Organizing area's 1st tourney, comments/suggestions wanted

Sixfortyfive · Trick Member Joined: 25 Nov 2002

I'm in charge of organizing my area's first DDR tournament. Since we've never held one before, and I don't know how many locations run theirs, I wanted to ask if what I've got so far sounds alright:

http://www.sixfortyfive.com/ddrtournament.html

Dork · Trick Member Joined: 24 Jan 2002 Location: New Orleans

Very impressive for a first tournament. Just a few minor adjustments of somethings of what your scene might comply with, depending on skills, participants, etc. Even so, very impressive.

Might I assume that this is what you learn from running some PIU tournament

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LET ME SHOW YOU THEM · Posted: Tue May 25, 2004 12:33 am Post subject:

My complaint is the fact that since it's players choice of songs, you may want to have a foot rating cap on certain rounds, or else if there is one person who's obviously way better at 10 footers than everyone else, they'll just pick 10s all the way through, and no one likes playing psmo first song of the tourney :O
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Sixfortyfive · Trick Member Joined: 25 Nov 2002

Holy crap it's Dork. Same avatar and all... Eerie 1st reply. I haven't visited PX regularly in quite a while... I need to change that.

I'll throw the foot-rating cap onto the list of suggestions. How common is that?

Crux · Basic Member Joined: 22 May 2004

Pretty common. Most of the tournaments i have read about have a foot rating for each round. I think it takes more skill to work with a 7 footer to win a tourny than a 10.

The Game II · Posted: Tue May 25, 2004 6:22 am Post subject:

Like Caffy said, there's no cap on songs, and it can turn into a 10-footer fest pretty easily. I've heard that happen before, where the "red" songs were not allowed, but someone still used the remaining 10-footers to get to the finals. Say, quarterfinals and later or semifinals and later, 10-footers can be allowed.

Everything else is pretty standard, like a normal DDR tournament. My only other beef is the tiebreakers.
most Perfects
most OKs
most Greats
most Goods
most Boos
greatest Max Combo
highest score

Combo meant everything in 6th mix and below. I suggest taking out high combo and highest score.

With combo, say, both players get 497/0/0/1/0/1 on So Deep. Who knows whether that boo was a pad boo or a mistake of their own? And why should someone win just because he/she full comboed all but the first arrow, yet the other person got a boo halfway through the song? I don't think it should be applied here.

Score is also a problem. Players should not be judged on when they earned their great. If they both get 499/1/0/0/0/2 on The Legend of Max, the winner will be whoever got their great earlier in the song.

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LET ME SHOW YOU THEM · Posted: Tue May 25, 2004 7:28 am Post subject:

ReRy · Trick Member Joined: 26 Apr 2004 Location: Monroe, MI

Seeing as I play Reverse all the time.. maybe someone else will to? Why not allow Reverse along with the speed mods.

Also you might want to use Event Mode. You'll have unlimited time to pick songs and even if both people fail you can still get the scores after.. almost a must.

I noticed you said you set the difficulty to 1 so people would fail slower, do you know how to do that? I would like to know so I don't go breaking the machine at my arcade and having hordes of people after me to stomp me to death.

djmon · Posted: Tue May 25, 2004 10:25 am Post subject:

well did you look at this
http://www.ddrfreak.com/library/tourney.zip

well to have a pretty successful tourney you should also include a freestyle competition aswell.

Sixfortyfive · Trick Member Joined: 25 Nov 2002

Yeah, Event Mode will probably be activated. Wasn't really thinking about it when I wrote the blurb about the life bar. I was just trying to think of every detail about our machine's current settings when I wrote it up.

Freestyle will be added if we have at least 8 people interested in it. Our "scene" really isn't big on it, so I doubt that it'll make it into the tourney.

The tie-breaker thing... I might remove max combo and score from it. They're last on the list for a reason anyway.

Thanks for all the suggestions.