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Tournament Weekend: Monkey Ball, DDR, and the Grand Championships!

by eli

This weekend, we'll have three video game tournaments at the Downtown Library, with something for everyone, including food and prizes. First, we'll have an All-Ages Super Monkey Ball Tournament, Friday Night, 12/15, from 6-8:30 PM. Come play Super Monkey Ball, Monkey Target, Monkey Bowling, Monkey Dogfight, and even try your hand at Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz on the one and only Nintendo Wii! Read on for full details about the Monkey Ball event.

Then, on Saturday, 12/16, it's the biggest gaming event in town; the 2006 AADL-GT Super Smash Double Dash Grand Championships! The event starts at noon, with the Clan Cup for the top 8 clans from the regular season. Then we'll have the Wildcard Tournament for players in grades 6-12 who are new or didn't finish the season in the top 64. 8 wildcards will join the top players in the Grand Championship itself, with First Prize: a Nintendo Wii, Second Prize: a 2gb iPod Nano, and Third Prize: A Nintendo DS! It all comes down to this, have you got what it takes? This event will be broadcast live on CTN Channel 18, so a signed release form is required. Preregister before you come, and you can use self checkin and skip the line!

Finally, we'll wrap up the weekend with an All-Ages Dance Dance Revolution Tournament, Sunday, 12/17, from 1-4 PM. Prizes for the two best standard/heavy players, and for the best adult/child team! All events in the Multipurpose Room at the Downtown Library. Plus, stay tuned for Pokémon and DS Fest events during Winter Break!

OK, if you've got questions about the structure or schedule of the 2006 Grand Championships, they may be answered in this thread, and I'll still be answering questions there.

The Monkey Ball Event will have each player compete in each of 6 game modes:

Super Monkey Ball Main Game, Beginner Stages, 3 Lives
Super Monkey Ball 2 Main Game, Beginner Stages, 3 Lives
Monkey Target 2, 2 Monkey Balls, 6 Rounds, Items On
Monkey Dogfight, 3 minute Round
Monkey Bowling Normal, 10 Frames
Super Monkey Ball Banana Blitz: Alien Spaceship Landing, 3 attempts.

We'll take your score from each of those 6 games and total it up. After everyone has had a chance to play all 6 games, we'll take the highest total scorers and they will face off in a series of elimination rounds including monkey fight, monkey race, and monkey target. It will be monkeytastic. First place wins a $20 gamestop giftcard, Second place wins $10, and third place gets a Tshirt.

DDR will be our usual 2-dance qualifiers and top players moving on to elimination as time allows. First prize: $30 to gamestop, Second prize: $20 to gamestop, Adult/Child prize: $10 to target.

Any other questions? Let's hear it!

Comments

Submitted by tomcove6888 on Wed, 12/13/2006 - 12:04pm

ZOMG, first comment'D!!
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Submitted by tomcove6888 on Wed, 12/13/2006 - 12:06pm

Wait a tick, aren't we still doing the thing where people can pick which prize they want? Cause I know that if I finished second (and somebody already took the Wii), that I'd want a DS rather than an iPod Nano.
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um, 6th post yay! i want roysters 2 come b next year so we can have pwnerer in our clan...
if john and derek leave, its obviously not gona b bros and co tho
can we have melee freeplay at monkeyball tourney? or shd we just come at 11 or wenever doors open sat? sory if sum1 already answered this
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lol youre gonna get owned by pio
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That's not stupid, the answer is yes. Because we're doing rotations and not bracketed qualifiers, late entry is no problem. See you there.

Swain212, I can't say for sure because I don't know how many wildcards to expect. I think we should be rolling with the Grand Championship event between 2 and 3. Does that help?

Eli does the wii come with any games and will all regular course and item bans apply. Also will you mess with the item settings for mariokart i.e. frantic or basic

i wud assume the items wud b set 2 basic, just cuz wit 4 people and item at frantic iv gotten star in second and triple shrooms in first b4 which sorta defeats the "worse place better item" idea
hmmm
insta-tie breaker 1 lap baby park!
I AM GOSU I WILL PWN U I AM L33T!!! [gtlogo:BNC]

Tie breakers for Mario Kart are <strong>always</strong> Baby Park, guys.

