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South Australian Gaming Event Organiser, Commentator, Part-Time Farmer, Hegelian Speedrunner


Well we finally finished uploading it all. http://start.gg/bigcheese4

This is all the recorded fighting game footage from The Big Cheese 4, a national fighting game 'n Smash Bros. tournament held in Australia in mid-October. We also had an artist alley that filled up an entire basketball court and some friends of mine sold more there than they did at much larger conventions this year.

The South Australian fighting game scene is a funny little place. Obviously we're near the bottom of the planet but we've also managed to retain a great deal of institutional knowledge and organisers who know how to make a fun event. The main things we lack are a large enough internet upload capacity at our preferred venue and enough staff to perform every task at the standard we'd like. Everyone involved with this was filling in the roles of at least 3 people you'd expect at a Combo Breaker or one of Big E's events. Thus, we attempted to do the sort of thing events like Tekken Strong Style used to: one main stream and record as many of the matches on the floor as we could. To save on system resources for the stations used and to make things easier on the TOs who were in turn also responsible for these recording stations, we figured we'd just write a plain text file of each match that happened in order and slap an overlay on in post.

The first problem was of course that our bitrates for recording were too low. If we did a fresh round of encoding with the overlays then we'd get something like that one #Reload Sol vs Chipp match from gameacho in 2003.

The second problem was people forgetting to write the dang matches down. Running ourselves ragged allows for mistakes to occur!

The third was of course since we ran so many dang games, the occasional bottleneck resulted in casuals matches happening on these recording stations. Hence the roughly half an hour of Kanae matches during the Akatsuki Blitzkampf footage.

Still, it was an incredibly enjoyable event to organise and execute. We've started working out paths to better financial solvency in the future and really just need more people both locally and abroad to come down. Events like Battle Arena Melbourne and Ozhadou Nationals can be Australian Evo. We want to be Australian UFGT.

Oh and I won Fate/Unlimited Codes and ABK, though in Australia the latter is basically Obama handing himself the medal.


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