| Dance Dance Revolution/In the Groove 2 Tournament |
[28 Dec 2006|08:46pm] |
We will be hosting a Dance Dance Revolution/DDR Tournament sometime next month to get us pumped up for Houkocon 2007 and our club that hosts the event, The Japanese Animation Club of the Treasure Coast.
Please say thanks to the Arcade crew at Superplay for helping in making this tournament possible by letting us use their dedicab.
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Tournament Rules
Singles
This tournament is for players using single play and not double pad.
Songs - The songs featured in this tournament will both feature songs found on the ITG2 Machine and uploaded DDR/Stepmania tracks.
Song Selection - The songs in the preliminary rounds are choosen by the judges from either ITG2 or DDR, then in each preceeding round a song is choosen by the player. No more than one song will be choosen per player and a song will only be played once.
IE: Max 300 can only be played once.
Round Structure - Each round consists of two songs out of three. The first song is picked by the 'stronger' player (meaning higher score), second song is picked by the other player, and the third song is a random.
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Player A - Round 1
Player B - Round 2
Judge - Round 3
Scoring - Scoring is based off the percentage grading system in ITG2.
The point system will be applied in the preliminary rounds:
Fantastic - +4
Excellent - +2
Great - + 1
Decent - 0
Way Off - -4
Miss - 8
Modifiers - Any mods that would disqualify you from ranking are not allowed as well as handicap mods.
Mods that are allowed are: Speed mods, Visual Mods (Dark, Hidden, Shuffle, etc). These mods must be agreed on between the players in the round and WILL NOT enhance your chances of winning a round. Use these mods by your own discresion.
Advancement - Advancement is as follows
Preliminaries - Semi Finals - Finals
Anyone who is knocked out of any of the stages are knocked out of the tournament completely
Foots - Only footing allowed are Medium (4 - 6) and Hard ( 8 - 10). Novice, Easy, and Expert difficulties are not allowed. For fair judging, players must play the same difficulty level.
Prizes
The Prizes are a percentage of the entry fees
1st - 50%
2nd - 25%
3rd - 15%
Extra Notes
This is NOT an hacked Dedicab. It is R21 with uploaded Simfiles for the DDR and Anime/Game songs. Do not ask how we managed to get Bleach on ITG2.
Times and Dates:
January 13th, 2007
12pm - 3pm
Registration starts at 11
( Edit Song List )
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| Tenative Schedule released! |
[11 Jun 2006|11:29am] |
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A tenative schedule has been released at the website! Please be reminded that this is a tenative schedule and that the final schedule will be located in your program guides the day of the convention.
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[01 Jun 2006|04:25pm] |
Major Updates, for Cosplay and Hotels
1. Registration page has been updated with times to pick up your pass and when you can purchase one.
Minor update. For hotel, there must be 10 rooms booked or no group rate at all, so if you know you're staying at a hotel please fill out the poll. So far, only four rooms/people are staying at both hotels while eighteen are staying at their homes and commuting.
Also, pre-registration ends this Saturday! So if you want to beat the registration line, which is surely going to be outrageous con weekend, then pre-register today!
2. Hotel. Hotel. Noticing a lot of hotel questions at other forums than our own forums... a lot of hotel woes. Here is the deal with the hotels, all hotel information is listed in the ' location ' page at the bottom. There are two hotels listed that are local and the closet to the Port Saint Lucie Community Center. The Marriott Springfield Suites is 125 a night while the Hamilton Inn and Suites (a Hilton Family Hotel) is 119 a night.
No, there is no shuttle service due to the fact that there is no group rate in place and a large enough of people to form a block to get a shuttle to and from the community center. That's why it is crucial for everyone to fill out this poll so, if can, in time set up a group rate and look into possible shuttling. Again, the closet hotels are located right off of I-95 on exit 121 and they are the Hamilton Inn and Suites and the Marriot Springfield Suites.
Please, also remember, we're a first year event. Please do not expect nothing more than that! ^^;;;;
3.We've been recieving an influx on questions concerning the cosplay contest. All the rules and regulations are explained, thoroughly, on the cosplay page of this website. Times, dates, music, etc are listed there. Please read before asking a question that the answer maybe there for.
Another question we recieve a lot is why we're not on Sunday, rather than a Friday and Saturday.... the reason is that the center we're at has church groups that meet up the first half of the day (7am - 1pm), and we couldn't get that date. Dates are not in our hands, dates of events are always in the hands of the venue in which we're renting. We are sorry for this inconvience!
The last, but number one question we always recieve is concerning the event programming. Again, this will NOT be released until the week of the convention. We're always making changes to the schedule and do not want to release a false schedule, also, its 20 days too early for a programming chart to be launched. If you want to know what's going on at the convention, go to the events page where all the events that are happening this year are listed.
4. Those who are participating in the cosplay contest: Registration for the event is on Friday, June 16th, the event begins Saturday, June 17th. If you have any questions or concerns, never hesitate to contact us.
6. There was a mistake with the offline mail-in pre-registration form. For those who have sent them out already, don't worry, we'll acknowledge the mistake but for those who are in question about pre-registration, it has been fixed and it IS $15 dollars for the weekend, the standard at door rate. You can either pre-register online through Mollygard using either a credit card or paypal account, through the mail using the mail-in form and paying in either check, cash, or money order... OR you can purchase your weekend pass onsite on Friday ONLY.
