FFC Presents: Midwest Music Showdown '07! (Omaha, NE 8/10-8/12)

[macaroni pizza]

uli i gotcha back.

thanks for lettin me use it.
lol

 

[Brazoliange]

If anyone knows who might have taken:

A) FFC's GameCube+cords
B) deathrazor's GameCube controller
C) deathrazor's camera
D) sp3flip's shoes
E) VaderSeven's GameCube controller
F) VaderSeven's PS2 memory card

Please get in touch with me ASAP.


We had a great turnout (even better than I expected). We had 84 people sign up for any single tournament, let alone multiple tournaments. We had somewhere around 90-100 people overall.


Tournament Response

General Thanks Part 1:

Thanks to everyone that helped run tournaments, watch console setups, clean out pads, help cover food or give people rides, etc. CartoonHero, Dakota, Danny/Evil, Dave, IHST, WuTang, Kevin/Prez, Nick Jansen, Modarius, Marc/DualEdge, Faker, DarkMage, VaderSeven, Jinx, Spork, Nick, and anyone else I've forgotten. Without you guys, this wouldn't have been nearly as good or even possible at all.

Thanks to Marc/DualEdge for letting us use his Pop'n Music and Guitar Freaks ASCs. It was great to have them and I know a good number of people enjoyed using them.

Thanks to anyone who brought a Smash setup (I know someone brought a Wii, which is a potentially expensive accident but helped a lot). Additionally, big thanks to everyone from SmashBoards and other places that came out to play Smash. Everyone I talked to seemed both pleased with the turnout and confident that we could get an even better one next time. Sorry for things which could have been planned better (ex. Teams before Singles).

Thanks to FFC for being so open/easy with us running it, especially trusting us with keys to the games so we could adjust volume and put things on freeplay, fix problems as they arose, and for giving us a great setup.

Apologies:

Sorry to anyone who had anything stolen at the event. I am going to better plan who is covering things next time to try to reduce what is stolen next time, but I think with a tournament with this many people things are bound to get stolen pretty much no matter what.

Regarding cancelled tournaments:

Guitar Freaks CS, IIDX CS, and Pop'n FEVER AC were all cancelled (almost entirely) because of a lack of participants. I'm sorry to anyone that had been looking forward or had come largely for them (Wigmund and Trick especially), I just didn't feel they would have been good tournaments (none had more than 5 participants signed up). The next event will probably have less tournaments and only those that we can guarantee/partially guarantee enough people to run. Most likely it's looking like DDR, ITG2, SSBM Singles and Teams, maybe SSBM Crews or another Smash tournament, possibly IIDX, possibly DDR S4R, and possibly Pump It Up.

Regarding the Pump It Up tournament:

I was busy dealing with refunding people for the cancelled tournaments as we were trying to get this started. I was just about to grab people to start it when Jinx said he was going to. He said he was switching it to Round Robin (since we had 6 entrants) and running it. I wasn't aware of any change in the rules until it was 2/3 or so over, at which point he told me that rules had been changed to 1 person picking song and the other person picking mods. He also told me there was almost no objection to the rules which were changed. I did revise and update the rules for a reason, and I'm sorry that they were changed so last-minute. Next time I will make sure that the rules are a more standard format (as advertised) and make sure it runs on time.


Big thanks to everyone who came and made it the success it was. It was great to see you all and I can near-guarantee the next event will be even better. We're looking at sometime around either Christmas break, Spring break, or early next Summer and I hope you guys can make it here again.

Official Tournament results:
DDR PA:
1) Spork
2) Cartoon Hero
3) WuTang

ITG2 FA:
1) EvilDave
2) Brian
3) Travis/IHST

SSBM Singles:
1) Echo
2) MikeFalco
3) Smeesh

SSBM Teams:
1) Stomp The Yard (Echo+MikeFalco)
2)
3)

IIDX DistorteD AC:
1) Ichibo/Foxxy
2) Modarius
3) VJGyo

PIU CZ:
1) Spork
2)
3) CartoonHero

DDR S4R:
1) CartoonHero
2) Spork
3)

(I'll edit the others in when I remember and/or get the paperwork for the brackets/results out of Modarius's car)

I'll do a personal shoutout/thanks/sorry bit later and probably my highlights of the weekend.

 

[FaceLoran]

Terrible brackets, terrible seeding. That's all I got to say.

 

[Secks.]

I have to agree.

 

[Echo]

lol smeesh got 3rd in singles but was so pissed, he left the tourney without his prize...

 

[Brazoliange]

lol smeesh got 3rd in singles but was so pissed, he left the tourney without his prize...

I gave him his prize money, so if he's saying otherwise...

 

[KyloWinter]

Good games all.

 

[Echo]

well... ****... he still left really pissed lol... i assumed he didnt get it because he wouldnt talk to anyone.

 

[KyloWinter]

Ooooo. Vids of me are up. **** I look like a noob playing Yosh's Yoshi: fsmash fsmash fsmash.

 

[Flavor_Flav]

If anyone finds footage of me... $5!! j/k

 

[macaroni pizza]

im not good enough to be taped.

 

[KyloWinter]

Oh god, the third between yosh and I is really ugly. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUFsM_bhYyg

 

[Secks.]

Well at least the matches recorded between you and Yosh Isn't as laggy as, Yosh and I's team matches. >.<

 

[KyloWinter]

Ya, it pisses me off to watch them. And hey, MTKD don't worry about acting drunk no one was mad. I was just worried you were gonna puke.

 

[Echo]

tourney was bomb, lets hope the next ones not too far off...
everyone - you know I <3 you. Let's doin again soon
shortest shoutouts ever yayuhhhz

 

[MTKD]

Hey, just so ya know I have more matchs to record and put on Youtube