 March 11th, 2010 by Newbs -
Hello and welcome to Shufflingdead’s annual look back at the world’s most grueling and infamous two-day, liquor soaked, Pizza-Pop-encrusted sweat fest, the Nerd Olympics.
A special message from Newbs: We posted an opt-out sheet at Nerd Olympics for those who didn’t want to appear in the videos, but no such sheet was available for photos. We’ve never had a problem posting pictures from previous Nerd Olympics, but if you don’t want your picture to appear in this article, or on Shufflingdead more broadly, please let me know. For the Shufflingdead readership sick of hearing about Nerd Olympics, don’t worry, this article will be it until next year.
This year’s official slogan came from the classic film and Nerd Olympics favourite, Starship Troopers:
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February 18th, 2010 by sulci -
This week, sulci takes a look at the last 4 event taking place at Nerd Olympics this year: Mario Kart Wii, Halo 3, Rock Band 2 and Nerd Trivia.
Mario Kart Wii
The sixth game in the Mario Kart series, Mario Kart Wii adds motorcycles, a bunch of new characters, and a huge collection of 32 tracks to race on. The Wii version also allows you to steer your cart or bike with a steering wheel, although Nerd Olympians will have the option to use Classic Controller as well.
This year the INOC has decided to run 4 player races on random maps. Items will be set to strategic (no shells). The top two players of each heat move on to the finals. Tiebreakers will be a single run on the course Delfino, so make sure you practice that one. You can practice Mario Kart on any Nintendo console.
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February 17th, 2010 by Newbs -
February 11th, 2010 by sulci -
This week, sulci takes a look at 5 events taking place at Nerd Olympics this year: Warcraft III: Frozen Throne Tower Defense, Settlers of Catan, Magic the Gathering, Tetris, and Bomberman.
Warcraft III: Frozen Throne Tower Defense
In this year’s Blizzard Strategy category at Nerd Olympics 2010, we will be playing the Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne Element 3.0 tower defense map. Warcraft III is known for Blizzard’s epic story telling and instantly recognizable UI and gameplay. In Tower Defense mode you must place and upgrade towers to survive waves of enemies (called creeps), carefully investing earned resources into new buildings and research.
The top two players out of each 8 player preliminary will move on to the final round. Warcraft III is exclusively for PC, but you can also practice with the immensely popular Element TD flash game.
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February 4th, 2010 by sulci -
This week, sulci takes a look at the first 4 events taking place at Nerd Olympics this year: SNK vs Capcom: SVC Chaos, Call of Duty 4, Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War 2, and R-type Leo.
SNK vs Capcon: SVC Chaos
Starting out the events this year at Nerd Olympics is an old school, button-jamming arcade fighter. SNK vs Capcon: SVC Chaos is based on the play style of King of Fighters, and features 24 initial characters from KOF, Street Fighter, Darkstalkers, Samurai Showdown. and more. You can perform special moves by filling up your “groove” gauge to level 2 or maxing it out at level 3. You also get a special “Exceed” move when your health is less than half.
At the NO (Nerd Olympics) event this year, the game will be played best as a best-of-3, single elimination tournament, with stock characters only. You can practice this game on a Neo Geo arcade or X-Box.
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February 1st, 2010 by Weskimo -
Local ShufflingDeaders can check out the Event Guide for the 2010 Nerd Olympics.
January 30th, 2010 by Newbs -
We all know of the athletic excellence on display every year at the Nerd Olympics, but does gaming have a place at that other Olympics?
Canadian magazine Maclean’s recently pondered that very question in an article entitled “Will there ever be a Olympic medal for ‘Call of Duty’?” The publication spoke with CEO of the Global Gaming League Ted Owen, who claims “gaming has its place in the world stage.” He feels, and rightly so, “it’s the same skills as if you were a hockey player or a baseball player, anything like that.”
Owen argues that pro gamers in China and Korea are treated like celebrities, where people have the proper respect for a well-timed Zerg rush. I think he also uses the term “eSports,” but maybe Maclean’s just made that up. In any case, Owen hasn’t gotten very far; the IOC continues to ignore his pleas for Olympic gaming.
Superhero and Olympic gold medalist for snowboarding Ross Rebagliati opposes Mr. Owen’s idea. Despite coming up in a time when snowboarding lacked recognition in professional athletics, Rebagliati has no respect for gaming as a sport. He claims “sport has to have some kind of physical act.” I guess Ross never played that game in Mario Party where you have to rotate the joystick really fast.
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