Another bit of idiot naming...
A "world championship" with preliminaries only held in the US.... WTF?
Nintendo is planning to hold a new World Championships gaming contest in 2015, marking the first time it has staged such an event in 25 years. Preliminary rounds of the contest will be held around the US on May 30 at various Best Buy retail stores in major cities. Nintendo has not yet posted location or registration info. The …
erf.
even as an ignorant brit I still know that the "world series" is a league named after the sponsoring "world series" news corporation.
and world champions for American football... well.. yeah... just because no one gives a toss... erm, I mean, no teams are good enough to be fielded into the NFL from outside the US doesn't mean it's closed off.
I wanted to enter a competition once, from home (as that was how it was set up), but was restricted to US only.
How annoying.
Other competitions for same game also insisted on a particular control method which I did not get on with, two control schemes, the most popular with top end players was not allowed. I do not know why as normal controllers had aim assist, the motion controllers did not.
I was in top 1%