When: Friday, August 10th to Sunday, August 12th
CONFIRMED Where: Family Fun Center
7052 Dodge Street
Omaha, Nebraska 68132
Tournaments: DDR Extreme PA, DDR Extreme S4R, PIU Zero Crazy (Speed), IIDX DistorteD, Pop'n FEVER, Guitar Freaks, ITG2 FA, SSBM (Singles and Teams).
Contact Info:
Questions, queries, complaints, comments, objections? Contact me via e-mail (AndrewSusmanATgmailDOTcom), by phone (402-391-1205, ask for Andrew), or over AIM (Brazoliange).
Schedule (Tentative): Friday
-Meet + Greet starting at 5 PM
-Tournament registration starting at 5 PM
Saturday
-11 AM: Warmups and last-minute registration
-11 AM: DDR Extreme PA seeding starts
-12 PM (or 20 minutes after seeding ends): DDR Extreme PA starts
-12 PM: SSBM Singles starts
-2 PM: Guitar Freaks starts
-4 PM: In the Groove 2 FA starts
-4 PM (or whenever SSBM Singles ends): SSBM Teams starts
Sunday
-11 AM: Warmups and last-minute registration
-12 PM: IIDX DistorteD starts
-12 PM: Pump It Up Crazy (Speed) starts
-4 PM: Pop'n FEVER starts
-4 PM: DDR S4R starts
Confirmed Staff For This Event:
Brazoliange
Jinx
Modarius
DualEdge?
Several UMKC members
...any further staff volunteers would be appreciated. Please get in touch with me if you are willing to help run events, host people, or otherwise help out with this event.
For those staying at my house:
I am
full for this event. If you have talked to me, you are fine. I have sent out PMs with information on how to get to my place.
Please bring the following articles for yourself and any people with you:
-Towels
-Soap, shampoo, toothpaste, toothbrush, etc.
-Pillow(s)
-Blankets
-Sleeping Bags
Hotel Info: Quote:
Here is a list of Hotels in very close vicinity to FFC:
FFC Tournaments (Click the Hotel Info tab).
The current "official hotel" for MMS '07 is:
Econo Lodge (West Dodge)
7833 Dodge Street
(402)391-7100
Econo Lodge is willing to give us a discount if we reserve more than 10 rooms for the event. Instead of the regularly listed 74.99 a night, here are the prices they will give:
1-bed (1-2 people): 49.99 + tax per night
2-bed (2-4 people): 54.99 + tax per night
Econo Lodge is located 6-8 blocks from Family Fun Center and is right behind a Village Inn. They are within minutes of 30+ restaurants, a grocery store, gas stations, etc. Please note that if 10+ rooms are not reserved, we will not get the discount and the regular prices will apply. To qualify for the special rates, call the number listed above and say that Andrew Susman referred you to reserve with the special rate. |
Equipment disclaimer:
Neither I nor FFC will take responsibility for any stolen items, although we will try to ensure it doesn't happen. If you bring a GameCube/PS2/other system or GC controllers/any bemani controllers, you are responsible for keeping an eye on them. I would also suggest putting your name on anything which you bring with for extra safety.
If you are willing to donate any controllers, TVs, game systems, video games, or anything else for use in this event, please contact me and let me know.
Food/Beverages:
FFC has a general selection of arcade food, including pizza, nachos, popcorn, soda, hot dogs, and other items. There are a large number of other restaurants/fast food places in a very near vicinity to FFC, as well as several grocery stores.
FFC accomodations
As told to me personally by both of the owners, on tournament days, "the people participating in and running the tournaments have priority over all other customers". As such, they are making very large arrangements to make this as successful as possible for us.
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We will be moving more than 20 cabinets out of the arcade to give us more space. All of the dancing games and some of the others will be moved approx. 20 feet back from their current spots. This will give a large area in the middle of all of the Bemani, as well as lower noise interference between games.
-FFC will provide discounts if we buy larger orders of food or drink; example, a free 4th pizza if we buy 3 large pizzas.
-FFC will provide discounts on their other amusements, such as laser tag and mini-golf.
-All games will be on freeplay for the tournaments.
-FFC will likely provide a projector to play the SSBM tournaments on.
Specifics will be announced at a later date or at the tournament. Be assured that FFC is working to make this a successful set of events.
Prizes:
There will be cash prizes for the top 3 placers in each tournament. The pot for all tournaments will be split 70/25/5%.
Registration Fee
When signing up for any tournaments, all participants are subject to a one-time, non-refundable fee of $5. This will be given to FFC in exchange for letting us run it there. This will only be paid once and will not need to be paid again when signing up for any other tournaments.
Tournament rules:
Disclaimer: These rules can be changed at any time if necessary; if they are, however, I will post here saying that they were changed. Additionally, if a tournament is not possible because of a lack of time or non-functioning equipment, I reserve the right to cancel that tournament. We are doing everything possible to have EVERYTHING in perfect working order in time for this though, so take it as an "if" and not a "when".
