MTV/Harrah's Tourney: Rofl Mao wins!

**niq24601** · Joined: 07 Jul 2008 Posts: 323

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Qualifiers have now ended. If you won your regional qualifier and want me to give a shout out to your band, as well as a link to their twitter/youtube/myspace page, send me a PM or add a reply.

For the winning bands, here is the remainder of the tournament in Atlantic City July 1-2.

Day 1: everyone plays 1 song of their choice. 4 bands are picked based on a combination of score and judging.
Day 2: the remaining 4 bands play 1 song of their choice and 1 song randomly chose from 6 possible songs..
Cash money for the top 4 bands. Everyone who makes it to Atlantic City gets free tickets to see Ringo Starr on 7/3 and a free copy of Green Day: Rock Band.
Scoring in Atlantic City is 1/3 style (costumes), 1/3 performance, and 1/3 points, based on the percentage of possible points. "possible points" is based on the 1st place score on XBL as of 6/30. So if you do Holy Wars and get 2.2M while another band FBFCs Float On with an optimal path, they'll get more points than you. Of course for the recent DLC the 1st place score won't be that hot.

Here's the unofficial nationwide leaderboard. All scores over 2 million will make leaderboard. I'll update it at least every Wednesday:

2,927,323 -- Seattle -- Get Up -- The Last Minute Rejects
2,801,773 -- NYC -- Get Up -- Rofl Mao
2,794,766 -- Atlantic City -- Get Up -- Combo Breakers
2,786,482 -- San Diego -- Get Up -- FA/KE
2,772,498 -- NYC -- Get Up -- Don't Call Me Shirley
2,714,129 -- Seattle -- Get Up -- Schkaten Heim
2,684,687 -- Erie -- Get Up -- Complementary Breakfast
2,653,355 -- Seattle -- Get Up -- No Boston After Midnight
2,630,828 -- Columbus -- Get Up -- Morning of Mourning
2,589,932 -- Boston -- Get Up -- Science!
2,566,206-- San Jose -- Cherub Rock -- Goat Southeast
2,512,963 -- Columbus -- Highway Star -- Frankie B and The Douchebags
2,469,893 -- Dallas -- Cherub Rock -- Here Comes a New Challenger
2,452,637 -- Miami -- Get Up -- Intellectual Platypus and the Wombats
2,437,460 -- Boston -- Cherub Rock -- Radiofoot
2,334,853 -- Joliet-- Get Up -- Ninjas In Disguise
2,333,127 -- San Diego -- Cherub Rock -- Ten Minutes to Wapner
2,260,356 -- L.A. -- Get Up -- DeLorean Racers
2,241,190 -- Seattle -- Get Up -- The Brock Sampsons
2,211,396 -- San Diego -- Cherub Rock -- The Lady and the Magnums
2,189,663 -- Atlanta -- Get Up -- Hobnailed Tannin Werewolves
2,147,435 -- Columbus -- Get Up -- Lucas Is Completely Worthless
2,050,127 -- Denver -- Ramblin' Man -- Death of the Arcade
2,009,175 -- Las Vegas -- Cherub Rock -- Charlie Gets Cripples

Winning bands by city for sites that are done with qualifiers:

Atlanta: Eggs Erroneous -- Cherub Rock -- 2,311,029
Columbus: Morning of Mourning -- Get Up -- 2,630,828
Joliet: Ninjas in Disguise -- Get Up -- 2,334,853
Los Angeles: DeLorean Racers -- Get Up -- 2,260,356
Seattle: The Last Minute Rejects -- Get Up -- 2,927,323
Windsor: Forgive Us Crazy Kids -- Cherub Rock -- 1,750,458

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The Rocktimizer: RB2 Full Band Optimal Paths

"gay" and "rape". You keep on using those words. I do not think they mean what you think they mean.

singemfrc wrote:

When I got GHWoR at midnight the guy behind me was there to buy a copy of Iron Man 2 on Blu Ray and midnight. Buying a movie at midnight release? Wow, so I didn't feel like the biggest loser

**niq24601** · Joined: 07 Jul 2008 Posts: 323

Bump for OP update.
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The Rocktimizer: RB2 Full Band Optimal Paths

"gay" and "rape". You keep on using those words. I do not think they mean what you think they mean.

singemfrc wrote:

When I got GHWoR at midnight the guy behind me was there to buy a copy of Iron Man 2 on Blu Ray and midnight. Buying a movie at midnight release? Wow, so I didn't feel like the biggest loser

**bclare** · Joined: 21 Jun 2008 Posts: 6048 Location: Boston

Okay, who wants to meet me at Paddy O's in Boston?

also, @niq, because I'm lazy, what are the highest scoring songs out of all those?
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**Deschain** · Joined: 15 Dec 2006 Posts: 2137 Location: Austin, TX

Highway Star and My Last Words are the only songs that can theoretically break 3 million points.

