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Um, that's cool, but I'm pretty sure you can post your entry without pissing anyone off. Or just email it to me. I'm really curious to see what you guys did. It must have been pretty good.

  • 07.22.2004 10:41 AM PDT
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this is a bunch of bullcrap we got screwed i was on of the team members that won and we got screwed having to pay almost a grand each ot fly out there just ot play halo 2

  • 07.22.2004 12:13 PM PDT
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Dude, if you didn't win don't feel bad! This contest was poorly ran by someone! It's 2:00 and I haven't heard back from anyone. We are expected to be in WA by Saturday. You would think for their hardcore fans, this would be easier.

This is the way I see it! We talked to the guys last night. They said you come out to WA on your own expense and you meet them at Xbox (you get $100 bucks on arrival). They have a secure place to play Halo. You get to play multiplayer for a few hours he said (if I'm flying to WA, it better be for longer than 2 hours). I asked them specifics, but they wouldn't go into. Then the do a photo shoot while your playing an after. The photos may or may not be used in a video game magazine ad. Even if used, you may not be in the photo that was choosen. They have no set time when it's over. They just say dinner!

Anyway, the point is each of us will have to pay around $1000 to get there and back. It will be cool to play 3 months ahead of time, but I probably want be able to afford the game on Nov. 9. They could at least through in a game.

If you live in WA, it's a good deal! If not, your paying out the butt to play 2 hours of Halo!

You would think that this would be different for their hardcore fans. Do you know how much money we spend on Xbox and Dew? It's not like Microsoft and Pepsi doesn't have Billions. But money isn't the point. The point is timing! I would have loved more than 24 hours to scramble to WA.

I will keep you guys posted on the event!

  • 07.22.2004 12:15 PM PDT
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Wooly, give me your email address for the photos

  • 07.22.2004 12:17 PM PDT
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Well good for you guys, kinda sucks I asked for work off for it and now we don't get to go... but hey maybe we'll just play some regular halo... :P

  • 07.22.2004 12:20 PM PDT
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I'd like to see the winning entry, too. My email is theunmindful@yahoo.com
man.. I feel bad, me and my buds put so much time into this...

  • 07.22.2004 12:22 PM PDT
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Hey could I check out the winning entry as well?

halogoblin@yahoo.com

Thanks.

  • 07.22.2004 12:27 PM PDT
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I'm drinking a mountain dew
sigh.....

  • 07.22.2004 12:31 PM PDT
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Hey Rip, my emails are as follows:

travis@advertisingworks.com
travis@dreambigproductions.com

Thanks for letting me check out the entries. Sucks you guys have to spend so much to get there. I think it's ridiculous that they aren't throwing in a copy of the game and that they aren't running this more professionally.

  • 07.22.2004 12:31 PM PDT
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I sent you guys the email! We didn't do anything special, so don't get pissed!

  • 07.22.2004 12:50 PM PDT
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lol rip they are gonna be pissed when they see how we won
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I sent you guys the email! We didn't do anything special, so don't get pissed!

  • 07.22.2004 12:53 PM PDT
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Wooly, send me a copy of that when you get it (can't give out my work email on the board here).

Sucks to have to pay so much. The $100 was in the official rules from the beginning though. We're in Boise, ID and the 5 of us had a minivan lined up, time off from work to go, and we were ready for our 8 hour drive. Hey, if you really just can't make it ($$$$), let them know we'd still be more than willing to take your places ;)

  • 07.22.2004 12:53 PM PDT
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Well Rip, you guys definately have some nice TV's.

  • 07.22.2004 1:00 PM PDT
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Yeah, they had nice TV's, but we had a 120" projector screen! Thanks to weephun. Oh well. It's starting to look like this was more of a beauty pageant than anything else. I think the guys that made the armor from the Dew boxes shoulda beat the entries I've seen so far. Oh well. I still can't believe they're not gonna give these guys free copies of the game for spending $1,000's on airline tickets! OMG!

  • 07.22.2004 1:03 PM PDT
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Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!! :(

Wooly or weephun send me a copy too lol..>FU<K

  • 07.22.2004 1:09 PM PDT
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here is a page with the winning entries and my crew's entry
http://unmindful.phenominet.com/dew.htm

  • 07.22.2004 1:13 PM PDT
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Why doesn't someone just post a link?

