GameStop Celebrating Smash Bros. Brawl Release With Tournaments
By Jonathan on Thursday, March 6th, 2008 at 2:21 PM PST In Game Companies, Game Consoles, Gamer Life, Games, Games Industry, Nintendo, Nintendo
GameStop has announced that they will be hosting Smash Bros. Brawl tournaments at 2,500 of their locations this coming Saturday, March 8th, to celebrate the release of the new game on March 9. Each selected GameStop or EB Games store will host a single-elimination tournament on Saturday to determine a winner for each location. Most of these tournaments will begin at around 10 pm, but you should check with your local store to make sure and also be sure to get there a half hour early. The winners will then move on to a series of District tournaments on March 15th, followed by Regional tournaments on March 29th. The finalists of the Regionals will then move on to the Finals event at the GameStop tournament store in San Jose, California on April 12th. The Grand Prize winner will receive a sweet package that includes one Vizio 37″ LCD-TV, an entire Nintendo Wii Software Library, one Nintendo Wii console and selected accessories, and $5,000 in cash. The second and third place winners will also receive GameStop gift cards.
Be sure to check out the official contest website to see if your nearest store is holding a tournament.
Via Press Release
I signed up for the tournament cause I really don’t have anything planned on Saturday night anyways and it’ll give me a chance to play Smash Bros. before I get it on Sunday. If anyone wants to say hello, I’ll be at the GameStop in Edgewater, NJ. It isn’t too far from NYC, so you New York folks can drop by too.