Abstract: An apparatus for video game tournament competition receives as its input the RGB signal to the video game screen which contains the final score obtained by the contestant. The RGB signal is directed to a composite converter where the signal is converted to a format which may be captured to a file, which file can then be processed by a computer. The composite converter sends its output signal to a video capture circuit which will capture the instantaneous image displayed on the video game screen which will contain the final game score. The capture circuit produces a captured video file which may then be processed by character recognition software in a local computer located at the site of the video game to extract the final game score in alphanumeric form from the captured video file. The score may then be sent to a remote computer which will collect a plurality of scores and at the end of the tournament determine the high score.