During the past 4 weeks, my gaming life has been hectic. One of the main reasons of this were tournaments. I attended 4 tourneys during that span, which is a lot when you have to prepare for all of them. After the Madden Challenge last week, I was relieved that the tournaments were over and that I could get back to relaxing while I play.

This morning, I opened my e-mail inbox and expected the same male enhancement spam. Strangely, there was an e-mail from the McDonalds Gaming Championship. I participated in 2 of their late night events (both are covered in previous blog posts) and I assumed they were advertising their big finals this Saturday. To my surprise, It wasn't spam:

Congratulations! You have qualified for the Midnight Gaming Championship Finals. The finals will be held Sat Nov 18 at Ameriquest Field in Arlington, TX.

Are you kidding me?! At first, I thought it was a joke. I checked their website, and sure enough, my name is listed on the website under "NCAA [Football] 07". That means I have to once again borrow a friend's copy of NCAA 07 for the PS2 and have over 3 days to prepare myself for, literally, the biggest tournament of my gaming career. The prizes for the winner are amazing:

# a Championship Trophy
# a $1,000 Best Buy Gift Card courtesy of Best Buy
# an Xbox 360 courtesy of GameZnFlix
# a Sony PSP courtesy of Best Buy
# a $100 Arch card courtesy of McDonald's
# $500 cash courtesy of McDonald's

Do the math. That's over $2000 in prizes. I don't expect to win this, since they've invited all the big hitters, but I'm not gonna pass this tourney up. Once again, I'll cover this event in my blog with pics. Stay Tuned, this is gonna be exciting!