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Hello and welcome! @guillavoie and I have the honour to present the 2021 VGS NES Tournament, which picks the top 16 players of the season to play among themselves to decide the 2021 VGS NES Tournament Champion. @Dr. Morbis was already crowned the 2021 VGS NES Weekly Contest Champion and will have the chance to add another title to his collection should he choses to play in the tournament. While we wait for our top 16 players to confirm their participation and see if we will have to hunt for replacements, here are how the things will run for this tournament. 21th to 28th - Pools, single elimination, 16 players. 28th to 5th - top 8, single elimination, 8 players 5th to 12th - Grand finals, 4 players, everyone against everyone. For Pools and Top 8, a selection of games will be given for the top seeded players to pick. The seeding for Pools 1 will be as follow: Bracket 1: 1st place vs 16th place Bracket 2: 2nd place vs 15th place Bracket 3: 3rd place vs 14th place Bracket 4: 4th place vs 13th place Bracket 5: 5th place vs 12th place Bracket 6: 6th place vs 11th place Bracket 7: 7th place vs 10th place Bracket 8: 8th place vs 9th place The seeding for top 8 will be as follow: Winner of bracket 1 vs winner of bracket 8 Winner of bracket 2 vs winner of bracket 7 Winner of bracket 3 vs winner of bracket 6 Winner of bracket 4 vs winner of bracket 5 The games for Pools are below: Pooyan (shooter) Challenger (plataformer) Kero Kero Keroppi no Daibouken (puzzle) Ninja Hattori-kun (action) Taito Chase H.Q. (racing) The games for top 8 will be revealed at the end of the Pools phase. Confirmed players: @Dr. Morbis @Krunch @0xDEAFC0DE @docile tapeworm @bertsampson @NESfiend @Bearcat-Doug @Jeevan @PII @the_wizard_666 @FireHazard51 @mbd39 @Ausden @MegaMan52 @JamesRobot @Mega Tank Good luck for all the players. Expect some nastiness in game selection for top 8 and for the grand finals.

Hello and welcome to our second round of TOURNAMENT ACTION, ladies and gentlemen! Out of our 15 players, 10 heroes survived the first round. Here they are: @Gaia Gensouki @Richardhead @bertsampson @Tablew/chairs@NESfiend@0xDEAFC0DE@8bitdontquit@mbd39@Jeevan@ninjistar Out of those 10, only 5 will make through a BRUTAL ROUND OF GYRUSS! Here's the rules they have to abide to during this week: Choose whichever controls you want Progress + highest score will determine the winner The highest score is capped at 1,200,000 points at the end of the first loop. If you reach 1,200,000 points before beating the end boss, you must stop your run and take your picture. In case of one or more players score exactly 1,200,000 points at the end of the first loop, the tie break will be determined by their overall Shooter genre position through the 2020 VGS Weekly contest. If you beat the game and has more than 1,200,000 points, your score will be disqualified. If you reach past 1,200,000 before beating the game, your score counts as 1,199,950 for the stage where you broke the 1,200,000 points mark. Pause the game and take your picture in such case. If you game over, state the stage you died when reporting the score at so that progress can be determined. No looping of the game allowed. If you beat the game, you must take your picture when the game loops back to stage 1. Anyone suspected of playing on a second loop or beyond will have their score disqualified. Good luck to those 10 brave warriors. They need it. The contest ends Sunday, 12/06/20 at 11 PM VGS time. Your user name MUST be written or typed on a piece of paper and be in the picture for your score to be valid. The entire TV screen, or computer monitor if you are playing on an emulator, MUST be in the picture for the score to be valid. No partial screenshots will be considered or accepted. No screenshots by hitting "print screen" on a computer will be allowed. You must take a picture of your computer monitor. There may be instances where this will be acceptable, but it will be at the discretion of myself and the contest organizers. Also, the use of turbo controllers is forbidden, as well as any cheat codes, Game Genies, slow motion functions, or save states if playing on an emulator. Also, we will only be using NTSC systems for the contests. The use of PAL systems will NOT be allowed. Good luck everyone and have fun.

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, it is TIME! Time for some fast paced action that will leave you all glued to your seats. Today, our 15 heroes start to compete to see who will prevail! 5 of them will FALL in disgrace and dishonour this week. Be prepared, for they will tackle a CLASSIC, Alien Syndrome! Here's the rules they will have to follow to secure their scores... and their survival! Play 1 player mode You can play with either character 1 life only Pause the game as soon as you die and take your picture If you beat the game, you have a very short time to take your picture at the score tally screen. Be prepared Highest score wins Best of luck to our challengers. They will need it. The contest ends Sunday, 11/29/20 at 11 PM VGS time. Your user name MUST be written or typed on a piece of paper and be in the picture for your score to be valid. The entire TV screen, or computer monitor if you are playing on an emulator, MUST be in the picture for the score to be valid. No partial screenshots will be considered or accepted. No screenshots by hitting "print screen" on a computer will be allowed. You must take a picture of your computer monitor. There may be instances where this will be acceptable, but it will be at the discretion of myself and the contest organizers. Also, the use of turbo controllers is forbidden, as well as any cheat codes, Game Genies, slow motion functions, or save states if playing on an emulator. Also, we will only be using NTSC systems for the contests. The use of PAL systems will NOT be allowed. Good luck everyone and have fun.

