Nintendo hosts Smash Bros Brawl tournaments, gives away crystal-covered Wii
Thursday, February 14th, 2008 at 7:48am by Press Release
Attention all Smash fans: Put up your dukes! Just before the launch of the much-anticipated Super Smash Bros. Brawl, Mario and friends are hosting four regional Wii 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
February 14th, 2008 at 8:00 am
Its Brawl’n Time.
February 14th, 2008 at 8:06 am
Wow…… How friggin awesome is that!!! Thats a lot of prizes for one person!
But I live way down in Tallahassee, FL!!
oh well.. I guess I’ll just wait till it comes out.
February 14th, 2008 at 8:35 am
Hm that doesn’t seem very fair - what if someone imported the game from Japan. They would have way more experience than us Americans because they’d already played it.
February 14th, 2008 at 8:44 am
This is awesome! (Comment posted while waiting in line for tournament.)
February 14th, 2008 at 9:20 am
A Super Smash Bros. Brawl in NY seems cool to me. I might consider going.
February 14th, 2008 at 10:18 am
Why they leaving out Denver, dang it!!
February 14th, 2008 at 10:22 am
Whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa. They’re holding it at WPI? I live like 8 minutes from there, COUNT ME IN!
February 14th, 2008 at 10:57 am
@ David, haha. I wouldnt be surprised if some nut was just leaving with a sleeping bag and a couple of dozen bags of crips/chips.
February 14th, 2008 at 11:50 am
Oh man. I used to be a student at WPI (class of 03). I would have been all over this. Nothing this cool happened while I was there!!
February 14th, 2008 at 12:02 pm
Aye, the middle of the U.S. never gets this type of thing. Oh, great plains north to south, from North Dakota to Texas, nobody loves us.
February 14th, 2008 at 2:50 pm
Wow now those are some nice prizes.
February 14th, 2008 at 3:28 pm
Neko, it’s you and me. Put em up.
Also, see you tonight.
February 14th, 2008 at 3:43 pm
KRISTAHL WIII???? =)
February 14th, 2008 at 4:33 pm
what? no seattle/redmond love? awwww cmon!
February 14th, 2008 at 6:19 pm
Eh… that’s awesome, but alas, nowhere close enough to Ohio… I shall just patiently wait until it arrives into my anxious hands, and then receives a permanent spot in that beautiful blue glowing slot…
I am so psyched to play against some other Infendoites. Won’t that be sweet?
February 14th, 2008 at 6:55 pm
im going to la thi weeknd hopefully
February 14th, 2008 at 7:04 pm
Awesome. ill really consider attending this event. LA would be my place, is not really that far from here… 1 hour tops if there’s a lot of traffic.
Anyways, if i go, ill be sure to report on it for you Infendomaniacs that dont have the opportunity to go.
And is it just me, or does the 2nd price sounds much better than the 1st place price? But nah i dont think so… it’ll probably be a real nice, kick-ass sound system with a HDDVD/blu-ray player that well worth the 1000+ bucks. Besides, custom Wii =D!
February 15th, 2008 at 10:03 am
Never in Ohio. Never in Ohio…
You are totally right -_Q
February 16th, 2008 at 2:47 pm
The Tournament in Los Angeles is starting today! Too bad I live in Florida!
February 23rd, 2008 at 4:07 pm
I live in Idaho, too bad theres nothing in seatle or something….. ***SIGH*** I realy, realy, realy, realy, realy, realy want to go!