Help on Ideas on how to evaluate a DDR Tournament

Black_Rose · Basic Member Joined: 23 Apr 2004 Location: Tijuana, Mexico

Hey guys, first post here on this forums

Here in my hometown, the main DDR players hangout is planning a tournament, and im kinda involved in the planning

now my question is the following, how can I evaluate the participants, I wanted it to be freestyle, but only a few 3 persons do some freestyle, so, what would be the obvious way to do it?

by score?

any ideas are apreciated, thanx
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Black_Rose · Basic Member Joined: 23 Apr 2004 Location: Tijuana, Mexico

BlueScreenJunky · Trick Member Joined: 01 Nov 2003 Location: France

You might want to use the dance point system :
Perfect = 2
Great = 1
Good = 0
Boo = -4
Miss = -8
OK = 6
NG = 0

This way you won't have a player scoring better with a A than someone who AAed the same song

And yeah, you can't use freestyle because most players are scorers, but if there are enough freestylers maybe you could run 2 different tournaments for score and freestyle, that's what we do around here (and there's often more people in the freestyle tournament than in the score one o_O)

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DJX · Trick Member Joined: 30 Jun 2003 Location: CA

If you want to go with freestyle, basically you're going to have to have judges, and it's going to be a subjective judging system because there is no built in feature to see how well players can actually dance.

If you are going to do a PA (accuracy) tournament, you should use some kind of system based on step types. *NEVER* use score, because it is a bit less indicative of actual performance (since the end of a song is worth more in score than the beginning). I would say either go with the dance point system, or else use the 10K Commotion system (2 points for each perfect, 1 point for each great and OK, no negative points). I think the latter is better because it puts less weight on OKs, which I really think should be worth less than perfect, and it just makes life simpler since there are no negatives.
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lildrchris25 · Trick Member Joined: 24 Jan 2002 Location: Houston, TX

I wrote a guide about this entire thing on my site. Link is in my sig.
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Crux · Basic Member Joined: 22 May 2004

I like blues idea, it seems it should work out for the best. But having a good score doesn't necesarily mean they are better than someone else. You should try to score based on routine as well. Not sure how you would do that, be creative!