Who is the best rhythm gamer you've seen in your rhythm gaming career?

[Moria]

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You

[3lijah]

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I met GG Guru back in the day, he got me a four loko and we just hung out. he lived in my area at the time, but idk where that guy is now. apparently he used to go to my middle school, but i didnt know him then. Best gamer I met is from Osu!mania, his name is Vegan. 7k gamer

[M0nkeyz]

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Haven't met anybody IRL, but the best players when I started playing were:
Dossar, smartdude, samurai, Etienne

And obviously the new monsters:

AnMaO, Elah, SFG, Myuka, Matthia

[Josemba]

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ilikexd

[klimtkiller]

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travis flesher

[Moria]

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Update: Its still you.

I've never met other rhythm gamers honestly. Outside of the friends in highschool who introduced me to guitar hero (and absolutely killed it at the time), I've never met anyone other than my younger brother with any proficiency. If I had to pick who was the best I've met, he's literally family so it feels biased. My little brother. Picked it up faster than I ever did and went further than I ever should've. But he got bored and wandered off to get an engineering degree. godspeed

[Sakisagee]

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[4key only]

IRL, i've met a player named Dokors who was already in my level at the time, now is way better than me and he just started playing Friday Night Funkin 11 months ago.

[kommisar]

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well I saw Chris Chike at Magfest 12 so that'd be it

[MixMasterLar]

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well I saw Chris Chike at Magfest 12 so that'd be it

Yeah at this point Chris is the GOAT. It's almost hard to argue that he isn't at the very least top 3 of all time.

But tbh I think he's an easy #1. Dude played dance games so well Taco Bell paid him for clout

[ToonE156]

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Oh and PS: the OP didn't mean rhythm gamers that you've seen IRL, they meant just in general

[MixMasterLar]

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Oh and PS: the OP didn't mean rhythm gamers that you've seen IRL, they meant just in general

I've had the honor of Chris Chike whipping my ass hard at Extreme before, so it's still him regardless lol

He's actually a really chill, supportive guy. It's nice to see talented people who generally seem to value other's achievements even if he's leagues above them skill wise.


Before him it woulda been Chris Austin/Soul of Ignorance, especially when he won the first Konami American Championship for SuperNOVA.

[ToonE156]

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Before him it woulda been Chris Austin/Soul of Ignorance, especially when he won the first Konami American Championship for SuperNOVA.

Pardon? He won the first WHAT?

[MixMasterLar]

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Pardon? He won the first WHAT?

So I didn't realize so little was online for these events. Players largely saw them as a failure; the ruleset was incredibly janky and stupid (only songs rated 8 or lower for the qualifiers, then rated 7 through 9 for finals before allowing 10s in the grands) and they changed the rules for their own conveniences doing the Grand Finales (It was 3 out of 5 until the ref wanted to go home, then WITHIN THE SET said fuck it whoever wins this wins let's go)

They also barely announced it ahead of time. I think (I THINK) Duk tipped EvilDave off like two weeks before the announcement which was like a week before the event. It was generally thought at the time that Konami wanted to see if the brand was strong enough to support a more or less spontaneous national championship. They also intended for the contestants to be kids and family members ( The oldest you were Allowed to be was like 35?) And not the athletic players they got.


Anyway the first year was 2009. Top two where Soul and EvilDave and I don't remember the other placements. Bemanistyle had the most coverage along with testimonies from the players on how stupid it all was but that site lost all of the old pages awhile ago. Here's the most post coverage I could find:

https://www.otaquest.com/north-americas-unofficial-official-ddr-us-championships/

There's probably an old thread here were I told this story but the night before I was suppose to leave to qualify in Miami my truck had to be put in the shop. I was Soul's ride, so he had to emergency grayhound down there from Tallahassee and sign in last second to play his sets dead tired. However by this point he has already AAAd all of the 8s, so. It was pretty much in the bag for him. The other NWFL players couldn't make the trip short notice, so he was free from his peers to dominate.

_____

By the way, Soul hada lot more going for him then just that. Dude was a machine and pushed the South East scene to be the best they could. He regularly placed in all of the Storm tournaments back in the day and had unreal timing. Lack of machine accessibility forced him out of the game though (that and old age, he would joke) and now he weight lifts competitively.

[flashflash account]

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funnygurl555

[_DJ Vinyl_]

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Staiain only because he is probably the best FFR twitch streamer I've seen