  • 07.22.2004 1:14 PM PDT
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Okay, I'm not going to knock the guys who won, because they probably love Halo like I do and they seem cool enough, but this contest was a fricken sham. How is this winning group so hardcore when all of their Bungie.net profiles were created today? Again, I'm not knocking you guys personally, but rather the idiots at Mountain Dew/Bungie. If you'll notice, I've been a Bungie.net member since December of 2001. That's going on 3 years! I've also run two Halo chapters (one of which has been around for nearly 3 years as well), ran a clan for the Myth games, and ran a chapter-like group (before chapters or clans were even around on the internet) for the Marathon series. We organized and ran a Northwest Regional tournament here in Boise 2 years ago (which our team also won). I mean, this list goes on and on. I'm not pissed at the guys who won, just extremely irritated at this nonsense that the Dew morons are calling a contest.

Bungie should have never agreed to something this lame. I've lost respect for them today.

  • 07.22.2004 1:16 PM PDT
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Winning entries and my crew's entry link

  • 07.22.2004 1:22 PM PDT
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Raft, the ones you guys did are pretty funny. I like the one of Master Cheif's hand busting out of the TV screen. Your crew blew mine away. Nice job.

  • 07.22.2004 1:26 PM PDT
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Hey, that first one of yours is awesome, but I bet you guys got disqualified because it's a digital modification. I still would have let you be like a second winner though. Boycott Dew! lol

  • 07.22.2004 1:26 PM PDT
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Posted by: weephun
Nice to know that the contest wasn't REALLY about how much you love Halo and mountain dew, rather it was about how hot you are while you just happen to be playing halo and drinking mountain dew. Forgive me for being disillusioned enough to believe otherwise.
Come on guys, be realistic. The contest was to win: the opportunity to be present at a one-day promotional photo shoot on July 24, 2004 in Redmond, Washington at the Xbox facility in connection with the promotion of Halo 2 by Microsoft and Pepsi. *emphasis added
It's most likely a photo shoot for ads they are going to use to promote their products. They at least have to be sure that we're not going to scare small children if they put our faces out there. .... Or maybe they want to scare the children?? Either way, they've got to know what your "crew" looks like to some degree. Welcome to reality.


Boy, guess I didn't know how much I was speaking the truth. Tight, white t-shirts/wife-beaters on young, buff shop-workers and drawing on a white-board was what took the day.

Not trying to knock the winning team at all. That's great work you do (in what appears to be a SWEET environment) and in the end, you were smarter than all the rest of us, figuring out just exactly what the folks at Mt. Dew were looking for. My wife would kill to have me still looking that good ;) lol

From the email (and supposedly from Mt. Dew) why this group was chosenThey said they liked our look, whatever the hell that means.

Yah, I'll tell you what the hell it means, it means that this contest had nothing to do with being hardcore supporters of Bungie/Microsoft/Mt. Dew, but was truly just a beauty pageant. And that's fine I guess. They are, in the end, looking for people to put in a print ad w/out having to pay any professional models, flight fees, hotel fees, etc.

To tell the truth, these guys are geniuses: They get their "models" to travel cross-country, pose, and hang around for 1/2 day all for $100, a 2 hr or less LAN party, and some food. That kind of thing would probably run them tens of thousands of dollars to have professionals do it. So in the end, I must tip my hat to the Mt. Dew marketing department ... brilliance. Just wish that those of us who believed in the chance that they were actually looking for hardcore fans had realized that fact sooner. I guess that's part of what made it so brilliant. Ah well, live and learn, huh guys?

  • 07.22.2004 1:30 PM PDT
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Posted by: rip29

There will be several teams there and time will be made for your crew to
play Halo 2 in a secure environment. Photographs will be taken before and
during the event and may be used for Mountain Dew advertising.
Participants must sign photo releases before participating.



Several teams? Is there more? Maybe it's not over yet. Hmm...

  • 07.22.2004 1:37 PM PDT
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This is why I've lost respect for Bungie. I mean, I can understand Mountain Dew people wanting to sham us like this, but I can't imagine Bungie being a part of it. Bungie has always been about their fan base, and this is a major slap in the face to us long-timers who have been there for them from the beginning when they were just a handful of people in a little Chicago office. I held off from calling them sellouts when they 'sold-out' to Microsoft, but now I think I'm ready. They don't deserve 'hardcore fans' anymore.

  • 07.22.2004 1:38 PM PDT
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Weephun, you make some good points. I guess I not bummed about loosing, I'm bummed about why. I also was hoping it was about a true love of the game, and not how ripped I am. Oh well, it's not worth getting all pissed about.

Disillusionment is a SOB.

  • 07.22.2004 1:38 PM PDT