And every Wii console that has been released so far comes with Wii Sports, so I'm assuming this one will too. And also, you can play all of your Gamecube games on the Wii using a Gamecube controller, so don't sell any of you games or controllers if you win it, just sell the system. At least, that's what I would do.
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eli, first thanks for answering my question i should be able to make it and second a space somehow got added to my name so if you could change that it would be nice it just doesnt look as good
shabouygan!!

Im not sure, I will probabally be able to get there earliest at like 3:30 or mabye later. Is there anyway I could call the library to say when I might get there at like 12? I dont know if there is a way for me to enter into the last races or battles to allow more time.

Submitted by tomcove6888 on Thu, 12/14/2006 - 9:32pm

If you don't get here in time for the start of the Grand Championships, like, the very first match, it's too late for you to get into the Grands at all, because then we will have to remake the brackets for the Grands. If you can manage to get there at some time before the Grands actually start, I'm sure Eli and the crew would love to have you, but they won't restart the tournament for anybody.
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FURTHER BREAKING NEWS: <strong>NOT THAT MANY PEOPLE CARE!</strong>
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ICAC asked me first, so i am obliged to sub for them. That is if they still want me to, i haven't had real confirmation that they would actually need me as a sub. If they dont need me then id sub for WAH. Soooo limabean or pwnerer, in still needing me as a sub, yes or no???
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I'm not sure if this is true, but The Vaccinated Monks will need a sub. Preferably someone good...
Oh and btw, today is the 3000 day that FF7 has been on the Gamefaqs' Top 50 board.

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thats amazing! gamefaqs top 50 would be number of games sold. that game has had to been out for over 8 years. Best of luck to everyone and see you guys in about 1 and a half

Submitted by TC Bad driver on Sat, 12/16/2006 - 5:38pm

We need to do time nex year there was way too much teaming up and calboratibng i had a 3 v 1 and they werent even in the same clan! That was so unfair

Bad Driver you didn't have a 3v1, you had somewhat of a 2v1 for like a minute. It's because you were camping a cloud and were a prime target for the person's blaster, and because you tried to attack FJW.

-I- had a 3v1, however. And the finals were straight up stupid. I don't blame the people who made the ruleset, and I have to blame myself for cheating a little too (I did the 1st 2nd 2nd 2nd thing a few times) but the truth is I shouldn't have been able to do that.

FJW, I can't congratulate you for winning. What you did was just lame.

Oh yeah, and I have the following comments:

Swordmaster - While it's lame that you were part of 3v1ing me, you're not as bad as I thought you'd be. Not as good as the Roysters though.

FJW - lame. and way to lose an ic ditto to me. you don't even get capital letters.

Omega - Vast improvements in technical skill, and too bad about second place. Nice fox too.

Shin - You also vastly improved, but your Fox isn't quite as good as your brother's. You're both on par with me, so it looks like I've got some work ahead of me...

ok, the truth is that Mike won the wii, that doesnt necessarily make him "the best" It means he had great mindgames (towards other players *cough* john *cough* Arjan *cough*), skill, a balamced game, and luck. One way or another you cant take away HIS wii, because he did win it. All you can do is complain about the rules, but he did play by the rules and he did win, so, for that I congtadulate him.

Excellently put, swain.

Too bad you couldn't make it today. Looking forward to having you back next year, though.
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thanks, next year will be fun, and Bad Driver, my personal opinion on mariokart ds is that it screws your mkdd technique and gameplay up, I have the game myself. The kart isnt proportional to the course compared to mkdd and its kind of a different ballgame, but it is fun to play wireless. Also I liked supermario bros.

That is true, the karts in the DS version handle a lot differently than the ones in MKDD.... So I guess, just only play the DS version during the offseason! :-P
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well said pwnerer.

i'm not trying to be a jerk. doomblaze can't sell his ds for $150. sorry. but it won't happen.

also, yeah the rules are..... just wrong. the FFA thing was a big mistake this year. too many "agreements".

and yeah, i couldn't walk the walk. because why? remember how the bracketing was messed up? check the brackets. see who's part of what clan. FIGURE IT OUT

don't point fingers at me. just don't.

oh yeah, and i won the clan cup. does that mean if i get mad within the next year it's because i had an overinflated ego from it?

all in all still, it was fun.

