That's true. You do speak your mind. As do I, generally. Most of Seattle, though, is not like that, so forgive me for forgetting!

Technically, he's not from Seattle.  That would explain that.  Actually same for you, so that would explain all of it.

Where/What the fark is Paradise? Never heard of it.


By now I'm sure Gerrack thinks we're all just a bunch of dicks with nothing better to do than yell at him. I've been following this thread since the first page and I'm not exactly sure why everyone seems to be giving him such flak. The guy is trying something new and I don't think he deserves to get attacked so harshly for it.


But anywho, I doubt I'll be able to make it to ACME this weekend, I have a friend visiting from out of town. Also, it's awesome how active this forum has gotten in the last week and I hope to meet some of you soon in person. You can't miss me, I'm a 6'7" player...that should be enough to identify me from anyone else in the crowd.

Do you actually think people give half a fuck about what you say? Stop deluding yourself. Your immaturity astounds me.
You're can't even contain your immaturity to online.  Case in point was when MEWCON was when found Tofu to be more credible to run their tournament, so you got him back by having Kevin run S-Con.  And the only reason you run tournaments is to stay in the spotlight because you suck at games. What a little bitch

Good question, Suko. THIS is Paradise: http://www.bowlparadise.net/

I know that this is going to PARTICULARLY suck for you, being in Lynnwood and all, so if you need a carpool most of the way, feel free to hit me up - I think you're no more than 15-20 minutes from me, since Bellevue is like 20 minutes max from everything that touches 405.

I've driven further for tournaments in the past. Plus, this will give me the opportunity to eat at a Winger's restaurant again!



Come on people, let's keep this civil...

Awesome! I just want to make sure nobody gets left out because of the location.

I'm aware. It seemed like everyone else had forgotten however getting worked up over nothing. And no need to call me an idiot. I assure you I'm quite the opposite.
And leave it up to who? Last I checked there weren't these kinds of tournaments for years so why now when someone finally steps up do you find it necessary to doubt my merit as an organizer. I'm doing the following work: Coordinating the time frame with Bill and Acme, answering questions and staying the masses on the forums, posting notices at the major arcades in the area, meeting with experienced competitors to determine and distribute the ruleset, helping to set up the tournament on tourney-day, and helping to clean up afterwards. About the only legwork I'm not doing is the actual running of it on the day-of. I can't believe I'm still getting shit for this...

Thanks

Show me where I was immature. I'm pretty sure people give a lot of fucks about what I say, seeing as everyone but you has taken what I've said seriously.


No, I could not staff mewcon due to other obligations; I'd love to see the story of why they chose him over me. I would love to see the facts behind that.

In regards to Sakura-Con, The Gaming Manager there did not want to run a DDR tournament, then citing it being a waste of time. I had to convince them that it was a good idea, and asked for volunteers to run the tourney. Kevin came forward, and Amber also contributed her efforts to the cause.

No, The reason I run tournaments is to better the community. Skill level has nothing to do with motivation to run a tournament, but if you must know, I'm not that good at ITG/DDR. I never said I was.

Next time you want to bring an argument, feel free to bring some facts and not profanities.

@Gerrak: The problem with doing everything but the day of stuff is that the person who wrote everything and knows the rules best is no longer the mediator.  Additionally, there are tons of fairness issues that arise when the rulemaker is a direct competitor and it really has been considered standard procedure to not enter if you've had a heavy hand in planning a tournament.  Combining the two, any clarifications of rule intent (especially during one of your matches) are automatically questionable.  Plus, with so many people disagreeing with the way you're running it, who are you going to get to run the tournament the way you've written it?  If you can't see it through from beginning to end, there are tons of issues that come up.  We appreciate your intent and desire here, but this is not going in a stable fun direction as is, and you continue to butt heads with both the players and local organizers, so it's becoming less and less likely that someone will take it over for you.