I also highly discourage anybody trying out at the Transit Lounge.

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Lars Ulrich said, not wrote:

It's only 7 1/2 minutes! F***, we gotta put some more riffs in there.

**bclare** · Joined: 21 Jun 2008 Posts: 6048 Location: Boston

Okay, lemme rephrase that: what are the songs with the best ratio of score to difficulty? Because no one on a US (NTSC) tv will ever get close to optimal on MLW, and highway star is difficult too.
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**Deschain** · Joined: 15 Dec 2006 Posts: 2137 Location: Austin, TX

Ok, Highway Star has the highest potential score. My Last Words has 9k less. The next closest song is Get Up Sex Machine Pt.1, and it's a 300k drop. That's a pretty solid margin of error to work with, considering a live setting, probably not your own instruments, etc.

Regardless, if you have Excel, this is probably what you're looking for:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=S64JC5TW
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Lars Ulrich said, not wrote:

It's only 7 1/2 minutes! F***, we gotta put some more riffs in there.

**Shaph** · Joined: 17 Jul 2007 Posts: 653 Location: Bremerton, WA

**bclare** · Joined: 21 Jun 2008 Posts: 6048 Location: Boston

**niq24601** · Joined: 07 Jul 2008 Posts: 323

Good times, I managed to somehow not see the spreadsheet until I made this list :P.

3.129 Highway Star
3.123 MLW
2.982 Get Up (I Feel ...)
2.972 JCP
2.861 Flirtin' w/ Disaster
2.804 Ramblin' Man (invalid RS; actual optimal is prolly below TuiB)
2.777 TuiB
2.767 Sulfur
2.715 Panic Switch
2.710 Cherub Rock (uggh the "optimal" path involves an impossible squeeze in

).

Assorted thoughts:
*bclare's right; it's not worth trying MLW in a bar. Ever.
*Highway Star is worth it if you have a drummer who can consistently hit the two tricky-ish unison bonuses. Missing a UB costs about 100K-150K points so even if you miss one a good run on Get Up will be very close. That said, I suck, and I can still hit one of the tricky UBs 90% of the time and the other one 50%.
*Otherwise, look for a vocalist who can FC James Brown or a drummer who has the JCP pattern down.
*Otherwise, just find someone with the stamina for Ramblin' Man or patience for TuiB.
*Otherwise, Panic Switch or Cherub Rock
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The Rocktimizer: RB2 Full Band Optimal Paths

"gay" and "rape". You keep on using those words. I do not think they mean what you think they mean.

singemfrc wrote:

When I got GHWoR at midnight the guy behind me was there to buy a copy of Iron Man 2 on Blu Ray and midnight. Buying a movie at midnight release? Wow, so I didn't feel like the biggest loser

**bclare** · Joined: 21 Jun 2008 Posts: 6048 Location: Boston

Nick you don't have Panic Switch pathed yet because it's somewhat recent, but if you run that through your program it might end up higher than Cherub Rock (or at least within the margin of error given whammy calculations)

Yeah oddly enough the 21+ requirement knocks out a lot of the top bands. I think Interrobang is all 21+ but they don't live in the same area (actually who is it that lives in boston, Beingmused? hm...) and I think Tobias is the only 21+ guy in vVv adrenaline, plus it seems like most of the other best players are teenagers. Age ftw!
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**Shaftedofadown** · Joined: 30 Nov 2007 Posts: 1408 Location: Hoover, AL

Do they fix the lags? Cause if there's a huge lag, i wouldn't recommend doing JCP for sake of rhythm. Ramblin man is actually pretty easy with or without lag if you have the right hand stamina.

If you're turning 21 within the year, are you allowed to participate still?
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BigFatBob wrote:

DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMN, SUPERMAN, THOUGH. I ain't never seen a nigga puttin' a song on his back like that before, though!

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

Well clearly IB will NOT be getting together for this =).

I still could be interested in trying to qualify if any band is looking for a drummer or a vocalist let me know.

I am from Buffalo, NY so I would be looking at the Erie, OH or London, ON for the two possible looking locations.
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**nipps** · Joined: 14 Jun 2006 Posts: 974 Location: brooklyn, ny

**TheHammer417** · Joined: 01 Sep 2007 Posts: 2178 Location: Chicago, IL

Anyone interested in joining up me and 2 friends for the Joliet venue? We need a singer.
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