Archive for August, 2007
The Sandbox Tournament Series: A One-Man Show.
Last year, through a happy accident of a Sony Engineer's Ann Arbor upbringing, I found myself running a tournament for the first ever Sandbox Symposium, an effort starting by the amazing Dr. Drew to deliver a hardcore peer-reviewed conference on videogames to the increasingly unruly wilds of the mammoth SIGGRAPH event. This year, we're back, and thanks to the efforts and contributions of Sony, Microsoft, Ubisoft, and my fellow Sandbox Committee members, I'm sitting here in the San Diego Conference Center's beautiful Sails Pavilion, with 12 32" Bravia HD screens, 4 PS3s, 4 Xbox 360s, 4 Wiis, and 4 days to do whatever events I'd like for the entertainment and social enrichment of SIGGRAPH's 40,000 attendees.
So, rather than the rigid tournaments I usually run, these 9 events will be more loosey-goosey, with help-yourself-to-a-station qualifiers and self-reported scores, with the top players invited back for finals. You can check out the Sandbox Tournament Series (STS) blog here where I'll be making updates and such as the week wears on.
I'm going to sneak in a Pokémon event too, just to see if there's anyone out there who can give my Torterra a run for its money.
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