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Gaming club bashes and brawls to popularity

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DSC_7773The bell rings. A flood of students walk or drive home, congregate around campus, or speed to somewhere other than school. But one group has managed to find another activity after school on campus that gives all members the same joy and satisfaction that a weekend would. It is the Gaming Club.

Initially created by juniors Mallory Strout and Amy Shapiro, the club has grown in numbers since its conception last year.

“We’ve had soaring popularity,” Strout said. “Last year, we had about ten members, while this year, it has increased to about thirty.”

Now, the club has been generalized into the “Gaming” club, with everything from board to video games.

Strout said one of the main ways that the club garners members is through its intense tournaments which occur every Friday.

“It’s really the Super Smash Bros tournaments that get the most people in to it,” Strout said.

Despite the popularity of classics such as the Nintendo tournaments, Shapiro and Strout are still keeping things alive with the addition of the Board Game Club, a branch off of the Gaming club.

Shapiro said the Board Game Club will include any members interested in a wide variety of board games, and will meet Tuesday afternoons.

“We just started playing board games, which is really exciting,” Strout said.

To remind members of meetings, Strout sends out a newsletter to entertain readers of upcoming events.

“It’s a way to increase membership, and get people who aren’t in the club to come,” Strout said.

“It’s basically a weekly email of what we are going to do for the week.”

Strout’s efforts have been apparently effective, as membership has done nothing but increase since last year.

“I think it all worked out because we were pretty organized about it and people came because who doesn’t want to play video games at school?” Shapiro said.

Walking by the 30’s building on a Friday afternoon, you can hear the yells and screams of excitement that get louder each week with the club’s growing popularity.

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