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Teen Gaming Tournament Continues

Candy Moseley — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 20:20:00 GMT

Jane and I have to say that Saturday was an amazing launch of our second season. Jack Patillo, our emcee, was fantastic as always and the Hurd family (name sound familiar?) were in to help set up.

Over 70 people showed up for the tournament and about 30 or so competed on Melee.

Sadly, gone are the days of Cheeto & Dew and because of our renovations we are now pretzel and water people...however...judging from the empty bags and bottles no one was complaining too much!

Open play was pretty cool with some Mario Kart in the second room and David Bowie!? hmm...on DDR.

Also we gave a valiant attempt to particiapte in a National Gaming Day Brawl tournament but technical difficulties...yada, yada...it was a great time anyway. Matt F., Blake B., Kyle S. and Marcus R. were super troopers and hung in there till the bitter end. Of course, in the end, they did get to boggart the Wii and play online a bit so I think they survived the disappointment.

So here is where we stand...Moving on to the finals are:

1. Daniel Vasquez

2. Javier Galicia

Lots of guys left hungry for victory so I think we will see a mighty return on December the 6th. Be there.

We're ba-a-ck!!

Candy Moseley — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 14:49:00 GMT

I hadn't realized it had been almost a year since our Grand Finale! I am at an amazing Gaming Symposium near Chicago learning more than I could hope about teens, gaming and libraries. I will be truly updating the blog shortly but just for starters... I hope that you all are ready for the second season of our GT!!! I hardly realized that almost one year has passed since our last grand finale! November 15th is National Gaming Day and the first day of our second season. Be at the library by 12:00 for registration and game play begins at 1PM. We are going to compete on Super Smash Bros. Melee and we should have some pretty great open play (and hopefully a few surprises). DDR Super Smash Bros. Brawl Mario Kart Wii Will update more later...links too...

RRPL Exclusive! Live Report From The Gaming Tourney!

Candy Moseley — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 18:36:00 GMT

Ahh the day has finally come... The 2-6 Teen Gaming Tournament is here!

I'll be reporting as stuff happens, just make like it's happening live as you read.

The prizes look pretty good, and the eye-hand cordination here is INSANE, should be a good binary brawl...

Currently it's 12:45, registration for the wildcard spots have begun. There's a Mario Bros. Melle battling away to my left (go Link!), and ther is a bit of a pile up at the DDR. Must grab some snacks...

It's 1:20, just pulled the 8 wild cards for competion. Man guess who had to pull out the tickets? (X[). Tourney begins soon, the battle for total game ownage is begining to heat up...

Excellent, Mario Double Dash (MDD) is starting up, and I've got, crud, the 5th best view :p (wassup with that? I should have the best view).

1:25, Right we are doing the qualifyers, nothing to significant. AMAZING gaming skills being displayed here...

1:30, Yeah raffle! Ah man, I didn't get anything? Pretty cool games and and MDD RC cars as prizes.

2:05, FINAL RACE! Man, these guys really know there stuff. I'm fairly competent at MDD, but the level of skill at which these guys are racing... is simply phenominal. Amazing things happen when gaming morphs into an art...

Jacob H WINS!

Final placings are:

1st: Jacob H

2nd: Jared H

3rd: Marcus R

4th: Damian B

Man, 1st place got a $100 Games Stop gift card, and 2nd-4th got $25 Game Stop gift cards. The level of gaming skill and sportsmanship being displayed here are exponentionally amazing.

Well, that's a wrap on that, looks like we've got some cleaning to do... Nah time for me to Melle!