Halloween Deathsmiles Tournament (VideoGameX)

[Josh]

Tournament #1 will involve one of the most challenging horizontal Bullet Hell shooters out there, Deathsmiles. And as the hardest of the hardcore know, satisfaction is served in one credit game servings. Tournaments will be divided into 55 single player slots and up to 3 slots may be purchased per contender. Only the highest score will count towards the competition. All games will be played on maximum difficulty. All entry fees must be paid in full prior to tournament.

The tournament date will be picked by the contenders. The first ten entrees include a vote on which Saturday at noon in September or October the tourney will be held.

1st Place Score: 2 player Egret 3 Candy Cab with Deathsmiles PCB + Genuine Full Size Poster

2nd Place Score: 1 player Egret 3 Candy Cab with Deathsmiles PCB

3rd Place Score: Japanese XB360 with Deathsmiles

Entry Fee: $50 per slot. Sign up in the store or simply pay online. The thread will stay updated with the current list of contenders. Online payments can be made through PayPal gift method only. All payments are non-refundable so make sure you can attend any dates in question before deciding. However, if the minimum isn't met by the week prior to tournament date, all entrees will be refunded.

[Aliquantic]

A cab and a PCB as prizes? This would be excellent for anybody who's actually played Deathsmiles to some degree of seriousness in CA

[trap15]

Ahh... if only I ever played Deathsmiles, I would be all over this. Hmm... maybe I should go pick up the 360 version and get practicing? Only about 2 hours from my house.

[burgerkingdiamond]

what a great idea. It's too bad I live on the wrong coast ( not that I'm great at DS though ).

How in the hell can you affor to give a way 2 Egret's? Good god, what a prize!

[ookitarepanda]

This is amazing. How many slots need to be filled before the tournament takes place?

And when you say maximum difficulty, does that mean you set the PCB's settings or does that mean everyone HAS to pick all Level 3s and go through the Canyon?

[Josh]

PCB's will be adjusted to maximum and all contenders must choose Level 3 on each stage.

55 slot minimum is what it takes to make this around 90% self sufficient.

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[Aliquantic]

PCB's will be adjusted to maximum

This does virtually nothing in the case of Deathsmiles and a lot of other Cave games, where the dip difficulty switch is more or less irrelevant, and the standard in arcades or elsewhere is default dip switches. Everybody should use full rank 3 anyway

[Tyjet]

good to see DS in some kind of competition in the US. I'm out of state and have not played vanilla DS in ages. Perhaps I should pick up a controller and start practicing? I would totally join if this was Deathsmiles MBL.

[Josh]

Let's do this online with the same prizes. I've been on the deathsmiles XBL and it's a ghost town.

[dan76]

PCB's will be adjusted to maximum

I you do it online you can't have this - which you shouldn't really anyhow.

[ookitarepanda]

Let's do this online with the same prizes. I've been on the deathsmiles XBL and it's a ghost town.

Can we just submit our current high score from the leaderboards?

[Josh]

State your XBL tag if your interested and continue to work on this idea.

[ookitarepanda]

This may throw people off, but it's ookitarepanda

[EPS21]

Aww sad to hear not gonna happen at this place, I've heard good things about it and was thinking of visiting socal when the tourney would happen. Anyways still interested! gamertag is EPS21, which may also throw people off :p

[Josh]

Aww sad to hear not gonna happen at this place, I've heard good things about it and was thinking of visiting socal when the tourney would happen. Anyways still interested! gamertag is EPS21, which may also throw people off :p

We're going to do something low key this Halloween, but we'll have Deathsmile key chains and limited edition domestic versions available for the winners. Everyone's welcome!

[moh]

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[redfield0009]

Too bad I don't live closer, otherwise I'd let you guys borrow my MBL board. All contestants playing at 999 would be intense!