__**ESA 2015 Mystery Tournament – Interest Thread**__
 
**What is this?**
I will be running two mystery tournaments at ESA – a speedrun tournament and a vs. tournament.  Chucat has agreed to lend a hand and I'll be happy to accept assistance from anyone else who wants to offer it.

The Mystery Game Tournaments will use the double elimination structure, and the intention is to play the final rounds on the yellow stream. I may combine these tournaments into one big competition depending on numbers and available time to broadcast the finals on stream.

Similar to the #mystery tournaments on SRL and Chucat’s tournament at last year’s ESA, in each round you and your opponent will be given a game and immediately you will race to a certain goal, or play a vs. match without having the chance to practice first.  Players may encounter games they've played before, seen before, or may have never even heard of. The competitions are designed to determine not just who has the most gaming experience, but the best overall gaming abilities.

**Do I sign up here?**

This is NOT an official sign-up thread so if you register interest here you aren’t committing to the tournaments; sign-ups will happen at ESA itself.  But if you are interested in taking part please let me know in this thread so that I have an idea of numbers.

I would also be interested in hearing suggestions of games we could play.  As this is a mystery tournament if you do submit a game please *__do not tell anyone what it is __*as that will ruin the “mystery” part!

To suggest a game please fill in [this form](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1YVW9uJm7bgmowTPBo5ShkOYZESycZqPii-4qjBQplCw/viewform?usp=send_form).
 

As an example of what could work as a suggestion:

**Name:** RoboSparkle
**Game:** Shaq Fu
**System:** Genesis
**Can you bring a copy to ESA?** Yes
**Will you bring the console to ESA?** No
**Suggested Goal: **vs. match – best of 3
**Likely Duration (ignore setup): **10 minutes
**Comments: **It’s very much a meme game at this point and while most attendees will have seen/played it before due to previous appearances at GDQs and ESAs, nobody actually practices this game so we can still be assured of a pretty even match and it would work great in the live finals as well!
**Video: ** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vONRNAnerI

Note: It's extremely likely that someone will set up an impromptu Shaq Fu tournament at ESA so we/re not having it in the mystery tournament.  This was just an example ;)

So, the mystery tournament will start soon; please post in this thread if you are interested in participating (or use one of the sign-up sheets I've posted at the venue).  Let me know if you want to enter the Mystery Races, the Mystery vs. tournament, or both, and whether there are any days you won't be able to take part (I intend to start the tournaments on Monday).  I will do my best to accommodate any scheduling difficulties.

For more information on the actual tournaments, or if you want to submit games (completely optional) please see this thread: http://www.speedrun.com/esa2015/thread/8tb2r

Good luck!

Mystery Tournament Sign-Up Thread!

Mystery Tournament(s) at ESA 2015!

Cereth

Baffan

Rasmus_1990

MLSTRM

Sonic 3 & Knuckles

Sonic Spinball (GG/SMS)

Batman: Arkham Asylum

Batman: Arkham City

Batman: Arkham Origins

Wizkid: The Story of Wizball II

Great Giana Sisters, The

X-Men: Mojo World

LEGO Harry Potter: The Battle for Hogwarts

Multiple Arkham Games

Pokémon Let's Go Pikachu/Eevee Category Extensions

Harlequin

RoboSparkle