ABC Family's Dance Fever Mall Tour

TiVotj · Trick Member Joined: 02 May 2002

Someone with videos of any of the freestyle or other dancing must upload them! I could even possibly host.

Praster · Trick Member Joined: 24 Jan 2002 Location: St. Louis

okie. You guys should stop crying because everything is free. Serious, have fun. Though everything might be crappy, well that is life, and the machines are being worked on the best they can be.

Right now, we are down to 3 machines when we hit Cleveland.

Best of luck to the people to enter.

Congrads to dj p for tAKING the prizeand for everyone coming out to detroit.

About columbus, same thing. congrads to calv for winning the rock themic tickets and the competition.

hope to see yah in vegas.
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Xeon Transponder · Trick Member Joined: 03 Mar 2003 Location: The moon

Thad, no i didnt get the actual pa count, i only stayed to watch the round after i lost then i took off since i was starving.

And praster, i was not crying, i was only stating facts. Yes there were a lot of people better than me there, yes even if i made it to the semi finals i would have gotten my buttocks handed to me, and yes the tournament helped me realize how difficuly any future competitions that i go to will be which has actually made me even more dedicated to the game.

Also, i dont think anyone got the freestly on video, maybe they did, but i saw no video cameras, just stills.
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epsilonbass · Trick Member Joined: 07 Apr 2002 Location: nj

Hey guys, just out of curiousity the freehold mall one is that the one on 537 or something like that like down the road from six flags? I'm interested in checking it out and stuff, being 18 and all. What time is freeplay and what time is tourney and all that stuff? And its for 2 days there, does that mean two tourney's and if so can i hop in both of them? Haha, i haven't played in a while cause im nursing a stress fracture in my foot, but entering a tourney will be fun i tried playin, didnt go for the usual catas just some sevens... sorry im rambling.

So yeah freehold?
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Dojomaster26 · Trick Member Joined: 20 Feb 2002 Location: Hickory, NC

Well, the first episode of Dance Fever is premiering today (7/13) at 7PM EST. For the people watching in Hickory,NC it'll be on channel 64.

I saw another commercial for the show yesterday, this time on MTV. It talked about how there are 48 dancers in the competition. It also showed MC Hammer and Carmen Electra talking about what they expect in the dancers.

Which brings me to a frightening point: What is going to happen to the DDR players who won this comp. but have no actual dancing skills? Will there be some sort of training given to these people, or will they be rushed on stage to be humiliated in front of a national audience?
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ThadTheEvil · Trick Member Joined: 25 Mar 2002

Um...I'm pretty sure the DDR winners are just going to be there for like the Finals of Dance Fever. I don't think people like DJP are gonna get to actually be on Dance Fever except for maybe on the final ep at Studio 54.

Again Praster, gj! Heh, I finally get to put a name to the face.

oh, and I rather enjoyed the pads I played on. All you have to do is play a little harder and they're good, that's all.

kitsune{ShInObI} · Trick Member Joined: 30 Jul 2002 Location: Waldorf, MD

so lemme get this straight...
[list=]1.these "dancers" are gonna be dancing on the dance game?
2.is it just the freestylers or is it tech too?
3.We're gonna be judged by people that have never seen the dance game before?[/list]
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Setzer · Posted: Sun Jul 13, 2003 6:48 pm Post subject:

im curious, do the people pick the songs or the judges? like the final song last i heard for the last tourney location was end of the century, did a kid pick that or a tourney official just sey "hey, 8 foot or plus, ill pick that"

just curious what i need to watch for
and how bad ARE these pads on a scale of 1-10? do the arrows stick, not work at all, do you need to stomp excessively hard to do it?
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PunkSinner · Posted: Sun Jul 13, 2003 7:46 pm Post subject:

NJPete68 · Posted: Sun Jul 13, 2003 8:19 pm Post subject:

Praster picks ALL the songs in each round.

