Nintendo Dishes Out Super Smash Bros. Brawl Tournaments
Nintendo is preparing to launch a handful of "regional" tournaments featuring Super Smash Bros. Brawl. The first 256 people in line at each tournament will be eligible to battle each other for eternal glory. Here are the cities where these "regional" tournaments will take place:
Feb. 16
Orpheum Theater
842 S. Broadway
Los Angeles, CA 90014
Doors open at 3 p.m.
Feb. 23
Ten15 Folsom
1015 Folsom St.
San Francisco, CA 94103
Doors open at 2 p.m.
March 1
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Olden Hall
100 Institute Road
Worcester, MA 01609
Doors open at 3 p.m.
March 8
Best Buy (NOHO)
622 Broadway
New York, NY 10012
Doors open at 5 p.m.
Everything will build up to the final brawl in New York City where "the grand prize winner will receive a crystal-coated Wii with a design from Super Smash Bros. Brawl, a home theater system from Best Buy and a copy of the game." There are other prizes to be had by the second, third and fourth place winners. For the full details of the tournament and the prizes, make the jump.
Nintendo's Super Smash Bros. Brawl Tournaments Storm the Country
Nintendo and Best Buy Team Up to Crown a National Champion
your dukes! Just before the launch of the much-anticipated Super Smash
Bros.(R) Brawl, Mario(TM) and friends are hosting four regional Wii(TM)
tournaments. The competitions will visit Los Angeles, San Francisco, Boston
and finally New York for a Midnight Madness Launch event at the Best Buy store
at 622 Broadway in New York. All of the 256 participants at each location will
receive a $10 Best Buy gift card. One lucky grand prize winner will receive a
custom-designed, crystal-covered Wii, a home theater system from Best Buy and
other prizes.
"Super Smash Bros. is one of the world's most popular game franchises
because it draws in characters from across the Nintendo universe and beyond
for some all-out fighting fun," said Cammie Dunaway, Nintendo of America's
executive vice president of sales & marketing. "Super Smash Bros. Brawl has
extreme appeal among our core audience, but these tournaments are a great way
to get new fans involved as well -- before the game is even available in
stores."
Each regional tournament will provide the first 256 people in attendance
the chance to "brawl" one-on-one with other contestants in a
single-elimination tournament to determine a winner in each market. Regional
winners will face off in a final multiplayer "brawl" at the New York City
tournament.
The grand prize winner will receive a crystal-coated Wii with a design
from Super Smash Bros. Brawl, a home theater system from Best Buy and a copy
of the game. The second-place finisher will receive one Wii system and Wii
Remote, one copy of Super Smash Bros. Brawl and a $1,000 Best Buy gift card.
The third-place finisher will receive a Wii and Wii Remote, a copy of the game
and a $500 Best Buy gift card. The fourth-place finisher will receive a Wii,
an extra Wii Remote, a copy of the game and a $250 Best Buy gift card. For
more information about the tournaments, visit Nintendo.com.
The tournaments will take place at the following times and locations:
Feb. 16
Doors open at 3 p.m.
Orpheum Theater
842 S. Broadway
Los Angeles, CA 90014
Feb. 23
Doors open at 2 p.m.
Ten15 Folsom
1015 Folsom St.
San Francisco, CA 94103
March 1
Doors open at 3 p.m.
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Olden Hall
100 Institute Road
Worcester, MA 01609
March 8
Doors open at 5 p.m.
Best Buy (NOHO)
622 Broadway
New York, NY 10012
Super Timsy
Posted to Video Games on 14 February 2008
· Comments (7)
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This kind of makes me jealous because I'm in Canada and don't get this... but... even if I was there, I don't know if I'd be willing to brave going in to the swarm that's sure to occur.
Folsom? Really?
I have to admit that if I was on Folsom, I wouldn't be thinking about Nintendo games.
Maybe I'm just being petty, but if they have a final version of the game ready for tournament play in two days, why do we have to wait another month for the launch?
I guess they might still be translating some of the extras, like the tropies. But still. *grumble*
probably building up supplies before release(and shipping them too).
the LA tourney is TOMORROW. holy crap. when was this announced?
ughhhh gotta find a way up there asap.
San Francisco, 23 feb, 1015 Folsom St, check check and double check! Meet you all there!
SSBB has sold 840,000 in it’s launch week in Japan, getting to a million after eleven days. And with expectation at a fever pitch it will definitely launch at number one in America and Europe. But will it be one of the biggest games of 2008?