Gamestop Midnight SSBB Release Tournament

[MrWafflez]

Anyone going to be participating in it? For those of you that haven't heard about it, Gamestop and EBGames are having a tournament in hundreds/thousands of locally participating Gamestop stores at midnight on March 9th, when the stores officially open to sell the first copies, even though some have been leaked already, of Brawl.

http://www.gamestop.com/gs/ssbb/tournament/default.asp

There's three rounds. The first consists of single elimination in one-minute rounds against a random opponent at the store. All the match settings and controllers are provided, and you duke it out for one-minute. Winner plays a new person until one is left.


I want to enter, but there's a problem. I need a parent/guardian to go with me, so I can't get a ride from a friend. I need my parent's to go as well. Normally, I could convince them to take me, but I have a dilemma.

I pre-ordered the game at a smaller EB Games, that hardly anyone around here knows about. It's how I got my Wii within the first week of release. That store either opens at normal time, 11 a.m., or a little earlier, such as 9 a.m.

But it's in the same town as the Gamestop I would go to, because it's the smallest town around here participating in the tournament, meaning the least amount of opponents. The first round seems like the best won't move on, because everyone is bound to slip up when they're playing 20 different one-minute matches, if not more. So I want the fewest amount of competitors naturally.


Now, I can't leave here at 11 p.m., arrive there and sign-up at 12 a.m., and stay until 11 a.m. That's just way to long. So I don't know if I should go for the tournament and hope to get the game some other time, or just go and get the game disregarding the tournament.



Anyone else participating in it though? Some really good prizes at stake.

[Daigo]

yup, i've had the day planned for months already. Have a friend that works over at Gamestop.

Glad to know they decided to use gamcube, wii-mote is just uncomfortable to play for smash.

Friend also said that they will have smash game up on display, so i need to keep a look out and practice a bit.