My friends had pre-ordered their copy at Gamestop, I hadn't so I went along to see if I could pick up an extra copy, god willing. Over 40 people had shown up, 30 or so at the time of the tournament. I entered the tournament for a good laugh and was soundly removed when the match reached sudden death. All in all it was a good time.
However one guy there apparently only showed up to play the tournament and had no intention of buying the game or a wii as he made it blatantly clear to anyone with a pair of ears that he hates Nintendo and loves Sony. After losing in his first match he and his trio of Sony enthusiasts whent over and played Motorstorm on the PS3 kiosk swooning orgasmically to the jagged aliasing and low framerates, trying to outdo the roars and cheers of people playing Brawl across the room.
We left for a bit to return later around midnight since they kicked everyone out till midnight after the tournament anyway so we went to Walmart to hang out a bit. Low and behold Walmart was having a midnight release too which I was able to snag a copy from. Eager to get back to Gamestop so that my friends could snag their copy before Gamestop gave it away (which they shouldn't do, but its Gamestop), we drove down the road and across the street we saw a procession of cars comming from gamestop and heading strait towards Wal-Mart (glad I didn't try and pick up one at the last second at Gamestop since as we learned later they only barely had enough for pre-orders).
Arriving back at Gamestop to the sight of the very same Sony Fanboy and his crew out on the sidewalk, him screaming (in a half-mocking gesture), "Fuck Nintendo! Buy Metal Gear Solid 4! Nintendo sucks!" then they angrily went to their car and drove off. We proceeded inside and quickly picked up their copy and all was well. and All was well.
Any experiences of your own to share?
