How NOT to run a GH tournament

**Sully** · Joined: 12 Nov 2006 Posts: 4570 Location: Tampa, FL

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My local (Tampa, FL) rock radio station is holding several GH:M "tournaments" where the prize is $100 and a pair of Metallica tickets. I attended the event last night and boy, was it terrible. Without exaggeration, this was the most poorly structured event I've ever heard of. Here's how it went down- everyone had to play Cyanide (a 7 minute song they picked randomly, apparently) on Medium (no Hard or Expert allowed "to give everyone a chance") with a third party guitar that couldn't tilt to activate. One player at a time. High score won. Under normal circumstances I'd like these odds against 15 other random people but unfortunately for me, Draktyr was there as well and he had the good fortune of using SP better and not flubbering with the damn select button trying to activate- and man, was this select button out of the way. We blew everyone else out away and at one point I overheard some guy refer to Draktyr as "some sort of a savant" for "not missing any notes." On Medium. Maybe it was better that we didn't get to play on Expert after all!

**bl1i8n2k** · Joined: 27 Jan 2009 Posts: 1001 Location: Plano, Illinois

It was that bad? Why didnt they have seperate signups for medium, hard, and expert so they could "give everyone a chance". But, id do it for 100 dollars and Metallica tickets (even though i stink at medium).

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**RustyWaffle** · Joined: 15 Apr 2007 Posts: 796

When I was at Crue Fest, there was a competition from the local radio station that judged you by PERCENT, not score. So if that wasn't bad enough, each player had a different song chosen for them... on medium. Now I've FC a good amount of songs on gh2 (missing like 8 or so), but it was on a laggy television, and every was terrible (the 4 with the highest % got to finals, i got 100% and the other 3 got 95%). So they get to be ballsy and step up to HARD (OMGLOLWUTJETHUS). I wouldn't mind it that much if they would pick a song that is atleast challenging, but they pick Jessica (I asked for YYZ, but that was too long according to them...) We both got 100%, but I overstrummed and got a higher score. Of course, instead of going by score, they have to go by NOTE STREAK. Seriously, people should at least play the game for an day or so before deciding on these rules.
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**Vertiggo** · Posted: Fri Oct 09, 2009 8:23 pm Post subject:

An update on this tournament:

I ended up winning the event. It was Draktyr vs I in the finals... on a laggy projector with 3rd party Wii controllers. Bad stuff all around.

The prize was supposed to be a Wii/GH bundle, $500 cash and an HDTV. I received the Wii/GH bundle on the night of and they said they would contact me in two days about the money. It's been a week, but I haven't heard a thing back from them yet regarding the cash. In addition, they never even mentioned the TV. Something here is incredibly screwy. Guess that we should have expected this all along though, right?
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**Cabanon** · Joined: 29 Oct 2007 Posts: 6464 Location: Quebec, Canada

i suggest you to bug them with your prizes, you won them. i guess they owe you big time. $500 & a TV is something very cool for a tournament.
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**powerman7t** · Joined: 11 May 2009 Posts: 54

The tournament they had here in WV was a train wreck! The tournament was set in such a way where it was about how many wins you had - NO elimination! So you had to stay over 10+ hrs. in a weekend to have a chance. On top of that, you only got to play every 30-45 minutes which kills your number of wins.

There was only 1 girl running it, who looked a little bit like Cassandra from Wayne's World (but less asian

). She had to sign people up, get the scores, and make sure people weren't cheating.

Speaking of cheating, there were 20+ rules on a poster and I say 10-15 were broken, including no pausing or changing songs in the middle of the game. Trust me, I saw a bunch of kids abuse that almost infinitely. Also, GH3 (there were 3 setups beside each other: GH2, GH3, and GH:A - which just came out at the time) was set on Co-op mode.

Also, the tournament was in the back of the convention center behind a steel beam. It took me 15 min. to find it!

Plus the jazz band in the front of the room was blaring the music so loud that you couldn't even hear the game on any of the screens! I wonder why they didn't let us have a decent, proper tournament in front of a crowd.

On top of that, a 50-something guy I was playing against flipped me off after I FC'd The Trooper on Easy (we had to play the lowest comfortable difficulty, so if I played Expert and Joe Blow played Medium, I would have to play Medium). Like a good sport, I said "Good Job!" and tried to shake his hand, but as I was to shake it he pulled his hand back.

Of course, I played the guitar behind my back almost the whole time!

**Caret-** · Joined: 06 May 2007 Posts: 83 Location: Finland

We had a tournament here in Finland with GH3. In the finals you played one at a time infront of a croud. You could only choose songs from the two first setlists(??) and the lag was unbearable.. First price was ps3 and the full WT-set and for second place you got nothing. The winner won everything with a 96% performance of missisippi queen. =(
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**CamelTower** · Joined: 20 Oct 2008 Posts: 477 Location: Wisconsin

yeah, there have also been a number of poorly run tournaments in and around Chicago..

too bad i always seem to find out about them after theyre over..
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**JizzleWright** · Joined: 15 Jul 2008 Posts: 205 Location: UK

There was a 'tournament' here at the University Of Hertfordshire, cost £1 to enter. The was GH5 and it was projected on a screen they usually show sports on, fortunately there was no lag, but we had to use RB instruments for some reason and the Guitar had no strap and there were no chairs so you had to sit on the floor...

To win you could pick from ANY song in the game, and the highest score won, the highest score before me was somebody who 100% overstrummed plug in baby around 200,000. It took a lot of restraint to not play Do You Feel Like you do, instead I played Scatterbrain and won by like 100,000 points, the prize for all this, absolutely nothing. I didn't even get my name printed in the university magazine