Michigan GH2 tournaments -- various days and locations

**MLafer** · Joined: 26 Mar 2006 Posts: 464 Location: Canton, MI

A friend of mine is running THREE GH2 tournaments in Michigan in the month of February. Here's the flyer with all information on it. I hope plenty of SH people will show up because a good turnout means there will be more tournaments in the future!

February 17 Emagine Novi 10:30 AM - Noon
February 22nd Emagine Canton 7:00 - 9:30 PM
February 24th Emagine Birch Run 10:30 AM - 12 noon

Entry fee is $5 to play, $1 to watch, cash prizes, sign up by e-mailing danNOSPAM@reynoldsentertainment.net

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**ScoobyMaroon** · Joined: 27 Mar 2006 Posts: 21

I emailed the guy to register and asked a few questions... heres some new info

**MLafer** · Joined: 26 Mar 2006 Posts: 464 Location: Canton, MI

Anyone go to the tournament in Novi?

And this is a reminder that the Canton tournament is this Thursday!
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**eachann** · Joined: 09 May 2006 Posts: 1340 Location: Michigan

I'm planning on going to the Canton and Birch Run tournaments... I'll probably get beat down badly but it'll be fun

**eachann** · Joined: 09 May 2006 Posts: 1340 Location: Michigan

Congrats MLafer for winning the Canton tournament! It was a very small competition, not many people showed up. Nobody showed up at all for "hard" which was the skill level I was planning on playing in... so I jumped up to expert. The first two songs picked from the hat were Psychobilly Freakout and Institutionalized of course.. lol, so I was pretty much screwed from the get go

We played on movie theater screens though, so that alone was worth the $5 entrance fee, I had a lot of fun.

Hope to see a bigger gathering Saturday in Birch Run!

**thenightwatch** · Joined: 03 Oct 2006 Posts: 67 Location: Mt. Pleasant, MI

I may be at the Birch Run tournament tomorrow. I'm not entirely sure yet.

Guess I should probably figure it out pretty quick, eh?

[edit]

Yeah, I'm going to be there. Gotta get my ass up at 8 AM to make the drive from Mount Pleasant though. Eh.
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**deathstalker** · Joined: 20 Feb 2007 Posts: 1

yeah im goin to the birch run tournament hope i win

**MLafer** · Joined: 26 Mar 2006 Posts: 464 Location: Canton, MI

how was the Birch Run tournament? I heard there were going to be a lot of people there (20+)
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**thenightwatch** · Joined: 03 Oct 2006 Posts: 67 Location: Mt. Pleasant, MI

The Birch Run tournament was alright. Dan directed it well, but time constraints and lag problems with the projection at the theater where it was held were a big issue. I got 277k on Crazy On You because of it

. 120k below my high score; everyone there was still impressed though, so I didn't feel quite so bad.

Nine people played on Expert, four for Hard, and ten for Medium. There were a lot of younger kids, but that's what I expected for it being held at 10:30 AM on a Saturday.

Eachann won Hard by quite a bit, the other three competitors weren't very serious players. I won Expert, but it was a close call.. screwed up my SP pretty bad on Stop, but I pulled out in the end. Other than that close call, though, none of the other people on Expert really posed a threat. I was hoping you'd be there, MLafer, I would've liked a challenge.
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**MLafer** · Joined: 26 Mar 2006 Posts: 464 Location: Canton, MI

Yeah, I work midnights though so getting home at 9:00 AM and then running up to Birch Run (I live in Canton) to play the tournament would not really have been feasible.

Unfortunate about the lag. When I played a practice song, I noticed the lag immediately and asked if I could calibrate it, which Dan let me do. It ran perfectly after that.
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**thenightwatch** · Joined: 03 Oct 2006 Posts: 67 Location: Mt. Pleasant, MI

We tried calibrating, but it didn't really do much good. Not sure what the problem was.
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**eachann** · Joined: 09 May 2006 Posts: 1340 Location: Michigan

It did seem better after the last time we recalibrated it though. The calibration the first time set it to like 66ms... and when we re-did it later it was like 45. 20ms isn't much time, but maybe it's enough. I know it really didn't feel laggy to me in Canton and I think it was something like 48ms there... so maybe that's why. There was definately some bit of lag though earlier in the tournament. It was still fun though, there were a lot of people... it was supposed to be over at noon and they kicked us out at 1 because they had a movie scheduled to play. Barely squeezed in the finish.

**blindbyhate** · Joined: 26 Feb 2007 Posts: 5 Location: Bay City MI

yeah i placed 2nd in the expert division...i was supposed to go first for stop! but my opponent was somewhere else...
it was fun though. i did bad on girlfriend considering it was my first song and i had to play by myself. and i got to play first in the elimination rounds but i had to go twice because we had to even it out first so lucky me

but overall it was fun. good jb btw nightwatch. what was the prize?
just curious

**Sturmgeist** · Joined: 03 Jul 2006 Posts: 2

I assume he won the entire take of prize money from his division, which is what I won.

The theater doesn't charge Dan anything, in fact, they requested that he put these tournaments on, so they're not really losing anything on it.

Edit: Meant to post this as MLafer, whoops.

**eachann** · Joined: 09 May 2006 Posts: 1340 Location: Michigan

Yes the prize was whatever money was paid in that division in entry fees... I won $20 because there were only 4 of us in the hard division.... the winners of medium and expert each won $45 (I believe there were 9 people in each of those divisions). At the Birch Run tournament, the theater also threw in a pair of movie tickets to each winner.