2018 R.B.I. Baseball - Tecmo Bowl tournaments (Omaha, Ne)

[TbT]

Saturday March 24th @ BigWay Burger on 72nd street.  Tecmo Bowl @ noon.  R.B.I. Baseball @ 6PM
Entry Fee:  $15 for either game, or enter both for $25.
Cash prizes to top 5 players, and 1st place wins a trophy.
Military ID receives $5 off either price.

For out of town people, Omaha is hosting the NCAA basketball sweet 16/Elite 8 the day before and after the tournament.
Wife and kids can hit the zoo while you play!   

Facebook event page, which is getting a really strong response so far can be found here...https://www.facebook.com/events/274448089754995/?active_tab=about

Here's the promo video with a look at previous events


The 2017 RBI tourney
https://www.facebook.com/OmahaTecmoBowl/videos/vb.1236523333032819/1451638521521298/?type=2&theater

Each tourney opens with 3 games of group play.  Results from those 3 games determine seeding for the tournament. 
Tournament will be capped with the top 24 players from group play.  We've never had a turnout that big, so it's likely everyone will play 4 games minimum as usual.   

Adding a 5th place game this year.  The 4 losing players from the quarterfinals will face off to determine 5th/6th place.  Players that reach the quarterfinals are looking at playing 6-7 games total for that tournament.  Great value for most of the field in terms of playing a lot of Tecmo or RBI.

Tecmo Bowl is a single elimination tournament.
RBI becomes best of 3 when we reach the final 4.  Both games will feature 3rd place game.       

[nomaaa]

damn i always wanted to go to one of these

[Gantry]

No Des Moines this year?   That one is much  more doable for me than Omaha.   Shorter trip and I have a buddy I can stay with...

Won't be making it unfortunately - 6 weeks in Mexico, one week home, week in Ohio for wrestling.  Will need a travel break after that for a bit...

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No Des Moines this year?   That one is much  more doable for me than Omaha.   Shorter trip and I have a buddy I can stay with...

Won't be making it unfortunately - 6 weeks in Mexico, one week home, week in Ohio for wrestling.  Will need a travel break after that for a bit...

Des Moines is a hard to pull off since It requires me to haul everything 2 hours over there.  And harder to coordinate the flyers and everything else that's needed to make it a success.   

[Darky]

Please move the date to next October so I can come and dominate!

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New to this years tourney.  The 4 losers in the quarterfinal round(final 8 players) will play to see who gets 5th place.  5th wins back 10 bucks.  The highest seeded remaining player gets the lowest seeded player, and other 2 players face off.  winners advance to play for 5th place.

5th and 6th place will play in 7 games of Tecmo or RBI.  The people that get bounced out in the round of 16 or higher are looking at only playing 4 games at this event.

There's usually a lot of inexperienced players attending.  It's not too difficult to reach the final 8, unless you were unlucky with your group play drawing.  Nate Nate Nate drew the eventual champion, and Mike Beales(3rd place) in group play at the RBI tourney this year.  He lost to both, and went 1-2.  I think he still made the round of 8 though.  His Runs differential was probably decent and would have gotten him one of the highest seeds for players going 1-2.

Hopefully doing a fundraiser for the childrens hospital at the tourney.  I need to get an item or two donated.  If anyone buys a raffled ticket, they get an extra one for free if they finish in the top 6 of either game.  They can win an additional 2 tickets if they place in both.  One of the canadians got 2nd in Tecmo and 4th in RBI.  Only guy to place in both. 

 

[TbT]

New promo video is posted with some footage from previous events. 

[Gantry]

TBT killing it per usual

[nomaaa]

beautiful

tbt is how i found dee-nee. my friends and i scoured his tecmo site for strategy tips

[TbT]

beautiful

tbt is how i found dee-nee. my friends and i scoured his tecmo site for strategy tips

It was actually Cam's site. 

[Brookensrules!]

Big Tecmo tournament coming up in town soon.  I'd play but the entry fee is large and I'm not that good.  I've gone and watched in previous years and it is rowdy and fun. 

[nomaaa]

beautiful

tbt is how i found dee-nee. my friends and i scoured his tecmo site for strategy tips

It was actually Cam's site. 

yes dang it's been a long time

[TbT]

2 different Chicago area guys have confirmed they are coming.  A guy I know is coming for Tecmo/RBI and crashing at my place.  The RBI cotut founder(Belaes) is coming for RBI, and has already booked his hotel.  Beales got 3rd place in RBI last year, and last year's champion plans to attend.  With any luck last year's 2nd place will be back as well.

