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Results: Rock Band 2
Mike posted in Events on December 6th, 2008

Thanks to everyone that came out to our Rock Band 2 event, especially all of the bands.

For those that weren’t able to make it, pictures were taken during the event. Only a small amount of the pictures taken during this event are on this page since we don’t want to kill your computer while this page loads.

You can view all of the low-res, low-quality images at once by going to this page: http://uwgamers.org/rb2-f08/

If you’d like to download all of the full-resolution, full-quality images, you can download this .RAR file (warning: it is 355MB) http://www.megaupload.com/?d=TNFZKPLA

If you’d only like a few of the images in high resolution, please email us by using the “Contact Us” tab at the top of the page. If you only want a few images, please provide the image name by right clicking on the image and selecting properties. You can just send the band’s name if you’d like all of the high quality images associated with that Band.

Setting Up.



Country Bear Jambaroo!



D3V



Flaming Icecubes



Embrace the Antiheart



Full-Assers



The Ink Blots



Ethni city



Rusty Kings



Judges

Final Results from the Rock Band 2 competition:
1st: Rusty Kings
2nd: Ethni city
3rd: Country Bear Jambaroo!

Thanks to all of the other bands that came out: Embrace the Antiheart, Full-Assers, D3V, Flaming Icecubes and The Ink Blots.

That’s it for this term. If you’d like to give your input on what the events should be for next term, you should come by our initial club meeting, which will take place at the beginning of next term. Check the normal sources of information (below) if you’re interested.

As always, if you want to stay current with the club’s events, you can either check out our forums, join our mailing list, or subscribe to the RSS feed for these front page posts

Rock Band 2 - Battle of the Bands
WebAdmin posted in Events on November 27th, 2008

It’s the end of term, and that means it’s time for Rock Band 2 - Battle of the Bands! If you already know how this event is run because you were here last term, there have been a few changes so you might want to read this anyway. The event starts at noon on December 2nd in the SLC Great Hall (if you’re participating, you’ll need to show up then), and runs until we’re finished which completely depends on the number of bands that sign up. You’ll play three songs, and bands can range in size from one to four people, but if you’re a band of one you’re going to be losing quite a few points unless you can play all four parts at once!

Contents:
*Our final event is coming up, Rock Band 2 - Battle of the Bands.
*What this event is all about
*Technical Score (400/1000)
*Costume Score (100/1000)
*Stage Presence (400/1000)
*Team Presence/Tilt (100/1000)
*Rental tracklist

Entrance fee is $5 per person, or $4 per person and a canned good for the Food Drive. Vocalists get in free, so every band should have one! The prize is currently a $100 gift certificate to Future Shop, but it may increase if a large number of bands show up. If you don’t want a Future Shop gift certificate, Christmas is coming up and you probably know someone who would appreciate it! More information about the scoring and technical stuff is below.

Signups for this event can be found here:
http://uwgamers.org/rb2-signup/index.cgi

Facebook event link:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=51382855655

(Top) == What this event is all about ==

This event is not just about being a good Rock Band 2 player, it is about being in a Rock Band (that happens uses plastic instruments). We’ll have a whole stage set up complete with speakers and stage risers. Your technical score (how good you did on the song according to the game) is only a portion of your final score. The rest of your score is decided by a panel of judges who grade you on Stage Presence, Costume, and Team Presence. The combination of all factors decides how you do. If you really don’t want to get up on stage and jump around, don’t worry! First of all, you could get someone you know to join your band and do the jumping around for you. If that’s not an option, be creative! Some bands don’t move around a lot while on stage, and your band could be one of those!

