About:
Battle of the Rock Bands: The Second Slaying, is ACen's second annual Rock Band 2 tournament. This tournament will be held on a stage, infront of a crowd, and is based on entertainment rather than score. Location & time TBA!
Note from Organizers:
We grossly underestimated the turnout for BotRB last year; to cope with the popularity we have reworked the entire event. Thank you all for your support last year, and we are looking forward to shattering your expectations this year!
General Rules:
- All Bands MUST have four members.
- Each band will play one of their three songs, chosen by the judge panel during the tournament.
- Axing guitars, throwing drumsticks, or any other means of destroying/harming the equipment and/or instruments is immeadiate disqualification, with possibility of ejection and legal action to recover costs.
Scoring:
- You will be judged on a miraid of aspects, the heaviest being entertainment.
- There is a unique scoring system in place that factors how well your band plays, how entertaining you are, and how the crowd reacts.
- Any difficulty may be played; there is a scoring alogrythm in place to reward playing on harder difficulties.
Your Setlist:
- Each band is to pick out three songs from our master list (below).
- During the sign-up process you will disclose your three songs, and be asked to play one of them at con.
- You will NOT be told which of your three songs you are playing until you're up next for the stage.
Band / Crowd Interaction Rules:
- ONLY the band will be allowed on stage.
- You cannot intruduce 'foreign instruments' while onstage. (No swapping out w/ real guitar, etc.)
- Song lyric changes are ok. Note: All lyrics MUST be 'clean', explicit language will get your band disqualified.
- No crowd surfing / encouraging crowd surfing.
- No mosh pits / encouraging mosh pits.
Misc. Info:
Onstage, there will be an adverage-sized Tv facing the band. The Tv will be on the floor, angled upwards; It is advisable to practice reading (playing) from a similar situation beforehand.
Signing Up:
- Main sign-ups will take place ONLINE before the con. There are very strict stipulations in place for Online sign-up. Online spots are first-come first-serve.
- There will be an extremely-limited number of walk-up sign-up spots At-Con. These spots are first-come first-serve, and open up first thing Friday.
***Sign-Up Status: CLOSED. Click here or navigate to the bottom of this thread for full info!***
Standby Rockers (Players):
- IF there are any walk-up spots open, we will have a Looking-For-Band sheet available at the Staff Table in the VG room.
- The sheet will be made available Friday evening IF there are still open walk-up spots.
Band Practice: >UPDATED!!!<
- Do NOT rely on at-con practice. Take time beforehand to practice and learn your songs.
- Saturday
Available Songs:
- The list below is all of the available songs for your band to choose from.
- Songs over 4min30sec are generally cut from the BotRB event.
- If there is a song that you want to see on the list, email me about it at videogaming@acen.org with the subject "BotRB:TSS DLC Content".
-> Please keep all Songlist comments and questions STRICTLY to email. <-
We are all looking forward to this Rockfest! Show us your best!

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