in LoDo this weekend. More than three decades after the beloved arcade game brought barrels into the mainstream, twelve of the world's top players duked it out against high-scoring wildcard gamers at Denver's own video game hub across three days. Spectators -- of which there were hundreds -- witnessed action-packed hours of gameplay from names including

's Steve Wiebe and Billy Mitchell (above) and current world-record-crusher Hank Chien. But it was another Kong enthusiast who was eventually crowned king last night: twenty-year-old Canadian Jeff Willms, who had not played the game on an arcade cabinet until the competition -- his first arcade event ever. Oh, Canada!

Continue reading for more photos from over the weekend, and then revisit our cover story, "Let the Games Begin."

See also: - Slide show: Kong Off II Donkey Kong World Championship - It's on like Donkey Kong at the 1UP this week - Steve Wiebe gets the first kill screen at 1UP this weekend

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For more photos, visit our full slide show.