DDR for a living

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

While most of the naysayers are being unecessarily rude about it, they are right; DDR is not a professional sport, so there is no establishment on which you could do DDR for a living. Feel free to try and create such a thing, but you would need money, and probably a lot of it, to support the idea, so you'd end up having to find a job anyway.

Unkle Caveman · Posted: Mon Aug 22, 2005 7:22 am Post subject:

yea i guess ur right.
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StealthGuardian · Trick Member Joined: 06 Jun 2004 Location: Iowa

While I agree there's no way to be a proffessional DDR player NOW, why wouldn't it be possible to get some wheels moving and get the sport out there?

On a side note for this, if anyone says it's not possible or that there isn't a crowd for it out there , I can beat that argument in three words:

Proffesional Poker Players.

I mean, there's people here trying to organize DDR for intercollegiate tournaments. Although they wouldn't be official college athletics, if we could get something started at the college level, there's always a possibility that it could build up, especially if we get some freestylers out there to compete.

If you're wondering, I really think this is possible, but it might take years to pull together, so we need some wheels turning now.

People are becoming proffesional players on other video games, so why can't DDR reach that level?
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mikieson · Trick Member Joined: 14 Nov 2003

If you have been through college. Go get a loan, open a nice arcade with ddr, itg, piu, some pc's for lan party, some xbox, ps2 some big tv's and have some tournaments and make a living that way. Plus you can play ddr all day long...Well that is what im planing on doing in my life time. Also you have to have a couple pool tables and a ms.pacman machine.Good luck and anything is possible

PARANOiA MAXX · Posted: Mon Aug 22, 2005 6:14 pm Post subject:

wow acutally DDR is recgonized as a sprt in norway they have teams and you can make a living off of it there, and it has replaced P.E. in many schools in norway. SO HAHAHAAHAH IN YOUR FACE AND CASSINA GO FOR IT YOU CAN MAKE A LIVING OFF OF IT SO ALL OF YOU GUYS WHO SAID HAT ITS NOT A SPOT FU*K YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!. didnt want to say the f-word to get banned

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!!!! · Trick Member Joined: 28 Sep 2003 Location: in a haus lolo!

Okay, aside from the obvious fact that most of the people supporting DDR "as a living" seem to be mentally crippled, let's do a little math.

The NYC DDR Championships offer a grand prize of $2000 dollars. That's by far the most elegant prize that's going to be offered this year for DDR, maybe the highest prize ever.

Let's look at some of the prizes being offered at recent tournaments (these are all from posts):
COTC3 offered a 60-30-10 split of their $250 dollar pot. That's $150...for first place. How does living in your car sound?
The Midland Texas Tournament offers 25% of their pot to the winner....again, for first place. Let's say that 25 people entered, again. Whoa! $62! Looks like you'll be eating at BK for a month.

Plus, it's a video game, people. Get serious.
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lazygirl127 · Basic Member Joined: 22 Aug 2005

Im certianly not even remotly close to the best at DDR but I have won some compations. If there are a lot of people there the pay off can be as big as $100. At the worst of times the winnings cover the entry fee. I think it can be done you just have to win or be broke.

ColorOfSakura · Posted: Tue Aug 23, 2005 8:31 am Post subject:

DemonHybrid · Trick Member Joined: 26 Apr 2005 Location: Matamoras, PA

Hey...they took an unknown sport and made it so you can live off of it in Rollerball.....why can't you do it in DDR? XD

Go ahead and try to live off of playing/owning a machine/shop, but don't count your chickens. Especially not with this.

You guys are being arseholes about this, by the way. Most of you.
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Paramount X · Trick Member Joined: 15 Jun 2005

gAwd your just crushing her dream. I do also want this as a sport. and sheeeet, I was try to make it known. Psiar I tried wit get up move and my school. I believe in you cas

Synaesthesia · Posted: Tue Aug 23, 2005 10:19 am Post subject:

If the original poster had spent the time and money at college on DDR for 8+ hours a day, this plan could be *slightly* more feasible. However, unless you happen to have a couple hundreds of thousands of dollars lying around**, as well as a few years to become better than Yasu or Kevbo (as well as cultivate a number of players as such), this plan isn't going to go anywhere. Get yourself a "normal" job (as you put it), then once you're more than financially stable, you can start to worry about these little fantasies.
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Syxx · Trick Member Joined: 20 Feb 2003 Location: Chicagoland

DDR... it's a living.

Lefty · Posted: Tue Aug 23, 2005 10:48 am Post subject:

People make money off card games because its alot easier to hide your skill and make people believe it's a game of chance that they could beat you in if they got the right cards....People who do it for a living know where to find gullable people, and just how to take advantage of them.

You know anyone who thinks of DDR as a game of chance? Much less anyone who would be willing to take a bet on DDR?

And Cassima.... I have serious doubts that you just graduated college, if all you could come up with for a career path is playing DDR. If you speak the truth, you wasted your (or your parents') money.
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Synaesthesia · Posted: Tue Aug 23, 2005 11:18 am Post subject:

There's always community college... and there's always fluff majors that won't land you a job in reality...
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WhiteAsian · Trick Member Joined: 12 Jun 2005 Location: Rochester NY

Dude if they have frisbee and dodgeball on ESPN, come on. I'm sure someone could get it on ESPN i mean how hard could it be. They got the special olympics on it didnt they?

just kidding.

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*Phoenix* · Trick Member Joined: 13 Oct 2004 Location: stamford CT

The real only reason DDR can't be a carrer sportwise is with the exception of freestlylers DDR is not fun to watch. No1 would ever come home from school/work sit down on the couch and watch some nerdy ppl jump around on blue and red arrows to song that most ppl wouldn't like. You would have no viewers watching so ur networkl wouldn't mkae ne money and u wouldn't get ne pay. Learn how economics work (thought they taught that in college).
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