When: Wednesday, March 19th to Saturday, March 22nd
CONFIRMED (in essence, Spring Break)
Where: Family Fun Center
7052 Dodge Street
Omaha, Nebraska 68132
(402) 554-1925
Tournaments: DDR Extreme PA, ITG2 FA, PIU CZ, SSBM (Singles and Teams).
[Expect others to be added as I get rules together and get a gauge for interest.] 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): Wednesday
-Meet + Greet starting at 12 PM
-Tournament registration starting at 5 PM
Thursday
-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
Friday
-11 AM: Warmups and last-minute registration
-11 AM: In the Groove 2 FA seeding starts
-12 PM (or 20 minutes after seeding ends): In the Groove 2 FA starts
Saturday
-11 AM: Warmups and last-minute registration
-11 AM: Pump It Up CZ seeding starts
-12 PM (or 20 minutes after seeding ends): Pump It Up CZ starts
-12 PM: SSBM Teams starts
-4 PM (or whenever SSBM Teams ends): SSBM Singles starts
Possible Tournaments:
-Beatmania IIDX CS
-Beatmania IIDX AC
-DrumMania V3 AC
-DDR S4R
-PIU NM
-Super Smash Bros Brawl
-Pop'n Music FEVER AC
-Super Puzzle Fighter 2 Turbo
-Guilty Gear Accent Core
-SF 3rd Strike
-Guitar Hero 3
-Others (make suggestions and if feasible I will add them to the list of possibilities)
Confirmed Staff For This Event:
Brazoliange
Deathrazor
...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.
Hotel Info:
A list of nearby Hotels will be put up shortly.
We are still working on getting a discount with a local hotel again. Info will be available as soon as possible. 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 Subway in the building. 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. I will be sure to update with specifics as soon as possible. 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:
- $10 Perfect Attack Tech
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)
- Higher seed picks either 1st and 3rd songs and difficulties or side and 2nd song; lower seed gets 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.
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.
- Higher seed picks either 1st and 3rd songs or side and 2nd song; lower seed gets 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 DOUBLE 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.
In the Groove 2 FA:
-$10 Fantastic Attack Tournament
- Machine is an R21 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)
- Higher seed picks either 1st and 3rd songs and difficulties or side and 2nd song; lower seed gets 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 on Hard and will be announced day of tournament. Ties for matches will result in a random song tiebreaker
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's current Bemani lineup includes IIDX DistorteD, Pop'n Music FEVER, DrumMania V3, DrumMania 7th Mix, Guitar Freaks 10th Mix, DDR Extreme, DDR Max2, DDR 5th Mix, In the Groove 2 (R21 upgrade), Pump It Up Zero, Keyboardmania 3rd Mix, ParaParaParadise 2nd Mix (x2 with video monitor),
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.
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 '08! 
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