Frequently Asked Questions

  • Fortnightly Offline Tournaments

    • Biweekly Thursdays.

    • Retro Realm, Walsall

    • 18:30-22:30.

  • 1 Monday per month

    • We choose which Monday, each month

    • Retro Realm, Walsall

    • 17:00-22:30.

    • All the usual setups available.

    • Play what you like, bring your own setups games too.

    • Sometimes we run a casual tournament for a more off-piste game or gamemode. Think TekkenBall or fighting game adjacent games.

  • Foundry @ Retro Realm

    • Venue fee - £2 mandatory for attendance, tournament and casual nights.

    • Paid bracket entry - £5 per bracket.

    • There’s always one free to enter bracket on Thursday tournament nights.

    • Access to a wristband for the rest of the arcade is extra.

    • Signing up for Foundry events/brackets grants entry/participation to our room, brackets, casuals. Not the rest of the arcade.

    • Access to rest of the arcade is via wristbands which are sold by RR at upstairs.

    • Wristbands are discounted to £5 if attending one of our events.

    • The arcade is "free play" so all games are included once you have a wristband.

    • Buying food and drink at the bar is what allows us to do this. Prices are good and the food is great. Please support the venue/night with whatever purchase you are comfortable making.

    • 18:10 - Registration closes, no new players.

    • 18:15 - Seeding request closes.

      • Seeding/pool adjustment requests all to go through the Discord.

      • We'll put a message in the channel to mark the cut-off

    • 18:20 - Seeding locked.

      • No more tournament bracket adjustments past this point.

    • 18:30 - Bracket start.

      • SF6 and T8 games start at 18:30.

      • Anime and retro/variety tournaments often start a little after 18:30.

  • Yep, there’s a restaurant and bar on-site.

    • Vegetarian options.

    • All Halal.

    • See the menu here

    • Buying food and drink at the bar is what allows us to do this. Prices are good and the food is great. Please support the venue/night with whatever purchase you are comfortable making.

  • 100% of bracket entry fee goes into prize pot.

    • 1st place - 50%

    • 2nd place - 30%

    • 3rd place - 20%

  • Players of all ages and experience are with us at every Foundry night.

    From sponsored Tekken World Tour pro players and Street Fighter World Warriors, to total newcomers and people who just want to hit some buttons.

    You don’t have to be good at fighting games to attend your local, but going to your local could make you kinda good.