| Jagg-off said: LOL, I smoke my 6 and 7 years olds at Connect Four but my youngest will be beating my ass at Halo in a year or two. |
I actually ran a Connect 4 tournament at a local game convention, because a friend I know is good at it. The game had a surprising effect of people walking by throwing their hat into the ring to want to play. If a game does that, then you look to see who else would want to play and look to get a World Championship set up down the road, once you can pull in sponsors. The basic idea here is to get a bunch of abstract strategy games, and have it work the way the World Poker Tour works, but one event may be Connect 4, another chess, another checkers, and another Go. How this will develop will see where it goes. I hopefully will see Hasbro's PR firm get interest in working with this.
And I know it seems utterly silly to have a world championship at Connect 4. However, when you see the likes of Kanye West and Beyonce playing the game, then that is a sign there is something here. So, anyone interested in seeing Kanye West battle Beyonce at the World Championship of Connect 4 on TV?
Of course, there may be a few tournament tweaks at the game. The game now, THEORETICALLY has it so the first player should always win. Of course, mistakes do happen.
