Omegathon = Mega Fun
First of all, you are probably wondering what Omegathon is, just as I wondered as I made myself comfortable among the throngs of video gamers in balcony of the main theater at PAX East 2010.
From what I gather, it is this: It’s a video game tournament with just 32 participants drawn at random from the conventioneers and randomly paired into teams. Each night of the convention, a new type of game would narrow the brackets to two final teams, who would face off during the closing ceremony.
The final round of the tournament was four times more exciting because it was a four-game relay! The team members alternated the first three games, and the final game was a co-op (I know, this word meant nothing to me either. “Co-op” means it’s a two-player game.) (Editor’s note: Please, god, if you care about the Blueberry Muffin Tops Blog at all, you will keep avid gamers from reading this – no offense, Hillary. –mpg)
The games with their corresponding objectives were as follows:
1. “Super Mario Bros”: obtain 50 coins http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Mario_Bros.
2. “Rad Racer”: score 1500 points http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rad_Racer
3. “Tetris”: clear 10 lines http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetris
4. “Contra”: defeat the first boss http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contra_(video_game)
This relay was tense! The only way that play was allowed to stop is if there was some sort of technical failure. And during the very first seconds of the game, one team’s controller failed! During the second attempt, the other team was way ahead and almost won when something on “Contra” froze up and the pairs had to start over.
The crowd was going crazy! There was so much screaming and cheering I thought I was going to go deaf! And the whole time, the two Masters of Ceremony were delivering hilarious color commentary.
The third time through the relay we got a finisher, and thereby a winner. It was team 4: Danimus and Danimal, who won trips to Germany. Gute Reise, Herren!
First of all, you are probably wondering what Omegathon is, just as I wondered as I made myself comfortable among the throngs of video gamers in balcony of the main theater at PAX East 2010.
From what I gather, it is this: It’s a video game tournament with just 32 participants drawn at random from the conventioneers and randomly paired into teams. Each night of the convention, a new type of game would narrow the brackets to two final teams, who would face off during the closing ceremony.
The final round of the tournament was four times more exciting because it was a four-game relay! The team members alternated the first three games, and the final game was a co-op (I know, this word meant nothing to me either. “Co-op” means it’s a two-player game.) (Editor’s note: Please, god, if you care about the Blueberry Muffin Tops Blog at all, you will keep avid gamers from reading this – no offense, Hillary. –mpg)
The games with their corresponding objectives were as follows:
1. “Super Mario Bros”: obtain 50 coins http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Mario_Bros.
2. “Rad Racer”: score 1500 points http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rad_Racer
3. “Tetris”: clear 10 lines http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetris
4. “Contra”: defeat the first boss http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contra_(video_game)
This relay was tense! The only way that play was allowed to stop is if there was some sort of technical failure. And during the very first seconds of the game, one team’s controller failed! During the second attempt, the other team was way ahead and almost won when something on “Contra” froze up and the pairs had to start over.
The crowd was going crazy! There was so much screaming and cheering I thought I was going to go deaf! And the whole time, the two Masters of Ceremony were delivering hilarious color commentary.
The third time through the relay we got a finisher, and thereby a winner. It was team 4: Danimus and Danimal, who won trips to Germany. Gute Reise, Herren!
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