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DDR, Mario Kart and Super Smash Tournaments: This Weekend!

by eli

If you can pry yourself away from your new console -- or get someone to save your spot in line -- come to the Downtown Library this weekend for a series of Videogame Tournaments for all ages! First, we'll have a Dance Dance Revolution Tournament for All Ages, Friday, 11/17, from 6-8:30 PM. We'll have prizes for 1st and 2nd place in the Standard/Heavy Level, as well as a prize for the best Adult / Child Team!

We'll then proceed to the final regular season round of the Super Smash Double Dash Championship Series, Saturday, 11/18, from Noon - 5 PM. This is the last chance for a clan to qualify for the December Clan Cup and Grand Championships, unless you want to take your chances with the wildcards, so bring your best thumbs! Also, this event will be televised live on CTN channel 18, and we all know that all of Ann Arbor will be glued to their Televisions to watch this event this Saturday! Right? Anyone? Be sure to bring a release form if you haven't already.

Finally, we'll have a Kid's Kart TEAM Tournament for Grades 5 and under, Sunday, 11/19, from 1-4 PM, with prizes for the two best teams at the tournament, along with open play. Hope to see you there! Read on for more details.

Also, to answer a few old questions: we will not have a TV in the room to watch the game on saturday, but we will provide live score updates once the game starts. If we have a low turnout (which is entirely possible) you may not miss much of the game, which doesn't start until 3:30.

If you're not already marked as qualified for the Grand Championships, you can win your spot this weekend by placing 4th or better in the finals of any single event. I will also be qualifying the top 64 players on the leaderboard overall like last year to keep the wildcard event short and sweet.

The Grand Championships will be televised, but the broadcast won't start at Noon. We won't know until that week when it will start exactly, but it will probably start after the Clan Cup and the Wildcard quals. We'll see. Again, be sure to bring a signed release form if you haven't already.

The Clan Cup will involve no more than 8 Clans, and possibly less. All Clan Battle Champions are guaranteed a spot; we'll see how this weekend goes and I'll post more details about the Grands after thanksgiving.

See you this weekend! GO BLUE!

Comments

is a wii going to be offered as a grand championship prize?

jw, cuz if it is i wont need to buy one :p
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"STD at my house on friday!!!!"
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"why would i want your std?"
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Are you really having a tournament on game day of the biggest game in years? I'll be running home from the NU game to watch the UofM one tomorrow.

"Faulheit ist eine Tugend"
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Calling for Team Smash partner Swain212 i would be willing to go with you my lowest team smash finish was semi finals. D-rex i might go with you if i cant find anyone else. but peach isnt the best team character corect me if i am wrong.
yes it is going to be broadcasted. Eli am i still invited back for commentating on live TV?(gasp). Yeah im predicting
Single melee 65 people
team melee 30 teams
single kart 40 people
team kart 18 teams

Bad Driver, you are definitely on for commentating, it will hopefully be you and Tom if Tom can make it. And yeah, it sucks to be on the same day as the biggest of all games, but we didn't have much choice. I think Mario Kart team turnout may hit a new low as players scatter home and only the hardcore clans remain. I've got an awesome Clan battle game lined up though, and with the (likely) low turnout, this could be a big break for one of the less prominent clans.

Submitted by TC Bad driver on Fri, 11/17/2006 - 6:16pm

Sweet! hey FJW are you still without a team partner?
Fun suprise game hopefully we will make it this time

So Eli predicts that UofM fans would leave to watch the game...Good.
I have plenty of time to practice. I don't care about college rivaly or college football so I don't spend my time watching it and I'm athiest, so I don't "waste" my time in church. Yes. Go me. Totally awsome isn't it?
I'm a little bored right now...Well, at least the UofM game will make space for the real pros.

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Bad Driver, I think that I am going to HAVE to be FJW's partner for melee(if juggleguy doesnt show), in order for our clan not to loose points. We would just need a partner for that other guy...