DDR Extreme (both tournaments): - $10 Perfect Attack Tech
- $5 S4R
Perfect Attack Tech Rules
- All songs are allowed
- Songs will be scored by PA (Best of 3 songs)
- No 10-footers until the semi-finals and finals
- No Little
- Freezes on.
- Solo must be agreed upon by both players.
- No speed cap (any speed modifier allowed)
- Flip a coin at beginning of all matches; winner picks either 1st and 3rd songs and difficulties or side and 2nd song; loser picks the other.
- Each player picks their own modifications.
- If both players fail, the chooser of the song is the loser for that song.
- The same song cannot be picked twice by a player in the tournament.
This tournament will be DOUBLE ELIMINATION. All mods excluding the ones listed above will be allowed. Bar will be allowed. Players will be seeded with a qualifying song. Qualifier will be announced day of tournament. Ties for matches will result in a random song tiebreaker.
Grading System for Perfect Attack Tech
Perfect = 2 points
Greats = 1 points
Goods = 0 points
Almost = 0 points
Boo = 0 points
O.K. = 1 points
N.G. = 0 points
(Please do not push the Green Button until scores are written down)
Player with most points wins the song.
S4R
- Random Seeding
- All songs on heavy are allowed; 10-footers will be barred until the semi-finals/finals.
- All matches will be played 1x Sudden Shuffle (S4R rules).
- Songs will be scored by the PA Tech grading system (Best of 3 songs).
- No Little
- Freezes on.
- Coin flip at beginning of all matches; winner picks either 1st and 3rd songs or side and 2nd song; loser picks the other.
- If both players fail, the chooser of the song is the loser for that song.
- The same song cannot be picked twice by a player in the tournament.
This tournament will be SINGLE ELIMINATION. Bar will be allowed. Ties for matches will result in a random song tiebreaker.
(Please do not push the Green Button until miss counts are written down) Pump It Up Zero Crazy (Speed): - $10 Speed (Crazy)
- Bar is ALLOWED
- Songs will be scored by money score (Best of 3 songs)
- Songs above a 17 on Zero cannot be picked until semi-finals/finals.
- Players choose their own mods.
- Coin flip at beginning of all matches; winner picks either 1st and 3rd songs or side and 2nd song; loser picks the other.
- If both players fail a song, the chooser of the song is the loser for that song.
- The same song cannot be picked twice by a player in the tournament
- No long versions of songs; anything picked must be from Arcade Station (this includes the Another channel)
This tournament will be SINGLE ELIMINATION. All mods will be allowed. Bar will be allowed. Players will be seeded with a qualifying song. Qualifier will be announced day of tournament. Ties for matches will result in a random song tiebreaker.
Player with highest money score wins the song. Pop'n Music FEVER: - $8 Score tournament
- Songs will be round-based. A set song will be chosen for each round (determined by in-game random selection). All players will play the given song, and will be ranked by their money score. The player(s) with the lowest money score will be knocked out. This will continue until semi-finals or finals.
- For semi-finals and finals, each player will choose 1 song. Each player will play each song and will be ranked on each song. The player(s) with the lowest overall rank on the four songs will be dropped.
- Players choose their own mods.
- Random/Sran will NOT be allowed
- The same song cannot be picked twice by a player in the semi-finals/finals.
- Long versions will be disallowed for time constraints.
- Passing or failing a song has no bearing; score is the only determining factor.
- Whether or not Cools are used will be voted upon by players entering the tournament day-of. IIDX DistorteD: -$8 Score tournament
- There will be a qualifying song to determine seeding. This will be announced day of tournament, and will be a 9 in difficulty.
- This tournament will be DOUBLE ELIMINATION.
- Ex score (2x flashing great count + 1x normal great count) will be used for scoring.
- Matches will happen as follows: each player will pick a song and difficulty (A+B). Player 1 will play A, Player 2 will play A, Player 1 will play B, Player 2 will play B. A 3rd song will be randomed.
- Best overall Ex score wins.
- All mods are allowed, including Random and Sran; however, use these at your own risk, as a bad random will still count as your play for a song.
- Passing or failing a song has no bearing; score is the only determining factor.
- The same song cannot be picked twice by a player in this tournament.
- Players choose their own mods. In the Groove 2 FA: -$10 Fantastic Attack Tournament
- Machine is an R2 upgrade
- Bar is ALLOWED
- Scoring will be based on percentage (Best 2 of 3 songs)
- No 12/13-footers allowed until the semi-finals and finals.
- Jumps and Freezes on.
- No speed cap (any speed modifier allowed)
- No use of cMods (C300/C450)
- Coin flip at beginning of all matches; winner picks either 1st and 3rd songs and difficulties or side and 2nd song; loser picks the other.
- Each player picks their own modifications.
- If both players fail, the chooser of the song is the loser for that song.
- The same song cannot be picked twice by a player in the tournament.
- This tournament will be DOUBLE ELIMINATION; if there are more than 16 entrants, it will be SINGLE ELIMINATION. All mods excluding the ones listed above will be allowed. Bar will be allowed. Players will be seeded with a qualifying song. Qualifier will be on Hard and will be announced day of tournament. Ties for matches will result in a random song tiebreaker Guitar Freaks: -$5 entry
- 2 ASC controllers will be provided for tournament play
- Double elimination
- Random seeding
- Each player picks their own mods.