The next bits of information will be talking about scoring. I’ll be mentioning the scores as I go, but if you want to see a copy of the score sheet, you can get a copy right here:
http://uwgamers.org/rb2-signup/RockBandScoreSheet-Fall08.pdf

(Top) == Technical Score (400/1000) ==

First of all, your band will need to select three songs from Rock Band 2 to play. You can pick three songs from the “Rental Tracklist” at the bottom of this email, or you can bring in your own 360/PS3 with the songs you want to play already downloaded. After each song, each part will be given a score out of 100, based on how well it did. Note that it is per part and not per player, which means someone can play an instrument and sing at the same time while not negatively impacting your score (unless they screw up). If you complete a song perfectly, you get 100 points. From there, you get a bonus depending on which difficulty you played on (30 for expert, 20 for hard, 10 for medium, 0 for easy). That means if you played on expert and got perfect, you’d end up with 130/100 points. Each part is then added up to get you a score out of 400 (max 520/400 if everyone plays on expert and gets perfect). This occurs for the next two songs, and you get the average score of all three songs. Please note that if you fail a song you get 200/400 points for it and do not get a bonus.

(Top) == Costume Score (100/1000) ==

Now comes the fun stuff, as the technical score only accounts for 400/1000 total points. These next three categories are overall, and not per song. First up is costume, and it is worth 100 points of your total (25 per part). Costumes can be very subtle to incredibly obvious. If your costume selection is subtle, you can make it more obvious by choosing the name of your band or track list strategically. If your ‘costume’ is just what you happened to be wearing that day, you probably won’t get a lot of costume points. If all of your clothes are torn and have holes in them and you wear those, you would probably get points if you band was named “The Homeless” or similar. Be creative! You don’t have to spend money to make an amazing costume.

(Top) == Stage Presence (400/1000) ==

Next is Stage Presence, and is worth 100 points per part for a total of 400 points! This is everything you do while on stage, your entire performance helps contribute to this score! Things as simple as moving to the music as the song is playing can get you points here. This is the main section where creativity comes into play. Use of props, playing off your other band members, putting the guitar behind your head and playing, really anything you can think of to give a more entertaining performance can add to your Stage Presence. The more unexpected it is, the better! Be sure to read the code of conduct before you bring in fireworks to end your final song though.

(Top) == Team Presence / Tilt (100/1000) ==

Team Presence is the final scoring category, and is worth 100 points. This category rates how well you all did as a band, and also functions as a judge’s “tilt”, or how much they liked you. Everyone knowing how the song works is vital to Team Presence, as it allows you to work together by using multipliers at the proper time, and it helps you revive teammates at a safe time. All of these scores come together and give you a score out of 1000. Highest score wins.

(Top) == Rental Tracklist ==

At the event, we will have the following songs:
*Rock Band 2
*Rock Band 1 DLC
*Harmonix Track Pack
*Punk Pack 1 and 2 (on the PS3)
*20 free downloads (if the owner of the console is feeling generous)

If you have a song that you’d like to play, and it isn’t on the above list you can bring your own 360 or PS3 and play your song from that. We will also have a complete set of instruments, so don’t worry about bringing them unless you prefer yours, or have modified it to add to your costume or stage presence score.

There’s also a Code of Conduct that you will have to agree to when you come to register, it can be found here:
http://uwgamers.org/rb2-signup/RockBandRulesOfConduct-Fall08.pdf

Once again, you can signup for the event here:
http://uwgamers.org/rb2-signup/index.cgi

Facebook event link:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=51382855655

As always, if you want to stay current with the club’s events, you can either check out our forums, join our mailing list, or subscribe to the RSS feed for these front page posts

Brawl Tournament - Registration now open
Mike posted in Events on November 14th, 2008

Our Smash Bros. Brawl tournament is taking place on Wednesday November 19th from 5pm to midnight in the SLC Great Hall. (NOTE: Our article in mathNEWS says it starts at 5am, but even we are not crazy enough to start a tournament that early.) This will be a singles tournament, no teams this time. Sign ups for the tournament are now open, you can find it here: http://uwgamers.org/signup/F08Smash/

If you are going to come out to the tournament, please register as soon as possible. It makes it easier on us, which in turn makes the event run smoother so it is easier for you in the end.

