Vibrant and engaging, Seattle Prep Video Game Club, also known as VGC, is one of the school’s most unique and celebrated clubs. One of VGC’s most popular activities includes their legendary video game tournaments. Occurring almost every meeting, VGC’s tournaments have up to 20 players. Typical tournament games include Brawl Stars, Mario Kart, Super Smash Bros, and more.
VGC meets around once a week during lunch period. A defining feature of VGC is its inclusivity; anyone can stop by for a meeting and there is no official membership that must be confirmed at the start of the year.
Tournaments are formatted in a single elimination bracket-like style. Because of the club’s large membership, tournaments take roughly three meetings to complete. Club Leaders, Elliott Hogben ’27, Trent Boyd ’26, and Grant Bowman ’26, work diligently behind the scenes to launch tournaments. “Typically, we have a Discord where we vote on what the tournament’s going to be, and then we spend some time creating brackets for the next competition,” said Bowman
The club is open to all, and is very beginner-friendly, however, winning is no walk in the park. Club moderator, Mr. Weeks, gave us insight into how competitive the club is, “Coming to a meeting, I was confident that I could win a tournament, especially the Mario Kart one. I’ve been playing Mario Kart longer than most of them have been alive, but they smoked me. It wasn’t even close. They’re quite good, very skilled.”
When asked about the future of VGC, Bowman responded, “We hope to be able to create more incentives for tournaments so we have bigger prizes or something that we can give to the winner to make it more fun and intriguing to do the tournaments?”
Bowman concludes, “I think that many of us can find a commonality in video games, and having some friendly competition helps create lasting bonds. That’s one of the parts that I really want to foster as video game club progresses in the future.”
