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14Nov 09

Today was National Gaming Day

National Gaming Day is observed by libraries across the nation. The Park Hill Branch began participating in this event last year, an event that I helped run. We played a lot of Nintendo Wii, basically just Wii Sports and Mario Kart Wii, and we also had a brand new board game, of which I cannot remember the name of. Anyway, we had several kids participate and it was an enjoyable experience all around.

This year, sadly, it wasn't the same. While we were getting prepared for this year's event, we thought we'd hold a Mario Kart Wii tournament. We made flyers advertising the tournament, and I spent a good deal of time trying to set up and learn a website-based tournament system in order to organize this thing, but it ended up a total bust. We only had two people register in total, and the only kid that showed up to play wasn't even one of the registered particpants.

So from two until almost four, I spent my portion of work playing Wii with a nine year old kid. He's a good kid, a real trash talker too. But yeah, I wish there was a larger turn out, because I was all excited about the tournament t hing. I guess in retrospect, it was for the best, because I'm still under the weather, and I think if we had too many kids, I might have gone nuts.

16 Comments

  • MistressMinako

    Posted Nov 14, 2009 10:48 pm PT

    Hmm. I smell a future XBL trash talker..

    You got paid today for playing Wii, who else wouldn't want that?!

  • bacchus2

    Posted Nov 14, 2009 10:49 pm PT

    That's a shame. I tried to run a competition in our shop, the winner got a free hire of our Wii console and 3 games for 3 days (if memory serves). The first time there were 7 entrants for the Guitar Hero 2 comp, and the second time I think there were 3 for the WarioWare competition. Needless to say we stopped doing it after that as with so small numbers there was no payoff for the business.

  • GrandJury

    Posted Nov 14, 2009 11:20 pm PT

    Wow National gaming day and I don't even have a damn thing to play...Sigh. Anyway I am sorry your tournament was a bust dude. Maybe next year.

  • Lopur94

    Posted Nov 14, 2009 11:33 pm PT

    Ohhh that sucks... Too bad I dont live newhere near you for my little bros are crazy mario kart players. Even my dad lmao.

  • mattykovax

    Posted Nov 15, 2009 12:34 am PT

    Still not a bad deal.As was pointed out,you got paid to play wii.

  • pigfish2

    Posted Nov 15, 2009 1:23 am PT

    I've never heard of national gaming day before but it sounds awesome

  • mjcowley Site moderator

    Posted Nov 15, 2009 1:49 am PT

    A shame, but good for you for sticking through it. Hope you are feeling a bit better.

  • hazelnutman

    Posted Nov 15, 2009 2:09 am PT

    Reminds me of a "Go Green" event I had to help set up, participate in, and advertise for. It was this environment awareness thing I was doing for extra creds/volunteer hours.

    My video won "Best Highschool Video" at the film competition, because I had the only highschool video there.

    To help sponsor the event, my friend and I did little dances on an intersection to promote the event.

    The turnout and participation in it was literally the most depressing thing ever.

    Either way, I'm seriously surprised there even is a national gaming day. I'm assuming the nation we're talking about is the US? Either way, I spent mine playing BlazBlue and Demon's Souls

  • horgen123

    Posted Nov 15, 2009 2:51 am PT

    You should have told me earlier

  • Travo_basic

    Posted Nov 15, 2009 3:39 am PT

    My wife's library used to have big Gaming Day parties with DDR, Smash Bros, Gears of War. It was pretty cool.

  • 60spaure

    Posted Nov 15, 2009 5:46 am PT

    I didn't know it was National Gaming Day. It's a shame it didn't turned out well...

    This is a simpsons banner, right? (from left to right: the monster, son of the police officer, Dr. that says hi everybody, the kid that always say "ha, ha", chief wiggums, snake and bart.)

  • TeabagChampion

    Posted Nov 15, 2009 7:47 am PT

    Dont you just love those 9 year old kids that some how get there tiny little hands on rated M games and trash talk on Xbox live? Mario Kart is an awesome game. Are you sure that something didnt go wrong with the website?

  • MJoanne

    Posted Nov 15, 2009 8:29 am PT

    What a shame that there was such poor participation. I would have thought that more people would have joined in. Oh, well, at least you got to game on the job.

  • david_lck

    Posted Nov 15, 2009 8:43 am PT

    Ah, its a shame that the event didn't turned out as planned and only one kid showed up. Still you got paid to spend the whole day playing the Wii, so its not too bad.

  • JustPlainLucas

    Posted Nov 15, 2009 8:48 am PT

    @60spaure Yep. I have this webcomic i used to do, and I did Simpsons comics for a week because of the movie, and then I decided to just bring all the characters together and make a banner out of it. @TeaBagChampion Naw, people knew the event was being held. They just didn't show up.

  • hank_101

    Posted Nov 15, 2009 10:18 am PT

    That's cool that the library does a gaming day, but sorry only one person came.

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