With 2010 a few weeks old I just wanted to go over a few things we’ve got planned so far for the year. We held our first ranbat yesterday and it was a big success! Tons of quality matches, some new faces and a general good time all around. Recruitment was a success in my books.  We got a few more players from it and have a bit more exposure now as well.

We are planning to do more gatherings. In addition to the usual Friday sci-lounge gatherings, we’re planning to book some a room at the university to game on Saturday afternoons. We are planning to do this sometime in the next few weeks. We’ll keep things posted. This will be similar to the usual gathering but in a different location. We are also looking into using a different facility for tournaments, even though the science lounge is a fine venue for us and we’ve had a ton of good times there it’s also a venue that’s a little harder to get. Despite always getting the room its always something I worry about when we do tournaments there.

As for tournaments this year, we’ve got one upcoming in March for Shoji Con. Details for that are a bit scarce right now and we’ll keep everyone up-to-date once we get more info.  There’s some pretty interesting stuff planned for that but until things are confirmed, we don’t know for sure. With Super Street Fighter IV coming out we may or may not do an official launch tournament for it, depending on its release. If it comes out in April I don’t think it would be a good idea as finals will be ongoing. Either way, we’ll have a tournament for super fairly shortly after the game comes out. Of course we’ll have the 2 Baselan tournaments.  We’ve been invited to do another Comic Con event.  Things are up in the air for Driven as we haven’t been contacted about it as of yet. Of course we’ll have our usual major TST sometime in August probably.

We’ve had one awesome ranbat already to start off the year! I want to see more of this for more of the games. Keep up the good work guys.  2009 was a great year lets top it in 2010!