All right, you all knew it was coming, and it's coming fast. Laura Chick, PNWBemani, and Pink Gorilla will be hosting an old school tournament on DDR 4th Mix +. I don't have a firm time yet, but this thread will be updated with that information by tomorrow.

Format: This tournament is going to be pay-as-you-go like the last one was. It will be double elimination according to standard bracketing. In addition to paying for your games, there will be a $1 entry fee (like last time.) I have thought about it a bit and I am *not* going to force flat, as I think that it would only serve to give players who are already more skilled a leg-up.

Qualifier: I am going to make a list of every 7 foot song (Paramount!) playable on a 4th Mix + machine and pipe it into a randomizer. This way, nobody will know what the qualifier will be until qualifying starts, including me.

Rounds: High seed gets choice of side selection or song order selection. If each player wins a song, the third song will be a tiebreaker determined by random. Random songs may not be vetoed, no matter how much they suck to play and/or listen to. That's part of the fun!

Scoring: +2 for a Perfect, +1 for a Great. Ties will be broken by straight number of perfects.

Other: This IS a tech tournament, but it's also supposed to be more fun than serious, so feel free to sing along to hilarious oldschool songs, freestyle while attempting to PA, etc etc. No Matrix Walking or you will be ejected in the most embarrassing and hilarious way possible.

IMPORTANT: I know that "No Bar" is hard for some of us because it's almost a reflex at this point, so you get one freebee "accident" where we'll just tell you to get off the bar, mock you, etc. The second time you grab for the bar, you will be DISQUALIFIED, so please be careful!

Any questions? Comments? Concerns? And also, if this doesn't turn out to be an Administrative nightmare, does anybody have a problem with me breaking my own rule and entering my own tournament? The ruleset is completely standard and the qualifier will be completely random.

Edit: Start time will be 2:00 PM.