In order to combat the divisiveness that seems to exist between the "hardcore ITG" crowd and the "PA" and "just for fun" DDR crowds, I bring the latter group a silly, fun tournament!

WHAT: Be In My Paradise (lol get it) DDR Extreme tournament

WHEN: Saturday, 6/27/09, at noon.

WHERE: http://www.bowlparadise.net/ / 12505 Pacific Avenue S., Tacoma, WA

ENTRY FEE: $5.00

RULES:

16 player single elimination - Tennis style matches are longer than your standard matches, so it needs to be single elim if 16 players show up. If only eight or fewer players show up, we can revise this to be eight player double elim very easily.

Tennis style matches - The win condition for a tennis style match is that you need to play AT LEAST three songs against your opponent, and you must be at least two wins ahead of them. Best two out of three, then, is not a win YET, but best three out of four is. Same with best three out of five, six out of ten, etc etc. Due to the tennis style format, this tournament needs to be no more than sixteen players, or it will take all day! Low seed picks either the side they want or first song. The second song will be picked by the next player. At this point, each subsequent song will be chosen by the player who lost the immediately previous song until the match has ended. If a song is a tie, the player who selected longest ago gets next selection.

Failing your own song - If you pick it, you pass it. If you don't, you automatically lose the song regardless of your opponent.

Forfeiture: Players confronted with a particularly challenging song will be allowed to forfeit the song with no effect on the match (unless, by forfeiture, you're giving your opponent the final point they need to win the match.) Once a player forfeits, you HAVE to stick with your song choice and play that song. Because of this, I encourage all players to talk to each other to make any legitimate health concerns known. Nobody is an ass for picking HVAM if they didn't know the guy they're playing has a bad knee. "I'm allergic to bad music" is not a health concern, and will probably get you The Reflex or Crash. You are better off including your opponent in the song choice if you want to play a 10.

Asshat rule: There will be no difficulty caps in the traditional sense, HOWEVER I am enforcing a no asshole rule by capping LITERALLY - while all difficulties are permissible in this tournament, if you do something that is clearly mean spirited, like pick a 10 against a person you know to have physical limitations (athsma, GERD, has only been playing a week), or exploit factors that have nothing to do with playing ability (picking songs with all freezes when you suspect the other player's side is dropping them, taking note that an arrow might be sticking, and thus playing songs that are all stomps on that arrow), you will be forced to wear a comedically large hat ("the asshat") while you play the rest of the round, so that people know that you were an asshat. If the hat comes off, you lose the song. This is both in the spirit of fun and games, and to make sure that people aren't jerks.

Prizes: The prize pool will be split among the top four players as follows: 1st - 50% 2nd - 25% 3rd - 15% 4th- 10%. Additionally, there will be other fun prizes to be revealed day of!

New players/consolation prizes: Last place player will receive a "lightly used" copy of ITG home from my and my husband's "consolidated" collection to encourage new community members to participate.

Qualifiers: Each player who enters this tournament, as well as any and all spectators who wish to participate, should write a qualifier down on an index card which will be cut in half (the hot dog way) (will be provided) and toss it into the hat at the beginning of the tournament. When it is time to qualify, I will draw a suggestion out of the hat at random, and that will be the qualifier, unless the random choice was clearly a joke (5.1.1. light, MaxX Unlimited, etc etc.) Please refrain from suggesting "joke" songs unless they have some actual merit. If a player wishes, they can enter a song on left, right, or mirror, but please no other mods (sudden, flat, boost, etc etc). If the person whose chart is picked as the qualifier is playing in the tournament, they have to go first - so please write your name on the piece of index card.

Scoring: Perfects = 2, Greats = 1, nothing else = anything. Pad arbitration will take place on a case by case basis IF any pad errors would change the outcome of the match. If you get 2 pad misses and 30 greats, and the guy you played against AAA'd the song, no redo for you.  

Modification of rules rule: THESE ARE THE FINAL RULES unless something goes seriously wrong day of.

Feel free to suggest additions/alternatives to the rules. However, if the suggestions lead to drama, they will be respectfully disregarded. I'm all ears otherwise, though!

