Talk:Rock the Rock

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• Who produced this? "ENG"? "Moxie Video"? "MTV"?
• Eventual mention of the broadcast's recovery, as it was considered lost for a while.
• Known in Japan as Sekai Taikai Rock the Rock? Set up one of those localized name tables.
• S&K was launched and marketed less like a game and more like a Hollywood motion picture. Pamela Kelly came up with the idea/organized Rock the Rock. Possibly more information here.
• MTV was seemingly only involved with the Alcatraz and video editing side of the tournament, but that needs to be verified. (Where did I hear this?)
• Some mention of a "high speech chase between the city streets". ??
• Hosted by Bill Bellamy and Daisy Fuentes.
• Put together by Tom Abramson.
• MTV broadcast was Monday, Oct 7th, 1994.
• 50 initial contestants, chosen from around 100,000 participants. 5 additional contestants chosen from phone line, totaling 55 contestants.
• Neat source here. "Five additional participants in the event were randomly selected from a pool of people who called into a dedicated phone line."
• Features interviews/segments with STI's General Manager Roger Hector, Technical Director Adrian Stephens, Music Director Howard Drossin, and Artists Kunitake Aoki and Chris Senn, as well as Sega Test (division)'s (Lead) Game Testers Aron Drayer, Janine Cook (misspelled Jamine), Marcus Montgomery, and Tracy Johnson. And then back to STI with Executive Producer Dean Lester.
• JP Tournament was known as "World Championship Japan Tournament", held at Yokohama Joypolis some good shots/video snippets of it in the video. Sponsored by Pioneer (and a second company, but I can't catch a legible still)
• Don't forget to pull the special's production credits. Start there, work backwards.
• Is all the crazy editing in this video like... MTV's take on SoA's marketing? Like MTV goes "Ok we got hired by SoA, let's try to imitate their style, with the fast edits and in your face crap", but because they're MTV and not SoA it comes out as a little better but slightly different-feeling? I THINK this may have been produced by the same company which did that frickin one video with Al Nilsen's face floating and stretching around the screen as he just sits there and quietly talks. Welcome to the Next Living Room? do we even have a page on that atrocity
• "Sonic & Knuckles International Preliminary Tournaments" is the 'official' name for exactly that.
• 19 places listed on the "contestants are from these places" section. Non-US places are: Sao Paolo Brazil, Yokohama Japan, Ottawa Canada, Hamburg Germany. So 19 competitors? Sega Visions says 16 US Hard Rocks. So why are there 4 international locations? Are there actually 20 contestants, with two from the same place (so it's only listed once?) Just an error?
• EDIT THE ABOVE "SIXTEEN HARD ROCKS" THING. Just don't wanna edit spam rn so fix it on the next pass. Don't forget a link to Brinks for context

You may already know this, but this event was covered in an issue of Sega Visions.

sweeeet, thank you so much! please feel free to dump any relevant info/magrefs/links here, or even edit the main article :) CartridgeCulture (talk) 07:07, 10 October 2022 (EDT)

To our fellow User:CartridgeCulture... What are you waiting for?! ... have fun, dude!... ;) --Asagoth (talk) 07:57, 10 October 2022 (EDT)

Place list

• Sao Paolo, Brazil
• New York, NY
• Yokohama, Japan
• Boston, MA
• Ottawa, CA
• Atlanta, GA
• Hamburg, Germany
• Miami, FL
• Washington, D.C.
• Orlando, FL
• Chicago, IL
• Houston, TX
• Los Angeles, CA
• Nashville, TN
• San Francisco, CA
• Dallas, TX
• New Orleans, LA
• San Diego, CA
• Las Vegas, NV

Contestant - rings list

• Michael Palumbo 49
• Jeff Falco 121 9th Chicago
• Donald Porter 19
• Luciano Ferreira de Souza 90
• Kristen Klemetsen 147 6th New Orleans
• Adam Hollander 63
• Christopher Rojas 10
• Chris Tang 248 Finalist
• Hitoshi Kobayashi 197 4th
• James Tutje 86
• Joe Garza Jr. 19
• Juan Torres Jr. 156 5th
• Jason Alvarez 28
• Ryan Brad 126 8th
• Lucas Carnes 15
• Steve Hughes 101 10th Vermont
• Jon Smith 97
• Eli Welby 51
• Billy Trantman 21
• Jared Finder 200 3rd San Diego
• Jennifer Allen 1
• Brian Saunders 10
• Dwayne Thompson 94
• Mark Guinane 274 Finalist
• Paolo Emmenger ? Germany (listed only in mugshots interstitial)

CartridgeCulture watches this video (WIP)

• Uhm those police bikes aren't real are they? ofc not, but dang they got their lights on and everything
• Some kinda pre-tournament event thing being held Sunday morning at Pier 41. Bellamy on a stage (I think near the aquarium/bushman area) getting a crowd of ppl hyped up, which are likely just the public - there's easily enough tourists in that area but who knows.
• Although they got from Hard Rock to the airport in individual limos, their hotel > pier transportations was a single prison bus, keeping with the theme.
• Officers are taking cartoon sacks of money from the Brinks truck. The sacks have giant dollar bills on them. This is awesome.
• oh frick what hotel is that. street view it. and why are they getting into a limo when theyre later showing up at the pier on the bus. also check clothes to times/etc.
• Lots of good shots of different tournament places. MIGHT BE Yuji Naka in frame to the right at 3:25. And WOW look at that Sonic logo in the back there, is that the modern logo? This was late 1994, either way, neat.
• I can't stop watching this fake hotel guest get body slammed out the way. And now the cops are walking besides the limo in live traffic these balls.

Sega Visions, "December/January 1994/1995" (US; 1994-xx-xx), page 6