# Champions of Gaming Tournament **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [November 6, 2008, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/champions-of-gaming-tournament/471459 "2008-11-06T16:00:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![TupeloHoney](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a88e57/32.png) [@TupeloHoney](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TupeloHoney)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2008, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/champions-of-gaming-tournament/471459/1 "2008-11-06T16:00:55Z")
Have any of your gamers joined the [tournament](http://www.easportsworld.com/en_US/Gillette/structure)? It just kicked off recently. They’re giving away sweepstakes prizes throughout the tournament, as well as grand prizes to the winners of each game. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2008, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/champions-of-gaming-tournament/471459/2 "2008-11-06T16:03:49Z")
ahhh…Computer gaming. Even better…sports gaming? I don’t think the word means what they think it means. ---
**Author:** ![TupeloHoney](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a88e57/32.png) [@TupeloHoney](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TupeloHoney)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2008, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/champions-of-gaming-tournament/471459/3 "2008-11-06T16:34:04Z")
> [@Ludovic](#): > > ahhh…Computer gaming. Even better…sports gaming? I don’t think the word means what they think it means. I never really got into computer gaming. I have an Xbox and Xbox live, so I play online. It’s pretty fun. And the Champions of Gaming tourney is really convenient to join, since you can join right out of the XBL menu. What sort of computer games do you play? ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2008, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/champions-of-gaming-tournament/471459/4 "2008-11-06T20:12:31Z")
I play strategy games: the last multiplayer RT game I played was the last big MechWarrior game. If they just cleaned up the cheese you can do on the battlemap I’d love a multiplayer version of Medieval 2: Total War. I don’t have a console, but am thinking of getting one just to get Rock Band. But there’s more to “Gaming” than computer games, too: board, tabletop, card, roleplaying, LARPing. (I don’t do all of those, but I am a fan of more than one of them :)) ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Some\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ad7895/32.png) [@Just\_Some\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Some_Guy)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2008, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/champions-of-gaming-tournament/471459/5 "2008-11-06T22:13:40Z")
> [@Ludovic](#): > > But there’s more to “Gaming” than computer games, too: board, tabletop, card, roleplaying, LARPing. (I don’t do all of those, but I am a fan of more than one of them :)) To be honest I’m surprised they included sports games. Usually this kind of thing forgets there’s anything other than FPS and RTS. I might be slightly more generous if there was an event along he lines of “Start with a fresh MMORPG server and you have twenty-four hours to build a character.” ---
**Author:** ![TupeloHoney](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a88e57/32.png) [@TupeloHoney](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TupeloHoney)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2008, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/champions-of-gaming-tournament/471459/6 "2008-11-12T18:05:32Z")
> [@Ludovic](#): > > I play strategy games: the last multiplayer RT game I played was the last big MechWarrior game. If they just cleaned up the cheese you can do on the battlemap I’d love a multiplayer version of Medieval 2: Total War. I don’t have a console, but am thinking of getting one just to get Rock Band. > > But there’s more to “Gaming” than computer games, too: board, tabletop, card, roleplaying, LARPing. (I don’t do all of those, but I am a fan of more than one of them :)) ahh, Rock Band! Let it be warned that you will be hooked for life. > [@Just\_Some\_Guy](#): > > To be honest I’m surprised they included sports games. Usually this kind of thing forgets there’s anything other than FPS and RTS. I might be slightly more generous if there was an event along he lines of “Start with a fresh MMORPG server and you have twenty-four hours to build a character.” I actually like how they used sports games. The Champions of Gaming Tournament is competitive, and what’s more competitive than sports?