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Win a Souvenir from PAX Part II: Winner Announced
the Golden Avatar | 9:06 AM on 09.08.2008 14 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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Kryptinite's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/08/2008 09:59
Kryptinite
LOL, that was amazing!!!
Brian Szabelski's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/08/2008 10:26
Brian Szabelski
Wow, that's a cool little program :) Also congrats to Cataract!
twincannon's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/08/2008 10:30
twincannon
that was actually a pretty awesome way of denoting a winner haha. suspenseful!
MechaMonkey's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/08/2008 10:30
MechaMonkey
I was first out! Your program is clearly prejudiced against mechanized simians. But cataract is cool, so it's alright.
king3vbo's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/08/2008 10:36
king3vbo
SUSPENSE! That was a great way to do a contest
pendelton21's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/08/2008 11:00
pendelton21
Fantastic video there. All contest winners should be announced that way, until the end of time.
TrailerParkJesus's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/08/2008 11:01
TrailerParkJesus
that was pretty cool
Qalamari's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/08/2008 13:47
Qalamari
That's a really neat program. I wish I knew how to do something like that. Congratulations, Cataract!
mix's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/08/2008 14:25
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's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/08/2008 20:03
Puppy Licks
Fuck I almost had it, congrats Cataract :D
Cataract's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/08/2008 21:36
Cataract
PM sent!

Thanks a lot! Also, Orange Knight FTW!
Cataract's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/24/2008 11:52
Cataract
11/24 and I still have yet to receive my prize.

WTF.
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