Eli: I overheard something about switching to how many kills you get. This is a bad idea; people can take most of the stock by comboing someone to say 120% then get attacked, then some other person takes the stock and gets a point for doing basically nothing.

And damage dealt is bad too because of the nature of certain characters that were designed to take more damage at the cost of being able to avoid it.

EDIT: With the number of people that attend and the time limit, you're going to have to basically design a new system for playing smash.

EDIT2: I think I have an idea.

This is what I'm thinking:

I know you guys love FFA, but in the end it made for a bad system, so here's mine:

64 person tournament, 2 hours.

You guys have eight setups, filled with SSBM, right?

Take groups of 4 at each system (32 people) and have them play each other all 1v1 2stock 3 minute. 6 matches times 3 minutes plus all the inbetween stuff = 25 minutes.

1st place = 100
2nd place = 0

Do this twice and you slice the top 2 off of each pod (55 minutes). You have 32 players. Repeat this process (25 minutes + 55 minutes + junk = 150 minutes) and take the top players from each pod and you have 8 players. Have them all 1v1 at random, (5 minutes) then you're down to four players who again play each other one last time (25 minutes) and you get about 2 hours. Now, if you start the tournament at 12:00, then it should take until about 2:00 to do singles, and teams should be twice as fast due to half the number of people.

If you could end at 6:00 then it would work out great.

It actually doesn't matter, I think, because whoever gets the most wins still wins.

Actually, you could save even more time by putting 8 players in each pod (28 matches times 3 minutes + 5) = 1:30 or so. Then shave the top 2 from each and make them play 1v1 (5 minutes or so) and finally top 8 (five minutes) top 4 rr (25 minutes) to make 2:05. It's a good system I think. Also, it lets inexperienced players get far more matches than they otherwise might (7 matches). It's pretty good.

Give me some feedback!

EDIT: problem with 3stock 4minute is the time restraints. Sorry :(

Submitted by Pwnerer on Sat, 12/16/2006 - 10:52pm

And for the grand finals it'd not be a bad idea to give top 24 on the leaderboard entrance, and 8 wildcard entries.

So top 32 makes 8 pods of 4 (and you can do 3stock 4minute here), to get 35 minutes, then down to 16 players and so on and so forth.

I think wildcards are just as valuable as regularcards (haha).

And just make it two tournaments (one smash, one mkdd) with top 4 cumulative scores making it to the final round and round robinning Smash and Kart to give the cumulative best a win.

Submitted by swain212 on Sat, 12/16/2006 - 11:10pm

cisco, sounds good. It sounds a little boring in smash but way better than this past tournament, it would be a lot more fare

to me the wildcards dont really diserve to be there in the first place because they need to earn their spot. But for purposes of cases like aeikem (Takeshi), (and I probabally spelled his handle completely wrong) we should have wildcards.

People who aren't in the top 24 should come and show themselves worthy, and they can join the wildcard if they really want to.

The four or eight players would be randomly chosen, making alterations as necessary so that no more than two members of the same clan would be in the same pod.

my aim is sdmsaa...we're kinda making this a long read for everyone...

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I haven't been on this site 4 eva!

I'm so mad, I came to the tournemant at 12:30 and they said it was too late to register for the tournemant (not wildcard) which starts at 2ish! O well i got pizza. Riley u did tell me so lol. _______________________________________________________________________________
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I originally had much more to say but due to time constraints, I'll cover ony one part of what I was going to say.

To swain: When you post a comment, there is a link below your post that says <strong>edit</strong>. Instead of creating multiple posts, click this link and you will be able to edit your most recent post. Please use this function instead of creating another post altogether. This will help lower the amount of space taken up in the forums and also decrease the amount of posts and make it easier to read.
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my strategy for next season, not in a clan, get 5 points by getting 8th in a team kart game and leave, own wildcard and win the grand tournemant!!! So next year the guy in last place on the leader board will be me. lol _______________________________________________________________________________
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I love comma, right john. LMFAO best inside joke EVER!

whats up with the spacing from me? O and i love comma! lol Riley _______________________________________________________________________________
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I love comma, right john. LMFAO best inside joke EVER!

I don't know if anyone saw this but this is what my altered ruleset for Smash at the library was:

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This is what I'm thinking:

I know you guys love FFA, but in the end it made for a bad system, so here's mine:

64 person tournament, 2 hours.

