Episode 1: RoMKnee 2012

Part 1

• Purpose:
  • To educate the community (enable smashers to keep current)
  • To focus discussion and consolidate attention (help generate hype)
  • To facilitate communication regarding decisions that affect the community
  • To improve general knowledge sharing within the community
• Format
  • Intro to the show
  • Shoutouts / reminder to subscribe to our stuff (twitch / twitter / youtube / etc)
  • Summary of agenda
    • Would talk about Kings of Cali but too much to cover with RoM
    • RoM 5 quick recap
    • RoM Controversies
  • Action Plan
    • What community leaders are doing
    • What you (viewers) can do to help
• Rom 5 Recap
  • Promotion and attendance
  • Day 1
    • Chat a bit about day 1 and the venue etc with Prog and Cactuar
  • Day 2
    • Talk about notable teams and singles happenings
    • Call out best sets and direct traffic to vgbootcamp
• Rom 5
  • Cool sets
    • Day 1 – teams double bowser mm vs cactuar / KK
  • Day 2
    • “Floating”
    • M2K vs Unknown and DSR (modified) – was using DSR(M)
• DSR Issue
  • BF (Unknown)
  • FD (M2K)
  • FoD (M2K)
  • FoD (Unknown)
  • Stage 5??? M2K Picks FD? Last stage he won on was FoD
• “Cactuar” Says This:
  • DSR Standard
    • Cannot go back to any stage you have won on
  • DSR Modified
    • Cannot go back to the last stage you won on
• Button Checking “rules” – proposal
  • Testing out a TV for a short amount of time only at the beginning of the set
• “Splitting” – What Happened?
  • A lot of extenuating circumstances – stems from a root cause
  • Mentality was a really large issue in all 3 sets
    • Perhaps can’t be regulated by a “rule” but perhaps a code of conduct can be implemented

Part 2

• What contributed in a bad way
  • TOs must make the rules either consistent or clear
  • Players must accept responsibility for what’s in their control
  • Board Game Rules – if both people played a match or a set then it’s done
  • Relationship between players, TO, streamers, viewers, potential viewers / sponsors
    • Communication / cooperation issues
      • Lack of resources (staff)
    • Interests not aligning between interested parties
  • TOs are not expected to follow the rules listed
  • Enabling motivation (?)
    • Facilitate competition vs invading / punishment
    • No stakes outside of money in case of splits
• Deconstructing tournaments
  • TO – owns the “code of conduct” and the setting of rules
    • Need to set this “code” beforehand
  • Players – buy into the above “code of conduct” by entering
  • Streamers – should agree to the “code of conduct” and trust the TO to execute against it
• What we can do to address
  • Enabling motivation / facilitating competition
    • Circuit points
    • Power rankings? Underground power rankings?
    • ELO / SSBPD – Just for fun!
  • TOs and following the rules
    • Revise the ruleset
    • Code of conduct
    • Guide for TOs
  • Seeding and how we do it
    • Seeding of top “X” – maybe top 16 or so
    • No regional matchups in R1, or R2 if it could be avoided
    • No one plays people from the same pool (in the first 2 rounds)

Part 3

• MBR
  • History lesson
    • Used to be a room where top players discuss strategy and tier lists
    • “Old boys club” feel
    • Wanted to transition to a structure that gives back to the community
      • Created application process to try to identify community leaders
      • Have needed more resources to complete projects
    • Forum model outdated 🙁
      • Not good for “getting things done”
  • Move towards social media? Facebook? Reddit?
    • Moving to a more accessible discussion center
    • We all know what needs to be done, or what we could do

Other Notes:

• RoM 5 controversies
  • “Button Checking” –new videos
  • Pot splitting
  • Timeliness / Disqualifications
  • More needed
    • DSR Rules (historical vs MBR)
    • Stage list
    • Extending sets (Best of X)

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