I can't wait!

This better actually include the song "Showdown" as well.

It's time I up my personal record on that chart.

GET WRECKED!!!!! XD

Still going...

The level cap should help that problem for some players. For instance, the first round will have a level cap of Expert 12, no higher than that. This will really put emphasis on FA during the first round and the higher level stuff will come later!  

pls no violations
those will hurt

wait, so there's an entry fee but you're not putting that in the prize pool? you're giving away gift cards and you're doing nothing with the entry fee.... so that means you pocket all the 10 dollar fees. just calling this as i see it.

Rose, I'm so excited to see that you guys are running a tournament! I'm actually kind of torn, because I've been playing DDR exclusively for months now, but the level capping thing makes this sound like something I'd really like to participate in if I can get myself into shape for 13s in time. I guess I have a month to start practicing hard again!

As a sidenote, would you guys mind if I moved this thread to http://www.pnwbemani.net/events-meetups/ where the other tournament threads are located? I'll sticky it too so everyone can find it easily!

The money we get from the entry fee is all going to Bill and Narrows.

The prize is coming out of our own pocket.

We just wanted to do something nice for our community and give back to Bill since he's been good to Chris and I.

Instead of just calling it as you see it and making crazy assumptions, why don't you actually come to the tournament meet other people from the community and actually meet us.

Our pack will have plenty of 10's, 11's and 12's. Hopefully it can re-motivated others to practice again



 Sounds Good  

Even if they *were* pocketing the entry fees and just giving out the gift cards, nobody's forcing you to go.  There's no law saying that tournaments need to return 100% of their entry fees as prizes.

Yes.. Now I have a great excuse to travel down to Narrows again ^^
Haven't been in a long while.

you're completely right, and generally tournaments list their prize structures and the percentage payout. i never said 100% payout was necessary, but 0% payout is suspect. i'm just sticking to the numbers here

You are basing this off of assumption, you could have just asked me. Hell, ask Bill if you want.

Here is the mathematical numbers if you want them...

100% of the entry fees are going to Bill.

$100.00 is coming out our pockets for the prize pool, plus some more for random drawings.

That is all the numbers we have to give you.

Can we get this thread back on track? This is about having fun, competing, and enjoying peoples company, not arguing about where the money is going...

@BLueSS or Laura

Can we get Iori to stop trolling in this thread? We are trying to set something up for people and all he's trying to do is start something. 

And Bill will be turning around and using that share to help pay for the gift cards.  I hate to see Chris and Rose eating this expense, this was very generous of them!  But I choose to turn around and cover the prizes, it's about giving back to the community.  :-)

It's exciting to have so many new tournaments!  Hope this will be the first of many showdowns! 

Hi Rose!

I saw your post but I've been waiting to respond until I talked to BlueSS, who is going to check in later today (he just got back from Europe.) I have come to the conclusion that I have a VERY difficult time deciding what kinds of action to take against someone and when it is appropriate to take that kind of action (you'll notice that I have a long history of giving warnings but not really following through with bans,) so I deferred the Iori problem to BlueSS (but he knows about it and is deciding what to do.)

I apologize if I've been lax to your detriment. I want to clarify that it's absolutely nothing personal in either direction - if any two random PNWBemani posters were in the same position as you and Iori right now, I'd still take the same conservative approach. I probably should have said this much sooner, and I'm sorry if there's been any bad blood or confusion because of it.

Worthless opinion of mine here: this is definitely just for attention and hungry to start another argument.

Abbye, please no responses or even any further acknowledgement.

On a lighter note:

I'm getting a day off for this

Here is a download link to the pack for anyone who wants to practice at home, or if Laura wants to put it on ACME's cab

Click Me!

Baureguard, I'm downloading it now. I should be able to put things on the machine without Tony's help by next weekend.

Hey! I made it to ACME today and Tony helped me add the pack to the machine as part of the learning process!

So amped for this and to have other people to play with at narrows!
For too long I have been the only person (besides the occasional random person on easy) to play In The Groove at Narrows! Been having a great time with people when they show up and looking forward to this competition as well as being able to play with others!

Welcome Skatedivona!!! It is nice to have some new faces in the bemani community. There are a lot of incredible and enthusiastic players. Hopefully you will get to meet more of the ITG family at the Narrows Showdown

Keep beasting!!!!

Hmm, I might come to this, see if I can make it past the first round

Taylor you totally should!!! Keep smashing them arrows. I hope to see you there