Acen '08: May 16-18

[Arctures]

Originally Posted by Ledline of /flex

how exactly is the PNM tournament run here? I saw that there were plaques for each of the competitions last year, is that going to happen again (just out of curiosity).

Double elimination, unless they decide to do it American Idol style like what was planned at MMS. Dunno if they'll do plaques again this year, I'd almost doubt it.

Originally Posted by Ledline of /flex

But then again I think Arctures would win that and the DM tourney :p

:<
Nobody entered the DM tournament at BMF because they all said I'd win and it wouldn't be any fun. It just turned out to be negative fun.

Originally Posted by Ledline of /flex

Also I think I can POSSBILY make it on the fact that my last AP test is two days before ACEN. I still have to ask and plan stuff etc etc

You'd be better off than me, I had to miss my English AP test to make it last year. Now I have to read books in college, go figure.


Also studentuniverse rocks, I left the order page idle for my flight to Chicago, the session cancelled, and they gave me a $15 dollar discount. $321 roundtrip from Santa Barbara/LAX is pretty good.

[MrGains]

I'll be there. Drunk as balls and probably incoherent 90% of the time, but definitely there.

[Arctures]

Originally Posted by MrGains

I'll be there. Drunk as balls and probably incoherent 90% of the time, but definitely there.

So will everybody else, you'll fit in fine.

[Untouchable]

Originally Posted by Arctures

Oops I forgot to post the main site
Anime Central - May 16-18, 2008 - Rosemont, IL - Home

SO: What is usually done at this convention? Is worth me making the trip back home?

[vjgyo]

Originally Posted by Baka of the Orochi

Sword/Pants/whatever: Hopefully if things go well, we should have AT LEAST a GF and DM V3 machine sessioned. If things go better...then we might get something better =)

Pretty much going to be working as much as I can on game room this week and next week and hopefully get some contracts out.

Musical guest this year: HALCALI.

Hey you! I remember we were talking a little bit at the GF/DM V4 test location about me bringing my machines. The only one I could for sure bring provided if I could get the transportation to move it is a PPP 2nd mix machine. Would that be okay or are you looking for more popular Bemani/arcade games?

[Arctures]

Originally Posted by Untouchable

SO: What is usually done at this convention? Is worth me making the trip back home?

people dress in funny clothes, we probably play bemanis, keith gets drunk, the end

[ranatalus]

Originally Posted by vajiggio

Hey you! I remember we were talking a little bit at the GF/DM V4 test location about me bringing my machines. The only one I could for sure bring provided if I could get the transportation to move it is a PPP 2nd mix machine. Would that be okay or are you looking for more popular Bemani/arcade games?

you're asking if an anime convention would like a para machine

what do you think the answer is going to be

[June.H]

Originally Posted by vajiggio

Hey you! I remember we were talking a little bit at the GF/DM V4 test location about me bringing my machines. The only one I could for sure bring provided if I could get the transportation to move it is a PPP 2nd mix machine. Would that be okay or are you looking for more popular Bemani/arcade games?

We'll talk about it soon, I'll probably message/text/e-mail/call if that's cool, but I need to figure out some other stuff first.

...like making sure I have monies for other things =/

[Swors-k]

I really hope the DDR tournament is better run this year. Last year was a disaster.

[ranatalus]

what happened exactly; i can help out if need be

[Swors-k]

Originally Posted by ranatalus

what happened exactly; i can help out if need be

Basically, the guy running it seemed like he'd never run a tournament before. We (meaning the collective players and the host) spent about 45 minutes arguing about mods, the qualifier, how many rounds, single/double elimination, and a myriad of other bogus. Then, once we FINALLY got settled on how it would be set up (if I remember right, we decided on 3 song sets, and then a 5 song set for the final, or something like that), someone came by (might've been June) and informed us that we were pretty much out of time, so they shortened everything but the final down to 1 song rounds.

It sucked. Hard.

[ranatalus]

does anyone remember the name of the guy who was running it because it sounds like a familiar scenario

[WhiteDragon]

I'm planning on going again this year if I can. My time will be split between Bemani related activities and cosplay related activities though.

I went to the Bemanistyle panel last year. It was very entertaining.

[SpeedBeatz]

Originally Posted by "mydjsobad" on ACen forums

To everyone asking in regards to the Japanese guys that were brought out last year, I just got off the phone with Allen and I can safely say we have an amazing plan in the pipeline right now. Expect a final announcement in the near future, but if all goes as we currently have planned no one will be disappointed.

I came. Now the suspense is killing me.

[vjgyo]

I can come a day or two early to help set things up in the arcade room or help run tournaments. That description of the DDR tournament sounds like horseshit. If the guy was going to run the tournament he should at least know what the rules and such were going to be BEFORE going into it. There was a small local tournament here during fall and the rules were no mods out of nowhere because people were choosing different mods (one person would have 1.5 and another would have 2x for example) so they said no mods halfway through. I think they did it because the people running it had NO idea what they were doing. Shit like that can be avoided easily as long as you KNOW WHAT YOU'RE DOING jeez.

@ Baka - I'm usually online after 6-7PM each night if you want to hit me up via AIM. My phone doesn't get reception at my mom's house and I'll be here until Sunday so if you plan on calling, any time after Sunday is fine. And yeah, I should probably have PM'ed you all this but my inbox is just about full.... umyeahhhh heh.