Fighting Game Locals

Server structure

Overview

Built for a local fighting game scene that meets once a week and plays online in between. The server is arranged around the three things a local needs. Matchmaking comes first: #looking-for-sets is where you ask for games right now, #ft10-callouts is for the long sets people want witnesses for, and #casuals-chat is the room the scene talks in. The Lab is a forum, #character-labs, with one thread per character and tags by archetype, so the grappler tech someone found in March is still findable in June instead of buried under two thousand messages; #frame-data-and-resources holds the links. The Weekly Bracket category is what makes this a locals server rather than a game chat: signups open in #bracket-signups, the Bracket Runner posts station calls in #pools-and-calls where nobody else can type, and results land in #bracket-results as a read-only record the whole season can be reconstructed from. Setups covers the practical side of a local, controllers and sticks in #setups-and-controllers and connection problems in #netcode-and-connection, because a scene loses more players to lag and a broken stick than to losing. Voice is a casuals lobby plus two two-seat rooms for online sets. The tournament organiser and moderators have a small private room with a log channel.

When to use it

Your weekly has grown from six people at a bar to thirty, and the Discord is one channel where signups, tech and trash talk all land together. Somebody asks who is on station three and nobody sees it. This layout gives the bracket its own read-only channels, gives every character a lab thread that lasts, and gives online sets during the week a place to be arranged.

What makes it different

• #character-labs is a forum with a thread per character and tags by archetype, so tech is findable months later.
• #pools-and-calls is Bracket Runner-only, so station calls on the night are never lost in the chat.
• #bracket-results is a read-only record of every weekly, which is the season history in one scroll.
• Two two-seat voice rooms keep online sets private while the casuals lobby stays open.
• Setups and netcode help have their own channels because a broken stick loses more players than a loss.

Recommended Vetox setup

• Self-Roles

  Post a Self-Roles panel in #game-roles for Street Fighter, Tekken and Guilty Gear so a #looking-for-sets ping reaches only the people who play that game.

• Reminders

  Schedule a Reminder in #bracket-signups a few hours before the weekly so signups close before the Bracket Runner seeds pools.

• Streaks

  Turn on Streaks so people who show up in #looking-for-sets every day keep a visible run, which is what a scene runs on.

• Starboard

  Point Starboard at #character-labs so the best combo clips and tech posts get pinned by the scene rather than by the organiser.