The REAL Beauty and the Geek
And now we turn to the socially awkward portion of this year’s events. In a devilishly evil team-up between Intel’s gamer representative Stuart “EG|Django” Ewen and Fragapalooza’s apprehensive baldy, Gil “StraT” Amores, it was decided to hold a dating game where participants would win a date of something with one of the Foosh Mint babes on site.
StraT managed to convince to lovely looking girl on the left to go through with this whole show. Unfortunately it didn’t end very well, as the guy she wanted had a girlfriend already, who called him from Vancouver right at the end. She didn’t know this, and the second place guy on stage wasn’t who she was looking for, so it ended in a double disappointment.
But all was not lost. There was a few more contests that played out through the night. Intel held a trivia contest and gave away some high end gear. Some of our Futurelooks’ sponsors even managed to giveaway some prizes. The morning of Day 4, I woke up to find that someone had won a ZeroSurge Surge Protector and Line Filter in a Rubik’s Cube speed contest. There was also giveaways from NZXT and GIGABYTE on site, but those were saved for the closing ceremonies on the final day.
The Final Day
As the final contests conclude, the tournaments come to a climax and dénouement, and the network is inevitably shut down, it becomes painfully obvious that we’ve reached the final day of Fragapalooza. As always it’s been a hell of a ride, but it’s still not completely over yet. There’s the closing ceremonies, the annoying need to pack everything up (or find everything to pack up), and of course the giving away of much free stuff.
And I wasn’t kidding. In the midst of tearing down the event, the crowd gathers for one final time. So free swag is tossed into the audience, and the ensuing struggle means someone goes home happy or injured (thought none were reported to my recollection).
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