You guys have eight setups, filled with SSBM, right?

Take groups of 4 at each system (32 people) and have them play each other all 1v1 2stock 3 minute. 6 matches times 3 minutes plus all the inbetween stuff = 25 minutes.

1st place = 100
2nd place = 0

Do this twice and you slice the top 2 off of each pod (55 minutes). You have 32 players. Repeat this process (25 minutes + 55 minutes + junk = 150 minutes) and take the top players from each pod and you have 8 players. Have them all 1v1 at random, (5 minutes) then you're down to four players who again play each other one last time (25 minutes) and you get about 2 hours. Now, if you start the tournament at 12:00, then it should take until about 2:00 to do singles, and teams should be twice as fast due to half the number of people.

If you could end at 6:00 then it would work out great.

Actually, you could save even more time by putting 8 players in each pod (28 matches times 3 minutes + 5) = 1:30 or so. Then shave the top 2 from each and make them play 1v1 (5 minutes or so) and finally top 8 (five minutes) top 4 rr (25 minutes) to make 2:05. It's a good system I think. Also, it lets inexperienced players get far more matches than they otherwise might (7 matches).

Give me some feedback!
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Pwnerer we saw it, we are just waiting for the planning meeting to discuss everything. As I can see you really want to talk about melee rules so figure out exactly what would fix it and present it there.

Mike, you won because you have sweet ancient chineese mindgames that only work against white and indian people, jk, but you did win because you know how to talk people into being on your side.

Submitted by lain on Sat, 12/16/2006 - 11:14pm

wow. you raise a fair point FJW. : )

i guess ideally, it should be every (wo)man for themselves. but eh. this isn't exactly a utopian society.

and pwnerer. that's the best idea i've ever heard for this tournament. kudos to you.

would we randomly choose which 4 players go where?

What does this have to do with reputation?

I'm just saying that what FJW did wasn't nice. Just because there isn't a rule against it doesn't make it fair, guys. I admitted that I did sort of cheat when I let people do the 1,2,2,2 thing, but 3v1 is different, because people offered to 1,2,2,2 thing me. 3v1 is nearly impossible, and horribly weighted against the 1, in this case me or Omega.

I don't know why you're offended at what I said but I apologize for it.

I'm not saying that I should've won the Wii, or that it should be taken away from FJW, I'm saying that the 1,2,2,2 thing and 3v1 are lame. Personally I think Omega was the best player there and, under non-3v1 circumstances, would've swept the competition.

And I don't think anybody here could beat me and two roysters 3v1ing them. Ever. That means you all suck amirite? No, it means that 3v1 sucks and there's a reason why Eli himself said that a serious augmentation to the rules needs to be made.

EDIT: And I'm also not saying I wouldn't've taken advantage of FJW's situation myself. I'm saying that it shouldn't've been there to take advantage of in the first place.

the solution to teaming up and calborating is switching to time i know you "pros" wont like this but it is a fair way because it makes camping realtively useless and makes teaming up much more difficult. It is like killing two birds with one stone.

That's not official, it's just Gamestop's speculation.

Time is a terrible idea. It's basically like making people let other people fight until someone's at high percentage then jump in and try to get a kill. FFA is flawed from the very fact that it's FFA. And you can definitely team up on someone in time because each kill you get on someone gives a -1 to their score. The fair(er) part of time is that at least the person that's alone only has to get as many kills as the number of times he's killed to balance things out.

But camping and teaming up are still possibilities in time. Just letting you know. Camping is indeed less effective, but teaming up is still completely possible.

yay i got a wii by camping at best buy last night!
best buy said that brawl was coming out in march. I doubted them but they sounded rather confident bout their info. Time is a really bad idea becasue you can just suicide and whoevers trying 2 kill u wont get +1, and last time i checked nobody really liked it or played it except when they forgot 2 swich the settings
I AM GOSU I WILL PWN U I AM L33T!!! [gtlogo:BNC]

No, Doomblaze is right.

EDIT: Well you're both right but Doomblaze has the right idea because if I suicide at 140% intentionally then I basically shaved a point off of my opponent's score.

Submitted by Hot_ArmS on Sun, 12/17/2006 - 12:31pm

so what exactly happened after i left, which would be at the round of 8. And what did fjw do that makes him "undeserving" of the wii???

