UT DDR Tournament

[Kate Frederick]

Hey everyone,
Our DDR club and RedOctane will be holding the second annual Dance Dance Revolution Tournament at the University of Tennessee. Here is the information.

Who: Competitors must be students or faculty at the University of Tennessee. Club members of the Re(VOL)ution pay $2.00 to enter (must be wearing club shirt) and non-members pay $5.00. Drinks will be provided for competitors.
When: April 21, at 6PM. The pads and console will be set up at 5PM for anyone that wants to warm-up.
Where: North Carrick Residence Hall Main Lobby on the University of Tennessee campus at Knoxville
What: We will be playing RedOctane's "In the Groove" on PS2. We will be using the big TV in North Carrick set at eye level. Dancers will dance on Cobalt Flux hard pads.
How: There will be two competitions, a medium bracket (song levels 4-6) and a hard bracket (song levels 7-9). Competitors can only enter one of the two brackets. Seeding for each will be random, and brackets are single elimination. Each match will consist of three songs (rounds), one picked by each competitor and if necessary the last will be chosen by judge. A round is won by having the higher total percentage at the end of the song. No handicaps or mods that disqualify ranking are allowed.
Prizes: Prizes will be consist of Two RedOctane Ignition pads, T-shirts, cash, and free memberships to the Re(VOL)ution next year. Prizes for the hard bracket will substantially better that those for the medium bracket, but of course they are more difficult to win.

Questions, Comments, Concerns? Post here or e-mail [e-mail].

[Will Zhou]

DDR TORNAMENT IS OFFICIALLY A GO!!!!

They are shipping out the prize soon and they have posted on their website about our competition. So I guess our second large project of the year is a success, thanks for everyone's hard work. We will discuss it in more details in Friday 31st of March Meeting.

[Daniel Lowe]

Sounds like an ITG tournament more than a DDR tournament to me >.> <.<

[Kate Frederick]

I agree, but alot of people don't know what ITG is. Everyone knows what DDR is at this point.

[Will Zhou]

Plus we don't have a choice since RedOctane is the producer of ITG.

[Daniel Lowe]

eh, I still would rather it be a DDR tournament. I'm waay out of practice I know, but I know I could do better in a DDR tournament mostly just because the steps actually make sense. ITG mostly just has a random jumble of arrows that don't even follow the music or sound good to it half the time.

[Will Zhou]

Personally I think that ITG is much better then DDR and I think that most of the people in the group would agrees since we have been playing ITG for the past 6 months or so. The music is actually fun to play with. I can't change the tornament because RedOctane produced ITG and that is the product that they want us to play with and they are sponsoring us, so therefore I must honor that promise to them. Rather if you like to attend the competition or not, that would be up to you though.

[dicktracey415]

and i have to disagree with daniel because ive played ddr and i think the arrows dont go with the music at all. i hates it. i <3 itg.

[Daniel Lowe]

Not on the higher difficulties. The only reason I ever AAA'd a lot of DDR songs were because I listened carefully to the music. I can't do that with ITG. It's just a jumbled mass of arrows for every single "sound" (as opposed to beat) available. ITG was made to appeal to those who wanted something harder. Maybe at the easier levels it goes to the music, but not at the harder ones. Sure, you can say 24th notes go to the music, because they do...just not to anything in particular about it.

That's mainly why I left so soon on Friday. I realized all you'd be playing was ITG, and considering it's been probably 2 years since I've played DDR for real now, I guess it's just harder for me to get into ITG.

Honestly though, my only request now is that you change the name of the tournament to an In The Groove tournament, and change the name of the club to the ITG club, since that's what it is now. I don't mean that in any ill way, but it disillusioned me to what I was expecting.

[Will Zhou]

We do play DDR, that's how we started and I would like to keep it that way. Yea, I would change the competition to DDR (In the groove) competition though, the main problem is that I would like to have some people randomly show up that are in UT and I would like them to join us. A lot of DDR players really haven't played ITG all that much, so I would like to keep the title to DDR so people would at least know what it is.

[Kate Frederick]

Alrighty, who is ready for the tourny!

2 more days!

[Will Zhou]

Well as of now I am pretty sure that we are not getting the package on time, due to the fact that they have no idea what happened to that shippment and is refusing to make other comment.

[Matthew Beach]

Oh well, we'll figure something out by then :>

[Kate Frederick]

Well, all in all I think that went well. It was definately a BLAST!!! Everyone who got pictures and movie clips, send 'em to me so I can put them on the site.

[dicktracey415]

ill type up the times tomorrow. im too tired do it right now -_-