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As you can see by the updated dates to your left, there’s a good deal of gaming to be had this month.

Start off with comic/manga based gaming at Free Comic Book day, starting at 10:00 a.m. and ending at 2:00 p.m. this Saturday.  The following week is Open Play, following the same times.  A all-ages Family-Friendly tournament is scheduled for that day, in the form of Super Smash Bros. Brawl.  Anyone can join, and items galore will be on.

Going into the second half of the month, we enter the Season 5 Finals.  Our Wild Card event gives everyone a final shot at sliding into the exclusive top spots.  May 17th will be our Round Robin event.  The Round Robins will create a seeding system that will place everyone into a new set of pools to be played May 24th.  These pools will continue to be used until we’ve widdled our way down to the new Smash Champ of this Season.

Remember that all registration for an event ends a half hour after doors open, and we’ll sadly no longer make exceptions.  Be sure to be there on time!

So, first off, the bad news.

There’s a bit of confusion about when the next Save•Point is. Usually, there’s a Save•Point event every other week. Our last Save•Point event was the week before last, so it stands to reason we’d have one this week. However, GT events are always on the second and fourth Saturdays of the month. The way the weeks fall, this week is only the first week of the month, and so it wasn’t scheduled.

The next Save•Point event, S•P: Spring Break is going to be on Thursday, April 10th from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. After that, we’re going to be doing our regular Save•Point Open Play on Saturday, April 12th, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. We’re going to do an all ages Super Smash Bros. Brawl tournament for fun, with a few stations open for regular free play. Finally, at the end of the month, on Saturday, April 26th, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Round 2 of Season 5 comes around with our headline game, Brawl. Newcomer Feetme has already broke through the top ranks in the scene by defeating Save•Point vet Jay in the finals of our first tournament. With other old schoolers training up and new people guaranteed to show up again with unseen skills, there’s going to be some great competition.

See you there!

Tomorrow, Saturday the 22nd, Save Point presents Super Smash Bros. Brawl.

Sign ups end at 9:30 a.m. tomorrow.  If you have your own controller, it’s recommended you bring it, with Brawl’s new options and all that.

This will be the last Save Point event with pizza, due to budget restraints, as well.

Tomorrow, which is Tuesday the 4th, the Magazines, Newspapers, and Fiction department (long name, eh?) is hosting a Guitar Hero III tournament down in the Colfax Auditorium. You know, the theater room the Anime Club meets in? You’ll find it, Rona (if we had a teen librarian, it’d be her!) has faith in you.

Since it’s a gaming tournament, they’ve asked me to run the event, and since I happen to know you have a half day on Tuesday, it’s a perfect scenario. Sign Ups end at 1:30, and the tournament starts at 2:00. All ages, of course.  Rona’s been standing over my shoulder as I write this, and she thinks that’s enough info. So I’ll see you there tomorrow? Excellent.

Just a quick update about what the schedule for the next few weeks is:

February 2nd: Science Alive! falls on our usual day for gaming, so we’re moving a week over. Just to get the point across, I just want everyone to know there is nothing planned for Save•Point for Feb 2nd.

February 9th: From 10:00 a.m. to 2 p.m., the final Melee Doubles tournament takes place. Everything will be wrapped up, and Save•Point will end at 2 p.m.

February 23rd: An all-ages tournament for Halo 3 happens on this date. Anyone interested in seeing how our newest tournament series will work or wants to see the local competition is welcome to come out. This is the last open-play tournament for Halo 3 before our tournament series starts in March. Don’t miss it!

March 8th: Changes in our tournament lineup have caused a bit of chaos. Recently, one of our headline games, Super Smash Bros. Brawl, was delayed. To get the tournament series on track, we’re going to host a massive GT Season 5 Round 1 event for both games. March 8th is the date for our Halo 3 Team Slayer (4 to a team) event.

March 22nd: The long awaited sequel to Melee will be the main game for March 22nd, as we roll out Super Smash Bros. Brawl! Singles in the morning, with Doubles in the afternoon time permits.

