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  2. Player Retention Ideas - how to attract and keep new players?

    in Welcome Rookies

    Posted · Edited by King of 94' WI

    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.

  6. controller config help

    in Getting Started

    Posted

    Usually if you struggle to host on your end, but not when connecting, it's 99% your firewall settings.

    Try for one game disabling your firewall. If that works, then you know you need to go into your firewall and mess with it.

    It needs to allow Gens Plus & Gens access, since you are using both

    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.

  8. controller config help

    in Getting Started

    Posted

    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.

  14. King of '93 WI?

    in King of '94

    Posted

    As a side game, maybe a mini tournament for those knocked out of the main tourney.

    Same reason I was itching to get a multitap and play some side games of 2v2.

    Next time.

    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?

  15. King of '93 WI?

    in King of '94

    Posted

    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?

  17. King of '93 WI?

    in King of '94

    Posted

    Lack of manual goalie, and the auto goalies might as well not be there, they are terrible. Essentially it comes down to breakaways vs breakaways where 95% of the time you score, or hit post. Soooo frustrating when your opponent gets by and all you can do is make a sandwich while he scores a sure goal.

    No b-check. So added with no goalie, you need a weight bugger to have any semblance of defense. But you can imagine how unstoppable a guy like JR would be. Can't check,b-check, and no goalie! Fffffffffffffffffff.....

    At least that's what I remember.

    Essentially skill is not needed as much. Just start flipping coins.

    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.

  19. King of '93 WI?

    in King of '94

    Posted

    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

  23. [Sept 24 2016 - Green Bay, WI] Official signup and rules thread for Blades of 94

    in Edge of '94 - Midwest

    Posted

    Can you post the players who won prizes, and the amounts? I'll update the tournament earnings page

    http://www.esportsearnings.com/games/416-nhl-94

    I need their: name (first name + last initial is ok, maybe check with them to see if they want their full name on the site), nickname (optional), finishing position, prize money.

    This! I suspect maybe you're disappointed with the 15 player turnout, but I believe the effort will pay off and next year will be big. Being able to point people to a website that shows pictures and videos from a previous tourney I think really takes the questions/uncertainty out of people's minds and they'll sign up.

    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.

  24. [Sept 24 2016 - Green Bay, WI] Official signup and rules thread for Blades of 94

    in Edge of '94 - Midwest

    Posted

    I am very interested, too. Especially if, once again, the Packers have a home game the next day.

    Cost was prohibitive for me this time around, but next year I should be in better shape. (Just got a credit card that gave me 25,000 Air MiIles as a bonus, so I have a "free" return flight anywhere in U.S. or Canada, supposedly.)

    Final note: What you have done looks inspiring! Especially that Manley Cup. Hats off to your effort. I do believe in a "Field of Dreams" approach: if you build it, and put real effort in -- like you obviously have -- they will come! And I will, too! I salute you, Troy! Nice work! :)

    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.

  25. [Sept 24 2016 - Green Bay, WI] Official signup and rules thread for Blades of 94

    in Edge of '94 - Midwest

    Posted

    I guess no one will want him to come back next year? ;)

    side note: I thought there was an 8 game round robin plus playoffs. the tourney got trimmed down a bit?

    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.

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