SJBC Classic Gaming Tournament of Champions!

Well, Nerds Socialize (J-Foo and Mr. Cucoon) managed to find ourselves a the SJBC Classic Gaming Tournament of Champions! It's a retro videogame tournament held by the community in which we live. this year was the 5th annual tournament. J-Foo attended the 4th one and almost made it to the finals, but got eliminated at the last minute.

The rules of the tournament were simple. there were 6 games:

Marble Madness
UN Sqaudron
Super Punchout!
Pac-Man
Hogan's Alley
Minecraft

There was a time limit of 3 minutes for all games. For most games (all but minecraft) you had to get the highest score possible in 3 minutes. J-Foo managed to get two high scores. He smashed the scores on Marble madness and Super Punchout!. J-Foo's scores were up there for most of the event. Mr. Cocoon managed to get the high score on UN Squadron without even trying to get one. and as for minecraft, the goal was to build something awesome in 3 minutes. Eventually, J-Foo's Punchout score was beaten, but no one even surpassed his marble madness score. So J-Foo and Mr. Cocoon made it to the finals. the final test was Dual tetris. Clear as many lines as possible in three minutes as a team. They some how pulled off 2nd place! so much awesome today. J-Foo really needed this today, for he has been having personal issues as of yesterday, so congratz!

Heres the break down of the play by play:

J-Foo chose two games he knew he would be good at. Punchout he thought he would go undefeated since he's played that game since he first started playing games. He's played it on ever console imaginable, even hacked ones.



He then chose Marble Madness. He wasn't exactly sure if he could maintain the high score on it, but it's a game he's owned since childhood, and he needed a second game to get a score in to ensure his spot in the finals. He then set high scores in both games for the longest part of 2 hours.






Then the unthinkable happened! Someone beat his punchout! score of 36190 at 41710. So he stepped back up to the plate and tried again. This time J-Foo practically doubled his score from last time with a wopping 78,310. and it stayed like that for most of the day. and only one person got close enough to almost beat his marble madness score of 19,240, and all failed to do so. eventually though, J-foo's Punchout! score was beaten again by the same person with a wopping 87,410. Luckily he kept his marble maddness score:

                                         

(A wild Mr. Cocoon has appeared!)

So the team of Mr. Cocoon and J-Foo made it to the finals for the ultimate tests! a test that only FOOLS attempt! to fall into the good graces of the Tetris god! in.... DUAL TETRIS!!!! a team sits down and plays Tetris for the N64 on marathon mode for 3 minutes. then you add up the total lines cleared and that's the teams score! Lucily J-Foo and Mr. Cocoon were in the Tetris Gods good graces and set the highscore... until our hopes of first place were DASHED in an instant when our score was beaten by 11 points.

WHY TETRIS GOD!? WHHHHHHY!!!!! We'll never acheive Tetris Nirvana now.... BUT there was a plus side... out of all the trophies... second place looked the coolest!

This will do nicely on J-Foo's mantle next to Mario and Luigi! INFACT! it already does!

We had so much fun! Thanks to all the people running the event! it was a blast and I look forward to it next year. if you wanna participate next year, I'll try to keep you informed on the event. it's nothing big, just a small gathering and it's free to enter, and there is lots of free food! Hopefully more pics to come soon guys! See you on the other side!