Nintendo World Championships 2015 Qualifier Details Confirm Prizes and Limit of 750 Competitors Per Store

Maybe they should change the name to "Best Buy's Ultimate NES Remix Tournament"?

8 locations is still a huge fail.

This is why 8 locations are managable and 5,000 locations at "my street" are not needed. If this was an eshop thing the concern would be hacking. I can assure that hardly any of the 750 people showing up will print off the form and have it filled out prior to the event. A huge glut of people will show up at one time... all impatient. In my opinion this is a pretty big undertaking on the part of these Best Buy stores. Yes it gets people in the door and will get them publicity but it is still a lot to manage on their part. If this would have been at more locations than this then you would have to narrow the field down more.

Americans, get over it. The rest of the world doesn't get ANY chance to compete.

@manu0 That's how I feel. I would love the opportunity to compete but I can't afford a trip to America and those prizes sound really awesome. I wish this had of happened last year when I was on my J1 =(

Keeps getting worse and worse, Nintendo fail big with this....

@KodyDawg I guess so

I live in sweden and i want to somewhat participate. Nintendo this is not really world championships afterall :/

No wonder it's only 8 stores. Some Best Buys can't handle 750 people!

Let's keep the "WORLD championships? Huh? Only 8 stores? Nintendo is terrible!" to a minimum this time, guys.

Plane tickets are expensive. If they did so many across the world, they'd lose a lot of money for very little reward.

I watch the MLB "World Series" every year and see nothing but North American teams play. I have never heard anybody complain.

I'm indifferent in the sense that I wouldn't have entered even if they hosted the thing in my house. I can't get beyond the feeling that this is rushed and with half effort, though. The E3 intro video wasn't overly polished, and then pulling on the nostalgia of a massive event when they couldn't reasonably approach the original seems to have ticked some people off.

Play with it a bit, you know? Put Remix somewhere in the title. Build it to a fun event at E3. But summoning nostalgia and then producing something significantly smaller is enough for some to get out the pitchforks.

Problem is it doesn't take much these days for pitchforks to be thrown.

Anyway, regardless of the situation, let's keep the bashing to a bare minimum.

@TruenoGT
Oh you're so right man, even TW is being too rude about the Whole thing.
Do someone owe this from Nintendo? Let them do whatever they want

@Zergling
Is the NBA champion being called the world champion too? I think so

I think it's clear that this was a semi-last minute decision with not great planning going into it. There should be more locations - Best Buy is such a willing partner for Nintendo, they should be held at at least 50% of the major cities in the country, not just eight. I can halfway understand the player limits, but this means the event will probably be over before the scheduled end when the number is reached.

Regardless, I still think this will be a great event to witness at E3. I'm greatly looking forward to watching it and seeing the excitement and fanfare - and extremely excited to see what kind of prize awaits the winner. The road leading there, though, has been less than smooth.

@LztheQuack I think my biggest fear is hyperbolic reaction, yeah. That these companies decide it just isn't worth it to try to stick their necks out and do something fun/different based on reality never quite matching speculation/dreaming.

The price for the qualification round winners is pretty sweet!

It definitely sucks for the rest of the world but as far as the US itself I don't really see an issue with 8 locations. They're spread across the US so that doesn't seem too unreasonable to me. It could just be that I'm used to Quake 1/2/3 tournaments back in the day where you had to trek to the other side of the country to get to them, or with a handful of qualifiers scattered around that required only half-way across the country.

One thing that bothers me. Why is it still called the World Championships if only US citizens can register? That cancels me out no matter what. Not that I would stand a chance or anything, but it's just lame that I can't participate solely because I'm from the Netherlands.
I know I know setting up qualification points all across Europe is an impossible task, but it's still lame

So....people in the other 43 states don't play Nintendo games? Crap move, Nintendo. I'd have to drive over 8 hours to get to a location for this....FAIL.

How's about as well as the world championships we could have a European Championships?

I'm excited. I can't wait I think I will get there at 7am.

750 slots will fill up fast. It's going to be a zoo at those locations.

I feel embarrassed for Nintendo about this whole bloody thing. It's a right joke at this point...

7/50 states = the world.

This feels like it was all thrown together last minute

have some family members living in the state of IL. ROADTRIP!

@tasmans11 It was. That's why, with barely four weeks until E3, to get through the qualifiers, register the winners and book everyone's tickets flights to LA, they've decided on limiting numbers to 8 stores and 6000 entrants. If only this wasn't an 11th hour stunt they could have made this into so much more.

@Tender_Cutlet PR stunt, and a really good one at that. Gets people talkingabout Big N. But where on Nintendo life where like 99.99% of the talk is Nintendo related, and if you don't like it feel free to go to some where else like pushsquare.com

@Uberchu I had to read your message back a couple of times - are you trying to flame me? I cannot see how I might have incurred your wrath - for the record I DO like talking about Nintendo and rating my comment (on your percentage scale) it is 100% Nintendo related, ergo totally in place on this site. Do I need to mention also the beauty of opinions and that, despite some perhaps not being true to your own, it is nevertheless good manners to respect others' rights to those that differ?

Your road trip to Chicago sounds fun- best of luck to you if you make the event! 👍

I would like to see this become a regular thing and not just a one-off PR ploy. There is a lot of potential to grow this and capitalize on it to grow brand awareness and push sales, I hope they don't miss this opportunity.

"wahhh wahhhh, it's not close to me!!!" Guess what, youre crying about not getting to play NES remix? Get a grip. This whole thing would be a total disaster if it was at more stores. In fact, our gamer lives are completely meaningless in the grand scheme of things, and all the whining further highlights that fact. It's not like the super bowl, or the Olympics or something... stop trying to over-legitimize your gaming addictions. Just think, you would prolly lose anyways ROFL

It's "NINTENDO WORLD" Championships, not "Nintendo" World Championships guys. How couldn't you get this damn it.

No, it's Nintendo of America World Championships. Europe wasn't even a country back during the original event, and it was in English so no one in Japan cared. So they shortened it to Nintendo World Championships.

I'm too far away from the nearest area, not to mention time and money are factors too. Oh well, have fun kids

Wowzers there are many complainers... Seriously y'all, Nintendo didn't have to even do this at all. Can't be part of the competition? I'd watch the finals on E3 or pop in the Wizard and pretend I'm Jimmy or something. I'd be excited that Nintendo is doing something really fun and nostalgic.

HOLY CRAP THATS NEAR WHERE MY MUM WORKS
No joke... Lol