- If both players fail, the chooser of the song is the loser for that song.
- The same song cannot be picked twice by a player in the tournament.
- Scoring will be done by Ex score (Perfects=2 points, Greats=1 point, anything else=0 points)
- Matches will be played best 2 out of 3 songs; each player picks a song. If one player does not win both songs, then a 3rd song will be randomed on Guitar with difficulty level (basic/adv/ext) agreed upon or coin tossed by both players.
- Tournament will take place on Guitar Freaks Masterpiece Silver; the semi-finals and will take place on Masterpiece Gold.
- When choosing a song, players pick song, instrument (Guitar or Bass; no open pick), and difficulty. Super Smash Bros Melee (Singles AND Teams): -$10 entry for each
-Bring your own controller
-DOUBLE ELIMINATION
-4 stock matches
-7 minute time limit
-Random seeding
-If you're going somewhere, be sure to tell a tournament staff member about it so we can tell you when to be back.
Sets: There are no rules regarding character picking. For the first match in a set, players can either agree on a level or let the game do it for you (The random stages are listed below). After that, the loser of the round will be able to counterpick for the next round. Before each match players may ban a stage.
Each set is best of 3 matches; Semifinals are best of 5 matches; Finals are best of 7 matches
In the unlikely event that the final in a set ends in a tie (as a result of time running out), the match will be decided by who has the most stock. If both players have even stock, then it's by damage; one player has 300%, one has 50%. Guess who wins. In the VERY unlikely event that both players have even percentage (that's impossible unless you're noobs and shoot eachother with Fox until 999%, but I have to cover this anyway), the players will go to SUDDEN DEATH in Special Melee, set the stock to 1, and start a bonus match on the same stage.
Items will be set to NONE
In the event of an equipment malfunction, the match will be restart from the last known position or from any point in the match that is agreed upon by the players.
Glitches used to stop your opponent from controlling their character or indefinitely freezing them (Mewtwo's Soul Stunner, the Ice Climber freeze glitch), or any glitch or trick that freezes the match or makes it in any way unfinishable are banned. Using them will result in the immediate forfeit of the match.
Tactics such as Peach's Wallbombing and Jiggly's Rising Pound are allowed as methods of recovery or to maneuver around the stage. Using them (or any similar tactics) to excessively stall a match, such as dropping below levels intentionally and stalling underneath, is banned. Judges will be on the tournament floor and can be called in at any time to enforce this rule during a match.
Please do not bring any modded controllers because you will be disqualified if you use them in a tournament match. Nintendo Standards or Wavebirds (see below) are recommended. You may use third party controllers if you wish but if you are caught using their features you will be warned. More warnings lead to disqualification.
BRING WAVEBIRDS AT YOUR OWN RISK. It will be your responsibility to find others with Wavebirds and sort out the frequency issues. If you bring a wavebird it is highly suggested to bring a normal Gamecube controller in case your Wavebird malfunctions.
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Random Stages:
Singles: Final Destination, Dreamland 64, Pokemon Stadium, Fountain of Dreams, Yoshi's Story, Battlefield, Rainbow Cruise
Doubles: Final Destination, Battlefield, Dreamland 64, Pokemon Stadium, Corneria
Banned Stages:
1v1: Hyrule Temple, Fourside, Flatzone, Mushroom Kingdom, Icicle Mountain, Big Blue, Great Bay and
Yoshi's Island 64.
2v2: Hyrule Temple, Flatzone, Brinstar Depths, Icicle Mountain, Big Blue, Great Bay, and Yoshi's Island 64.
For Doubles, Team attack is ON and life stealing is allowed. Other info:
We will try to have some extra setups for console games (IIDX, Pop'n if anyone wants to bring their controller, SSBM, whatever other games people want to play). Please bring a modded PS2 or a GameCube if you can, or whatever other game systems you would like to (X360/Wii/PS3). Also, please try to bring your own controller if you can; we'll provide what we can, but more is better to have than not enough.
FFC has a pretty decent collection of fighting games, including Tekken 5, SF 3rd Strike (x2), Guilty Gear XX: Accent Core, Guilty Gear XX: The Midnight Carnival, SVC CHAOS, Dead or Alive 2, Soul Calibur, and several others. They also have Super Puzzle Fighter 2
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Note about recording: Please bring any recording equipment (cameras, camcorders, laptops for dumping video onto, etc.) you can.
T-Shirts:
Jinx is designing a set of T-shirts for this event. These are works-in-progress for the moment:
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Originally Posted by Jinx For those who want to see the DDR Shirt (date of event on back is a placeholder until we decide for sure), you can check out the Midwest Music Showdown '07 Store. Each shirt will have a different style, with the DDR one getting the bright flashy look. All of the shirts will have the same basic back design. |
What we'd like from you:
Please reply stating whether you are coming and what tournaments you think you'll enter.
Please let me know about any questions or concerns ASAP!
Hope to see you there!
FFC Presents: Midwest Music Showdown '07! 
