Revenge of the Nerds Gaming Tournament set for Monday

FIFA. Call of Duty. Rock Band. Mario Kart. Do any of these names inspire a mood filled with pride from the past? If so, you should probably find three friends as soon as possible and register for Lipscomb’s Revenge of the Nerds video game competition, which is being hosted by the School of Computing and Informatics. The competition will be held in Shamblin Theater on Monday, Feb. 24, at 7 p.m. For this competition, a maximum of 16 teams composed of four members each will compete for bragging rights around campus as they go head to head and compete through four of the nation’s top-rated video games. Registration costs $10 per team and can be obtained through the informatics home page  or by contacting Lara Flora in the School of Computing and Informatics...

Video game tournament offers Bison gamers prime competition

Fourteen teams, four games, no mercy. Lipscomb’s College of Informatics presented the Revenge of the Nerds video game tournament in Shamblin theater Wednesday night. Fourteen teams of four players  – including a LU Faculty team – signed up to battle it out in four games to truly test their skill. Halo 4, Mario Kart, Super Smash Bros. Brawl and Rock Band were played in a battle royale to prove who was the best of the best. Gamers competed for prizes such as t-shirts, headsets and assorted gaming “swag”. The event was free to enter and watch, and free pizza/drinks were provided to all who attended. The battle began with a heated taunt from the faculty team, challenging the younger players’ “inexperience,” and claimed the other teams had to prove themselves, which they undoubtedly did. The crowd cheered and sang along to great classic rock hits as the gamers played Rock Band songs, featuring  “Cold As Ice”, “Space Oddity” and “Bohemian Rhapsody”. Everyone sat on the edge of their seats during some of the closest matches in Halo history. When all was said and done and the scores were tallied, none compared to the result of team 817 Mafia, who scored highest overall. Congratulations to Rico, Ryan, Stephen and Neil (a.k.a. the 817 Mafia) for showing up the competition, also congrats on those awesome Atari gaming...