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Gerrak
September 12, 2012, 09:49:41 AM - ORIGINAL POST -

Atención:

Friends! Colleagues! Soldiers of the Wastelands! The time has come again for the fires of competition!

Hear, ye! In the names of PNWBemani.net and Masterman Vending, I, GRAND POOBAH GERRAK, declare the following challenge and offering of bounty:

A prize shall be issued to the first man, woman, or child to hold at least 25 first-place scores in the “Gerrak's Recommended” pack on the ITG machine at Acme Bowl for 1 consecutive week. Upon declaration of the winner, the people holding the second and third-most number of scores will receive prizes as well.


To be declared the winner you must:

1)   Obtain at least 25 scores and hold them for 1 consecutive week! It should be noted these do not have to be the same scores held for the entire week, so you can, say, take 28 scores, lose 3, take another 2, lose a different 2, and still have been considered as maintaining a high-enough total for the week. However if at any time during the week your total drops below 25, you must raise your total back, and start the week over.

2)   Post on the forums that you claim to have 25 scores. After 1 week, if no one claims to have re-taken enough scores to reduce your total below 25, I will go to Acme to verify your claim and declare you the winner. You must post on the forums to ensure other players know you are claiming to have almost won, and your week does not start until the day you post. You do not have to list the titles of the songs you hold, nor the actual total number of records you hold, you need only state that you hold 25 scores as of that day. If two people claim on the same day, their submission will be considered simultaneous and be subject to tiebreaker-rules (below), regardless of the actual time of their forum post. For these purposes, consider a “day” to start (and thus end) when Acme opens, rather than midnight (i.e. posts made ‘Saturday’ at 3am count as being made on that Friday.)


If someone claims to have 25 scores, there is a one-week challenging period where other players may try to take-back those scores. If you take back enough scores to reduce that player to below 25, you should post on the forums that you have done so, and ideally what song(s) you took back. I will verify that the player has been reduced to below 25 (and I will probably check every day I go if someone claims to have enough to win anyway), and if so, they must start their week over after re-upping their total. If you are going to make this claim, you should make sure you have actually reduced their total below 25 (by counting!), since they may have held more than 25 when you retook the song!



Some general rules/comments (Some extra details/notes in fine-print). The few slight revisions to rules (or other emphasized text I suppose) in bold:

1)   No one can be declared the winner before Mon, Oct 8. This is to ensure ample time for players to learn the songs, and establish scores. This means no one can issue a claim of holding 25 until Mon, Oct 1. Beginning Mon, Oct 22nd, the total required to win will reduce by 2.5 each week, rounded up. This is a sort of “sudden death” to ensure the tournament/event wraps up by around the end of Oct or beginning of Nov. I've extended this slightly to accommodate the longer-term nature of the event than originally anticipated. In the rather unlikely event of a tie, tiebreaker goes to the person who holds the most number of scores, then to the person who holds a higher sum of difficulties in their scores, then to whoever holds a score on the highest difficulty, then to the holder of the most number of scores at this difficulty, then to the higher of the average percent of this difficulty across their scores if there's still a tie somehow (complicated I know, but decisive…). I also reserve the right to make resyncs to the pack at any time, though at this point most have been tested and/or corrected; let me know if you think a song is way off-timing. Sadly pad-errors cannot fairly be taken into account for this event, if you suspect pad errors, you should report it to Masterman Vending (their number is on the machine, for those who don’t know). The machine has a built-in tiebreaker for exact ties in scores on any given song.

2)   Remember, there are prizes for the top three score-holders, and many (even most) of the charts will require playing a couple times to nail-down. There is also no entry fee for this event! So if nothing else, just try to take as many as possible! If you can’t take a score, move on to another song, keep practicing it, or give it another try the next time you go. If someone starts taking a lot of scores, practice up some of those songs and take them back!

3)   You must use the same name for all your scores across the pack, to within extremely obvious similarity (i.e, NSXX/NSX/NSXX! Are all fine, ALLAN/GRAK would not be acceptable). It must be very obvious to who’s total each score adds to.

4)   We are on the honor-system here, please exhibit good sportsmanship! This means you may not have, for instance, two different people using the same name to try to make a combined effort at getting a total of 25. Analogously, you may never put the name of another player for a score you made. You should also never make a false claim of holding enough scores, or for reducing someone’s total to below the needed total. No one should be cheating here, but if you suspect/witness it, please report it to me and I will investigate the allegation, to the possible end of disqualification. You should also always treat other players with politeness, respect and encouragement. This is a friendly competition and community after all!

5)   The scores held must be out of the “Gerrak’s Recommended” pack, NOT “Gerrak’s Pumpin Kicks”. The latter pack will be deleted after the event, and remains on the machine only temporarily for players to practice out of (if desired) and for me to play the songs in that pack without potentially disrupting any scores (and hence unfairly disrupting anyone’s total). No songs in GPK can count toward your total, even if you hold a higher score on a song in GPK than the score in GR.

