| One Reason to Enjoy Gamestop |
| Written by James | |||||||||||||
| Saturday, 08 March 2008 | |||||||||||||
 Although Gamestop has had some shady tactics in the past, they are doing good with their Super Smash Bros. Release tomorrow. While it is news to me that stores are releasing Smash on Sunday (which happens to be the day that most games are said to be released, yet they are finally available on Tuesdays), 2,500 Gamestop stores in the USA are holding the Smash tournament to end all Smash tournaments. They are holding a four round event that will start March 9th (Smash release day) at 12:01am and continue for two more rounds. The final round will have 8 national winners being flown to California to the new gaming center in San Jose to compete for the grand prize: A LCD TV, a Nintendo Wii, a game library of Nintendo games (which games I don't know) and $5,000 cash money. While there are conflicting reports on the official start time of the event (Joystiq, as well as Gamestop's official phone calls, claims that the tournaments starts at 10pm on the 8th, while the Gamestop site says 12:01 on release), you will still need to sign up 30 minutes before the event starts at your local store. You can call your local store (which you must first check if your store is open until midnight which you can do here) to find out when the event starts just to be sure. The official rules states you have to 13+ and be a U.S. citizen to play. So, you young people actually have a chance this time around. So, if you aren't doing anything tomorrow night, why not play Smash and see you have what it takes. With that, I am out. Source: Gamestop Smash Tournament page Show how much you love us:     Comments (6)
Jason
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| I got a call from Gamestop about this since I pre-ordered Brawl. You can bet you're arse I'm going! Gonna take my little brother with me :D And y'know what? Who cares that I commented in my own comments system? Do you? DO YOU? |
Twilight_King11
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| ^No. I would do this, but I'll probably be asleep. |
Son Of Mido
said:
| For all the Canadians on here, run to EB Games tomorrow morning, same time, for pretty much the exact same thing. 48-man tourneys, last man standing. Qualifying round winners get a Brawl T-shirt, winners of Semi-finals get paid travel and acommodation to Toronto for finals, and grand prize is a trip for 2 to Nintendo World NYC, with spending money I'm assuming. http://nintendo.ca/cgi-bin/usersite/display_info.cgi?id=23801&lang=en&pageNum=7 for the details. |
UhhSplat
said:
| i would love to go but i have work in the morning |
darkgerudo
said:
| Yeah they had adverts about this event plastered all over the local Gamestop store when I stopped by to reserve my copy of Wrath of the Lich King |
Wolflink12
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| I entered in the tournament, I was up till 1:00 AM waiting in line, but gosh darnit I got 3rd out of those 140 people (third sadly doesn't get you to the next round). I did get the game and it is so cool but I can't play it because of homework and FCAT week and going to bed early... |
