questions about throwing a GH3 tournament

jittery joe · 07-10-2008, 04:45 PM

I own a coffee house in Ga and am planning a GH3 tournament for Saturday. I just got the game about a week ago and we have only made it through to some songs on Medium. Can't beat Slash! That said, should I use cheats to unlock everything for people who are really experienced with this game? Also, I have no idea how to set it up? Anybody here ever been to a GH tournament? I was thinking about doing highest score on each skill set, then the 2 with the highest scores battle against each other. Basically just process of elimination. Any tips would be greatly appreciated. Or, if you know of any links, those would help too. I'm not having much luck. Thanks in advance!

**L007 is Undecided** · 07-10-2008, 09:05 PM

Guitar Hero 3? You can easily do Guitar Battles. Since any song can be used in a duel between two players, there's a large choice. Otherwise, in terms of Face Offs, the set lists are kind of unbalanced. I can tell you that in 2, you could easily get higher scores in set 3 than in set 7. I just recommend picking the song sets yourself as the sponsor and do a tier tournament, the higher scorer advancing and letting the players determine the song to play.

So, to answer your question, high scores aren't a great way to do tournaments. Those are just for showing off. True skill comes from five starring Raining Blood.

wariovswario · 07-13-2008, 12:24 AM

Randomly seeded tournaments or if you want to go through the painful process, do qualifying tournaments to decide who will get to go against who. I suggest instead of regular face-offs that you choose pro face off. More intense that way.

**Prince Toad** · 07-13-2008, 12:41 PM

^I played in my high school's GH tournament (and won!), so I can help out a little. The way they did it was by separating it into tiers by difficulty. You signed up for one tier, and they basically had separate brackets for each tier. So for example, I won the Expert tier, someone else won the Hard tier, someone else won the Medium tier. (There wasn't an Easy one because that would have been dumb.) I guess you could have the winners play each other, but I'm pretty sure the winner of each tier would destroy anyone in the lower tiers. This was all Pro Face-Off, by the way. Do NOT do battles by any means-- they're terrible.

If you don't want to do that, I'd recommend starting off with everyone on Hard, then moving to Expert as the bracket narrows. (Medium is too easy for people who are really good-- it'd come down to whoever missed a single note or held the sustains the longest or used Star Power in the right place, which is lame.) This would make the most sense if you don't have that many people.

...oh. I just now realize that it's the day after you held the tournament. Um... well, if you wanna do it again in the future, these are my thoughts. How'd it turn out?

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07-10-2008, 09:05 PM	#2
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07-13-2008, 12:41 PM	#4
Prince Toad PC Mod Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Rookery Gender: Posts: 11,415 Thanks: 43 Thanked 56 Times in 47 Posts Points: 44,432.00 Bank: 21,026.32 Total Points: 65,458.32 Donate	^I played in my high school's GH tournament (and won!), so I can help out a little. The way they did it was by separating it into tiers by difficulty. You signed up for one tier, and they basically had separate brackets for each tier. So for example, I won the Expert tier, someone else won the Hard tier, someone else won the Medium tier. (There wasn't an Easy one because that would have been dumb.) I guess you could have the winners play each other, but I'm pretty sure the winner of each tier would destroy anyone in the lower tiers. This was all Pro Face-Off, by the way. Do NOT do battles by any means-- they're terrible. If you don't want to do that, I'd recommend starting off with everyone on Hard, then moving to Expert as the bracket narrows. (Medium is too easy for people who are really good-- it'd come down to whoever missed a single note or held the sustains the longest or used Star Power in the right place, which is lame.) This would make the most sense if you don't have that many people. ...oh. I just now realize that it's the day after you held the tournament. Um... well, if you wanna do it again in the future, these are my thoughts. How'd it turn out?