National ITG2 Tournament at Namco Arcades

NCI Spyderman · Basic Member Joined: 11 Jun 2002 Location: Chicago, IL

Namco is hosting a national In The Groove 2 Tournament at participating arcade locations throughout the United States and Puerto Rico. The dates of the tournament are July 8, 9, 15, and 16, 2006. For more information including location, rules, and entry fees, please visit the NAMCOARCADE Events page.

Tournament grand prize is a trip to Norway!!!

Please contact your local, participating NAMCO Arcade for more information!!!

Thanks!!!

(Posted on the tournament board as well, but I posted here since it's of interest to ITG players.)
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mb41186 · Posted: Fri Jul 07, 2006 9:27 pm Post subject:

if I were any good I would enter... but goodluck to the ones who do enter....
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Dakota · Trick Member Joined: 28 Feb 2006

Heh. We had one on the 9th up here in MN at Burnsville Center. The only people were Me (omglawl!!XD!?), Mike (DJ Phone), Jake (Shadowcol), and Chris (Iamchris4life). The ddrecalls are in parenthesis...I came second while chris came in first. The manager at the arcade also took our scores and sent them in for national ranking. It was cool enough for just 4 people.
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EvilDave219 · Posted: Tue Jul 11, 2006 7:45 pm Post subject:

I'm going to go to one of these this Saturday in KC. The machine is actually a dedicab compared to a crapocab, and Damien and Reboman will be there as well as me.

Something tells me that the top 3 players will all come from this location.
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VivaLaMoochicken · Trick Member Joined: 02 Mar 2006 Location: Florida

I think that they should have one in Central Florida instead of in the peninsula
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Spork · Posted: Thu Jul 13, 2006 12:04 pm Post subject:

I won the one here. Got 3 99's and a 98 on the Nat qualying

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reboman · Trick Member Joined: 15 Aug 2003 Location: Verona, WI

I just read the rules for the National Qualifying aspect of this... I guess I'll have to figure out what 9's and 10's I can be consistent on.

Oasis (H) / Birdie (E) / D-Code (E) / Twilight (E)

sounds simple enough, but I could see myself screwing it up. Too bad I haven't played any of those songs on Single in months. I suppose it's less risk than Xuxa/Charlene and three other 9's, though. I'll keep thinking until Saturday.

Emptyeye · Trick Member Joined: 28 Jan 2006 Location: Waterbury, CT

Where can I get these rules anyway? The page the original post links to doesn't have any rules links as far as I can tell.
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Thomas Hobbes · Posted: Thu Jul 13, 2006 2:55 pm Post subject:

I'm going to one this Sunday.

My friend went to the Namco DDR one. He told me that they could pick anything they want and anytime you want. Thus, my friend said that the tourney sucked because there were basically no rules. He just played 10s over and over again because the people that went were noobs and kept picking them.
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0rion · Posted: Thu Jul 13, 2006 2:59 pm Post subject:

Crapocabs... HO!!!
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damienkc · Trick Member Joined: 04 Jan 2005

I won.
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reboman · Trick Member Joined: 15 Aug 2003 Location: Verona, WI

That's the short version.

But yeah, Damien won.

On the National Qualifier:

Damien: 399.70% [Kiss Me Red, Mythology (H), D-Code, Tribal Style]
reboman: 398.76% [Birdie, Flying High, Twilight, Queen of Light]
EvilDave219: 398.71% [Kiss Me Red, Bumble Bee, D-Code, Tribal Style]

Dave and I both pretty much bombed one of our songs (D-Code for him, Twilight for myself).

Damien also performed the impressive feat of getting 0 excellents and 1 great on an Expert song either 2 or 3 times.

Emptyeye · Trick Member Joined: 28 Jan 2006 Location: Waterbury, CT

So D-Code is still considered a 10 until ITG3 is officially released, huh?

ALSO: Doesn't Damien already HAVE a trip to Worlds by virtue of his NAT05 performance?
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EvilDave219 · Posted: Sat Jul 15, 2006 3:32 pm Post subject:

*is Dave, btw*

Damien is planning on selling the ticket to a friend of his to come along with him to Norway, though he might need to work that out with Namco and such, idk.

Whoever created the rules for this tournament should die in a fire. "hey, qualifying song is whatever you want! Oh, and we alternate rounds between songs and marathons! Top seed gets to roll the dice for pad pick ZOMG THAT'S A HUGE ADVANTAGE!!!!!"

fuck you Namco. Atleast I should get something out of it (I highly doubt anyone had a 99.70%+ average who participated in the national tourney outside of me Travis and Damien.)
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CHUCK BASS · Trick Member Joined: 26 Jul 2004

Just got back from the one out here.

The rules were okay.
They really needed just one all out qualifying song. Cuz that turned out really stupid. Considering my first song I had four pad way offs.

It was basically just play your whore song and qualify highest.
Shoulda had it on random.
Damnit Namco.

damienkc · Trick Member Joined: 04 Jan 2005

So what's the national prizes for this thing? is 1st just a ticket or other stuff as well? Can't find anything on it...
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CHUCK BASS · Trick Member Joined: 26 Jul 2004

Here it just was ticket and 150 Tokens.

Emptyeye · Trick Member Joined: 28 Jan 2006 Location: Waterbury, CT

Last question: Isn't BlueMystic in the area of you guys as well? Did he end up not participating, or am I mistaken in thinking you're close location-wise to him?

And yeah, they tried holding one of these at the Cyberstation in Holyoke MA. Long story short is that the legendary Namco Crapocab (What's the deal with these anyway? My understanding is that the Crapocab proper is something exclusive to Namco-owned arcades, but why is this?) struck down the idea when, despite days of one of the workers trying to get it to work, the left side simply would not cooperate. Oh well.

And I just did the math on Damien's average. I think I need a new pair of pants (Not to take anything away from Reboman [Who is not Rebowoman. Because he likes women. But is not gay.] or EvilDave, who both have sickeningly high averages as well.)
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