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I won the damn contest and I think the Dew people are morons! I really don't care at this point what they think! Who the hell is running this show? They expect winners to be there by Saturday morning and it's freaking Thursday! I have emailed and phoned them for specifics, and no reply! We wanted to know details on the game play.....like how long? I want guarentees, not maybe a few hours! Also, the contact number on the email is a cell phone. Who the hell is running this show!

This better be damn cool for $1000 bucks or I'm going to melee someone!

  • 07.22.2004 2:50 PM PDT
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You can see his pic's here: http://unmindful.phenominet.com/dew.htm

I bet he'd post your other pics too if you sent them to him (to Raft). So you're saying the pictures you sent to Dew weren't the one's posted? You should send your winning pic's to Raft (or me at travis@advertisingworks.com and travis@dreambigproductions.com).

  • 07.22.2004 2:51 PM PDT
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i agree rip i ma gonna be pissed if this -blam!- is only like an hour or 2 long

  • 07.22.2004 2:56 PM PDT
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Jeez, they must have a 12-year-old in charge of the contest. Hey, if you guys only get like an hour of Halo 2 time, stay there, and the rest of us will come up and help you torch the whole friggin' state (ATTN FBI - that was a joke).

  • 07.22.2004 2:57 PM PDT
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I am glad I didn't even think about participating in that contest. The winners had the most unoriginal and uncreative set out. If you ask me, they definitely should have chosen the entries with the master chief arm pouring the Mt. Dew, it was creative and sent the message across very clear: DRINK DEW AND PLAY HALO 2! The other guys just had a couple of cans lying around and 4 huge tvs, big woop.

  • 07.22.2004 3:04 PM PDT
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Hey I'm another one of the guys that won with rip29. I gotta toss you guys some props cause you sure as hell were alot more creative then we were. But don't hate on us they haven't even called us back yet. I guess I'm suppossed to miraculously come up with plane tickets to washington in the next 24 hrs. If you think about it we didnt win -blam!-. I dont know about you guys but i'm not a billionare. What am I supposed to do pull 1,000 dollars out of my ass to fly out to washington

  • 07.22.2004 3:05 PM PDT
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Hey HK we didnt pick the winners, we were the ones picked. I personaly think they were a hell of alot more creative then us too. We can't help it that they liked our " look " better.

  • 07.22.2004 3:09 PM PDT
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Is it even possible to get tickets to WA from AL on such short notice? Man, that sucks guys, we'll go there and pretend we are you then sneak video of us playing...it'll be swell! Lol...

  • 07.22.2004 3:09 PM PDT
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Hey, do any of you guys here even like our entry? I mean, if you don't, I'd feel a lot better about losing...

Once again...

www.geocities.com/jester_demon

  • 07.22.2004 3:11 PM PDT
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To everyone on the team that won: I don't think anyone here is hating on you guys. We're all just pissed at Dew and Bungie for their retardedness. I'm also pretty pissed that some of the others teams (not even us) didn't win, as they definitely were much more creative.

Regarding the plane ticket situation, I agree that it sucks, and I think that Dew/Bungie could afford to fly you guys up there, but at the same time, that was laid out in the rules from the start, so you can't really whine too much about that.

  • 07.22.2004 3:11 PM PDT
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Whoever is running the show made no effort to provide clear guidelines to this contest! This has affected everyone on this board, since some are pissed! As a winner, we have a right to know what we won! Are they making this up as they go? This is becoming very disappointing I must say! The first time I win something, and I feel like I'm getting screwed. They should have provided better detail in the beginning.

  • 07.22.2004 3:13 PM PDT
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Look, the guys who won were chosen by DEW. Let's not get on them about it. Yes, a lot of others entered the contest, yes, there were some awesome pics (Master Cheif's arm busting out of the TV to name one) yes, perhaps someone else might have been a better choice for winner, who knows? Let's not rip on the guys who won. It's over. Now they have to haul @$$ to Washington state on their own cash. Maybe they didn't win so much. I love Halo, but I don't have a GRAND to drop on a flight so I can lay down the law on some 1/2 hour lan party. So congrats to Rip and his crew. Have fun, let me know what goes down.

