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What You Missed: SPLI at Eternal Con!

June 29, 2014 gluxbox

On June 14th and 15th, Long Island Comic Con was held at The Cradle of Aviation Museum in Garden City, NY. Known as Eternal Con, this new convention (only in it’s second year) featured many big name vendors and celebrities for pop culture fans to enjoy! StreetPass Long Island wanted to be a part of this amazing local event opportunity, so we hosted an encore presentation of the popular Pokémon X&Y: Competitive Trainer Seminar, which we originally performed at PAX East back in April.

If you weren’t able to attend the event (you should definitely try to go next year!) we have great news! There was a great videographer at the panel who posted the entire panel on YouTube!

Thanks to everyone who joined us at Eternal Con this year, we really appreciate your support! We hope you enjoyed the panel, and we plan to go even bigger at Eternal Con next year!

Official Nintendo Events, SPLI Events

SMASH DEMOS ANNOUNCED!!!

June 5, 2014 gluxbox

Awesome news for all you Smash Bros. fans out there! Nintendo has officially announced several demo events for the upcoming Super Smash Bros. games!

splismashfest Smashers can demo the new Smash Bros. games at Nintendo World Store in NYC, but if you’re a Long Islander, you’ll be happy to know that there are separate events just for us! Visit the Best Buy in Valley Stream for Nintendo Smash Fest and be the first to play these awesome new games. NoA’s most awesome rep Derek will be hosting the events, so come out and say hi!

Be sure to bring your A-game though, because world-class players from CROSSFIRE Smash Tournaments are going to be there too! Everyone wants to get their hands on this game and we are expecting a big crowd! The 3DS version is due out this summer, so get ready to get SMASHED with SPLI!

Want to join SPLI at Smash Fest at Best Buy? Check out our event pages on Facebook for all of the details. There are two events:

Weds June 11th 4pm – 9pm at Best Buy in Valley Stream (Green Acres Mall)

Sat June 14th 12pm – 5pm at Best Buy in Valley Stream (Green Acres Mall)

RSVP and invite your friends! Help spread the word about these SMASHING events. Who will be your main???

SPLI WIFI Tournaments

SPLI June WIFI Tourneys

May 30, 2014 gluxbox 1 Comment

Today is the release date for the long-awaited Mario Kart 8 for the Nintendo Wii U system! To celebrate, SPLI is announcing the return of our Sunday WIFI Meetups! At 8PM on Sunday nights, SPLI members can enter the “SPLI Sunday Tourney” series in Mario Kart 8!

Use the code 5211-9880-6695 to enter the SPLI Sunday Tourney series, which will be open weekly from 8-10PM on Sunday evenings.

More tournaments are going to be announced as well, but we’re kicking things off with the Sunday Tourney series so please join us!

For those of you already enjoying and participating in our Mario Golf: World Tour (Nintendo 3DS) WIFI Tournament series, we’re pleased to announce the latest tournament for that game as well!

The SPLI June Points Tournament is a private points tournament. Use code 15-7238-7549-3689 to enter this Tournament in Mario Golf: World Tour!

Good luck and see you on WIFI!

Conventions

Eternal Con

May 25, 2014 gluxbox

If you are a Long Islander who is a fan of New York Comic Con, then you might already know about Eternal Con. If not, then SPLI is here to keep you informed! Eternal Con is Long Island’s Comic Con, and this year it is going to be held at the Cradle of Aviation in Garden City on June 14th and 15th. Sounds like a great venue for super hero cosplay and photo ops!

Eternal Con is a fairly new convention and SPLI wants to help make it a success! We are planning to host a meetup somewhere at the convention, but details are TBD at this time. If you don’t have a ticket yet, you might be interested to learn that all Weekend (2-Day) Passes include a free ticket to Cosplay Night at CitiField to watch the Mets play against the Brewers on June 12th.

For ticket info, click here now! For info on SPLI’s meetup at Eternal Con, RSVP on our event page and stay updated on where we are going to meet. See you there!

SPLI Events

SPLI “Tiki Cup” Go-Kart Race!

May 24, 2014 gluxbox

WHEN: Sunday 6/22/14 6 PM

WHERE: Tiki Action Park in Centereach, NY

RSVP: https://www.facebook.com/events/580355802083104/

StreetPass Long Island is hosting the first ever “Tiki Cup” Go-Kart Race at Tiki Action Park to celebrate the launch of Mario Kart 8 for Wii U! Race in real go-karts and compete to be the best Go-Kart racer in SPLI! Dress in cosplay and help us recreate a REAL Mario Kart race… without the blue shells of course!

http://www.tikiactionpark.com/

Tiki Action Park offers a discounted rate for groups, so join us for a Grand Prix of go-kart races. Each race is $4.25 (so $17 total for the Grand Prix), and you can also enjoy the other cool features of Tiki Action Park for a discount as well.

Traveling from NYC? Take the LIRR to Smithtown Station. Then take a short walk around the corner to catch the S58 bus and go straight down NYS25/Middle Country Road. Tiki Action Park is located directly behind a Burger King. http://www.sct-bus.org/schedules/s58.pdf

Rain date 6/29.

SPLI Events

What You Missed: Mario Golf Mini Golf Tournament!

May 12, 2014 gluxbox

On Friday, 5/9/14, SPLI members were treated to a really fun event – the Mario Golf Mini Golf Tournament! The event kicked off earlier in the week, when SPLI issued a challenge to members via an online Mario Golf Private Tournament, dubbed the “SPLI May Tourney.” SPLI staff announced that the winner of the online private tournament would have a chance to win a free t-shirt!