Ladies and gentlemen, it is with GREAT HONOUR that I and the Weekly Contest Team present you with the very first VGS tournament! It was an year of mighty struggle, tough battles and enduring time for our worthy competitors. But now the very best classified for the tournament and will be competing on the next weeks for the HONOUR of being crowned the first VGS weekly contest champion! Our current list of players is: BEWARE! The invitations letters were sent to the top 12 and to the top 17th that will be on the wait list. Right now we have confirmed: For top 12: 8bitdontquit Skinnygrinny bertsampsom Barrels mdb39 Tablew/chairs RichardHead Gloves Superjimtendo JamesRobot Ausden Missing confirmation for the top 12: Californication For the wait list: a3quit4s Stopperzero Murray Waiting confirmation for the wait list Mega Tank Smick For those in the waiting confirmation, you have till November 8th to confirm your presence here. Tournament games will start at November 9th! GET HYPE! May the best player win! Final Results : 1st bertsampson 81 2nd Tablew/chairs 77 3rd skinnygrinny 73 4th Richardhead 58 5th mbd39 52 6th 8bitdontquit 40 7th JamesRobot 30 8th SuperJimtendo 29 9th Ausden 23 10th barrels 22 Out Californication Out Gloves

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN! It is the MOMENT OF TRUTH! The event all of you have been waiting for. Our 12 valiant players will have to prove their skills to determine who will emerge victorious and claim the honour and laurels of being THE FIRST VGS WEEKLY CONTEST TOURNAMENT CHAMPION! In order to claim such HONOUR, our mighty warriors will have to compete on BALLOON FIGHT! But there is a TWIST! They will have to play both Balloon Fight and Balloon Trip to compose their FINAL SCORE! Points for this week will be awarded in the following manner: Balloon Fight: 1st - 30 2nd - 27 3rd - 26 4th - 25 5th - 24 6th - 22 7th - 16 8th - 15 9th - 14 10th - 13 11th - 12 12th - 11 Balloon Trip : 1st - 15 2nd - 13 3rd - 12 4th - 11 5th - 10 6th - 8 The rules for Balloon Fight are: Play 1 player mode Play till you reach phase 13 or lose your first life, whichever happens first Take your picture at the start of phase 13 or right after losing your first life Point pressing is allowed Highest score wins The rules for Balloon Trip are: Play Balloon Trip mode Play till game over Take your picture at the game over screen or start a new Balloon Trip game and take your picture is your score is the high score Highest score wins Strike first, strike hard, no mercy. Good luck to our top 12. May the best ballooner win! The contest ends Sunday, 12/01/19 at 11 PM VGS time. Your user name MUST be written or typed on a piece of paper and be in the picture for your score to be valid. The entire TV screen, or computer monitor if you are playing on an emulator, MUST be in the picture for the score to be valid. No partial screenshots will be considered or accepted. No screenshots by hitting "print screen" on a computer will be allowed. You must take a picture of your computer monitor. There may be instances where this will be acceptable, but it will be at the discretion of myself and the contest organizers. Also, the use of turbo controllers is forbidden, as well as any cheat codes, Game Genies, slow motion functions, or save states if playing on an emulator. Also, we will only be using NTSC systems for the contests. The use of PAL systems will NOT be allowed. Good luck everyone and have fun.

Edit 12/18/2019: Holy crap I actually placed in the top 999 for the Tetris 99 Maximus 10 cup!!!! Just saw the 999 points in my Nintendo rewards account today!!! The points showed up in my account 1 day after the tournament. Any of you place?? The 10th Tetris 99 Maximus cup ended 12/17/2019 at 2am EST. It was team battles this time instead of the usual single player mode. Points were awarded as followed for 1st-4th place: 50, 25, 5, 1. The top 999 players in this tournament will get 999 gold coins for the eShop. How'd you all do? I finished with 2,836 points. Really hoping that was enough but I was reading at least 6 people on Reddit had gotten over 3000, so I'm not super confident I got it. I was NOT a fan of how they awarded points. They should've given bonus point for the people who survived into the top 25 spots to deter people from just farming points and not actually playing a full match. If you got out in 10 seconds and your team won, you still got 50pts, but those people who carried the team also only got 50pts. I read so many instances where people didn't even play. They'd just let the game go while watching TV and farming their points.

Ladies, gentlemen, I hope you are all READY FOR HOT TWO WHEELERS action! This week the MIGHTY TWELVE will tackle Excite Bike to prove who is the fastest and the best of the lot. The best get the crown, the rest eats dirty. Here's the rules for this exciting week: Play on Selection B Play all 6 races in a row (this includes the track 1 qualifying run) Take a picture at the podium screen for each race. Make sure you pause the game right after the finish line to be ready to take your pic at the podium screen! Also, power off the NES between runs to reset the best time of all tracks! If you finish 4th or higher at a race which prevents you to complete all 6 races, add 20 minutes for each of the remaining races to your total time You have a short time to take your picture at the podium screen. It is a good idea to record it then capture a screen from the video footage Lowest time wins May the fastest racer win! The contest ends Sunday, 11/24/19 at 11 PM VGS time. Your user name MUST be written or typed on a piece of paper and be in the picture for your score to be valid. The entire TV screen, or computer monitor if you are playing on an emulator, MUST be in the picture for the score to be valid. No partial screenshots will be considered or accepted. No screenshots by hitting "print screen" on a computer will be allowed. You must take a picture of your computer monitor. There may be instances where this will be acceptable, but it will be at the discretion of myself and the contest organizers. Also, the use of turbo controllers is forbidden, as well as any cheat codes, Game Genies, slow motion functions, or save states if playing on an emulator. Also, we will only be using NTSC systems for the contests. The use of PAL systems will NOT be allowed. Good luck everyone and have fun