Magazine #15.3 1/03

6th Annual Atari Championship

Sunday was the culmination of the Obsolete Media / Classic Gaming Weekend: the 6th Annual Atari Championship! After a one year hiatus nobody was sure how many gamers would show up but our fears were unfounded. Almost 30 contestants signed up and brought some additional support personnel! Beth, Zack and Jake, with the help of Jamie and Peter from The Little Theater and us NWCGE guys pulled off an awesome show!

Contestants warmed up on 6 TVs and a giant projection screen and got ready for the contest. Kaboom turned out to be a favorite with many, probably because the preliminary round was a points contest on Kaboom. Lee's warm-up score was 10873 for starters! The semi-finalists went through an elimination round in Warlords and then another elimination round of Combat narrowed the field down to four. A points match with Bowling and Circus Atari brought it down to three and then two who then competed in the final of NWCGE Invaders (Coke Wins clone) for the grand prize!

Early on it was quite obvious that the female competition was very strong! In fact Cara (runner-up) was kicking butt in all of the games only to fall apart in the final (Space Invaders was not her thing). Her boyfriend Dave ended up in 1st place, Cara 2nd, Lee P.(who has always made a strong showing in these championships!) ended up 3rd and Jason 4th. Truly worthy contestants!

Setting up the Ataris	Darn these TVs were heavy!	The Little Theater on the inside	Almost ready to go
Lee's Kaboom warm-up score	Beth enjoying a round...	I want my name on there!	The golden joystick throphy!
Look at all the obsolete media lining the wall!	More fun with Atari!	Street sign	Ebivision Pac Man on the big screen
Nice!	Hmm... flash won't work...	Kaboom	Kaboom points round
Some of the contestants and supporters	Lee, Rick, Rob, mystery leg	As always: great show by Mr. Pac-Man:	Jake!
Warlords elimination round	More Warlords	The field is narrowing	Lee handing out prizes: a t-shirt from AtariAge
Yeah! I got one!	Combat elimination round!	Intense...	...competition!
Tied Combat score! We had to have an Outlaw shootout!	Circus Atari points round	More prizes: Paul Slocum's Marble Craze and ???	The runner-up: Cara holding a signed proto from Atari2600.com and a Pac-Man pillow from Jake
The champion: Dave	Signed proto from Atari2600.com	More goodies!	And a Pac-Man trashcan from Jake!
These guys ruled the Championship!	Jake, Beth, Zack and Jamie	Sponsor patch and Semi-Finalist patch

We want to say thanks to all our great sponsors! First of all The Little Theater - thanks for the location! And in no particular order: Packrat Videogames, Atari2600.com, Paul Slocum, Video Magic, AtariAge, ResQsoft and CyberRoach - thanks for the very generous prizes and your support!!! Please visit our sponsors and help the classic gaming community - these businesses and websites are by classic gamers for classic gamers - thanks! And last but not least: thanks to the Championship media sponsor, Seattle's alternative newspaper: Tablet!

Sponsors will receive a sponsor patch and a Championship t-shirt as soon as I get around to mailing them!

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