National Video Game Tournament Results

This year’s national tournaments were the most successful events we’ve run yet!

NGD10 NATIONAL SMASH results

• 63 Libraries submitted Friend Codes
• 47 Libraries successfully submitted brawl match scores
• 40 Libraries successfully completed the qualifying rounds
• You can view the qualifying leaderboard at: http://gtsystem.org/leaderboard/multisite/39

The top eight included all types of libraries:

• Huge Public Libraries (Phoenix, AZ)
• Medium Public Libraries (AADL, Topeka)
• Tiny Public Libraries (Helena Township MI, Jeffersonville IN, Cobleskill NY)
• 1 academic library (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Undergrad Library IL)
• 1 school library (Sandwich High School Media Center, Sandwich IL).

This is one of the great things about gaming in libraries – any type can participate.

Here’s a snapshot of the final bracket, but in the end, the Ann Arbor (MI) District Library defeated a strong team from the Topeka Shawnee (KS) County Library to take home the crown for the next year. We’re sure TSCL will be up to the challenge of a rematch next year!

NGD10 ROCK BAND HIGH SCORE results

• 40 Libraries created events
• The winning band was the Average Joes, who recorded a score of 1,631,416 at Chicago Public Library YouMedia playing “Jesus of Suburbia” by Green Day.

Around 100 bands had scores reported – here’s the Top 10

1. Average Joes from Chicago Public Library YOUmedia: “Jesus of Suburbia” by Green Day
2. Arcane Opposites from Sherrard Public Library District, IL
3. The Stand Ins from Chicago Public Library YOUmedia: “Free Bird”
4. The Stand Ins from Chicago Public Library YOUmedia: ” The Killing Moon” by Echo & The Bunnymen
5. Salvage from Chicago Public Library YOUmedia: “Almost Easy”
6. Arcane Opposites from Sherrard Public Library District, IL
7. The Jellybeans from Hunterdon County Library, NJ: “Painkiller”
8. The Purple People Eaters from Portland District Library, Portland, MI: “Kids in America”
9. The Sedatives from Hunterdon County Library, NJ: “Painkiller”
10. The Flaming Librarians from Citrus County Library System, FL: “Move Along”

We also had a score submitted from The Nordic Gaming Program from the Lyngby Library in Denmark – thanks for participating, LL! You can view the final leaderboard at http://gtsystem.org/leaderboard/40.

Congratulations to this year’s winners, and a big thank you to all of the participating libraries and their teams!

We’re still counting the number of participants at NGD10 events across the country (actually, across the world), so libraries, be sure to fill out the survey this week!