Elmhurst Toyota Rescheduled Gaming Night
Dates: April 26th

Location: Elmhurst Toyota/Scion 440 w. Lake street Elmhurst, Il. 60126

Setup: Playing Halo 3 and Rock Band 1st prize $500 each
Rockband players need Drummer and Guitarist only, Extra points for Vocalist and Bass.

Other games will be there to play for fun Madden, Super Smash Brothers Brawl

Qualifications: Must bring $10 worth of toiletries.


Songs: will be random

Prizes:1st $500, 2nd $200 ,3rd $50
Raffle for a Wii


Contact: John Williams (630)279-2160 at Elmhurst Toyota.
(need at least 50 Entrants per game)

Must provide Name, Phone #, and Email upon registration.

 

YEAH!!! ROCKBAND FTW!!!!

 

The Rules will be posted soon.

 

We're getting the band back together!

 

Since John gave me the okay to do this.... So here's the recent Info on it..

We moved the date to... SATURDAY, APRIL 26TH! @ 5pm

And here's a copy of the flyer..


And here's the rules of the two tourneys... -.-

Or click here...
http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fu...ogID=373156955

HALO 3 RULES!

- We’re hoping for a 64, or 128 players Tournament

-8 player Slayers (NOT TEAM SLAYERS) match on 4 tv’s (2 players per screen)
-But the TVs are donated. So there could be some with 16:9 screens or 4:3 screens.... and different sizes
-There’s going to be no seeding round. players will be randomly place in the brackets

-Players can bring their own controller, 360s, TVs, Monitors, headphones, speakers, etc....
-But can’t bring a keyboard and mouse... (I know it’s possible to play Keyboard and Mouse on Halo 3. Therefore banning it)

-Players can adjust their settings before the match.

-7min time limit

-Top 4 kills at the end of the match, advances to next round
-If tied for 4th. Kill/Death ratio will break it
-If that’s also tied, by the number of medals receive at the end of the match
-If that’s also tied for some reason.... ahhhhh.. LITTLE HELP HERE GUYS!?
-(I think they do that automatic, on who ranks on what at the end of the match)

-Maps will be announce at the day of the tournament

-The Winners of the Halo 3 Tournament will get...
-1st = $500
-2nd = $200
-3rd = $50

Rock Band Rules!

These rules are still under development... It won’t be final til the day of the tournament... So here’s a rough draft of what we have...

-Hoping to be a 16 (or 32???) team/band bracket...

-We’re going to use my XBox 360 copy of Rock Band... and donated equipment (guitars, drums, mic, controller, headset).. So whatever song I have on my 360 is legal for the tourney.... I’ll make a list of what I have later...

-Band vs. Band

-Players can bring their own guitar, drums, and/or Mics/controllers

-Drummer & Guitar is mandatory to compete. Vocals & Bass is optional (for extra points)

-Both Bands can pick a certain amount of songs depending on the round.
-For Round 1. Any songs under the.....
-WarmUp
-Apprentice
-Round 2
-Solid
-Moderate
-Quarter
-Skilled
-Challenging
Semi Finals
-Blistering
-Nightmare
-Finals
-Impossible

-coin toss determine who goes first

-Scoring.... (now this is complicated here)
-Players get to pick difficulty
-at the end of the song. We average out (ONLY!) Guitar and Drummer’s performance percentage
-depending on what difficulty they pick... They’ll get extra points... (note: this is still bring worked on)
-easy = 0
-medium = 1
-hard = 2
-expert = 3
-So, if the guitar player picks expert, while the drummer picks medium. That duo will get an extra 4 points
-If the team can survive with the Vocals and/or Bass. They’ll get an extra 1 points per extra member. A maximum of 2 points regardless of what difficulty they play in.
-Guitar/Bass/Drummer can also be the Vocals. and still get the extra points for it
-In case of a tied...... I gotta think of something here... -.-

-if the whole band fails a song (that includes vocals & bass). We’ll use the final percentage score they got at the fail point.

-The Winners of the Rock Band Tournament will get...
-1st place team= $500
-2nd place team= $200
-3rd place = $50
-Their’s going to be a 3rd place match for the semi-finals losers

OH YEAH! I forgot to post this!!!... WE'RE ALSO RAFFLING OF A NINTENDO WII! and other stuff.. An extra Raffle ticket will be $1....

And DON'T forget to reserve your spot with John!!!
(630)279-2160 ext. 202

Or with me
thesoulcrashcrew@gmail.com

We just need your Name, Phone #, and Email...

