Edge of '94 Midwest

This should be amazing, and I'll pimp out the stream URL hard to drive community interest on our normal channels. Could you provide to all of us the Twitch channel url you plan on using? Any casual streams tonight? Moe Man and I are streaming this evening probably around 7PM CST, and we can direct some folks to follow your channel while we do so.

Sharing an experience from a local Tecmo Super Bowl tournament I helped run in Milwaukee last weekend... A player by the name of DarthRockMan is quite good, and always does well in live events. He is well known in the online community. During the intro phase of the tournament, he gave a minute long sales pitch on the benefits of online Tecmo Super Bowl, and brought resources with him to help sell his online community a bit. As retro sports game communities go, they are the only other one that I feel that competes with the passion of this community. I think the biggest recruitment tools we have are the live tournament scene, as well as live streams. To help bolster our own King of 94 WI tournament, Moe Man and I have started a regular Twitch stream where we play for about an hour or so and horse around. When people hit the stream, they are greeted with two guys having a great time, and with messages on how to get connected with us. Those that chose to connect with us on Facebook get all of our updates on there. For the tournament this weekend in CA, I would strongly suggest making the live participants aware of the online community if they aren't already, and encourage and help them to get started. This would strengthen friendships, and keep people interested until the next tournament.

Damn mic mute cut off part of first game, pretty good laughs. In reviewing footage, definitely need to boost mic and lower game audio. Here's what I uploaded to youtube. We do want to have actual formats, guests, etc. For now it's Moe Man and I shooting the s**t, playing a game we all love. Eventually we will upgrade to HDMI capture and play on a retro pie to clean up the game image.

Follow up interview with the Retro Reload Podcast tonight! Sick of politics yet? Join us for the Retro Reload Podcast tonight at 10:30 CST, 8:30 Pacific!

All of the group and bracket play games are captured on this youtube playlist. Please watch on loop, comment, subscribe, and share! https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBo10ggbB8gOxNPNxVdQbKWjBYG3NiGev

I run a DD-WRT flashed router with no game mode settings. Firewall is turned off on the software level. If port forwarding of some kind is required I would need to know exactly what port or ports need to be opened.

"The Situation"

Confirmed functionality with Gens plus. Will keep the controllers. I still get the alert on start about the inputs, but the diagonals work, and when tested with Jer_33, the connection seemed stable while he hosted. Next challenge, have been unable to host games on my end, even with hamachi, not sure why.

I ordered two controllers, but I'm still resisting.

I can't wait to get drafted after someone rage quits the season. It will be so much fun giving everyone an automatic win. I can run local tournaments, but I can't win them. FML.

Same issue, Windows 10, can't get this error to clear, nor my diags to work on any joystick, and I've tried about a half dozen different types. What did you do to fix this?

Go take it Angryjay93! We only utilized 3 larger tvs at the Ko94WI tourney, rest were 14-20 " and worked out pretty well. When you factor you are sitting 3-4 feet away from the screen, the smaller size really isn't an issue.

It appears that the trend of cool retro gamers named Troy is continuing.

I picked up an EA multitap and had some issues, at least with 6 button controllers attached. Do you know if it's only designed to work with 3 button?

In addition to having the systems and games burning a hole in my sanity, I was looking for a way to accelerate the timeline of getting the travelers together, as I have no issue grabbing local guys for casual nights. My other thought in all of this was to test the waters in moving up the annual NHL 94 tournament to Winter, say in March, which is near the midst of the tail end of the NHL season anyway. Any thoughts on that?

Please reply on the thread linked below. In short, I ran an 94 tournament, it went well. Wanted to see if there are 93 fan boys that would come to a 93 event. http://forum.nhl94.com/index.php/topic/17728-king-of-93-wi/

Thanks for being specific in your concerns. Obviously if you are a 94 guy, 94 may not be your favorite option. If we can find enough guys that would come to play this, 94, and anything else, I'll do it, if not, meh.

