Hey Just Dance Team,
I hope you guys are doing well. Before I complain, I just want to say that I think you guys are doing a nice job with the seasons! My only issue is that they don't come soon enough! Seriously, it's your best idea for delivering content so far, and I appreciate it.
Anyways, let's talk about the Weekly. It's 8 songs of the Just Dance 2020 base game songs. Now at this exact time last year, the weekly used to occur during happy hour and it was actually a lot of fun. Not knowing which songs would appear out of a selection of 500+ was engaging every week! For example, let's look at the song selection of last year's songs:
While the songs may not be for everyone, there is much more of a variety when the weekly is during Happy Hour. Now let's compare this to the past couple of Weeklys (at the time this was written):
As I've marked on the image, certain songs like to show up consistently every week. Whether it be the normal or the alternate version, it's still the same songs being played every week. This is part of a big issue with the weekly right now: the selection of songs that the WDF has to choose is much smaller than it would be if it was during Happy Hour. A selection of around 45 songs is much more predictable than a selection of over 500 songs. This small selection results in less excitement for the weekly every Sunday. When the game released, a full Just Dance 2020 weekly was fun, since the songs were relatively new. Now that the game has been out for so long, this excitement just diminishes since we've been hearing these songs for so long. Happy Hour Weekly Tournaments raise this excitement since the song list every week is almost impossible to predict. It would be nice if we went back to weekly tournaments during happy hour to preserve a high level of excitement and suspense for the tournament every Sunday.
One last thing I would like to mention is how hard it is to access information about the weekly tournament. When I looked up "just dance weekly tournament" on google, there was no information from Ubisoft or the Just Dance Team of when it is. This is definitely an issue for newer players since most don't even know that the Weekly Tournament exists without finding out from other players. I think there should be some sort of acknowledgment towards this tournament in the game or some type of social media post.
Hopefully, this feedback can get the weekly tournament more well known and more exciting again! Right now, the weekly tournament is just getting less and less exciting every week, which needs some small changes to make it more exciting again.
That's a great and informative post! I haven't danced in a Weekly tournament for a long time. Still, I can see what you mean just from the Classic Tournaments. My last three Classic Tournaments, one of the dances was the Extreme version of The Time Dirty Bit.
They could easily have two different Weekly Tournaments: one during Happy Hour and one that isn't. I think they could have more frequent events, tournaments, etc. to give more variety.
When I first discovered Happy Hour in 2017, I enjoyed seeing the variety of songs, discovering dances that at the time were new to me, and remembering dances that I hadn't done for months.
But now with 500 or so songs in the Unlimited catalog, I tend to avoid Happy Hour because I tend to get a bit frustrated with it. A dance can come up that I haven't done for a couple of years, which I used to know really well, and I get a little frustrated that my rust shows. Off the dance floor, when I'm just dancing to songs that I pick in Unlimited, I often have to do the dance 2-3 times to really feel comfortable with it.
So I wish for Happy Hour tournaments, or a Weekly tournament with Unlimited dances, or the special tournaments that use songs from Unlimited... I wish they would publish a list of the songs in advance so that I could practice them a couple of times beforehand. The scores on the WDF are insanely good, so I like to feel prepared when I visit the WDF.
For the tournaments that only use the current year (2020 presently), it would be nice to see more variety, more randomness, and use of the full catalog (a few dances either never come up or only very rarely come up).
They should post a message (where all the other news shows up in the game) about the Weekly tournament, including which day/time to find it.
Happy dancing.
First off, I gotta say every time I see you post a comment it's always well written - I appreciate your comments!
I do think two weekly tournaments - one during happy hour and one right after - would be a cool idea!
I also understand what you mean with the frustration of not knowing a song you used to play a lot a couple of years ago and forgetting it, that was me with songs like Good Feeling and Idealistic. I do think publishing the song list of the tournaments would take away from some of the challenge. If players knew the song list beforehand, it would give some people an advantage. I also feel like some of the excitement would be lost if the list was given out.
Lastly, I do agree with the fact that the tournaments (and the world dance floor in general) can still have some more variety by adding the last couple of songs in the catalog to the song rotation.
Nice comment!
I wish there were more regular tournaments than just the classics and the weekly tournament.
Imagine an Unlimited tournament that chooses one season of Just Dance each time. We might know in advance if it will be Just Dance 2016 or if it will be Just Dance 4. That way, we wouldn't know exactly what the songs will be, but we wouldn't have to know all 500 songs to feel ready.
Imagine themed tournaments where the theme is known in advance, and where the songs would relate to the theme. It wouldn't be such a narrow theme that there are only a few songs. With all the different playlists I see appear in the news section, it seems like it could be done.
Or there could be a few weekly or semi-weekly tournaments where the song list is published in advance, along with the usual weekly tournament where it isn't known. The more variety available, the more people can find something that appeals to them.
It could make the WDF more engaging, more varied, to have a larger array of regular tournaments. Perhaps other events, too, besides the boss battles, song votes, and team battles. It would be interesting to have sort of a spontaneous mash-up mode, for example, where the game puts short pieces of different dances together for a couple of minutes. How about a reverse mode where they display (and we do) the dance backwards (its mirror image)?
They could even make sort of a tournament out of events off the WDF, sort of like how the Dancer of the Week creates competition and lets players see how they are doing relative to others. As long as we're connected to the internet when dancing off the WDF, there is potential to... After any dance, show a leaderboard for that day (more than just one dancer, hopefully, more like what we see on the WDF). After dancing to one of the current playlists (perhaps whichever one is advertised in the news section at the time), we could see a leaderboard of the top scores for that playlist. There is a lot of potential for these kinds of things. (And if they make it possible to turn such leaderboards on or off through the menu, then anyone who doesn't want this could easily avoid it.)
Your idea of having multiple tournaments gave me an idea:
What if there were more tournaments, but they were according to the playlists? For example, what if there were special tournaments throughout the day, where they would be 5 songs from the playlists that already exist? I think this would take your idea of announcing the game of a tournament with something that exists in the game already. Thoughts?
Hello everyone!
Thank you for sharing your feedback about how to improve the Weekly Tournament.
I have gone ahead and moved this thread to the General Discussions has this would be a better place for feedback.
Thanks!
That reminds me. I had a few more ideas.
Currently, when I visit the WDF, it tells me how many days, hours, and minutes it will be until the next Happy Hour. Why not do the same for the Weekly Tournament and any special tournaments. This would help advertise these special events.
Also, why does the Weekly tournament have to always be the same day and time? If the time doesn't work for your schedule, you're basically excluded from participating every week. If the day/time varied to some degree, everyone would have a better chance of finding one that worked for them. If there were a countdown showing when the next tournament would begin, it would be easy to get this information, so that everyone would easily "know" when the next tournament is.
One of the messages on the WDF indicates who has won the most tournaments and another indicates the recent weekly tournament winner. I wish the one indicating the most tournaments would indicate how many tournaments that person has won. Imagine if you've won 5 tournaments this week and someone else is ahead of you, but you have no idea if that person has won 6 or 25 tournaments. If you're close, it would motivate you to try a few more tournaments; if you're not close, you would know that you were way behind. And if a person catches up and claims this honor at the end of the week, this person gets virtually no exposure; well, they could, if it also announced the previous week's winner...
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