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Win a Souvenir from PAX Part II: Winner Announced
the Golden Avatar \| 9:06 AM on 09.08.2008	12 comments

So, back before PAX I held a simple contest. I got a lot of neat stuff from PAX and have been mulling over what I should give away as a prize. I finally settled on awarding one of the fellows below:

The winner can choose which color he/she wants of the Green, Red and Orange Knights (I gave the Blue to my sister).

Oh, right. The winner. Well, in order to be as fair as possible I wrote a small program that would take the list of commenters, place them in randomly generated order and then randomly remove one name at a time until only one Dtoider was left standing. Embedded is the video of the first and only execution of this program.

EDIT: Apparently Dtoid video expects a 4:3 ratio and doesn't do any math to elegantly adjust it. Therefore, the video is a bit squashed. But you still get the idea.

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Thanks for participating. I had a blast at PAX. I'm sorry for those for could not attend. I hope to to see you next year.

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12 comments | showing # 1 to 12

Kryptinite

LOL, that was amazing!!!

NihonTiger90

Wow, that's a cool little program :) Also congrats to Cataract!

twincannon

that was actually a pretty awesome way of denoting a winner haha. suspenseful!

MechaMonkey

I was first out! Your program is clearly prejudiced against mechanized simians. But cataract is cool, so it's alright.

king3vbo

SUSPENSE! That was a great way to do a contest

pendelton21

Fantastic video there. All contest winners should be announced that way, until the end of time.

TrailerParkJesus

that was pretty cool

Qalamari

That's a really neat program. I wish I knew how to do something like that. Congratulations, Cataract!

mix

That was indeed and awesome program!

If i never read the comments I would have become mega excited as I rode that wave out till 2nd place baby...lol

Puppy Licks

Fuck I almost had it, congrats Cataract :D

Cataract

PM sent!

Thanks a lot! Also, Orange Knight FTW!

Cataract

11/24 and I still have yet to receive my prize.

WTF.

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