EDIT: Forgot to address ties in the rules. Whoops.
EDIT 2: Grammar. I'm not telling you WHAT grammar because, as a former English major, I'm embarrassed.
EDIT 3: I NEED PLAYER INPUT. Would you prefer a 10 dollar entry fee and a much larger prize pool, or a 5 dollar entry fee, so you have less to lose?
EDIT 4: Changed the rules in regards to song forfeiture.
EDIT 5: Added Paradise's physical address to the thread.
EDIT 6: Added modification of rules rule.
EDIT 7: Modified qualifiers rule. PLEASE READ!
EDIT 8: Added official "entry fee."
EDIT 9: Modified modification of rules, modified qualifier rules, added scoring. HAVE FUN GUYS!

two things:

1) I will be donating $100 to the prize pool for this event.

2) Can we do a PYL tourney?

Something tells me I may be able to come to this.  Just a hunch.

Also, challenge event (time and interest permitting)?

EDIT: Suggestion to everyone, if your qual suggestion is obscure (even if it's not), send a link to the stepchart on DDRFreak along with your suggestion so Laura doesn't have to trudge through their site to properly weigh your idea.

O_O. Just... O_O. You do NOT need to do that, holy crap. You're AMAZING.

How exactly does a press your luck tourney work? :O

9 players, winner of each game goes to the finals.

Yes, you will take my $100 AN LIKE IT DAMMIT

OH! So a tournament style Press Your Luck game, not a DDR tournament that somehow involves Press Your Luck... I was wondering about that. That sounds great, as long as you have the equipment necessary to run it. (I am bringing my netbook but that's it. I'd donate my pop'n controller, but it's attached to a machine. )

Jesus-Jon also mentioned interest in running an Air Hockey event, so this could turn out to be a giant fun and games day.

Jon as in ME for the air hockey.   That way you all have a chance of winning, since I won't be playing.

I'll play anyone before or after the tournament though.

Side tournaments are great fun and I am getting psyched, but as a merely practical matter, who is actually planning on entering the DDR portion?

I also need to pre-reg for the carpool.

No probs, can you get to Bellevue?

have fun guys, I'll still be held captive by colorado.

Best tournament name EVER!

I can probably make it, but I won't be 100% certain until about 2 weeks out from that date.


Wouldn't this defeat the purpose of forcing the Player 1 to pass the ridiculously hard song they selected? If they know that Player 2 forfeits that song, I can't see why Player 1 wouldn't just go to the next hardest song, and continue doing this until Player 2 agrees. I just can't imagine a scenario where player 1 will still choose PSMO to play through it and tire themselves out, even if Player 2 forfeits.

P.S. Do you mind if I put this as an event on beatspace.net?

Good pads at paradise? I've not been there

The reason I put that rule in place is to give potential asshats the benefit of the doubt. For example, people who saw Tony play 6 months ago would assume MaxX Unlimited is valid against him, as he used to pass 12s. Now he has a bum knee and would probably forfeit a 10 because of that, but if you didn't know that, you're not an asshat.

I will modify that rule, however, to state that you can only re-select once. So, if you tell Tony he needs to play MaxX and he says "I forfeit because I have a bad knee," and you say "Fine, then HVAM!" then he can still forfeit and you're stuck with HVAM, and the asshat... but if, instead, you say "Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't know! How about I use a different strategy and see how you are at Let The Beat Hit 'Em, since even though slow songs are hard for some people, and thus this is a legit strategy, Let The Beat Hit 'Em will never hurt your knee!" then this is fine. Does that seem acceptable/make sense?

Post away! I'd be HAPPY to get some publicity for this thing. I do want to reiterate that there's only time for 16 players (although many, many spectators are always welcome), so if this event is getting pimped out in a lot of places, I urge you to send me a "prereg" PM ASAP so you get to play!

EDIT:
Last time I was there, some of the best I've ever played on. It's maintained by Bill, so you know it's good, but it has the added advantage of not being a Bemani hotspot, so nobody really plays on it enough to wear down the sensors. Additionally, it's going to be completely inspected/repaired the morning before the tournament because Bill is fantastic (I was going to say great but that has negative connotations here).

EDIT 2: For the sake of all that is holy, do not EVER assume Let The Beat Hit Em is a legit strategy when playing Tony. I made that mistake last time.

So...does picking The Reflex count as an asshat move?

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(Is this the same weekend as the other tournament...or have they even set a week for that yet? I can't tell what's going on in that thread without reading the whole damned thing.)