youhas presents: NorCal ScoreHero Get-Together 2.0 (6/20-22)

**youhas** · Joined: 21 Jul 2006 Posts: 3015 Location: Santa Clara, CA

EDIT: On Friday night, assume that pizza will be either imported or cooked on site, depending on the ambient temperature outside. Assume also that we'll start with Rock Band, what with the whole quest-for-leaderboard-smashing-excellence gambit we'll have going on. We'll get to customs (and possibly setting up a second gaming platform) later on in the evening.

EDIT FOR FOLKS WHO CARE: If you're coming in from far-flung lands and this information helps any: we live in Santa Clara, essentially at the corner of Lick Mill Blvd. and East River Parkway. Plan your route accordingly! (If your far-flung lands entail using an airplane, then for the record: SJC is tons more convenient than SFO - just a couple minutes up the road, it is.)

SUPER-QUICK FAQ:
Q. Hey! I'm not quite 18 yet! Can I come?
A. Yes, you can come, assuming your parents approve. Yes, there will be alcohol present at this event. No, underage drinking will not be permitted. If your parents do not approve, please take it up with them, not us.

Q. What time does everything start?
A. The evening of Friday, June 20 - I'll say "6pm" as a guesstimate of a starting time. Events should continue through the night and all day Saturday, with folks probably filtering out sometime on Sunday afternoon.

Q. What's the itinerary? Are there any scheduled breakfast/dinners/outings/whatever on the calendar?
A. We'll figure all that out along the way.

Current roster of generally awesome individuals who RSVPed and everything:
youhas (THIS, NO DOUBT, SURPRISES YOU)
Ealasaid (MY WIFE! ADDITIONAL SURPRISE IS IN ORDER)
BreakManX
BreakMeganX
Hitoshura
deepbluevibes
MajorGeek42
entropymaxer
FlannelJacket
Deschain
voidofenigmas +1
Lunchb0x
BooMan555
SeanDread
Jowhannez
Elilasol
Blackbird5150
JetsterDajet +1
Trixim
schmegery + the other 3 GameSpot tourney folks
pmswedge
meister +3

(Italicized folks never, technically speaking, RSVPed with a PM, but dude, they replied in thread repeatedly, so where the hell else would they be?)

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(Posted this on the Rock Band half of the website, but that is apparently the half where people do not go for get-together information.

Apologies for the cross-pollination of this information. Will cross-link / clean-up these identical posts later.)

Hey there, party people! I remember the last Northern California Get-Together we had, last August. Them was some good times! Had people coming on over from reasonably all over, coalescing in Santa Clara for an entire weekend chock-full of whatever sorts of rhythm gaming madness struck our fancy. I think it's high time we had another one of those bad boys, don't you? So on that note, we proudly present:

The Northern California ScoreHero Get-Together Redux!

Where: Assuming turnout is in the same boat as last time, I'll offer up our lovely convenient-to-three-freeways apartment in Santa Clara once again. (It's a bit on the small side, so crash space is at a premium... but we seem to be the only folks with neighbors who are totally indifferent to us rocking out at 2am, which is a huge plus.) If it turns out that there's an eminently superior location - or we have EPIC TURNOUT and need to upgrade to a hotel conference room or something - we will cross that bridge when we come to it.

When: We have an actual date to share with y'all: the weekend of June 20 through June 22. I'll go by the same general guidelines as last time: folks start showing up on Friday night, stick around for whatever parts of the weekend that they're so inclined for, and start filtering on out by Sunday afternoon.

Why: Because in-person quad-Expert bands always end up absolutely smoking the rest of the leaderboards.

Also, because ScoreHeroers are Good People(tm) and generally all kinds of a laugh to hang out with.

Other Items of Note:
- We have cats. If you are allergic, take countermeasures accordingly.
- No hard and fast age limit, though kindly be aware that (a) there will assuredly be booze and (b) if your parents don't want you associating with booze-toting and/or Internet-derived individuals... well, we're going to respect their wishes on that front.

The time to party is nigh! Post your interest, availability, and other pertinent questions posthaste!
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**HylianHero** · Joined: 22 Feb 2006 Posts: 4673 Location: Santa Cruz, CA

o/

I'm most definitely interested. The only weekend weekend I can't do it, assuming it is changed around, is the weekend of June 8th. I'm graduating HS that weekend, so I don't know if I should be going out that weekend. Almost any other time should be fine.

EDIT: It would seem that my friends are requiring that I go with them to a small concert around here on Saturday, May 24th. Do you think we can push it to another weekend maybe? :/
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**footballtom3685** · Joined: 16 Sep 2007 Posts: 2478 Location: Bay Area, CA

Eh, my parents probably would be all weird about me going to play gh with people I know from the internet, and the booze certainly doesn't help.

