Freestyle vs PA prizes

AniGamerSK · Trick Member Joined: 17 Jul 2002 Location: N. Las Vegas

Ok, what's the deal with Freestyle getting better prizes than PA? More people enter PA tourneys and it takes a lot more effort (sometimes not true) to get better at PA. So far, almost every semi-big tournament has decent prizes, but they're freestyle prize is almost always better than the PA prize. I seriously think that if PA prizes were better than Freestyle prizes a lot more people would practice and try to win other than creating routines to try and win a better prize, or just not go at all.

Think about it this way. There's 60 entrants for PA, and 30 for freestyle (just a random guess-timate average). PA will get a modded ps2 w/ beatmania IIDX games + controller, Panasonic DVD/nintendo Gamecube, and 40% prize money. Freestyle wins a Max2 machine.
That would mean about $1,000 for PA and $4,000-$5,000 for Freestyle. Does this seem right? I mean, yes there is some entertainment and difficulty in Freestyle, but enough to totally bypass everyone who practices almost everyday to get better opposed to someone who practices once in a while until he thinks he should make a routine?

Just wondering what you all think about this.

(Note: And yes I know some freestyle players play a lot, sometimes even more than some of the best PA'ers)

The Game II · Posted: Sun May 11, 2003 12:36 am Post subject: Re: Freestyle vs PA prizes

Phrekwenci · Administrator Joined: 27 Feb 2002 Location: New York, NY

Quite frankly I have never heard of Freestylers getting the better prize in a tournament. PA people always get the better prizes.

Where are these tournaments?
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Tsunami Forever · Posted: Sun May 11, 2003 8:01 am Post subject:

In what city are these tournaments you speak of?
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Tsunami Forever · Posted: Sun May 11, 2003 11:04 am Post subject:

AniGamerSK · Trick Member Joined: 17 Jul 2002 Location: N. Las Vegas

The freestyle vs PA prizes during normal "locals" style tournaments usually have PA prizes larger than freestyle, but what I'm saying is that whenever there's a large scale tournament (that has both freestyle and PA), people tend to put up a better prize for freestyle. It's not that I think that Freestylers don't deserve a good prize for taking all the time memorizing and creating a good routine, but it's kind of a let down when you see 3 good freestyles and 10 great PA players. This is just an example so don't get all pissed from me saying this :b, but it's kinda like the Sports. PA players would be the Basketball, Football, Soccer, Track, etc style, while freestylers would be the gymnastics, cheerleading, Ice skating, etc style. Basically what I see is that the look of playing is considered harder than the technical score by the difference in prize. Please don't take this the wrong way, but it's like cheerleaders getting paid more than the athletes.

The Game II · Posted: Sun May 11, 2003 4:21 pm Post subject:

telekineticddr102 · Basic Member Joined: 14 Jan 2005

ok now ive taken 2nd in a pa tourny before (while i was sick) but i enjoy fs better. it takes WAYYYYYY more energy to fs than pa. especialy if your on my fs team. when i freestyle it attracts a crowd.

but fs is more entertaining to watch than someone pa'ing it makes you go " OOOOOOOOOOOOO DID YOU SEE THAT!?!?!?!?!?!" "OMFG THATS AMAZING!!!!!!" (provided your good at it

) so i can EASYLY see why the prize is bigger. what would you rather watch? square dancing? or an explosive high energy routine with thumping trance or electronica music burning throu your mind AND BODY AS YOU FEEL THE CROWN CHEERING YOU ON SCREAMING FOR MORE AS YOU FLIP AND DROP SPIN AN GROOVE. THE PASSION OF THE MUSIC BURNING THROU YOU!!?!?!?!?!!?!?!?!? sorry i got carried away >_< any way....yeah pa good ...fs BETTER. THATS WHY WE GET DA PRIZES!!!!!!!!! YEAURHHHHHHHHHHH
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MAAAX_himself · Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2005 4:16 pm Post subject:

Is freestly that much more popular than PA?

Id much rather watch two people play TLoM heavy then watch some little kid do knee drops on begginer

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Maxx 999 · Trick Member Joined: 09 Jul 2004 Location: Las Vegas, NV

mostly in cali, cuz alot of ppl here are newbs that start playing, never get good and quit. any veterans here stopped playing a while ago. problem is anyone here is too shy to even try.
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im a ddr player wouldnt you EXPECT me to have energy? hehehe its all good thou i just get excited about ddr is all sorry bout that
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