STsung’s Blog

The European Championships in Machine Dance is over and now we all upload photos and videos and write reports. It will take some time till everything will be online.

The final results of the tournaments are ready for donwload =>

EC 2008 Results

Our Photos From EC ‘08

Ok, well the official information is finally here. The Eurocup will be held at Silverstone as we hoped. The date is 14. – 16. March 2008. There will be tournaments in ITG2 (Dedicabs/Multiplayer).

If you come by you can also play DDR Extreme and PIU Prex3 if interested. Not to mention a nice pinball hall and many other things (lasergames, karting etc.)

The address is => Silverstone, Weerenweg 21-23, 1161 AE Zwanenburg, The Netherlands
You can find more information about Silverstone at http://www.silverstone.nl/

Watch this video, the end with Twilight on Expert is magnificent. This would be impossible in my country….

ITG Multiplayer

Sincerely, after failing this song twice and one clear there was so much sweat that I could bathe in it (ok, I’m kidding but the sweat was pouring from me….-_- and my feet hurt as hell)

Pandemonium [hard]

Well, after partly recovering from an illness I wanted to start to play ITG once more. But single didn’t make me happy that much. My results were worse than ever. So I decided to play double (two people in the Czech Republic are trying their luck with it - so I joined them).

I took my CF pad and put it a little bit near the bed and I put an impact dance pad just next to my CF. Quite wierd combination I told myself but why not try it?The first problem I encountered was ofcourse the soft/hard pad problem. The second one was that the CF is actually higher positioned than the impact pad (this bothers me quite a lot - my right leg has to do much more work then the other one). Also there is a danger of tripping over both of the pads (I managed both already). But all this did not discourage me enough to play.

So have a look at Lemming on the run [hard] on double on my setup^_^

Youtube => Lemming on the run [hard]

Anyway after a while I found out that I can play on hard but expert is quite difficult with the impact pad sliding quite far away from my hardpad. Also the difference in height is much more felt while playing expert. …*sniff*
But anyway I will at least keep to play some hard songs. Hehe.

Today I managed to get over ten thousand peak combo for the third time in my life. This time, I didn’t get it on my PS2^_~. So the combo is up on Groovestats.

Lately we’ve been discussing why people in the Czech Republic can’t get high scores on easy songs or even heavy songs. People said mostly that it’s because foreign people have so much time that they can play all day and all night. Also they said it’s a question of arcades and Cobalt Fluxes. And the last think stated was concurrence.

What I think about that? I think that it’s not a question of free time nor Cobalt Fluxes. I don’t know too many people having them so…A question of free time? Well, I know many people going to arcades once per week and they can AA ninefooters and AAA the rest (not counting in ten footers+). The answer could be somewhere in the arcades issue…

Anyway I went to our local arcades. It’s a real crap-o-cab with ITG1. I got some 97% scores so it’s doable but I have to say that it’s off and the screen is bad (low results for me). People don’t get high scores on this machine. I still hold the highest score on the machine. There were new scores on the machine since I went there last time, so it seems that from time to time people go there and play.

Cobalt Flux issue…well people have here home made pads from one person. Those pads are not bad, neither are the best. I would never pay for it, neither I would play on it. I would prefer playing on Impact Dance pad. Anyway you can get high scores on this pad no problem as I AAAed quite a lot of DDR songs on StepMania on it and I got most of my triple stars in ITG on it too. The pad is still in development so we still have to see how it will be.
But anyway you can get high scores on any kind of pad. (even a Deluxe Ignition Pad, at least I can do that).

The last thing they stated was that there is a concurrence abroad. It seems that I am no concurrence to them and also it seems that everybody here thinks that there are no players at all. I know about one player who plays all the time and wants to get better. He got better and is actually good when playing easy songs. But he will eventually clear more difficult songs and get better on them. But there are other players who can clear ten footers even though they don’t do this often and their PA is bad.

What do you think? What the reason could be?

Anyway I got that AAA on Mahou no Tobira today - First try.

At the same convention as the ParaPara performance was done, there was a Czech National Tournament in Dance Dance Revolution and In The Groove.

It was played on a Cobalt Flux, PS2 and a TV.

People weren’t happy about playing a DDR tournament but some people signed in and we could play. We were supposed to play 2 songs from DDR SN and 2 songs from DDR EXT2. It was the dance points which counted not percents or the actual score.

Most of us played DoLL and Shivers from SN and Sweet Sweet Magic and As the rush comes from DDR EXT2.

The ITG tournament was played on the same configuration. Only the game changed to ITG PS2.
One player from Slovakia didn’t manage to tip toe o a CF and other people complained about getting pad misses (way offs) on the pad. Especially a pad builder who wants to start selling his pads abroad.

Well, anyway I won the ITG tournament with 97% overall, the rest of the people with big difference behind. The same was for the DDR tournament but as the evaluation was based on dance points the difference wasn’t that big (400 pts from me and the person who got second place).

Today at noon a small Czech In The Groove tournament took place in Chotebor.
Four songs were played and the scores were summed up. The one with most percent won the tournament.

The first song was Drifting Away Hard. I don’t like this song but my FA on this song is quite good.

The second song was a shock for everybody. We played Go 60 Go and it seemed that I was the only one who actually played that song before (on hard difficulty). People couldn’t believe that there can be really green arrows in a stepchart.

The third chosen song was Kagami Expert which wasn’t a good choice for some but for one person it was the only ten footer he could master.

The last song was there to make the biggest gap between the second and first place. Random chose us Utopia. I end up as the only person who could pass this song no bar and without problems so even if I wouldn’t be winning all the time it could made me win.

It’s been always like this. When someone wants to get a star he gets 95.86, when he wants to get a double star he gets like 97.98 and when I want to get a triple star I got this 98.97. I have to add that my last arrow was an excellent because I thought that it would end with a freeze but I was mistaken…*sniff*

I wouldn’t mind if this would be for the first time, but I got this already several times…I tried playing Charlene three times today. I got one excellent more the second time and on my final stage I got 3 excellents more so I didn’t get those nice three stars.