Best Buy Locations Revealed to Qualify for Nintendo World Championships

Written by Brandon Hofer on May 19, 2015

News: Best Buy is teaming up with Nintendo to try and send you to the Nintendo World Championships during E3 week in Los Angeles.

Nintendo has revealed the Best Buy locations that will be hosting the qualifying events for the 2015 Nintendo World Championships. These events will take place on May 30 and Nintendo has invited everyone to participate as long as you are a United States resident and are at least 13 years old. The Nintendo World Championships will take place on June 14 in Los Angeles during E3 week.

The qualifying competition will feature the Championship mode of the Ultimate NES Remix game for the Nintendo 3DS family of systems. In this mode, players will take on a series of three score-based challenges in Super Mario Bros., Super Mario Bros. 3 and Dr. Mario. Games and systems will be provided at each location, although Ultimate NES Remix is available now in stores and in the Nintendo eShop for anyone who wants to start practicing for the competition. The top scorer from each of the eight regional competitions will move on to the final event in Los Angeles, which will be a multi-round competition with a variety of Nintendo games. An additional eight competitors selected by Nintendo will also compete in the Nintendo World Championships 2015. Nintendo will reveal these competitors in the near future.

The qualifying events will take place from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. local time at Best Buy stores at the following locations:

1717 Harrison St.
San Francisco, CA

3675 Pacific Coast Highway
Torrance, CA

10760 NW 17th St
Miami, FL

900 E. Golf Road
Schaumburg, IL

12905 Elm Creek Blvd. N
Maple Grove, MN

5001 Northern Blvd.
Long Island City, NY

9378 N. Central Expressway
Dallas, TX

2214 S. 48th St.
Tacoma, WA

For more information about the Nintendo World Championships 2015, including the Official Rules for the qualifying events, visit http://e3.nintendo.com/. Will you try and qualify? Tell us what you think below.