Tournament Arena

Tournament Arena

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Place in Webkinz World for games between players

The Tournament Arena is named in the tour of Webkinz as the place where a player could challenge friends to a game: after inviting friends to see a room, the tour goes on, "...or challenge them to a game in the Tournament Arena." That sentence is the only place the files use the name. Nothing preserved shows the Arena itself.

What is preserved is the two-player side of several Arcade games. The text of Operation Gumball, Wacky Zingoz, Wacky Zingoz Extreme, Webkinz Mini Golf and the Cash Cow game kept in the Webkinz Mini Arcade all carry the same label, "Player vs Player - 2 Player Tournament". The files do not say that these matches were played in the Tournament Arena; the word "Tournament" is all that connects them.

The games' messages show how a match went. Players waited for one another and their profiles were loaded before the start. In Operation Gumball a match was the best of rounds, two wins taking the game. In Wacky Zingoz a tie meant another round, a slow player was told "Don't Take Too Long!", and afterwards there were 20 seconds in which to ask for a rematch. In Mini Golf "the course marshals" penalised slow play.

The stake was "Prize Money". A player who quit received no KinzCash, and the opponent was told that the other "has quit the game. The game was not completed, but you have been awarded a portion of the Prize Money." WebKinz Pool, which is stored apart from the Arcade games, has a two-player game with the same messages.