Count me in for the 2010 get together though since I'll be in college

(or 2009 if it's in the summer I guess >_>)

**youhas** · Joined: 21 Jul 2006 Posts: 3015 Location: Santa Clara, CA

@footballtom3685: Heh - yeah, we've gotten that from people before.

Going policy is pretty much "if parents want to call us up, or meet us ahead of time, or otherwise verify that we are boring individuals with things like careers and college diplomas, that's fine. and if that seems like too much hassle and not worth the effort, that's fine, too."

@HylianHero: Memorial Day Weekend is not set in stone by any means. I just sort of picked it because (a) I was sure that I had that Monday off and (b) last I checked, at least one other individual (BreakManX) had it as a verified weekend free.

(This is the part of the thread where other locals come streaming in, stumping for dates that totally work for them. That would maximally useful, and far superior to Plan B, wherein I select a date from whole cloth and inflict it upon the masses by fiat.)
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**Hitoshura** · Joined: 17 Mar 2007 Posts: 611 Location: Oakland, CA

Sounds like fun, we're long overdue. Unfortunately, May 24th is out for me as well. We're throwing a party for my dad's 50th birthday, so I'll be out of town for that weekend. I may also have one weekend in June busy (which one is TBD) but other than that, I think I'm free. I haven't had a chance to play with a full-Expert Rock Band group in person yet, so I'll definitely be looking forward to that.

**clawmaster2** · Posted: Sun May 04, 2008 5:29 am Post subject:

1. Hour and a half drive for my parents.
2. STRANGER DANGER!

3. I would love to go, but if its Memorial weekend, its the same weekend as Fanime >:|
4. My parents would probably be very "eh" on this situation. Internet peoples and Booze. llolol my parents will take that as a "Oh hell no hes not going" kinda thing :P
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**youhas** · Joined: 21 Jul 2006 Posts: 3015 Location: Santa Clara, CA

**pmswedge** · Joined: 27 Jun 2007 Posts: 427 Location: San Francisco, CA

I'm in Albuquerque for NVGA Memorial Day Weekend.

Let's push it out... the rest of the summer works okay for me, I think.
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**BreakManX** · Joined: 29 Dec 2006 Posts: 953 Location: Vacaville, CA

Yeah, I'm open for Memorial Day Weekend, but if that's pretty much going to shit out for everyone else, I'm cool with rescheduling for sometime in June. Or July. I'll keep my options open so we can make this happen. Otherwise, a Mega-Event could also be feasible. If there's enough interest in something BIG, I'm sure we could work something out. Crunch some numbers. Call some people. Juggle some options. Verb some nouns.

And nao, important question. Will (people) be allowed to use the Stratocaster, or is this forseeably going to end up being a Les Paul/X-Plorer-fueled event?

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**pmswedge** · Joined: 27 Jun 2007 Posts: 427 Location: San Francisco, CA

I'm not against the Strat. Mine works quite well, actually, even though I still prefer the Les Paul.

Anyone up for making this into a Band World Tour fiesta? I think with the talent of Norcal we could easily hit the top of the leaderboard...
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**youhas** · Joined: 21 Jul 2006 Posts: 3015 Location: Santa Clara, CA

OK, "summer" it is, then. I will consult my social calendar (read as: talk to Ealasaid) to cull any already-spoken-for weekends from the mix and see if I can't post a semi-arbitrary candidate date for folks to yea/nay about.

As for hardware: I am made of fail on the Strat, but dude, I certainly don't object to anyone else using one. We still have ours on hand - very probably not so much as touched since the last time BreakManX was over and had Strat-oriented needs.

While on the topic of hardware: we've never really gotten around to modding our drums, which seem to be of the "randomly suck when doing anything at speed" variety. If anyone has a rocktastic drum set that they're all giddy about using, bringing along that bad boy would be highly encouraged!

**Hitoshura** · Joined: 17 Mar 2007 Posts: 611 Location: Oakland, CA

I just got a newer-gen drum set (the one that you can purchase separately from the game), and the heads/pads definitely have more rebound than my first set, which makes playing much easier in general. I haven't really noticed any dropped hits so far. Also, I've got an Omega Pedal coming in the mail sometime soon, so once I get used to that my drumming should improve a lot (stock pedal is crap IMO on expert).

I'm planning to use some vacation time during the summer, so I'd definitely be down for a full weekend of Rock Band. I'm not top-of-the-leaderboards caliber (yet

), but I can definitely hold my own on all instruments on Expert.

**TheAthleticsCap** · Posted: Tue May 13, 2008 2:49 am Post subject:

This probably won't happen for me, but I'm definitely interested.

Problems: Parents (I'm not yet 16) and as stated before, individuals known through internet.

**Ealasaid** · Joined: 14 Nov 2006 Posts: 422 Location: Santa Clara, CA

**youhas** · Joined: 21 Jul 2006 Posts: 3015 Location: Santa Clara, CA

How about... [flips through calendar]... the weekend of June 20-22? That work for anybody?
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