The Ministry of Sports & Youth Affairs presents FREE GAMING

[Jdcrys_Shinkuu]

GAMERS LAUNCH!

Gamers Launch is 2 day FREE gaming event which is open to the public and will take place ALL DAY on Wednesday 16th July & Thursday 17th July 2008 at Trincity Mall.

11am to 7pm

Games expected to be at the event include -

FIFA 08 (PS3)
NEED FOR SPEED CARBON (PS3)
NEED FOR SPEED PRO STREET (PS3)
TEKKEN 5 DARK RESURRECTION (PS3)
ROCK BAND (PS3)
SUPER SMASH BROS BRAWL (WII)
TRAUMA CENTER (WII)
BIG BRAIN ACADEMY (WII)
WII SPORTS (WII)
WARCRAFT III THE FROZEN THRONE (PC)
DOTA (PC)

All are invited to attend! Pass this on to your friends!

There will be a door prize and other surPRIZEs


This is the latest initiative by the Min to shed light on gaming as an INDUSTRY here in tnt...
They also have a collaboration going with WinTV... more sponsors iwmc!!! ... explosion fuh so!!!

[Spazosaurus]

NO 360 games? Dota for PC alone? No COD4? 11am to 7pm on WEEKDAYS?

Who the hell organized this thing?

[Nephilim]

Who the hell organized this thing?

i guessing someone who knows the kiddies outta school...

look at the games...is mostly non violent stuff...i think the most violent thing there is tekken i can't see link chapping mario as being perceived as violent when it looking 'cartoony'

also...you know if ah man on a kill streak in DOTA is lvl cuss right?

HOLY SH!T...M M M M MONSTER KILL!

[Spazosaurus]

..and someone who doesnt know that adults might want to go but work during the week.

Thanks, but i'll pass. Will let any kids I know aware of the event though.

[Nephilim]

Thanks, but i'll pass. Will let any kids I know aware of the event though.

good idea.
ma sis mining some company children in a camp...will pass this here knowledge onto her.

[Crixx_Creww]

call this teh NON gamers launch yes

[Jdcrys_Shinkuu]

Its the MINISTRY OF SPORT N YOUTH AFFAIRS key word MINISTRY...
Non violent games, no FPS of any sort...

[Crixx_Creww]

the non violent games is not the problem

its the days an times

cause obviously the ministry knows nothign about gaming
so they trying to run a gaming event like the runnin de country

aka
epic fail

[Jdcrys_Shinkuu]

actually for those who dont know these were the ONLY days available because sum1 at mall management triple booked weekends...

i suggest if u dont know ask 1st...u may b surprized at the answer...


patience is such a virtuos thing that if u dont have it u will be shot...lol

[rb]

name has been changed to gamers lounge...

trinimc had a thread on this already somewhere with game developers.

[Nephilim]

actually for those who dont know these were the ONLY days available because sum1 at mall management triple booked weekends...

i suggest if u dont know ask 1st...u may b surprized at the answer...


patience is such a virtuos thing that if u dont have it u will be shot...lol

then why not wait till an opening comes on a weekend...

why the rush?

[Jdcrys_Shinkuu]

proposed youth month ends in july early august...

[Xen_spartan-117]

been so long since ive been on this forums....everything has changed...the people, the games, but the worst change of all...your mindset towards the thing we all love....games...
Now as a gamer of Trinidad and Tobago, who would wish to see the promotion of E-sports in the Caribbean, it pains me to see that my fellow gamers are not willing to support an event the GOVERNMENT is hosting. now its understandable when normal users do not get the big picture, but when moderators cannot grasp the importance of this event, then how can this organization?
In my personal observation, it seems that the ministry is testing us, to see if the gaming community is huge and active enough in plans for future investment. Which means further sponsorship,endorsement and even (im dreamign now) sending multiple teams abroad for regional/international tournaments. Now if they get the opposite idea, where we are NOT active and do not take the event seriously, it just means we all have set OURSELVES back, and the only person to blame is ourself, not the government, the people in charge or the organizations, just the gamer.
Now if we, the community do not have the will to support a gaming event just because "oh it doh have my game dey" or "where the shooters? this ting is real balls" how do you expect them to take us seriously if you all make comments like this? if we are all advocates in supporting the gaming community, casual, hardcore and professional, you WILL come out to this event, lay aside all  the bullshit of TG/GATT wars,yuh game not there and so on, because in the end, we are ALL gamers and that is the one thing that makes us who we are today. And if you do not come out to support this community, you never were...

and jdrks yuh copy paste that from TG, >.<

My 2 cents

[Nephilim]

hmmm i see, if is triple book earliest you might get is 1st week in aug...teh suckage...


aye...what about a gov't funded GL?

or subsidizing for GLs that can act as positive methods for youth to kill time...or similar...blah blah blah yuh know the drill

then again...take that with a pinch of salt and a BIG glass, nah, a tank full ah water...

[rb]

the mall is booked til the end of summer...

[Nephilim]

summer :S? we in wet season hoss...

but i understand...was a take it or leave it scene...small thing, better it happen, than not at all...

[Jdcrys_Shinkuu]

wait nah xen yuh expected me  to type all dat!! lol

[Crixx_Creww]

all that NONSENSE that
xen now post dere

lol take it or leave it, support a nonsensical event

that is PRECISELY the kind of backward GOVERNMENTAL thinking that is ruining the country and would threaten to ruin gaming.

The government is/are not professional gamers. so they cant possibly think themselves teh authority on throwing a gaming event. THey need to consult with the appropriate professionals to pull off these events sucessfully. The gaming populace would not promote such events during times where GAMERS are not likely to participate.

The take it or leave it mentality is NOTTTTTT the way to go, believe me, i work in government and am utterly disgusted with how disconnected they are from reality.

So that little speech you just gave, SHOVE IT.

[Spazosaurus]

If this event was so important, they would NOT have had it on WEEKDAYS where working adults can't even attend. And no where was it mentioned that only kids were invited. And that game list.....SUCKS! Fine. If you want to cater for children as well, give them a separate pool of games to play, not ONE set of titles for everyone. And on a weekday? Nah man they eh serious.

[rb]

Something I don't understand, the same people who bitch and moan never show up to anything anyway, so why create all the drama ?