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Arcade Mode: Challenges to the 2021 NCAA Tournament Selection Process

There is a certain era, a certain generation who acutely understands what it was like to spend hours dropping coins in an arcade. Now to be fair, arcades and their games have been around since the 70s and there has been a resurgence of them over the past decade with nostalgia and e-sports taking flight. Yet the generation we’re speaking of is one that grew up on the Street Fighter’s and Mortal Kombat’s of the world, where you compete head to head, win, and stay on the sticks until a new challenger arrives. At times you’d have to ask complete strangers to play if your friend left early or if you just needed a warm body while trying to practice developing your skills.