30 Feet of Rock tourney - Columbus, OH

[Huwonk]

Just letting you guys know that I probably won't be there at all... Too many other things to do.
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[Huwonk]

Just letting you guys know that I probably won't be there at all... Too many other things to do.
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[saxev2005]

[saxev2005]

[COBW3BB]

I wonder how this is going down... sucks to hear about the studio 35 thing, oh well, I'm anxious to hear the outcome either way.
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[COBW3BB]

I wonder how this is going down... sucks to hear about the studio 35 thing, oh well, I'm anxious to hear the outcome either way.
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[Sakst82]

Tourney was a blast. I got 3rd. I lost to a girl... who chose to play hard, on heart shaped box. I don't know how that happened. Maybe cus I've NEVER played the song on hard. ever. She was actually pretty good I don't know why she wanted to play on hard. She missed 1 note and I missed 2 notes (one was during SP) Wulfe absolutely DESTROYED her in the final. It was disappointing because I would have liked to get crushed by wulfe in the final, but oh well. First place got a guitar they said was worth about $300 dollars so that's cool. The sponsorship and prizes were amazing. I won a PS2 in a raffle so that made up for me losing to a girl. I'll write a more detailed trip report when I have more time. But it was a blast and wulfe won.
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[Sakst82]

Tourney was a blast. I got 3rd. I lost to a girl... who chose to play hard, on heart shaped box. I don't know how that happened. Maybe cus I've NEVER played the song on hard. ever. She was actually pretty good I don't know why she wanted to play on hard. She missed 1 note and I missed 2 notes (one was during SP) Wulfe absolutely DESTROYED her in the final. It was disappointing because I would have liked to get crushed by wulfe in the final, but oh well. First place got a guitar they said was worth about $300 dollars so that's cool. The sponsorship and prizes were amazing. I won a PS2 in a raffle so that made up for me losing to a girl. I'll write a more detailed trip report when I have more time. But it was a blast and wulfe won.
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[wuLFe]

Hi folks

Firstly, it was a real blast meeting Sakst82, and seeing Raptor again, so I just wanted to let them know that I had a great time chatting to them!

Anyhow, in some ways it was a great tournament, and in other ways, not so good...

As Sakst said, the prizes were pretty nifty - RO, as usual, sent a pretty mingy package along with t-shirts and stickers, etc, but these guys took the initiative and went to a bunch of local businesses pimping the competition, and basically the top 3 places got a load of gift vouchers (to Game Crazy, a local salon, etc, etc), and of course, the grand prize:



Now - here were the specifics of the tournament:
First two rounds were a complete nightmare for me. The thing was lagged like crazy, and all I could manage was a 198K on Sweet Child O Mine, and about the same on Trippin' in A Hole. After the first round I asked the organizers if we could try and calibrate the lag, and they assured me "there is no lag".

Anyhow, convinced I was going to be knocked out in round three, thankfully my opponent asked if I wanted to try and calibrate the lag, and so we bring up the calibrate lag screen. THE FRIGGIN' THING HAS a 42ms OFFSET!!!!. The projector itself had no lag, so we surmised that whoever owned this playstation had it set up for an HDTV, and so we set the lag offsert to 0, and I (and many others) were finally able to play again.

I did have one SHOCKING round on Them Bones - I average about 270K for that song, and this time, because of nerves/bad SP/SG failing to activate in time, I managed to get 214K, and only scraped the win because my opponent forgot about the end solo bit, and lost his multiplier there!!

After that, it was relatively smooth sailing - I really felt bad for Sakst though - I mean, having to play "Heart Shaped Box" on HARD for the SEMI-FINALS of a 50 person competition is just friggin' wrong.

I was also annoyed because in the finals, I was up against this same girl (who was decent, don't get me wrong), but in the 3 song final we had to play all three songs on hard - even the last one (Freebird) (even though I'd already taken the first two, so she had nothing to lose by playing expert).

Anyhow, if memory serves for the finals, she picked Madhouse (Hard)
her : 340K, me : 380K
I picked Hangar 18 (but we had to play it on hard)
her : 301K, me : 384K
then the crowd picked the last song, Freebird (again, Hard )
her : 307K, me : 507K

Oh - and ironically enough, after I sympathized with Sakst about how much it sucked him losing out like that, I was the one (as tourney winner) who had to draw the winning raffle ticket, and I (amazingly enough), drew his number, hence ensuring that even though a well-deserved spot in the finals was not to be, at least he got something worthwhile out of the day.

Also, my friend Graham and I got stuck in a minor blizzard on the way home - scary shit, driving along an interstate, and having trucks whizzing past you throwing up clumps of snow and ice onto your windshield - I friggin' hate this weather

In all, I think a nice day was had by everyone, and I met up with some of the crew from the Louisville tournament, so it was definitely a worthwhile day - sorry about the dark pictures of the guitar - if there is any interest I will take better pictures tomorrow in the sunlight

[wuLFe]

Hi folks

Firstly, it was a real blast meeting Sakst82, and seeing Raptor again, so I just wanted to let them know that I had a great time chatting to them!

