Super Smashdown in Brawl

On Sunday, March 30, almost 30 gamers came out to try their hand against new opponents.

Getting ready for tournament play, players practice their moves on Super Smash Bros. Brawl

Luckily we had some loaned Wiis and games so most of Brawl was already unlocked

In the Brawl tournament, players had two-minute limit matches in Battlefield. Each player kept one character for all matches, and Kirby and Meta were popular choices. Many thanks to Ben from Champlain College for running the tournament, and to Emilie for filming it!

Here are the finals of the 12-player tournament!

The winners were James, playing Ike, who won a $25 GameStop gift card and Ben, playing Lucario, who took second place. Both characters were new with Brawl!

Wii sports were also popular-- tennis, golf, boxing and baseball!






























Gamers also practiced their moves at Dance Dance Revolution and Guitar Hero II















Sam from Quarterstaff Games played Magic with fans and added another layer to the event...

Teen Advisory Board at Work

The Teen Advisory Board, now up to 10 members, has been busy! We've been helping to plan game tournaments, coming up with a service project for Global Youth Service Day, and painting the Teen Area!

What is there to do at computer drop-in?

Take on your friends in games like Age of Empires! Create music, sound, video, and animation!
We've started up a computer bank at the library specifically for grades 6-8. The laptops are out on Wednesdays and Fridays from 3:00 to 5:00 pm, in the Community Room (basement) or sometimes in the Pickering Room (top floor). Come check it out!
What we have:
The Sims 2
Age of Empires III
Scratch
Audacity
SpliceMusic
Monopoly
Risk
Scrabble
Apples to Apples
FreeCol

with more on the way-- what would you recommend?

And, check out what you can do with these amazing applications:
SpliceMusic and Audacity:



and Scratch:

"Heroes and Revolutions" Teen Tech Week Gaming

The Community Room was transformed into a rockin party last Friday after school. DDR and Wii stations were open-play for new players for the afternoon.


The Guitar Hero tournament showed off some impressive skills. Thanks for all your energy and commitment to fairness! We were able to put together a 16-player bracket , with $25 at GameStop at stake. Brian's reputation preceded him, and it did win out in the end after contests with Derrick and then Owen in the finals. Congrats, dude.




The tournament was filmed by Blaise and Shepherd and we plan to show some footage on Channel 17. We'll let you know when!Shepherd won the "Dig Beyond Google" contest, with 13 correct answers from tricky sites on the internet. Both he and Aaron found that there are 4 Looneyvilles in the US, and used GoogleEarth to check the geography of Boston Common.

And we enjoyed birthday cake in honor of Will F., thanks to a generous donation from Pricechopper. Other snacks were courtesy of City Market!

See you next time-- Sunday, March 30-- more details coming soon! It will depend on your recommendations: what do you think? Super Smash Bros? Rock band? More stations, even if they are smaller TVs? Can anyone ever defeat Brian? ..... comment.....

Celebrating Teen Tech Week!

Tune In @ your library for Teen Tech Week, celebrated in libraries across the country!

At Fletcher Free you can stop in and think of a soundtrack of songs to go to your favorite book.

Or find a book with some playlists in the plot!

Wednesday was the inaugural Drop-In Computer Bank with new games and applications, and volunteers helped install the software.

And the FREE guitar classes will be continuing, every other Thursday, thanks to volunteer instructor Tim Niemiec. We also have new instruction books (with CDs) for checkout.

And of course, the grand finale: The Teen Tech Week "Heroes and Revolutions" Game Tournament is coming tomorrow! The tournament for the prize will be in Guitar Hero, with the winner taking home a $25 gift card to GameStop. There will be open play on Wii and DDR, and refreshments. Come by after school, 3-5:30 in the Community Room! For middle and high school.