I'm also working on a sports talk radio show host from Alabama.  He's a big time Tecmo player.  If he and his co-host can get a RV sponsored rental from a local dealer, they will make the 12 hour drive up here...and catch some NCAA tourney games on Friday as well. 

Considering I will throw a few dollars in sponsored ads at whichever 4 NCAA tourney fanbases come to Omaha for the sweet 16, this tourney could have people from 8 or 9 different states attending!     

[Gantry]

Fuck yes Beales!

[TbT]

Fuck yes Beales!

Beales got 3rd place last year.  A local guy named Victor took 1st.   
The guy who got 2nd place(David) was in a bogus group and 10 runned all 3 of his opponents.  He had the best point differential of the undefeated players giving him the 1 seed.  That matched up Beales and Victor in a semi-final series, who were the best 2 players there imo.  David was a legit 3rd best guy there though.  He deserved to make a deep run, and a little luck on his side.   

With these smaller tourneys and group play having a lot of inexperienced players it's not an ideal seeding metric.  But it's what we have and does a good enough job.  On occasion the semi-final is the defacto championship round.     

[TbT]

Taking stock of semi final participants at the 5 Tecmo tourneys I've attended and how the best players finished...

Omaha 2016:  Championship had best 2 players.
3rd place was clearly 3rd best player.  4th place was probably 5th or 6th best guy.
Left out?  The round of 8 (4 vs 5 seed game) loser was easily a semi-final level guy.  Bad luck with seeding.  4th best player there.
> Got 3 of 4 correct players in.   

Des Moines 2016:  Championship had 2 of best 3 players.
3rd place was 4th best player.  4th place made it via a fluke win and then got killed in semi-final and 4th place game by 35+ each time.
Left out?  The 4 vs 5 seed game(round of 8 ) was the defacto semi-final game.
> Got 3 of 4 correct players in.

Houston 2016:  Championship had best 2 players.
Semifinals Had 4 of best 5 players. 
No 3rd place game, but 3-5 were all pretty interchangeable. 

Columbus 2017:  This was just a bracket of 32 players.  No group play to start, so nobody got to set themselves up with seeding.
All I know is my 2 toughest games were in the semi-final and championship.  However those were 28-6 and 27-0 wins, so it was a weak field.  Its possible 3 of the best 4 players were in semi-final.  However the actual 3rd place player lost early to a bum, and then advanced the rest of the way in losers bracket.  3rd place eventually beat my semi-final opponent.  Without throwing a dumb pick in 1st half, i probably win my semi-final game 35-0 instead of 28-6.  Good players don't get it handed to them like that.  I had to slowly overtake my championship opponent, but it was over by mid-late 3rd qtr.   

Omaha 2017:  Had myself, Nate, and the 2 Canadians in the semi-finals so those were the best 4 players and all correct.
Nate did have a tough 4 vs 5 seed game in round of 8.  Only won 12-7.

Group play overall gets most of the correct guys into the final 4.  Watch out for the 4 vs 5 seed game!     

[Brookensrules!]

The Madison one is insane, they have a huge field, I can't recall how many but I think they cap it at something like 120 players. 

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The Madison one is insane, they have a huge field, I can't recall how many but I think they cap it at something like 120 players.

Madison's Tecmo super tourney had almost 300 players last year.  With some satellite tourneys the night before this year, its probably going to be well over 300 players now.

They had something like 32 groups of 8 players last year.  They run a mini tourney with those 8 players in each group and only the top 2 advance to the field of 64.  Its brutal just getting that far in.
They have such a database built with all the national TSB tourneys that they create regions ahead of time with the top players getting put into separate groups, and then they fill out each group with good to mediocre to bad or unknown players.  Its cool because to get a favorable draw in a group, you need to be a legit established player with a tourney resume. 

Madison recently had a guy win the tourney in back to back years, and he did so against the same opponent in both championships.  Those 2 guys had a pretty good couple years of TSB, when you consider the size of the field and how hard it is just to get into the round of 64.     Those 2 guys also met in the finals ina  Dallas tourney this summer.  TSB has a pretty deep field of something like 50-100 guys that are capable of winning Madison. 

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RBI promo video.  I failed to get a good shot of the guys playing RBI last year, so its all I got.  Enjoy.

[RetroSportsGamerTom]

Nice promo video!  RBI Baseball in warp speed.