Okay, I'll get my primal screaming in before 10 I guess. ;P

Our building claims they'll be cracking down on nighttime noise as a result of recent issues (quiet hours are technically something like 10-9, but I think people only care in the 12-6 range).  This does not affect people coming and playing all night, but no 5am primal screaming sessions.

That totally works for me.  I usually don't go to sleep before 6am anyway.  I'll need to ask Steven about it though since he'd be driving the 200+ miles home.

If enough people need to crash, why not just have a 24 hour party? I'd be totally down for a 9pm-9am bemani party. I do not need sleep very often.

I'd be down for this.

1) Might need to crash there and bus home the next day.

2) PYL TOURNEY!

lol "if you're Tada".

If I can find a place to crash for the night for me and 1 or 2 friends (depending on whether Steven comes or not), I'll be at this shindig.  Any PSP games I should acquire beforehand which people will be playing at this?  I've got MHP2G and will (hopefully) have MHFU in 6 days.  I'll also bring my suddenly-functional laptop, and I'll be down for some Civ 2 multiplayer, Warlords 3, Warlords Battlecry, Diablo 2 (assuming my characters haven't all expired), NWN, or random arcade games on MAME.  I don't know if I'll be able to fit my DDR pad in the trunk, or if I'll have a 2nd one finished by then.  If I do, I'd be happy to bring those for some doubles or just for an additional set to play DDR on.  If they fit in the bottom of the trunk, it's just another 20 lbs which will occupy 2" of horizontal space.  A little more if I bring the bars.

So back to the initial issue: anyone want to offer up some floorspace for a couple of young southern genitalmen?

Bumping this thread because, due to the upcoming BIMP tournament, all you guys need to know about a "special" Laura and Tony Bemani houseparty, namely the one that's going to occur immediately after we finish the tourney and get some food.

When: Saturday, June 27th - After the tournament. Probably around 8-9 PM. Will continue into the middle of the night...

What: Bemani fest! Bring anything you want to play. We have lots of stuff here. We also have TONS of alcohol if you're of legal age, and TONS of syrups for delicious italian sodas if you're not, or just don't want to mess up your timing. Please note that if you opt to drink, we're going to take your keys until you're sober. Safety measure due to past experience.

There will also be board games like Citadels if you're Tada/into that kind of stuff.

Suuuuck. Well, Tada and Zach are here now, and YOU should be, too, pnwbemani.net. We're playing Taiko and Pop'n!

I won't be able to make it now.   Maybe a later time...

Yup!! PM me for directions, we moved to B-vue

You guys still planning on this meetup tomorrow? I may try to swing by.

They're modded Solomodes from about 6-7 years ago.

And I don't know anyone named Wang.

do you know wang?  He has two cfs in the seattle area we might be able to borrow.  We used his pads for the tournament at kumoricon last year.

bss, are your pads Bluesharks, Nexens, or Solomodes?

Memorial Day Sunday is this weekend! I think we should try and turn this Sunday into a big Bemani blowout bash.

I only have a few more busy Sunday afternoon/evenings until school starts again. Memorial Day Sunday is open, but the next two aren't. Then, the rest are for summer...

I know you have late afternoons/evenings permabooked on Sundays, Jon, but how would you feel about coming over earlier in the afternoon sometime for one of these Bemanifests with pads? :O

As far as everyone else goes, great news. We just discovered an awesome place for an old 17'' LCD in our office on a shelf above a desk which, with some phonebooks under it, is the perfect height for taiko (the games came in) and IIDX; it's a pretty good replacement for the arcade experience! If anyone is up for this Sunday it should definitely be interesting to see how others feel about our little ghetto Bemani rig.

...I should bring over my two mymybox pads to compare to your pads.

The only problem is that we have one CF and one Afterburner. We're looking into getting a second afterburner since they attach together very easily and are significantly less expensive than the CFs, but if we wanted to do a CF tourney, we'd need someone else to bring theirs.

Clean shoes and carpet protectors all sound fine. Basically the deal is that my carpet is only slightly off white and I don't own the place; we also lay on the floors a lot. So if it's clean enough that it doesn't mess up those two factors, I don't care.

