Gaucho Gaming hosts annual Game-a-thon

UC Santa Barbara’s Gaucho Gaming membership hosted its annual “Game-a-thon” on Nov. 15 and 16. The occasion included a sequence of raffles, board video games, video video games, tournaments and pizza. 

The occasion had an assortment of gaming-related prizes. Attendees performed the trivia-based recreation Kahoot! to check their gaming information and to compete for a Corsair Mouse. The questions consisted of gaming trivia from a wide range of recreation genres, from first-person shooter video games like Valorant and life simulator video games like The Sims. 

The Game-a-thon was a 12-hour occasion made potential by their employees and contributing sponsors, based on fourth-year movie and media research and psychological and mind sciences double main and Gaucho Gaming President Katie Elliott. 

Elliott mentioned the aim of internet hosting these massive occasions is to deliver a neighborhood along with a ardour for gaming. 

“I love making new friends and that’s kind of my goal with this. Just to make it so that people who have maybe never met each other before are able to kind of come and chat,” Elliott mentioned.

Gaucho Gaming’s neighborhood engagement crew set the principles for all of the tournaments, such because the Super Smash Bros. Tournament, which was open to gamers of all ability ranges. 

There had been attendees who don’t attend UCSB on the occasion as properly. 

Holden Klingel, a first-year pc science main at California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo, mentioned he wouldn’t have heard in regards to the occasion if it weren’t for the Super Smash Bros. Tournament. 

“I heard it from some people in the SLO [San Luis Obispo] Smash group chat. [They] told me that there was a big event here tomorrow,” Klingel mentioned. 

Elliott expressed how they didn’t obtain as many sponsors as they might’ve appreciated.

“This year, it was a little bit less than we would have liked, but that’s the name of the game,” Elliott mentioned. “I just really love when people come by and sometimes with our other events, they’re a lot smaller, so there’s less pull to go. There’s not all these big prizes, there’s not always free food.”

Although Gaucho Gaming is centered round video video games, Elliott defined that the group is extra than simply gaming. They expressed that when everybody will get busy with work, it’s arduous to search out time to play video video games. However, the membership has been capable of kind a neighborhood round it. “I feel like for me, [gaming is] more of an umbrella where it’s this hobby that I love even though I don’t always participate in it, and now it’s become a community of people that I think are usually chill,” Elliott mentioned. 

A model of this text appeared on p. 6 of the Nov. 20 print version of the Daily Nexus.