They have the world's best guitar hero player there, they sponsor her (weird, as Guitar Hero is predominately a console game). I was watching her play someone else and one of the booth operators said to someone near me "if you let me draw on your face I'll give you a shirt!" so I jumped right in and said "yep, I will, go for it!" So she wrote "Hyper X" on one cheek (the perks of being female, she didn't have the heart to draw stupid shit like a moustache like she was doing to the guys :P).
Later on after that I watched Fatal1ty (gamer) take on some members of the crowd. He is the number one gamer in the world - if you've ever heard of Creative Fatal1ty sound gear, that's him. He has has name on Creative & OCZ (RAM brand).
They were playing Quake and he was just absolutely NAILING every guy he went against. He took it really easy on a few people, let a 7 year old kid win and despite practically standing right in front of her, still won against a girl that went up on stage.
They were tossing out shirts and dogtags but I missed out to the person next to me, about 3 times. It was driving me nuts :P
3:30pm rolled around and I decided to head over to the Antec booth. Their raffle started at 4pm so I thought I'd check out their Left4Dead set up (game I really like) in the mean time.
As I stood there they were packing up some stuff, so I helped them pack up a few cases and then stood back when they started the raffle.
I helped them display a case, as the girl couldn't lift it to show to the crowd. She thanked me and gave me a Multimedia Controller for my PC. I was pretty darn happy with that :D They continued the raffle and again an even heavier case was about to be given away, so I helped out again. After the dude won that prize I was about to walk away and one of their booth dudes gave me a spot cooler fan! So I'm pretty stoked.
I didn't end up buying the silly helmet headset thing. I tried it on again and figured my head would get a bit weighed down - but unfortunately the main thing here was the fact that the sound wasn't the best quality.
I felt happy knowing I wouldn't have to try and cart it around the rest of the trip, despite the $70 price tag (not bad for something like that, but shows how good the sound quality is....or isnt, really).
Some time before the Antec raffle/Fatal1ty thing, I caught the tail end of the ugliest keyboard and mouse comp in the BYOC area. Didn't manage to get one of the shirts they were tossing out there either unfortunately :P
And due to the Antec raffle I missed the BAWLS chugging but hey, free PC bits are better than seeing some people spill a drink down their shirt :P
This whole leg of the trip has been pretty damn epic. I'm staying at a massive and awesome and super nice resort, attending the biggest gaming party I've ever heard of, scoring free swag from some of the biggest names in computing and having a good old time amongst my fellow nerds.
My feet are killing me, my back wants to collapse and my shoulders are tight as hell but its all worth it.
So...I think thats it.
9pm is the drawing of the Mustang winner. I'll go check that out, hang around and see where life takes me :P
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