The ruleset for this tournament is what we refer to as a “hardcore” ruleset. The rules are as follows:

• Mandatory $5 entry fee
• Three Stock
• Eight minute time limit for every game
• If time runs out, the winner is the one with the most stock. When the amount of stock is even, the winner is the one with the least percent. Sudden death decides matches where stock and percent are equal.
• All items are off
• First match the stage is random, the remaining matches the loser picks.
• Only stages deemed “neutral stages” can be randomly selected. A larger amount of stages can be selected as counter-picks.
• Best two out of three
• Swiss round robin (lose three times and you’re out) occurs at the beginning to reduce the number of entrants down to 16.
• Double Elimination will occur with the remaining 16 entrants.
• Bring your own controller if possible, the loaner controllers may not be the best quality.
• Glitches that have the potential to stop the match for the entire 8 minutes are not allowed (such as Metaknight’s infinite cape). If you don’t know what those glitches are, don’t worry because they’re banned!

Prizes (all values in Future Shop gift certificates):

• 1st $50
• 2nd $25
• 3rd $10
• 4th $5

Neutral Stages & counter-picks

• Check here for the list

As always, if you want to stay current with the club’s events, you can either check out our forums, join our mailing list, or subscribe to the RSS feed for these front page posts

Don’t Study
Mike posted in Events on October 27th, 2008

Don’t Study is coming up. It’s our portable systems event, so bring your DS, PSP (or whatever you use) and come play portable games with others. If you’d like to try to co-ordinate games, come check out our forums to see if others will be games that you like to play. This event will take place on Wednesday October 29th, and runs from 4pm until midnight in the SLC Great Hall.

There’s a great opportunity for linked co-op and head-to-head portable gaming, so if you haven’t been able to find people to play with, this is the event for you. We will have Pokemon Battle Revolution on a projector as well.

As always, if you want to stay current with the club’s events, you can either check out our forums, join our mailing list, or subscribe to the RSS feed for these front page posts

Fight On (Fall 08) - Results
Mike posted in Events on October 19th, 2008

Fight On is over now, thanks to everyone who came out and made this event a success. Special thanks to Bill who ran all four of the mini-tournaments throughout the night.

Results of those mini-tournaments are as follows:

Soul Calibur IV (PS3) - 7 Entrants

1st - John (lost to nobody)
2nd - Josh (lost to John x2)
3rd - Troy (lost to John, Josh)

Guilty Gear XX: Accent Core (PS2) - 9 Entrants

1st - Terrance (Robo-Ky) (lost Andy)
2nd - Andy (Faust) (lost to Terrance x2)
3rd - Joseph (Anji?) (lost to Terrance, Andy)

Street Fighter 3: Third Strike - 10 Entrants

1st - Chun (Chun Li) (lost to nobody)
2nd - Yang (Chun Li) (lost to Daniel, Chun)
3rd - Daniel (Elena) (lost to Chun, then had to leave)

Tekken 5: Dark Ressurection - 4 Entrants

1st - Henry
2nd - Andrew
3rd - Bobby
4th - Matt / Team Matt

More detailed information and full brackets can be found in the Fight On results thread on our forum. Videos will be posted eventually.

As always, if you want to stay current with the club’s events, you can either check out our forums, join our mailing list, or subscribe to the RSS feed for these front page posts

Fight On
Mike posted in Events on October 11th, 2008

Fight On is coming up! It will be taking place at 4:30 in the SLC Great Hall on Thursday October 16th. We’ll have all sorts of fighting games around, so don’t forget!

Four Mini-Tournaments are going to be held throughout the night. There will be an entry fee of $1 per tournament, and there will be prizes.

Mini-Tournaments

• 5:30 - Soul Calibur 4
• 7:00 - Guilty Gear Accent Core
• 8:30 - Street Fighter 3: 3rd Strike
• 10:00 - Tekken 5: Dark Resurrection

This event isn’t just about the mini-tournaments, anyone will be able to play fighting games all night! Only a few TVs will be taken up by the mini-tournaments, so other games will be played even when tournament matches are going. Not sure if your favourite game will be represented? Check the list below.