If you're competing in Rock Band... Let me know how many peeps are in your group, who they are... Go.. So I can reserve a spot for them... if you want to add in a band name.. Go right ahead!

 

Do the bands get to pick the songs they play from the above lists?

 

Depending on what round it is.. You can pick those songs that's under that category..

example...

For the first Round... I said Under the Warm Up, or Apprentice category... So you can pick... "Here it goes again" by Okay Go (Warm Up), "In Bloom" By Nirvana(Warm Up), "Should I stay or should I go" by The Clash (Apprentice), or "Buddy Holly" by Weezer (Apprentice)

If you want to get an idea what songs are under what category / tier...
Use the wikipedia link...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_songs_in_Rock_Band
Make sure you arrange it on Band lowest to highest...

 

Excellent! Thanks!

 

I'm about to reamp the Rock Band Scoring system since I personally didn't like how it turned out... so here's a rough draft of what I made up...

Since I didn't like how the scoring system was like on the first draft... I change it up a bit... so here's what I think might work... IMO..

I'm basing my adjustment from online play, my playing experience, and my people's intel....

rock band guitar & drums scores

expert = playing percentage times 1.5
hard = playing percentage times 1.35
medium = playing percentage times 1.2
easy = playing percentage times 1.0

(for the extra points / extra members)
rock band vocals

expert = playing percentage times 0.03
hard = playing percentage times 0.02
medium = playing percentage times 0.01
easy = playing percentage times 0.005

rock band bass

expert = playing percentage times 0.015
hard = playing percentage times 0.01
medium = playing percentage times 0.005
easy = playing percentage times 0.001

The reason why there's more extra points for vocals than bass is cause.. first off if you played the Rock Band, you already know what I'm talking about... if not.. I don't think I know anyone or online that can play vocals on expert that often.. While the bass looks too easy to play on expert....

So what you guys think???

 

Since I'm doing my best in getting the numbers that we wanted...

I made up this "commercial" for my youtube account
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7Kq0ScdCY4

 

Sorry for the delay. I just got F-up busy the last few days... Now I finally got most of the stuff finalize.

You can check out the "final" draft of the Halo 3 / Rock Band Rules.
http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fu...ogID=373156955
Or check on the first post

feel free to argue with me about my scoring ratio on this one.

But on the reserve side....
I only got 4 teams who already register for Rock Band. And only 1 (and it had to be a female) for Halo 3...... *face fall flat*

We just did a flyer drop last Friday afternoon, but damn it seems that some gamespots are **** about flyer drop... I still gotta contact the 3 colleges, and spam the hell out of my myspace friends.

That's it for my update.

 

Just to remind you guys that the event is THIS SATURDAY / Tomorrow... I hope to see some of you guys there.... we already have.... 8 teams? for Rock Band, and... 15 pre-reg sign ups for Halo 3....

Don't forget to ask me or look at Elmhurst Toyota's myspace page for the additional info...
http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fu...ogID=373156955

 

DAMN!! Can't believe my band didn't win! haha

It was a good time, and thanks for throwing the event. My only suggestion in the future would be to have the bands play the same song per round. That would even out the playing field.

 

^ Didn't I tell you that I fixed it so you couldn't win? MUAHAHAHAHA!!

 

The main reason why I perfer not sticking to the same song.. is.. 16 bands playing the one song... wtf.... it's an endless loop of... MY GOD THIS IS GETTING AS BAD AS ELEVATOR MUSIC!! I cant stand hearing the same song more than 30 mins...

but the "judging system" I'll full explain how it all came to be.... on the myspace blog.. later in the week... right now.. I got .... alot more stuff to do at home, and get my Supra ready for next month..

 

no what he meant was that since 2 bands play against each other to move on, those 2 teams should play the same song... that way it would be even...

in some cases, one band got the hardest song in the category and then the band that they are going against gets the easiest song in that category...

other than that it was fun... lagged at times tho... should definitely do more than 1 tv for the rockband

 

We would like to thank you all for coming out and supporting this event. Thanks for the donations for your donations and thank you for allowing Elmhurst Scion give you a place to unwind. Congrats to the Winners for both Rock Band and Halo. I would like to send a thank you to Ron"Soulcrash" for fighting with me on rules and setup and being a great help in promotion. Could not have done it without you. NOW GET STARTED ON THAT VIDEO!
Thank you to Scion Evolution for coming out to support, Now we begin to prepare for the Car Show. Aug. 24th.

 

I agree. I just meant in the same round, then that song would be off the list. Maybe a coin toss to see who decides what to play? Something like that?

 

Thanks for having us, John. It was a great turnout.