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Dispatches from the Highlands
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Cannatown Sports County-Wide Pong Tournament to Continue A er Brief Tech Snafu Pong, the popular original video game, where two play- ers use vertical sticks to hit a ball over a third, longer, middle stick, has gained its lionshare of cult followers over the year, partially thanks to the legend, learnability, and superior graphics the game o ers. But a city-wide Atari- based tournament of the game seemed doomed when none of the hosting venue’s TV’s had
completely analog version of the original Pong game. "It's almost like it's the real deal, only on a green board with these chubby little paddles," gloated long-time Pong enthu- siast Deondra Mills. " e hardest part is, that middle line is 3D, and like, six inches tall." e tournament, which o cially resumes in Wayward William Park tomorrow, was almost cancelled due to rain. "But unlike old-fashioned Pong," said Mills, "you can use an umbrella. It's really an amazing feeling."
accommodating ports for the aged gaming machines. en, when a server hosting the online version of the game went down, event organizers scrambled to nd a method of competition for the tournament’s estimated 420 competitors, some of whom had traveled from as far away as Resinville and Steem Desert Springs. Now the city says they've found away around the hiccups of technology, with a Chiefers' Quarterback Saga Comes to Bittersweet Pause e sports world is taking a brief pause from discussing former MVP and quarterback of the Cannatown Chiefers, Braggerton Butts. e pre-season drama that saw him sharing blunts with other teams, guest-hosting on the show What's at ingy? , and live-streaming with wife, actress Beverly Firmnugget, came to a climax of sorts when a very high Butts drove his Impala nearly 500 miles to throw raw sh in the yard of a television critic -- only to nd that it was an out-dated address. News of " e Fishening," which a ected a poor elderly couple and their tragically sh-allergic yorkshire ter- rier--all of them, Chiefers fans--spread quickly,
resulting in what Butt's
lawyers would later call a full league blackout due to the in- cident. But the media instead points to Butt's new contract, cemented last week, for the sudden break. "It's just been so dramatic, it's
kind of nice to talk about another quarterback's life," said CT Sports Anchor Casper Ronson.
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