After five minutes of an eye-hand coordination competition, a new guitar hero was born.

The Biscayne Bay Recreation Center hosted the Guitar Hero tournament in the Wolfe University Center’s Panther Square on Nov. 19 from 12 p.m. to 3 p.m.

The purpose of this tournament was to promote the Recreation Center’s services among the student body, and to offer down time to students while playing video games.

“[The Biscayne Bay Recreation Center] has all the equipment from summer camp, so we wanted to let them know that they could rent them out,” said Laura Torres, Recreation Center assistant, and sophomore hospitality major.

The Recreation Center offers students rental services of different video game consoles, which include a Nintendo Wii, an Xbox 360, or a PlayStation 2 for a fee of $5 for the first hour, and $8 for every hour after.

Even though the main attraction during the Guitar Hero Tournament was "Guitar Hero 3: Legends of Rock" for the Xbox 360, the Recreation Center also offered other video games, like Mario Kart Wii, and Dance Dance Revolution Super Revolution 2 on the PlayStation 2.

Registration to participate in the tournament began four weeks ago, and even though there was a total of 17 students registered by the day of the tournament, according to Torres, only eight participated.

The tournament consisted of four sets of two players competing against each other for the winner to move on to the next round, with the difficulty of the songs gradually increasing. The songs were selected from a Guitar Hero-labeled box at random by the losing player of each set.

During the heat of the competition, students expressed their passion for the game.

“They can bite me,” said Andre Parcells, sophomore journalism major who was participating in the competition.

Despite his confidence of winning the game, he was quickly eliminated by Diego Rivas, a senior hospitality management major.

“It was fun,” said Parcells. “It was a good challenge.”

As the tournament progressed, participants played several classic rock songs, including "Black Magic Woman" by Santana, "Cliffs of Dover" by Eric Johnson, and "Reptilia" by The Strokes.

When the difficulty level hit 11, which is the expert mode, Rivas and Ivan Catalan, a sophomore majoring in jazz performance, competed in the final round for the first place.

The songs chosen for the final round were "Paranoid" by Black Sabbath and "Same Old Song" and "Dance" by Aerosmith.

Riva had his eyes fixed on the screen while performing Aerosmith’s classic, but Catalan won the competition.

“It was fun,” said Rivas.

Catalan received two hours of use with the console of his choice free of charge in the Recreation Center.

“I feel like a Guitar Hero,” he said.