I don't know what criteria he uses for picking songs (probably does it on a whim). Songs do get harder as the rounds go on, expect hard songs as you move on to the later rounds.

On average, I'd give those pads a 7 (relative to other 4th Solo machines). Like Thad said, just step a bit harder than usual.
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ThadTheEvil · Trick Member Joined: 25 Mar 2002

Heh, until Praster picks a song that even I've never played in the "Trick" round. I forget the name of it...it's a K-pop song though.

I was like phew...I didn't get a maniac song on my round.

luzexotico · Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2003 7:40 am Post subject:

aight back up! so what machines and what levels and scoring? thanx, heading to atl for it!

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Dojomaster26 · Trick Member Joined: 20 Feb 2002 Location: Hickory, NC

Update:

Well, the first episode of Dance Fever came on last night, first at 7PM, and then in an encore at 8PM. There was absolutely no footage of DDR on the show. In fact, the announcer introduced a clip showing auditions completely different than the DDR comps. that were being used to select contestants. These "tryouts" were held in five major cities (Miami, New York, etc.) and had no DDR machines in sight. The contestants-to-be did a dance routine in front of a couple of judges, who decided if they made the show or not.

For the show itself, it was sort of like a cross between American Idol and Saturday Night Fever (except with more varieties of dance, not just disco). The contestants did their routines and were given number scores from the panel of celeb. judges. The dancers/acts were grouped into fours, with the act having the top score advancing to a "dance off" at the end of the show, in which the top two acts did a 30 second routine.

The point: No DDR, and no DDR players on the dance stage. Everyone on the show had good dancing talent, and showcased a good variety of styles from Ballroom, to Pop/Lock (I thought Hypno should've won

). Like the other posters guess I believe that the winners from the mall tour are going to see the final episode of Dance Fever (VIP audience treatment?).

Kudos to "All That" for winning the first episode's competition. Overall a pretty entertaining show. I'm looking forward to the next episode (which will air on Sundays at 7PM EST)
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vega · Trick Member Joined: 10 Aug 2002 Location: PA

Is there going to be a freestyle exhibition at Westmoreland mall in PA or not?

KrisnWo316 · Trick Member Joined: 11 Dec 2002 Location: chicago-ish

Dojo set it up nicely....

The TV show has ABSOLUTLY AND COMPLETELY NOTHING TO DO WITH DDR IN ANY WAY, SHAPE, OR FORM!!!!

The TV show is about REAL dancing, not dancing on a video game. Just think American Idol meets Dirty Dancing.

The point of the DDR tour-naments is that it's a PROMOTIONAL thing for the TV show. "Oh...I was at the mall yesterday and saw all these guys playing on the Dance Fever machines. Isn't there a show called Dance Fever on TV? Maybe I should check that out." That's the only point of this.

And yes, winners and their guest (such as myself), get to go to Vegas for the wrap party to the show, that will probaby be lame, so I'll be off playing IIDX somewhere, or playing poker or something. DEFINETLY drinking.....(since it didn't say we can't in the waiver we had to sign) =)

So yeah.....I've lost track of how many times I've said this, but the TV show is gay, and the mall tour is a promotional thing, and Vegas will kick so much buttocks now that DJP is going. =))))

2dxzeus · Trick Member Joined: 12 Mar 2002 Location: Arlington, VA

any word on where exactly this jig is going to go down in either Baltimore or Washington DC?
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vega · Trick Member Joined: 10 Aug 2002 Location: PA

This is directed towards Praster more than anyone, but feel free to say something. Is there going to be a freestyle exhibition in PA at Westmoreland mall or not?

KrisnWo316 · Trick Member Joined: 11 Dec 2002 Location: chicago-ish

Why don't you just show up and find out yourself? =D

Praster: Serious question time..... When is ABC gonna send us the info on when flights are and stuff? Kinda hard to make driving and meeting plans when we don't know when the detils on the flight?