Except CF pads have annoying gaps between panels, and Afterburners have super-recessed arrows. :\

Sounds like Kumoricon. :O

Anyway, I think a stepmania tournament would be more of a side-event in and of itself, so I wouldn't worry about it at all as long as the tournament doesn't last longer than 10 hours or something ridiculous like that.  I'd totally be down if we want to set up a Saturday some time in July or August when we can all get together and run a bunch of little tournaments, whether they're just for fun or there's a prize attached.  I could probably pick up a few dozen VISO on my way up as well assuming I'm not too financially stretched when/if this occurs.

We could probably also go ahead and get some area rugs or carpet protectors to put down for get-togethers to have around the Stepmania so shoes aren't so much of an issue.  I'd personally be willing to clean my DDR shoes thoroughly before coming and just put them on to wear inside if you wouldn't mind.  It's not like they're the only pair of shoes I wear.

Cobalt Fluxes and Afterburners are both way better for tournament use than Arcade pads IMO, simply because tapeswitches tend to stick, whereas steel and copper do not.  I'd recommend CF's because they're designed primarily for functionality, especially if they're old CF's.  If you just put a bar behind them and some grippy rubber stuff under them, they are totally kosher for tournament play.

I'd be totally cool with having a Stepmania tournament here!! I know the whole "side tournament" thing doesn't always work, but a cool possibility to attract a lot of people to hang out could maybe be having a Stepmania tourney in the office and a Pop'n tournament on the machine; since there are no artificial time constraints I wouldn't be as worried about having to wait for people to play their matches. Particularly if this were done on a Saturday, for all I care, there could be some kind of all night tournament/Bemani party at our place, as long as we knew about it in advance and everyone was respectful of our few house rules (no shoes unless you're on or directly next to a DDR pad, don't spill anything and if you do, clean it up, don't be so loud you piss off our neighbors, etc etc.

I could probably pick up a few "nerd party" staples for something like this if it were to go down, although I really wonder how a homepad tournament where everyone has free Bawls and or Red Bull would go...

If there's any particular weekend after mid-june when a lot of people are planning on doing this, I think I can probably swing $20-$30 for a carpool up there now and then if any other Portland/Eugene folks are interested.  I've met enough Seattle folks who are "pretty chill" that I think it could be worth the time and effort. (and money)

Also, if you ever want to host a StepMania tournament, I'd be more than happy to organize it.  I can also bring my EMS USB2 adaptor and some good-sized speakers, and possibly some homebrew bars that the CF's/AB's would work with.  I'd just need to find a way to get that all from Portland to Seattle.  I'd really love to see the tournament scene get to the point where Standard tournaments and Team tournaments are viable options again at some point.

I'm so done for this. I just need to get back to seattle in July, lol.

Bump for more information!

We've been letting people come over on Sunday afternoons, and stay until they don't want to anymore. This Sunday is out because I'm traveling, but I think I'm just going to leave an open ended invite for every Sunday starting with next week's, the 24th. If I've ever met you before and you didn't seem particularly destructive, you are welcome to come and hang out and play games on Sunday afternoons - just let me know you're coming.  I like to sleep in, so let's say that 1 PM is the start time for this "event."

Tony and I have the Pop'n machine, IIDX 3-Happy Sky, DDR 5th, Extreme, Party Collection, and Max JP, and Konamix, Max and Max 2 US, In The Groove, with your choice of Afterburner or Cobalt Flux, as well as various other games that are not music-related but still fun. We have two TVs on which to play these games, and several computers on which to play Stepmania. We also have a Taiko controller, but Taiko 5, 6, 7, and Anime are waiting in queue at PlayAsia so at present all we have is Taiko US to play. If something you like isn't on this list, BRING IT!!

Due to privacy concerns, I'm not posting my address in this thread. Please PM me if you'd like to come to these events and I'll give you more information.

I probably wouldn't travel to Sea/Tac area unless there's an ITG2 or DDR Extreme tournament happening, at least until I have a sizable discretionary income.  Considering I'm unemployed and not really looking for a job at the moment, that probably won't happen any time soon.