C3 FAQ

What is C3
How to get involved
What games cater too you
How do become a tournament director and what do I get out of it
Can I hold tournaments at my house for points
How does the Ranking System work
Sponsorship opportunity

What is the Colorado Cutthroat Connection

The Colorado Cutthroat Connection (C3) is home of the Cutthroat Chapter for the NVGA (National Video Game Association). C3 is an organization that will allow new and old players to experience all tournaments in the state of Colorado and beyond. C3 gives all players the ability too not only be in charge of the tournament scene that they live in they can find players for both casual and professional play, gain experience to become one of the best players around, give opporturnities to those people who want to develope tournaments in Colorado, as well as reward those people who take an active role in the gaming community. Wether that be competing, providing excellent artwork to the community, hosting tournaments or simply supporting the tournament scene there is something here for everyone.C3 also gives players the ability to travel in state and out of state to represent your state for the glory.

How to get involved?

That's easy!! If you are looking for tournament play or just people to play with you will be able to upload contact info onto the website. From there you can use forums to talk and chat with each other.

What games do you cater too?

C3 caters to all console based games that our tournament weekly based off the concencus of players in Colorado. Here is the games that our main tournament attractions in Colorado right now:

• HALO 3
• Super Smash Bros. Brawl
• Soul Calibur 4
• Guilty Gear Accent Core
• Street Fighter 3: Third Strike
• Tekken 5: Dark Resurrection
• DDR SuperNova
• Virtua Fighter 5
• Capcom vs. SNK 2
• Marvel vs. Capcom 2
• Guitar Hero 2
• and much much more...

If you have a game that you would like to host a tournament for then contact us at colorado_cutthroat_connection@yahoo.com and we can help get that tournmaent off the ground as a tournament director.

How do become a tournament director and what do I get out of it?

Being a tournament director allows you to both get a chance to establish a game of your choice as a main game attraction, help develop the gaming community around you, but also allow you to get some money out of it as well. For any tournament that a tournament director runs they will be allotted 10% of the entry fee for that particular tournament.

So for example, say you have a tournament that has 2 games featured in it and your are running both tournaments. Both tournaments will require $5 each to the venue. So with 20 seperate people entered in each tournament (40 people total) there will be $100 gained for the venue and $100 in the tournament pot for each game thus $200 dollars goes to the venue and there is $00 in the pot for each game. In this situation if the tournament director is just directing the tournament AND NOT PLAYING they will get 10% of the venue money based off how many people enter the tournament that they are directing. This 10% comes from the VENUE MONEY NOT THE POT MONEY so the pot money is NOT affected. So in this situation the tournament director would get $10 for each tournament. So at the end of the day the venue would take home $180.

This gives tournament directors some reinbursement for the time that they are putting into provide a tournament to the community plus it motivates tournament directors to work there hardest to get as many people there as possible. This way the more people you get the more money you make. Price breakdown is subject to change

Responsibilities for a tournament director:

• Help the hosting venue advertise for gaming event
• Help maintain both the tournament itself and the bracket associated with the tournament
• Provide AT LEAST the game and console of the tournament that he/she is running and
  much equipment (games, systems) to insure that the tournament will commence
• Constant communication with the venue to ensure that all aspects of the tournament are met

Responsibilities of Venue and C3:

• To provide assitants on all advertisement and equipment
• To help promote all events at the venue itself

Not ahearing to these responsibilites only hurts you as a director and the group that you support so again this is a way to make a name for yourself so if you help yourself we will help you!!!

How does the Ranking System work!

When you participate in tournaments you get points for joining the tournament. These points determine you player rank in Colorado and all over the nation. Go here to look at the point breakdown!

Can I hold tournaments at my house for points?
Yes, all rankings and points will be based upon tournament play under the supervision of C3 and those people affliated with it. All you have to do is making the tournmaent open to all people. That simple!!

Sponsorship Opporturnity

One of things that we trying to do is make this chapter the most competitive out of all the chapters in
NVGA. With that in mind, we sponsor players to go in state and out of state to represent the chapter, but there are stipulations and benefits to being sponsored:

• Tiers for sponsorship:
  *Must be the top 3 players in your game
  **Must be AT LEAST ranked in the top 2 in your game and must have won or placed second in at least 2 tournaments within your perspecitive game within 1 month of the tournament that you are requesting sponsorship for
  ***Number one player in your game and have won at least 3 tournaments within 2 months of your current tournament

  T1: *Pay for entry free to tournaments
  T2: **Pay for entry fee and food
  T3: ***Pay for entry fee and food/travel (FULL Sponsorship)

• All sponsorship can be denied based off players not following all guidelines
  
  
• It is at the discretion of C3 to determine the cost of sponsorship
  
  
• A contract will have to be signed for all parties that seek sponsorship
  
  
• If sponsored and pending contract signing winning a tournament that C3 sponsored you at entitles the C3 chapter 25% of the winnings. This is only contingent on you placing where cash prizes are given out based off your placing
  
  
• Getting sponsorship money requires a paypal account. Not having one will not allow you to be sponsored. Note: Once player sponsorship money is sent too you the money will be in your paypal account. In order to get it into your bank account you must use the foward option in paypal to foward the money to your account. Allows 3 to 4 days to process to your account
  
  
• Fill out the following request form to be considered for sponsorship. Download here
  
  
• Note: If for some reason you are not able to attend your sponsored event you are required to contact Gregory Richardson via email, phone, Private Message on ColoradoFusion.net before your trip to tell the status of your sponsorsed trip. Upon that your are required to send all sponsorship money back to the chapter via paypal no later then a week after the event. Not doing so will terminate any type of future sponsorship. Excepts to this rule are at the discretion of the chapter leader.