“The upside is that we are going to continue to do similar stuff—a wide range of other games,” said Lessin.
This cancellation doesn’t mean the other ideas won’t be tried, added Lessin, who has created his own organization devoted exclusively to organizing tournaments of this kind involving college students.
“There are a whole set of great college-oriented games for which there’s no national stage,” said Lessin. “How fun would it be to create national competitions for games we play on the sides?”
Zuckerberg said that if the Beirut tournament had been a success, he was considering a Halo tournament, pitting college students against each other in the popular video game using thefacebook.com as the platform.
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