 So a big event happened that we didn't talk about much of Because it's a live event and it wasn't one that was necessarily going to guarantee game announcements Of course, we're talking about the Nintendo World Championships was wrapped up, you know hours ago at this point and You know, maybe you'll listen into this a bit later, but I wrapped up on Saturday and I wanted to just give First off a round of applause to all of the contestants Especially the the person who won at the end of the day and knocked off the defending champion It's actually amazing. I mean the defending champion made it all the way back to the finals Which is just an accomplishment in that of itself But I also want to really really thank Nintendo See when they brought back the Nintendo World Championships at E3 2015 I gotta admit I kind of thought it was a gimmick Yeah, they had some famous youtubers on stage and some silly battles and professional players and all this stuff It felt like a lot of grandstanding and a lot of just advertising their games Which you know, obviously the Nintendo World Championships way back in the day the original Nintendo World Championships Did the same thing they advertise the recent games And you know, I always had like a big red the big reveal I think it was Super Mario Bros. 3 at the time at the end for the final You know the championship game or maybe that was just from the movie There was also a movie built based around it and that had Super Mario Bros. 3 Sometimes I get those too confused because I was so young at the time I don't know if I could tell the difference between the movie and the real life Nintendo World Championships But I just want to thank Nintendo for bringing it back and taking it seriously now I'm still critical of Nintendo with anything that has to do with any sort of Championship thing because they don't offer cash prizes and I think if they offered Some sort of cash prize that is one way that they could really improve the competition now Of course including the cash prize means you're gonna get a lot of pro players really trying to qualify And that doesn't mean that pro players don't try to qualify just for the exposure alone, but you know often even like a scholarship because a lot of the Competitors are younger so offering a scholarship I think is even something they could do just something, you know Even like a donation to a charity like a hundred thousand dollar donation to a charity of your choice would even be something that's pretty Pretty interesting and could add something to it or whatever Setting that aside. I think Nintendo did an excellent job with the Nintendo World Championships this year They improve the format the underground like because it's a round-robin tournament, right? so you have to lose twice to get eliminated and the underground had a lot of very interesting games and And the main games up in the winners bracket, you know, whatever they were calling it They didn't call it a winners bracket, but that's essentially what it was in the winners bracket Was it basically recent games plus smash and Mario maker, but that's to be expected, right? Nintendo has a lot of a really great competitive games that have come out in you know recent years so it made a lot of sense to stick with those and Man having the finale end with Super Mario Odyssey I mean I could see it coming a mile away, right? It has to be Mario Odyssey has to be Mario Odyssey But it wasn't just that it was Mario Odyssey It was content from Mario Odyssey We had never seen and content that showed extremely well It showed that this game is not like the big fear of Mario Odyssey for some people is that it's going to be too easy And surely there's going to be easy aspects of Super Mario Odyssey but this showed the unique challenges that exist in Mario Odyssey and Man was in an epic showdown. I highly suggest if you missed out on the Nintendo World Championships I will put a link down in the description. It's a four hour video for our live stream well worth watching all the way through and I think this is just a really cool thing because The gaming industry hasn't had anything like the Nintendo World Championships until Nintendo brought them back in 2015 and again 2015's version to me just felt like a lot of pop in circumstance It didn't really feel like Nintendo themselves took it that seriously, but this one in 2017 Man, they did a lot of things right whether or not you think the qualifying round with Mario Kart 7 Was was fair or correct or that there was enough locations or this and that you know That's neither here nor there, you know, at least you knew what the game was and they gave you time to prepare You know, there are some improvements. I'd like to see I would because at the Nintendo World Championships Finals, they added they threw like all the age groups together I think it would be nice if they had at least two separate age groups where you have like the little kids like the under 10 or under 12 whatever it was age group and then you know an age group for over that And so you end up with two Nintendo World Championship, you know Champions at the end you have the one that for the little kids and the one for the for the Adults and the older the older kids and adults, but again, that's just my criticism. Maybe we turn into an eight hour event If they did that I have no idea But I just think personally I would have did that plus you could have allowed twice the amount of competitors But whatever It's just a really interesting thing that I think they could do because let's be honest Most kids that come out of the little age bracket to make it to the Nintendo World Championships are not gonna win it You're gonna be going up against people who are 16 and older Who are semi-professional gamers? You're not going to really stand a chance against that you might be able to advance to some of the later rounds I think there was Someone from the younger age record who actually made it all the way up to the Splatoon 2 match But I mean, let's just be honest. They didn't really have a chance to win it It is cool seeing them advance of course and perform well, but yeah, they just didn't stand a chance But beyond that I just kind of go over some things that I really liked what the Nintendo World Championships They did a very good job presenting the games some of this is because they added spectator modes to certain games It's what you to showed really really well But I really like how they presented it, you know the Mario Kart stuff