Konami Officially Announces DDR Nationals
Posted by kent - Tue 09/22 2009 - 09:28 PM - 2314 Views
The website for the 2009 Dance Dance Revolution National tournament has been posted by Konami. A majority of what was posted before has been confirmed, although there were a few things to be corrected along with some awaited info about rules, songs and prizes.
To reiterate, here are some of the previous points:
The main event and regional's are to be held on SuperNOVA 1 for its availablity. SN2 will be used at locations when no SN1 is available.
"Satellite" regional tournaments will take place throughout the US at Gameworks locations.
The 1st place winners from each regional including one random 2nd place qualifier will be awarded with an all expenses paid trip to the finals.
Finals are to be held at the Gameworks Las Vegas, NV on the 5th of December.
The main event will only be open for the 1st place regional winners and one randomly selected 2nd place regional winner.
New information:
There is a max of 160 competitors for each regional and players must be between the ages of 13 and 32. Those under the age of 18 must have a parent/guardian register for them and be present at the qualifier.
Only residents of the United States or the District of Columbia can register to compete.
15 songs will be available, 5 for each round. The song list can be found here.
Players may only compete in one regional qualifier.
The official final dates and locations for each tournament are the following:
Stated prizes at the moment are an assortment of gift cards. A complete list of prizes can be found here.
New York is the only region that has been added since the last post. No event will take place in SoCal as previously posted. Ryan Iyengar, aka DukAmok should be present at most all of these regionals. For those registering to compete remember that you must register 24 hours before the tournament date.
Using primarily a mix two versions behind because of 'availability'.
Featuring songs that are horribly offsync both pre- and post-patch.
Edit: also 'random' 2nd place qualifier? Ehhhhhhhh . . . .
I suppose it's a start, especially since Andamiro has shelved the WPF (for now?), but as stated elsewhere there are much much better fan-organized tourneys.
Problem: my old boss works for the Best Buy Mobile right inside the mall not very far from Gameworks, the machine is right next to a window facing inside the mall, and she would see me there. She'd rat my ass out really fast.
I have a question. Even though im 18 it still asked for parent/guardian name and stuff and then said they would contact them about my registration. Is this happening for everyone or was it just retarded and thought I was a minor or something?
EDIT: Oh apparently if you weren't 18 before 4/1/09 it says youre a minor. hahaha how dumb
Posted by DM Ashura - Wed 09/23 2009 - 02:28 AM [ quote ]
Ugh. Xepher, given its sync problems, is a horrible choice.
Also, if these were SuperNOVA 2 tournaments, we could do away with the outdated Perfect Attack method and just use score ...
Posted by SideKick - Wed 09/23 2009 - 04:39 AM [ quote ]
xepher is fine. its doll that you have to worry about.. the only prob i have with this is why there is no SoCal location
Posted by devo - Wed 09/23 2009 - 07:24 AM [ quote ]
Kinda curious as to why they capped the age at 32. Seems arbitrary to say the least.
Kind of odd that Andamiro's able to pony up a few dozen grand in cash, and Konami can only manage gift cards.
Posted by DM Ashura - Wed 09/23 2009 - 10:24 AM [ quote ]
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Kinda curious as to why they capped the age at 32. Seems arbitrary to say the least.
Maybe there's someone in particular they want to exclude who's 33? :P
Posted by dahrkdaiz - Wed 09/23 2009 - 10:29 AM [ quote ]
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Originally Posted by DM Ashura
Ugh. Xepher, given its sync problems, is a horrible choice.
Also, if these were SuperNOVA 2 tournaments, we could do away with the outdated Perfect Attack method and just use score ...
But I thought SuperNOVA 2's scoring system is exactly the same except Perfects are worth 10 points less than Marvelouses.
Posted by DM Ashura - Wed 09/23 2009 - 11:04 AM [ quote ]
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Originally Posted by dahrkdaiz
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Originally Posted by DM Ashura
Ugh. Xepher, given its sync problems, is a horrible choice.
Also, if these were SuperNOVA 2 tournaments, we could do away with the outdated Perfect Attack method and just use score ...
But I thought SuperNOVA 2's scoring system is exactly the same except Perfects are worth 10 points less than Marvelouses.
That may be true, come to think of it. If so, then Perfect Attack is even more outdated.
Posted by Pie-kun - Wed 09/23 2009 - 11:04 AM [ quote ]
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Originally Posted by dahrkdaiz
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Originally Posted by DM Ashura
Ugh. Xepher, given its sync problems, is a horrible choice.
Also, if these were SuperNOVA 2 tournaments, we could do away with the outdated Perfect Attack method and just use score ...
But I thought SuperNOVA 2's scoring system is exactly the same except Perfects are worth 10 points less than Marvelouses.
The problem is that SuperNOVA doesn't use marvelous, only perfects. So getting all perfects on a SuperNOVA machine is going to land you a 1,000,000 perfect score. On a SuperNOVA2 machine, you have to get all marvelous to get 1,000,000. If you get any perfects, your score will go down to 999,XXX. This is preferable in tournaments because it is very common in tournaments for both players to get all perfects (which will require rematch after rematch after rematch after rematch until someone finally wins), but it is rare for someone to get all marvelous, which makes it much more likely that you won't have identical scores.
Posted by DM Ashura - Wed 09/23 2009 - 11:12 AM [ quote ]
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Originally Posted by dahrkdaiz
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Originally Posted by DM Ashura
Ugh. Xepher, given its sync problems, is a horrible choice.
