Two weeks left to qualify for the Meow Wolf Galaga Championship

Arts and entertainment group Meow Wolf is live-streaming its first annual live gaming event called Score Wars from 29 March to 1 April, 2018 with a Galaga World Championship that will bring together the best players around the world for a four day event which will end with a new world champion being crowned.

There are only two weeks left to qualify for the event, details of which can be found on the Score Wars website. The event carries a $10,000 top pro-level prize. Pro contestants can submit as often as they like, and players with the top seven scores on March 1 will be flown to Santa Fe to challenge the Galaga masters including:

•          Andrew Barrow of New Zealand: Barrow holds the world record for Galaga in Tournament Mode. He has broken his own record on numerous occasions. His current high score is 3,514,030.

•          Andrew Laidlaw of The United States: On January 1st, 2011, Laidlaw set the world record score for Galaga on Marathon Mode. His score was 4,525,150. He took the title previously held by Philip Day.

•          Philip Day of Australia: Day is an Australian artist. In November 2009 he scored 3,275,720 in Galaga on Marathon mode. He took the title from Andrew Laidlaw.

Amateur players can qualify onsite at Meow Wolf beginning March 29 to compete head-to-head for a $1,500 top prize.

The event will be live-streamed to Twitch via live streaming specialist XSplit.