FJW winning isn't a surprise for me, though some other things surprised me

-Omega got 3 v 1'd twice and won both times???? lol
-Pocket rockets winnning the clan cup
-Me getting 15th place overall
-My younger brother getting 16th place overall coming from the wildcard. (he was the one that finished backwards in bowser castle during a mkdd wildcard race)
-Me beating omega 1 v 1, that must have been my greatest victory/match yet
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I'll have a full post up monday, but in the meantime I hope you guys will all bring these ideas to the planning meeting Saturday 2/10 at pitts branch. We'll need to discuss these issues and make some changes for next season...

but in the meantime, I really hate to ask this, but did anyone tape the tournament? We had a 'mishap' and our recording is missing sound for the second half of the tournament. =( Let me know if anybody's family has a tape, it could save the day.

I was going to tape it but....i didnt feel like setting it up:(. So for DS what are some good games that can last me an upcoming road trip. Im thinking animal crossing,Mariokart and one of the mario games like super mario bros. Any suggestions?

Wow the Pitts branch that means I can walk over.

You've got to be joking, Eli. I was thinking of telling my Grandparents to record it, like I always try to do, on a DVD but didn't because I didn't know when it was starting.

Ok so i am leaning toward getting the following ds games mario kart,advance wars and than either animal crossing or new super mario bors or super mario 64 ds any suggestions?

If you like animal crossing, the DS version is great and offers some nice enhancements. If I were you, Bad Driver, I would give some serious consideration to Star Fox Command. It's a fantastic game with lots of single-player replay value (I still haven't opened all the missions), online play, and single-kart local wireless play. It's in my DS more than any other title, even months and months after launch. If you are considering New super Mario or Mario 64 DS, I'd probably give the edge to New Super Mario Bros because the control is flawless. Mario 64 just doesn't handle quite right, especially if you played it on N64. Plus, they both have the same mini-games, but there's better multiplayer options in New Super Mario Bros.

FJW, the weather channel starts 12/20, and the news channel doesn't start until 1/27. There are new VC games in the wii shop every monday, though. Congrats and enjoy!

yes,its only $20 so youd still have $100 left which would give you about enough for two games
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-limabean

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get marvel ultimate alliance, and COD 3

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"STD at my house on friday!!!!"
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"why would i want your std?"
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Holder of the 9000th post!!!

Submitted by Doomblaze on Sun, 12/17/2006 - 9:01pm

in mario 64 ds there r more stars, more levels, and you can use wario luigi mario and yoshi instead of just mario. the non new levels are i believe the same as the 1 4 the 64.
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Good News Eli! I have personally taped the tornament. How would you like me to get it to you? Bring it to the DS fest? Also I request that you either delete or make the troll's posts somewhat smaller.

To Bad Driver:
Of those games that you are leaning to, I suggest that you get Animal Crossing. I knew that from the moment that I got my DS that I wouldnt go back to the one game that stole away my life for the gamecube. Eventually, I gave into curiosity and bought Animal Crossing. The first two months, I did nothing but play Animal Crossing, so I suggest this game to you if it is "for a very long car ride" as you said.

To Matt:
Shhhh! You must keep hush-hush about the Supercard. Putting a whole post regarding a Supercard isn't very smart, especially when those you are talking to know where you live. O_o Have you thought of the idea that it isn't really.....'yknow.....legal?

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Riley i didn't mess w/ ur account... why would i want to? Maybe Julian... well you told him your password. lol remember comma that was SO funny. How come you were'nt at school today Riley? _______________________________________________________________________________
Violence is not the answer, it is the question and the answer is yes! ~Nathan

I love comma, right john. LMFAO best inside joke EVER!

wait so did FJW win the wii? how is it? I want to get 1 but can't afford it. lol, right Riley? _______________________________________________________________________________
Violence is not the answer, it is the question and the answer is yes! ~Nathan

I love comma, right john. LMFAO best inside joke EVER!

why? _______________________________________________________________________________
Violence is not the answer, it is the question and the answer is yes! ~Nathan

I love comma, right john. LMFAO best inside joke EVER!

but i can't read =( _______________________________________________________________________________
Violence is not the answer, it is the question and the answer is yes! ~Nathan

I love comma, right john. LMFAO best inside joke EVER!