  • 07.22.2004 3:14 PM PDT
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Hey, if you guys look at the logistics of this whole deal. If they dont call us back like in the next 30min. I dont even think it would be possible for us to even get a flight out to washington no matter how much we spent on tickets.

  • 07.22.2004 3:21 PM PDT
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I hope they extend the deadline again cuz I just thought of a brilliant idea... damn that I didn't enter before read ing this thread

  • 07.22.2004 3:21 PM PDT
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I think the stupidest part is not having 18 years or younger. That seems the most ridiculous part of it to me. Its like whats the big deal w/ younger people? They enjoy Halo and Mountain Dew just as much as anyone else (maybe more).

  • 07.22.2004 3:28 PM PDT
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I knew getting in the contest that we would receive $100 dollars. We would get to play Halo 2 and someone would have a camera.

Is it to damn much to ask for specifics? Can someone just email or call me friggin back with specifics? It's not like I'm asking for too much. That's the least they could do for their so called hardcore fans that spend crap loads of money on their products!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

$1000 bucks is a lot of cash for no details on what you won. For all I know, we might be playing some beat ass demo of Halo 2. No one said it was full out Halo 2.

  • 07.22.2004 3:28 PM PDT
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A brilliant idea wouldn't have won you crap in this contest. Read all the previous posts for more info on that.

BTW - NO ONE IS HATING ON THE WINNERS!!!

  • 07.22.2004 3:34 PM PDT
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Argh, I say all the winners should just stay and nobody will go to the photo shoot and Mt. Dew will have wasted all this time for nothing.

And Wooly, wanna get together this weekend and play Halo? I'm in and so is Joey, I sent an email to weephun but he never answered. I'm sure A Jew and Derris would come too.

  • 07.22.2004 3:37 PM PDT
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Check HALOID for more info on that.

  • 07.22.2004 3:39 PM PDT
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Oh well, guess I'll delete my hog mod...made some nice background for a shot though.
http://img9.exs.cx/img9/5936/theDewHog02S.jpg

  • 07.22.2004 3:59 PM PDT
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That hog mod is excellent.

  • 07.22.2004 4:00 PM PDT
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O well guys it doesnt look like anyones gonna win anything. We havent even been called back to day so we can have a little more specifics on what we were suppossed to do. Anyways I'm about to head but if we hear anymore from them we'll let you know. If you ask me I think the whole thing is bogus anyways I wouldnt be surprised if they dont even call us back.

  • 07.22.2004 4:05 PM PDT
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Rip, any word from the Dew geniuses yet?

I'm starting to wonder if this whole thing was a fraud. Maybe they just wanted ideas for free, and then picked winners that were so far away that they probably wouldn't come, and then when the winners still express interest in coming they just cut off contact. I know, conspiracy-theory, but who knows. Things would make more sense then.

  • 07.22.2004 4:07 PM PDT
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Wow MANOSTL, de ja vu in posting . . . d:-)

Sorry for you guys. It's all bullcrap.

  • 07.22.2004 4:09 PM PDT
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This kinda -blam!- just plain pisses me off. I'm sure bungie didn't mean for this to happen, but the whole contest was a bad idea to begin with, and I think it may border on whoring out (to a company that makes green colored sugar water, no less.) I personally think that all the winners should just send a message to Dew saying something along the lines of “you can go to hell” and then just forget about it. I havn’t really lost respect for bungie because of this, but I do think that marketing out Halo 2 to other companies is retarded, pure and simple.

Well, the only other thing I can say is that Bungie had better do something really good to make up for this crap.

All well, I never liked Mt. Dew anyway.

  • 07.22.2004 4:15 PM PDT