Roman's 1st Bakugan Tournament

Toys-r-us has started holding Bakugan tournaments. We couldn't go to the first one, this was the second one they have had. So at 10:30am we went out there to play. Roman had never actually played the game, and didn't know how, but he learned!

It seemed pretty complicated at first, but we started to get the hang of it. I thought I would get to go and take one of my schoolbooks with me and I could read for the 2 hours of the tournament. No such luck! I had to learn the game with him, and watch over each game to make sure he was doing it correctly and that the other kids weren't taking advantage of him since they were very good and he wasn't! He probably played 6 matches during the tournament, and lost every one of them, but he got some free bakugan prizes just for playing, so he was happy with that.

They had 4 boards set up, and so 4 games could be played simultaneously. They just switched people out and played over and over again until the last 15 minutes, which were the finals. Those that had won the most games (they did keep track of all games!) got to play in the finals. There were probably 15 kids there. They all had WAY more bakugan stuff than Roman. Notice the red thing on his wrist, it is a Bakugan shooter, allowing you to shoot your guy onto the gameboard instead of rolling it. When we walked up to the tournament, 15 mins early, 3 of the 4 kids there were wearing one, so he insisted we had to buy one before the game began. So he spent his birthday money on all bakugan stuff (as if he didn't get enough for his birthday!). And he couldn't use it for the tournament, because he didn't know how!

But now he knows how to play, and is going to practice and teach Bourbon how to play when he gets home from his dads house tomorrow. He is already looking forward to the next tournament.

What fun!