I already have a wii so I got (and yes already have) an ipod video for christmas. Riley next time don't jump to conclusions lol jp. _______________________________________________________________________________
Violence is not the answer, it is the question and the answer is yes! ~Nathan

I love comma, right john. LMFAO best inside joke EVER!

riley you dont own a gc?????
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"STD at my house on friday!!!!"
-me

"why would i want your std?"
-limabean

Holder of the 9000th post!!!

Ok so i was going to get a DS i had already called EB and asked about everything and they said they had used DS's in stock i call them again about half hour later to make sure same response than when i drive ll the way across town the guys says he can't sell them because they dont have the cable. Apparently a trainee or something awnsere my call and had no idea he just saw a ds. The manager started banging his head on the cash register.
So regardless of the story does anyone have a DS they would be willing to sell i would prefer to pay in Game stop gift cards. I didnt think getting a used one would be some hard :(

Riley jp stands for just playing (as fjw said) and at least ur getting a tree, my family isn't cuz we'll be in NY fo Christmas. _______________________________________________________________________________
Violence is not the answer, it is the question and the answer is yes! ~Nathan

I love comma, right john. LMFAO best inside joke EVER!

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Violence is not the answer, it is the question and the answer is yes! ~Nathan

I love comma, right john. LMFAO best inside joke EVER!

The weird spacing is you own fault because you don't put the stupid ____________________________ on another line. When something long is placed at the end of a sentence and is forced onto another line it drags out the spacing.

Ahh it's good to have the VMC back on top points wise, thanks EBD. The supercard is not illegal, just what you download isn't always legal in some courts.

The Gamestop on Wastenaw (near Barnes & Noble) carrys used NDS'. Actually, they have sevral. I'm not too sure about DS Lite's though.

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"OOOOO, Happy Cheese!"-Kevin S.
"No matter how much you may suck at doing something, look cool doing it, that's all that matters."-Kevin S.
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this better? okay thx
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Violence is not the answer, it is the question and the answer is yes! ~Nathan

I love comma, right john. LMFAO best inside joke EVER!

wow Riley you keep going down places by increments of one. (12,13,14,14,14,15)
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Violence is not the answer, it is the question and the answer is yes! ~Nathan

I love comma, right john. LMFAO best inside joke EVER!

I'm curious is to what "Dual" is...On the player profiles, there is a new game called Dual.

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"OOOOO, Happy Cheese!"-Kevin S.
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the grands scoring wasnt too high since i can almost guarentee id b in first right now if i had come to the november tournament, and it doesnt really matter since you should know by now if you're really good or not, and if you should have "been able 2 make it," just you were really unlucky or sumthing
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Submitted by eli Staff on Mon, 12/18/2006 - 10:01pm

If you think the 5000 point bonus is too much, Bad Driver, check out [:aadlgt/results/79|the 2005 Grands]. Duck racked up 15325 points in the root beer tapper semifinals and a 50,000 point bonus for winning the whole enchilada. Almost 220,000 points were awarded total (compared to 46,160 this year). I think that given the relative irrelevance of the end-of-season point bonuses, 5000 for the champ is pretty fair. Besides, the bonuses were announced in the [:node/3301|GC details post], and nobody had any problem with them then... Like a Hawaiian shirt, I guess they don't look so bad until you see them on someone else, huh? Heh heh.

Besides, if you had taped it, it would have been Turtle Clan who got that Million. =)

Yes but whoever won was almost guranteed to take number one beceause that number is almost as much as #1 had and add in the points the get for every match and they can easily match #1 and assuming they have been to a few tourtaments and have a decenr ranking they wil get #1

i have a question..whats good about being ranked #1? do u get to be in the final of the championship the following year, or is it for bragging rights

if u moved back to ann arbor, and cloned each of us, we could have an indian clan nishant!
that may be rather difficult, however...
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Submitted by tomcove6888 on Wed, 12/20/2006 - 12:35am

Ah, Eli. The pinnacle of sarcasm.

Also, I think everyone should go out right now and get a copy of Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess.

'Tis very awesome.
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EBD! You saved the day! ONE MILLION POINTS for the Vaccinated Monks! Just bring it to the DS fest next week, please, and thank you so much!

(the one million points are sadly temporary.)

I'm working on the writeup now, guys... all final bonuses have been awarded. Stay tuned.

