Thread: NHL 09 (360) LGK Tournament Interest?

Count me in

Chicago and New Jersey.

2 more to go, looks like this might work after all...

Gamertag: Hexisland
Teams: Flyers and Wild.

I'm in too... Trekker315

Dallas Stars, Boston Bruins

I've actually never played a full Nomral game on NHL 09...just Be a Pro...

lol

Cool, we have 8.

Originally Posted by KingTrekHead

I've actually never played a full Nomral game on NHL 09...just Be a Pro...

lol

I don't think you're the only one... TooCool mentioned the same thing as well.

Luckily it's pretty much the same thing... same controls, of course. Only thing you have to get used to is controlling every player when they have the puck. After a couple practice games you should have the hang of it.

One thing that's nice is the games tend to go a lot quicker if you want them to. Less lag (not that there's too much with Be a Pro as it is) due to there only being two players, plus you don't need to wait for 10 people to hit a button to skip the cutscenes.

If anyone else is still interested, post here in case anyone else drops out. For now, I'll start getting the team selection process underway and build the tournament tree. We'll probably want to schedule a few practice games (ideally, one against each opponent, but that might be a lot to hope for).

lets do this!!!

I'm going to try and get the tournament thread and graphic up tonight. Let's see if we can get at least our first round completed by the end of next week 11/16 - 11/22 (again, 3 games max... shouldn't be too much to handle).

Once I have everything set up, I'll send a PM out to everyone.

EDIT: It's coming, I promise.

I arbitrarily decided to select the seeding based on our Xbox Live Leaderboard status.

Xbox Live Leaderboard
1 - Hexisland 39
2 - Watti 43
3 - Cross Traffic 62
4 - TooCool 87
5 - DieAvsDie 92
6 - luckyluc20 102
7 - Matt Young (not listed)
8 - KingTrekHead (not listed)

So the first round matchups are:

Hexisland vs. KingTrekHead
Watti vs. Matt Young
Cross Traffic vs. lucklyluc20
TooCool vs DieAvsDie

Then, based on those matchups, I selected conference. The top half is West, the bottom half East, so the teams are:

Hexisland - Minnesota Wild
Watti - Vancouver Canucks
Cross Traffic - Chicago Blackhawks
TooCool - Edmonton Oilers
DieAvsDie - Tampa Bay Lightning
luckyluc20 - New York Rangers
Matt Young - Pittsburgh Penguins
KingTrekHead - Boston Bruins

I'll have the new thread with specific rules and stuff up in the next couple days. We're in no rush or anything, so if you're not able to start yet, as long as you communicate with the rest of us (preferably here or in the new thread I'll start), this should go smoothly. I'll have the rules regarding how we'll handle it should communication break down (like it did last year) in the new thread.

Anyone get any practice games in yet?