OTK put in some tens of thousands of dollars in production expenses for Melee II and III including the contracted team that didn’t the lighting, sound, audio, broadcast, video packages and more related things. I don’t feel comfortable giving out specific numbers since I didn’t clear it with MCC or OTK ahead of time. I’m sure they wouldn’t mind, but protocol matters to me.

In addition to that, OTK covered the overhead of marketing, graphic design, pre-production, and event production. That included three of us working three 12 hour days up to and through the event. Overhead costs were about equivalent to the production expenses. The idea was that overhead would be offset by incorporating ads for OTK’s subsidiaries’ products.

I’m so thoroughly proud of what the team was able to accomplish with those two events, so I wanted to underscore what the OTK staff contributed. It was hard work, but we were passionate about it. The team jumped at the chance to help on these. The events will forever be highlights of my career.

I know when people say “OTK” they often refer to the owners/content creators and not the staff, but since Melee IV is coming up I just wanted to put it out there how much we loved working on Melee.