- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
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?