yet all 12 players on screen at once, which was really cool. I mean obviously they flashed around the different moments and key stuff Commentary was typical Nintendo I mean if you watch any Nintendo Treehouse livestream over the past how many years you kind of get their stick at this point About how they're gonna handle commentary. They did they did a fine job Oh, it's interesting that they had actually some technical difficulties and they somehow kept the stream Entertaining while they were fixing those technical difficulties and they got a fix and relatively good timing Nintendos would have had a very professional presentation to all of this a very professional feeling They got people from the media that Andrea in there if you don't know who she is You know Andrea Roth she does some stuff I kind of funny games that she works at some other places and it should basically part of video game media and they got Her in there to do some presenting of the awards and it was just a really cool cool event Obviously heavily, you know advertising Nintendo games, but it's a Nintendo World championships. Did you really expect any different? There's also a video of all supposed to link that that down below from CND's channel He was in the front row and you can see the crowd just going nuts when Super Mario Odyssey was announced as the game for the championship and then Going nuts again when the champion wins and defeats the boss at the end It's just it's a crazy unique event that I think as gamers We need to take a step back. I'm 31 years old at this point The chance of me ever making it to the to the New York event or whatever for the Nintendo World championships This is slim to none. It's not going to happen There's too many people who are younger than me with better reflexes that are probably gonna get there Maybe I'll make it through one year. I don't know but I'm feeling I went last very long But it's just really cool that this exists. I mean think about this What other gaming company does anything like this now? That's not to say there aren't serious tournaments out there I know all about the e-sports team with the League of Legends and you know The call duties of the world and the Madden's of the world and like some of these these games are heavily supported By the developers and publishers, but this is just this has a unique feel to it This is a truly for everyone event. It's family friendly But serious and this time around the games they used and the modes they played I mean, I guess maybe the biggest criticism was that they had 50 cc Mario Kart in there But then at the same time I feel I think they threw that in there to throw a wrench into 200 cc Mario Kart Which you had to do immediately after I kind of think that was kind of a neat troll The 50 cc race wasn't necessarily that entertaining, but it was a troll that threw off people for going into 200 cc Because Nintendo to like to throw some wrenches in there I think it was a little unfair, you know, I'm so tuned to so late in the tournament But again, whatever everything worked out the match under the bean I mean the split tune to match was one of my favorite both of them both the matches like my favorite matches in The entire event came from so tune to The Super Mario Odyssey stuff at the end was also really really interesting because it's all brand new and watching the different skill levels and all that But I gotta say And this just Let me know what you guys think if you caught the Nintendo World championships I'm really interested in what you guys think about it. I just I'm so thankful Nintendo. Thank you Nintendo This is this needs to happen. This needs to keep happening. I would love for it to be yearly I don't know if Nintendo has plans to do it yearly If you look at they did it in 2015 now, they've done it in 2017 If they keep up with that pace, it'll be on all the odd years. So 2019 2021 2023 But I hope they keep it going because it's really really good for the fans I mean, I don't know what the peak viewers were but it was regularly over 25,000 viewers just on live viewers at a time just on YouTube Who knows what it was if you caught twitch in there plus you have people who are watching on their TVs And I don't even know if you could watch through your switch at the time. I didn't even check Just a crazy crazy event that was a lot of fun to watch I reminded if you ever wondered why people love Nintendo All you have to do is watch the Nintendo World championships and just see the reactions of the fans that are there see the reactions of the gamers See the see the games like this. This is why people love me. This is why I love Nintendo. I Sometimes people wonder why I run a Nintendo channel when I'm like a tech enthusiast My own Xbox one I play a lot of games on PC and sometimes Nintendo through periods of my life becomes my least-played system But if watching the Nintendo World championships and it encapsulates every single reason why I love Nintendo And why I run a Nintendo channel. I couldn't be happier. Thank you. Thank you Thank you so much Nintendo even though you're probably gonna claim this video because I plan to throw some clips of Of the championships in here. I don't even care at this point I'm so happy and thrilled that this happened Anyways folks, let me know what you think down in the comments below and if you think there's ways it could make it better You know the things you like the things you don't like And yeah, I love it. This is to me was a huge step forward from 2015 And they'll probably take another huge step forward next time around anyways folks I will note one thing and those gonna be someone down in the comments It's gonna say it shouldn't be called world championships because it's only the United States. I under here I understand you I hear you but the Nintendo World Championships was always an American thing So it's just gonna stay an American thing. It's rabbi Nintendo of America. That's just the way it is if you would like your own Local Nintendo like Nintendo UK or Nintendo Japan or whatever to run a world championship style event You need to talk to them and get them to run an event because it's not gonna be the same as the event in the United States Anyways folks, I'm the tender of a chance from Nintendo Prime if you like this video, you know what to do, and if you dislike the video well Dislike it Anyways folks, I hope you enjoyed the footage of this I hope you enjoyed the Nintendo World Championships, and I will catch you in the next one