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Word from Travis Houk, who shattered the previously set DDR world record back in November 2011, saying that Guinness has rejected the evidence that he submitted.

From Travis’s twitter:

“Guinness reject claim: “The video evidence you have submitted shows sections of up to 60 seconds without human input.” Am asking for proof.” -@travishouk on twitter

We’ll stay on top of this and report any updates as they come in.

For more information on the attempt, including links where you can watch the whole thing go down, visit the following link:

http://beatgamer.com/?p=373

Although we are not the most visited music gaming website on the internet, we still have a voice here, and as long as we have that voice, we’re going to exercise our right to speak out against SOPA and PIPA, 2 dangerous bills making their way through the system which threaten the freedom of the internet.

At 12:00 Midnight on 18 January 2012, we will join countless other websites across the internet which are taking place in an online protest, to bring attention to SOPA and PIPA.

Our main website at beatgamer.com, .net and .org, as well as our message board at forums.beatgamer.com will be unavailable all day.  In it’s place, a message regarding the blackout protest, along with links to articles and resources regarding SOPA and PIPA.

The passing of SOPA or PIPA would have a substantial impact on the music gaming community here in the United States. For example, custom songs and fan generated themes, videos of players achieving high scores,  and community websites could essentially all be shut down. Understandably, the vast majority of music gamers in the United States is strongly opposed to SOPA and PIPA.

We hope that you will take this opportunity to help educate others about these attacks on freedom. Together, we can end this threat. Make your voice heard! Stand with the rest of the internet against SOPA and PIPA. Fight for a free and open internet.

This year I’ll start posting some videos that I’ve uploaded to youtube. I don’t want to spam the entire front page with a bunch of my older videos, so I’ll just pick a couple of videos from my archives and slowly work my way to current and newer videos. 

Salt Lake Beatgamer Kyzentun loves doubles. He’s probably one of the last remaining serious doubles players that we have here in Salt Lake, possibly in the entire region.

While he definitely plays for score most of the time, he also likes to have a little fun every now and then. He  made this edit of The 7 Jump and as far as I can remember, is the only one locally who’s ever been able to pass it.

When not using his head to hit one of the arrows, you can usually find him floating around the ziv message boards.

Yeah it’s the Holiday season, and I’ve been a little busy with stuff. Also, the recent database problem I had kind of threw me off a little bit. I had posted a few other stories when all of that happened ><

But we’re still here. Mostly active on Facebook, so when you don’t see an update from us in a while and want to know what’s up, check out the facebook link on the right.

I hope to maybe post an update before the end of the year.

We’ve been having some issues with wordpress not playing nice with our database this last week. I found the problems but had to restore the database from previous backups. As a result, 2 of the stories I wrote in the last couple of weeks were lost. I’ll try to rewrite them, but we’re back up and running just fine! Stay tuned.

From Knoxville, TN, Travis Houk a.k.a. Daiz has set the world record for playing on a dance game (DDR World Record) by playing for just over 40 hours. This time does also include breaks which are guaranteed by the guidelines set for achieving this record.

Daiz started his attempt at Zuma’s Family Fun Center in Knoxville, TN shortly after 5:00AM (Eastern) the morning of Saturday, 19 November 2011. He broke the previous record of 15.5 hours, held by Carrie Swidecki of Bakersfield, CA around 8:30PM Eastern on Saturday, 19 November 2011. He hit the 24 hour mark this morning, Sunday, the 20th of November 2011 at 5:12AM Eastern, and his goal of 40 hours was reached at approx 9:12PM Eastern that evening.

DDR players from all over the world tuned into the livestream at twitch.tv to watch Daiz make this attempt.

The last song that he passed was Max 300, and he failed the next song Valkyrie Dimension Oni at the 40:02:12 mark, officially ending the event.

UPDATE: We made Travis a quick video congratulating him on his achievement. We are kind of scary looking, ne?

UPDATE: If you want to relive the entire experience, it looks like twitch.tv has archived all of the streaming video on Travis’s twitch.tv page.

UPDATE: Fixed errors with the time reporting. We’re in the Mountain time zone (-7h GMT) and I forgot to account for those extra 2 hours when I posted the stopping time… Oops. Sorry!

From Knoxville, Travis (Diaz) blew away the previously held 15.5 hour world record last night and is now 35 hours into his goal of 40 hours. Daiz hit the 24 hour mark at 5:12AM Eastern time this morning (-5 GMT). If all goes well, his goal of 40 hours should be hit at 9:12PM Eastern this evening (20 November 2011).

Diaz still looks pretty good on the feed, and has been using his accumulated resting time well. He currently shows no signs of stopping and these next 5 hours should go by quite fast.

We’ll update you on his progress over the next 5 hours. See this post for information on how you can watch the feed and keep updated. Keep going, Daiz!! It’s totally in the bag!

We would like to wish you all a happy 20 November. The yearly holiday celebrated by Bemani and music game fans all over the world, which some also refer to as “Bemani day”. Bemani has now been around for 13 years! So find yourself a Bemani machine and play a little today!

As far as 20 November events, the only event we were really able to find was Daiz’s DDR World Record attempt. He’s going for 40 hours (from about 5am Saturday, 19 november to 9PM Sunday, 20 November – Eastern time) and as of this post has already hit 24 hours. Click this link for more information.

Don’t forget Orange Lounge Radio’s yearly 20 November special: I love that song! – That Time of Year Again!

If you know of any other 20 November events that we’ve missed, please post about them on our facebook page.

At 5:12AM Eastern Time (-5 GMT) on Sunday, 20 November 2011, Travis Houk (Daiz) of Knoxville, TN has been playing DDR for roughly 24 hours straight. He broke the previous record of 15.5 hours shortly after 8:30PM Eastern Time on Saturday, 19 November 2011.

Daiz is continuing towards his goal of 40 hours, only stopping for sanctioned breaks.

You can view the live stream below and follow his progress via his official twitter, or here on Beatgamer (facebook and twitter). We’ll be reporting on his progress regularly.

Watch live video from DDR World Record 40 Hour Attempt on www.twitch.tv

Travis (Daiz) of Knoxville, TN has taken the DDR world record previously held by Carrie Swidecki from California.

Earlier this week, we learned from a post on the AIJ forums that Travis would be going for the record, and shortly after 5am Eastern this morning, he went for it.

Following a short glitch with the video stream, they were back up and streaming only 6 minutes before the record mark.

Travis is going to continue, though. And hopes to hit at least 40 hours.

We’ll keep you updated on his progress. You can also watch the stream yourself by following the link below:
Watch live video from DDR World Record 40 Hour Attempt on www.twitch.tv