There will be more info on each tournament as it comes up, but I really wanted to get some solid info up on the site so you all would know what’s going on. Keep checking back for more info! Laters

Despite another delay (curse you Sakurai!), Super Smash Bros. Brawl is fast approaching, and our tournaments will no longer be filled with all things Smash Melee. Our final Mario Kart tournaments are all wrapped up, but we’ve still got two more tournaments for Melee, a Singles competition and a Doubles competition.

This Saturday, our final Singles competition will take place. Sign ups end at 9:45, and the tournament itself starts at 10:00. Bringing your own controller is highly advised, but if you can’t, there will be controllers available.

This tournament is it. All bets are off for this tournament. All the grudges, the trash talking, all of it will be settled this Saturday. Where will you place? Who will take the top spot? Find out this Saturday when the best of the best come out for one last go.  If you’re registered for the blog, post below to reserve your spot in the tournament.  If you’re registered on the GameBoard, follow this link and sign up there.  Or simply show up on time!

Sunday’s paper had an article about the going-ons last Saturday in South Bend, and we were covered!

An excellent picture of Psyt rocking out on Guitar Hero III was featured in the paper, but it was in black and white. The color version is to the left.

While I’d disagree with using the word “makeshift” to describe the $60 dollar Gibson-styled guitar used to play the game, the article was awesome much love goes out to the Trib’ for helping get the word out about Save•Point!

You can find the link here.

Man I hate long titles.

So, everyone’s had a good amount of time to charge up. Family, friends, presents, new resolutions, and a good break from school or work. However, those of us chained to the responsibilities of financial obligation have already returned to the fields, and none too soon the bell will toll for the education refugees.

However, Save•Point is here to help. It’s kinda what we do.

Save•Point: Winter Break (1:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Thursday [edit: That means today!])

This Thursday, that’s right, Thursday, we’re bringing to you Save Point: Winter Break, a special event for one and all. We start at 1:00 p.m. and the doors won’t be closing till 8:00 p.m. that night.  SP: Winter Break will consist of two main events, both designed for teams. Hook up with friends, family, or find others who don’t have a team, and face off against others in Mario Kart: Crew Battles, consisting of Battle Mode and Shine Thief. Then we move over to Smash Melee: Crew Battles, where everyone will stay in their teams, this time for one-on-one matches to see which crew will be the FINAL Smash Melee Crew Champs before we move on to Super Smash Bros. Brawl tournaments.

Save•Point: Open Play (10:00 a.m. to 2 p.m.)

Following up on the heels of our Winter Break event, two days later we come back to our regular schedule and get into our first Guitar Hero III tournament of the year! Everyone’s had plenty of time to get acquainted with the game, and now the time’s come for GH III’s debut at Save Point. After the tournament, and during, we’ll have our usual Open Play stations going as well.

Finally, I’d like to take the chance to congratulate our Season 4 Champs. Read on for the winners!
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There’s no Save Point event on Saturday, December 28th!  We’ll be having SP next week though!  Stay tuned!

While December 1st marked our Mario Kart: Double Dash GT Finals, we’ve still got one more game to go, and the anticipation is at it’s peak. Who will be the final winner in our last Super Smash Bros. Melee GT tournament? Will Mr. Moo pull off in Season 4 what he couldn’t in Season 3? Will Jay be the first person ever to win two GT Finals events in a row and once again secure the title of Smash Champ? Will newcomer Neal break through the ranks and cement his place in Save•Point history? Or will someone else unknown throw a wrench into the whole thing?

Find out this Saturday when the top Smashers throw down in a series of Round Robin events to determine who’s the best and who makes up the rest, and who’s taking home the money. We’ve got Game Crazy gift cards for the winners, with first place taking home $50, second netting $25, and third winning $10 dollars, along with the $75 card going to the top scoring finalist between Smash and Kart.

The list of qualifiers for Smash is below:

Mr. Moo
Jay
Brian
Neal
Poptab
Fluffy
Skiddz
Battosai
Kuro Baka
Heartless
Brandon
Jack Skellington
T-Bone
Kupo
Doom Guy
Trevor

If you’re just hearing about Save•Point and didn’t get into the finals, or you didn’t make it and think you have what it takes, make sure to get here at 10:00 a.m. for the Wild Card tournament, your last chance to squeeze into the upper ranks of Smash greatness. We’ll be taking in 4 Wild Card winners, so don’t miss this chance.