The Unofficial VOOT Tournament August 1998

by Singapore Virtual On Club

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Tournament Write-up v0.85 18/9/98 0130 hours.

Background

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The crowds are starting to form at 6pm.

In an effort to get a VOOT tournament going, I had approach the supervisor of Ang Mo Kio Funland on several occasions dating as far back as October 1997. However, my requests were refused and I was asked to call up their headquarters, Valibel Technologies. I was told that I cannot book the VOOT machines in anyway and if I want to organise a tournament, it had to be done privately.

On Saturday 11/7/98, we had the SiVOC first "pre-tournament" to get to know how to run the actual event. The event took place at Ang Mo Kio Funland at 6pm. We had a real blast then, but the event was let down by a poorly designed ranking system, which was fixed by the unofficial tournament.

With the help of Jun Ming, we draw up the rules for the game and started to "advertise" the tournament to the VOOT pilots in the Funland Ang Mo Kio and E-Zone. James Wong helped out in bring several outstanding players from Bedok over and Christopher Tan, who had came back just in time from US modified out tournament format to able us to have tons of fun !

The Organisers

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 Foong Jia Khang ( Not in photo because I am taking them )
Me. Sacrifaced myself to run the tournament. My Cypher sat on the bench T_T
Jun Ming ( Bottom Right, Blue shirt )
My right hand man. His Dordray sat on the bench \(^O^)/
Christopher Tan ( Top Right, White shirt )
Hired on the spot for free. Very good helper ! @@

The Rules

Due to the limited power of the organisers, we can only afford to have 16 entries.
Sadly, I had left out James Wong in the fray. My apologies.

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Explaining the rules and game format.

  1. The gliding ram is restricted to 3 hits including blocked ones every match-up.
  2. The tournament will be held in a Single Elimination Method with 2 preliminary rounds.
  3. Ajim is BANNED.
  4. Excessive banging of the stick is NOT tolerated.
  5. The organisers cum judge descisions is the law !

What about the format and who played ?