Submitted by TC Bad driver on Mon, 12/18/2006 - 8:02pm

The grands scoring is way 2 high. 5000 for winning especially since the tourtament was all about teaming up and conspiracy agnaist people.

wow i only moved from 26th to 31st for not going to the last tournemant. but now im not in the top 30.
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Submitted by Snowman on Sat, 12/16/2006 - 5:44pm

I disagree with Bad Driver. I think that you should be able to team up with others from your own clan to help each other, also there is that really rare chance that SOMEONE will break that promise. As for the stalling out we could make so if Eli catches you stalling everyone gets a 4th, so you can stall, but its risky.

If anyone cares, I got 5th, Bad driver got 6th, aikem got 7th and neco got 8th
I think thats right
(aikem is a friend of john FJW and I)

There were glitches in the seeding so people got paired together lots of times. the roysters were together in 4-6 consecutive matches and I was in the same kart race as doomblaze 6 times in a row

the stalling seemed to happen a lot more because the matches were 4 minutes long

Ok since most of you are big time nintendo fan boys i nned some help. I want to buy a DS with my winnings and some other gift card that totals to about $115. What is the difference between the nintendo DS oringal and the nintendo DS lite? What is the price difference? Should i buy a used DS risking that the screen is beat up? What are the best games especially for long car trips and library DS functions? If anyone could awnser these i would really appreciate it.

First of all, congratulations Mike for winning the Nintendo Revolution. Now that I've seen the system, I'm a little tempted to go out sometime and buy one for myself.

And to Bad Driver, I personally have a DS and I like it, but I suggest you buy a DS Lite, they are both the same price new at Gamestop. The only downside to the original DS I can think of is that GBA games stick out of the slot a little bit. For a long trip, get FF3, Animal Corssing DS, or Resident Evil DS (you too young for that...) I know that there are many games out there that I havn't mentioned but I'm too lazy to mention them.
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Submitted by TC Bad driver on Sat, 12/16/2006 - 7:51pm

how much are they i am trying to stay in a 115 dollar range for the game and system i can go over though. Thank you EBD

FJW wudnt have won without me i didnt kill him bout 4 times wit wizards and freezes and stuff
lol i have 3 dses!
im gona sell dis one on e-bay, cuz they go 4 like 150, and use that 2 buy a wii
and get a DS lite, its realllly bright and light (stated by the name) and u might want mario kart ds or new super mario bros, even tho its pretty short
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you do realize that a ds going for $150..... isn't true? but wow, you can try and feel better about getting third. you still won't get $150 for it.

and wow. FJW has to be the worst "pro" i've ever seen. that is to say, he's the worst of the best.

and as a matter of fact, i AM pissed off

: ) just saying

Lain, you're the one who should be worried about trying to feel better for yourself. Just because you could talk the talk but couldn't walk the walk doesn't mean that you should bash FJW just because he won, or Doomblaze because he said he could get $150 for it on eBay. You won the Clan Cup this year, whoopee for you. Don't become a jerk just because of it. It's not healthy.

Same goes for Pwnerer. Just because people won't lay down and 2-stock themselves for you doesn't mean you can be a jerk about it. You may think that your reputation precedes you, but it doesn't. Anyone can always beat you, that's why you actually play the games. If we did this all on reputation, we may as well have just handed the Royster Bros. the Wii and the DS. But we don't. So go home, practice, and come back next year and try again. But don't attempt to bring other people down just cause you couldn't back up your talk on here.

Also, Bad Driver, you're not going to get a DS and a game for $115. Since you said that you could go over, I would recommend the DS Lite. It is smaller, sleeker, and brighter, which are three advantages over the regular one. As far as games go, for long car trips, Tetris DS FTW. For AADL-GT functions, definitely get yourself a copy of Mario Kart DS, then maybe Star Fox Command or Advance Wars DS. Then maybe, if you can, get Metroid Prime: Hunters. (Mind you, I'm not saying you should get all of these at once, of course). If you are an RPG fan, then definitely also go for Final Fantasy III.

Finally, congratulations to everybody today, and especially to FJW. Also, condolences for johninabox, who finished fourth again, though at least this time he got a t-shirt for it :-P.
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Submitted by Hot_ArmS on Thu, 12/28/2006 - 10:54pm

cause im awesome
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