United States Pump it Up Festival Announced!

[cj iwakura]

Nationals: awesome
Post-tournament stuff: awesomer
The car we drove up in : sucked
(Wouldn't start Saturday, got a flat tire about... oh, six hours ago)

The rest was great. And Kyosuke's probably ticked he missed the Guilty Gear fest that went down last night, if nothing else. :P There was also some IIDX/SF Alpha/Puzzle Fighter goodness(and I got beat at the second for the first time in way too long).

I can't wait to see Adolfo's documentary. Especially how he handles the Karate Joe segments...

Oh, and the 1st Crazy was Papa Gonzales, and the 1st NM was Solitary 2.

You can blame Extravaganza being the final song on me. I pulled the dang card for it.

Some images c/o fantomx & Stariandolphin:



(c/o fantomx)



(two moderators and a user present, guess which :P)


Dignity sheep!



(c/o starian)

[TougaKiryuu]

most of these turned out the suck because of stage lighting but here's some things I got from behind stage and whatnot:

http://www.pumpcore.com/tougakiryuu/photos.zip

some of em' are dark, others turned out amazing, and i'm STILL processing vids so yeah

also, the big group picture: (curtosy of stariandolphin)

[TougaKiryuu]

double post: more FS videos curtosy of jboy since I don't have time to upload stuff right now

Lilac and Zully: Chung Hwa Bae Jeom
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhGST8xsfCE

Marcel: Enter the Dragon
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNeY_ZlnY7A

Der_toter: Emergency
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aEjKfvE7cg

Eso: Enter the Dragon
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4n10YRsjcs

Karate Joe: Enter the Dragon
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqSuVBv0nIQ

"the beast" exhibition: Don't Bother me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ov_TilHLrWw

X-treme exhibition: hot
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvevPXi9jjc

also, karate joe falling over a chair to get a pump shirt XD (stariandolphin)

[Kyosuke Kagami]

For some reason, I've got a lot of interest to assist USPF2k7, rather than MPF -_-

This event seemed to be awesome Now I have a good enough reason to obtain my passport and my VISA

*saving money*

[Proz]

Better view of Lilac/Zully Video (Got 4th place):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCThuC1gELw

[cj iwakura]

I didn't know they had a prize beyond third... did they announce what the scores beyond fourth were too?

I bet mine was 11th. :P

[Proz]

Originally Posted by cj iwakura

I didn't know they had a prize beyond third... did they announce what the scores beyond fourth were too?

I bet mine was 11th. :P

They haven't listed the FS scores nor they give out prizes. Just Art told Lilac she got 4th, that's all. Personally I thought it should have gotten 3rd but I'm slightly bias. :p

[TougaKiryuu]

Yeah yeah, but we still love you Proz, and yeah you did cj :<

[kagometan]

mousima EX

[Smidget]

I really need to start posting here more often :P


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Thank you so much to everyone who came; it was quite a weekend!! It's great to read all these posts afterwards about how you all really enjoyed it. Although there were a few rough spots throughout the day, seeing all the smiling faces at the end of the festival was enough for me to know that it was worth all the late nights, early mornings, and the early-age starting of my balding (haha). Our goal was to create an event focused on something you, the players, would enjoy rather than a focus on the promotion of the PIU. I feel we accomplished that goal. Thank you so much to everyone who helped us out throughout the weekend, you were all a Godsend and I don't think we could have done it without each and every one of you. It goes to show that the PIU and dance game communities are still and seemingly always will be about the community and the friendships therein. Thank you for continuing to love Pump It Up and spending hours upon hours practicing to be the best you can be. With so many familiar faces and almost as many new ones, the PIU community definitely became something new over the weekend and I look forward to becoming better friends with all of you throughout the coming year(s).

-Smidget

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I never got that email Touga. I'm going to get all that info together though. I just took a couple days to "wind down" from the weekend (I worked on USPF through Monday).

[Smidget]

Originally Posted by Lilac_Chrome

Red Viper and Smidget's fs WAS awesome. What's funny is that my partner was recording them changing to their clothes before the fs XDDD Blackmail!

I think next time, I'm going to do a solo fs...

Aahhh!!! So you got the hairy chest on camera, eh? haha I'm part Italian, I can't help it!

I started working on a solo FS this year but when the opportunity came up for the team, I grabbed it because in order to have a fair chance at winning WPF, a team FS is almost a requirement. Until they make separate divisions for single and team FS like they should have done this year...

[TougaKiryuu]

ITS THE DRUNKEN TEDDY BEAR!!! *tackles and hugs* have you two started your 2nd routine yet?

[[kei_kusanagi]]

woah, nice photos and nice tournament ^^ but only one questione.... When will you be able to upload the video of the freestyle winner?

[Smidget]

[TougaKiryuu]

dude your getting way better with photoshop! Best of luck with you this year and hopefully the judges won't be looking for a TnA show this year again --;