Australian Oldschool DDR Meet - Melbourne '10

gurtygurt · 10-18-2009, 03:59 AM

A bunch of us are planning an "oldschool DDR meet" in Melbourne next February. By "oldschool DDR", I basically mean we're all folks (so far) from the old days of DDR. It's not a comp or anything, it's just a meetup, probably with a console party. If we do have a comp, it'll be done entirely for hilarity (in other words, we'll probably do it at Galactic Circus because their machines are hilariously broken). Basically that's the kind of people who will be there, so if that doesn't sound interesting then it's too bad, I guess. Of course, DDRers naturally move on to other Bemani games, hence Melbourne - we'll have access to Pop'n, IIDX, Technika, DMX, PPP, GFDM-a-plenty, Taiko no Tatsujin, and so on if I forgot anything.

This has already been posted on other forums so a lot of you will know about it already.

The dates are Friday 5th February 2010, through to Tuesday 9th February 2010 with the console party on the Sunday (because cricket is on). Some of us will be there for longer.

At the moment accomodation hasn't been decided at all. All I can say is the bulk of us will be staying somewhere near the city. But we don't know where yet! I think we're aiming at around $50 per night per person though at this point.

Anyway, if anyone is interested/has questions/comments, discuss. I'm hungry right now so I can't think!

PrincessPeach1337 · 10-19-2009, 01:20 AM

I hope everyone's been doing their homework! I've done a little snooping around, and came up with some pretty brillz ideas. I look forward to seeing what everyone comes up with!

Elixxme · 10-19-2009, 05:27 AM

i just wanna say to all the older crew get excited and help us do a big shindig. hopefully we can make this the biggest bemani gig ever in australia.

gurtygurt · 10-19-2009, 11:56 AM

I'm mostly busy getting leave...

Xythar · 10-19-2009, 04:27 PM

I'm down for this, is 2004 old enough?

azninsect · 10-19-2009, 07:17 PM

princesspeach: yes we're doing our homework. check the rtf boards :P

xythar: i believe the invite is open to all. we wanna make this the largest bemani gathering ever in aus

Elixxme · 10-19-2009, 07:23 PM

as pascal said, theres no state on age of your bemani " career " so to speak. just a lot of us old foke wanted to meetup and hell if we meet the new crowd of the country then great.

gurtygurt · 10-25-2009, 01:41 AM

Yeah Xythar, of course - 2009's old enough really, I guess the point is it's not an "I'm the best" type meetup and it's most definitely not DDR only. Anyone is welcome but people who are looking for an ITG machine to show they can pass some stupid edit are going to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.

You'd fit right in with us anyway so it's a moot point - last time when I had lunch with you and An up at Box Hill McDonalds was the last time I enjoyed McDonalds because people it was really like having an online conversation IRL. That's one of the reasons behind organising the meetup, I think.

Besides, we'll be up at Box Hill at some point anyway so regardless you'd bump into us!

azninsect · 10-25-2009, 06:08 PM

bump for moar interest! we are looking for cheap accommodation for a console party, tvs and consoles for said party and activities to do in the few days we're together

organisers: any chance of an irc meeting this sunday? or another time?

Xythar · 10-25-2009, 07:27 PM

I have all of the above, provided you don't make a mess >_>

Well, except the accommodation, I imagine you'd need to find a hotel for that. But I do have consoles, controllers and a TV. Several, in fact (HDTV for ps3/360, CRT for iidx/pop'n, iidx/pop'n/rock band controllers, etc)

azninsect · 10-25-2009, 07:46 PM

yeah we're looking into finding a hotel/motel/apartment or maybe a conference room or a hall we can rent out for gaming/sleeps/eatery on the cheap (costs shared between people im assuming)

xythar: as long as you can transport them then thats aweSOME

Xythar · 10-25-2009, 07:51 PM

Transport might be the difficult part, especially for the HDTV. I do live very close to a train station though so it's easy to access.

PrincessPeach1337 · 10-28-2009, 04:20 AM

I will definitely have a car.

henreezy · 10-28-2009, 07:27 AM

a bit strange hrmm,
what will be used machines or the consoles ?
:S
sadly im only kid =___=
btw: im one of the best kids at ddr around these days !(melbourne)
can do max 300 expert im 13 =D not very tall either

can also do sakura expert except for outro
all max/maxx songs on diff

JeddyH · 11-14-2009, 03:56 AM

Sorry, you have to be able to do the "outro" of Sakura Expert to attend

/sarcasm