The long overdue update

An update is long overdue, I admit. But schedules, vacations, and other things have kept things on the low burner for a while. Fact of the matter is I think GH3 has peaked and with GH4 and other new releases coming very soon, things will be changing and people will be moving on to newer games.

That's not say we're closing shop or anything. I'll keep things running until there's no point or no players. But with less people playing it means less scheduled tourneys. I'll still be putting up brackets for the weekends, but weekday tourneys will probably suffer. Sorry to all you after-work rockers.

I think the PPTs are still strong and offer a great way for those still playing GH3 to enjoy some tournament-based action.

I haven't made any system changes in a long while and probably won't anytime soon. But that being said everything is working just fine and should continue to do so. But there's just no time for any updates considering they would last well into the holiday shopping season, just in time for people to get all the new games and shelf GH3.

Keep an eye out for weekend tournaments and for more prize tournaments as the budget allows. Your weekends can still rock here at Angry Edison.

Does anyone care about non-prize tournaments?

I've noticed a pattern that isn't too surprising...nobody is playing non-prize tournaments. I realize it's fun to play and get something, but is there no fun in playing in tournaments just to win? If most folks are only interested in playing for goodies then I'll reduce the number of non-prize tournaments and it will make my life a whole lot easier.

Or if we went back to the standard leaderboard...would that motivate folks to play when there's nothing at stake? Do bragging rights mean anything?

More Expert-only being scheduled

In response to some feedback from Experts regarding the All-In style tourneys, I will try my best to do a better job of also scheduling more Expert-only brackets. I admit I've been focusing on the All tournaments to get people more involved, but realize I need to give the Experts some good healthy competition that they know is real.

However, since I can no longer enforce skill levels, I don't feel I can schedule Easy/Med/Hard-only tournaments because anyone could join, including Expert players.

The All-In brackets will still be scheduled and will probably still be the bulk of public tournaments. My only checks and balances are you guys, so please comment or send mail if things start to get too heavy one way or another.

Band Geek Hero is sure to fill the niche

Got passed along something many have probably seen already, Band Geek Hero. It's not a game...at least not yet, but the T's are sure to be a hit on the football field. I'm sure Glockenspiel Hero is something we can all relate to.

Check out the surprisingly comprehensive selection at Band Geek Hero

Saturday afternoon site troubles, need feedback

For reasons unknown, the web site was down during times on Saturday (7/12) afternoon. From my own personal checks it seemed to be off and on throughout the morning hours until now (8:15p). There may be a chance this outage effected score checking. If you were involved in one of these tourneys and know that your scores were affected and not collected, please comment send e-mail and the tourney can get DQ'ed. I won't take action unless it makes a difference to everybody.

Hopefully tonight's brackets will go as planned and the site will be stable the rest of the weekend.