Drum Hell 2 - Jan 2-4 2009 OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASE

**Phr34k** · Last edited by Phr34k on Sat Dec 27, 2008 4:24 am; edited 4 times in total

Drum Hell 2: Guinness World Record Breaking Charity Event
It takes a special kind of skill, dedication, and maybe a touch of insanity, to do a video game marathon. But on January 2nd when Sean “H2O Phr34k” Feica and Calin “H2O Someguy913” Scoggins sit down and begin drumming through Rock Band 2 on expert to support the United Way Foundation, this performance will be in a league of its own.
The event is called Drum Hell 2, and the concept is simple. The two gamers will compete against each other side by side in the popular Xbox 360 video game title “Rock Band 2” on simulation drum kits. To date, the game has over 530 songs, and for this event Feica and Scoggins will be battling through every single one - on the most challenging difficulty available. In order to capture the world record and finish every song, they’ll need to rock out for up to 60 hours straight!
For those not familiar with the Rock Band video game, throughout each song, colored representing notes will fall vertically on the screen. The notes are derived from the audio track, and the drummers score points based on how accurately they play the falling notes. Missed notes distort the soundtrack, so in essence the drummers actually play the music. Many songs have thousands of notes, so both Feica and Scoggins will be testing the very limits of their endurance over the weekend.
The concept behind Drum Hell isn’t entirely new. Back in July, Feica, who goes by the nickname “H2O Phr34k”, decided to test his mental and physical stamina by running his first “Drum Hell” session, a marathon of 26 hours that took him through every available song (235 including downloadable content) in the original Rock Band title. As one of the top drummers on the game, his greatest battle was maintaining quality performance in spite of exhaustion.
By the conclusion of the event, Feica picked up a world record, several new record game scores, and quite a few fans. But exhausted as he was, plans were already in the works for the sequel event, Drum Hell 2 – which will be held on January 2nd, 2009 and streamed live over the internet to viewers worldwide.
Everything has increased in magnitude for Drum Hell 2; the song list has more than doubled in size (to over 530!), the event is estimated at over 60 hours, and Feica is bringing in another one of the best Rock Band drummers in the world to compete with him for a new world record. Scoggins, known in game as “H2O Someguy913” currently stands second overall worldwide for Rock Band 2 drums, and has held the #1 title several times in the past.
For Drum Hell 2, both players will be using custom designed electric drum kits. Both drummers will be taking donations to support the United Way, and viewers will be able to watch the competition live online at http://drumhell.pmsclan.com/

**meister** · Joined: 09 Nov 2006 Posts: 2257 Location: St Cloud, MN

All with no sleep? And since its so long I'll be sure to watch

I hope I see the ending
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**beingmused** · Joined: 13 Dec 2007 Posts: 2475 Location: Boston, MA

It seems needlessly difficult to play everything in ascending difficulty order...playing every song in a row is absurdly amazing as it is, even if you were to sort it in a different manner (alphabetic by band so you can play albums in order, for instance).

It just seems like more likely of a success - and no less of a feat - to not cram the most absurdly difficult drum songs all in together.

**Skr33** · Joined: 29 Jul 2008 Posts: 79

Damn, This AND Infinivent within the same like week or so...

These sort of things are becoming commonplace, aren't they?

That's just plain awesome, and I hope you don't die Phr34k.

GOOD LUCK!!
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**Catalanowned** · Joined: 20 Mar 2008 Posts: 1526

Fuck... there's probably going to be close to 550 songs at that point. I'll have to try to catch most of the impossible tier.

**factotum** · Joined: 17 Nov 2007 Posts: 31 Location: nowhere, ca

that is insane. i'll try and tune in. best of luck, and stay healthy throughout.
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**soccerkeeper212** · Posted: Tue Dec 02, 2008 6:50 pm Post subject:

No sleep? I'd get through 20 songs and then fail and take a nap.
Sleep the whole day before, and pray that your drums don't break on the last song.

**FrankieB** · Joined: 27 Nov 2006 Posts: 3413 Location: Lexington, KY

Phr34k you should totally have your sponsors, I dunno fly out one or two of your fellow Starpower Podcast hosts to assist you with this event by providing massages, drink and food and what not >___>
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**IWillKickU** · Joined: 06 Dec 2007 Posts: 2830 Location: In the Undertow

I've been sooooo physched about this ever since Sumdrumathon! I think I know what the special announcement is going to be, but I'll keep my mouth shut if it's a secret ;)

**MHSTenor09** · Joined: 29 May 2007 Posts: 825 Location: Seattle, WA

**Macaron11** · Posted: Tue Dec 02, 2008 10:46 pm Post subject:

Make the last song Alive, best fucking finale song ever.

And obviously, YOU'RE STILL ALIIIIIIIVEEEE HEYYY-E-AY-E-AAAAAAAAHHHH HAAAAAAA

Also will be good, since last time was Still Alive.

I will be watching, again, maybe 10,000 viewers? $2000 raised from donation? Elliot coming over? I love you Phr34k.
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**ES942** · Joined: 02 Mar 2006 Posts: 3445 Location: Snalbans

Nah, last song should be Won't Get Fooled Again. Just like last time. Except this time, he got fooled into doing it again.

**Strykerx** · Joined: 02 Jul 2007 Posts: 3110 Location: Pants

Technically, the last song should be "Last"

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**internetguy87** · Joined: 27 Mar 2008 Posts: 3505 Location: Pittsburgh, PA

Yeah, there are all those ending songs.... Last, Dead, Alive, Still Alive, Afterlife... but Won't Get Fooled Again is just so much more epic =).... although FP/LT is almost as epic.
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**buMf00d** · Joined: 21 May 2006 Posts: 863 Location: Netherlands

Props to you for doing this again Sean. I've watched most of Drumhell one and I'm going to be supporting you all the way! I'll more than gladly help out with keeping track of the topic in the chat and keeping the chat clean

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