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DDR Team League Proposal
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Posted by Wildfireskunk on Wed 07th May 2008 09:55:41 BST
News Source: Inhouse (www.ddruk.com)
Good morning everyone! How are we all today? Today I come with a proposal for a team league for the DDR teams that exist around the UK, that will hopefully create the oppurtunity for some new ones to pop up too. It's nothing overly complex, but it should be a fun yearly competition that spans likely over the course of 9 months or so. Below are the details I've written up. Thanks to Shadowman for help in thinking this up, and I wish for people to read the idea and comment with questions, critisisms, and more importantly tell me if you'd do it, as if I get no interest I won't. <blockquote><smallfont>Quote: </smallfont><hr />DDR UK Team Tournament League The first and most obvious thing about this is that it requires you to be in a team. There are already a few teams established here in the UK at the moment, but I feel that nothing is being done for teams in terms of events for them to go to. We have the big singles tournament going on at the moment but that's it. So I've decided to do my job by putting forward a plan for either early next year or later this year, to setup a Team League for those who want to bring there teams into competition with the others around the country. Now, what I'm hoping to see here is the current teams get all excited about the idea, and for other people to perhaps form teams for themselves to enter. Team play with friends not only helps you get better quicker, it's also a lot more fun to play with other people, and of course the socialising doesn't have to stop just at DDR <img src="/smile/happy.gif" border="0" alt=":-)" /> So, how would this work? Well, here's the basics of what I wish to do. League Table Anyone here a football fan? Me neither. But even so, I know that they have a pretty good thing going down with how they sort out all their games. 20 teams, each teams plays every other team twice (once at their home ground, once at the other teams home ground), with 3 1 or 0 points being awarded for wins draws and losses respectively. Points are updated after every game and by the end of it all you have a table of all the teams, top to bottom, in order of how they did against everyone. That seems to work for most competetive team sports if you ask me, so why can't we apply it to DDR? The only issue here (and possible downfall of the plan) is that teams would have to travel several times throughout the year in order to compete at other players 'home grounds', but the dates will be announced well in advance so you can book tickets early and get them for cheap. Plus, it's not like you'd be travelling around merely to compete with other players. We're all nice guys here and I'm sure many teams after their match would have a nice afternoon in a pub/at the arcade/around the city of the home team with them, making a good day out of it right? So that's how it would work, which means it would be time to define some things! Teams Now in order for this to work all the teams would first of all have to be standardized. Which means something like... A team will consist of 4 players, with 1 or 2 'backup' players incase of injury, or someone in the 1st team being unable to attend for other reasons, if the team thinks they might be needed. Now yes I know that will come as a blow to some of the teams already around since you may already have more than 4 active players, but this is not a disaster! A '1st team' would have to be chosen before each match from the full team roster, with the rest of the team being backups incase of injury/cheerleaders/mascots (they obviously won't be forced to travel though if they don't want). Thus in this case every player has a chance to be used, but unlike a team made up only of 4 people, not everyone will necissarily have to attend every game. Another idea could be for big teams to split themselves down into a couple of league teams for the season. For instance, The Portsmouth Contingent could have... Team 1 - Scott, Sam, Mike, John Team 2 - Matt, Chris, Josh, Dave And that would be fine. For those of you who would like to create a team, keep it between 4 and 6 members only. All football teams have extra players incase of unforseen circumstances, so an allowance of an extra 2 seems fair to me for teams just starting out. All full team lists (a list of all the players in the team) would be published at the start of the 'season', and only the players on those first lists would be allowed to be used by the team. e.g - Tom, Bob, Naomi, Kevin, and Kimberly are the l33t DDR cru. A few games into the season a new good player (Toby) moves into town and joins their group and team. That's fine, but unfortunately due to Toby not being around at the start he would not be allowed to participate on behalf of the team for any of their tournaments. He will just have to wait till next year... So yeah. Team = At least 4 players, and only those on the published team lists can play the season. Tournament Style Quite an important bit. Being that the old usual knockout style is used for eeeeeverything, it won't be used here. Meaning that we have some other options to consider! So far, from the depths of my thoughts my favourite idea is this one... - The tournament will work like so. 24 songs shall be played over the course of the tournament, and they shall all be selected at random. Once the random song has been selected the teams both have 20 seconds to confer, and nominate a player to play the random song. They both tell the judge (as not to influence the other teams choice), and a vs match happens between the chosen pair. The winner of the song (Based on high score, dependant on machine type) earns a point for their team and all is well. To make this fair, each player in the team will only be able to be picked 6 times, meaning that everyone in the team has to plays equally. So tactical picks will be essential! At the end of the 24 songs the team with the most points is the winner, huzzah! And if there's a draw? Another random song is chosen and in the same manner as before, someone in the team is nominated to play it... sudden death! I like to think of that one kinda like The Crystal Maze, only you don't get locked in if you fail the song (although....). And we don't have to be fixed on 24 songs, there is space for change. I just thought that would take a nice amount of time. Usable machines Now for this I'm thinking any kind of machine should be usable. That way we aren't discriminating against teams who's only home ground machine is a Dancing Stage Fusion or similar. As long as the machine is in an arcade, is a DDR/DS/ITG machine, and is working fine, then I think a team should be able to use it as their home machine. Similar to the team list, the local ground and machine will be required in the team signup forms, and will be the one that will be used. And that is how I see it working... So who's up for this? Spread the word! Plan new teams for UK domination! Let's see some response and discussion!<hr /></blockquote> The end <img src="/smile/happy.gif" border="0" alt=":-)" />

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Tasty new update for Audiosurf
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Posted by Kazz on Tue 06th May 2008 14:34:12 BST
News Source: Eurogamer

Audiosurf has been given some shiny new features that I'm sure you'll love. <blockquote><smallfont>Quote: </smallfont><hr />Most of the features added were suggested by fans of the game, and include Last.fm "audioscrobbling", being able to run the game as a music visualiser and the option to comment on scoreboards. There is also a mod interface available for you creative types, although this has been usable in beta form for a while - the Audiosurf forum has a list of what has been made so far. The Audiosurf update will be applied automatically when you load the game via Steam.<hr /></blockquote> The update will include the following fixes and adds (thank you <a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/05/06/audiosurf-gets-a-free-audioscrobblin-update/" target="_blank"><img src="/smile/icon_arrow.gif" border="0" alt="Arrow">Joystiq</a>!) --last.fm audioscrobbling --Comments tab on every song's scoreboard --Customized player news on the song loading screen (when friends last played, songs you're champion of, etc...) --Command interface for 3rd party mod apps (extensions) --New hover vehicle for Eraser Elite --Added Vegas ability: generate a random powerup every 60 seconds --You can play freeride as a music visualizer on your desktop while other applications are running, and it will automatically advance to the next song in your current folder or current m3u playlist --Improved Strategy Guide look --Eraser Elite now has 8 rows of tiles (like Pusher Elite) --Score browser now refreshes popular songs when you first open it --Added blending to top and bottom black frame in gameplay --Add a graphic to display your chain reaction multiplier at the bottom of the screen --Longer-lasting fireworks on enhanced detail --Maximum song length extended to 60 minutes --Made additional texture mods possible (tiles, tileflyups, cliff) --If you put a traffic.png file in the textures folder it will be used for traffic instead of blocks --Going back in song browser remembers mousewheel scroll position --Sound effect theme is saved between play sessions --Checkbox added to stop being shown character videos --Added OK button to the loading/news page. Gives you more time to read the news on the loading page if you want it --No longer automatically goes fullscreen when maximizing --X360 controller can now pause/resume play with the Start button

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