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Mr. Gainsborough

posted 01-31-2007 12:28:19 AM

Is anyone entering?

List of participating Gamestops.

An email describing some details about the tournament.

I don't know anything else about it yet. I will know more tomorrow or Thursday. Maybe one of the Gamestop employees here (Delphi, I think?) can give some more insight if their store recieved the Tournament kit yet.

I shall be rocking out with my guitar out for sure.

Rinaka of Malfurion

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Delphi Aegis

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posted 01-31-2007 03:00:04 AM

Sadly, neither store in the mall that I used to work in got the materials. But I will be stopping by another local store that did (There's like, four within driving distance of me, wtf) and report.

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Blindy.

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posted 01-31-2007 08:22:17 AM

I'd go to this, but I can only beat the first 8-10 songs on hard mode.

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Alberd

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posted 01-31-2007 08:33:42 AM

I heard about this last night when I stopped in to grab a recent release, but neither myself or the manager really expect to see many people show up to enter. I hope for some interesting competition, but my hopes are low.

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Willias

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posted 01-31-2007 10:54:44 AM

I guess I should sign up for this.

But I still can't beat Jordan on Expert. D:

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Mr. Gainsborough

posted 01-31-2007 11:32:29 AM

quote:
This one time, at Willias camp:
I guess I should sign up for this.
But I still can't beat Jordan on Expert. D:

Considering there's like maybe 500 people that can do it nationwide, I don't think this is a problem.

They wouldn't put something that virtually no one could beat in a tournament.

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Blackened

posted 01-31-2007 03:24:45 PM

quote:
Mr. Gainsborough.
Considering there's like maybe 500 people that can do it nationwide,

sup

Where da infoz at? Surely one of you EBGames/Gamestop people know what songs they'll be choosing.

Although my distaste for you as a human being is brobdingnagian,
what I'm about to do isn't personal.

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Greenlit

posted 01-31-2007 03:34:09 PM

ALL FREYA ALL DAY

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Mr. Gainsborough

posted 01-31-2007 03:55:18 PM

quote:
Blackened had this to say about Punky Brewster:
sup
Where da infoz at? Surely one of you EBGames/Gamestop people know what songs they'll be choosing.

They mentioned the GH2 demo kit in the e-mail. I'm guessing that would mean that the tournament kit is going to have a code to unlock the songs that were left on the demo disk, but unplayable. That leaves 30 songs open. Better knowing that than nothing. It also says that the tournament kit will be here no later than Thursday, so yeah. We'll know by then.

Mr. Gainsborough fucked around with this message on 01-31-2007 at 03:55 PM.

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posted 01-31-2007 05:15:46 PM

What in blazes...?!? We have a participating branch as well!!!

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posted 01-31-2007 09:27:46 PM

Oh sweet! We're gonna go laugh at the people who suck then!

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Monica

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posted 02-01-2007 07:03:29 AM

My roommates about shat themselves when I told them about this.

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Mr. Gainsborough

posted 02-01-2007 04:16:35 PM

Official Guitar Hero 2 Tournament Rules*:

People play 3 of 6 listed songs on Expert and the person with the highest score wins.

Songs:

Hangar 18
Freebird
Carry Me Home
Psychobilly Freakout
Six
Jordan

The prize for the winner is a T-Shirt.

*may vary to location, i didn't see the official email about it or what's in the kit yet

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Willias

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posted 02-01-2007 04:18:25 PM

Well, fuck.

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Mr. Gainsborough

posted 02-01-2007 04:19:31 PM

Yeah, it's pretty much everyone is gonna play Hangar 18 and Freebird because they're easy to get high scores on and then they choose to play Carry Me Home, Six or Jordan depending on how good they are at any of the songs. gg gamestop

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posted 02-01-2007 06:13:30 PM

quote:
Mr. Gainsborough's unholy Backstreet Boys obsession manifested in:
Official Guitar Hero 2 Tournament Rules*:
People play 3 of 6 listed songs on Expert and the person with the highest score wins.
Songs:
Hangar 18
Freebird
Carry Me Home
Psychobilly Freakout
Six
Jordan
The prize for the winner is a T-Shirt.
*may vary to location, i didn't see the official email about it or what's in the kit yet

well, looks like I'll be stepping out on this one. I havent even touched Expert yet.. im not l33t enough.

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Blindy.

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posted 02-02-2007 09:52:58 AM

Yeah, that wouldn't work for me.

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posted 02-02-2007 11:24:27 AM

quote:
ACES! Another post by Mr. Gainsborough:

Carry Me Home

Fuck that song, fuck it in the ass.

So damn hard to play.

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Mr. Gainsborough

posted 02-02-2007 05:20:41 PM

Still no one other than me signed up for the tournament at my Gamestop.

Free t-shirt for me! Woohoo!

(Carry Me Home is awesome once you learn how to play it. But I still can't get the B-R-RY-YB-RY parts down with consistency.)

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Mr. Gainsborough

posted 02-03-2007 06:13:26 PM

The tournament ended up not being as lame as I thought!

Since one of the Gamestops (the one I signed up at) had only one person sign up, they sent me and the t-shirt to the other Gamestop which advertised better and had like 12 people there (30 signed up, but a whole lot of no-shows).

Since most of the participants were little kids (8-13) with a couple high school students and college students, they had two tournaments set up. Everyone was allowed in both, but the first one started off having everyong play a song on Easy in Pro Face-Off against each other. Then medium, then hard, then the final round they played Jordan on Expert. No one there was good enough to beat it, so having it in Pro Face-Off was good, because it's just based on points. The second tournament was the same way, only it started on Medium. Jordan was also the final song.

I got first rounded by the other college kid there in the tournament because I missed a note on Psychobilly Freakout on Easy. The second tournament was much funner and a couple of the kids who were barely on Medium dropped out. I played Six on Medium against some little kid and won by a little, smoked some high school kid on Rush on Hard, then beat a 10 year old at Jordan on Expert by only like 50k (kid was pretty damn good, I think).

It was much better that they didn't go by the official rules, because they made it open to the people of the younger age group and made the whole thing a lot more enjoyable for everyone. I was happy, and I got a t-shirt. (and a calendar and a DDR Ultramix 4 soundtrack from the demo drawer that they keep extra shit in. the second place kid, who was actually second place in both tournaments, got some demos and stuff from there too so it wasn't just 1st place or nothing).

They did a real good job organizing it in the end, and I was impressed. Good times were had by all.

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Alberd

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posted 02-03-2007 07:06:28 PM

Shit, the Gamestop in town here didn't even get the official rules for the tournament or anything. The last email the manager got was saying that he would get the rules and prize soon. I was the only person there for it, and since it's the only Gamestop within like fifty miles, I was pretty much the winner by default. Two other regulars to the store showed up later on, but they'd only been playing the game for a week or so, so everyone just dicked around on the game rather than there being some organized tournament.

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