Topic: Nintendo Life tournaments

Due to not wanting to be spoiled for Majora's Mask I'm having a temporary break from Hyrule Warriors and decided to return to Mario Kart 8. While playing, I thought back to last year's Mario Kart 8 summer tournaments (I'm talking mostly about the ones before the EGX related stuff) and wonder if something similar could happen this year but with multiple games.

There could be:

• A Mario Kart 8 tournament with all 48 tracks available
• A Smash Wii U tournament provided the tournaments update makes this suitable
• A squad Splatoon tournament where people sign up in groups of 4 with other members in the community and/or people they know locally (may change dependent on how the online actually works come launch)
• Maybe even a Devil's Third tournament assuming that game comes out 1st half of 2015 (it's already rated in Australia so it can't be too far off, right?)
• Star Fox tournament if it has online multiplayer and comes out early enough

A Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate Solo Speedrun tournament would be another pretty neat one.

Meh. All of the tournaments and contents they hold are UK-only I believe. The last time (I think.) that I got the chance to enter a competition here was for an Animal Crossing New Leaf shirt a year and a half ago! I also believe that there were a few Nintendolife Mario Kart 7 servers up, but good luck trying to get 1,000,000 points which is what the first place guys would always have!

That's one of the main reasons why Mario Kart 8 treats tournaments better because a race number limit can be set. Anyway I can see why they're UK exclusive and that's because Nintendo ditched a points system for real money hence UK eshop cards cannot be redeemed in EU eshops. That said, maybe Nintendo will announce something which makes it easier to have EU/US tournaments (e.g. gifting games being a choice on the 3DS or Wii U eshop).

I don't know for certain but I think gifting worked between different regions on Wii? If not, I know for certain that it works on Steam.