Brackets and formats

Tournaments at UC EagleCon, Charleston WV

Nine brackets. Entry is $5 for video game brackets, $15 for card game brackets, and free for Wii Bowling and the stage. Every bracket needs registration so seats can be counted, and every one has special prizing. Run by Game Grove, with Ramsey Harki as tournament organizer.

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All Video game Tabletop Stage

Nine brackets, carried from last year until the new lineup is set

Video game

Super Smash Bros Ultimate

12:30 PM
Tournament Alley

Registration open

The first bracket of the day and the biggest one. Double elimination pools on four setups, then a single elimination top eight on the alley's main setup.

Easy to follow from the spectator rows. Matches are short and the top eight runs late enough that the room is full.

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Format: Double elimination, best of three, best of five from top eight
Check in: Check in closes 12:15 PM at the Tournament Alley desk
Entry: $5 entry, paid at the desk. Registration required.
Bring: Your own controller if you prefer it. Loaners are at the desk.
Capacity: [CONFIRM] entrant cap, 64 last year
Prizes: Special prizing. Announced at the desk before top eight.

Tabletop

Magic: The Gathering Draft

Magic: The Gathering

1:00 PM
Tournament Alley

Registration open

Eight person pods draft a booster set at the table, build a deck, and play three rounds. Product is provided with entry.

Less of a spectator bracket and more of a table to stand near. Ask before you look at a hand.

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Format: Booster draft, pods of eight, three rounds Swiss
Check in: Check in closes 12:45 PM at the Tournament Alley desk
Entry: $15 entry, includes draft product. Registration required.
Bring: Sleeves and a deck box if you have them. Lands are provided.
Capacity: [CONFIRM] pod count and product for this year
Prizes: Special prizing, plus you keep what you drafted.

Video game

Super Smash Bros Melee

1:30 PM
Tournament Alley

Registration open

CRT setups on the alley's back tables, run by the people who play it every week. Bring a GameCube controller if you own one.

The loudest bracket in the room once it reaches the last four.

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Format: Double elimination, best of three, best of five in the final
Check in: Check in closes 1:15 PM at the Tournament Alley desk
Entry: $5 entry, paid at the desk. Registration required.
Bring: A GameCube controller. A few loaners are available.
Capacity: [CONFIRM] entrant cap
Prizes: Special prizing. Announced at the desk.

Video game

Street Fighter 6

2:00 PM
Tournament Alley

Registration open

Standard tournament settings on the alley's fighting setups. Modern and classic controls are both legal.

Good to watch on the alley screen. Sets are quick and the bracket moves.

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Format: Double elimination, best of three, best of five from top eight
Check in: Check in closes 1:45 PM at the Tournament Alley desk
Entry: $5 entry, paid at the desk. Registration required.
Bring: Your own stick or pad. USB only, no wireless in bracket.
Capacity: [CONFIRM] entrant cap
Prizes: Special prizing. Announced at the desk.

Tabletop

Pokemon TCG, Standard Format

Pokemon Trading Card Game

3:00 PM
Tournament Alley

Registration open

Standard format Swiss rounds at the tabletop end of the alley. Bring a legal sixty card deck.

A quiet corner of a loud room. Judges are at the table for rules questions.

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Format: Standard format, Swiss rounds, top cut if entries allow
Check in: Check in closes 2:45 PM, decklists at the table
Entry: $15 entry, paid at the desk. Registration required.
Bring: A legal Standard deck, sleeves, dice, and damage counters.
Capacity: [CONFIRM] entrant cap and round count
Prizes: Special prizing. Announced at the table.

Video game

Mario Kart Worlds

3:00 PM
Tournament Alley

Registration open

Four player heats on a random track set, points carried across races, top finishers move up. The most beginner friendly bracket of the day.

The bracket to bring somebody to who does not play games.

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Format: Group heats on points, single elimination final race
Check in: Check in closes 2:45 PM at the Tournament Alley desk
Entry: $5 entry, paid at the desk. Registration required.
Bring: Nothing. Controllers are at the setup.
Capacity: [CONFIRM] entrant cap
Prizes: Special prizing. Announced at the desk.