The lucky winner of the SPLI May Tourney was Chris C! His impressive score of -14 was posted on the group page, and Chris was reminded that by winning the online tournament, he was entitled to a free t-shirt if he attended the Mario Golf Mini Golf meetup. Of course he came to claim his prize!

SPLI members split up into groups of 4 to play the Mini Golf Mountain course at Heartland Golf Park in Edgewood, NY. The competition was tight, with most players putting at par or better! The weather held out and we were able to golf through all 18 holes.

The winners of the Mario Golf Mini Golf Tournament were Chris C. (3rd place), Johnathan L. (2nd place) and Dan D. (1st place). Congratulations to all of the winners!

Editor’s Note – this makes Chris the winner of the online golf tournament AND a medalist in real life mini golf. Way to go, Chris!! Readers might remember that Dan was also the winner of our Pokemon X&Y Tournament back in February, making Dan the SPLI Pokemon and Mini Golf Champion! We plan to post a new Hall of Fame page here on the SPLI website to celebrate these winners and all future winners of SPLI competitions, so check back soon for that!

Another important detail to mention about the Mario Golf Mini Golf Tournament is that this was SPLI’s first meetup to include an Official Nintendo Representative! The NoA Long Island Rep, Derek, came to cheer us on and he took this awesome group photo for us! Everyone was so excited when Derek started handing out all kinds of cool Nintendo giveaways, and we learned more details about awesome Nintendo demo events that are coming up soon! Thanks for joining us Derek!

To keep up with the golfing spirit, a new private online tournament challenge is now issued to all SPLI members! The next private tournament is a SPEED challenge of 9 holes. Don’t let all of the coins and powerups distract you, but get the best score you can! This tournament ends at 8:30pm on 5/25/14. Good luck!

SPLI Events

Mario Kart 8 Demo Days on LI

April 25, 2014 gluxbox

Great news for all of you Mario Kart fans! If you are impatiently awaiting the May 30th release of the latest Mario Kart 8 game for Nintendo Wii U, here’s some good news! There are going to be 2 local MK8 Demo Events at GameStop store locations on Long Island!

May 17 – GameStop in Levittown

May 18 – GameStop in North Babylon

If you want to be the first of your friends to try out Mario Kart 8, you won’t want to miss this event! There’s an event for each county on Long Island to make it more convenient for YOU!

When we have more information regarding the actual times of the Demos, we will post an update. Stay tuned and start your engines!

For more info visit our event pages on Facebook by clicking here!

SPLI Events

Mario Golf Mini Golf Tournament

April 25, 2014 gluxbox

Join StreetPass Long Island in celebrating the new Nintendo 3DS game Mario Golf: World Tour by grabbing a putter and showing off your skills at Heartland Golf Park in Edgewood, NY! We are going to compete for the best score on Mini Golf Mountain, which is a gorgeous course and pretty challenging! Of course we will be playing Mario Golf in between holes too! See you on the green!

WHEN: Friday, May 9th at 8PM

WHERE: Heartland Golf Park in Edgewood, NY

PRICE: Each game on Mini Golf Mountain costs $7 per person.

RSVP: http://www.facebook.com/events/1443940209181025/

For more information about the Heartland Golf Park, please visit their website at www.heartlandgolfpark.com

20140422_200337_resized — Mini Golf Mountain at Heartland Golf Park

SPLI Events

SPLI’s Pokemon X&Y Kalos-Born Tournament Rankings

February 23, 2014 gluxbox

Here are the rankings from SPLI’s Pokemon X&Y Kalos-Born Tournament, held at Empire Gaming in Farmingdale, NY on February 23, 2014.

Top 4 Single-Elimination Bracket

Player Rankings:

Dan “Fox”
Albert “PrideNPrime”
Peter “Shellshock”
Dul “theDuL0R”
Geoff
Anton
Dani
Jeff
Joe
Will
Draven
Grace

SPLI Events

“I Luv SPLI” Poetry Winners

February 20, 2014 gluxbox

StreetPass Long Island recently concluded the “I Luv SPLI” Poetry Contest for Valentine’s Day. All winners will receive a Shiny Luvdisc holding an Ability Capsule. Now we are proud to present the top winning poems!

1st Place – Lissanne L.

SP-L-I (or 33 Pokemon hidden in 16 lines of a florid love poem)

SP on! Probe…Oh! Pass you!
Ho, ho, ho, I must rate you.
Be sharp and flow it ‘Fantastic’
And from you, your sprite’s beauty flies
Cherry be your hair and inky sable eyes.

‘Ell hath Dark Rays that tore us apart.
Zap dose thoughts thrown from my heart.
With a spear. Oh, Fear, oh rapid dash
To the Unknown, a Tranquil crash.
Happiny ever after.

I peek at you and Venus soars,
Lifts me spir’t from gloom’s doors.
Nine tales from you, all evil tales fracture far
A slow king grovels to Scherazade’s star.
You have stories to seal in me like a star.
Me and you, SPLI.

2nd Place – Jordan W.

Joining from an early stage,
On accomplishing group resurrection,
Rewriting gaming history on every page,
Driving up the region’s gaming perception,
Another group but not the ordinary,
Now thrusted in lime’s light,
Lovers profess on pocket monsters scary,
Officially great in their own right,
Valor and spirit enthused from each member,
Each with 3DS in hand,
StreetPassing as gone a twitter,
Supporting Nintendo’s greatest fans,
Please continue into future’s hands,
Lined up with fun events,
I’ve been very fortunate to know you all with time well spent.