Midwest showdown.

The day before the tournament, I called the game store to confirm. The guy asked me what the hell I was talking about. He said he had some Pokemon tournament set up. I told him that he promised me this date, and people are already traveling and will be there. So finally he relented and said we could play with whatever room was available - which was almost nothing.

Halfway through, he now wanted half the pot as a payment, which was utterly ridiculous. I told him no freaking way are we paying that, and I think we ended up settling on $50 or something, which came out of my own pocket.

We finally get down to the final 5 or so, and now he tells us it's time to close up. Now I'm thinking, "What the fuck am I supposed to do now?" One of the traveling groups said we could sneak into their hotel room, which turned out to be like 20 miles away. So everybody had to drive over to this seedy hotel, sneak in so nobody would see us, and pack into a tiny room where we could finish off the tournament.

This is when I officially retired from TOing and let the Kish Bros. take over.

lucasxrem · 6時間前

My first ever tournament.. A smash 64 tournament..

It was 3 stock matches but the guy in charge insisted that Jerya (female smash 64 player) gets a one stock advantage since she's a girl. (At this point I'm thinking wtf)

So I pretty much went to a sexist tournament.. I left after the first game, I tried to explain to her that the rules were fucked up but she didn't care. She laughed in my face and said "sucks to suck" "genital advantage"

So I wouldn't really say my experience was sketchy, just a shitty excuse for a tournament.

Learned later that she got 3 stocked by the winner, a DK main.

ADaddyHansen · 5時間前

Not really a sketchy story, but I've met some weird folks at tournaments. One kid had a grocery bag full of 12oz cans of coconut water, and would chug one of them in about five seconds before every game. He lost two sets in a row, but he still drank four or five cans of coconut water.

SC2_Bench · 6時間前

WHOBO5 was sketchy AF .

I want to make one thing crystal clear, The TO listed for the tournament is Xyro. This is only partially true. He was in charge of the Brawl stuff and that all ran super well and was not sketchy in the slightest. The other TO, who I am not going to say the name of, was the one who set up the venue and ran the melee and PM stuff (the parts Clash Tournaments didn't stream). Xyro is a really good and vetted TO, the other guy is a bit more shady. He used to TO for FGC stuff but he did too many shady things and, as I understand it, isn't respected in the Texas FGC scene anymore.

It is held at this place called Zuma fun center which is one of those arcades/gokart/puttputt type places. It is very run down and in a shitty part of town. Literally every other business in its vicinity has failed and shut down so it is essentially surrounded by abandoned buildings covered in tagging. The TO who runs it, has a family connection and gets the venue for free. We aren't even in the downstairs main area, we are in this up stairs area that is basically just a series of cat walks 10-12 feet wide. There is not good ventilation up there so all the heat in the building rises up. It is hot as hell inside. So basically, it is a shitty venue that the TO gets free and he still charges like $25 venue fee and $10 per event. You have to pay just to spectate which is idiotic. He had no system for keeping track of whether or not you paid venue either. I actually didn't pay it the previous 2 times I went because none of the venue fee was going into the pot anyway. Also, all the events ran like shit.

This is where it gets a little more personal, and while I love this player, I gotta call him out, m2k entered every single event and basically made the tournament run slowly by himself because people had to wait on him. That is kinda his fault and kinda the TOs fault too. The sketchy part is some new player that had NEVER been to a local housed M2K and wanted to pay all m2ks entry fees for some training I guess. So they actually entered doubles together but his partner was horrible so just randomly, mid way through the doubles tournament, m2k picked up a new teammate, a dude who wasn't even entered in the tournament and happened to be the best jiggly player in the area. They won doubles. For some reason they were never stopped. The guy who didn't even enter won money and a medal. No hate on him or anything but every other good player had a partner so m2k likely wouldn't have won doubles without him. Here is the VOD: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wE8z_D2qaB4

Killerwhale was not entered in the tournament rofl. He paid the spectator fee.

The next whobo didn't have any bullshit go down in the actual running of the tournament (mostly because it was an MLG qualifier)but it was still absurdly expensive to enter for such a shitty venue that we are pretty damn sure is free for him.

Despite all this, I did have a good time at the tournament. I got 5th in melee low tier singles. Brawl was actually fun to watch because metaknight is banned at WHOBOs

OmegaTyrant · 6時間前

I've never been involved directly in something sketchy at a tournament, but I heard of one instance in my area. A little bit back during the time a bit before Smash 4's release and during the big decline of Brawl, a TO/sponsor in my area hosted a bigger Melee/Brawl tournament than the area typically got, and managed to get M2K to attend. The main TO/sponsor is a great guy, and his co-TOs are competent, but he made a bad judgment call when he decided to have his guys handle Melee solely and let another less competent TO handle Brawl. The Brawl TO is pretty notorious in our region for being a "clan leader" of a particularly scrubby group of players, and him and his "clan" always making rookie mistakes when they run tournaments (especially in their seeding). Anyway, M2K as expected won everything, but that Brawl TO, thinking the local player who M2K beat in Brawl Grand Finals "deserved it more", gave a significant portion of M2K's Brawl winnings to the second place local player, blatantly breaking the cardinal rule of tournaments; "whatever you do, don't ever fuck with the payouts".

The exact details of what happened afterward were fuzzy when told to me, but the main TO/sponsor, wanting to be as nonconfrontational as possible with all involved parties when he found out what happened, payed M2K the rest of his owed money out of his pocket, rather than force the second place local player to give the money up or the incompetent Brawl TO to pay for it.

