Competitive DDR/ITG/Stepmania?

Well this is what I was thinking that a tournament would work. registered players would be notified by email or phone which custom songs will be used for the tournament. Give them enough time to practice the song, and THEN put them in front of a crowd against each other. As long as they aren’t aware of each others high score, they can be given an incentive to work as hard as possible on each song.

Such is the fate of many games from the arcade. At least DDR could still be found at D&B. Fighting game players were SOL in finding a nice looking Third Strike cab.

http://www.youtube.com/user/Smartguy323#p/u/74/B0tW2fma7sg

This was me back in the day running DDR Tournaments before I got involved in Street Fighter. At the end of the DDR era.

Check out the movie if you’re interested in competitive DDR you can see what it was like.
http://www.youtube.com/user/Smartguy323#p/u/78/-TynTRX7bFU is part 1 and you can find all the parts on there. This was a USC school film project. It’s a lot like the slew of documentaries we’re seeing now, only the new SF ones are even better.

Watching it now. Holy shit man you worked hard. Did your interest in DDR stop once you got involved in the fighting game community? Or did you just slowly move away from it after the early 2000’s?

Every edition that came out was more of the same, theres only so many step patterns you can make before you’ve seen em all. All that leaves is songs getting faster. It got kind of old.

Also I was getting older. I used to be able to play for hours on end, but since I started working at the arcade I had less time to play. Once I became manager, playing DDR on shift was really hard because you’d get too sweaty and that is never good. They brought in a CvS2 machine one day, and that became our competitive game of choice. We still played DDR after hours. Turning off all the machines in the arcade except for DDR and playing it at 2 AM was always fun, you don’t realize how loud the game is until its not drowned out by all the other machines.

Once I started playing CvS2 more, I started to get more involved with SRK (started CvS2 mid to late 2k3, lurked SRK and finally joined early 2k4) and starting doing fighting game tournaments instead, and DDR kind of fell by the wayside. I still like to go back and play a few songs now and then, and theres nothing that compares to pre 2K3 DDR when you’d step up on a machine at an arcade and draw crowds to watch you play. Back then beating Dynamite Rave on Heavy was like the epitome of success. How times change. Now you have to AA Max300 or you’re a noob.

Haha is this Edgar’s YT channel. Damn I miss the DDR/ITG scene in SoCal. KEYSTONES TOURNIES!!!

\Mio will probably post on here if he sees this thread.

Kinda missed the game but school and 3s consumes me back in 2005. :frowning:

These days, if you AA Max300 you’re STILL a noob. This is part of why I hated the ITG community so much, other than the games themselves being shit.

Some of the songs are still pretty timeless. Bored while working on school projects last fall and started listening to random DDR music. Found little gems like EPMD/Mantronik: Strictly Business.
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been playing IIDX since high school (now 24) and i’ve yet to clear all songs on another and above -______-

DDR X3 vs DDR 2nd mix bringing back all the licensed 2nd mix songs too. It -might- bring back that one too.

<–long time bemani / arrow stomper.

No way billy does valkyrie dimenion even compare to Vertexd^2 or even pandemonium, not counting all of the custom stuff. Though the return of stricty business and diving money and such with potential new charts will make me have to give X3 an extended whirl.

I’m very far off of the “competitive” side of these sorts of games. Although I’m proud to say I can comfortably clear charts such as Max 300 or Paranoia Survivor on a good day and on a good arcade cabinet, I cannot come close to “perfect” scores even with far easier stuff, let alone those. My enthusiasm for DDR/ITG initially stemmed from self improvement, but then I discovered the wonders of stepmania and mapping my own arrow patterns to custom songs. It’s srs business and all for some, such as myself (to the point I call the Valkyrie Dimension chart posted here abysmal), and making them over the years has left me thinking of arrows while I listen to music, which I shall consider a harmless consequence.

Holy shit. I used to go to 180. they had DDR tourneys here and everything, but no effing FGs. The only one i remember was virtua on and some DBZ game on ps1

awwww shit ddr talk? man this brings me back to the early 2000’s. ddrfreak used to be my shit.

ddrfreak was the gamefaqs of Bemani

BemaniX.com for life

that’s good source.

really? i actually never went on gamefaqs so i cant compare. But man i lived on that site and srk as a kid. loved to do ddr freestyles…once in a blue moon ill rock it on a ddr pad. its funny to still get crowds for ddr at the movie theater.

man i can’t believe that video is still around. i must have seen that like 10 years ago.

I assume people don’t like ITG because they didn’t want to adapt to mines/hands/rolls.

Most of the people in my area, along with myself, all enjoy ITG a lot more than DDR. With the ability to play customs, it allows us to push our limits even more.

And like maybe once or twice a year, someone will host a tournament for ITG here.

Competitive ITG/DDR? I don’t think that exists anymore, sadly.

However, I will say this.
ITG >>>>> DDR
Anyone who says otherwise is an idiot, straight up. You have to understand why ITG was created to begin with. Basically a bunch of hard core players were like “hey, I love DDR, but it has so and so issue”. ITG went ahead and fix anything wrong with DDR, and added a hell of a lot more mods to make the overall experience more challenging. Not only that, but the default ITG songs are way the fuck harder than DDR songs.

I remember seeing people play Max 300 and be like "OMGZ, UR SO GUUUUDDD!!"
Then, I moved into a big city with ITG… Max 300 isn’t even worth playing as a warm up song now.

Uploading custom songs are neat, a lot of top ITG players still make charts (even till this day) that are design for feet (you can tell when you see a keyboard chart). And I have to say, the custom charts make the game a lot more fun, for sure.

However…
ITG production soon stopped when Komani pulled a law suit and told them to stop making ITG.
Sucks, because ITG 3 was in the works, and it never got completed due to the law suit :frowning: