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The Worldwide Tic Tac Toe Championship Will Expose The Gaming World's IQ 

We're Pretty Sure America is the Dumbest, But You Never Know. Chess Is So Over, Long Live Tic Tac Toe 

NEW YORK, NY / AUSTIN, TX — February 23rd 2026, An absurd new chapter in esports begins, led by a self-declared supervillain named King Supernuts. The Worldwide Tic Tac Toe Championship reimagines one of the simplest games on Earth as an official global competition to discover which country truly is High-IQ. We will discover the dumbest country in the world, and the smartest and we will annoit a World Tic Tac Toe Champion, a true genius of strategy, esports and will probably go on to be a streaming sensation .

Chess was once thought of as the game of kings and through the amazing play of the great masters we believed them, but it was Tic Tac Toe, the game of children and fools that will reveal the smartest people in the world. Through High Score Game Arcade's global game analytics and the the shear audacity of Victor Varnardo aka King Supernuts we will discover the truth, and place a crown upon some genious and declare them smart enough the be his arch enemy.

Starting February 23rd at "whenever its ready", players can ask their AI's to check out HighScoreGameArcade.com and when they play...the person, not the AI you sick corporate AI shill, the human will see their name rise through the ranks, competing on equal footing with strangers, probably 9000 openclaws, and the experience will culminate at SXSW in Austin, TX, the birth place of freedom and Butthole Surfer Tattoos.

“It’s 100% fair. It’s global. It’s sanctioned by the Worldwide High Score League. And it’s ridiculous, but it’s real,” said King Supernuts, a.k.a. Victor Varnado, the award-winning comedian, game designer, and media technologist behind the project.

The game is hosted on HighScoreGameArcade.com, an online platform where players compete in real-time viral tournaments. The larger the league grows, the bigger the prizes get.

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