I'm not saying you're bad, I'm saying that I'm I'm better
Bad driver plays as link
Mike we could be partners with each other if he doesn't pick either of us or you don't need to be FJW's partner

Submitted by TC Bad driver on Sat, 11/18/2006 - 8:50am

Mike S. I will go with you so jsut meet me at the tourtament so we can register there. OK?

Submitted by Leinad on Sat, 11/18/2006 - 5:31pm

Well, despite the sad score so far (which is about to change), the good thing is that NU beat Illinois today (Go cats!). Anyways, how was the attendance?

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D-rex i guess i was wrong. Snowman you are in. Daniel as for attendance in the upper 50's for all events. I thought a lot of people would leave after melee but they didn't. Also really only the regulars came.
That suprise game was weird and we got stuck on the same level in practice and in the real thing.

haha. ahhhh the team win. that was good. that was really good.

and i love how our pink luigi main-er (Hung Lo) got to third in singles. pretty gratifying.

i was kinda of annoyed getting beaten by dale w. i got such a bad stage. MUSHROOM KINGDOM II. it advantaged peach too much. (i.e., i'f i'm anywhere EXCEPT the middle ground, i'm dead to her forward throw.) very frustrating. i could have beaten him on any other stage..... haha.

but we made it to clan championships, and all that jazz. so yeah!

my captain falcon > you

my smash team > zeus

betta rekkanize!

Mike everyone is trying to sell their gift certificates because with the current format you can build up a steady cash flow and get about $100. I personally have 85 i think. Francisco has a lot. Good tourtament i thougt, I thought a lot more people would leave after melee, but really only the die heart players were at the tourament in the first place.

Submitted by MDidget on Sun, 11/19/2006 - 11:46am

non-float cancelling peach = worst peach, Derek

i didn't even go, but i would've gotten that forth

lain, MKII is banned in REAL tournies anyhow

Submitted by MDidget on Sun, 11/19/2006 - 3:21pm

Derek explain to me what a float cancel is = considered for 2nd place peach after me

ok guys give me results

edit: i just looked at the results thingy and it says that oroachimaru beat pwnerer??? howd that happen??
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"STD at my house on friday!!!!"
-me

"why would i want your std?"
-limabean

shin didnt win because of items, Mdidget, you dont even know how good he is, Omega, his brother, probabally should have beaten cisco. But Cisco memorized his attacks before the match. It is actually shocking how useless the items are to those guys. In my opinion the singles smash leaderboard should be:
1) Omega
2) Pwnerer
3) Shin

srry cisco, but Omega is really really good.

cisco said he got hit by a scizor which gave the match to shin

anyways im not gonna argue with your rankings cuz i beat omega 8)
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"STD at my house on friday!!!!"
-me

"why would i want your std?"
-limabean

its easy, especially if they dont have mind games......

example:

say im playing you, and since i know you like to grab then down throw then up b with link i can fake you out and have you grab and miss me which will leave you for an open attack while your link puts his hookshot back. Or fake you out so youd do your up b which would leave a link very vulnerable if missed, especially for a jiggly rest :p

anyways, does omega have mind games? he didnt when i played him, all he kept doing was shl to dair, nair, or f smash
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"STD at my house on friday!!!!"
-me

"why would i want your std?"
-limabean

WOW dat wut a beastly camping trip but i wish i wuz at the tourney, MDiget plz stop the whole im the best peach thg its gettin rly annoyin if u dat good den u should come and win...
can some1 plz fill me in on who wun wut?
oh and wut wuz da suprize game
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Swain, they're both REALLY good with items...

How do I "memorize" his attacks? Do you mean to say that I got used to the play-style of his Falco and it ended up beating him? Yeah, maybe. That means I've got plenty more skill than him, though. As for Shin, he definitely got lucky with the items. Omega has really good technical skill, but he's really predictable. The biggest problem I had was that since he had such good tech he could take advantage of items much better than I could, and it seemed as if he was used to having them around. Same with Shin, except the poke balls he got really ended up doing me in.

Omega is better than Shin, I agree.

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