DDR Tournaments

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Could someone please tell me what DDR Tournaments are exactly and what do people win?I live in St. Louis MO, if there is anyone from that area on here can u tell me if there are any around us?And one last thing, how good do u have to be to get into one and are there different categories by age or by skill level?Thanks

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Name:Andrew Profile:http://www.stlpunk.com/u_profile.asp?userID=18378

[Daniel]

A DDR tournament is where willing participants compete to score the most perfects or put on the best free style routines. Most tournaments are Perfect Attack tournaments where the tournament is run elimanation style. Elimanation tournaments is where an even number of players are selected to compete for the most amount of perfects. The 2 players that scored the least are taken out and the remaining players strive to score the most amount of perfects again. This process continues until 1 of 2 remaining players has scored the most perfects.

Free style tournaments are entirely different matter. They are judged by humans in order to determine who put on the most difficult to perform show for the audience.

Tournaments are often broken into 3 parts. Part 1 players can only compete by playing songs in light mode. Part 2 players can only play standard mode songs. And of course part 3 is for heavy mode players.

I don't know where tournaments are held closest to your location. You may want to check out the tournament forum and look up your area. It's usually up to the DDR players in a given area to run a tournament. If you want to start 1, it's probably up to you. There are very few national DDR tournaments.

Take this all with a grain of salt. This information is really just to give you a basic understanding of the DDR tournament scene.

[diddrstrait]

a tournament is just that. a competition between a group of DDR players. usually there is an entry fee and the winner takes the largest percentage of the prize pot.

the best tournament strategy is to watch other players, be familiar with the format of the tournament, and exploit the weaknesses of others. I'll address all of these things one by one.

watch other matches when you aren't playing. you might end up against someone who isn't good at a song or a type of song. use that to your advantage. also, be familiar with what type of mods and songs the person likes to choose. Stay away from picking similar songs that other players do well on (like if someone nearly AAAs rain of sorrow, you definitely do not want to pick vanity angel on them later).

different tournies have different formats. some of them are cumulative (most perfects at the end of the round wins), while some are best 2 out of 3 (whoever gets the most perfects on a song wins that song...player who wins 2 out of 3 songs wins the match). I personally say away from 2 out of 3, as it doesn't suit my playing style, which I'll cover next.

Most of the players around here work on AAAing 9 foot songs and lower. as a person who has only been playing for a year, my experience with said songs is limited. BUT these same people rarely touch 10s, and some of them can't even pass the easier ones like max 300. that's a weakness of many of the players here (with the exception of a few). So what do I do now? I only play 10s. If someone picks afronova on me and they get 7 greats while I get 20, I'll be behind after that song in a cumulative tournament. BUT if I pick say, Maxx Unlimited and they barely scrape by with a C while I get 80 greats on it, I've just blown the perfect margin clear open. If they fail the song, typically their score doesn't count, and they don't have a chance of coming back on their last song. 2 out of 3 is bad for me in that case, because I could lose two songs and finish the round with more perfects and still lose the match.

that's a personal example of my tournament strategy and what I hope it develops to. Find your own tourney songs, and find what you're good at, as well as what you're not so naturally inclined to. If someone ever picks rain of sorrow on me in a tourney, I'm toast

[Captain Canada]

[Daniel]