On Super Bowl Sunday, highly qualified professional athletes compete for the most illustrious prize in sports. However, freshmen class president, Jeff Seiser, changed the number one competition of Super Bowl weekend.
On Saturday, 34 highly qualified Fairfield freshmen competed for two 25-dollar-Visa Check Cards in a Madden tournament held in the multimedia room of the library.
“We were sitting around in English class when Gary McGovern came up with the idea,” said Seiser, who emphasized the tremendous amount of effort that went into the planning and execution of the event.
“Once we decided we were going have the tournament we came to the library to ask for a T.V. we could use for the event,” he said. “They recommended that we hold the event in the library.”
Devin Hagan, the library’s Circulation Assistant said he met with Jeff and together they organized the TV’s, people, and ran a test run.
“The library can be used for all sorts of reasons,” Hagan said, adding that during midterm or finals week a Madden tournament would not be allowed, but added the library has the capabilities to serve as a functional place for many events.
The four PS2 systems and the two XBOX systems were donated by students as were the 6 Madden 2007 games. The standard Madden rules applied with the exemption that quarters were lowered and settings where the All-Pro level. The championship games were raised to four minutes and were played on the big screen in the multimedia room downstairs in the library, which has a seating capacity of 90 persons.
Of the 34 kids that participated, 10 competed on XBOX systems with Pete Cornish’s Giants beating Brendan O’Malley’s Broncos. Cornish was in control for a majority of the game with a half time lead of 14-0. In the second half O’Malley through a touchdown making it 24-7, but that would be his last a Cornish’s four straight passing touchdowns would sell the deal 45-21.
The other 24 participants played in the PS2 bracket, where Sean Jasiukiewicz’s Broncos defeated Nick Venuti’s Ravens. Jasiukiewicz, who dominated the game 56-7, said he “plays a lot.”
“We [he and his friends] play all the time with money changing hands all time, usually finding its way into mine,” he said.
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