Since then the aforementioned sponsor and his co-TOs have remained diplomatic with that Brawl TO to avoid a schism in our region, but have never partnered with that Brawl TO again for a tournament.

GayyLuigi · 5時間前

This Saturday i went to a tournament without running water

TheCivilYoshi · 5時間前

At a tournament i went to in NJ, the TO let DJ Nintendo and his Opponent "Gentlemans Agreement" to Melee in a P:M tournament.

Thats about as sketchy as i've seen it fortunately.

[deleted] · 7時間前

I went to this one guy's house and he had a sock in his cooking pot. Oh, and he stole my glasses.

PurrySquishyKittens · 4時間前

This was a recent tournament:

I told the TO to have me play my matches later as I had to do something during the time I was scheduled to play. He responded sure no problem. I comeback and hour later and I have 2 DQ's in my pools matches, I said what the hell man you said you would schedule me later, His response: you were holding up the schedule. Ten minutes later he calls more pools and then I say: you told me I was holding up pools? Why are their still pools matches? He responds with You need to play X and Y. Right now I'm so pissed and I steamroll them and make it out of pools with 3rd seed.

The next day final bracket is revealed, my side of the bracket is literally every good player attending the tournament. OK lets go. He said he decided the stages for each stage and its character locked, best of 1, 2 minutes, 2 stock matches, and I'm against a zero suit on Big Battlefield. I lose of course because he's the best player their. Next he's on Halberd, Halberd really. Super good stage for Zero Suit so of course he gets to Winners Semis easy. I'm in losers gonna play another titan at the tournament on Smashville now 3 stocks, 3 minutes, and loser gets 9th. So I quickly get first stock EZ PZ then I'm beating him 30 seconds left,He's at 150% alright I win. I try to swag out because I pretty much won. He kills me and time runs out I pop off I'm in top 8, He kills me in sudden death and TO says its good. What? I didn't know there was sudden death. He responds with You win some you lose some. I flip him off and trash talk for some of the tournament.

Remember the dude that beat me he told the TO he needed to use the bathroom and he got DQ'd from the entire tournament. He comes back ready to play and he's out. Me and him just walk out and eat at Jack in the Box, when I ran into the dude that beat me in sudden death. I money matched him for all his earnings and JV 3 stock him and split it with the dude that got DQ'd.

Overall not entering his annual tournaments anymore I could probably TO better than his bias ass.

Inventorclemont · 8時間前

Do you have anymore stories?

Becouse this one is great.

Slick76jakers2 · 1時間前

I entered my first smash tournament (smash 4 by the way) at my college, and it was a weird tourney. the first rounds were played in 2v2v2v2 games, on big battlefield only. i won the loser's and moved to the top 8. ended up winning the whole thing, and I got a 50$ futureshop gift card. go to buy monster hunter 4, and apparently it's not activated. I send an email asking about the issue (a third party hosed the tourney, not the school itself) and never got anything back. then futureshop closes down, and my card is worthless. I keep the card in my wallet, as a trophy of sorts. it is shiny, at least.

KickFlipzN64 · 3時間前

YOO

S O U T H J E R S E Y FAM!!!

But if you in the area, K-Smash (Kingsway tournament) will treat you nice.

darocketman776 · 7時間前

Who are the TO's?

AlbobDS · 7時間前

Do you mean Camden NY? If so, you're probably close to me.

Chromewhip · 1時間前

Back in the play for keeps days I went to a couple tournaments where there was no prize winnings for PM because it was all going towards "production"

disturbedfan65 · 1時間前

Bro, almost every neighborhood in Camden is a bad neighborhood.

Lolsgod · 2時間前

So my school hosts tournaments pretty often (about once a month) called master hand monthly. Run by a bunch of great guys in fact! They're a really good group and they make it pretty fun for everyone.

Anyway on my first time going groups from out of the area arrived and I think a group from like VA beach showed up and decided to play. The group was 3 brothers (14,12 and I think like 8 or 10) and as a bunch of college kids we were like "what do we do?" so we ended up letting them enter. They ended up being pretty dang good for their age.

The sketchy part kicks in with their interactions. At our tournaments there is no formal rule about coaching because well.... no one coaches or has a coach. Basically how these kids rolled was they if they lost (or won) to someone they would find their sibling (if we played them next) and tell them what our picks and characters were for stages so they could ban them.

For example I played Marth so I wanted Yoshi's story and when I played all 3 siblings (literally back to back), I got to play the stage one time in the first set because it was permabanned by all of them after I rocked one of them on it.

At first I thought maybe it was just common knowledge or something but then I noticed the brothers whispering to each other between sets.

Now, I get that they're kids in comparison, and I get that they may not get it and I also understand that its "strategy" but I kinda found it a bit unfair to all of their opponents since they seemed to get pretty far doing it. Not only that but it seems a bit odd that they got to know so much about me but I got to know nothing.

Maybe not "cheating" per se but I'd say a bit sketchy.

They didn't end up winning so I guess it was NBD, they never came back since.

I also saw them brandishing a lot of cash so that seemed a bit out of place to me as well but I guess its just nothing(?)

ND_Khakis · 1時間前

Nah man this is bad for the community. Need a best tournament stories thread to counterbalance it.

SacredCombo · 5時間前

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