We already cleared that part up. I'm running a silly fun tournament, Gerrak's tournament is for people who want to demonstrate serious ITG skill. There are enough posts from them (including allusions to a group of Canadians coming) that I can now see the point in having such an event; whether or not it does well, however, will remain to be seen.

Nice try at denial, but you aren't fooling me.

guys. chill out.

can we just lock this thread? gerrak and i are going to get together a rule set and dates and post a new thread anyway, so this is all completely unnecessary and is getting malicious.

do i really have to play mom here?

I had several reasons for asking... But most of the time we get someone who isn't competing to run it for us.

Anyway, that doesn't probably matter much. What did matter is asking your motivation for running the tournament.


The reason for me asking this was for this:
This tournament is not for the community here, but the community is clearly invited.
By saying it's primary for yourself, it clears up who the ruleset is for. Before this point, a lot of us thought you were looking for opinions, trying to get this community involved. Then, when you kept ignoring all of our suggestions on how to run it, and it made you look like a jerk. Now, it's not that you are a jerk, you're just doing it for you, not us.  It clears it up, because now we know that we don't have to try to give suggestions because it wouldn't probably matter anyway.

You're the same age as the majority of us here.

Amber, you'd have to be on the forums more to be even remotely able to play mom here.

But no, thread not being locked, but close enough:
ALL FURTHER POSTS IN THIS THREAD MUST BE ABOUT Gerrak's TOURNAMENT, and not how you'd like it to change!

This thread will remain open until there is enough info for Gerrak to actually post an event thread.

Iori241, DMN: Take it elsewhere.
Talk about other tournament ideas: soneone make a new thread.
Talk about Laura's Tournament, in Laura's Thread.

Fluff posts bringing us to page 11 would probably help separate the arguments from legitimate discussion.  Just saying.

FLUFF POST

Alright, so suggestions aside...I'm left still not very sure of what format this is that we're dealing with, exactly.

Oh, and someone mentioned the running a tournament while participating thing, I remember I did that with my first tournament eons ago, and some people bitched about it, so I made it a policy not to enter my own tournaments, until, I think it was about a year later or so, people started bitching because I wasn't entering tournaments I was running. (Because I was one of the better players there, I guess) You can't really win with people sometimes!

The first rule of running any Bemani competition is "You're doing it wrong."  It seems to be impossible to appease more than 49% of the people involved in the discussion.

Oh, and if the date hasn't been set yet, I figured that I should mention the annual Canadian Rhythm Games conference is going to be in Vancouver on the 14th-16th of August, so if it's at all possible to avoid conflicting with that, it would be great on both sides! (I'd like to go to this event, and have people come to ours)

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WTFBBQOMG!?

Seriously, what is this? I haven't been to Canada yet, despite living in Washington for 6 years now. It might be a good excuse to go. 

Dude, you really need to check your facts before making posts like this.

1. There was no DDR at MEW; we couldn't get pads.
2. I was Gaming Manager.  Jon also expressed an early interest in the position.  I went to the meetings, put forward the organizational skills, and focused my attention, so I got the position, while Jon busied himself with a much more significant commitment with Sakuracon.  He didn't even really contend for the position beyond one or two posts on the board, so you can't really say they found me more credible; it would be like saying Radioshack is a more credible retailer of electronics than a fruit stand.  The fruit stand isn't even selling electronics, so it's not a legitimate comparison.
3. Jon and I have talked about what happened, what appeared to happen, and what will happen in the future.  Sure, I'm sour about not running the DDR Tournament at Sakuracon, but it's been worked out, and I don't feel that Jon's motives were underhanded or ill-founded.  I wasn't committed to take my commitment to Sakuracon seriously; I was too caught up with just the DDR.  It was right that he picked Kevin to run it, even if I might have run a smoother, faster, or better tournament.

Hopefully this clears up some stuff.  For the record, I'm pretty sure I'm the only one on these forums beside my sister who was actually AT MEW Con.

I think I'll be making a trip for this. Car pool anyone? I'm cheap, haha.

This thread is not the the Canada conference... please post in a different thread