MLG & Rhythm Gaming (Update: Interview w/ MLG CEO Sundance)

**deadhead15** · Joined: 05 Aug 2007 Posts: 675 Location: manteno, illinois

This looks really promising. I hope they pick up the idea because I'd love to participate.
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**mDaWg** · Joined: 01 Nov 2006 Posts: 221 Location: New Jersey

Definitely support this! although I'm not great at guitar hero, but no doubt they should definitely do something music game related for a change.
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**Fedora** · Joined: 14 Mar 2006 Posts: 2286 Location: Des Moines, IA

I'd like to see it happen.
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**BigE33** · Joined: 08 Nov 2007 Posts: 182 Location: KCMO

I plan on attending at least one event this year anyway

i would more than support GH in MLG

i would love rock band even moar
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**Gamerboy28** · Joined: 19 Jul 2008 Posts: 1

Well, I guess I should start practicing TO THE MAX.

**MetalSmasher86** · Joined: 17 Feb 2007 Posts: 340 Location: Lodi, CA

I'm in!
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**Vertiggo** · Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2011 7:10 am Post subject:

Thanks so much for the positive feedback, everyone!! I really feel like with the news that came out today about the future of GH that this NEEDS to happen. Competitive gaming such as MLG needs stability. Changing titles every year would only hurt the ability to get this series into the league. With Warriors of Rock being the most competitive game in the series, this only makes sense. Now is the time!

...and lets face it, Activision will more than likely reboot the series in a few years. No reason to be gloom and doom... this could be the shot we need to take this game to the next level. Lets show Activision the amazing community we have!!!

**ukog-monkey** · Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2011 7:37 am Post subject:

This sounds cool, really hope I can somehow enter if this happens!

IMO I think there should be fewer songs on the list, 25 songs is a rather large amount to be fair. I think it should be lowered to maybe 15 or something. Also the idea of only harder songs as a tiebreaker sounds good. Maybe it should just be as a tiebreaker you can only choose songs from the demigod setlist.

Apart from that everything looks brilliant. Fingers crossed guys!

**massi4h** · Joined: 31 Jan 2007 Posts: 536 Location: New Zealand

I think that's a great idea if it goes ahead. Hopefully my sponsors would want to send me over some time in the future to play (yeah right they're not that rich).

Well we recently ran a national tournament here for WoR and I do believe we got a good set of songs/rules.

Your rules are spot on, and we made every match best of 3 and each player picks a song to veto (remove) then the 3 songs are randomly generated (or you can set it to have tiebreakers already set for each round if you wish) as lots of comps like to do for CS, etc. I don't know what format MLG uses though, I assume either straight double elim or pools to double elim. If pools to double elim they should pick the tiebreakers in the pools but leave it open in the bracket play.

For songs basically we agreed that we would use the last 10 songs in the game ( -FotS as that was set as the final song ala WCG rules) and we removed Setting Fire to Sleeping Giants basically because it's not hard except for 1 part and decided to add Ravenous since it was a song requiring a variety of techniques.

So we did a basic WCG rule format and ended up with the 10 songs of:

Ravenous
Holy Wars... The Punishment Due
This Day We Fight!
Sudden Death
Chemical Warfare
Deadfall
If You Want Peace... Prepare For War
Nemesis
Speeding (Vault Version)
Black Widow of La Porte

Final Song
Fury of the Storm

This game is obviously alot harder in general than GH5 which is good for the competitive community so I think it's best to stick to as many hard songs as possible (ie dont clutter up with easy songs) which is why looking back on the tournament Deadfall was probably the worst in that it's quite easy and way too short compared to the rest.

The tournament ran real well and I think the rules were great. Just throwing out some suggestions.

Another suggestion was if you want to save the big 3 (FotS, BWoLP, SD) they could be designated tiebreaker songs.

Edit: ZOMG Alec posted on SH and he's had an account for ages.

**cdylan13** · Joined: 14 Aug 2007 Posts: 5828 Location: Richmond, VA

I agree with massi4h with maybe keeping the hardest three as tie-breakers. I feel like if the players had the opportunity to choose, those three would just be selected over and over so I would like more variety in it all.

I would also think that song selection should be random. The most skilled players out there will have the full set of skills to play every pattern of notes possible and they will have the ability to do every path for all of these songs. I don't think someone should be able to win because they know 5 songs better than everyone else. The world champion should be able to do it all at any time.