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The Property Finals @ Showboat, AC

The winners are announced! Of course by the lovely Maria…

This was an absolutely amazing night of pure score whoring & defying odds. We (Luca, Miguel, Joel & myself) went into this round of the competition with some huge obstacles to overcome. Going up against MoB (which included Wulfe, IceMage, Supermario & Azuritereaction) all of whom are masters of Rockband & sponsored by legitimate gaming organization. These guys wrecked Tangled Up in Blue with 2.597 Million points, a nearly unbeatable run. Fortunately for us, and the 1st time the thread of destiny shone it’s glimmering strands, the vocalist, Icemage got a couple of “strongs” and broke the 8x multiplier thereby allowing us the “chance” to beat their score. (If they had hit 2.71 or so mil, it would have been impossible to beat them).

The Boardwalk Boys performing Tangled Up In Blue
Vocals – Icemage | Guitars – Wulfe | Bass – Sup3rMario | Drums – Azuritereaction

We went second and absolutely crushed Down With the Sickness with 2.61 Million 5 Gold Stars.

Owned. Miguel's on Bass (1st 100% ever for him, overstrum to be accurate), Luca on Drums (-3 notes), Joel on Vox (misses one phrase), Chris on Guitar (-1 note)

As you can see by our (and the audience’s reaction) when the score clicked over to 2.61 and we realized we had beaten 4 of America’s BEST rockband players, we did not take the matter lightly.

It wasn’t over by a long shot. Next up were the insurmountable wall of full combo-ing & pathing rock band gods (not unlike the 1st band), all of whose videos I’d quite often watch on youtube for tips & general rockband awesomeness, Don’t Call me Shirley (nice Airplane! reference, p43nut xP). These guys are not just fantastic rockband gods, but also good friends from the village pourhouse crew and online.

Guitar – Crazed | Bass – P34nut | Vox – dogfoodnyc
Drums – Gurnkiller   (YES, this is the REAL gurnkiller…. We were coming up with band names in the bus on our 1st trip to qualify for these property finals and we knew Leigh (Gurnkiller would have to be defeated eventually if we did qualify), so we named it The Gurn Killers almost as a joke. Little did we know.

Doing Down With the Sickness as well, they are headed towards a narrow victory over our 2.61mil…

Basically at 4:20 in this video, Crazed the guitarist over-strums during an 8x multiplier and it’s OVER. They come in at 2.599 Million and we basically go apeshit. Statistically it was pretty unlikely that a band that had only once before hit over 2.6 million would OUT score not one, but 2 bands, both of which were scoring in the high 2.67 + range on their songs, RELIABLY. Not to mention do it under pressure & with slightly iffy game calibration & instruments. We felt like we had won the whole tournament right there…. reality didn’t settle in til later.

Honestly no disrespect to any of the bands that played afterwards, but this was it for us… we knew that we, mob & gurn’s band were the 3 top scoring bands and as soon as we knew that they were out, we knew we had basically just advanced to the regionals…

A mjor drinking binge ensues & ego trips were not lost on asking random people to let us use their guitar!

An unbelievable high note in this epic journey.

The Gurn Killers Win it!!

Hey everyone!  The Gurn Killers here with our first blog post!

And we think the perfect way to start this blog off is to thank everyone who made this possible!

- Harrah’s, MTV, Harmonix: Thank you for organizing this tournament and for bringing so many awesome people from around the country together. Despite all the logistical and technical hurdles you had to deal with, it was an amazing first effort at this sort of competition and we hope to be part of any such events in the future.

- The judges: Thank you for taking time out of your busy schedules to perform what’s basically a thankless job. We hope you had a good time being entertained by all of us.

- The B-52s: Thank your for agreeing to be part of the promotion and for helping fulfill the rock star fantasies of four video game geeks from New York.

- The Gurn Killer Army: Thank you for being such an incredible source of support through our entire journey. We seriously couldn’t have done it without you. It still blows our minds to look at photos with 20-30 people wearing GK t-shirts. Just… unreal!

- Our competition: Thank you for not just putting up a hell of a fight, but for being such awesome folks. We had a blast meeting all sorts of cool new people through every step of the competition, including some who have become very close friends in the past few weeks. It was an honor to have some of our regional opponents join the GK Army going into the national finals.

Special mention goes to MoB, Don’t Call Me Shirley, Strippers for Stephen Hawking, Mario Speedwagon (BEST. BAND NAME. EVER) and last but certainly not least FA/KE. Every single one of you made this competition tough as ****, from literally a one-note victory in the property finals to a 1-point victory in the regionals to taking the national championship with a scant 3-point victory over the band who unanimously gave the best single-song performance in the entire tournament. We hope we haven’t seen the last of any of you.

- All the family and friends that we’ve lost contact with over the last month as we busted our butts to bring home the bacon. Thank you for being so understanding… we hope we’ve made you proud (cross-dressing aside).

- Thanks to TJ and crew for the tournament coverage.

Expect a lot more from The Gurn Killers in the upcoming weeks.