Anyhow, in some ways it was a great tournament, and in other ways, not so good...

As Sakst said, the prizes were pretty nifty - RO, as usual, sent a pretty mingy package along with t-shirts and stickers, etc, but these guys took the initiative and went to a bunch of local businesses pimping the competition, and basically the top 3 places got a load of gift vouchers (to Game Crazy, a local salon, etc, etc), and of course, the grand prize:



Now - here were the specifics of the tournament:
First two rounds were a complete nightmare for me. The thing was lagged like crazy, and all I could manage was a 198K on Sweet Child O Mine, and about the same on Trippin' in A Hole. After the first round I asked the organizers if we could try and calibrate the lag, and they assured me "there is no lag".

Anyhow, convinced I was going to be knocked out in round three, thankfully my opponent asked if I wanted to try and calibrate the lag, and so we bring up the calibrate lag screen. THE FRIGGIN' THING HAS a 42ms OFFSET!!!!. The projector itself had no lag, so we surmised that whoever owned this playstation had it set up for an HDTV, and so we set the lag offsert to 0, and I (and many others) were finally able to play again.

I did have one SHOCKING round on Them Bones - I average about 270K for that song, and this time, because of nerves/bad SP/SG failing to activate in time, I managed to get 214K, and only scraped the win because my opponent forgot about the end solo bit, and lost his multiplier there!!

After that, it was relatively smooth sailing - I really felt bad for Sakst though - I mean, having to play "Heart Shaped Box" on HARD for the SEMI-FINALS of a 50 person competition is just friggin' wrong.

I was also annoyed because in the finals, I was up against this same girl (who was decent, don't get me wrong), but in the 3 song final we had to play all three songs on hard - even the last one (Freebird) (even though I'd already taken the first two, so she had nothing to lose by playing expert).

Anyhow, if memory serves for the finals, she picked Madhouse (Hard)
her : 340K, me : 380K
I picked Hangar 18 (but we had to play it on hard)
her : 301K, me : 384K
then the crowd picked the last song, Freebird (again, Hard )
her : 307K, me : 507K

Oh - and ironically enough, after I sympathized with Sakst about how much it sucked him losing out like that, I was the one (as tourney winner) who had to draw the winning raffle ticket, and I (amazingly enough), drew his number, hence ensuring that even though a well-deserved spot in the finals was not to be, at least he got something worthwhile out of the day.

Also, my friend Graham and I got stuck in a minor blizzard on the way home - scary shit, driving along an interstate, and having trucks whizzing past you throwing up clumps of snow and ice onto your windshield - I friggin' hate this weather

In all, I think a nice day was had by everyone, and I met up with some of the crew from the Louisville tournament, so it was definitely a worthwhile day - sorry about the dark pictures of the guitar - if there is any interest I will take better pictures tomorrow in the sunlight

[PriestMLH]

Damn, wish I would've made it up there for the tournament now...stupid girls... .

Ah well, definitely heading over to the Cinncinatti tournament. Perhaps I should go to a costume shop and get a priest robe haha...or get struck by lightning.

Anyway, nice win David, cool prize too =D...finally some prizes worth winning, hopefully we'll be lucky and there will be some cool prizes up for grabs at the Cincy tourney.
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I'm alive I promise.

[PriestMLH]

Damn, wish I would've made it up there for the tournament now...stupid girls... .

Ah well, definitely heading over to the Cinncinatti tournament. Perhaps I should go to a costume shop and get a priest robe haha...or get struck by lightning.

Anyway, nice win David, cool prize too =D...finally some prizes worth winning, hopefully we'll be lucky and there will be some cool prizes up for grabs at the Cincy tourney.
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I'm alive I promise.

[saxev2005]

[saxev2005]

[dspoonrt]

Yeah, nice win David. That guitar is a great prize. I haven't encountered anything that cool in my tournament experience yet. Man, I wish I would've gone. Maybe I could've defeated you with a lucky run due to the lag. Or if we had to play Misirlou or TLTB .

I hope Noah wants to go to the tournament in Cincy. Maybe we can all get together beforehand like we were planning. Is that still going on? I haven't checked back at the other thread in a long time.
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Check out my songs on GHTunes for GH:WT (Xbox 360):

"Power Surge," "Funk You," "Grindsaw Groove," and "DisorderlyConduct"
- all charted by dspoonrt

[dspoonrt]

Yeah, nice win David. That guitar is a great prize. I haven't encountered anything that cool in my tournament experience yet. Man, I wish I would've gone. Maybe I could've defeated you with a lucky run due to the lag. Or if we had to play Misirlou or TLTB .