Also, if these were SuperNOVA 2 tournaments, we could do away with the outdated Perfect Attack method and just use score ...
But I thought SuperNOVA 2's scoring system is exactly the same except Perfects are worth 10 points less than Marvelouses.
The problem is that SuperNOVA doesn't use marvelous, only perfects. So getting all perfects on a SuperNOVA machine is going to land you a 1,000,000 perfect score. On a SuperNOVA2 machine, you have to get all marvelous to get 1,000,000. If you get any perfects, your score will go down to 999,XXX. This is preferable in tournaments because it is very common in tournaments for both players to get all perfects (which will require rematch after rematch after rematch after rematch until someone finally wins), but it is rare for someone to get all marvelous, which makes it much more likely that you won't have identical scores.
So then, SN2 has better scoring than SN. But both are better than PA.
Posted by AceJay - Wed 09/23 2009 - 11:27 AM [ quote ]
If I was in Konami's PR/Marketing/Sales dept. I'd offer discounted SN2 upgrade kits to each location for this tourney. Then maybe the tournament would work.
If they can find somewhere in NYC.
Posted by Ashura96 - Wed 09/23 2009 - 11:30 AM [ quote ]
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xepher is fine. its doll that you have to worry about
DoLL isn't even on the Tournament songlist, but I bet some retard will try to pick it anyways :P
Posted by Neon Kel - Wed 09/23 2009 - 11:59 AM [ quote ]
Just a heads up for anyone that turned 18 after April 1st. I talked to DukAmok about this and he said yes fill out the form (preferably have a parent do it to be safe) but none of the restrictions (parents have to attend and all that) will apply if you're 18 by the actual tournament date.
Posted by kay0ss - Thu 09/24 2009 - 12:49 AM [ quote ]
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Wow Konami. 8 years too late ya' think?
No joke.
Also, none in Cali, eh? Fags.
Posted by SideKick - Thu 09/24 2009 - 08:23 AM [ quote ]
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xepher is fine. its doll that you have to worry about
DoLL isn't even on the Tournament songlist, but I bet some retard will try to pick it anyways :P
i know but im sayin that doll is worse and from what i understand that xepher is still bad on SN after the patch
Posted by yyr - Thu 09/24 2009 - 09:19 AM [ quote ]
Anyone look at the rules?
You actually have to pick your Round 1 song and speed mod when you register.
Your round 1 score is going to be your score, multiplied by the difficulty level of the song (foot rating).
The song choices are Brazilian Anthem (7), Love is Orange (7), Tomorrow (7), Wookie Wookie (8) and Happy Angel (8).
To be honest I think that the rules are somewhat ambiguous but this is my best understanding of how Round 1 works (please, correct me if I'm wrong):
You will play head-to-head with someone else who picked the same song as you. The player with the lower score is eliminated immediately; the winner has a chance to move to Round 2.
160 people will play Round 1. Of the ~80 that remain after the initial eliminations, the 16 highest scores move on to Round 2; all others are eliminated.
So yeah, looks like it's a choice between Wookie Wookie (333 taps, 8 holds) or Happy Angel (386 taps, 5 holds). But the scoring system for Round 1 is not clearly described, and I can't tell if it's based on machine score or number of Perfects. If it's the latter, then you'll have to pick HA to have any chance. Some clarification would be helpful.
And btw, you can't register for the NY tournament yet.
Posted by Neon Kel - Thu 09/24 2009 - 01:26 PM [ quote ]
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But the scoring system for Round 1 is not clearly described, and I can't tell if it's based on machine score or number of Perfects. If it's the latter, then you'll have to pick HA to have any chance.
Actually, I think HA would be the better choice either way (unless you AAA both): If they go by score, then you definitely have a shot at a better score with HA (each great would deduct less from the possible 10,000,000).
I don't see where it says we have to play on Heavy. Could this lead to an epic final round Beginner dance-off if both players picked Beginner?
Fucking hell yes, let's turn this into a freestyle tourney.
Posted by ranatalus - Fri 09/25 2009 - 11:41 AM [ quote ]
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I don't see where it says we have to play on Heavy. Could this lead to an epic final round Beginner dance-off if both players picked Beginner?
during the qualifying round your machine score is multipled by foot rating so it'd be pretty hard (read: impossible) for anyone playing on anything else to advance
Posted by MechaGai - Sat 09/26 2009 - 12:20 AM [ quote ]
Soo... people that enter on anything below expert will only have the illusion of remotely having a chance? :\ Seems like a dick move no matter how you look at it. At the very least, you get 5$ to play... 1-2 games of DDR. :\
Soo... people that enter on anything below expert will only have the illusion of remotely having a chance? :\ Seems like a dick move no matter how you look at it. At the very least, you get 5$ to play... 1-2 games of DDR. :\
Sure, but if you look at the prizes and such, I don't think they really had the budget to do anything below that.
Posted by Mutzy - Sat 09/26 2009 - 11:45 AM [ quote ]
I want freestyle tournies..........
Posted by yyr - Sun 09/27 2009 - 11:50 AM [ quote ]
So, uh...
...supposedly the first regional tournament was held yesterday, but I can't find anything anywhere about how it went. Anybody go there or hear about it?
...supposedly the first regional tournament was held yesterday, but I can't find anything anywhere about how it went. Anybody go there or hear about it?
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