Hey everyone, I just found about about this literally two days ago, but there is going to be a Guitar Hero tournament at the West Shore Hardware Bar in Mechanicsburg. For those that don't know, the West Shore Hardware Bar is in the same building as the Holiday Inn where we've had our big LAN's in the past. It is co-sponsored by 105.7 The X and Gamestop (I think). It starts at 8pm. Tonight is just the first round, the finals are then held on November 1. The grand prize is an autographed guitar from Godsmack!!!

So, without further ado, I'm going to go play a little GH for one last tune up and then head over to Mechanicsburg to try and win that thing! If you can make it out to cheer me on that's great, if not, wish me luck!

I'm in the finals!!!!

There were two rounds. The first round was groups of 5 or 6 on Medium with the top 2 or 3 from each group moving onto the semi's based on points. Each person in a particular group did the same song to be fair. My group had Strutter to start out with. I wound up 2nd in that group with 135,000 points, the winner of the group had 139,000.

The semis was two groups of 5 each, played on Expert, with the winner of each group moving onto the finals on November 1st. My goup drew You Really Got Me. I went second, scored 97,000 points, the first guy had 95,000 so I knew I was still in it. I stood back and watched the remaining people in the group really struggle with it and even had a few people fail the song, but no one got close and I knew I had it locked up.

They are doing this again next week at the York Hardware Bar and the week after that at the Harrisburg Hardware Bar. The finals will then be 6 people (2 winners from each week). I was talking to the DJ (Nixon from the X) and he said he was thinking about doing a cumulative score of three songs, including the dreaded Jordan by Buckethead! He said the contestants will have to wear a KFC bucket on their head while playing that song!

All I can say is that I'm going to be doing a lot of practice in the coming weeks W00t!

Awesome job Sully!!!!   Good luck with the finals and I wish I could be there.

Damnit, If I had read this post earlier I would have attended.  I have been practicing my GHII skillz and have gotten considerably good at it.....maybe next time.

They are doing it at 2 other bars.  You still have 2 weeks in which to possibly qualify.  Of course you would have to go up against Sully in the finals so you may just want to save the embarrassment.   

He will be able to regale stories upon his soon to be born child about how he cleaned up in this competition!!!

5 bucks to anyone who plays out with the guitar on fire!

I should keep practicing then.....

So how did you do??  Can we claim we have the ultimate Guitar Hero player in our group or just another Wanna-be.  lol