Beyblade Colosseum February 2nd, 2013
TO start this review of Colosseum weekend off I’m going to talk about the activities that led up to Colosseum.
August 13th 2012
The Colosseum thread gets posted. Word starts to spread about this event and how big it could potentially be.
October 31st 2012
Official Tournament thread is posted on CarolinaGameSummit.com
November 7th 2012
Carolina Game Summit officially announces Beyblade Colosseum for CGS 2013.
December 2012
The Beyblade Geeks officially become a sponsor for Beyblade Colosseum. Hasbro officially becomes a sponsor aka Prize supporter for Beyblade Colosseum.
The first Road to Victory starts in Raleigh North Carolina, USA. Defstamina88 earns the right to pick his first round opponent at Colosseum.
January 2013
The Second Road to Victory happens with StormScorpio1 earning the right to pick his opponent for Beyblade Colosseum. Tier Zero Gaming becomes an official sponsor of Beyblade Colosseum. The Beyblade Geeks post a promo video announcing their sponsorship of Colosseum. Video hits 15,000 views within 4 days.
February 2013
The final Road to Victory happens with Thunder Dome earning the right to pick his opponent at Beyblade Colosseum. Kickin Kiwi becomes an official sponsor of Beyblade Colosseum.
February 1st 2013
I begin setup this day. Get the livestream fixed and ready. Spend a total of 7 hours at Wayne Community College. Then proceed to Tier Zero Gaming for a tournament. Due to several out of towners not being able to make it the event is cancelled. We all still get practice in. Axel Phantom stays the weekend so he can attend all the events. End up going to sleep about 2am.
Beyblade Colosseum February 2nd 2013
We get to the venue at 8:30 with breakfast in hand. Pruebame/Bazooka makes it to the venue about 9:15am. Primus/StormScorpio1 makes it to the venue about 9:30am. At 9:45 participants start coming in. About 10:15am we realize that registration for CGS is running behind. Dark_Mousy & Pruebame check the front to see how many bladers are in line. We see about 25 waiting from 4 different states. Tournament finally begins about 1pm. Registration was very far behind. We have a grand total of 48 bladers from Massachusetts, Maryland, Washington DC, Virginia, South Carolina, & North Carolina.
We ran 2 stadiums using double elimination. Due to CGS rules I couldn’t use some of my normal judges since they were playing. Primus sells quite a bit of merchandise. We get done with the event around 5:15pm. Wombat got a stadium stolen. I had a Right String Launcher go missing. Overall everyone had fun. No big situations came up. We had a lot of kids thankful for the BBG being involved along with Hasbro. We had to turn a few kids away since the tournament was well underway and there was no way to add them with Challonge.
Awards Ceremony
We have the awards ceremony now. They have a nice video package for Beyblade. The presenters didn’t have the proper script for us so I had to take the mic and do it myself. I received quite a few laughs for this. Video will be posted once I find it.
Overall
This event was awesome. So many people to thank; Primus, Pruebame, Kei/Committee, Kaizer Vearn, Insomniac, Hasbro, BBG, Kickin Kiwi, Tier Zero, & everyone who came out.