I'm literally crying laughing right now from reading the ZIV thread on this tournament.  This is quite possibly the best and worst tournament i've ever heard of.

Oh yes it does happen, Jon!  My family and I are in Hawai right now, on the beach with the tickets they sent us.  Hahaha, just kidding, have heard nothing at all from those clowns.

this hurts my brain.  we should be compensated with a ddr x2 cab for everyone.

A video submission final round? That means they could just simply re-record until they get it perfect. I'm glad I wasn't able to make this one.

"We will be sending each regional location a gift on behalf of Konami and again want to thank you for your time and efforts to date."

Lies. This didn't happen either.

Oh man. I cracked up so hard reading how badly Konami (or whatever company it is running this torunament) is messing this up.

http://zenius-i-vanisher.com/v5.2/viewthread.php?threadid=3373&page=1

All I can say is, WOW. I don't think in my wildest nightmares I could ever imagine a tournament so poorly organized and ran. It's 2011 and there is still no winner yet. I mean, seriously Konami.

W-T-F!?

There are 1000 people just on groovestats listed, only one dance games tracking site, with the last place having an 88% average between itg1/2. I would think that just these 1000 players represent a small upper end of the regular player spectrum, maybe the top 1 or 2% or so considering all the people who don't have USBs and still play, or play DDR, or havent played all or almost all of itg1/2 to even get that high an average. That means they have at least on the order of tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands of players that play at least a couple times a month. Maybe they could hope to attract another 100,000 new players but we experienced players have always pulled more new players to the game than any flashy new animations or happy japanese pop songs or shittily run tournaments ever have.
 Point is, we are a solid business prospect. I honestly don't understand why Konami has to sell us out for the noobies, and why they have such a problem actually listening to their customers...
Konami is killing dance games.... How ironic... And so sad...
I guess I better save up for an ITG machine before theyre all extinct.

This is true. But in general, tournaments are usually held for the serious and/or experienced individuals within a group. Why even bother doing a tournament like this if they're trying to appeal to the casual crowd?

If they want to hit the casual market, they should do what they did for the West Virginia(?) school tournaments. That's a good way of promoting your home console games to a (not as) competitive group of potential players.

Long story short: If you're going to do a national tournament for ANYTHING, do it right and cater it to those who really care, or don't do it at all.

I have told them essentially that, but in slightly nicer terms. They didn't respond.

This tournament from the very beginning was never meant for the committed players. It was supposed to revive interest in the game on the console market.

I know everyone's pissed, but honestly you can't blame them for not caring about us. We're what? a community of less than 1000 dedicated arcade players. Not really a great business prospect anymore.

According to the website:


It should be noted that http://ddruschampionship.com/submissionrules.html doesn't work. And online submissions are laughable.

This tournament is a joke. I vote the PNW kindly tells this tournament to blow it out their ass

I too, received an email from them yesterday. All I can say is, what an eye sore. I'll just see how this turns out after I provide the needed info to continue onto round 2. And after I do that, I'm going put at the end of the email saying "You guys suck at running tournaments!" Nah just kidding, but they do deserve it though.

Tony got an e-mail from them, so at least those who won your tournament aren't completely out of the loop, Jon! Apparently it was incoherent enough that it took him quite awhile to even decipher what they were getting at.

As a tournament organizer, I won't be hearing any more from them I suspect. Not even to inform my tournament's winners of the changes. Dang shame they screwed it up this bad.

Hardly seems like a competition anymore, unless Konami vastly changes their plans in the next week :[

Those on the mailing list all probably got an email today that asked for your personal information for a second time, for whatever reason..

Wow. Just...wow.

If I had to make up a story about the worst-ran DDR tournament ever concieved, I don't think I could even come close to what this has become. It makes the 2009 Championship look like pure genius.

yep, we called it right.  see post:

http://zenius-i-vanisher.com/v5.2/viewthread.php?threadid=3373&page=1

Honesty and virtue. And we all know how abundant those two traits are on the internet.

what's stopping someone from aaa'ing everything on a controller if they're doing it online?

-.- Konami fails again

WTH!? Do you have a source you could share?

Some info about it:
http://zenius-i-vanisher.com/v5.2/viewthread.php?threadid=3373&page=0#p173146

Konami has apparently pulled the round 2 events, and are switching to some kind of online competition instead.

I think no one cares because the tournament is dreadfully run. Our scene isn't necessarily dead here; it's more that we know what a good tournament is and that we don't want to support something as uninteresting as what Konami's putting on. While I can totally understand why they're doing the tournaments the way they are, I just have absolutely zero desire to participate in that kind of event. I think a lot of high-tier players like Allan, Tuan, and Keby feel that way too.

Details from that thread:
Aka nothing in the PNW.




So the PNW is pretty much "dead for DDR" compared to the other areas on the map (at least to Konami, and not us)!
This is why I'm so motivated to keep our community alive and kicking here.

If any of you venture down to California, good luck! However, I don't know of any of you that cared enough to do so.  

Here's some vague information about Round 2:

http://www.bemanistyle.com/index.php/news/2010-ddr-us-championship-round-2-wild-card-tournaments-added-1946