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More Details Announced For Nintendo World Championships
« on: June 09, 2015, 02:14:00 PM »

The host, the eight invited guests, and another game were all confirmed.

http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/news/40404/more-details-announced-for-nintendo-world-championships

Nintendo has provided some more details about this Sunday's Nintendo World Championships in a video posted on their Youtube channel.

The second announced game for the championship is Splatoon, which according to the video is the first time the game has been played in a live tournament setting. Kevin Pereira, former Attack of the Show/Let's Ask America host, and currently of Hack My Life on U.S. cable network TruTV, will be hosting the event in Los Angeles.

The invited eight players were also announced:

  • Speedrunners Sinister1, Cosmo, Bananas, Trihex, Essentia
  • NES completionist TheMexicanRunner
  • Smosh Games host Jovenshire
  • Game Grumps host Arin

Justin Flynn, Andre (Black Nerd Comedy), and djWheat will call the action live from the Microsoft (previously Nokia) Theater starting at 3pm Pacific / 6pm Eastern on Sunday, with the previously announced pre-game show with the Treehouse starting 25 minutes before.

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Re: More Details Announced For Nintendo World Championships
« Reply #1 on: June 09, 2015, 09:23:26 PM »
Yay Cosmo!

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Re: More Details Announced For Nintendo World Championships
« Reply #2 on: June 09, 2015, 09:59:56 PM »
...wasn't Bill fired?
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Re: More Details Announced For Nintendo World Championships
« Reply #3 on: June 09, 2015, 11:40:36 PM »
He came back in a reduced role at a Nintendo Direct Micro last week.
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Re: More Details Announced For Nintendo World Championships
« Reply #4 on: June 10, 2015, 10:31:58 AM »
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