6)   Only Expert-level charts count toward the total, or Hard charts where no Expert is available. Long/Marathon songs only count as 1 toward your total (but do count!).

7)   There are four charts in pack that will be considered ~~BOSS SONGS~~ (wooooOOOoo). These are the three 15s (Trisection, Over Drive, and Flames of the Sky), and the one 16 in the pack (Beyond the Universe). If you hold a score on any of these songs, it counts as two toward your total. The three 15s are of completely different chart-types celebrating (what I consider to be anyway) the 3 main attributes of difficulty in any song: Speed, Stamina, and Technicality (corresponding respectively above). The 16 is just really, really hard. This is to add some fun to the hard-end and to present a very tough challenge to aspire to, but of course there are ample songs in the pack to win without holding (or passing even) any of these, and I strongly suspect not all 4 of them will even be passed by anyone by the end of the event!


The "Gerrak's Recommended" pack is available for download in two separate links for your convenience in learning the songs! They can be found here:

http://www.mediafire.com/?tla0a58xx5qr59e (part 1)

http://www.mediafire.com/?4rqm5815xth38c4 (part 2)

Best of luck friends! And I hope you enjoy the event! Exact prizes will be revealed later and will be cooler than just boring cash. Special thanks to Bill Masterman for his significant contribution to the prize pool!

« Last Edit: October 26, 2012, 11:13:05 AM by Gerrak »
 
uhhh
Read November 01, 2012, 05:59:01 PM #76

It's not over yet Chris! Just kidding, yeah it's over.
 
cwkarma123
Read November 01, 2012, 09:35:32 PM #77

Yes, yes it is.

 Smiley
 
Gerrak
Read November 03, 2012, 04:22:53 AM #78

 Grin  Awesome job all! I've been swamped with school stuff and I was going to make it down yesterday to do the 'official' count but I ended up in unexpected plans, so I shall do so today. But I think it's safe to say you guys have figured it out and a winner is indeed declared! Very nice job all! I will get prizes in order and make appropriate announcements about that in the next week-ish.
 
Gamblefeet
Read November 11, 2012, 02:47:52 PM #79

Chris and Tuan huh. You guys aren't that good! I could take you two easy!!
 
cwkarma123
Read November 12, 2012, 02:32:35 AM #80

Chris and Tuan huh. You guys aren't that good! I could take you two easy!!

Probably...  Shocked
 
NSX
Read November 12, 2012, 03:47:15 AM #81

Chris and Tuan huh. You guys aren't that good! I could take you two easy!!
Probably...  Shocked
Anybody could beat me.  :<
 
Gamblefeet
Read November 12, 2012, 12:00:05 PM #82

I will not underestimate you guys if the day comes that i shall have to play against either of you. I've seen the dedication and frustration when you guys play. I've been pretty good at staying out of sight, but Garrak's tournament made people show up a lot more, so I decided to take a break. I must say that the lot of you have great potential. I've seen a few people greatly increase their skills in a matter of weeks and some people took just a couple days as well. I like this community and hope to see the challenges will still improve as they are.
 
Gerrak
Read November 13, 2012, 05:06:14 PM #83

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I've been pretty good at staying out of sight, but Gerrak's tournament made people show up a lot more, so I decided to take a break. I must say that the lot of you have great potential.

Hmm... Them's mighty words from an unknown player. Why stay 'out of sight'? Come show your mettle on the field of battle come next tournament!

Also yes, I did a tally on the Saturday after the tournament ended and the final tally was:

APHR: 29 scores (1st place, may have been 30 at the time, but still won via tiebreaker rules on the date I counted)
NSX: 29 scores (2nd place)
MYKL: 20 scores (3rd place)

And additional props to the following players:
ROSE: 12 scores, and was even injured for the last week-or-so of the tournament!
ANDY: 5 scores, and gave lots of people plenty of trouble on other songs!
and
BRIN: a mighty 1 score on MY SONG, Feels Like That Night, and held it the whole tournament. Beast mode. Also she gave people some hell for a very long time with some very high-99s.

I've had a veritable sh*t-storm hit me between taking/teaching classes, distractions with personal life, and tight finances due to a payroll mixup, so know that I haven't forgotten your prizes. At least take comfort in knowing the most I ever won from a tournament was about $60, and I spent all of it on the entry fee and donuts/powerade for the entrants, but I intend to ensure y'all have something a little more substantial to show for it. I hope at least the experience and fun of it will do for the short-term!

Anyway thanks a lot again for competing in this, guys! Very nice job to all Grin
 
Keby
Read November 13, 2012, 07:21:16 PM #84

Allan will you run this again in the near future? If so would it be possible to compete outside of ACME? or would I have to be there since it's easier to keep track of scores?
 
