Vincent Dumont - Junior Project Manager
European Tournament Series
(Soulcalibur 6)
Task
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Creation of an Online European Tournament for Soulcalibur 6
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Determine the Tournament Format & Dates
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Book & Schedule commentators for each Tournaments
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Create an Artistic Direction & Assets for Communication
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Tournament Management
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Find a way to obtain a decent Prize Pool
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Create and Maintain a Twitch and Youtube Channel to stream and save Replays of matches
Youtube Channel
Issues
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For the first series of tournaments, we were only 3 people from 3 different countries (Russia, Germany & France), communication wasn't really a problem but it was a really good practice !
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We had a lot of online meetings through discord and we were doing it on our free time, so we had to have a very precise Planning
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We had to split jobs to make sure that everything works out in time, one was dedicated to communication, another to Format Tournament and finally, I had to mainly book Casters
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Despite that, we always required validation of everyone before continuing
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For the Prize pool, we contacted Bandai Namco Europe that accepted to send us a Soulcalibur 6 Collector Edition and we managed to obtain a sponsor with Matcherino & Gfuel allowing us to have a 600€+ Prize pool for the first season
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Sometimes, some caster couldn't make it on time, So either one my colleague or myself had to Cast the tournament
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We also had to manage the ongoing tournament, so we used discord & Challonge for an easy & clear communication