As you may already know, Twin Galaxies supports the worldwide gaming industry with a multitude of free services, including an online scoreboard, an official Book of Records, a contest calendar and a web site that tracks statistics, contests, and top player's greatest accomplishments. The only way that Twin Galaxies can continue to serve the industry with these activities is if the players contribute content to this web site and the Book of Records.

 

We at the Twin Galaxies Electronic Scoreboard are looking for experienced gamers to join our staff of Referees. Specifically, we are looking for Referees to help us judge scores on the newest generation of game systems, such as the Nintendo DS, Nintendo Wii, Playstation 3, PSP, Xbox 360 and the PC gaming platforms, but referees are always needed for all gaming platforms, modern and classic alike.

Are you the right person to join our Referee staff? Read on to learn more…

In order to apply to join our staff of Referees, please consider the following:

·         We’ll need for you to send us an email explaining your interest in the position. Please describe your experience or skills in the gaming hobby, and if you have education, professional history or gaming experience that we can review online, please include them in your Email. Also, please include your contact information and where you live so that we'll know where in the world you will be able to participate, and include your screen name for the TG forums (but not your password).

·         We’ll need to be able to review your score submissions with the Twin Galaxies Electronic Scoreboard. Previous experience with successfully submitting scores to Twin Galaxies, whether world records or not, is a requirement for our Referee positions. If you don’t have score submissions with Twin Galaxies yet, don’t give up just yet! Start sending in your scores today to boost your eligibility.

·         We’ll need to be able to review your forum posts in our forums. This is another requirement to join our Referee staff. The scoreboard and forums are the primary means of interaction with the Twin Galaxies web site, which is why they are requirements for consideration. If you haven’t joined our forums yet, join today!

All of our referees are highly experienced, dedicated volunteers that provide their services to Twin Galaxies as a free gift to the gaming community. Each of our referees has great passion for gaming and for the gaming hobby, and donates their time to Twin Galaxies without receiving financial compensation.

So, what’s in it for you? Check out these amazing benefits:

·         In exchange for their service to Twin Galaxies, each of our Referees enjoys the distinction of being an internationally recognized expert in the video game hobby and contributes their knowledge and expertise in a way that no other community can offer.

·         Many of our Referees have been interviewed by local and national media as experts and celebrities in the gaming culture. Some of the many media we’ve been featured in include MTV Movie News, The X-Show, That’s Incredible, G4TV Promos, The Boston Globe Magazine, Life Magazine, Electronic Gaming Monthly, The Dallas Morning News, Coin-Op.TV, The King of Kong movie, the Chasing Ghosts movie and more!

·         Our Referees enjoy the privilege of overseeing many world record performances and being the first in the world to witness these extraordinary gaming performances.

·         Our Referees are the governing body that establishes the rules of play for the world of competitive video gaming, and they attend tournaments all over the world to find new world champions and oversee the impartial and fair application of the Twin Galaxies rules of play

Thank you for your interest in Twin Galaxies!

If you would like to be a Scoreboard staffer, send us an email and describe your experience or skills. And, if samples of your writing or artwork already exist, please include them with your letter.