Rock the Rock

To do

• Eventual mention of the broadcast's recovery, as it was considered lost for a while.
• 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?)
• Hosted by Bill Bellamy and Daisy Fuentes.
• 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."
• I have a gut feeling segments of this may have been produced by the same company which did that 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?
• "Sonic & Knuckles International Preliminary Tournaments" is the 'official' name for exactly that.
• Sega Visions says 16 US Hard Rocks.

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)

Ranking contestants

Rank	Name	Location represented	Rings
Finalist	Mark Guinane	unknown	274
Finalist	Chris Tang	San Francisco, California	248
3rd	Jared Finder	San Diego, California	200
4th	Hitoshi Kobayashi	Yokohama, Japan	197
5th	Juan Torres Jr.	unknown	156
6th	Kristen Klemetsen	New Orleans, Louisiana	147
7th
8th	Ryan Brad	unknown	126
9th	Jeff Falcom	Chicago, Illinois	121
10th	Steve Hughes	Vermont, United States	101

Invitational tournament locations

• 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

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