Students Compete for Hero Status
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Published 1-22-2008
Every Thursday, the sounds of Alice Cooper and Weezer can be heard drifting out of Mulligan’s bar.
Mulligan’s on Third Street hosts a "Guitar Hero" tournament every Thursday. This last Thursday was the first inaugural competition.
“There were only enough competitors to hold two brackets this time,” competition co-organizer Kyle Deck, a graduate student in media relations, said. “We broke it down into an easy and medium bracket.”
Sarah Honstein competes in the Guitar Hero Tournament as one of just a few girls. The tournament was held on Thursday at Mulligan's. The bar will continue to host tournaments every Thursday.
Deck said in the future he would like to break down the competitors into easy, medium, hard and expert brackets.
The game of the night was "Guitar Hero III," and there are several very serious competitors vying for the $25 Mulligan’s gift card.
“It is more social fun,” Nick Phillip, a finance major, said. “I came into the competition pretty competitive, but I left as a social player.”
Sarah Honstein, one of the few girls competing, said, “It really isn’t a guy thing.”
Honstein had been putting up with the male ego all night.
“That guy won and he still flipped me and my friends off,” Honstein said, referring to a close match with Jarvis Schultz.
“It wasn’t that close,” Schultz said, after apologizing to Honstein for his poor sportsmanship.
Deck said they will be holding a tournament every Thursday until there isn’t interest in it anymore.
"Guitar Hero" is a video game for multiple video game consoles. As in past "Guitar Hero" games, the player uses a guitar-shaped controller to play many genres of music as it scrolls across the screen. The game takes precise timing to master.
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