Games

• Soul Calibur Series
• Guilty Gear Accent Core and XX-Reloaded
• Tekken 5: Dark Resurrection
• Dead or Alive 4
• Street Fighter 3: 3rd Strike
• Marvel vs Capcom 2
• King of Fighers XI
• Arcana Heart
• Virtua Fighter 5
• Smash Bros

As always, if you want to stay current with the club’s events, you can either check out our forums, join our mailing list, or subscribe to the RSS feed for these front page posts

Fight On Planning
Mike posted in Events on October 7th, 2008

The fighting game event, Fight On, will be taking place in the SLC Great Hall on Thursday October 16th from 4:30pm until midnight. To plan for this event, we have a meeting scheduled for Wednesday, October 8th in AL209 from 5:30pm to 7:30pm.

Most aspects of the event will be finalized during this meeting, so if you want your opinion heard this is the time to do it. If you have a game that you’d really like to see at the event, a console that you’d like to bring, or if you feel like debating whether or not Smash Bros. is a fighting game, come on out to the meeting.

As always, if you want to stay current with the club’s events, you can either check out our forums, join our mailing list, or subscribe to the RSS feed for these front page posts

Smash of the Ages :: Omegathon
Markster posted in Events on March 11th, 2008

Our end of term celebration!

We’re going to have a Smash of the Ages tournament, and an Omegathon!

Sign up for either/both tournaments here.

Omegathon
Tuesday, April 8th, SLC Great Hall
A gauntlet of classic and new games, designed to highlight the most awesome of all gamers!
A gift certificate for the top gamer of all!
FREE entry!

List of games to be played:

Prelims Round 1 (4 player games)
N64: Mario Kart 64
PC: Unreal Tournament
Dreamcast: Powerstone 2
Wii: Warioware: Smooth Moves

Prelims Round 2 (2 player games)
NES: Dr. Mario
SNES: Killer Instinct
Genesis: Sonic the Hedgehog 2
PS2: SSX 3; Twinkle Star Sprites
Xbox360: Beautiful Katamari
Arcade: Pop’n'Music

Round of 16
N64: Bomberman 64

Round of 8
PC: Worms 2

As usual, the final games played by the final four will be kept secret until the tournament!

Smash of the Ages
Monday, April 7th, SLC Great Hall
A three tier tournament featuring all three Smash Bros games!

Rules:

• Triple Elimination Swiss Round Robin until the field is reduced to 8 players
• Optional $5 entry fee
• Non-paying entrants not eligible for prize
• The game to be played by contestants (64, Melee or Brawl) will be determined randomly during the round robin
• ALL items on (medium drop rate)
• ALL levels on (no custom stages in Brawl)
• 5 stock for 64, 4 stock for Melee, 3(?) stock for Brawl

During final eliminations (top 8 players)
-higher seeded player picks first game (64, Melee, Brawl)
-loser of the first game picks 2nd game (cannot be same as first game)
-3rd game will be played as a tiebreaker (remaining prequel/sequel)

*All rules subject to change as necessary*

Smash Bros Brawl Release Party!
Markster posted in Events on February 28th, 2008

Nintendo decided to make you wait 39 days.

But it is finally coming. And we’ll be there to celebrate.

Monday, March 10th

The day after Brawl comes out, we’re throwing our Brawl Launch party!

UW Gamers Movie Night!
Markster posted in Events on February 14th, 2008

In association with Mathsoc, UW Gamers is having Video Game Movie night!

We plan to show video game movies, and play the video games they were based on at the same time!

Movies to be shown:

Street Fighter @ 5 pm
Doom @ 7 pm
Silent Hill @ 9 pm

(okay, so we don’t have movies picked yet. If you want to help fuel the hotly debated discussion, check out the forums!)