What: Guitar Hero III Competition and Food Drive
Where: Lombard Scion
725 W ROOSEVELT RD LOMBARD, IL 60148
Phone: 800-810-1380 Fax: 630-629-0120
When: March 21st 7PM
Platform: PS3

Bring your canned goods for entry and be ready to play! We will have 2 PS3's setup for a Guitar Hero competition.

Grand prize is $500 cash (Visa Gift Card)!!!!
2nd place iPod Touch!!!!1111one
3rd place iPod Nano!!!!111one

To enter, bring some canned goods to Lombard Scion on March 21st at 6:30pm. We will be providing the hardware to play on, so don't bring your own guitar.

Rules:

* Must be 18 or older to compete
* We must have a minimum of 10 player's signed up (per mode).
* No vulgur or trash talk, or any other unnecessary statements will be tolerated during any competitors play time. This may result in disqualification, and/or you may be asked to leave.
* No stopping, or pausing during songs either accidental or otherwise, this may result in disqualification.
* A player may not cause any damage to any property, and will be held responsible.
* No cheating will be tolerated and will result in immediate disqualification.
* Hyper Speed will be turned off.

************NEW UPDATE**********************

Ok, so we're changing up the format a bit. My apologies, I'm noob in GH (I play some mean drums in Rockband though! :D )

Anyways, here's the deal:

We going to have two competitions: One Hard Mode, one Expert Mode.

Both competitions are Battle Mode, 1 song elimination.

Everyone is paired at random to start then we seed from there (first vs lowest, second vs second to lowest, etc)

Grand Prizes are as follows:

Hard Mode (One Winner): iPod Nano

Expert Mode: 1st place: $500 Visa gift card
2nd place: iTouch

Anyways, sorry for the confusion!

 

Thanks for the sticky mods!

 

i really hope ppl come out for this, regardless of whether or not you like guitar hero, droppin off some canned goods couldnt hurt your wallets...

 

I'm down, and I'll bring lots of canned goods!

 

bringing some carrots?

haha... cool!

 

bump!

Mod: Could you please re-sticky this? When I edited my original post, it removed the sticky.

 

You kids are your damn games lol. At least it aint a freakin Halo competition.

 

UPDATED PRIZE LIST!!

mods, please sticky....again. :D

 

BUMP!!! This is tomorrow and I updated the competition format to something a bit more fun.

Thanks!

 

Ummm, battle mode isn't more fun... song battless can last only a few seconds. Most people that play this game a lot don't like battle mode at all! It's completely random what kind of icons you pick up and isn't really a true test of skill.

If it really is going to be 1 song battle elimination, this contest will be about 30 minutes long.

Maybe you could have a battle mode tournament (hard) and a pro face off tournament (hard early rounds, expert final rounds).

 

Well, this is the first of what will be several throughout the year. For now, we're going to try this format, but like anything else, this can be changed.

I like your idea of tournament face off, and I will try and incorporate that into the next competition.

For now, this is what we are going to roll with as it's already been planned and set.

On the bright side: if it's going to be 30min long, that's like getting paid $1000/hr if you show and win. :D

 

Hey that's cool, I'm going either way, since it's for a good cause, but some more feedback - when you do battle mode, there's no scoring in the game, so you won't be able to seed the players in subsequent rounds. It's either you win or you lose.

Edit: I think they do give you % notes hit at the end of the battle, so I guess you can use that number...

 

Yeah, we may adjust the rounds to best 2 outta 3 depending on how many ppl show.

 

good job with running the tournament and a great decision to switch it to pro face off. Lots of giveaways and kudos for having pizza and soda for everyone! I had a blast. I would have stuck around longer and maybe have gone bowling but my wife was home sick.

Peace!
Expert #8

 

Thanks to everyone who came out! It was a great time! Let us know if there's anything we could improve for next time. We plan on throwing plenty more of these events in the future.

 

medium? haha jk!

 

how did it go? how many peeps showed up? what were the high scores?

 

We had ~20 competitors (10 Expert, 10 Hard). I can't remember what the high score was, but the guy was truly awesome.

 

the guy that won got over 300,000 on expert playing the dragonforce song. forgot the name.

 

was there a decent mix in skill level though or were most of the people pretty good? that is what i would be worried about having a contest in the area here. 300K on expert is really tough esp on that song. what were the people scoring on hard?