Album posted here! https://www.facebook...73699412&type=3

The word on the street is that the King of '94 WI tournament, albeit a bit light in numbers(15), was a tremendous success. We anticipate a much greater traveling and local turnout next year. Our goal is to have an annual tournament with this game, and stick to that. In the meantime, I have over a dozen CRT screens, 10 Sega Genesis consoles of my own, access to more via friends, and a burning thought that we could be doing something else with them. There seems to be a lot of love for NHLPA '93 out there, the carts are very inexpensive, and I also have love for other 1993 mainstays including Mortal Kombat II and Street Fighter 2 Special Championship Edition on that system, which I also happen to have carts of. If we sought out hosting a January or February event in 2017, mainly focused on NHLPA 93, with side fun tournaments(something would be on the line) on the other two games after its conclusion, would you want to make the trip to Green Bay to be apart of it? We would take the same intense approach as we did with NHL 94 in the way of planning, promotion, and execution. I already have an idea for the tournament name, King of '93 - WI, Gretzky's Head. I'd like your thoughts, if you have any. Sincerely, Trojan

If the Canadian contingent was present, I would have busted this anthem out. Here's more of the after party game action. We get down with more than just hockey, because we can.

Congrats to Kevin Cabarello on winning the CD version of NHL 94!

Here are a few casual video links https://www.youtube.com/user/tfrisque1979 I've begun uploading videos from our stream exports. The last 3 are from some of the casual action. I want to use the locally recorded footage for the actual tournament due to some of the frame skipping in play. Please be patient as we try to go through and edit this.

I have to double check the sheets, but I think Angryjay93(Stockton, CA) took home $153, and 1st place, Tim Ubick(Menasha, WI) took home $63, and Kevin Cabarello(Columbus, OH) took home $40. We ended up rounding to the nearest dollar. I gave Kevin $2 extra because I didn't feel like breaking my $10's. Over 100% of net entrance fees were payed out in prize money. Prize money collected per person varied based on prepay or not, console contribution or not, and there were a number of services that comped entry fees(photography, trophy, etc) Kevin Cabarello also won the Sega CD version of NHL 94. Yes we were disappointed that so many folks insisted after multiple follow ups that they were in fact coming, in their words, "100%". When approx 1/3 of the field drops out day of the event, it certainly took us by surprise. We expected possibly 2-3 flake outs, but nothing like this from folks we have interacted with for weeks or months in advance. To potentially counteract this problem I've put some restrictions on the participation of the local free get together practices I put on. We've had folks that only show up to those, and won't show up to a pay to play tournament. They can start freeloading somewhere else, or start showing up at local events. What I can tell you is that the 15 that were there seemed to be having an amazing time. We also had some walk ins that we invited to play with us during the after party phase that will likely join us next year. We have plans to grow the father son combo. We offered a $40 package for a father and a junior(under 18) to participate. We would like to have a separate bracket for the juniors after the normal bracket concludes, with their own unique prize on the line. The setup party and after party were very memorable, as much as was the tournament. The stream went over 13 hours straight yesterday, and gaming occupied most of that time. I haven't had that much fun since the last time I played in a retro game tournament. I am awaiting the photos and video from Nick Wautier, who was an amazing help, and is on the Ideas By Elliot Podcast here in Green Bay. I will get links us as soon as possible. I am trying to figure out how to get the FB page to allow user reviews, so stay tuned for that. I will ask that if you watched the stream, or participated in the event, that you leave some feedback on our facebook page, facebook.com/gbnhl94, and please give us a like there if you haven't yet.

Thank you! We do this for the gamers. I'm proud to be welcomed into such a supportive retro community, and I didn't want to let down the good faith. Now the ground work is laid, the foundation has been poured. Now it's time to build to the top! If you handle things like AJ93 did, the flight into MKE seems to be the most reasonable approach, followed by a rental to GB.

We had 22 signups, with 15 actually participating. We trimmed down one game so that each side played each other once. Group 2 had an automatic forfeit win when the kitchen manager was forced to work after an employee no showed. The kitchen manager was going to be playing, as he's a big fan of us, and the game. We ran it by the group and no one took issue. Everyone played 8 games or more total when the bracket was figured in, and the timing of everything couldn't have worked out better than it did.