Yesterday we had our second semi-anual Xbox Xtreme / Halo2 tournament at our church and it was a total blast! For the record, there are no families in our church with teenage boys but at this event we had 10 teen boys. I don’t care what you say, that’s an success in my book. For the event I secured a regular Xbox as well as an Xbox360 each of which we hooked up to a 60” High Definition flat screen TV:
The first thing we did was have our bracketed Halo2 tournament. There were two brackets, a winner’s bracket and a loser’s bracket. That way each person got to play at least twice. Then at the end we pitted the winner of the winner’s bracket against the winner of the loser’s bracket. Here’s a pic:
Alex ended up whooping everyone in the room by a huge margin. I’ve never seen anyone play Halo2 so well, and I’ve seen some good folks play. I found it interesting that he doesn’t play on Xbox Live. Most people who are really good at Halo2 get that way by spending many hours playing online. Just ask all those 12 year olds who enjoy cussing at me every time I decide to play online. Don’t these kids have homework to do? 
Anyway, we had a really great time.
We had 6 hours to do the tournament, which I thought would be more than enough time. But what we ended up having to do was pit people one on one in a game with a 15 minute time limit. We tried doing a frag limit but that seemed unfair because the people who weren’t so good took 45 minutes to reach 25 kills, while the ones that were good took 5 minutes. We wanted to give everyone a similar amount of time to play (to keep it fun for everyone) so we went with unlimited frags and a 15 minute time limit.
It’s a great event for a youth group, so if you are a youth worker and would like to contact me to get some ideas and chit chat feel free to use my contact form.
