10/7/04 by scott

Okay, so I've worked like, a zillion hours this week.On Wednesday, I went in to work at 4am and left at 8:30pm. So already on Thursday I'm on overtime and I've got to work again on Friday. So while the overtime is sweet since this is the pay period that my new raise takes effect, the amount of hours and mental drain is pretty exhausting. So tonight I had to decline Josh's offer to play D&D, even though I really wanted to. But when I came home, Kim had a piece of interesting intel for me: There was a video game tournament tonight at Lock Stock and you could win a 50 inch flat screen TV. Screw being tired! This is important shit.

Apparently the deal was that they're having a tournament at a different bar every week for 8 or 9 weeks, a different random game every time. The winners all get to enter the finals, and the winner there gets a 50" flatscreen, a PS2, and 4 games.

I was really tired, but I figured since it was the first week and since there was hardly any advertising (according to Kim, anyway. I never listen to the radio) we should head on down there and win a damn flatscreen TV.

When we got to the bar, I knew victory was mine. Most of the patrons were busy watching the Cards game. The few that were actually there for the tournament were thin and lacking my awesome video game physique, so they obviously valued physical activity more than Nintendo and were nothing to worry about. Plus, there were only like 10 people signed up by the time the tournament started, and a few of them were sorority girls out on some kind of 'lets all dress up in black dresses and get drunk' party.

Oh man, and they had the holy grail of TV's there. The gray beauty. You could play four player splitscreen games and still have almost as much screen as my current TV. It was awesome.

And, to top it all off, I was expecting some kind of sports game or something at a bar tournament, but it looked like they had a racing game up there. So what's the game, I ask. NASCAR Dirt to Daytona, the dude tells me.

Sweet. video game NASCAR. It don't get much easier than that. Winning a video game NASCAR tournament is a lot like winning a tournament where you have to beat the first level of Super Mario Bros with 10 lives. Only easier. I didn't even have to know the controls. Just X for gas and left turn.

So I breezed through the first couple of oppenents easily, until I got to the semifinals, where this dude named Chris gave me a run for my money and only lost to me by about .50 seconds. But I still put the smack down. Represented team webdisaster old school style. And then it came time for the final match between me and this hippie guy. The bitch that was with him started talking trash to Kim, like they really wanted that TV. But Kim just sat back really cool like and told her to shove it and that I would kick this dudes ass at left turning.

But it turns out we didn't even have to race. Both of us are in the finals. So now if they have 7 more weeks and I'm already in the finals, I have a 1-in-16 chance of winning that TV. Plus, I got a cool redneck Budweiser racing hat and a genuine Bud racing T-shirt with an authentic replica of the signature of great NASCAR legend #8, Dole Jv.

Or Dash Gy.

Or Doli Jn.

Just kidding. I know it's Dale Jarrett.



So now I need to practice on my sports games since the other games they're picking at random from are like NFL Street, NBA Street, and ESPN NHL Hockey. The final game won't be from that list, but I don't think it will be no Soul Calibur 2. It's probably a sports game. If it's Hot Shots 4, I'm golden. But just in case it's not, I've got to get a lot of practice in, because I fully intend on bringing home that great gray beauty and hosting Game Misconduct 2005 on it.

No Rocket Propelled Gernade could destroy my greatness.