I hope Noah wants to go to the tournament in Cincy. Maybe we can all get together beforehand like we were planning. Is that still going on? I haven't checked back at the other thread in a long time.
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Check out my songs on GHTunes for GH:WT (Xbox 360):

"Power Surge," "Funk You," "Grindsaw Groove," and "DisorderlyConduct"
- all charted by dspoonrt

[hsatakeit]

heres something:

Hard = 4 letters

Noob = 4 letters

Sooo......

[hsatakeit]

heres something:

Hard = 4 letters

Noob = 4 letters

Sooo......

[wuLFe]

[wuLFe]

[buttfaceninja]

Are there more details on the cincy tournament? I might be able to drive there if its on a weekend.

[buttfaceninja]

Are there more details on the cincy tournament? I might be able to drive there if its on a weekend.

[Huwonk]

Awesome win, David!
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[Huwonk]

Awesome win, David!
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[Raptor]

It was fun, and in the end that's all that matters. Wulfe's breakdown was great, but I cannot stress enough how extremely LAME it was that the girl ended up getting 2nd by coasting her way through on Hard; somehow she avoided playing any really good people all the way to the semi-finals.

Anyway, yes I would like to see some better pics of that guitar, Wulfe, if you could. This place really did step it up on prizes and that was great.

I was heading out of town by 7:30 and that ice storm was absolutely terrifying, by far the worst driving condition I've ever been in. I was in a similar situation a couple years ago on the same interstate (71) and lost control doing at least 50mph, did several full rotations before sliding off the side of the interstate and somehow avoiding being hit by all the other vehicles sliding behind me; it was mayhem. So I was really hoping not to repeat that last night. By the time I passed through Cinci, it had just turned to rain so it was a relief.

Here are some shots:
The anticlimactic final: (actually freebird didn't count considering he had already won)


Ice storm action:




After a very long day, there's still nothing like hammerin away on a TV. (not me in photo)

[Raptor]

It was fun, and in the end that's all that matters. Wulfe's breakdown was great, but I cannot stress enough how extremely LAME it was that the girl ended up getting 2nd by coasting her way through on Hard; somehow she avoided playing any really good people all the way to the semi-finals.

Anyway, yes I would like to see some better pics of that guitar, Wulfe, if you could. This place really did step it up on prizes and that was great.

I was heading out of town by 7:30 and that ice storm was absolutely terrifying, by far the worst driving condition I've ever been in. I was in a similar situation a couple years ago on the same interstate (71) and lost control doing at least 50mph, did several full rotations before sliding off the side of the interstate and somehow avoiding being hit by all the other vehicles sliding behind me; it was mayhem. So I was really hoping not to repeat that last night. By the time I passed through Cinci, it had just turned to rain so it was a relief.

Here are some shots:
The anticlimactic final: (actually freebird didn't count considering he had already won)


Ice storm action:




After a very long day, there's still nothing like hammerin away on a TV. (not me in photo)

[Raptor]

oh, a few more things I forgot to add:

Here's a photo from inside the club, I just put the exterior link, so as not to destroy the forum formatting:

http://www.ofsalesmen.com/icestorm/dsc00073.jpg

The guy w/ the red strap on his shoulder was the reporter from the Dispatch; Columbus' big newspaper. He got a fairly thorough interview out of me and my friend, but we went unmentioned (although, the top pic in the article below, is of him playing David on Misirlou). However, you, Scott, did not go unmentioned - although - he printed your very sarcastic comment as if you were serious, haha.

"She was better than me, I guess," said Scott Katip, a 24-year-old who lost a close battle to Rankin on Nirvana’s Heart Shaped Box.

online version:
http://www.dispatch.com/features-story.php?story=dispatch/2007/02/25/20070225-H1-03.html

[Raptor]

oh, a few more things I forgot to add:

Here's a photo from inside the club, I just put the exterior link, so as not to destroy the forum formatting:

http://www.ofsalesmen.com/icestorm/dsc00073.jpg

The guy w/ the red strap on his shoulder was the reporter from the Dispatch; Columbus' big newspaper. He got a fairly thorough interview out of me and my friend, but we went unmentioned (although, the top pic in the article below, is of him playing David on Misirlou). However, you, Scott, did not go unmentioned - although - he printed your very sarcastic comment as if you were serious, haha.

"She was better than me, I guess," said Scott Katip, a 24-year-old who lost a close battle to Rankin on Nirvana’s Heart Shaped Box.

online version:
http://www.dispatch.com/features-story.php?story=dispatch/2007/02/25/20070225-H1-03.html

[Sakst82]

ya dude We didn't leave til this morning so we bought a paper it was HILARIOUS. I almost died laughing cus he KNEW I was being sarcastic. But he put it in anyway haha. And my fiancee's quote was hilarious, thanks for finding the online link to it! Sorry you got left out A picture is cool though!
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[Sakst82]

ya dude We didn't leave til this morning so we bought a paper it was HILARIOUS. I almost died laughing cus he KNEW I was being sarcastic. But he put it in anyway haha. And my fiancee's quote was hilarious, thanks for finding the online link to it! Sorry you got left out A picture is cool though!
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