Video game

Guilty Gear Strive

4:00 PM
Tournament Alley

Registration open

The last bracket of the day, run on the alley's fighting setups right after Street Fighter clears.

Small, fast, and worth standing for. It finishes just before awards.

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Format: Double elimination, best of three, best of five in the final
Check in: Check in closes 3:45 PM at the Tournament Alley desk
Entry: $5 entry, paid at the desk. Registration required.
Bring: Your own stick or pad. USB only, no wireless in bracket.
Capacity: [CONFIRM] entrant cap
Prizes: Special prizing. Announced at the desk.

Stage

Battle of the Bands

Clone Hero, performed live

2:00 PM
Main Stage

Registration open

Clone Hero played on a guitar shaped controller, performed as a concert. Bands take the stage in turn and the room watches.

The one thing in the day that everybody stops for. Spectator rows open at 1:30 PM.

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Format: Live sets judged on performance and percent completed
Check in: Performers check in at the stage by 1:30 PM
Entry: No entry fee. Performer sign up required, free to watch.
Bring: Your own guitar controller if you have one.
Capacity: [CONFIRM] number of stage slots
Prizes: Special prizing across People's Choice, Judges' Choice, and Most Percent Completed.

Video game

Wii Bowling Bracket

Wii Sports Bowling

3:00 PM
Main Stage

Registration open

Ten pins, one lane, one game per match, played on the main stage screen. The most approachable bracket of the day and the one most likely to be won by somebody who has not played in ten years.

Short matches on the big screen, and the room reacts to a strike.

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Format: Single elimination, one game per match, high score advances
Check in: Check in closes 2:45 PM at the stage
Entry: No entry fee. Registration required, open to all ages.
Bring: Nothing. Remotes and wrist straps are provided.
Capacity: [CONFIRM] 32 entrants
Prizes: Special prizing. Trophy for first is planned.

Still to come

Tournament lineup announced in January

Game Grove is still setting the rest of the bracket lineup. When a title is confirmed it appears here with its format, start time, entry requirements, capacity, and bracket link. Every title played is a legitimately obtained copy.

Worth explaining

What Hextraction is

Hextraction is a tabletop game played on a vertical board made of hexagonal tiles. You drop a ball in at the top and it falls through whatever tiles are in place, and each tile does something different: it spins, it splits the path, it swallows the ball, it sends it sideways. The board is different every game because the tiles are swapped in and out.

The tiles are 3D printed, and anybody can design one. That is the interesting part. The tiles on our board were printed by students and by people in the community, so the board at EagleCon is not a board you can buy anywhere.

Hextraction was created by Zack Freedman, who released the project so anyone can print and design tiles for it. Credit where it is due, and the original project is worth reading even if you never play.

The original project by Zack Freedman

CONFIRM: canonical project URL before launch, hextraction.net assumed

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The Hextraction board with community printed tiles, close enough to read the tile shapes

Want to print a tile for the board? Email tournaments@uceaglecon.com and the organizer will send the tile spec.

Rules and conduct

Check in at the bracket table before your listed check in time. Seats given up by no shows go to the standby list.
The printed ruleset at the table is the one that counts. Ask the tournament organizer before a match, not during it.
Play the match in front of you. Coaching from the side is fine between games, not during them.
Treat opponents, spectators, and student staff decently. The tournament organizer can remove anyone from a bracket for harassment, and campus policy applies in the room.
All titles played are legitimately obtained copies, provided by the department. Personal copies are not used in brackets.
Recording your own matches is fine. Streaming from inside the venue needs a word with the organizers first.

Tournament questions

Game Grove runs the brackets. Ramsey Harki is the contact for formats, rules, seeding, and anything about entry.

tournaments@uceaglecon.com

Needs confirming Bracket platform and the real registration links, entry caps per bracket, prize structure, and the final tournament lineup. Cards ship with the copy above and swap in confirmed values without layout change.