After much thought and deliberation, we have come to the conclusion that if no one responds, it’s fine to assume those will not attend. In the summer like it is, many people take trips and go on outings so people are just not around, but at the last Inferno, no one attended except Andy and Nick. I stayed at home because Monday, as I said, was a poor day for me. Even after changing the date in favor of everyone else’s wishes, I was appalled to notice no attendees.

Rather than ask where everyone is or try to host an event I cannot even attend, it was a unanimous agreement that Inferno be canceled. There was a small amount of interest in the beginning of the summer, FAR more during the final days of the spring semester, but it appears as if everything died out. Tomorrow’s event has been thusly canceled. Replacement events are to be held at my house, but they are not club official and are on no set schedule unless people come together to make one.

That is all.

Whoever e-mailed me today from the Contact Form, I have no way of getting in touch w/ you if your UMKC E-mail isn’t working. If you could please give us some other e-mail address or even a phone number, then I’ll get Andy (new club president) on it right away.

Please rememeber to check your mail at mail.umkcddrclub.com. Easy right? Here’s a spiffy video for you to watch in commemoration of our unity w/ GoogleApps.

I forgot to also thank Kevin Cerveny for being the VERY first person to help test this out. I had forgotten up until now.

I am checking who has logged in so far. Here’s the list:
Andy
Danielle
Eric
RUKevin
Nick
Trisha

That’s ~43%. Hopefully you can get on that list too! I’d like to see everyone in the club login at least once. We’re gonna start using this system for the club calendar and e-mail and such so make sure to check it regularly. If you want help figuring out how to set it up so it’ll forward that mail to another e-mail account or setup something like Thunderbird, I’d be more than willing to help you. My name’s still on this site’s contact page so send me a message, and I’ll get right on that.

Orientation is never an Orientation w/ the UMKC DDR Club if we don’t put up one of our massive banners. Well here it is, our newest one. My sister held it up for us; the banner I made that Andy commissioned for Orientation. Andy paid a lot for this thing, and it’s fairly heavy duty. Please make sure to thank him!

Hey guys, Andy again. Just a quick reminder, there’s two up coming orientations this weekend, a transfer orientation on Friday, and a freshman orientation on Saturday. Setup on Friday begins at 8am and ends at 12. That will be in the quad outside of Royall. Setup on Saturday begins at 9am and ends at 1:30 and will also take place in the quad. If you’re free on those days, then please come help us out. I made a sign up thread so please post there and let me know if you can come or not. Even if you can’t make it, tell me so I know. That’s about it. Hopefully we’ll see you Friday!

Hey guys, it’s Andy. I just wanted to remind everyone that the first DDR Inferno of the summer starts this Monday! For those who forgot–or didn’t know in the first place–we’ll be meeting from 4 to 9 at Cherry Street Dorms.

Also, we’ll be ordering a new shipment of stuff from cafepress soon, so if you want some new club merch, then bring your money Monday night. You can see a selection of items and costs here. That’s it for now, see you Monday!

[Update]

Well, we didn’t actually have ddr inferno tonight, because only Nick and I showed up, so don’t worry! You didn’t miss a thing. We’ll be having orientations this friday and saturday, so look out for a post on that. More importantly, if you’re thinking of ordering a club shirt, then please bring money next Monday. There’s also more stuff to buy, so think of what you want so we can make an order next week. See ya!

First of all, I’d like to thank Andy for giving the ok on this project and being the first guinea pig. Next I’d like to give a big thank you to both Trisha and Eric for helping me test it out yesterday and today.

And for the big announcement, the umkcddrclub.com domain is already setup and ready to go for everyone in the club. You’ll have an account and can use it to see all of your club e-mails and everything else including club documents, or the club calendar. Everything is setup and ready to go for you. More info in the forums. Please comment. This is a nifty service that’ll make everything easier for when I leave. I think it’s well worth it. Right now, we’re still testing it out so if there are any problems, make sure to notify someone (probably me) so you can get it resolved. Thank you.

[Update]

Nick fixed all of the records. Give it a few hours and everything should work for you. Use mail.umkcddrclub.com to begin your trek into the new UMKC DDR Club. We’re ready; are you?
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I forgot to upload these back on Spring ‘08 - DDR Night #15. My bad. More club members will be getting t-shirts, but here’s what we’ve got already. Maybe we can get one w/ Andy’s other shirt and some other neat things like the hat and thong (I know you’re lookin’ at it Tim!).

See, if you look carefully, you’ll see that Nick’s blatant laziness is rubbing off on Allen. Watch as Allen raises his hand trying to get our help. He can barely raise it up now, and he’s saying “help me! :’(”.

Since I am soon leaving UMKC, we needed to look for a new President for the club. With now over a year of training by me and going through jobs all the way up to Vice President,

Andy Chen

is now our newest DDR Club President. I’d like for everyone to give me a round of applause. And make sure it’s round ya lazies.

I have now stepped down to Vice President.

Hey guys, it’s Andy. I just wanted to give everyone a heads up about the upcoming freshman orientation this Saturday. No word on the exact time or location yet, but I’ll post an update as soon as I find out. So far I think Nick and I will be the only ones setting up for this one, since Kevin will be out of town. I know most of you are probably busy, but PLEASE, if you’re free on Saturday, then come and help us out, the more people the better. We wont have any flyers or posters to advertise at this one, so I’m counting on our club members to be there spreading the word about our club. If you can make it, please lemme know by posting in the sign up thread.

[Update]

Ok guys, I finally got a list of times and locations. This Saturday’s orientation will be from 11 to 12 in the Quad area. Apparently we weren’t signed up for any of them (though I remember specifically signing up for them myself…) Anyways, I need you guys there helping out, it’s really important. Thanks!

From what I know, it’s 3 songs and is supposed to be harder stuff. Yeah, it is. I just played it. There’s a 10 and a 12, and one of the songs has all difficulties. It can’t hurt to give it a shot. Go here to download them.

For the first time, more club members got to learn for the pains of working a booth! It’s not that it’s unenjoyable, it’s that you find out what it feels like at the end of the day when you’re finally done and then you realize you have to actually take all of that heavy equipment back in the car. Loading it in the car in the first place was a pain, but unloading it was much easier actually.

I thank everyone who helped us get this and helped us out at the event, The American Heart Association for having a free tent and Erin Kiekbusch for inviting us out there, Crown Center’s workers, Crown Center itself, and all of the staff and volunteers that were there to assist us with anything we needed like ice and duct tape :D. I also need to thank each and every person who DDR’d or watched because that’s the only reason our booth was so good. Without those people, it would’ve been pretty pointless to come :). THANK YOU!

Oh, and I’d like to give a shoutout to Doubles and his bro for helping us out while they were on their break. They were two of our regulars from Irish Fest so it was great to see them back!

More pics inside.
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Colby “shakesoda” K. has provided us with Optical, his Stepmania 4.0 theme. He’s customized it specifically for Jiggle Jam. Hurray! Luckily, we’ll get to use this theme outside of Jiggle Jam as well. Thank you very much Colby for all of your hard work this morning!

[Update]

This new build of Stepmania also fixes the video crashing error.
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KuriMix is a pack like Mungyodance in that it’s a standalone game. KuriMix 3rd Gen hasn’t been released yet and is in the beta phase right now, but Chris Eldridge will be allowing us a sneak peak at the pack. We will have access to five select songs from it only during Jiggle Jam.

For those of you going to Jiggle Jam, please enjoy:

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I have created a poll that ends in 8 days from the posting of this post to see what day people want Inferno to be on and if the current one works for you or not.