Sunday, November 24, 2013

#124: Elder's Quorum "Nintendo Tournament of a Lifetime".

My friend Jeff is currently the Elder's Quorum President in his ward. Unfortunately, some of his past Elder's Quorum activities have not been very well attended. Together, he and I came up with a fun Elder's Quorum activity that was very successful--the first-ever Elder's Quorum "Nintendo Tournament of a Lifetime" (with dinner...free food always helps).

We gathered up all of our Nintendo games from the NES, SNES, N64, Gamecube, and Wii (thanks to my mom for not throwing my old games away!), set up a few TVs in the cultural hall at the Church, brought in the couches from the foyer (with permission, of course) and had an epic 24-man "Nintendo Tournament of a Lifetime". In order to facilitate 24 players, we split the men into six different teams. Four players at a time would compete in a mini-challenge on one game (one race in Excitebike, one 3-minute round of Super Smash Bros, most points in a quarter of NBA Jam, etc.) until all 4 players had attempted the challenge. The winner received 4 points, the runner-up received 3 points, 3rd place received 2 points, and 4th place received 1 point. The team that had the most points by the end of the night was declared the "Nintendo Champions of a Lifetime". In this particular case, it actually came down to a tie, so the two winning teams picked their two best players to go head-to-head in an epic speed run of Super Mario Bros World 1-1. It was awesome. Jeff gave out some gift cards for the winning team. It was a great activity, and we can't wait to do it again. If you have some old Nintendo games lying around and are in need of a fun activity, give it a shot. It's a sure way to get your 20 to 30 year old Elder's to come out to an activity.
More games means more awesome.
Free food + Nintendo is a guaranteed success.
Setting up the teams. The dude in purple is ready to roll.
Jeff kept score in Microsoft Ecxel. It's great to be a nerd.
Bo Jackson is unstoppable in Tecmo Bowl. It's really not even fair.
Brody was the champion of the night--he had nerves of steel.
 He beat Super Mario Bros World 1-1 in record time.
And then he just kept on going.

4 comments:

  1. Brilliant minds joined together to come up with the fun elders Quorum. I am happy that this post is entertaining from its exclusive constructive content .All the best in your future posts.

    ReplyDelete
  2. Each business needs a website. Web development is magnificence in building a website. To expand the imperceptibility of a website, the webpage must be continually refreshed, which requires gifted web engineer. Advantages Of Outsourcing Web Development Services

    ReplyDelete
  3. PCs have been comprehensively ordered into gaming, ordinary, and business workstations. At that point, there are the HD PCs, 3D workstations, et cetera. Be that as it may, have you at any point investigated the contrasts between the variations of PCs? Key Features of the Best Laptop for Gaming

    ReplyDelete
  4. In basic terms, SEO backlinks are connections to a site originating from different sites with the impact of enhancing the site's web index result page (SERP) positioning. For example, if abcd.com connections to a site wxyz.com, at that point the connection will be alluded to as a backlink by wxyz.com. They are additionally alluded to as inbound connections, internal connections, approaching connections or in-joins. SEO Backlinks

    ReplyDelete