You may recall earlier this month that the Miami qualifying round of the 2017 Nintendo World Championships had to be postponed due to Hurricane Irma. Sadly, even though Hurricane Irma is long gone, the area is still recovering from the storm’s fury. Nintendo has announced that, because of the hurricane’s “ongoing effects”, the qualifying round in Miami will not be rescheduled. To make up for the vacant spots that remain, Nintendo confirmed that those two seats “will instead be filled by selecting the participants from other regions with the best non-qualifying times”.
The 2017 Nintendo World Championships Miami Qualifying Round Won’t Be Rescheduled
It still is bothersome that they are called “World Championchips”, when they only take place in one country…
“World Series”
“Two wrongs does not make a right”.
That thing is equally as badly named…
Only for people who care as much as you seem to.
If words mean nothing, what value do they have?
Fuck you Irma.
I keep forgetting about this thing.
Hopefully it’s fun to watch. The last one was okay.
That’s not cool, tho expected. They can’t wait for things to go back to normal. Glad I didn’t care to participate.
I never cared for the World Championships.
Just play games you actually like and enjoy them in your own way. No need to play competitively against strangers (people you won’t have a good time with, win or lose).
Some peoples own way of enjoying the games IS competitive play against strangers though.
Too bad Florida has to miss. And I don’t even live in that state.
That really, really sucks.
I still wish the process was a little more widespread. Only 4 cities where qualifiers take place? Granted, I live like an hour or so away from one, but I wouldn’t travel that far only to TRY to get into a video game competition.
I think the ideal way to do another one would be to release an actual World Championships Switch cartridge and do it like the original, except with online pre-qualifying.
Really? If they charge for these things, some of the proceeds for the event could go to help the recovery in Florida if they would just reschedule it. This honestly sounds like a dick move to me.