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| Answers to your most popular questions |
[26 May 2006|10:00am] |
We've been recieving an influx on questions concerning the cosplay contest. All the rules and regulations are explained, thoroughly, on the cosplay page of this website. Times, dates, music, etc are listed there. Please read before asking a question that the answer maybe there for.
Another question we recieve a lot is why we're not on Sunday, rather than a Friday and Saturday.... the reason is that the center we're at has church groups that meet up the first half of the day (7am - 1pm), and we couldn't get that date. Dates are not in our hands, dates of events are always in the hands of the venue in which we're renting. We are sorry for this inconvience!
The last, but number one question we always recieve is concerning the event programming. Again, this will NOT be released until the week of the convention. We're always making changes to the schedule and do not want to release a false schedule, also, its 20 days too early for a programming chart to be launched. If you want to know what's going on at the convention, go to the events page where all the events that are happening this year are listed.
Also please read the side bar with the important updates. Your questions will probably already answered ---> </p>
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[24 May 2006|04:50pm] |
5.23.06
Those who are participating in the cosplay contest: Registration for the event is on Friday, June 16th, the event begins Saturday, June 17th. If you have any questions or concerns, never hesitate to contact us.
5.22.06
There was a mistake with the offline mail-in pre-registration form. For those who have sent them out already, don't worry, we'll acknowledge the mistake but for those who are in question about pre-registration, it has been fixed and it IS $15 dollars for the weekend, the standard at door rate. You can either pre-register online through Mollygard using either a credit card or paypal account, through the mail using the mail-in form and paying in either check, cash, or money order... OR you can purchase your weekend pass onsite on Friday ONLY.
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| Updates |
[05 May 2006|01:29pm] |
Houkocon 2006 has made changes to its cosplay contest. Now, the cosplay contest will focus on craftmanship and detail of costumes as well as their performances in their skits. This will give contestants the choice of either walking on stage and posing or performing a skit. The Cosplay Contest will take place June, 17th 2006. Those who participate must be a registered Houkocon 2006 attendee.
ARTIST ALLEY IS COMPLETELY SOLD OUT. Yes, its true, artist alley is completely sold out. If a slot becomes avalible we will annouce.
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[03 Apr 2006|03:59pm] |
Important Updates:
* This year's AMV contest has been canceled
[quote]Due to a lack of submissions and blantant failure in following the submission guidelines, the AMV contest this years been canceled. Thank you to those who have submitted entries in! In compensation for the cancelation, all who have uploaded an AMV to the server will get into Houkocon half off. If you have pre-registered, we will refund your money if you pre-registered after the Early Bird special.
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* Brian Clevenger is coming to Houkocon
[quote]Brian Clevenger
The creator of the original 8-Bit Theater series. If you don't know what 8-Bit theater is, then you've been under a rock for many many years. 8-bit theater is a weekly comic strip based off of the FF sprites that have caused many parodies and spoofs to be born (like 8-Bit D&D to name a few). For more information on 8-bit theater, click here for the wiki site.
You can catch Brian in the Dealers Room throughout the convention![/quote]
*$10 Preregistration rate is over
[quote]10 dollar pre-registration has ended. From April 4th to June 3rd, the At Door rate will be avalible for purchase online through Mollyguard. Preregistration ends June 3rd at 12am EST.[/quote]
And since we are members of OA, we felt it would be nice that any OA member that comes to Houkocon this year... if they present their OA badge, they get in for five dollars for the whole weekend. :) You must have your badge though!
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| Hello~! |
[15 Feb 2006|03:37pm] |
Updates!
Changes have been made to the cosplay contest. We added three new categories. Best of Game, Best of Show, and Judges Awards.
Wildin Out Anime Style has been changed entirely.
( Read more... )
Pre-Registration is 10 dollars and will stay at the 10 rate until April, so pre-register now and avoid the lines.
When submitting your AMV application, please know that the FTP information is not on the site and will be emailed to you.
Any more questions, comments, and/or ideas... never hesitate to tell us. Also, we are still looking for panelists, so if you have a mini gameshow idea, workshop, discussion round table, etc etc etc... just hit up our events coordinator at events@houkocon.com!
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[07 May 2005|12:17am] |
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Website is now: Houkocon.com. Please update your bookmarks!
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[21 Feb 2005|06:43pm] |
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Video Game entertainment has been provided. More updates coming soon.
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[22 Jan 2005|01:15pm] |
Updates:
+ All activities on standstill until further notice.
+ Activities still going on. We are still looking for those interested in participating in the TC area to work on this project.
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| Updates for 1.20.05 |
[20 Jan 2005|10:13pm] |
Updates for 1.20.05
(old in italics)
+ Still looking for volunteers and possible staff members
+ Next meeting for Houkocon volunteers will be at JACON 2005, unless otherwise
+ Possible idea for con is a laid back tropical retreat
+ Possible location in debate
+ Interested? Email @ houkocon@gmail.com
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| Houkocon Update |
[16 Jan 2005|04:26pm] |
Welcome to Houkocon, the update/news site for the South Florida convention!
Updates, this is a quick one:
+ Still looking for volunteers and possible staff members
+ Next meeting for Houkocon volunteers will be at JACON 2005, unless otherwise
+ Interested? Email @ houkocon@gmail.com
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