2nd  Classic Videogame Tournament

The Classic Videogames Tournament is an annual challenge for you to show your skills with "videogames of everytime". It's not necessary to study any manual, nor even to know the actual videogames to be played, it's just a matter of having fun!

Only the actual 8 and 16bits computers and consoles for wich the games were designed will be used for this tournament.

0 .- The participation in this tournament means the total acceptance of these rules by the competitor. Any incidence or contingency that could happen and that is not referred to in these rules will be resolved by a committee of people comprising members of the organization RetroEuskal.

1 .- The place of the contest for this tournament will be the RetroEuskal stand at a date and time to be established (see schedule at RetroEuskal's web or at the RetroEuskal stand during the Euskal Encounter).

2 .- To participate in this tournament you must simply ask at the RetroEuskal stand or introducing yourself at least 15 minutes before the celebration of the event at the RetroEuskal stand.

3.- Each contestant must compete playing the following games:

Name	Platform	Screenshot	Aim
Ghost 'n' Goblins	Amstrad CPC		Best score
Cobra	ZX Spectrum		Best score
Gradius	MSX		Best score
Super R-Type	Super Nintendo		Best score
Columns	Megadrive		Best score

4 .- Likewise, the aim to achieve for each game will be established next to the list of selected games. This aim may be obtaining the maximum number of points, passing the largest number of stages and even mixtures of several aims in order to decide when potential cases of a tie.

5 .- Unless it is established otherwise, each competitor will have 1 (one) minute to play a game and achieve the maximum points (or the aim established for each game in particular). The competitor may decide to end playing before time reaches that 1 minute when he/she believes is enough for him/her, notifying the judge.

6 .- Each game will be supervised by a judge established by the organization who will ensure compliance with the rules and will take notice of the aims of each competitor in that game.

7 .- The final classification will be formed with the overall result of the classification obtained from each competitor in each game. In each game, and depending on the position, 10 points will be awarded to the winner, 6 to the second one, 4 to the third one, 3 to the fourth one and 2 to the fifth one. If there is a draw in a game, points will be the same for each competitor and, in the event of a tie at the end, a duel between players tied will decide the winner.

8.- The prizes for the 3 first qualified contestants are the following ones:

9 .- The most important thing for this event are amusement and sporting spirit, that is, avoid generic tricks above all or tricks to earn points without progress in the game. If any judge finds any cheating attitude in this regard, he may decide to give the game as invalid.

2nd Classic Videogames Tournament final placings

After several years that the classic videogames tournament couldn't be celebrated by any different reasons, finally this year the so acclaimed tournament could take place. It was on July, the 25th at 5:00 pm when the 2nd classic videogames tournament organizaed by RetroEuskal took place with great attendance of contestants.

The number of contestants in the tournament was limited to 20 people with the intention of being more dynamic and enjoyable for everyone. And the contestants' names were the following ones:

After finishing the inscription time for the contestants, the tournament started but no before Iñaki Grao gave the appropriate explanation of the tournament guidelines: 

and with Fede Álvarez and Josetxu Malanda (alongside Iñaki) acting as judges for the tournament:

And finally the tournament received the starting signal! The short minute of time given to progress in each game didn't give the option of showing the particular abilities and the final results were very tight with very little differences in the final scores of each game for each contestant.

Eventhough the games could be known, the fact of limiting the time of playing did that each contestant needed to take the best out of that minute getting points everywhere they could. Sometimes a little bunch of points could be of vital importance to be able to get any points from the final results and added to final score could make the contestant success getting the final triumph.

After a hard battle using the joystick against the 5 chosen games, the tournament came to an end and then there was the turn for the judges to gather all the scores donde and decide who will get the three prizes corresponding to this 2nd tournament.

With great nervousness and impatience, the contestants waited the judges to finish their deliberations, so Iñaki could grant the 3 fantastic packs of prizes to the lucky winners:

And now, without delay, the winners of the 2nd classic videogames tournament organized by RetroEuskal are:

3rd place: PANXITO

2nd place: ROLACAGI

And the best of the best... the master of classic videogames... is:

1st place: HANTXO

RetroEuskal has no more than grateful for the great attendance and the good mood of everyone and congratulate the winners. We hope they'd return next year  to the 3rd classic videogames torunament to defend their respective placings... and to the rest, we invite to try to defeat them.