The UK's biggest games event EGX kicks off tomorrow and as usual Nintendo Life will be on the Nintendo UK stand running special tournaments throughout the four days.
Two years ago we hosted the StreetPass Zone and held 3DS-focused competitions, while last year it was the UK Mario Kart 8 championship. This year it's all about Nintendo's smash-hit online shooter Splatoon.
We'll be holding regular daily tournaments throughout EGX 2015 as well as freeplay sessions, giving you and your friends the chance to earn the acclaim of your peers and bag some amazing prizes. All of this action will be overseen and MC'd by none other than Nintendo Life's very own Games Media Award-nominated YouTube star, Alex Olney.
Daily Tournament
The daily tournament will take place in three one-hour sessions:
- Round 1 - Qualifying between (11:00-12:00)
- Round 2 - Semifinals (12:30-13:30)
- Round 3 - Finals (14:30-15:30)
Feature Battles
In addition to the daily tournament schedule, we'll also be holding special 'feature battles' to take place alongside the finals in Round 3.
We'll be keeping the teams under wraps, so check back each day to see who is facing who - there may be a few famous faces among them...
Prizes
These are still to be confirmed, but you can rest assured that they're going to be pretty special.
How To Enter
Fancy your chances? Then head over to the Nintendo UK stand and put down your name. Eight teams of four players - that's 32 competitors in total - can sign up for each day, so make sure you're quick as slots will get snapped up very quickly.
See you there!
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This sounds so cool!
Does anyone know if there's gonna be more updates or more content soon for Splatoon? I have just bought it, like two weeks ago, and it's amazing, though I think there is a little quantity of arenas, I hope they add more.
I won't being able to register then seeing as I could only get hold of a standard day ticket oh well I'll still be there to watch Saturday! Hope to see you lovely people there having fun 😀
So are you making random teams or can pre-arranged teams enter as a team? I only ask b/c the logo says "EGX Team Championships".
Either way, will the players be in earshot of 1 another? I'm not a big communicator myself and do just fine playing alone in my dark basement, but if I were ever to enter a team based tournament I really feel like voice chat is mandatory for the "Team" to compete as a team. And even just watching such a tournament I'd rather see the team playing as a team and not in 8 players in soundproof rooms as Nintnedo intended.
@Aran Oh yeah there is. They add a map every now and then, new weapons, and clothes stuff quite steadily. I hope it doesn't begin to slow down yet.
will this be streamed at all?
@Aran Have you played and mastered all 12 available maps during the past weeks? (But yes, there will be more maps.)
@jariw no, I think I have played all of them but I don't consider myself a master, as I said I just bought the game, but I don't think getting and wanting more content is a bad thing, is it?
@Chillama I hope so, sounds great then! It's a pretty fun game with good content, hope it gets more.
I'm coming to EGX on Saturday!
I'm travelling from London. It's only 1 hour and 15 minutes from London Euston station on Virgin trains. But to get to London Euston I'll use London underground
Man what I would give to be there... it's a shame that there isn't anything comparable in Germany.
So Nintendo has a LAN build of Splatoon? Update Splatoon with these features, Nintendo, and update the Wii U software to allow LAN gaming, and I'll buy three more Wii Us and three more Splatoon discs! I'd love to have a group of friends over to regularly play at least 2v2 Splatoon!
@Aran I bought it at launch, I was away a few weeks during the summer, and Splatoon felt like a major free expansion pack when I got back
...But it's in Birmingham. No deal.
It's a pitty too, cuz I'm sh*t hot at Splatoon.
I'm attending EGX all day Saturday, and I'm exceptionally good at Splatoon, but I won't be able to get there in time for the qualifier ;-;
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