Gamblefeet
Read November 13, 2012, 08:34:03 PM #85

I like the competition Gerrak, but I don't like people watching me. I like to be by myself and work on certain things by myself. If I run into you Gerrak, I won't run away just so I may challenge you, but on the condition that I may play on the right pad.  Smiley
 
NSX
Read November 14, 2012, 05:08:25 AM #86

I know who you are!  :p
 
cwkarma123
Read November 14, 2012, 10:04:30 PM #87

I know who you are!  :p

Me too!  Grin
 
Happy Redneck
Read November 14, 2012, 10:09:39 PM #88

Is it Jorin that little fucker.
 
Gerrak
Read November 15, 2012, 09:56:07 AM #89

Quote
Allan will you run this again in the near future? If so would it be possible to compete outside of ACME? or would I have to be there since it's easier to keep track of scores?
The main problem isn't me keeping track of scores, its everyone else being able to when they're actually playing. So like, scrolling through the song list people had to be able to go "hey, I think I could take this one, the score's not *too* high", etc.

My original thought was that you would want to download and practice the pack at NULL's place and then come down to Acme from time to time to put scores up! Sadly injury and school schedule seem to have limited that ability, but I would still like to run something like this again.

That being said, probably the next major event will be Try to Quad 2, sometime between now and Sakuracon (I was originally thinking January, but we of course have to do all the planning, get Acme to agree, etc.), and then we could do something like this much later in the beginning of the Summer or something. This took a lot of work to put together the pack as I mentioned before, and we'd have to find a whole lot of new good songs to do it again.
 
Gamblefeet
Read November 15, 2012, 04:19:30 PM #90

I know who you are!  :p
I know who you are!  :p
Is it Jorin that little fucker.

Name is Keith guys. Do any of you remember me or think you've ran into me?
 
cwkarma123
Read November 15, 2012, 10:22:43 PM #91

Name is Keith guys.

K, KEITH!  Undecided
 
NSX
Read November 16, 2012, 12:25:27 AM #92

I believe I do remember you Keith. I'm guessing you were a particapant at Sakura Con's 2011 itg and ddr tournaments? Am I wrong?

Edit: There are two keiths that I can think of...which one are you...? the one I stated above...or...this other keith that I'm slightly unaware of...? If you're the one I'm unaware of, I'll take a wild guess.

« Last Edit: November 16, 2012, 03:42:03 AM by NSX »
 
Gamblefeet
Read November 16, 2012, 08:35:42 AM #93

I believe I do remember you Keith. I'm guessing you were a particapant at Sakura Con's 2011 itg and ddr tournaments? Am I wrong?

Edit: There are two keiths that I can think of...which one are you...? the one I stated above...or...this other keith that I'm slightly unaware of...? If you're the one I'm unaware of, I'll take a wild guess.

No I did not attend Sakura Con. During the time of Sakura Con I was Eastern Washington visiting some family. I don't think you have the right person in mind.
 
NSX
Read November 16, 2012, 01:08:58 PM #94

One last guess then, and it's a wild one...are you Keith C.....?
 
Keby
Read November 16, 2012, 05:14:51 PM #95

Yeah that
The main problem isn't me keeping track of scores, its everyone else being able to when they're actually playing. So like, scrolling through the song list people had to be able to go "hey, I think I could take this one, the score's not *too* high", etc....

Yeah totally. I downloaded the pack and practiced on PC, but then all that stuff happened. Sounds like a plan. Next time I'll just practive and then head down ever now and then.
 
Gamblefeet
Read November 16, 2012, 09:22:33 PM #96

One last guess then, and it's a wild one...are you Keith C.....?

Sorry, but I do not know of a Keith C. We've never hung out before. You've probably seen me pass by while you were playing but I was never dressed to play. I keep my stuff in my truck to see if there are other players and when I see there aren't I go and grab my stuff. I just like to be able to play the songs I'm interested in.
 
cwkarma123
Read November 16, 2012, 11:31:12 PM #97


I just like to be able to play the songs I'm interested in.

What are you interested?

 Cool

19's?
 
Gamblefeet
Read November 17, 2012, 12:58:20 AM #98

I'm not quite there yet. Working on 16's trying to up to 17
 
cwkarma123
Read November 17, 2012, 03:25:59 PM #99

I'm not quite there yet. Working on 16's trying to up to 17

Have you passed any 16's?

If so, which ones on the machines?
 
Gerrak
Read November 18, 2012, 08:45:42 AM #100

Did you guys know the word "gullible" is written on the ceiling at Acme above the ITG machine? I'm dead serious, go check.  Huh

Also there's scores on a ton of 15+s at Acme by people other than me, Tuan, and Chris; you can check on that too.  Roll Eyes
 
 
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